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Songs with better Radio edits Than Uncensored version.

jman1954goat

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Any song were you prefer the Radio edit more than the real thing?

I got 2 examples one is a like Forget you by celo green is much better than Fuck you . the song just flows better with the extra syllable of forget. Plus I think forgetting someone who slighted you is a more healthy and positive reaction..

Second is Move B*** by ludacris The sound effects are great and add great flavor to the song much more than songs that just mute bad words for the radio edit


 
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The stutters in Battleflag are more interesting than the few "motherfuckin"s that they replaced.

 
RecRoulette

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In Da Club by 50 cent. Listened to Get Rich or Die Tryin' awhile ago and didn't expect that f-bomb in there. Honestly it's a pretty good edit, I didn't realize how much was different.

Common Knowledge said:
Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas is way better than Let's Get Retarded (ugh).
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Was gonna edit my post to put this but you beat me to it, people always get their mind blown by this one.
 

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RecRoulette said:
In Da Club by 50 cent. Listened to Get Rich or Die Tryin' awhile ago and didn't expect that f-bomb in there. Honestly it's a pretty good edit, I didn't realize how much was different.

Edit: Also when everyone finds out that song from the Black Eyed Peas is actually "Let's Get Retarded"
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I actually knew it by the original version first
 
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Ludacris and I think Missy Elliott have a pretty good history of really putting out some interesting radio edits of their songs, lot of good sound effects that almost have more oomph than the original words.
 
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The censored version of Brooklyn Zoo actually has better rhyme schemes ("you knew a whole fucking lot" vs "you knew a whole bloodclot lot") and replacing "nigga" with ODB just barking "NUH" hits harder to me
 
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Mudvayne's Not Falling takes out some screaming bits from a bridge/breakdown which I tend to cringe at on the album version. It's actually such a great song lyrically and melodically and felt that segment took away from the song on the whole.

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Actually shit, I realize they always left the part I'd rather have out and took out the better screaming bits. I don't know it's been so long I forget my original feelings other than it being the first thing I think of with radio edits haha
 
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The Whisper Song by the Ying Yang Twins was better censored due to all of the wacky sound effects. The uncensored version is kinda boring honestly.
 
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Common Knowledge said:
Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas is way better than Let's Get Retarded (ugh).
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Yeah, this.

But since that's already been mentioned, You're Beautiful by James Blunt has a random "fucking" in the uncensored version that completely ruins its tone. Radio edit switches it out with "flying," which doesn't make complete sense but helps.
 
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2pac's I Ain't Mad Atcha. The clean and album versions have different 3rd verses IIRC and I prefer the clean version they used in the video.
 
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Common Knowledge said:
Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas is way better than Let's Get Retarded (ugh).
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Yup. I didn't even realize "Let's get it started" was the censored version until years later. Once I found out I was like wait.. why is "let's get retarded" even a thing? It's so crass and gross.

My inclusion would probably be Juvenile's "back that thang up" as opposed to "back that ass up". Maybe it's my young teen nostalgia goggles, but i just have more fond memories of going to teenage parties and stuff and having the censored version come on. I think it just sounds a little better too.
 
collige

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The radio version of Down with the Sickness doesn't have the "domestic abuse solo", so I guess that counts too.
 
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Back That Thang Up

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The radio version of Down with the Sickness doesn't have the "domestic abuse solo", so I guess that counts too.
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oh yeah, i hate listening to the album version of that song because its just weird


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Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas is way better than Let's Get Retarded (ugh).
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i dislike Black Eyed Peas significantly and i never cared to understand why they originally wrote it as "retarded" -- but it was definitely a "wtf moment" when that was the real version of the song they played all of the time on the radio...
 
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I don't know about better but Ben Folds pretty much entirely rewrote his song "rocking the suburbs" for the movie " over the hedge" always struck me as odd someone in production must have wanted to use the song but then had the artist entirely rewrite it?
 
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Payphone by Maroon 5

Really fun song to sing along to in the car until you realize it's the uncensored version shit fuck shit.
 
