Every time I hear Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life,” I always tingle with anticipation as they get to the part about doing crystal meth. Generally it gets bleeped out, but sometimes, it makes it through!
A travesty.
If memory serves, the chyron in the lower left-hand corner still indicated that the name of the song is “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver.” So the innocent kiddies that MTV wanted to protect from bad thoughts could easily read that and starting shooting people in the streets. Because the kiddies ALWAYS take songs literally and do exactly what they say to do!
In the album version of “Lola”, off of “Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround” the champagne tastes like Coca-cola. This was replaced by “cherry cola” for the single, since it was to be played on the BBC which is (was?) strictly non-commercial and would not allow a brand-name product placement.
The one that bugs me is the song “Lightning Crashes” by the band “Live”. The first section is altered where the song is making a connection between birth and death.
From what I can tell, the offensive word is “placenta”.
Re: Lola. I’m pretty sure Coca Cola Inc wasn’t all that thrilled about being associated with Lola themselves.
No one is going to know one of my favorite local artists, Mary Prankster. She does incredibly profane songs on her albums and changes the words for radio appearances and store shows and the luck.
Examples:
The song Tits and Whisky has a chorus of:
“Fuck Me Fuck Me Fuck Me Fuck Me”
That she changes to:
“Pluck Me Truck Me Wolfgang Puck Me”
Or the song Mercyfuck in which says the word ‘fuck’ about 8 gazillion times she changes it all to ‘duck’.
"I wish I could duck all my sorrow away
And duck ’til the dawn of the next ducking day
Duck the chorus and verse, duck the pain getting worse
Duck it all ’til I burn
I wish I could duck all of you ’til you see
I’m the worst duck up in all history
Duck your image and mine, duck your limp valentine
Duck it all ’til I learn"
How’s that for marketing?
J.C.–In a high school English class, one of the assignments was to write a song (recording optional). One of my friend comtemplated doing something like that, and write “duck duck duck”, but sing…
Mary does indeed have a song (called Breakfast) with the line:
“fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck”
So I suppose we could ‘duck’ it. But then we’d have people hiding under tables and such.
J.C. -
“There’ll be blue skies over Dundalk when I break your heart…”
I love her!!! And yep, I remember when she used to be on WHFS every week or so, and she’d change the lyrics…always made me laugh. Hell, IIRC, she even changed the title of “Tits & Whiskey” to “Bleeps & Whiskey” for radio appearances.
Elton John’s hit “The Bitch is Back.” They used to beep the B-word, which made the chorus very interesting:
Oh, the (beep), oh, the (beep), oh the (beep) is back.
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact.
I can (beep), I can (beep), cause I’m better than you.
Whenever a person at work calls me that word, I sing that
song loud and strong.
Well they have a number of new songs that have been changed. The One for The Wickerman has a changed chorus as does some of the Blaze era stuff to make it shorter. I’m sure that there are other changes in the older stuff, I just don’t listen to the singles for them as I have them all on Vinal so I can’t. And you might want to pick up Brave New World as it’s a great album. especially with Bruce back.
The bleep on “A Boy Named Sue” was on the album, too. I supposed the ears of the inmates at San Quentin were less dainty than those of the rest of us.
Current chop job is Bonnie Raitt’s (?) cover of Steely Dan’s “Show Biz Kids” where a full line is pulled rather than a simple bleep inserted, thusly screwing up the whole rhythmic structure of that verse. Totally tacky and not something I’d expect from this particular station.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!1
Falcon! You know MP! This is a great day!
I had Mary play a party of mine about a year and a half ago. Only cost $600 and absolutely nuked my pals. Boy the Blue Ridge mountains (where I live) sure weren’t ready for that!
I also got invited to her last CD release party at Fletchers last Thanksgiving. Next time I have her play here I’ll invite you over!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Make that Ricky Lee Jones.
Nobody here cares about me enough to correct me. I’m going back to MPSIMS where I can be sure to have my nose rubbed in my every mistake within seconds. 
JC -
You’ve had her over for a PARTY? You ROCK!!! You’d BETTER invite me next time, dammit!!!
happily goes off to play her MP disc…
One of the most annoying radio edits I can think of is of Everlast’s “What It’s Like.”
It seems every time I hear this song on the radio, the bleep out more of the words, including such ‘offensiveness’ as ‘drugs’, ‘whore’, and ‘gun’. The only time I’ve heard it completely unedited is through DMX.
And, while it’s not a radio-edit, in the video of Papa Roach’s “Last Resort”, silence is inserted over what seems like half the words in the song. Until I heard an uncut version, I had no idea what the song was even about!
Back when I was in high school, the local pop music station had the ultra-clean version of the song “I Wanna Sex You Up” by some band whose name escapes me now. That was their only song. Anyway, the station (based in Duluth, MN) played a version that changed the whole song to “I Wanna Love You Up” - it must have been an alternate recording. It was especially retarded because the chorus was “I Wanna Sex You Up, and Love you Down” and then became “I Wanna love you up, and love you down” or something like that. So the very repetive song became even more repetitive. Anyway, I think “sex you up” is less dirty than “love you down” but that’s just me…
Strangely enough, they played the full version of (Jefferson?) Starship’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You” which includes the incredibly stupid metaphor of “I am the flower, you are the seed, we walked in the garden, we planted a tree.” If they can stomach that bilge-water, they should be able to handle the word “sex”. But oh well…