I was noticing that The Load Out/ Stay by Jackson Browne that are two live songs recorded on Browne's Running On Empty album, that are together as one long song on one local station in Orlando, was cut short by only playing the second part of the medley: Stay.
For those of you who are familiar with Jackson Browne and this particular song, know that the whole entire ensemble is a classic from beginning to end especially with guitar player David Lindley's falsetto vocal on the second verse of Stay. That part is worth the wait after the already long The Load Out and by skipping all the first part, to me, ruins the entire song. I feel, that if the format of the station does not allow for the whole song to be aired, then they should not even play the song because it would be like playing only the last line of, lets say Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann. Also, to play only the last line of Subdivision by Rush, etc.
Another song duo they have cut short would be Foreplay/ Long Time by Boston where the song starts with Long Time. Then I even heard With A Little Help From My Friends by the Beatles played without Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and one Tampa Station leaving out the whole beginning of We're Not Gonna Take It by the Who and start the song from the lines "See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, etc...............Listening to you I climb a mountain etc."
Then there is the shortened Doors song Light My Fire leaving out the best part which is the long organ solo that top 40 oldies stations like to feature and Supertramp's Goodbye Stranger without the whistling part. How about Billy Joel's My Life where the two line piano solo is left out which if played in its entirety would only lengthen the song by 10 seconds (I am sure the sponsers would not mind that few extra moments of time between their ads).
What other songs out there, does your favorite station cut short or leave out parts of a song you like.
I absolutely hate stations that cut out a 3 minute instrumental in Genesis' "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight". The only 2 stations by me that will occassionally play the full version are 95.9 The River in Aurora/Naperville IL and 97.1 The Drive in Chicago.
Also, unless a station, like The Drive, is doing an album sides weekend, you never hear "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 or Part 3. What evferyone knows as that song is actually Part 2 and "Happiest Days of Our Lives" (the helicopter bit at the beginning).
Speaking of Pink Floyd, there are other songs that people think are just 1 song when they are really combined. For example, "Young Lust" is always paired with "Empty Spaces" at the beginning on the radio.
My God, they cut Thick as a Brick.
There are a bunch that should be played together and sometimes are not. (Some titles may not be exactly correct)
Led Zeppelin, "Heartbreaker" / "Livin' Lovin' Maid"
Tears for Fears, "Head Over Heels" / "Broken" (partial)
ZZ Top, "Waiting for the Bus" / "Jesus Left Chicago"
Van Halen, "Eruption" / "You Really Got Me"*
Queen, "We Will Rock You" / "We are the Champions"
Yes, "Long Distance Runaround" / "Schindleria Praematurus"
Chicago, "Hard to say I'm Sorry" / "Getaway"
Journey, "Feelin' that way" / "Anytime"
Perfume's "Polyrhythm" has a polyrhythmic bridge (by far the most interesting part of the song) that was omitted in the radio edit. It has counts of 5, 6, and later 3 against a 4/4 bed.
And there are many songs with more interesting parts that I think would not make the radio edit today. The 6/4 vamp at the end of Toto's "I'll Supply the Love" for instance.
* go find the original Kinks version of "Eruption"; it's quite interesting :-)
Quote from: hobsini2 on February 01, 2012, 08:06:32 PM
I absolutely hate stations that cut out a 3 minute instrumental in Genesis' "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight". The only 2 stations by me that will occassionally play the full version are 95.9 The River in Aurora/Naperville IL and 97.1 The Drive in Chicago.
Also, unless a station, like The Drive, is doing an album sides weekend, you never hear "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 or Part 3. What evferyone knows as that song is actually Part 2 and "Happiest Days of Our Lives" (the helicopter bit at the beginning).
Speaking of Pink Floyd, there are other songs that people think are just 1 song when they are really combined. For example, "Young Lust" is always paired with "Empty Spaces" at the beginning on the radio.
Brain Damage and Eclipse are two seperate songs, yet played together.
Zeppelin's Heartbreaker and Living Loving Made are two separate songs.
Travelin Man and Beautiful Loser are two separate songs by Seger that are played as one, but ironically are two different tracks on cd.
Fortuneatly, these are played on Classic Rock where they usually do not edit or play shortened versions, but the defunct Thunder 103.5 in Tampa was the one that cut out We're Not Gonna Take It by the Who.
Quote from: kurumi on February 01, 2012, 08:19:17 PM
There are a bunch that should be played together and sometimes are not. (Some titles may not be exactly correct)
Led Zeppelin, "Heartbreaker" / "Livin' Lovin' Maid"
Tears for Fears, "Head Over Heels" / "Broken" (partial)
ZZ Top, "Waiting for the Bus" / "Jesus Left Chicago"
Van Halen, "Eruption" / "You Really Got Me"*
Queen, "We Will Rock You" / "We are the Champions"
Yes, "Long Distance Runaround" / "Schindleria Praematurus"
Chicago, "Hard to say I'm Sorry" / "Getaway"
Journey, "Feelin' that way" / "Anytime"
Perfume's "Polyrhythm" has a polyrhythmic bridge (by far the most interesting part of the song) that was omitted in the radio edit. It has counts of 5, 6, and later 3 against a 4/4 bed.
And there are many songs with more interesting parts that I think would not make the radio edit today. The 6/4 vamp at the end of Toto's "I'll Supply the Love" for instance.
* go find the original Kinks version of "Eruption"; it's quite interesting :-)
I wish they would play the whole piano note at the end of Day In The Life by the Beatles. Sometimes I even heard them leave out the Sergeant Pepper Reprise when playing that song too.
Green Day, Jaded sometimes follows Brain Stew on the radio, as if they go together. They don't.
I heard ONCE, and thankfully only once, We Will Rock You without We Are the Champions. I bet the DJ got fired for that one.
The end of Weezer's Undone often gets cut. It's a sort of piano solo, played I believe in the back of the piano where the strings are. It's the best damn part of the song.
One that really annoys me: when a few bars at the end of Boulevard of Broken Dreams get cut. Yes, they all sound the same, but there's a reason the end is prolonged. It sounds like shit when it goes right to the ending.
Finally, don't get me started when I'm traveling, and the one station with good music is the one that plays all its songs 1.1 times as fast to fit in more ads. I can hear the difference in pitch. I'd rather travel in silence and go crazy.
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 08:30:39 PM
I heard ONCE, and thankfully only once, We Will Rock You without We Are the Champions. I bet the DJ got fired for that one.
given that I think "We Are the Champions" is one of the most utterly
stupid songs ever - I would buy that DJ a beer.
(the most utterly stupid classic rock song I can think of, btw, is Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot". Urgh. Offspring's "Self Esteem" is also pretty onerous, but I don't think that's quite classic rock just yet.)
How about songs where, years after the fact, suddenly people are taking offense? For instance, Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side; you won't hear the lyric played for many years "But she never lost her head, even when she was given head..." (maybe the censors just found out what that means).
Or, Dire Straits' classic Money for Nothing. There's the line that goes, "See that little (f*****t) cigarette with the earring and the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair". Now, I don't condone slamming gay people, but within the context of that song (some yokels working at Best Buy, hanging around the TV section from my reckoning) that line is totally ironic.
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on February 01, 2012, 08:44:58 PM
"See that little cigarette with the earring and the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair".
board censorship, or did you change the word yourself?
I think these days people are starting to figure out that the Christmas staple "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is kinda desperately creepy.
Alan Parsons Projects, beginning of "Eye In The Sky", the part Ricky Steamboat once used for a ring entrance.
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
On another slightly related note, Mariah Carey's cover of Bringin' on the Heartbreak is one that should have never been done, and every copy of it should be blown up in a re-enactment of the Disco Night at old Comiskey Park. That's gotta be one of the worst covers ever.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 01, 2012, 08:47:27 PM
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on February 01, 2012, 08:44:58 PM
"See that little cigarette with the earring and the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair".
board censorship, or did you change the word yourself?
I think these days people are starting to figure out that the Christmas staple "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is kinda desperately creepy.
Wow, this is a politically correct board. Intending offense to no one, just quoting a song and explaining its context, honest! One of my best friends is a cigarette :D.
Yeah, I do agree with you about Baby It's Cold Outside. Very suggestive in the 1950s era. We all know what happens after that "maybe just one cigarette more". (Literally a cigarette here).
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 01, 2012, 09:09:51 PM
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
The song was remixed or re-recorded after the success of "Pyromania," and the album it appeared on, "High 'N' Dry," was re-released with that and another new track. The newer version didn't include Switch 625, and it's the one I hear played on the radio most often; that might explain things.
I'm just impressed you hear radio stations that play "Bringing On The Heartbreak" at all. It's a great track, but I haven't heard it on the radio in ages!
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 01, 2012, 09:09:51 PM
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
On another slightly related note, Mariah Carey's cover of Bringin' on the Heartbreak is one that should have never been done, and every copy of it should be blown up in a re-enactment of the Disco Night at old Comiskey Park. That's gotta be one of the worst covers ever.
