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garm302 t1_jdhk4p8 wrote

Can they fix it

No they can’t :(

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DanHero91 t1_jdhkaom wrote

>The song was removed from the BBC Radio 2 playlist, with the station's executive music producer Colin Martin describing the song as being "too frivolous in light of the news that was breaking".

Only one radio station removed it, and Radio 2 wouldn't typically play that kind of music anyway outside of the chart recaps. Considering how openly most radio DJs hated how often they had to play the song, I'm guessing Colin just took any opportunity he could to get rid of it.

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GetsGold t1_jdhm61a wrote

I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help.

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1clovett t1_jdhmnqi wrote

There's a Monty Python skit in this.

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Flemtality t1_jdhnhy5 wrote

Immediately after 9/11 was a fucking weird time.

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MuthaPlucka t1_jdhorn8 wrote

It was the lyrics that got it removed. Unnecessary ululation.

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AwkwardSquirtles t1_jdht6wu wrote

That's one of 3 number one hits that Bob the Builder has in the UK.

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nialltg t1_jdhws0r wrote

Yeah doesn’t really have the somber St 9/11’s Day vibe

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Blackraven2007 t1_jdhx14z wrote

I'm confused. What does it mean for a song to be "too frivolous"?

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allegate t1_jdi4p7k wrote

My son was huge into bob the builder and I downloaded the album as soon as I found out about it so he could listen to it; I secretly enjoyed the mambo no. 5 song as well.

He was born in 05 so I didn't know about the 9/11 aspect of the release.

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GreenStrong t1_jdi5oen wrote

BBC executive meeting:

"Do we know the hijacker's motives?"

"The news says it was radical Islam."

"Are we sure it wasn't that fucking song?"

"They say it was Bin Laden"

"Are we 100% certain it wasn't the song? Have you not contemplated flying a plane into a building when the song came on the radio?"

"Pull it."

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weaponized_oatmeal t1_jdibwx2 wrote

Replying to Flemtality (#2,335,105)

I lived near a reservoir at the time. I think it was within days of 9/11 there were signs put up that you weren’t allowed within 100 yards of the dams. They were earthen dams, probably 200’ thick at the base. I don’t think an Oklahoma City sized bomb would put a dent in the things and the water level was so low that they weren’t even holding back water anyway.

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poundmastaflashd t1_jdijyk2 wrote

I know these lyrics better than the original... I'm glad its still bringing joy to the world

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MuForceShoelace t1_jdiz0gp wrote

During covid there was a bunch of times a commercial would clash with a news story and it would get shared over and over. (like the one with a newscaster talking about the dead, then immediately crashing into an applebee's commercial telling people to come back). People talk about stuff getting "banned" like a government banned it, but they really just didn't want to have a news story about buildings collapsing then going right into "we can fix it! yes we can!"

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_Maebe__Funke_ t1_jdjbwb7 wrote

I’m American and was living in London when 9/11 happened, and I was overwhelmed and touched by how kind everyone was. Complete strangers would hear my accent in the shops or on the street and would stop me and say how sorry they were about what had happened. (And having strangers spontaneously start a conversation was not common in my experience). It was a very weird and isolating time, but I’ve never forgotten the simple things those English strangers did that made me feel a little less alone.

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tfc867 t1_jdjq7ob wrote

That was the same day (technically 9/9 and 9/10) George Carlin recorded the show for his special to be titled "I Kinda Like it When a Lotta People Die".

That one got put on ice for a while.

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awfullotofocelots t1_jdjs74g wrote

Replying to MuForceShoelace (#2,340,409)

You know I had to scroll all the way down to you to even make the connection between the actual event of the towers falling and bob happily singing about building. It really drives for me how 9/11 occupies a symbolically larger space in my mind than the actual event of the towers falling... at least for us who were still kids when it happened.

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FatQuack t1_jdk05c2 wrote

What sort of deep and sorrowful song were they expecting from Bob the fucking Builder?

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urlond t1_jdknhlo wrote

Had to look this song up. Pretty catchy, no wonder it hit the top in charts.

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adamup27 t1_jdmz297 wrote

I had this on CD and I had Mambo No 5 and Dizzy on repeat in my room! I loved this CD as a kid!

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