# Re-edit a well-known song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186 "2019-08-04T18:33:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/21 "2019-08-07T14:21:49Z")
Remove the guitar solo from “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” It sounds like the toy guitar you give the child of people you don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/22 "2019-08-08T05:53:12Z")
Trying to remember the Ed Sheeran song (if someone can help me out, here) that could definitely use snippets mixed in from Lou Reed’s _Metal Machine Music_. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/23 "2019-08-08T11:29:22Z")
I would take out the ending of two or three Chicago songs. An example is Hard to Say I’m Sorry. It’s the part that has “When we get there gonna jump in the air”. They do something similar in other songs. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/24 "2019-08-10T00:15:32Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Remove the guitar solo from “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” It sounds like the toy guitar you give the child of people you don’t like. Huh? Oh, Twisted Sister! I was thinking The Who (Woodstock anniversary and all that.) Anyway…my 8-year-old son observed this morning that Led Zeppelin’s “Rain Song” could do without that verse with no words, just bad keyboards-sounding-like-strings from John Paul Jones. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/25 "2019-08-10T05:14:56Z")
I would go to the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto 5 and replace “Hollywood” with “Vinewood” and “California” with “San Andreas” in all of the songs. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186/26 "2022-03-28T03:26:18Z")
I’d replace pretty well the whole Nickleback catalogue with a basic void, but other than that, in Led Zep’s “Four Sticks”, when I first heard that [abrasive buzz sound](https://youtu.be/T8GP2j7NdSo?t=182) I thought yuck let’s do a songdectomy on that gunk\*, but then came to totally appreciate it, especially how it fades out at the end of that passage, but then, found that the song, itself, could have gone on another verse/refrain/whatever, especially (and brace yourself) get the “Stairway” flautist to do some Ian MacDonald/Anderson-like solo thing, somewhere in the extended part, that I’m sure could _searingly_ fly over what was arguably the heaviest number that band ever did. Tough to pull the feet feat off, I’d imagine, in such a murky, tuned-down megalodon of a song. \*Yes, I’m afraid that’s a reference to the gross, sometimes pustulating rashes seen most often on the faces and legs of major-junior hockey players. (Sorry to have to share that with you.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-edit-a-well-known-song/838186.md?page=1)