I think Club Novea with their rap version of the Bill Withers tune Lean On Me is the worst do over ever! Then there is that one rap group ( do not know their name) that redid Juice Newton's Angel of the Morning that rated high on Billboard's Top 40, but to me it ruined another good song.
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on February 01, 2012, 08:44:58 PM
How about songs where, years after the fact, suddenly people are taking offense? For instance, Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side; you won't hear the lyric played for many years "But she never lost her head, even when she was given head..." (maybe the censors just found out what that means).
Or, Dire Straits' classic Money for Nothing. There's the line that goes, "See that little (f*****t) cigarette with the earring and the makeup, yeah buddy, that's his own hair". Now, I don't condone slamming gay people, but within the context of that song (some yokels working at Best Buy, hanging around the TV section from my reckoning) that line is totally ironic.
I've actually heard all of those lyrics on the radio, along with the word "shit" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Green Day. And System of a Down's Cigaro uncensored, before the radio realized what it had done and censored every subsequent replay.
Quote from: xonhulu on February 01, 2012, 09:26:26 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 01, 2012, 09:09:51 PM
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
The song was remixed or re-recorded after the success of "Pyromania," and the album it appeared on, "High 'N' Dry," was re-released with that and another new track. The newer version didn't include Switch 625, and it's the one I hear played on the radio most often; that might explain things.
I'm just impressed you hear radio stations that play "Bringing On The Heartbreak" at all. It's a great track, but I haven't heard it on the radio in ages!
www.wdhafm.com
"The Perfect Kiss" by New Order has long instrumental intro and outro sections, but the radio version edits them. The shorter version also inexplicably cuts out the vocals in the third verse (the music is still there, just an instrumental). That verse doesn't have any controversial lyrics; in fact, the only time the song's title is spoken is there.
I think I've only heard "Any Colour You Like" from Pink Floyd 2 or 3 times, when it is directly linked to "Us and Them".
And that's on classic rock stations that in theory would be willing to play album tracks in full!
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 10:38:41 PM
I've actually heard all of those lyrics on the radio, along with the word "shit" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Green Day.
It's only recently (10 or so years, off my lawn) that I've heard Pink Floyd's Money censored.
The "Book of Rock Lists" notes that the AM radio edit of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" changed "I told you once, you son of a bitch" to "son of a gun" -- even though he's Satan, you'd better not describe him with a profanity on AM.
Thinking of more bleeped (or not) songs - Show Biz Kids by Steely Dan, I know the FM station I listened to in Minneapolis played the entire line that went "Show biz kids making' movies of themselves, you know they don't give a f*** about anybody else."
Not sure if Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams was originally bleeped. When I hear it on the radio it is now. American Idiot is the only CD I own that has a parental advisory label.
I once heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams at work, uncensored, about 4 years ago. I thought this was extremely odd, because CVS has a satellite radio that plays mostly softer music. It only played that one time, and I don't miss it. (I'm not exactly a fan of Green Day.)
Quote from: texaskdog on February 01, 2012, 09:09:02 PM
Alan Parsons Projects, beginning of "Eye In The Sky", the part Ricky Steamboat once used for a ring entrance.
That instrumental is called "Sirius".
Another one is "1984", before "Jump" by Van Halen.
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway. "Heart of Glass" is usually played as the single edit to avoid the "pain in the ass" line, but the single edit sounds better in my opinion because Debbie Harry's voice is recorded strangely at the end of the full version.
Oddly, "Who Are You" with its "who the fuck are you" is seldom censored even on FM in my experience. But many radio stations play the shorter single edit that leaves out the verse at the end and I find that jarring. The single edit of "Won't Get Fooled Again" is even worse, just destroys the song. Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" often has that long interlude near the end edited out, the part that goes "every-body, every-one" over and over again; the reason I dislike hearing that omitted is that it contains the best line in the song when that guy sings "Can you tell me what a Wang Chung is?"
One song medley I do NOT mind hearing cut off on the radio is Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away." While the edit is a little awkward if it's not faded properly, I've always thought the "Get Away" coda is utterly unnecessary and messes up a pretty good song and that the band should have just found a better way to end it on the first part.
"The Last Worthless Evening" by Done Henley, and "Secret Lovers" by Atlantic Starr both have entire lyrical portaions cut out of the beginnings, but not for cencorship purposes. There is nothing bad in them. I guess it's just to shorten the songs. It's really annoying. Currently, the radio stations cut out a portion of "I Like It" by Enrique Iglesias towards the end.
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 10:38:41 PM
I've actually heard all of those lyrics on the radio, along with the word "shit" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Green Day. And System of a Down's Cigaro uncensored, before the radio realized what it had done and censored every subsequent replay.
which Skynyrd song has "shit" in it? I've heard "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains uncensored on the radio, and that has several fairly blatant shits.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 02, 2012, 11:04:35 AM
Quote from: Steve on February 01, 2012, 10:38:41 PM
I've actually heard all of those lyrics on the radio, along with the word "shit" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Green Day...
which Skynyrd song has "shit" in it?
Surprisingly, it's not "That Smell".
Back in the days of vinyl, the area's album rock station (WKQQ-FM in Lexington, then 98.1, now 100.1) played "Living Loving Maid" and "Ramble On" as a medley.
When they went to CDs, it became "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid."
Not sure why they made that change.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 02, 2012, 09:27:08 AM
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway. "Heart of Glass" is usually played as the single edit to avoid the "pain in the ass" line, but the single edit sounds better in my opinion because Debbie Harry's voice is recorded strangely at the end of the full version.
Oddly, "Who Are You" with its "who the fuck are you" is seldom censored even on FM in my experience. But many radio stations play the shorter single edit that leaves out the verse at the end and I find that jarring. The single edit of "Won't Get Fooled Again" is even worse, just destroys the song. Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" often has that long interlude near the end edited out, the part that goes "every-body, every-one" over and over again; the reason I dislike hearing that omitted is that it contains the best line in the song when that guy sings "Can you tell me what a Wang Chung is?"
One song medley I do NOT mind hearing cut off on the radio is Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away." While the edit is a little awkward if it's not faded properly, I've always thought the "Get Away" coda is utterly unnecessary and messes up a pretty good song and that the band should have just found a better way to end it on the first part.
Does anyone know if The Pusher by Steppewolf was aloud to be played when it first debuted? For some of you who do not know the song, it has the GD word in it several times and the Gd is not Grand Rapids, MI like on I-96 either.
Quote from: roadman65 on February 02, 2012, 04:47:41 PM
it has the GD word in it several times and the Gd is not Grand Rapids, MI like on I-96 either.
yes, I distinctly remember "grid" being part of that old George Carlin sketch.
1. Bringing on the Heartbreak was two versions on the album. I would imagine radios play the remix (that doesn't segue into Switch 625).
2. My beef with Jet Airliner is when they play the preceding song, Threshold, then cut out the guitar part at the beginning of Jet
3. "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger. So many stations cut out the second part of choruses 2 and 3.
4. Can someone explain why the orchestral parts of Nights in White Satin are so often cut out? Breathe deep, the gathering gloom...
Quote from: roadman65 on February 02, 2012, 04:47:41 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 02, 2012, 09:27:08 AM
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway. "Heart of Glass" is usually played as the single edit to avoid the "pain in the ass" line, but the single edit sounds better in my opinion because Debbie Harry's voice is recorded strangely at the end of the full version.
Oddly, "Who Are You" with its "who the fuck are you" is seldom censored even on FM in my experience. But many radio stations play the shorter single edit that leaves out the verse at the end and I find that jarring. The single edit of "Won't Get Fooled Again" is even worse, just destroys the song. Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" often has that long interlude near the end edited out, the part that goes "every-body, every-one" over and over again; the reason I dislike hearing that omitted is that it contains the best line in the song when that guy sings "Can you tell me what a Wang Chung is?"
One song medley I do NOT mind hearing cut off on the radio is Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away." While the edit is a little awkward if it's not faded properly, I've always thought the "Get Away" coda is utterly unnecessary and messes up a pretty good song and that the band should have just found a better way to end it on the first part.
Does anyone know if The Pusher by Steppewolf was aloud to be played when it first debuted? For some of you who do not know the song, it has the GD word in it several times and the Gd is not Grand Rapids, MI like on I-96 either.
I never heard it on the radio, but keep in mind that when this album was released most rock was on AM. FM was kind of subversive for a while. The juiciest cut I ever heard on radio was an El Paso FM station that played "Billy the Mountain", a cut which took up one entire side of The Mothers' (of Invention by Frank Zappa) "Just Another Band from L.A." The DJ introduced it saying, "We just got this new album by the Mothers in, and I haven't had a chance to hear it yet, so we'll all be hearing it for the first time." This was back in the day when a radio station would play a single 25 minute piece of music. Let's just say I was amazed they didn't take it off part way through.
A few weeks later, the same DJ played another song from the album and said something like, "You may have heard the cut of 'Billy the Mountain' from this same album when we played it. You also know why we'll never play it again".
