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In fairness, wasn't this also true for radio? I recall quite a number of songs where the full version (from a CD or similar) had an intro that I'd never hear on

In fairness, wasn't this also true for radio? I recall quite a number of songs where the full version (from a CD or similar) had an intro that I'd never hear on the radio.

JKCalhoun 8y ago
"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah..."
slededit 8y ago
The radio edit. It's not just for bleeping out swear words.
hinkley 8y ago
Pink Floyd, for one, released a couple of songs with very quiet intros. If you played the album versions people would think you were broadcasting dead air. Can’t have that. So just jump to the first sound over a certain decibel, and chop out anything longer than a second later in the song. Which makes that Alannis Morisette song where she’s making a point about people not being able to handle silence pretty weird. The on air version has an “uncomfortable silence” that’s only around a second long...
- AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
  People have short attention spans. Theaters had to post warnings for the last Star Wars film that it had several intentional seconds of silence, because people thought the movie must be broken[0]. https://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-amc-warning-silent-scene-1202648766/ https://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-a...
  - hinkley 8y ago
    Crews-Offerman in 2020, with Offerman spearheading a War on Boredom that is just him insisting everybody should grow the fuck up and be able to sit quietly for at least 10 seconds at a time.
  - baud147258 8y ago
    It's weird, I was not bothered at all, because the silence in that scene is particularly fitting.
  - eythian 8y ago
    I saw that warning in the projectionist area, so projectionists didn't think the system was malfunctioning, phrased similarly to the one in that article. I wonder if those theatres just put the sign in the wrong place, or thought it was supposed to be public when it wasn't.
jradd 8y ago
TIL "radio edit" will not only edit the profanity, runtime/structure, but also the lyrics. I heard this song today, and was surprised to hear my local state included in one of the verses: e.g. One Republic - Good Life To my friends in New York, I say hello To my friends in Utah "they don't know"
- codazoda 8y ago
  I had always assumed this was the case for some songs.
- nathancahill 8y ago
  Ah, always wondered why the Chainsmokers had stolen the mattress from Boulder. Now I know.

In fairness, wasn't this also true for radio? I recall quite a number of songs where the full version (from a CD or similar) had an intro that I'd never hear on the radio.

JKCalhoun 8y ago

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah..."

slededit 8y ago

The radio edit. It's not just for bleeping out swear words.

hinkley 8y ago

Pink Floyd, for one, released a couple of songs with very quiet intros. If you played the album versions people would think you were broadcasting dead air. Can’t have that. So just jump to the first sound over a certain decibel, and chop out anything longer than a second later in the song. Which makes that Alannis Morisette song where she’s making a point about people not being able to handle silence pretty weird. The on air version has an “uncomfortable silence” that’s only around a second long...

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
People have short attention spans. Theaters had to post warnings for the last Star Wars film that it had several intentional seconds of silence, because people thought the movie must be broken[0]. https://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-amc-warning-silent-scene-1202648766/ https://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-the-last-jedi-a...
- hinkley 8y ago
  Crews-Offerman in 2020, with Offerman spearheading a War on Boredom that is just him insisting everybody should grow the fuck up and be able to sit quietly for at least 10 seconds at a time.
- baud147258 8y ago
  It's weird, I was not bothered at all, because the silence in that scene is particularly fitting.
- eythian 8y ago
  I saw that warning in the projectionist area, so projectionists didn't think the system was malfunctioning, phrased similarly to the one in that article. I wonder if those theatres just put the sign in the wrong place, or thought it was supposed to be public when it wasn't.

jradd 8y ago

TIL "radio edit" will not only edit the profanity, runtime/structure, but also the lyrics. I heard this song today, and was surprised to hear my local state included in one of the verses: e.g. One Republic - Good Life To my friends in New York, I say hello To my friends in Utah "they don't know"

codazoda 8y ago
I had always assumed this was the case for some songs.
nathancahill 8y ago
Ah, always wondered why the Chainsmokers had stolen the mattress from Boulder. Now I know.