Which do you prefer? When you hear a song on the radio, do you hope there's an uncut version you can enjoy? Would you rather stick with the radio/clean version than buy the Explicit Lyrics version of an album?

I recently downloaded Saving Abel's "Addicted," and to my surprise the radio version is different from the actual. Instead of saying, "I'm so addicted to/ all the things ya do/ when you roll around with me/ in between the sheets," it says "all the things ya do/when you're goin' down on me/in between the sheets." That completely changes the feel of the song, and I now want to vomit. Ok, I don't, but I did get a mentally nauseous feeling wanting to purge my brain of the memory of hearing that version of the song.

Usually, when I hear a song on the radio, that's the way I want to hear it when it's on my iPod or shuffled in my iTunes. How about you?

I always prefer the "Dirty" version of songs to Clean ones.. Especially when the clean ones actually bleep out the word. It ruins the entire song! ~_~
I don't listen to the radio.. ever. I always listen to one of my CD's when I'm driving or something. XD If I somehow end up with a clean version of a cd I'll actually go out and buy the explicit one. x:

I don't believe in editing music or any other kinds of art. The way I see it is if you can't listen to music unedited then don't listen to it. The exceptions are when the artists has more than one version of the song and the radio doesn't have to bleep out anything.

I prefer the uncut versions.
That's the way the song was written...so that's the way it should be heard :3

Besides, some songs just sound horrible when they're edited for the radio.
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff is a perfect example. Half of the words are edited out when you hear it on the radio..

But if you know it won't be accepted on the radio because of the FCC, why choose that as a single? Can't you just choose a more tasteful song/topic that will be accepted for broadcast?

I mean, I usually don't like when curse words or racy comments are bleeped, muted, or reversed for the radio, but I just wish they wouldn't have to give the censors such a hard time and make a song for the radio, not a second version of a song.

I usually prefer the first version I hear, so if I hear the clean version, that's the one I want from then on. Or I may want both if the muted/reversed/euphemised version is funny, but the original version sounds better.

If I had to pick I would have to say the explicit version. They don't generally do a good job when they try to clean songs up. They will make a weird sound leave it blank or edit the lyrics. Sometimes it's good when they edit the lyrics and it sounds decent.

I prefer the "Let's Get it Started" by the Black Eyed Peas rather then "Let's Get Retarded" because the latter really does sound stupid.

I tend to prefer the clean versions. I don't want to hear about all the little deatails of your sex life when I listen to music. Then again, for the most part, if it needs a clean version due to sexual lyrics, I won't be listening to it in the first place.

If it's just censoring a word, however, I'm fifty-fifty. Like, with You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette, the clean version censors out the f-word, but I listen to the regular version. Certain songs, I am happier when they replace the swear word with something else, but when they just put some noise in to block it out, that's just distracting. And soemtimes when they replace a certain word, it takes away from the intensity of the song. Not that you need to swear to be intense, but sometimes that does add to it. Once again going back to the song You Oughta Know- that is an angry, pissed off, "how could you do this to me" kind of song. Censoring out the swearing takes away from of that emotion, you know?

Though, I do agree with what Mystic is saying, to an extent. She brings up a very valid point, censoring the songs takes away some of the art behind the song. ....Which makes me feel slightly guilty when I listen to edited verions of things. :x But at the same time, I feel that when explicit things are being said, people also have a right to not want to hear it. So I guess I'm kind of on the fence about the whole issue.

The only time I remember being angry at edits was when listening to James Blunt.
so in the uncut version of "High" there's a line that goes:

she could see from my face that I was, fucking high

Quite frankly I thought that "fucking" was out of place and that it killed the entire line. The radio version did replace "fucking" with "flying" though, and I thought it sounded infinitely better.

Heh. Based on that one song alone I would prefer cut versions.

The idea of blasting the censor is an OLD trick to sell records. A record company believes that if they release a song that's catchy, but edited, people will be more likely to buy the album in order to hear the song properly. Plus there's also the "lol he said fuck" crowd. :)

Omg, are you serious? That's so lame. I can't believe that works.