Has anyone ever heard a "GOOD" radio edit? I can't believe that in this day and age, music being broadcast on a classic rock AOR station includes radio edits. That is just downright horrible!!

Nothing worse than singing along to a good song and get tripped up by a stupid radio edit. Sometimes the best parts of the songs are left out. They are so choppy. You can identify a radio edit even on a song you never have heard before most times.

Between repetitive playlists and radio edits, classic rock stations are starting to really suck. Sometimes I hear good ones while traveling, but overall they suck. The two local stations here all of a sudden are playing radio edits of songs they never did before and it seems like most of what they play are the same Guns and Roses and Def Leppard stuff over and over. Luckily the only time I ever listen to the radio is in the car. Then rarely at that. I detest repetition.

I challenge anyone here to give me an example of a radio edit worth listening to. :D

Radio edits should be expunged from our society. :D

Making a good edit is an art...a lost art. Heard some great edits in the sixties. So good you'd never been the wiser until you heard the long versions - "Light My Fire" (The Doors), "Time Has Come Today" (Chambers Bros.) and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly). Seemed like the care in doing them went away when 70's rolled around.

I hate songs that are laundered for airplay. I mean, c'mon, thekids in the listening audience for whom these songs are intended swear more than I do, but still. Yecch! No, it's not necessary to swear in a lyric, but the censorship bugs me far, far worse. An adjunct to this is shelling out the cash for a CD and finding out you got the sanitized version... Wal-Mart is famous for foisting these unlabeled atrocities on the music-buying public. :thumbsdn:
Tom

I don't know what area you are in, but Q-107 here in Toronto is a pretty good classic rock station. You can listen on the web as well although the quality sucks. (q107.com)

I loved hearing the radio version of Pink Floyd's "Not Now John". They resang it, including the backing vocals. Lyrics were changed to "Stuff All That".

Makes me smile every time I think about it.

Other than that...no.

Well, okay, I do enjoy the concept of being "grabbed by the fun". All sorts of ideas come to that one. Language ideas, that is.

But yeah, basically, it ruins the song.

What I hate is that Black-Eyed Peas, & Keilis, & all the other ones can talk about their humps, milkshakes, & junk in their trunks, but Pink Floyd still gets "Bullshit" censored out in "Money". Of course, in all fairness, some of these cRap songs are so heavily censored, you can barely tell WTF they're talkin' about. Not that you'd wanna know, anyhow...

My personal favorite is the 3 minute version of "We won't get fooled again" by The Who :nono:

Rare Earth - "Get Ready"
Sade - "Smooth Operator"
Stan Getz & Astud Gilberto - "Girl From Ipanema"
Jessie Hill - "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"

No edit is good, but these are a good as could be expected..................

Rare Earth - "Get Ready"
Sade - "Smooth Operator"
Stan Getz & Astud Gilberto - "Girl From Ipanema"
Jessie Hill - "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"

No edit is good, but these are a good as could be expected..................Wait, what? These were edited?

Ok, it just occurred to me there is an edit I like. I am not so sure it is an edit, maybe someone can shed some light on it. It could be a seperate recording in the same session but I really doubt it.

Maybe some of you didn't realize this but....

Holiday by the Scorpions. The track on Lovedrive is a fair amount shorter than the track on the CD Rockers and Ballads. I bought Rockers and Ballads to get the song Hey You, that wasn't on any other album. I was listening to the song Holiday on this CD and was whistling along when a whole new section of the song popped up. Blew my mind!!

All those years before Rockers and Ballads came out, I thought Holiday was a complete song on the Lovedrive album. I couldn't tell it was an edit.

I found an edit I like if it is an edit. :D The longer version is better though!!

Now I have to get Rockers and Ballads to hear what you're talking about. I love that album (Lovedrive).

imagine a hey jude radio edit. that song has survived so far on my classic rock station...which SUCKS ON ICE anyways. all they play is stones and beatles. they have JONES FOR THE STONES and BEATLES BLOCKS becuase their knowledge of classic rock only extends to "wikipedia search: rock and roll"

edit: the station sucks, not the song. :music:

Since I am basically dark, evil, & psychotic, I REALLY liked Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone"...the radio edit is to the album cut as lightning is to lightning bug...

Pantera-Cemetary Gates, the full-length version on the cowboys from hell disc is TOO long 4 me. The edited version that's on the Demon Night soundtrack is just right imo. I don't know how that worked out on the radio, if it was on the radio. I'm sure there are other examples of songs that were longer than necessary on the original album release & trimmed for radio.

Has anyone ever heard a "GOOD" radio edit? I can't believe that in this day and age, music being broadcast on a classic rock AOR station includes radio edits. That is just downright horrible!!

Nothing worse than singing along to a good song and get tripped up by a stupid radio edit. Sometimes the best parts of the songs are left out. They are so choppy. You can identify a radio edit even on a song you never have heard before most times.

Between repetitive playlists and radio edits, classic rock stations are starting to really suck. Sometimes I hear good ones while traveling, but overall they suck. The two local stations here all of a sudden are playing radio edits of songs they never did before and it seems like most of what they play are the same Guns and Roses and Def Leppard stuff over and over. Luckily the only time I ever listen to the radio is in the car. Then rarely at that. I detest repetition.

I challenge anyone here to give me an example of a radio edit worth listening to. :D

Radio edits should be expunged from our society. :D

Two words: Satellite radio. :music:

Two words: Satellite radio. :music:

They do it too! (At least, Sirius does.) even more unacceptable. :thumbsdn:

They do it too! (At least, Sirius does.) even more unacceptable. :thumbsdn:


Which station and song was it? I've heard many a expletive on Sirius.

Which station and song was it? I've heard many a expletive on Sirius.

Most of the rock channels. I'm talking about editing, cutting/re-arranging songs, not just profanity. Listen to "Runnin with the Devil" on Buzzsaw sometime. The song sounds like it was cut and pasted into a different tune altogether.

I expect to hear the full length, album version of a song. Sirius uses radio cuts.

Goodbye Stranger, anyone?

I've heard many that I can't recall at this moment. I stopped caring long ago and won't be renewing the subscription. The last straw was when they hijacked the channel I listen to most often, "The Bridge", and turned it into "The Who" channel.

Seriously, The WHO? 24x7 for the past WEEK straight?

Last time they did that it was Springsteen for what seemed like a MONTH!

Sorry about the hijack - back to business. I hate edits. All of them.

Procol Harum "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

How about many DJ's tendency to cut in before the song is over and talk over the song?

I think the Cure's "Pictures of You" radio edit was pretty well done.

I did some digging around and "Holiday" On Rockers and Ballads is a remix.

While I'm not a fan of edits, I have to say I prefer the four-minute version of the Outlaws' "Green Grass and High Tides" to the nine-minute album cut.

A couple of the stations around here are starting to edit for time on songs that weren't that long to start with. One chops the bridge out of Seger's "Night Moves." I guess they think nobody notices, but if it's a song you've sung along with for the past 30 years, hell yeah, you notice it.

God bless satellite radio.

"I expect to hear the full length, album version of a song. Sirius uses radio cuts."



That's funny- I listen exclusively to satellite radio, and have never come across this. But when I do, I'll be right on the internet sending nasty letters to Sirius. :no: And I agree with you- totally unacceptable.