Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

My Name Is: "walked out with the tip cup" >>> "stuck my dick in the tip cup"

"Vampire" by Olivia Rodrigo

All-Time Low "Monsters" "Ruin my life" just flows smoother than the original lyrics

This is without a doubt “No Scrubs” by TLC. The whole Left Eye rap part was ONLY on the radio edit and not the album. I go back and forth on “Semi-Charmed Life”. Also go back and forth on “Forget You” by Cee-Lo Green.

damn for real!?

If I remember right, it was always on the single (and there were both a radio edit with it and without) but not the album. Different versions on the album and the single.

Oh ok yeah I should probably have made this “album vs single) instead of “album vs radio”

I actually like the sound effect edits thrown on the radio version of Everlast's "What It's Like." Hearing it uncensored is so jarring.

1999 by Prince

"you's a big fine woman" is a better line in Back that Azz Up

Hot Take. Young Americans

“Clint Eastwood” is much better with the instrumental ending cut out on the radio.

Hi, big fan! But you are absolutely out of your god-damn mind on this one! The radio edit is a crime

well, yes, i suppose this very much qualifies

FWIW I was more pointing toward radio edit = "shorter" than radio edit = "censored"

one of my big disappointments is that at the Wildflowers exhibit at the Cade did not have details on how the four different versions of that recording came about (I have it on a 7" & don't remember which version it is; "Girl On LSD" is the b-side) — I imagine the story behind it is incredible

there is both a censored/bawdlerized radio edit and a non-censored radio edit, i think the former came along some time later once people learned what crystal meth was

I remember a version with the verse about red panties passing the test being cut too.

yeah that's the radio edit, but that's not really censoring it's just cutting out the IMO bad and dumb bridge

How about Ice Cube “Today was a good day?” I always liked the radio edit better which is rare

i love “girl on lsd”. “sure as hell, she got popped by the big guys”

I would argue that the shortened Semi-Charmed Life is censored though.

I love the censored version of Humpy Dance because of the choice to censor the words “Burger King”.

Genesis' "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"?

oh this is objectively wrong the best bit is the 4 minutes in the middle of the dark synths

Not quite to prompt, but the music video version of “Roses” by OutKast where the outtro is re-recorded, not just edited, is superior.

Thats true for pretty much every Type O Negative single.

Literally anything by Van Morrison?

In a similar vein, Money for Nothin'.

oh boy i could write a treatise on that song that would make everyone mad

California Love

Erykah badu - bag lady Layers in a dr Dre beat underneath

jewel has a couple of singles on her first album that the radio edits were completely different takes.

Oh yes we are discussing them over on another branch of this thread but I have strong feelings about those & I will defend the Pieces of You original session

there are certain lines in Eminem's "My Name Is" that are better in the edited version. I tried to make my own edit, but they two tracks actually sound a lot different.

Very recent excellent song by Balu Brigada, “Backseat”

DMX - SLIPPIN

Nelly - “Ride Wit Me” Some real great replacement sound effects.

The radio version of Belly’s Slow Dog was the video edit I believe and it has a better intro

“Battle Flag,” by the Lo Fidelity Allstars.

Basically any Kid Rock song.

The person who put "radio edit" into the actual lyrics of "Cowboy"!

“Jet Airliner,” Steve Miller Band

"Isn't She Lovely" Stevie Wonder

Starboy.

Ying Yang Twins - Whisper Song is somehow way better and more explicit as a “clean” radio edit.

I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab for Cutie

This is a wild take That extended intro is maybe the best thing they've ever recorded

“Walk on the Ocean” - Toad the Wet Sprocket

DFC “I will Pocess Your Heart” we get it, let’s just get on with the singing

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Brooklyn Zoo. Nuh!

Kanye's Gold Digger

Jay-Z - Can I Get A... Beck - Where It's At

Till I Collapse

The “Let’s roll another [incomprehensible]” instead of “let’s roll another joint” in Tom Petty’s You Don’t Know How It Feels has always delighted for reasons I cannot articulate.

Up there with the “Finding a stranger in the Alps” edit in Lebowski

it was "Let's roll another now!"

"Let's Get it Started"

My mind is playing tricks on me by the Geto Boys. Yes I said it!

Better? No. Funnier? Yes. The radio edit of NIN's Closer where "fuck" is replaced by a whip sound

The radio edit of Jefferson Starship's "Miracles" is the superior one. The album version doesn't do anything interesting with the extra three minutes and a few of the cut verses are TMI.

