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Johnny Dickshot May 31 2007 07:27 AM

I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city.

Willets Point May 31 2007 08:36 AM

Isn't there a radio-safe version that says "funky kicks" or some crap like that. Kind of like the version of "Brown-Eyed Girl" that leaves out "makin' love in the green grass" because that would just titillate us too much.

cooby May 31 2007 08:47 AM

I always thought they were saying "f***in' shit" anyway. Not to start Johnny's thread in a whole different direction but I also thought Linda Ronstadt was saying "I gotta f** you baby, cos I'm leaving today" I still think she is, I don't care what the lyrics pages say.

TransMonk May 31 2007 09:08 AM

Money, it's a hit, don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit.

Vic Sage May 31 2007 09:17 AM

there are glasses to raise in the praise of survivin' the day...

Johnny Dickshot May 31 2007 09:18 AM

Radio/single/Greatest Hits version of Jet Airliner definitely has "funky kicks" plus they cut out a bunch of measures of the kickass geetar intro (itself stolen from Eric Clapton's 'Crossroads'). You don't even know about wild mountain honey.

Farmer Ted May 31 2007 09:21 AM

Should I throw the lyrics to the Stones' Star Star in here. Ah, prolly not.

Batty31 May 31 2007 11:37 AM

Farmer Ted wrote: Should I throw the lyrics to the Stones' Star Star in here. Ah, prolly not. I love Joan Jett's cover of Star Star. When I was a radio DJ there was a song by John Waite that contained the line "kiss my ass". The program director had a big meeting with the jocks and left a big sign in the studio forbidding us to play the unedited version. The cd single contained the uncut and edited version. Guess what version I played??? Oops..hit the wrong track. :)

metirish May 31 2007 11:42 AM

Batty31 wrote: ="Farmer Ted"]Should I throw the lyrics to the Stones' Star Star in here. Ah, prolly not. I love Joan Jett's cover of Star Star. When I was a radio DJ there was a song by John Waite that contained the line "kiss my ass". The program director had a big meeting with the jocks and left a big sign in the studio forbidding us to play the unedited version. The cd single contained the uncut and edited version. Guess what version I played??? Oops..hit the wrong track. :) Where did you work at,a station that we might know,any obsessive fans?

seawolf17 May 31 2007 11:52 AM

Back in my college radio days we had a local high school student who used to call us ALL THE TIME and request Primus songs, mostly "My Name Is Mud." Singlehandedly, when we did the countdown of the 89.3 most requested songs of the year, she made Primus number one just about every year. She called all hours of the day and night. Fast forward a bit after graduation, when I was working in radio... we had hired a new bunch of interns one summer, and they were making the rounds meeting everybody. I introduced myself to the group, and one of the girls said "Hey! You used to DJ at WGSU!" I asked how she remembered me, and she said "I'm Primus Girl." I don't know if she technically qualified, but she was definitely stalkerish back in the day.

Willets Point May 31 2007 11:57 AM

At my college radio station, if a song had just one prominent profanity you could get away with editing it by basically turning off the broadcasting while the profanity was playing so that the listeners would just hear a moment of silence. The first time I saw this attempted was during my training time as a Freshman in which the DJ trying to censor the song was just a bit off. The listener heard: Guitar solo....three seconds of silence..."FUCK!!!!" Not only did he fail to censor the f-bomb, he emphasized it. We of course thought it hillarious.

Batty31 May 31 2007 11:58 AM

metirish wrote: Where did you work at,a station that we might know,any obsessive fans? I worked at WSUL up in Monticello, NY. It 63 miles away from my house and I made the trip every Saturday and Sunday for 4 years (and I did a lot of fill in for the full time jocks during the week). HORRIBLE music...Adult Contemporary garbage (Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey). We had some halfway decent stuff (Scorpions "Wind of Change" as an example) that I used to try to sneak into the playlist as much as possible. When I was working overnights I used to drop almost half of the playlist and played what I wanted. LOL! Yeah, I had a couple of obsessive fans. I avoided public appearances for the station because of it (other than the yearly pledge drive for the American Heart Association). I had several "fans" who would call me on a regular basis. A couple of times some guys tried breaking into the studio when I was on air (and I was alone most of the time at the station, so it was scary). Some would try peeking into the studio when I was there. (the studio was street level with a huge store front window and I kept all the blinds closed). Other weird fans would call other jocks to ask what I looked and to try to get information as to where I lived, etc. When I was a college radio jock some guy actually taped every single one of my shows.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 12:05 PM

And I've long since apologized and paid my debt to society, so can we leave it be already?

seawolf17 May 31 2007 12:08 PM

Funny, Willets... I did the same thing once, early in my college radio career. We had a compilation CD with Candlebox's "You," which has a loud f-bomb at the end. I (mistakenly) assumed that it was the edited version, so I played it... and the song ends "FUCK YOU... IT'S FOR YOU!" I forgot to start the next song I was so stunned.

Gwreck May 31 2007 12:13 PM

Who Are You, who who who who? Who the ____ are you? I don't know what word they use on the radio version but I can't tell it apart from the original version.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 12:17 PM

I've never known the profane outros from "Who Are You?" or "Start Me Up" to be kept off the radio, and I never knew why.

TheOldMole May 31 2007 12:20 PM

The Bellamy Brothers -- per my interview with them for the New Country Music Encyclopedia -- had to take a break in a tour and fly back to California to dub in one line for their song, "Old Hippie" -- "too darn old" to replace "too friggin' old" -- for the version to be released to radio. Radio stations mostly ended up playing the "too friggin' old" version anyway.

SteveJRogers May 31 2007 01:28 PM

Johnny Cash did a live show at MSG in Dec. 1969 that was released a few years back on CD. (Johnny Cash At Madison Square Garden great CD BTW) He does "A Boy Named Sue" which was a mega hit that past year, and of course a controversial one as the single version states "...cause I'm the BEEEEEP that named you Sue!" Well Cash gets to that point in the song and sings "...cause I'm the URRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP that named you Sue!" which was followed by "Can't say sonofabitch on stage!"

Rockin' Doc May 31 2007 04:55 PM

When my partners and I buit our new office in 1999, we decided that we didn't want to have the "elevator music" that is typical of most professional offices. So we bought a six disc CD changer in a storage closet and had it wired into the office speakers. We would all bring CD's from home to play in the office. We played mostly old classic rock (Beatles, Dire Straits, Eagles, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison...) and adult contemporary music (Jackson Browne, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor...). People were supposed to screen the CD's for content to be sure they were "clean". A few weeks into this arrangement, I returned to the office from lunch and was doing paperwork at my desk I noticed James Taylor playing "Steamroller" over the office speakers. I listened for a moment then walked over to my partners office and had the following conversation. RD - "Who brought the James Taylor CD?" Dr. S - "I did. Why?" RD - "Is that his greatest hits album?" Dr. S - "Yes." RD - Turning to head downstairs to the CD player. "We can't play that here." Dr. S - As she follows me down the hall toward the stairs. "What's wrong with it?" RD - Fumbling for the keys to the storage closet as I walk. "Haven't you ever noticed the ending of this song?" As I was near the bottom step I heard James Taylor screaming how he can't lose his "...chicken chokin', mother f____n' case of stamroller blues" . Dr. S looked like she wanted to go hide somewhere. It wasn't much longer before we replaced the CDs with music feeds from the a satellite dish on the roof.

Willets Point May 31 2007 09:18 PM

It's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog It's all for me beer and tobacco