radio edits you prefer to the album version

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"Work It" may end up being one of these if what lies behind the elephant noise really is the word "dick"...

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by dmx.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

out of all of the mixes of "cascades of colour", I like the Wam. kidz black radio edit, or whatever it is called.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever that Wu Tang song was with bees placed over the swearing. I couldnt stop laughing.
The Eel's - Monstertrucker is miles better then the original due to cb interference.
Bran Van 3000 have two equally good radio edits for Astounded which change the nature of the song into a great little radio dity by shortening it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Country Grammar" owns this thread

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Layo and Bushwacka - Love Story. It sounds so much better when that melody just slips straight in without the harder first section.

Although Let The Good Times Roll from the same album suffers from not having the lengthy buildup.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The "Special Edit Radio Mix" of Negativland's cover of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (on the infamous U2) is much, much filthier and funnier than the version on Side A. It was apparently misleadingly named so to confuse DJs.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Jay-Z's "Ain't No." Local radio in B'more played the hell out of the edit when the song was hot, and when I finally heard the proper track it sounded all wrong. By then, the blank spots had become part of the hook for me.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost all radio edits are better than the album versions. Most artists don't know when to shut the hell up. Esp rock artists with horrible long wanky guitar lines that have a 2 minute slow fade out...gack.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The radio edits for 36 Chambers had swords clashing over the swearing. A good portion of my senior thesis was about this as a show of violence against censorship and other sorts of conclusions that a 21-year-old cultural theorist is bound to make.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

If only they could edit "November Rain" down to 45 seconds.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

When you became 22 you realized it was only cause it was cool?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Thrush Hermit's "The Day We Hit The Coast" was made lean and mean by dropping the piano outro.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just saying that overall my thesis was pretty silly. Waxing about the cultural capital an artist is provided by slurring lyrics. And then I talked about Pavement. No joke.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it would be harder to find a better example of obscured lyrics, though Dinosaur Jr might have been stronger on the slurring factor, I don't know its tough to call.
I loved my university's soc/anth department, our whole department consisted of incompetent professors whose one skill was to wade through the work of others and compile correlation upon correlation and to then proclaim whatever they wanted was infact proven by science.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Moloko's "Pure Pleasure Seeker" - album version just goes on a bit, that's all.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I wrote extensively about "Louie Louie," which is obviously the best/most cliched example. There was much more to it. Maybe I'll dig it out and laugh at myself.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The radio edit of "Kung Fu" by Curtis Mayfield is a masterpiece. The LP version just meanders on and on, and has this weird sound that runs through it.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Next Episode" -- the pregnant pause between "smoke" and "everyday" at the end of the track is so much better than keeping in "weed."

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The dirty version has the elephant too.

― Stuart, Friday, 8 November 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Napalm Death's "Hung" owns this one, folks. The original version is a good bit of metal; the radio edit's one of the most brilliant recordings I know of...

― Douglas, Friday, 8 November 2002 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i like "sweet child o' mine" video edit better, unless i'm mixed up. it goes straight into the verse after the guitar intro, instead of going for a round with the full band. am i remembering this correctly?

― ron (ron), Friday, 8 November 2002 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Monifah's "Touch It" is my top pick here: replaces "fuck" with "mess," so that "Do you really wanna mess with me tonight" sounds playful and ambiguous instead of "Do you really wanna fuck with me tonight" sounds like a crass come-on. (And this from a "My Neck, My Back" fan! That one also gets points, btw.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Capone 'n Noreaga's "T.O.N.Y." with the bow and arrow noises over the swearing is great. Also liked Beatnuts' "No escapin this" where they used different noises on all the swears, from bells to breaking glass.

― Jacob, Friday, 8 November 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the CD single of Xtina's "Dirrty" proudly describes the lead track as the "no rap version". WTF?

― zebedee, Friday, 8 November 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

All of them, rockist schmuck!*

* = an apology.

― david h (david h), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

zebedee that is presumably for radio stations that play "no rap, no crap" - having cake and eating it too is the name of the game with radio edits

what we said b4

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 November 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm not a player, I just CRUSH a lot" surely rules over all edits

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 November 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

In D12's "Purple Pills," there was a lyric "Fuck that, someone help Denaun, he's upstairs naked with a weapon drawn." In the radio edit, it went "he's upstairs wrestlin' with Elton John." And I laughed my ASS off.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 11 January 2003 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Busta Rhymes' "Break Ya Neck" single/video version (my preference) substitutes the copious "NIGGA"s with "C'MON"'s, and "Break Ya Fuckin' Neck, Bitches" with "Break Ya Freakin' Neck, Bwoy!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Arrested Development, "People Everyday." After hearing the single on the radio, I was massively disappointed with the album version.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 28 December 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"This Corrosion"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 December 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

In the album edit of Work It they still use the elephant noise.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 28 December 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fine Time" by New Order!!!!
The original UK single edit of "Male Stripper" by Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish (Strictly speaking, that's an edit off the 12" versh, not the album)
"Rock Da House" by Beatmasters featuring Cookie Crew!!!!
"Wishing (I Had A Photograph of You"" By A Flock of Seagulls!!!!
Erm, I'm out of ideas!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Sunday, 28 December 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Low

― JD, Sunday, 28 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Mind's Playing Tricks on Me edit. The track is mixed better, the substitutions are credible(though they do make certain parts a little less resonant as "ghetto fable", turning Scarface's love from a 'bitch' to a 'chick' for instance saps some poignance out and makes the stanza more of a throwaway) and the inflections are superior throughout. also Lee G otm about "Ain't No..."

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I like most radio edits of rap songs more than their explicit album version counterparts.

This year, the radio edit of "Only This Moment" by Royksopp was better because editing out one instrumental passage really increased the emotional intensity of the song (the lyrics were almost coming on top of each other). I spent extra just to get the CD single.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I liked an Audio Bullys song but the explicit version has this anyone "what the fuck" bit that wasn't in the radio version. I forget what it was called but I think it was their first single.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Both NIN's Closer and Radiohead's Creep were much better in radio edit. Tom Petty's thing about going to the point and rolling another tnoij was pretty funny.

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

TS: rolling another tnioj vs. why can't I get just one kcuff vs. she ain't messin wit no broke broke

Meantime, I far preferred the radio edit of "Mothers Talk" to the version TFF have on Songs From the Big Chair.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

oh -- and I know Matos and many others will hate me for this -- but Prince, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

also i'm a big fan of the reversed "ish" substituted for shit, I don't see that one enough anymore. Worst edit ever: "Pistol Grip Pump" by I forgot who. In the midst of an "increase the peace" ass-covering campaign in the mid-90's, the local hip hop station started changing that phrase to "Pump Pump Pump", real fucking smooth.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

"pistol grip pump" is by Volume 10. the chourus of "pump pump pump on my lap at all times" makes it sound like he's masterbating. not really an improvement.

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

kanye 'gold digger'
the 'broke -- broke' is so much better than 'broke niggas'

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I lwas very disappointed when I heard the album version of sexy motherfucker by prince.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Mystikal: "Shake It Fast". Can't explain this.

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

nervous OTM

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

can I get a what what

― jojo, Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Definitely, jojo and nervous.

Also both Pretty Ricky singles and that first Webbie song.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

can I get a what what

I work with a woman whose four-year old son's name is Walt. She told me how they'd sing along to this song in the car, saying "Can I get a Walt Walt?" they had so much fun that she bought the CD, and ... you can guess the rest.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

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