When speaking of songs that have parts chopped off before "censorship," record labels would send out (and sell) the radio edit version, to whichever radio stations they chose, in which the song would be limited to 3 minutes or less, while the album version (sent to general population) would contain the entire song. That's how some radio stations got to be labeled as "Album Oriented Rock" while others were the "pop" station in town. Some radio stations decided that they would play the "album" version of songs (which go beyond 3 minutes), instead of the "shorter" version.
More recent stuff - a few days ago I caught a local station playing Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolph with a sex act reference word near its end silenced out (that was the first time I heard t that way, even when played at Lambeau Field during Packer games).
OTOH, I have always wondered how Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love got all of the airplay that it did when it first came out in late 1969, especially with the mores of the day. Yowzah!
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on February 02, 2012, 10:14:47 PM
OTOH, I have always wondered how Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love got all of the airplay that it did when it first came out in late 1969, especially with the mores of the day. Yowzah!
Mike
The "mores" of the day were much looser on FM radio back then than AM radio then, and either band today.
See
Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars as example.
Lou Reed "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"
The pop station in 1987 made replaced "Sex" in "I Want Your Sex" with "Love" I want your love, I want your love.
I was noticing that WMMO in Orlando has been playing the original version of Lola by the Kinks with Coca Cola and NOT Cherry Cola because of the advertising thing.
One thing I cannot figure out, why Anheiser Bush made a big stink over Neil Young's This Note's For You and made the old MTV pull the video off.
Also, if I am not mistaken, but the line in Take It To The Limit by the Eagles "You can spend all your time making money, you can spend all your love making time" was most likely edited cause it does not make sense! If money had love in it, the phrase would and be a neat one at that.
Quote from: roadman65 on February 01, 2012, 09:29:17 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 01, 2012, 09:09:51 PM
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
On another slightly related note, Mariah Carey's cover of Bringin' on the Heartbreak is one that should have never been done, and every copy of it should be blown up in a re-enactment of the Disco Night at old Comiskey Park. That's gotta be one of the worst covers ever.
I think Club Novea with their rap version of the Bill Withers tune Lean On Me is the worst do over ever! Then there is that one rap group ( do not know their name) that redid Juice Newton's Angel of the Morning that rated high on Billboard's Top 40, but to me it ruined another good song.
Club Nouveau. There version of "Lean On Me" is not a rap song, though the extended version that radio doesn't play goes "Pump it up, what, pump it up who, pump it homeboy just like that".
Shaggy sampled "Angel Of the Morning" on his hit "Angel".
Quote from: NE2 on February 01, 2012, 10:52:11 PM
It's only recently (10 or so years, off my lawn) that I've heard Pink Floyd's Money censored.
I heard it uncensored earlier tonight. The same radio station also plays Money For Nothing uncensored (but not uncut...they play the 7:04 edit)
QuoteThe pop station in 1987 made replaced "Sex" in "I Want Your Sex" with "Love" I want your love, I want your love.
That would just sound awful.. I've only heard the real version of that song.
That sitiaton is very similar to the current song "Tonight, I'm F***ing You" by Enrique Inglesias. The radio version is "Tonight, I'm Loving You". I sounds alot better than the modified George Michael song probably would.
You know what songs that are not played together, but should be played somewhere on radio. The China Cat Sunflower and I Know You Rider medley from Grateful Dead off their Europe 72 album. I love the transition between the two songs with the long intro jam for I Know You Rider.
It would also be good to hear the album version as well of Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely as this version has a longer outro that is longer than the songs three verses. The song is almost 7 minuets verses the 3 plus on the single radio version, but I think it is cool.
Of course, Skynyrd's Live version of Freebird totally rules! That has the longest outro of all. I wonder why classic rock always settles on the studio version, when the live is more popular (I think) than the original which is nearly 3 minuets shorter and lacking the grand ending?
Quote from: roadman65 on February 04, 2012, 08:47:38 AM
Of course, Skynyrd's Live version of Freebird totally rules! That has the longest outro of all. I wonder why classic rock always settles on the studio version, when the live is more popular (I think) than the original which is nearly 3 minuets shorter and lacking the grand ending?
That's not always true, at least by me. The Drive, 97.1 FM in Chicago, will play a lot of live versions of songs. I have heard live versions of Tom Petty's Breakdown, Eric Clapton's Cocaine, and yes even a live version of Freebird.
I always thought the controversial line in "Money for Nothing" referred to Boy George.
When The Loop (WLUP-FM) and The Drive (WDRV-FM) in Chicago were owned by Bonneville Media (wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), they played the edited/censored versions of most songs. Both were recently sold, but I still think they play the censored versions. It's been a while since I listened at length.
When in high-school Radio class (Elgin U-46 had an FM station - they still do - WEPS-FM), all our preconceptions about "being a DJ" went out the window. FCC logs, bottom and top-of-the-hour required station IDs, scheduled PSAs and sponsorship "ads" (no commercials, just sponsorships), and yes, pre-selected and timed-out musical selections. In today's computerized radio, it's even more formatted.
WDRV at least runs a "Deep Tracks" format on their HD-2 signal, which tends to play the uncensored and full-length tracks. Good news for the 6 of us that own HD Radios, I guess. ;)
Quote from: hbelkins on February 04, 2012, 12:58:02 PM
I always thought the controversial line in "Money for Nothing" referred to Boy George.
Did not David Lee Roth's Just A Giggillo/ I Ain't Got Nobody have something in Dave TV's video of a reference to Boy George with a look a like of him during a certain line of the song?
Quote from: roadman65 on February 03, 2012, 10:13:04 PM
I was noticing that WMMO in Orlando has been playing the original version of Lola by the Kinks with Coca Cola and NOT Cherry Cola because of the advertising thing.
That was due to BBC rules, nothing in North America. The BBC decreed that the Kinks couldn't have the "Coca Cola" version due to the possible advertising; a BBC prohibition at the time. Hence, we have two versions of the song. I've rarely heard the "cherry cola" version here.
Quote from: hobsini2 on February 04, 2012, 11:29:49 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on February 04, 2012, 08:47:38 AM
Of course, Skynyrd's Live version of Freebird totally rules! That has the longest outro of all. I wonder why classic rock always settles on the studio version, when the live is more popular (I think) than the original which is nearly 3 minuets shorter and lacking the grand ending?
That's not always true, at least by me. The Drive, 97.1 FM in Chicago, will play a lot of live versions of songs. I have heard live versions of Tom Petty's Breakdown, Eric Clapton's Cocaine, and yes even a live version of Freebird.
Gotta love The Drive. They even play the original part of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller Band with "funky shit goin' down in the city" instead of "funky kicks goin' down in the city".
Quote from: Brandon on February 05, 2012, 10:33:12 AM
Gotta love The Drive. They even play the original part of Jet Airliner by Steve Miller Band with "funky shit goin' down in the city" instead of "funky kicks goin' down in the city".
These days, the word "shit" has lost a lot of its shock value, just like the word "ass" (compared to when I was a kid in the 70's-80's). I'm really surprised that anybody is sensitive enough anymore to play the sanitized version, but you do still hear it a lot.
What gets me is when you buy a digitally-remastered CD from a group and some songs have been edited shorter. For example, I recently bought the remastered Chicago 16, and at least one (maybe a 2nd) song was shorter. When I burnt it onto a disk for the car, I went back to original version of the CD for that particular song. You also see this a lot of Greatest Hits CD's where they put the radio edit or a pared-down version of a song instead of the album version. Examples include Here I Go Again on Whitesnake's Greatest Hits, Here Comes The Feeling on Asia Gold, and a bunch of Commodores songs (Three Times A Lady, Easy, Sail On, Still) on many of their various collections.
If given a choice, I'll always take the original longer version of a song. I even went to considerable bother to hunt up the rare Canned Wheat remastered Guess Who CD so I could have the longer original version of "No Time." That's one I've never heard on the radio!
Look at Law and Order with the fictional character of Jack McCoy consistently using the phrase "Son of a bitch" or Detectives Ed Greene or Rey Curtis saying lines like "piss me off" or some other things that Elliot Stabler says on Law and Order SVU that are worse.
Remember Jack Parr, one host of the Tonight Show long before Leno, got fired for mentioning the word "water closet." Then because of Norman Lear and his famous All In The Family sitcom, where Archie Bunker would flush the toilet on air, that became forgotten except for Parr who paid the price at his time of glory. Also, Norman Lear was the first person to allow contraversial propaganda and issues like racism, abortion, atheism, and politics to be subjects on a TV program. If you recall from other reruns, I Love Lucy, Andy Griffith, and even Gomer Pyle did not bring up subjects like that. Gomer Pyle even took place during the Vietnam War in a show about the USMC. Not once did the war make mention as the show was about a situation that a young naive man who made it to Marine Private got himself into, where he or his Sergeant who was annoyed by his goofy attitude had to get himself out of.
Then the Brady Bunch, that was about kids growing up, never even made sex an issue once. It was all about dating, school problems, crushes, and things that happen among families in an unknown town and setting. Not once was a location of where they were mentioned, although we can assume they lived someplace in Southern California. Full House was the same, although it was suggested that John Stamos' character of Jessie Konstapolis was a lady's man who went wherever in the first few seasons.
