# Song-us interruptus! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589 "2008-04-23T20:02:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/21 "2008-04-24T16:47:41Z")
One day a local station was playing the full-length versin of Tears for Fears’ “Shout” and I was happy that it wasn’t the short version. Then they faded it out just before the guitar solo began. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/22 "2008-04-24T18:37:20Z")
They cut out part of the “sermon” at the beginning of “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince and the Revolution. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/23 "2008-04-24T18:48:06Z")
[QUOTE=ShadowFacts] You’ve heard \*Empty Spaces \*on the radio? I’ve got to tune in to your station! 🙂 But I’m wondering if they’re just playing the album version, which is shorter than the much better movie version? I suspect this is the case. [/QUOTE] WLVQ FM96.3 outta Columbus, for what it’s worth. And you’re right, it _is_ the album version. Doesn’t stop me from belting out “Shall we buy a new guitah…” over top of the opening riff to the next bit! Tidbit of info about the radio station: QFM has what’s known as “Two Fer Tuesday,” where they play two songs in a row by each artist (which is great since it’s a classic rock station AND they don’t edit lyrics!) Well, due to the flowing nature of Floyd songs, it’s not rare to hear _Empty Spaces/Young Lust_ followed by _Brain Damage/Eclipse_, so you get four, four, FOUR for the price of one! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/24 "2008-04-24T19:13:06Z")
Here in Houston we have Twofer Tuesday as well, on KKRW the Arrow. And they have Rock Block Weekends all the time. They don’t edit for length, but they do bleep out “bad” words. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/25 "2008-04-24T19:45:02Z")
**Steve Miller Band** - Jet Airliner \*\*Steppenwolf \*\*- Magic Carpet Ride Both are usually shortened for radio play. Also, “making love in the green grass” in Van Morrison’s Brown-Eyed Girl is always subbed with “laughing and a running, hey, hey”, and The Steve Miller Band’s Jet Airliner (again) is edited for profanity: “funky shit going down in the city” is replaced by “funky kicks going down in the city.” ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/26 "2008-04-24T19:48:25Z")
One of the ones that kills me every time is when they play Green Day’s Geek Stink Breath without the second part, which is the cover of Op Ivy’s Jaded. It’s the balance between the two songs that makes it damn it, stop just playing the first part!!! ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/27 "2008-04-25T00:49:39Z")
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills and Nash was trimmed from a 7 minute album track to a 3 1/2 minutes single. Each of the four sections lost a verse or two. If you’re used to the album version, listening to the single is like fast forwarding through a movie. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/28 "2008-04-25T02:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=freekalette] WLVQ FM96.3 outta Columbus, for what it’s worth. And you’re right, it _is_ the album version. Doesn’t stop me from belting out “Shall we buy a new guitah…” over top of the opening riff to the next bit! [/QUOTE] The extended version seems to have “officialized” itself also as the live-performance version (both for Floyd and solo Waters). ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589/29 "2008-04-25T02:55:51Z")
I could swear I’ve heard an edit of Billy Joel’s _Scenes From An Italian Restaurant_ where they cut out the whole “Brenda and Eddie” sub-song, leaving just the beginning and end parts about meeting in an Italian restaurant. This might have been in a commercial for an Italian restaurant (Olive Garden?). Brrr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-us-interruptus/446589.md?page=1)