# Anybody else's radio station do this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036 "2005-07-31T20:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/1 "2005-07-31T20:47:53Z")
“My” station plays the wussy version of Jet Airliner (funky kicks going down in the city) then the expurgated version of Walk on the Wild Side (no mention of anybody’s head; losing or giving) and then turns right around and plays Who Are You? in all its f-bomb glory. When did s **t become a naughtier word than f** k? They used to play the “real” versions of the other 2 songs. Any other stations do this or is it just KLOL? FWIW the station is Clear Channel owned. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/2 "2005-07-31T21:30:51Z")
Our classic rock station plays songs with shit, notably Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’. ‘Who are You’ generally gets a token blanking. As far as I can remember, ‘Jet Airliner’ doesn’t get messed around with. However, the “New Rock” station plays song by Disturbed and leave almost all the f-bombs in. Better still there’s a new song by Theory of a Dead Man that obviously blanks out s–t but leaves in a prominent ‘effed’. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/3 "2005-07-31T21:42:26Z")
I think it’s partly how well-enunciated the word is. If a person who didn’t know it was there wouldn’t be able to make it out, it stays in, maybe? And sometimes it stays in because someone decided it was too cool to cut. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/4 "2005-07-31T22:58:13Z")
If you can’t tell Disturbed is singing “You mother, get up, c’mon get down with the sickness, You fucker, get up, c’mon getd down with the sickness…” I think you need to get your ears checked. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/5 "2005-08-01T14:23:10Z")
BTW I used the wrong call sign. The wussy station is KKRW not KLOL. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/6 "2005-08-01T16:47:15Z")
[slight hijack] When I lived at my old place, I listed to a station out of Burlington, VT called The Buzz (99.9 WBTZ.) Being an alt rock station, they played a lot off of Green Day’s new album, which required editing out of some words. Now, in the song “Holiday”, there is a part that goes: > [@](#): > > Zieg Heil to the president gasbag > Bombs away is your PUNISHMENT > Pulverize the Eiffel towers > Who criticize your GOVERNMENT > Bang bang goes the broken glass land > Kill all the fags that DON’T AGREE > trials by fire setting fire > Is that a way that’s MEANT FOR ME? Now, WBTZ would always edit out ‘fags.’ However, I rencetly moved, and I now get a station out of Ottowa (106.7 The Bear) and they edit out ‘Zieg Heil’ in addition to ‘fags.’ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/7 "2005-08-01T17:04:12Z")
[slight hijack] When I lived at my old place, I listed to a station out of Burlington, VT called The Buzz (99.9 WBTZ.) Being an alt rock station, they played a lot off of Green Day’s new album, which required editing out of some words. Now, in the song “Holiday”, there is a part that goes: > [@](#): > > Zieg Heil to the president gasbag > Bombs away is your PUNISHMENT > Pulverize the Eiffel towers > Who criticize your GOVERNMENT > Bang bang goes the broken glass land > Kill all the fags that DON’T AGREE > trials by fire setting fire > Is that a way that’s MEANT FOR ME? Now, WBTZ would always edit out ‘fags.’ However, I rencetly moved, and I now get a station out of Ottowa (106.7 The Bear) and they edit out ‘Zieg Heil’ in addition to ‘fags.’ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/8 "2005-08-01T18:04:50Z")
Censorship is notoriously inconsistent. I remember when Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” came out. It had the lyric: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school.” Some stations let it ride. Others bleeped it out: “When I think back on all the BLEEP I learned in high school.” Some others got cute and took the first line of the second verse (“If you took all the girls I knew when I was single.”) and edited it in: “When I think back on all the girls I knew in high school.” Finally, the BBC refused to play the song at all, since it had the banned word “Kodachrome” in it (the BBC had rules against the mention of any brand names). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/9 "2005-08-02T00:09:21Z")
When our local '80’s station plays “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits, they leave out the lines about “the little faggot with the earring and the makeup”. I can almost understand that, but how come when they play “Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel, the cut the line “I see the doorway of a thousand churches”? I never understood that? Any theories? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-elses-radio-station-do-this/315036/10 "2005-08-02T06:34:53Z")
I’ve noticed weird inconsistancies with actual CDs as well. I picked up Bloc Party’s album recently, and it had the explicit lyrics warning sticker on it. As it turns out, precisely one song contains precisely one instance of the word “fuck”. Admittedly, it’s in the only clearly enunciated line in the song, but it seems a bit overkill to stick a warning label on there when I’ve got other CDs that have worse lyrics but no warning.