Anyone get upset when radio stations leave out part of songs:mad: :eek: 97.3 cuts out the last instrumental part of Heart Of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis And the News. They cut out the partthatgoes "bwing bwing bwing"right before the song ends. If I didn't own SPORTS I would never have even known that this part exists. 97.3 and 100.7 cut out rap partsfrom afew singers. In TLC's Waterfalls and Scrubs, they cut out Lisa's rap parts, the best part of both songs. They cut out Lil Kim's rap part in Lady Marmalade. But, 100.7 can play Nelly's "My Grill",:rolleyes: which is a rap song,and they also play rap song, "Kryptonite" :rolleyes: so they CAN play rap songs. i wonder why they cut out rap parts in these three songs.

Any radio stations that cut out parts of YOUR favorite songs?:crazy:

I have satellite. They play the long versions of songs.:D

XM on DirecTV rules!!!

back in the 70's and 80's, songs would usually be edited for single release, nowadays it's less and less common, but a lot of the songs that were hits back then were not the album versions, but "radio edits"

I remember the long instrumental in 'Tonight Tonight Tonight' by Genesis being edited out as well as the many versions of Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love', which was mentioned in another thread.

'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Inagadadavida' also had three or four cut variations.

I remember the long instrumental in 'Tonight Tonight Tonight' by Genesis being edited out as well as the many versions of Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love', which was mentioned in another thread.

The Genesis edit is one of the few occasions where I actually prefer the single edit, because that middle part is this instrumental hiccup that just takes up space, as opposed to furthering the song.

Radio edits are nothing new. Two of my favorite examples are "Won't Get Fooled Again" - boiled down from eight minutes to around three.

and..

Aerosmith's "Janie's Got A Gun," where they changed a lyric from "...and put a bullet in his brain" to "she left him in the pouring rain" and had the beginning and end of the guitar solo, but not the middle. Just hack the heart and soul out of the music...no problem.:mad: :eek:

On the other hand, it's amusing to listen to single edits to hear if they're done well or they make you upset.:D

pissed: People who leaveout partsof the thread titles!

The Genesis edit is one of the few occasions where I actually prefer the single edit, because that middle part is this instrumental hiccup that just takes up space, as opposed to furthering the song.

True. That one is boring. I can imagine that if 'The Domino' would have been released as a single, it would suffer massive cutting as well.

Can anyone tell me if Usher's 'Confessions pt 1 & 2' was merged or remixed together in the radio edit? It's more then likely.

A lot of Billy Joel songs were subject to "radio eidt" versions, including "Piano Man." Perhaps theat's the song he had in mind when he sang in the entertainer," It was a beautiful song / But it ran too long / If you're gonna have a hit / You gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05." :lol:

Classic rock radio usually doesn't play the radio edits. They even play the full version of Dire Straits's "Money For Nothing," while other stations palyed an edit that deleted the verse about "the little [rhymes-with-maggot] with the earing and the makeup."

A lot of Billy Joel songs were subject to "radio eidt" versions, including "Piano Man." Perhaps theat's the song he had in mind when he sang in the entertainer," It was a beautiful song / But it ran too long / If you're gonna have a hit / You gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05." :lol:


Interesting fact there. I didn't realize that there was an extra verse.

I'll bring it up because the Lost commercial is still fresh in our minds... 'Addicted to Love' has a longer album version with a synth and vocal breakdown mix in the center. Radio stations play both versions. I like the album version better.

The bells at the beginning of Mariah Carey's 'Don't Forget About Us' are lost in the radio edit.

Is there a radio edit of Eric Clapton's 'Layla' that doesn't include the long musical ending? Every radio station I listen to keeps it in. They even worked it into the video on VH1 Classic!

Some songs are totally remixed in the radio edits. I remember most of the songs from Britney Spears' first album were remixed for radio along with some of N'Sync's, even though I don't own either album, both mixes usually grabbed airplay.

Interesting fact there. I didn't realize that there was an extra verse.

I'll bring it up because the Lost commercial is still fresh in our minds... 'Addicted to Love' has a longer album version with a synth and vocal breakdown mix in the center. Radio stations play both versions. I like the album version better.

The bells at the beginning of Mariah Carey's 'Don't Forget About Us' are lost in the radio edit.

Is there a radio edit of Eric Clapton's 'Layla' that doesn't include the long musical ending? Every radio station I listen to keeps it in. They even worked it into the video on VH1 Classic!

Some songs are totally remixed in the radio edits. I remember most of the songs from Britney Spears' first album were remixed for radio along with some of N'Sync's, even though I don't own either album, both mixes usually grabbed airplay.
I have never heard an edited version of "Layla" but Iwish there was one, I like the song without that lengthy guitar instrumental on the end.

Boston's "Foreplay/LongTime" on classic rock stations play the entire song, but when it first came out back in the 70's, the edited version was played.

Peter Frampton "Do you feel like we do" was played in it's entirety when it was released. Nowadays, some stations play the edited version (it sucks) but the classic stations play the entire version.

Radio stations cut out verses of Madonna's "Lucky Star" and "Borderline, but she herself also cuts out these same verses on her "Madonna(1984 VHS), "The Immaculate Collection" album, VHS, and DVD. The only way to hear the full versions of these songs is on her Madonna album.(1982/1983)

^ Holiday also suffers from a lot of editing between the album mix and single version

Radio disney took out a whole line of Kelly's "Because of You" because it had the word damn in it. THEY TOOK OUT THE WHOLE FREAKING LINE. And it was a long line, more equivlant to two.

Back in the '70s, when the group Chicago was more of a jazz-rock band, many of their songs ran upwards of six to eight minutes. Although they hated the idea of their songs being edited, it was necessary to get them on top 40 AM radio. Their producer personally supervised the edits and while the band would have preferred no editing at all, they weren't bad.

What's interesting is that my cousin first heard Aerosmith on their Greatest Hits album, which features many single edits. When he heard the full album versions of those songs later on, he was surprised as he didn't realize the songs had been edited in the first place.

I know what you mean, on the Billy Joel hits CDs, the song Pressure and My life have both had verses edited. And on the Bruce Springsteen DVD the Rosalita video was edited. I hate it too.

I think its one thing to edit it for radio (not that I agree with it), but to edit a CD or DVD? Come on!