We can actually say many people over the last three decades of broadcasting have changed things, but still you have many fundamentalists or religious people who still balk at this and some do want cleaning. I too will not listen to some songs if I feel the lyrics are not right in my opinion and turn the dial away just like I do when some lawyers over advertise and annoy you with their contraversial ads.
The Brady Bunch's bathrooms didn't even have loos - apparently the running joke on the set was that they all had to head to the gas station down the block for that minor detail.
Mike
When I was younger I always enjoyed listening to WDAS in Philly censoring the Isley Brothers' "Fight The Power", you always filled in the bleep with vigor..."with all that BULLSHIT going down...yeah!"
Because pooing is cool
And FUNNY.
Quote from: mgk920 on February 05, 2012, 02:53:40 PM
The Brady Bunch's bathrooms didn't even have loos - apparently the running joke on the set was that they all had to head to the gas station down the block for that minor detail.
Mike
Hey on Sanford and Son, you never saw a bathroom. There were some episodes where Lamont had to use what Hollywood referred to as a "fillin station."
Anyway, what did Bobby flush in the one fifth season episode when he pointed out to Peter (who made their bedroom No Man's Land) that the bathroom was on his side of the room taped off? It must of been invisible!
On a serious note, we all know why and who is behind what. Its all what sells and the nielsons that determine what we see on TV and radio is based off of that. I was in advertising, and you must think like your customer if you want a sale.
Last night the same radio station that plays Money For Nothing and Money uncensored played the censored version of Walk On The Wild Side. That struck me as a bit odd.
Quote from: Brandon on February 05, 2012, 10:31:45 AMThat was due to BBC rules, nothing in North America. The BBC decreed that the Kinks couldn't have the "Coca Cola" version due to the possible advertising; a BBC prohibition at the time. Hence, we have two versions of the song. I've rarely heard the "cherry cola" version here.
Still is, though they are a bit more lax about it now (the BBC has no adverts except for trailers for it's own programming and by law cannot).
This year's Superbowl coverage handled it a lot better than previous years - both in limiting the amount of sponsored segments of the US network coverage (minimising time brand logos appear on screen) and in filling the gaps in coverage with interesting analysis and some clips, rather than American Football 101 (though to be fair, this is only the 5th year it has been aired on a free-to-air channel here and basic level explanations of what has just happened were needed by a lot of people watching a couple of years ago - we had "what is a safety" explained 2 years ago, this year it was just "why that was a safety").
Quote from: roadman65 on February 03, 2012, 10:13:04 PM
Also, if I am not mistaken, but the line in Take It To The Limit by the Eagles "You can spend all your time making money, you can spend all your love making time" was most likely edited cause it does not make sense! If money had love in it, the phrase would and be a neat one at that.
I had always thought it was hyphenated. "you can spend all your love-making time" (making money instead, being the implication)
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2012, 03:27:51 PM
Back in the days of vinyl, the area's album rock station (WKQQ-FM in Lexington, then 98.1, now 100.1) played "Living Loving Maid" and "Ramble On" as a medley.
When they went to CDs, it became "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid."
Not sure why they made that change.
Not a change. It's always been that way. "Ramble On" stood by itself. "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid" always ran together.
Quote from: renegade on October 09, 2014, 01:49:25 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2012, 03:27:51 PM
Back in the days of vinyl, the area's album rock station (WKQQ-FM in Lexington, then 98.1, now 100.1) played "Living Loving Maid" and "Ramble On" as a medley.
When they went to CDs, it became "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid."
Not sure why they made that change.
Not a change. It's always been that way. "Ramble On" stood by itself. "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid" always ran together.
Funny, I think of "Heartbreaker" as being followed by "Communication Breakdown" because that's how they appear on the 1990 boxed set, they run together quite cleanly, and that's the first time I'd heard either song all that often because I didn't listen to the radio much until I went off to college and the only Zeppelin album I had prior to the boxed set was
IV.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 09, 2014, 02:43:53 PM
Quote from: renegade on October 09, 2014, 01:49:25 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2012, 03:27:51 PM
Back in the days of vinyl, the area's album rock station (WKQQ-FM in Lexington, then 98.1, now 100.1) played "Living Loving Maid" and "Ramble On" as a medley.
When they went to CDs, it became "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid."
Not sure why they made that change.
Not a change. It's always been that way. "Ramble On" stood by itself. "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid" always ran together.
Funny, I think of "Heartbreaker" as being followed by "Communication Breakdown" because that's how they appear on the 1990 boxed set, they run together quite cleanly, and that's the first time I'd heard either song all that often because I didn't listen to the radio much until I went off to college and the only Zeppelin album I had prior to the boxed set was IV.
The box set was so strange to me because "Heartbreaker" wasn't followed by "Living Loving Maid". I'll agree that it runs together nicely with "Communication Breakdown", but I still found myself singing "with a purple umbrellla..."
Quote from: roadman65 on February 05, 2012, 02:26:16 PM
Jack Parr, one host of the Tonight Show long before Leno, got fired for mentioning the word "water closet."
Paar was not fired from the Tonight Show. He left on his own, on March 29th, 1962.
The story is that he told the water-closet joke, which was a double-entendre-filled bit in which the letters WC were misinterpreted as "Wayside Chapel," during his monologue on February 10th, 1960. After the show was recorded, but before it was aired on the east coast, NBC's censors edited the joke out of the video tape without notifying Paar. He watched the show from home and obviously knew the joke had been deleted.
After supposedly getting no sleep that night, he came out on stage the next night and started talking about the deletion of the joke, remarked (in part) "there must be a better way to make a living than this," and walked off, leaving announcer Hugh Downs to do the rest of the show. He stayed out for just under a month and returned on March 7th, remarking: "As I was saying before I was interrupted...When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living. Well, I looked, and there isn't." He then told the WC joke again, and it was NOT cut that time.
Today the joke would be considered tame and unworthy of even a fleeting mention, but one didn't talk about toilets on TV back then. Here it is:
An English lady, while visiting Switzerland, was looking for a room, and she asked the schoolmaster if he could recommend any to her. He took her to see several rooms, and when everything was settled, the lady returned to her home to make the final preparations to move.
When she arrived home, the thought suddenly occurred to her that she had not seen a "W.C." around the place. So she immediately wrote a note to the schoolmaster asking him if there were a "W.C." around. The schoolmaster was a very poor student of English, so he asked the parish priest if he could help in the matter. Together they tried to discover the meaning of the letters "W.C.," and the only solution they could find for the letters was "Wayside Chapel." The schoolmaster then wrote to the English lady the following note:
Dear Madam:
I take great pleasure in informing you that the W.C. is situated nine miles from the house you occupy, in the center of a beautiful grove of pine trees surrounded by lovely grounds. It is capable of holding 229 people and it is open on Sunday and Thursday only. As there are a great number of people and they are expected during the summer months, I would suggest that you come early: although there is plenty of standing room as a rule. You will no doubt be glad to hear that a good number of people bring their lunch and make a day of it; while others who can afford to go by car arrive just in time. I would especially recommend that your ladyship go on Thursday when there is a musical accompaniment. It may interest you to know that my daughter was married in the W.C. and it was there that she met her husband. I can remember the rush there was for seats. There were ten people to a seat ordinarily occupied by one. It was wonderful to see the expression on their faces. The newest attraction is a bell donated by a wealthy resident of the district. It rings every time a person enters. A bazaar is to be held to provide plush seats for all the people, since they feel it is a long felt need. My wife is rather delicate, so she can't attend regularly. I shall be delighted to reserve the best seat for you if you wish, where you will be seen by all. For the children, there is a special time and place so that they will not disturb the elders. Hoping to have been of service to you, I remain,
Sincerely,
The Schoolmaster
Quote from: renegade on October 09, 2014, 01:49:25 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 02, 2012, 03:27:51 PM
Back in the days of vinyl, the area's album rock station (WKQQ-FM in Lexington, then 98.1, now 100.1) played "Living Loving Maid" and "Ramble On" as a medley.
When they went to CDs, it became "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid."
Not sure why they made that change.
Not a change. It's always been that way. "Ramble On" stood by itself. "Heartbreaker" and "Living Loving Maid" always ran together.
No. Like I said, until the advent of CDs, it was "LLM" and "Ramble On," and "Heartbreaker" was not a part of it. Maybe that was just specific to WKQQ-FM, but that's what I was used to.
Some stations deliberately leave out We're Not Gonna Take It's first part and begin the song from the lines "See me, feel me etc." Even though not a medley as it is one song, some may take it as two completely different songs because of the three different tempo changes within the song.
I do not know why you leave out half the song. Usually you would only edit lines of a song to make it shorter or instrumental parts like they did with The Doors Light My Fire. However one station called Thunder 103 Five in Tampa always did that as well as a few others I have heard it as well.
"See Me, Feel Me" was in fact released as a single even though it's not a solo track on the album, and you can find it in that form on Who's Better, Who's Best (as well as a live version from Woodstock on The Kids Are Alright). Based on that, I don't see any problem with a radio station playing just that portion.
