Weird radio edits of songs

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
Also, I was rocking out to Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag" a couple days ago and they edited the word "gun" out of "he brings a gun to school." I know for a fact that they did not do that on the same radio station when the song was first released. How things change . . .

The best part of that radio edit is that the line before that isn't edited to remove the word 'dick,' so it goes, "Her boyfriend's a dick, he brings a [-] to school/ he'd probably kick my ass if he knew the truth... "

2 words arguably worse than 'gun' are left IN the same line - love it, how brilliant

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by KSig RC
The best part of that radio edit is that the line before that isn't edited to remove the word 'dick,' so it goes, "Her boyfriend's a dick, he brings a [-] to school/ he'd probably kick my ass if he knew the truth... "

2 words arguably worse than 'gun' are left IN the same line - love it, how brilliant

Seriously. Plus the fact that with the whole "the unknown is worse than the known" thing -- if I didn't know what the deleted word already was, I would automatically fill it in with something else, and I can guarantee that whatever my brain came up with would be worse than "gun."

[ISUKappa]

Lately, I've noticed the hard rock station in our area is no longer editing words they used to edit a few years ago.

"assh0le" is no longer edited in Bush's Everything Zen

'fcuk" is no longer edited in Pearl Jam's Jeremy

(those are two I can think of right off the top of my head)

I don't know if the station feels its listeners are more likely going to be older, or what, but I have noticed they're editing less than they used to.

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by ISUKappa


I don't know if the station feels its listeners are more likely going to be older, or what, but I have noticed they're editing less than they used to.

I feel like they're editing less for language -- "dick," "ass"/"asshole," "bitch," and a number of other words were completely taboo when I was a kid (sometimes even "damn" or "God") and they are rarely edited out now. At the same time, I think stations are edited a lot more for situational words -- sexual references, weapons, drug references -- than they used to be.

[jitterbug13]

When I lived in another part of the state years ago, I remember hearing "Hot In Here" (Nelly) and the radio censoring the part about them taking their clothes off!! As far as I know this was the only radio station that did that and that part was the one of the best on the song.

[SDTSarah]

My favorite part about the "Hash Pipe" edit was how it ended up sounding like "sh*t pipe."

Originally posted by Stef the Pef
What really frustrates me are all the edits out on MTV of drug references. Some songs are all about the drugs, soooo...what the heck? Especially Weezer songs like "Hash Pipe." I think they didn't even acknowledge that it had a title for a long time.

[preciousjeni]

Ok - let me see if I can recall how they edited...

Remember that old Warren G/Nate Dogg song - Regulators -- In Georgia, I heard it like 5 times a day on one of those play everything stations.

At the end, the song goes:

If you know like I know
you don't wanna step to this
It's the G-Funk era
funked out with a gangsta twist
if you smoke like I smoke
then you high like everyday
and if your ass is a buster
213 will regulate


The edit does something like this (seems stupid to me):

If you know like I know
you don't wanna step to this
It's the G-Funk era
funked out with a gangsta twist
if you smoke like I smoke
then you high like everyday
It's the G-Funk era
funked out with a gangsta twist

Ummm..."funked," "smoke," "high"?? And why couldn't they edit "and if your ass is a buster/213 will regulate." Does anyone have an idea about this one?