Wrong Way on a One-way Track

Mentalfloss has a list of the 25 Most Powerful Songs of the Past 25 Years.  Some for good reasons, some for not-so-great-reasons, like Soul Asylum's Runaway Train:

Few people pay attention to public service announcements, but back in 1992, lots of people watched music videos on MTV. So on paper, it seemed like a great idea to combine the two. For Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train,” director Tony Kaye made a video featuring missing children, hoping to find them. And it worked; the video located so many runaways that Kaye made six versions—three for the United States and one each for the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany.

The problem was, when missing children turn up, the results aren’t always pretty. Some were found dead. Several others were forced to return home to horrible situations. In 2006, Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy reflected on the consequences: “There’s a reason that young kids run away, mostly because of abuse,“ he told the Pasadena Weekly. “There were some happy results from [the video], but you have to resolve the situation that caused an 11- or 13-year-old to think the harsh world is better than their home.”

As an interesting side note, soon after this album was released I began dating the girl who found herself in the #1 slot (heh heh heh) on THIS LIST.  So, I guess you're just gonna know what 'll happen when it comes to music, do ya?