Slayer's Postmortem/Raining Blood would make this list except that radio stations never play Slayer.
Quote from: Alps on February 01, 2012, 10:38:41 PMSystem of a Down's Cigaro uncensored, before the radio realized what it had done and censored every subsequent replay.
This is the song about shit stinking.
Rolling Stones "Lets Spend the Night Together" was changed to "Let's Spend Some Time Together" for Ed Sullivan
Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" while we were trying different things we were smoking funny things was often changed to ...we were trying different things we were {blank} funny things
Quote from: bugo on October 10, 2014, 04:38:49 PM
Slayer's Postmortem/Raining Blood would make this list except that radio stations never play Slayer.
the reason "Raining Blood" is nowadays believed to start with the last riff set of "Postmortem" is because the first CD release mistracked everything. the correct tracking would be somewhere in the middle of the rainstorm, as is logical.
I have heard Raining Blood on the radio*, and they indeed started at "my sinful glare at nothing" because that's very likely how the CD was tracked. I believe more recent remaster CDs have a correct tracking.
* there was a show late Saturday nights called the Metal Zone, with Dr. Metal, coming out of Providence. Dr. Metal died in the Great White fire of 2003. I was one reluctant buddy with transportation ("dude, Great White sucks!") from being at that show.
On editing our local rock station now WMMO does not like the GD word in Life In The Fast Lane and not only editing it out themselves, but sounding so terrible at it.
Then you have them edit out the line of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits that mentions "Look at the f**t with the earring and the make up, yeah that's his own hair" from their airplay, but I imagine that was done in the studio before time.
Playing Guitar by the artist named John with the many last names has the classic line "Oh yeah and learn about that macho shit and learn how to play guitar" has a version that uses "stuff" instead of the S word.
Edit :Speaking of edits What the heck is going on with this site? It edits out the one word I am trying to make a point of on Money For Nothing and twice it changed it to the word cigarette in this here post. It looks like music is not the only one editing out things. Scary I must say. The word I am talking about is obvious to what it is, but it is the one word to a gay person that is equivlant to the N word for African Americans.
On some sites that use the same or similar software to this forum, you can get around a word filter by formatting the text midway through the word. For example, I was once a member of a forum (that no longer exists) where the word filter would not allow the word "cock" nor any word containing "cock," even legitimate words like "Hitchcock" (a name that came up often enough since it was a hockey forum and Ken Hitchcock is an NHL coach). If you formatted the text to make one or two letters mid-word boldface or italicized ("Hitchcock," for example), the word filter was fooled into allowing it.
I make no comment either way about how the moderators here would react to your doing this, and you try it at your own risk because if they feel strongly enough about it to put in a word filter, they probably have serious objections to that word. Speaking solely from own viewpoint, it seems to me people need to be mature enough to recognize when a word is being used in a neutral way–such as a quotation–and I think it's pretty pathetic that American society feels you can't even use some of those words when you are discussing those words. Or, put differently, one of my college professors (Julian Bond) taught a course about the civil rights movement and he said he would use the word "nigger" at times because he felt it offensive and inappropriate to sugar-coat the vile behavior civil rights protestors encountered, and using euphemisms like "the N-word" constituted sugar-coating in his view. In other words, I think in instances like the final sentence of your post, it should be OK to use both of the words in question–as I've done here with the racial term–because there's no remote way they're being used to offend. The moderators may disagree, however. I also think, of course, such use should be appropriately rare. It's sophistry to come up with such sentences on a routine basis simply as a means of trying to "justify" using a word that's normally offensive. (Sort of like how Bart Simpson once noted Homer's illegitimate half-brother was a bastard–a correct use of that word–but his parents made him shut up when he then tried to use it constantly.)
Edited to add: I see this technique works here because I tried it when I saw the forum censored the racial term. If the moderators deem it unacceptable, I will edit the post to remove that word.
Quote from: bugo on October 10, 2014, 04:43:47 PM
Quote from: Alps on February 01, 2012, 10:38:41 PMSystem of a Down's Cigaro uncensored, before the radio realized what it had done and censored every subsequent replay.
This is the song about shit stinking.
... aaand cock size
The only time I ever saw a self-censoring board was one that for a week changed all instances of the word "fuck" to "Nina Totenberg." It was Nina Totenberging hilarious.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 11, 2014, 11:53:56 AM
The only time I ever saw a self-censoring board was one that for a week changed all instances of the word "fuck" to "Nina Totenberg." It was Nina Totenberging hilarious.
That's clbuttic! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
Reminds me of a BBS (remember those?) that wouldn't allow the word "chardonnay" because it contains the string "hardon."
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 11, 2014, 01:21:55 PM
Reminds me of a BBS (remember those?) that wouldn't allow the word "chardonnay" because it contains the string "hardon."
Hey that one is interesting. You can't spell chardonnay without H-A-R-D-O-N.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 05:18:37 PM
Then you have them edit out the line of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits that mentions "Look at the f**t with the earring and the make up, yeah that's his own hair" from their airplay, but I imagine that was done in the studio before time.
I've heard both the edited and unedited version of that song on the radio. The same goes for Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner". I've heard both "funky shit going down in the city" and "funky kicks going down in the city" versions.
Or in baseball where the batter "mishit" the ball?
Quote from: signalman on October 11, 2014, 03:20:55 PM
Then you have them edit out the line of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits that mentions "Look at the f**t with the earring and the make up, yeah that's his own hair" from their airplay, but I imagine that was done in the studio before time.
I remember the F-word was always included in the song. In recent years, no station plays it.
Other medley that could be played on their own is INXS' "Need You Tonight/Mediate". "Mediate" even had its own video, which was a ripoff of a Bob Dylan video.
Quote from: signalman on October 11, 2014, 03:20:55 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 05:18:37 PM
Then you have them edit out the line of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits that mentions "Look at the f**t with the earring and the make up, yeah that's his own hair" from their airplay, but I imagine that was done in the studio before time.
I've heard both the edited and unedited version of that song on the radio. The same goes for Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner". I've heard both "funky shit going down in the city" and "funky kicks going down in the city" versions.
Was there ever an edit for Reo Speedwagon's Tough Guys? I have always heard that line even when played on WPLJ in New York when they were a Rock station at the time and not what they are today when then they played it as "They think they're full of shit" during the early 80s. Then shortly after High In Fidelity, the album it was on, lost popularity the song stopped being played there even though Take It On The Run and Keep On Lovin You kept getting airplay afterward are still played on rock and adult contemporary stations to this day.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 11, 2014, 09:21:33 PM
Was there ever an edit for Reo Speedwagon's Tough Guys?
If one exists, I've never heard it.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 05:18:37 PM
Edit :Speaking of edits What the heck is going on with this site? It edits out the one word I am trying to make a point of on Money For Nothing and twice it changed it to the word cigarette in this here post. It looks like music is not the only one editing out things. Scary I must say. The word I am talking about is obvious to what it is, but it is the one word to a gay person that is equivlant to the N word for African Americans.
This was covered on page 1 of the thread.
Anyway, "Hotel California" is the first song that comes to mind when I think of a song edited for radio due to time, although I can't think what station plays it this way.
Our classic rock station 100.7 the Bay is really good about playing unedited songs - I'm going to listen for the big ones covered in this thread ("Walk on the Wild Side", "Money for Nothing") and see what they do about those. I don't recall them editing anything, though.
Any reason that songs that generally use the word "bitch" air on stations unedited? I can think of stations who leave out references to bad things (like editing the word smoking) that play "The Bitch is Back" and "I'm a Bitch, I'm a lover" unedited.
I can't believe there are stations that edit out references to smoking or that they still have listeners. Are they Radio Disney?
"Bitch" is not considered offensive to community standards in the way "fuck" is (and certainly not on the FCC "list"). Ban "bitch" and you might as well ban "hell" and "damn." If you can say "ass" on the radio, there's no reason you can't say "bitch."
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 02, 2012, 09:27:08 AM
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway
I have a copy of the Steve Miller's Greatest Hit's album and it has the uncensored version of "Jet Airliner" on it.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2014, 10:56:09 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 02, 2012, 09:27:08 AM
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway
I have a copy of the Steve Miller's Greatest Hit's album and it has the uncensored version of "Jet Airliner" on it.
Must be something new, then, because I've had a copy for about 20 years (not coincidentally, I was in college 20 years ago) and it has the censored version.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 13, 2014, 12:26:34 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2014, 10:56:09 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 02, 2012, 09:27:08 AM
Censored songs: Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" has the single edit (which also appears on his greatest hits album that every college kid owns) that changes "funky shit goin' down in the city" to "funky kicks." I've only heard the uncensored version on XM, never on FM. First time I heard it I was surprised because I had only heard the single edit, but the censored lyric doesn't make any sense anyway
I have a copy of the Steve Miller's Greatest Hit's album and it has the uncensored version of "Jet Airliner" on it.
Must be something new, then, because I've had a copy for about 20 years (not coincidentally, I was in college 20 years ago) and it has the censored version.
