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Radio edits. There are some great ones out there: the bow and arrow noise on CNN's "T.O.N.Y." or the 15 different noises used on the Beatnuts' "No escapin' this". A good radio edit is much more interesting than the swearing ever is. What are the best examples?

― jacob, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, personally I still prefer the swearing.

― Tom, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tho i did like that spate of using samples from defender arcade game. such a cool sound.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still prefer the swearing mix, but Geto Boys' "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" 'clean' version still captures the nuances of the original, and everything scans just as good if not better.

― dave q, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The radio edit for "All I Know" by Rahzel is far more entertaining than the album track. The edits are all vocal scratches by Rahzel (or maybe it's just mixed to sound like they are).

― Miranda, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't like them/him but the radio edit of D12's Purple Hills/Pills was much more imaginative than the dumb album track which was just 'ohh. eminem swearing about drugs again. ho hum.'

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Prince sample on Ween's Push The Little Daisies.

― Damian, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ride Wit' Me by Nelly. Better than the album version by far, especially the "toke" noise.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ANYTHING by dmx.

― jess, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Radio Edit is usually re. length, no? Not obscenity.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the times they are a'changin, pinefox.

(but yeah, i think generally yr right.)

― jess, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See, I was thinking the radio edit ought to become a bigger part of hip hop culture. When people do them in a really imaginative way it can produced such a bizarrely skewed result that it's one of the most interesting things about hip hop. I'd love to see producers riffing on this a bit more. The idea of the rhythm of the obscenities being added to the other polyrhythms present in a track is great. It could be the new breakbeat.

― jacob, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: NIN -- Closer, any hip-hop track where entire VERSES are bleeped out. So brilliant. Adam Sandler -- Ode To My Car, which is much funnier when he's silenced by all the horns honking.

― JM, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favourite was The Stranglers' Peaches on the BBC Top 40:

Oh ~~shit~~no...there goes the charabanc...looks like we're gonna stuck here the whole summer...well what a ~~bummer~~ summer...

― Jez, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is bummer a swear?!?

― Melissa W, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, it used to be a school-playground term for a gay person in the UK - which had nothing to do with that lyric. That makes the whole thing funnier. In the film Breaking Glass, there's a pastiche, where the phrase kick up the arse is changed to punch on the nose - hahahaha!

― Jez, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I bet you they won't play this song on the radio" by Monty Python. A great satire of radio editing! Especially that the only version that exists is the radio edit.

― Blayne, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: c-n-n, wasn't it the radio edit of l.a., l.a. that had the arrow thwips and not t.o.n.y.?

― ethan, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst radio edit around at the moment = "Get The Party Started". The "you'll be kissing my ass" line is switched for "you'll be kissing my Benz", and with editing which would shame a pissed Club Sussed DJ to boot.

― Tom, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, I hate that one too, Tom. When in Paris, I noticed that 'ass' was left unedited.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haha she says ass here too, i suppose we carefree americans are like the french, yes?

― ethan, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Ethan, they hate you and think you're destroying their culture. I on the other hand think they're paranoid Little Europeans (ha!) who need to get a life.

What about the Finns? "Get The Party Started" is Number 3 there at the moment ...

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Freak Scene!!! Don't let me fuck up will you becomes Don't let me freak now will you. Plus What a mess is sung twice on the edit (!) rather than once.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best is Wu with, fuck I forget the song, but the curse were blocked by bee sounds. It wasnt their greatest song but it was a riot even if just to hear the BUZZZZZZZZZZ. Almost as satisfing as hearing Dan Rather saying 'Old Dirty Bastard' on air.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that was triumph, which i'm afraid IS their greatest song.

― ethan, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am constantly amazed that German radio sometimes play edited versions of American songs, especially in light of the fact that have no problem with bad language in German tunes. There's no consistency, either. Same with video -- a Dr. Dre video will be played with the bad words edited out and boobies and gats digitaly obscured, to be followed by another with boobies, gats, and f-words on full display.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

just to annoy ILM-ers in general I'll bring up the beautiful south, "Don't Marry Her, >ahem< me" which caused many problems when the album track was played on Radio 1 (tee hee!). (I could rile people even more by mentioning "gun" in wheatus song, but my work here is done.)

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The jay-z unplugged he self censors 90% of the time, then comes out and sez them bad words anyway.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

listening to bbc radio 1 playing Heaven Is A Halfpipe by OPM

Now heaven would be a DJ spinnin' dub all night long And heaven would be just kickin' back with Jesus packing my ----

whereas local commercial radio are quite happy to include the bong.

what is it that offends the bbc? the drugs or the blasphemy? and this from the radio station that has no qualms about playing a tune about "keepin my bitches drugged up on that ecstasy". ...freakin' mothergrabbers...

― dbini, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this elsewhere, but the radio version of the Ying Yang Twinz' "Salt Shaker" is so much better than the original! They replace all the "ho"s with the sound of a chick moaning, all the "ass"s with a really awesome trippy echo type of effect and, best of all, they say "Mutha Futha"! I love that! I'm never saying "mother fucking" again, not when I can say MUTHA FUTHA!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 14 March 2004 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds like a recent song "I don't want you back" that's getting to be a "radio grower" i.e. it will be a big hit from nowhere.. Lots of "oh"'s instead of certain words...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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