"Radio friendly" versions of songs

[sbj405]

So there's some song about being in love with a stripper. No idea if that's the actual title, but that's the refrain. I've heard this version on Sirius. Today, I caught the FM radio version in which the young man is in love with a "dancer." Ok, the stupid part is that nothing else in the song seemed to be changed, so the parts about sexy this, doing whatever all night long, and dancing the pole are ok for FM radio. Is it me or does that seem absurd? And when did "stripper" become a no-no for the airwaves. I think every kid that watched the news this week heard about the Duke jocks raping a "stripper".

[rockymountaindem]

1. Sometimes "Brown Eyed Girl" is edited too

From "making love in the green grass" to "laughing and a-runnin' hey hey" for a second time as in the previous verse.

When I was little and my mom and I listened to the oldies station in the car, I always just assumed "making love" meant "making out". I mean, if your kid doesn't know what sex is, then it's not a big deal, right? If your kid does know what sex is, then what are we trying to protect them from?

I don't get that one. However, "Money" by Pink Floyd never seems to be edited to remove the line "don't give me none of that do-goody-good bullshit", and the one time I heard "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon on the radio they included both of his uses of the F-bomb, on the same station with the cleaned-up version of "Brown Eyed Girl".

Wierd, eh?

[datasuspect]

2. or shit that gets edited

that didn't get edited 20 - 30 years ago.

puritanical as fuck.

[Kat45]

5. Yeah. They didn't edit "Money" when it was out, but they do now.

I just heard them do it on a classic rock station last week. Then not much later, they ended "Start Me Up" before the line that they edited when the Stones played the Superbowl. They never used to edit that one either.

Yet, there's a new song out called "Crazy Bitch." (Full disclosure: I like the song.) A verse goes "You're a crazy bitch, but you fuck so good I'm on top of it." They play that song, keeping the word 'bitch' in it but editing out the word 'fuck'. But since that's the whole topic of the verse, and song, it's impossible not to know what they're singing about, so I have to wonder why they play it. And why the word 'bitch' is no problem. They did the same thing a number of years ago with the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" (lyrics: "I want to fuck you like an animal" with the 'fuck' edited out).

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Blame much-multiplied FCC fines for 'indecency'

and probably Clear Channel, too.

"Money," Pink Floyd — "Don't give me that do-goody-good bull(blank)"

"The Joker," Steve Miller Band — "I'm a joker, I'm a smoker ... gettin' my lovin' on the run" (The line "I'm a midnight toker" was deleted.)

But somehow, "finger fucking" in Blondie's "Rapture" got through.

[sbj405]

4. The ridiculous thing is that "stripper" is the least offensive or lewd

thing in the song.

[khashka]

6. Modern English - Melt With You

They changed the line "making love to you was never second best" to "being friends with you was never second best".

WTF? Changes the whole meaning of the song!


Khash.

[Strong Atheist]

7. "Till she puts you in your place"

by : The Knack

Good Girls Don't

She's your adolescent dream,
Schoolboy stuff, a sticky sweet romance.
And she makes you want to scream,
Wishing you could get inside her pants.
So, you fantasize away.
And while you're squeezing her, you thought you heard her saying...

"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, but I do."

So, you call her on the phone
To talk about the teachers that you hate.
And she says she's all alone,
And her parents won't be coming home til late.
There's a ringing in your brain,
Cause you could've sworn you though you heard her saying...

"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, but I do."

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.

You're alone with her at last,
And you're waiting til you think the time is right.
Cause you've heard she's pretty fast.
And you're hoping that she'll give you some tonight.
So, you start to make your play,
Cause you could've sworn you thought you heard her saying...


"Good girls don't,
Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, but I do."

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.

Good girls don't,
Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, but I do...

[Archae]

8. Milwaukee station got in hot water several years ago.

Played the Woodstock "Fixin' To Die Rag" complete.

[mac56]

9. Worst example I ever heard -

"Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull. The powers that be changed "got him by the balls" to "got him by the fun". They just dubbed in another word from the end of another line.

Runner up: "You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They replaced "let's get to the point, let's roll another joint" with "....let's hit another joint".

[trof]

10. I remember "Work With Me Annie" (geezer alert)

In the 50s. The "negro" station was the only one that would play it in Birmingham.
R&B, I guess. The forerunner of Rock 'N Roll.

Back in the day, the preachers and other self-appointed keepers of the public's morals said that
"nigger music" would be the ruination of all us teens.
A chosen few of us actually managed to escape a life of crime.
;-)

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters

WORK WITH ME ANNIE, WORK WITH ME ANNIE,
OO-WEE, WORK WITH ME ANNIE, WORK WITH ME ANNIE,
WORK WITH ME ANNIE, LET`S GET IT WHILE THE GETTIN` IS GOOD.

ANNIE, PLEASE DON`T CHEAT,
MAKE IT REAL, REAL SWEET.
OO-HOO WEE-EE,
SO GOOD TO ME.

WORK WITH ME ANNIE,
LET`S GET IT WHILE THE GETTIN` IS GOOD.

WOO, WOO, WOO WEE,
ANNIE HOW YOU THRILL ME.

MAKE MY HEAD GO `ROUND AND `ROUND
AND ALL MY LOVE COME DOWN.