If memory serve, the censored version of that song had a shorter intro whereas the uncensored version had the long-synthesizer intro. IIRC, the former was originally made for the single 45 release and the version that AM stations would play whereas the latter was in the original album (
Book of Dreams) and played on FM stations.
FWIW, from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Airliner_(Steve_Miller_Band_song))
Quote from: WikiThe single edit was included on the original release of Greatest Hits 1974—78, although the full album version has been used for later reissues of the compilation.
I'm surprise that nobody yet mentioned Nickelback's
Rockstar; many stations play a version that even has the word
drug censored out (
drugs come cheap..., everybody's got a drug dealer on speed dial) of the lyrics.
For many years, FM radio stations would always play the Who's
Who Are You? unedited (the latter part of the song contains the F-bomb (
Oh who the f%&k are you?)); now that particular portion of the song is completely cut out.
True story, when I first heard Wild Cherry's
Play that Funky Music on an AM music station (Boston's WRKO before it became an all-talk station); I thought they were saying the F-bomb (it wasn't called such back then) and thought
"Can they say that on the radio?" Before anyone says how naive I was; let me state that I was about 9 or 10 at the time and did not regularly listen to FM radio then.
Speaking of Steve Miller: Fly Like an Eagle is another song where the beginning and end instrumentals are often edited out for radio play.
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Quote from: roadman65 on February 04, 2012, 08:47:38 AM
You know what songs that are not played together, but should be played somewhere on radio. The China Cat Sunflower and I Know You Rider medley from Grateful Dead off their Europe 72 album. I love the transition between the two songs with the long intro jam for I Know You Rider.
Those two songs were married to each other in the Dead's repertoire from 1971 on. They were played apart a total of 5 times from 72-'95.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 13, 2014, 09:51:55 AM
I can't believe there are stations that edit out references to smoking or that they still have listeners. Are they Radio Disney?
"Bitch" is not considered offensive to community standards in the way "fuck" is (and certainly not on the FCC "list"). Ban "bitch" and you might as well ban "hell" and "damn." If you can say "ass" on the radio, there's no reason you can't say "bitch."
Fuck it, let's just bring back the Hays Code. :banghead:
Quote from: PHLBOS on October 13, 2014, 04:11:25 PM
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For many years, FM radio stations would always play the Who's Who Are You? unedited (the latter part of the song contains the F-bomb (Oh who the f%&k are you?)); now that particular portion of the song is completely cut out.
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I heard that song (uncensored) yesterday, though it was on XM so it doesn't really count. I found myself wondering why Pete Townshend found it necessary to include the word "fuck" at all. It doesn't really serve much purpose there.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 14, 2014, 10:03:44 AMI heard that song (uncensored) yesterday, though it was on XM so it doesn't really count. I found myself wondering why Pete Townshend found it necessary to include the word "fuck" at all. It doesn't really serve much purpose there.
I agree; nonetheless, the reasoning to include such can be summed up in 2 words... shock factor.
Quote from: PHLBOS on October 13, 2014, 04:11:25 PM
True story, when I first heard Wild Cherry's Play that Funky Music on an AM music station (Boston's WRKO before it became an all-talk station); I thought they were saying the F-bomb (it wasn't called such back then) and thought "Can they say that on the radio?" Before anyone says how naive I was; let me state that I was about 9 or 10 at the time and did not regularly listen to FM radio then.
Ha, I had a similar misunderstanding the first few times I heard the Doobie Brothers "Black Water" when I was a kid
Quote from: texaskdog on February 03, 2012, 01:20:47 PM
Lou Reed "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"
The pop station in 1987 made replaced "Sex" in "I Want Your Sex" with "Love" I want your love, I want your love.
It annoyed me when WKRQ in Cincinnati deleted "I Want Your Sex" from 'American Top 40'. That station had no trouble playing that song 5 years later, but they never played it when it was new.
Quote from: Brian556 on February 04, 2012, 12:03:20 AM
QuoteThe pop station in 1987 made replaced "Sex" in "I Want Your Sex" with "Love" I want your love, I want your love.
That would just sound awful.. I've only heard the real version of that song.
I swear I heard this version once before. It sounded ridiculous.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2014, 10:56:09 AM
I have a copy of the Steve Miller's Greatest Hit's album and it has the uncensored version of "Jet Airliner" on it.
I'm not sure, but I thought the vinyl version was uncensored, while the CD version was censored.
Quote from: bandit957 on October 15, 2014, 12:39:33 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2014, 10:56:09 AM
I have a copy of the Steve Miller's Greatest Hit's album and it has the uncensored version of "Jet Airliner" on it.
I'm not sure, but I thought the vinyl version was uncensored, while the CD version was censored.
Repost from several posts back:
From Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Airliner_(Steve_Miller_Band_song))
Quote from: WikiThe single edit was included on the original release of Greatest Hits 1974—78, although the full album version has been used for later reissues of the compilation.
Okay, just heard Money for Nothin on HOT 100 (100.3 classic rock) outside of DC, and I was waiting to see what they did about the f line, and I got to the end of the song and thought "wait...did they skip the whole stanza?" Because I don't remember hearing it at all. Anyone from DC know from experience if they leave the whole stanza out, or if I was too busy watching traffic to notice?
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Quote from: Laura on October 17, 2014, 10:15:54 AM
Okay, just heard Money for Nothin on HOT 100 (100.3 classic rock) outside of DC, and I was waiting to see what they did about the f line, and I got to the end of the song and thought "wait...did they skip the whole stanza?" Because I don't remember hearing it at all. Anyone from DC know from experience if they leave the whole stanza out, or if I was too busy watching traffic to notice?
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Most stations around here (pop stations at least) always deleted the whole verse. I think there was a promo version for radio stations that removed this verse.
WKRQ always chopped up the song even more. They always cut out the "I want my MTV" chant at the beginning. Their version sounded like they had their hand on the turntable as they started it up.
Quote from: bandit957 on October 15, 2014, 12:33:40 PM
Quote from: Brian556 on February 04, 2012, 12:03:20 AM
QuoteThe pop station in 1987 made replaced "Sex" in "I Want Your Sex" with "Love" I want your love, I want your love.
That would just sound awful.. I've only heard the real version of that song.
I swear I heard this version once before. It sounded ridiculous.
There was a station in Georgia that played a "cleaner" version of "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd. Theirs was "I Wanna Love You Up".
Hope I'm not repeating a post but "Cum On Feel The Noize, Girls Rock your boys". The 2nd line said "Girls, F*ck your boys" but since it sounded a lot like Rock it slides by every time.
I had to laugh reading about the lengths AT40 had to go to have a clean show. It got worse over the years. Sorry for the long post but I think it's pretty amusing.
Censorship, offensive songs and affiliate standards[edit]
American Top 40 airs radio edits for American radio stations, no matter what the country it airs in.[citation needed]
Casey Kasem and Watermark's policy regarding putting American Top 40 together was to always play the 40 most popular songs in the United States and never to ban a record from the countdown. However, whenever songs with potentially offensive lyrical content made the top 40, Watermark would send out memos to affiliated stations alerting them of the presence of that song in the countdown and sometimes provide stations with suggestions on how to edit the song out of their AT40 broadcasts. The first song to receive this advisory was in April and May 1971, with a spoken word piece, "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley", by Terry Nelson and C-Company.[25][26] Some more well-known songs which received this treatment included "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, "Roxanne" by The Police, "Ain't Love a Bitch" by Rod Stewart, and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf.
Perhaps the most infamous of these songs was Chuck Berry's number-one hit "My Ding-a-Ling", which put some stations in the odd position of having to air AT40 without playing the number one song; at least one station, KELI in Tulsa, Oklahoma, censored out the song at its #1 position, replacing it with a message from station management, explaining why they chose to censor the program.[27] The censorship of this song continues even today as some stations, such as WOGL in Philadelphia, replaced this song with an optional extra when it aired a rerun of the November 18, 1972 broadcast (where it ranked at #14)[28] on December 6, 2008.
In the summer of 1977, radio station KRNQ in Des Moines, Iowa, edited out "The Killing of Georgie" by Rod Stewart, because of the subject matter of a homosexual being murdered;[citation needed] that song peaked at #30 on the countdown.
Another example of this policy dates from 1978, when Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" was on the charts. Because of the nature of the song (Joel singing about urging pre-marital sex by a teen Catholic girl, Virginia), AT40 had placed warnings in shipments to warn affiliates in highly Catholic populated areas along with a special break in the countdown for stations to substitute another song in its place. The affiliates usually used the suggestion, though some did not and no major complaints were ever heard. Many of these memos have been reprinted in Pete Battistini's book, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970s)."
