Unnecessary radio edits

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Are there any radio edits that you have felt were entirely unnecessary? Here are some of my picks:

* Keith Urban, "Making Memories of Us". "I'm gonna make you a promise" becomes "I'm gonna make you THIS promise", sung a little more forcefully.

* Joe Diffie, "Third Rock from the Sun". The instrumentation is greatly stripped, removing the clavinet and slide guitar, leaving it with a less "wacky" and more muted feel.

* One Flew South, "My Kind of Beautiful". For some reason, they redid the vocal to a very sleepy sounding track that didn't have nearly the punch of the album version.

* Lady Antebellum, "Lookin' for a Good Time". The whole "Stood and danced/called us a cab" thing. Why did they chop up that line? Didn't want competition from "Last Name"?

* Jake Owen, "Eight Second Ride". "Spittin' my dip inside/tonight". Again, what was wrong with the current line?

* Pat Green, "Wave on Wave". The backing vocals are stripped on the line "The angels cried" and nowhere else. Why even bother?

* Clint Black, "A Better Man". A repetition of "I'm leaving here a better man" is cut out of a song that's only 3:07 to begin with.

* Emerson Drive, "Fall into Me". A cold open cut from a song that's only 2:30ish to begin with.

[FoolMoonz]

Radio edits are unnecessary in general.

[Deleted]

The additional background beat to Wildest Dreams.

Just realized this is Country, oops. Well, my Country Radio Station cuts the entire ending music to Cam's "Burning House." Seriously, after she sings "Burning House" for the last time, they immediately cut to the transition commercial.

[Andy]

-In Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John", "one hell of a man" becoming "one big, big man." I realize that the word "hell" was considered unacceptable in 1961, but it seems like an entirely unnecessary censoring of an extremely mild swear by today's standards.

-In the "Devil Went Down to Georgia", "you son of a bitch" becoming "you son of a gun." I guess this one is more justifiable, but it really removes the intensity from the line.

[MTSChart21]

Jan 30, 2016 15:30:42 GMT -5 @jakelmmrs44 said:

The additional background beat to Wildest Dreams.

I've done that (Post something non-country in an interesting country post and then realize it was actually country, and not pop) about 3 times before.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

I just heard the radio edit of "I'm Already There" for the first time in forever. You think Dann Huff made a hot mess out of Rascal Flatts? That radio edit of IAT is blaring with screaming guitars and strings, and Richie's voice has a ton of reverb in it. It also sounds like he redid the vocal line, because a lot of parts sound more strident and warbly. It actually sounds WORSE than most of RF's screech fests.

Now, the bombastic radio edit of "Tell Her"? I actually prefer that version to the album version. That song actually works as a power ballad.

[avalyn]

Jan 30, 2016 15:15:28 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Are there any radio edits that you have felt were entirely unnecessary? Here are some of my picks:

* Lady Antebellum, "Lookin' for a Good Time". The whole "Stood and danced/called us a cab" thing. Why did they chop up that line? Didn't want competition from "Last Name"?

The band said when the song was out that they asked for it to be edited mainly because of how it might sound and be taken by younger fans. Hillary used her sister as an example of it all since her sister is 14 years younger than her. It wasn't out of "competition" with another song or someone forcing them, they chose to do it. With saying that, the edit made absolutely no sense to me lyrically.

[gardyfan]

Red Solo Cup where testicles is changed to vegetables. Really?

[sabre14]

WYRK played the "testicles" version of "Red Solo Cup."

[someguy]

Blake Shelton - "Drink On It"

Original:
How your boyfriend cheated on you; Man he sounds like such a prick

Edit:
How your boyfriend cheated on you; Man I'd like to punch his lip


That's better???? lol

[onebuffalo]

Toes by the Zac Brown Band. WYRK played the 'ass' version. I love that.

Also, Warner Bros. shortening the second chorus to Conway Twitty's Fallin' For You For Years and repeating it again. They also cut short the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Baby's Got A Hold On Me by about 40 seconds.

[Deleted]

I remember one time one of my stations played the unedited version of Gloriana "Trouble". I laughed a lot and it made me so happy. It also sounds more refreshing that way.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

WKJC made its own edit to "Toes" by dubbing in the first guitar chord over every instance of "ass", though they oddly left "fat one" alone. The same station cut "kiss my ass" out of "Drunk on a Plane" in the most awkward way possible: "Kiss my [song skips] / 'Cause hey..." I believe they also had their own hacked-up edit of "Stuck Like Glue" that ripped out the reggae-rap bridge, and they're still the only station I've heard anywhere that cut that part out. I think they also made their own edit of "Johnny Cash" that just muted the "Screw you, man" line, and another station once fade out before the "Hear the train a rollin, comin' round the bend / The man in black gonna rock your ass again" part.

I also heard a station in Marquette play "testicles" in Red Solo Cup, but oddly, not "ass".

There's a station in the Thumb that promises "positive" country and edits out alcohol/drug references of any kind. They cut "sometimes I drink too much" from "Hard to Love", "build your corn fueled whiskey bonfires" from "Dirt" (just "Build your bonfires" -- points for at least editing the surrounding words so it still flowed), and "And we got children walking around with guns / And they got knives and drugs and pain to spare" from "Love's the Only House". Surprisingly, "nice long toke" on "Wagon Wheel" was still uncensored. I'm guessing they're very naive about what that song is really about...

[Deleted]

Any station that edits out the Reggae part of "Stuck Like Glue" well I have nothing nice to say. That just makes the song a pure ear candy. That part of the song made me fall in love with the song,

[Andy]

I like the reggae bridge too. I can't understand why it was considered "controversial" or whatever.

[bksouthga]

I think that the radio edit of "Toes" is weird too. I actually like the regular non-ass one best. I think it can do without that. But as far as the joint reference, let's try that line a couple of different ways:
Roll a big ____ one (the radio edit) - what about "fat" makes this any "worse"?
___ a big fat one - nope, not any better
Roll a ___ fat one, roll a big fat ___, etc.
None of these one word bleeps helps at all.

I think the biggest thing that gripes me on this one is the edit that you hear on the Bobby Bones Show. It's a radio edit that makes the song longer, not shorter. It throws an extra chorus at the part where it should go to the lawn chair. It makes no sense! I usually defend Bobby on these forums, but this drives me crazy. There's a few other songs they do this to and I don't hear anywhere else. A couple I can think of right off hand are Taylor Swift's "Our Song" and Blake Shelton's "Honey Bee". And then they cut other songs off before they should. Arrrghh! Just leave all of them the way they were intended!

[Ten Pound Hammer]

^ Radio Lia sometimes used shortened versions of songs as filler when she only has about 2 minutes left. I once heard her cut down "Alcohol" to like 2 minutes. Why not just do like everyone else and play "If I Could Make a Living", "Drinkin' Bone", or "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" or "In Your Face"?