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When President Bush informed the nation on March 17th, 2003 that we would be formally invading Iraq in a matter of days, the world sighed, and BBC Radio 1 pulled songs like Outkast's "B.O.B." and Hot Hot Heat's "Bandages" from play rotation, the way Clear Channel stations pulled Don Henley's "New York Minute" and, well, Outkast's "B.O.B." post-9/11. "B.O.B." is an unfortunate but understandable casualty of the cultural conservatism that comes with war, but it takes a special kind of puritanism to yank "Bandages" for (I shit you not) "prevalence of the word 'bandages' in the song"- like [...]

• Hot Hot Heat - Bandages (The Illuminoids Remix)