In situations where a charting song contained offensive language and the record company was unable to provide AT40 with a clean edit of the song, the producers would often make an edit themselves. Such was a case with Bob Dylan's Top 40 single, "George Jackson", which peaked at #33 in January 1972 and appeared for two weeks on AT40. The offensive lyric in the song was, "He wouldn't take shit from no one." To rectify the problem, AT40 engineer Bill Hergonson edited the lyric, which was now heard as "He wouldn't take it from no one."[29] A similar situation occurred again in July 1975, when The Isley Brothers' Fight the Power was in the Top 40, but in this case, the substitute version provided by the group's label was unsuitable, resorting to the engineer to substitute grunts and extra drum beats over the offending parts of the original record. However, this was not before AT40 erroneously played the uncensored version (with the lyric "...by all this bullshit goin' down") the first two weeks on the chart, on the July 12 and 19, 1975 editions.[30]
Although Kasem and his crew never banned a song from airplay on the countdown, there was at least one instance in which Kasem refused to announce the title of a song on his show. When George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" hit the Billboard charts in the summer of 1987, Kasem refused to announce the name of the song; only its artist (e.g., "George Michael's latest hit is up five notches this week..."). Also, as had been done with previous controversial hits, because of the song's suggestiveness, the show's structure was altered slightly, so stations could opt out of the song. This pattern was also evident during the 1987 Year End countdown. The song title was mentioned five times during its chart run (June 20, 1987; June 27, 1987; April 7, 1987; December 9, 1987 and September 19, 1987), during the week-ending episode of September 26, 1987, when it dropped out of the Top 40, and during the Top 100 of 1987 show; Shadoe Stevens, his successor, however did mention the title on the show from July 31, 1993 as part of the Flashback feature, as it was in the top 5 from that week in 1987. In the spring of 1991, when "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour and "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd debuted the same week, their titles were announced in full.[citation needed]
Another song that had its title unannounced after its first week was "Me So Horny" by 2 Live Crew, in the fall of 1989 [the Shadoe Stevens era]. It was mentioned twice at the beginning of the song, and back announced once, its debut week. For the rest of its chart run, the title was never again mentioned. When the 2 Live Crew returned to the top 40 in the Summer of 1990, with "Banned in the U.S.A.", Shadoe did mention that it was the follow-up to "Me So Horny". The song did come with edit out instructions for stations as well. Other songs around that time with edit out warnings were "The Humpty Dance" by The Digital Underground, and "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper.
Very rarely does a song on that week's chart be excluded from that week's AT40, if so only due to time considerations–on an edition that aired the weekend of December 19, 1970, The Guess Who's "Share the Land", which ranked at #30 that week, was omitted from AT40, in order to play both sides of that week's #1 Double A-side hit, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It a Pity".[31] Normally when a Double A-side appears on the charts, one side is played one week, with the other played the next week, alternating each week as long as it was in the Top 40.
As has been mentioned previously, many rock radio stations in the late 1970s adopted anti-disco stances, and this, too, was reflected in the way some affiliates edited AT40. For example, one 1979 show featured a story about disco saving New York; again, the show was structured so that anti-disco stations could edit the story out of the show. (Notably, Kasem ended the monologue with the prediction that "disco is here to stay," which was proven false in short order, as disco rapidly fell out of fashion by 1980.)
More famously, on the weekend of July 7—8, 1979, Cleveland, Ohio AT40 affiliate WGCL (now WNCX), instead of carrying the "American Top 40 Top 40 Disco Songs" special because of being an anti-disco radio station, did its own version of American Top 40 using the July 7, 1979 Billboard chart as the source with Townsend Coleman handling the hosting duties for Casey Kasem. The special Cleveland-only American Top 40 episode did not feature the AT40 Archives, extras, or Long Distance Dedications — just the top 40 singles of that week, which was preceded by a recap of the previous week's top three. Most of the songs played were longer album versions or 12-inch extended versions. Through clever editing, Coleman also took the "Casey's Coast to Coast" jingle (pronounced "K-C's Coast to Coast") and spliced in a "T," to provide an appropriate "TC's Coast to Coast" jingle. Kasem did not learn about the deception until 1996, laughing the whole thing off by saying, "Maybe I don't want to hear it!"
Coleman's sleight-of-hand was actually the second time a version of the AT40 had aired that was not quite on the up and up. According to Rob Durkee's book "American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century", Dave Morgan of WDHF (now WNUA) in Chicago ghosted an edition of the program sometime in the summer of 1975. When the station's copy of the show did not arrive in time, he used Billboard's list and merely played the records, apparently heavily implying that the show was American Top 40 without actually identifying it as such. "My program director made me do it!" Morgan said years later. The following year, WDHF would refuse to play AT40's "Fourth of July's Greatest Hits" special, due to the special's overabundance of #1 hits from the pre-rock era. But while the special was a stark departure from the contemporary sound of the 1970s, Tom Rounds in his press release reminded stations that it was the United States' "one and only bicentennial."[32]
From 1992 to 1994, two radio stations still carrying American Top 40 had to carry customized versions of the show. WPLJ in New York City aired the show with the urban/dance/rap songs mentioned but not played and were replaced here and there by Hot Adult Contemporary leaning extras. KUBE in Seattle, Washington aired AT40 with a few songs that did not fit the station's Top 40 Rhythm format omitted each week. It has also been reported that WSTR in Atlanta, Georgia, being an anti-rap station and a very Adult Contemporary-leaning CHR, edited "Another Night" by Real McCoy (a Euro disco record with rap breaks) out of its broadcasts of Casey's Top 40 in 1994, even while the song was at #1 on the show (which used the Radio & Records CHR/Pop chart).
In 2010, "Fuck You" by Cee Lo Green was changed to "Forget You" for radio airplay and hit #1 the following year after re-entering the American Top 40. "Fuckin' Perfect" by Pink was changed to "Perfect" for radio airplay and also hit #1 on the American Top 40. "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)" by Enrique Iglesias was changed to "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" for radio airplay and hit #1 on the American Top 40 as well. "Niggas in Paris" by Jay-Z & Kanye West was changed to "In Paris" for radio airplay. "Ass Back Home" by Gym Class Heroes, which was changed to "Get Yourself Back Home" for radio airplay. The most recent radio edit was by Neon Hitch with her song "Fuck U Betta"; it was changed to "Love U Betta" for radio airplay (this song was first played in Subway's Fresh Buzz song of the week).[citation needed]
In early 2013, Justin Timberlake's single "Mirrors" had to be edited for time, as the song is over 8 minutes long.[citation needed]
What about that one song that came out about five years ago that sounds like f**in yellow even though it is not, but I am sure, or it would not surprise me if, that the artist or songwriter really wanted that to be f**in mellow, but used this to get around censorship.
Then pass the dutchie, where we used to make a parody on it by replacing dutchie with the common name for the female anatomy, makes me wonder if that song was to be purposely created so the young perverted minds at the time would come up with such a parody.
Quote from: golden eagle on October 18, 2014, 01:05:42 PM
There was a station in Georgia that played a "cleaner" version of "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd. Theirs was "I Wanna Love You Up".
I heard this version once on a road trip in northwestern Florida in 1991. The station I heard it on was WJLQ Pensacola.
quote from roadman 65:
QuoteThen pass the dutchie, where we used to make a parody on it by replacing dutchie with the common name for the female anatomy, makes me wonder if that song was to be purposely created so the young perverted minds at the time would come up with such a parody.
My understanding is that this song was about marijuana use. I doubt it had anything to do with anatomy.
Quote from: texaskdog on October 18, 2014, 01:08:24 PM
Hope I'm not repeating a post but "Cum On Feel The Noize, Girls Rock your boys". The 2nd line said "Girls, F*ck your boys" but since it sounded a lot like Rock it slides by every time.
No, it really is "rock."
Quote from: texaskdog on October 18, 2014, 01:10:55 PMSome more well-known songs which received this treatment included "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, "Roxanne" by The Police,
Why? What was in those two songs?
Quote from: hbelkins on October 18, 2014, 09:41:41 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on October 18, 2014, 01:08:24 PM
Hope I'm not repeating a post but "Cum On Feel The Noize, Girls Rock your boys". The 2nd line said "Girls, F*ck your boys" but since it sounded a lot like Rock it slides by every time.
No, it really is "rock."
Quote from: texaskdog on October 18, 2014, 01:10:55 PMSome more well-known songs which received this treatment included "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, "Roxanne" by The Police,
Why? What was in those two songs?
"Kodachrome" had the word "crap."
Back when I was about 9 or 10, I used to think I was a comedic genius because whenever "Roxanne" came on the radio, I'd sing, "You don't have to put on the stop sign..."
Another funny thing I did when I was about 10. Any time a song had a title or lyrics with a word that rhymed with the name of a 'Sesame Street' character, I'd change the lyrics accordingly. For example, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" by Culture Club became "Do You Really Want To Bert Me".
"Almost Over You" by Sheena Easton became "Almost Grover You". The line about "paintin' the town" became "number paintin' the town", because of the Number Painter on 'Sesame Street'.
Also the line in "Puttin' On The Ritz" that said "Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper" became "Tryin' hard to look like Mr. Hooper."
Oh yes now I remember the Culture Club and the androgynous Boy George where everyone questioned his gender at the time Do Your Really Want To Hurt Me came out.