Curtis Mayfield “Move on up”

I, Kendrick Lamar

Tubthumping

Yes. I kind of like the "does it bollocks?" intro, but the sampling mess at the end is unwelcome

David Bowie "Heroes" is a classic case, you get all the best parts. After the first chorus. suddenly the band is really on fire (which is normal, they had been playing the song and building the intensity gradually for a long while now). This sudden kick up in intensity is great.

Tangent: Apocalyptica did a cover of this song in German that is absolutely incredible. Like, even when the original plays on the radio, my brain defaults to the cover.

The Verve She's a superstar, the single edit is an amazing song, the long version has a much inferior second instrumental part that goes nowhere.

Gorillaz Do Ya Thing. Maybe you want to hear Andre 3000 have a breakdown, or maybe you don't.

David Bowie's "Let's Dance."

Forget You.

“….and forget him too…”

J-Kwon - Tipsy

Country Grammar

“Let’s get it started” for extremely obvious reasons

The original had the misfortune of being released when the clock for the R word was at 11:59:57.

Damian Rice - Cannonball. The album version, while beautiful, puts me to sleep.

Get Lucky Basically anything with Nile Rodgers's hand in it

Let's Dance

Oh, I've only ever listened to the single version, now I need to go to the album version...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"

Gone til November. I haven’t thought of that song in 10 years.

Big Pun - I'm Not a Player

Somehow, "crush a lot" is so much better than the original

It's the enigmatic nature of the word. "Fuck," you know exactly what Pun is saying. But "crush"? - does he "have a crush" on "a lot" of girls? Is it about crushing cans for recycling? Is it making wine or some sort of jam or jelly or compote?

I'm not a player, I just sit on women with my 400 pound frame a lot.

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) has no need for a minute+ intro

Nope. "Slide up around your belly face down on the mattress" is lyrical gold and should be included every time that song is played.

NO IT'S WEIRD AND WE'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT IT

THEY'RE ON METH, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WEIRD

let them be weird on the album the rest of the song takes me to the brink of discomfort already

The edit is , as Fountains Of Wayne say on Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart, suffering a radio crime

Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

only if we're referring to the Juan (shit... can't remember his name...) radio version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gpMhd-56xo

The version of the album is slower than the one on the music video.

there are three versions of You Were Meant For Me: the album version, which TBH is my favorite, the Juan whats-his-name single edit, and then the re-recorded version, which they did at the same time they re-recorded foolish games and.. one other song I can't remember. i never liked them

It was near impossible to ever find the radio version of "Come and Talk To Me" by Jodeci. Whether on a CD single or on Napster or whatever.

An out of the box choice: Adam Sandler “Piece of Shit Car”. The censored version with the different car sound effects is so much funnier.

Ludacris "Saturday"; they changed the word "ass" in "just seen a big old ass" to the most pornographic moaning sound I've ever heard on radio

The radio edit of the theme song he recorded for "2 Fast, 2 Furious" -- which I'm pretty sure is called "Act a Fool" -- did some great work with sound effects as well.

Boooo.

“Enjoy the Silence” has a 2-3 minutes of arty noise & dead space on the album, depending on which version you got, but is a perfect pop song at 4:15 in the radio cut.

The music video for Enjoy the Silence has a slow start & build up that last like 20-30 or so seconds, then gets right to it

Get Back - Ludacris

Shawty is a 10 - The Dream

Sensual Seduction - Snoop Dogg

Stay Fly - Three 6 Mafia

The Verve Pipe - Freshmen

oh wow I don't think I've ever heard the album version (maybe? i was a literal freshman when that came out so i heard it A LOT)

music.apple.com/ca/album/the... Now I'm thinking I have Mandela Effect going on here. I might be thinking of some random remix version instead. I no longer have the CD to validate.

Eminem - "My Name Is (Slim Shady)" "Hi kids, do you like Primus" came off as "I'm the rap version of South Park" and was an instant sale for 16 year old me. Banger first line of a first hit for a legend.

Trying to think of an answer and instead remembering that the local alternative station (Buzz 106.5!) used to play the version of "More Human Than Human" with the sex sounds at the start.

Its the "meet bambi in the king's harem" mix if you wanna try and find it

Monsters by All Time Low is better to me in the radio edit, especially how the censorship made some of the words fit in better with the instrumental