# Songs in which you were unaware a censored version existed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024 "2008-09-17T20:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/41 "2008-09-18T22:17:58Z")
Here’s one going way back. I had some of my Dad’s old 50s albums which I used to make an Oldies tape back in, oh, 86 or so. In the version of _Shake, Rattle and Roll_ that I had, one verse clearly went: “Well, you wear low dresses, the sun comes shining through…well you wear low dresses, then sun comes shining through. I can’t believe my eyes all that mess belongs to you.” The version they played on the local oldies station had a different line: “Well, you wear those dresses, your hair done up so right…well you wear those dresses, yuour hair done up so right. You look so warm, but your heart is cold as ice.” It was the first time I ever noticed a song being censored, and I remember being pretty shocked that an oldies station in the 80s would still censor those lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/42 "2008-09-18T22:38:00Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > The album version of **Jethro Tull’s** “My God” on the Aqualung album is heavily sanitized. The lyrics that they use live are much more directly specific and cutting, directly calling out Catholicism, the pope, and Islam by name instead of just alluding to them. That was actually just an early version of the song with working lyrics, as can be heard on the 1970 Carnegie Hall performance from the 25th Anniversary box set. Performances after _Aqualung_ was released in 1971 used the same lyrics as heard on the album. Speaking of _Aqualung_, Reprise issued a DJ single of “Locomotive Breath” with the word “balls” replaced by “fun” from another verse: “And the all-time winner has got him by the fun.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/43 "2008-09-18T23:33:21Z")
Then there was Pink’s song _Get The Party Started_, which on the radio used “I’ll be burnin’ rubber you’ll be kissin’ my ennz.” I was pretty shocked that “kissing my ass” was deemed too inappropriate for the radio. In 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/44 "2008-09-19T00:05:09Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > For the same reason, the single version of “Lola” runs: > > “I met her in a club down in old Soho where they drink champaigne and it tastes just like cherry cola.” > > While the original (album version) was: > > “I met her in a club down in old Soho where they drink champaigne and it tastes just like Coca Cola.” This was changed so the song could be played on BBC radio. Not only did BBC radio not _play_ commercials, they also didn’t allow songs that had “product placements”. I’m not British and I don’t know if their policy has changed since the '60s, but at the time the song couldn’t be played on the BBC if it featured a real product name. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/45 "2008-09-19T00:59:05Z")
I think the all time most dramatic example of this is Akon’s [I Wanna Love You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fZF9UsS8LY) and the unedited version [I Wanna Fuck You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEhaCJFoX4&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![QuercusMax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/8baadc/32.png) [@QuercusMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuercusMax)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/46 "2008-09-19T02:10:38Z")
The one that I never understood was the sheer amount of censorship in the radio edit of Everlast’s _What it’s Like_. They censor out a few cuss words, but also such terribly offensive things as: - balls - whore - Hi, Opal! - green (as in “smoke the finest green”) - drugs - chrome 45 I may be missing a few even, but it all seems like overkill. Although it is rather humorous. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024/47 "2008-09-19T02:41:49Z")
I’ve been listening to the same radio station for all of my 28 years, and I have never once heard them bleep anything. Not even “fuck.” Long live WLVQ FM96 in Columbus!!!🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-you-were-unaware-a-censored-version-existed/464024.md?page=2)