Now since, Boy George cut his long hair despite since then he admitted to his sexuality, but another story. Anyway, memories are coming back talking about this short lived video music age.
One song you never ever hear on the radio is Star Star by the Rolling Stones. Many people refer to it by the line that prevents its airplay (Starf***er), plus it has an overt reference to a female body part.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on October 19, 2014, 11:46:06 PM
One song you never ever hear on the radio is Star Star by the Rolling Stones. Many people refer to it by the line that prevents its airplay (Starf***er), plus it has an overt reference to a female body part.
The Stones themselves call it "Starfucker" because that was to be the song's name until the record company refused to release it under that title.
Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi often has a portion of the intro cut out on it.
I heard an old song that I never knew existed as the Rolling Stones covered it back in the 80s when they came out with their first new age rock songs on Undercover of the Night.
It was the original Going To A Go Go, as when I heard it I remembered now how I wish they could have cut any parts of that song out when it was out.
Like I said in another thread, I had some time getting used to the 80's change that took place from 83 to 85, and Undercover of the Night was the Stones first album of theirs with the new direction of Rock for the era.
Quote from: tchafe1978 on February 01, 2012, 09:09:51 PM
Two songs that I think should be played together but aren't all the time, is Def Leppard's Bringin' on the Heartbreak and Switch 625. The second song is completely instrumental, but the first leads right into the second, with no break. I used to hear them played together all the time, but rarely anymore.
On another slightly related note, Mariah Carey's cover of Bringin' on the Heartbreak is one that should have never been done, and every copy of it should be blown up in a re-enactment of the Disco Night at old Comiskey Park. That's gotta be one of the worst covers ever.
Switch 625 was one of my fave instrumental songs (well...almost anyway, as they do sort of sing in the closing phrase). Speaking of High 'n Dry, didn't the CD release cut out the song "Me and My Wine?"
Also, I get a little ticked off with our local classic rock station. They play the opening chords to "Action! Not Words" (from Pyromania, second to the last track) but the station never actually plays the song, and that's one of the best B-side songs from Pyro (that, Billy's Got a Gun and Coming Under Fire)
I vividly remember Pink Floyd's Money being played on the air; it's the song that contains the line "don't give me that do goody-good bullshit".
Quote from: Brandon on October 14, 2014, 09:57:25 AM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 13, 2014, 09:51:55 AM
I can't believe there are stations that edit out references to smoking or that they still have listeners. Are they Radio Disney?
"Bitch" is not considered offensive to community standards in the way "fuck" is (and certainly not on the FCC "list"). Ban "bitch" and you might as well ban "hell" and "damn." If you can say "ass" on the radio, there's no reason you can't say "bitch."
Fuck it, let's just bring back the Hays Code. :banghead:
Try telling that to radio stations that play Katy Perry's Hot n Cold, where the final word in the line "you PMS like a bitch" is completely erased. And then there's Brandy's 2002 hit What About Us?, where the line "I don't need this bullshit" is changed twice, to "I don't need this bull ish", and also to a glass-breaking sound effect after the "bull" half.
I remember the Washington Capitals used Rev Theory's "Hell Yeah" as the entrance video song a few years ago but censored it ("Are you ready for the best damn ride of your life" was clumsily edited to remove "damn," while "Gimme a hell, gimme a yeah" was edited to "Gimme a yell, gimme a yeah").
If you know the song the edits are jarringly obvious:
Quote from: roadman65 on October 20, 2014, 10:28:13 AM
I heard an old song that I never knew existed as the Rolling Stones covered it back in the 80s when they came out with their first new age rock songs on Undercover of the Night.
It was the original Going To A Go Go, as when I heard it I remembered now how I wish they could have cut any parts of that song out when it was out.
That never appeared on a studio album. They played that song on that tour and it was on the live album they released.
I saw that tour when they played Rupp Arena in December of 1981. I also have a vinyl bootleg soundboard recording of their date on that tour at Hampton Coliseum in Virginia.
You guys, I just heard "Money for Nothin'" UNCENSORED on 100.7 The Bay here in Baltimore. Granted, it played from 3:31-3:39 am when most people are asleep, but it was incredible. I just never thought this moment would happen. At first, I noticed the intro was longer, so I was like "sweet! The full eight minute version!" when it dawned on me...it was possible that they could play those lines with the f word...and then they did.
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I thought a medley was always a special presentation of several songs which are normally played separately, or parts thereof. Two songs that are traditionally played together, like the examples in the first few posts of this thread, I call a "polycarmen". And I usually do prefer to hear the whole polycarmen if I'm aware of it.
My personal favorite presentation of The Wall Part 2 actually begins with The Wall Part 1.
I always assumed in Money For Nothing, the bundle of sticks was supposed to be Prince, but I haven't really seen many pictures of him or Boy George. Also, the line goes "that's his own affair", not "that's his own hair"; apparently the singer didn't hold too much disrespect towards the bundle of sticks, and was in fact impressed by his financial success.
Why is it when a song is shortened, it's almost always a unique instrumental segment that gets cut? If anything, I'd prefer they cut a verse, as aside from the lyrics, verses are usually repetitious of one another.
Just a few weeks ago I heard WVNO play Devil Went Down To Georgia, in which the word "bitch" was censored with an audible beep. That was hilarious.
According to the lyric sheet with the record, the line is "that's his own hair."
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 22, 2014, 08:29:56 AM
According to the lyric sheet with the record, the line is "that's his own hair."
That's a whole missing syllable from what I thought I've always heard. Makes more sense my way. *shrugs*
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Green Day's Blvd. gets shortened by leaps and bounds at the end. Weezer's Undone usually drops the piano solo, which is the whole reason of listening to the song. And yet they never chop Let It Be.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 05:18:37 PM
On editing our local rock station now WMMO does not like the GD word in Life In The Fast Lane and not only editing it out themselves, but sounding so terrible at it.
Not only does 100.3 the Bus in Des Moines do that, they also edit out "pussy" in Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" ("Well, I make a pussy purr with a stroke of my hand..."), replacing it with a guitar riff. The rock stations in the area, 95 KGGO and Lazer 103.3, leave it alone.
Quote from: Alps on February 01, 2012, 08:30:39 PM
...Finally, don't get me started when I'm traveling, and the one station with good music is the one that plays all its songs 1.1 times as fast to fit in more ads. I can hear the difference in pitch. I'd rather travel in silence and go crazy.
Hell yeah!!! I thought I was the only one. (I have a a musician friend who also has perfect pitch but it doesn't bother him to the degree it irks me.) It's painful! I commiserate with you, Alps.
Was Steppenwolf's The Pusher ever edited when it was played back in the 70's before censorship was broken?
Remember the chorus with the many G D words is said.
Quote from: bandit957 on October 19, 2014, 03:35:24 PM
Another funny thing I did when I was about 10. Any time a song had a title or lyrics with a word that rhymed with the name of a 'Sesame Street' character, I'd change the lyrics accordingly. For example, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" by Culture Club became "Do You Really Want To Bert Me".
"Almost Over You" by Sheena Easton became "Almost Grover You". The line about "paintin' the town" became "number paintin' the town", because of the Number Painter on 'Sesame Street'.
Also the line in "Puttin' On The Ritz" that said "Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper" became "Tryin' hard to look like Mr. Hooper."
You oughta record those songs and call yourself Weird Elmo Yankovic
WNKO just played a butchered version of Edgar Winters Group "Frankenstein". Every few seconds it jumped ahead, breaking the flow. Since the whole song is instrumental, the whole song got this chop shop treatment. If you're going to mutilate the song like that, what's the point of playing it at all?
Edit: not a polycarmen, so not on-topic. Oops.
Quote from: kurumi on November 22, 2014, 04:14:26 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on October 19, 2014, 03:35:24 PM
Another funny thing I did when I was about 10. Any time a song had a title or lyrics with a word that rhymed with the name of a 'Sesame Street' character, I'd change the lyrics accordingly. For example, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" by Culture Club became "Do You Really Want To Bert Me".
"Almost Over You" by Sheena Easton became "Almost Grover You". The line about "paintin' the town" became "number paintin' the town", because of the Number Painter on 'Sesame Street'.
Also the line in "Puttin' On The Ritz" that said "Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper" became "Tryin' hard to look like Mr. Hooper."
You oughta record those songs and call yourself Weird Elmo Yankovic
I thought of another song like this, but it was popular when I was maybe 13 or 14. The song was "Words Get In The Way" by Gloria Estefan. I used to call it "Big Bird Gets In The Way". I used to sing, "I tried to say I love you, but Big Bird got in the way." I had this image of Gloria Estefan trying to wave goodbye to a man who was leaving on a train, never to be seen again, when Big Bird steps right in the way and says, "Can you tell me how far it is to Mr. Looper's Store?"
Quote from: bandit957 on November 29, 2014, 07:55:15 PM
"Can you tell me how far it is to Mr. Looper's Store?"
You mean Joseph Gordon-Levitt?
Another 'Sesame Street' parody involved the song "Let 'Em In" by Wings. I changed the line about "Uncle Ernie" to "Bert and Ernie".