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Luda always had great sound effects for his censored stuff.

What comes to mind for me is Green Day's American Idiot. I just remember them using normal old-school bleeps which gave it an attitude I'd expect from a song like that.
 

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I wouldn't say it's better but it's fun because of the style of the band and they are using "hum" - "woo" and stuff rather than biiip.



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Boom Boom Pow by black eyed peas I prefer without the "shit"s. The edited version used some clever editing with the vocals that I think add to the song
 
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I like the radio edit of Adam Sandler's "piece of shit car" that replaced all the swears with random car honks.

Also nearly died laughing at the sheer ridiculous was of a radio edit of ICP's "fuck the world" that replaced all the "fuck"a with "ufk."
 
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collige said:
The radio version of Down with the Sickness doesn't have the "domestic abuse solo", so I guess that counts too.
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Our radio station keeps it and, yeah, it's something I prefer left out.

I remember seeing Trapt in concert (a long, LONG time ago) and was surprised to hear so much cursing in "Headstrong".
 

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Sarah Mclachlan - Building a Mystery

The radio edit version is better than the non uncensored version. There was one fuck in there that wasn't necessary.
 
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Septimus Prime said:
Yeah, this.

But since that's already been mentioned, You're Beautiful by James Blunt has a random "fucking" in the uncensored version that completely ruins its tone. Radio edit switches it out with "flying," which doesn't make complete sense but helps.
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This was going to be my mention! It happens so suddenly and feels totally at odds with the rest of the song.
 
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Honestly, edited versions of songs are better than unedited versions, especially when you have kids around.
 
Frankie Williamson

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If you've never heard the Much Music edit of Last Resort by Papa Roach, you're missing out in a masterpiece. I've wanted to find it online somewhere for years, but it might just be lost to the memories of people my age-ish in Canada who watched tons of Much Music in that era.
 
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Frankie Williamson said:
If you've never heard the Much Music edit of Last Resort by Papa Roach, you're missing out in a masterpiece. I've wanted to find it online somewhere for years, but it might just be lost to the memories of people my age-ish in Canada who watched tons of Much Music in that era.
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Weird!
I remember it being different and that being a whole thing... but I don't remember... how exactly it was different.

edit: Wikipedia says:
On the MuchMusic version - which utilizes the radio edit - the word "fuck" is completely removed with no replacement. On the MTV and Vevo version, the words "cut", "bleeding", "die", "life" (from the line "if I took my life tonight"), and "suicide" were also muted. After original airings of the video on television, some networks went so far as to additionally censor words such as "suffocation", and even the title of the song itself.
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It had to have been more than just that, though. hmmm.
 
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I'm not even sure which 90s Wu-Tang radio edit to post.

The way RZA edited over the cursing with Kung-Fu movie sound effects made all of those versions seem more hype.
 

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Davidion said:
Wait forget all the rest of this thread. There's a Fuck in Building a Mystery?!
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Sarah McLachlan – Building a Mystery

Building a Mystery is the lead single from Sarah McLachlan’s album Surfacing. According to Sarah at a live performance in 1997, the song is “basically about the fact that we all
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There is one fuck in the song:

You're so beautiful
A beautiful fucked up man
You're setting up your
Razor wire shrine
 
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Dan-o said:
Weird!
I remember it being different and that being a whole thing... but I don't remember... how exactly it was different.

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It had to have been more than just that, though. hmmm.
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I remember the song barely had lyrics. My friends and I in high school would make fun of it.

C....my life into pieces. This is my.............. Su...........No Br.......Don't give a ........ if I ...... my arm...............

Every single direct and allegorical reference to suicide was removed.
 
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gnexus said:
My inclusion would probably be Juvenile's "back that thang up" as opposed to "back that ass up". Maybe it's my young teen nostalgia goggles, but i just have more fond memories of going to teenage parties and stuff and having the censored version come on. I think it just sounds a little better too.
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The radio version is also the only one where they say "cash money records takin over for the 99 and the 2000". Thats not on the uncensored version.
 
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