The clean version of Queens of the Stone Age's third album, Songs for the Deaf, put loud censor-beeps (akin to those commonly heard on TV) over all instances of "fuck" and one instance of "kill".Phone tones are used to cover the numbers in the "1-900-Mix-a-Lot" lyric of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" video.The words "finger" was censored out by birds chirping, and the "bird" was covered up with cuckoo sounds. On an episode of Solid Gold, an '80s music and dance show, host Rick Dees began singing "Eat My Shorts".Even the explicit album version of "Protect Ya Neck" is censored this way, with the fully uncensored version being reserved for a B-Side: on Enter the Wu-Tang, the track starts with a skit where someone calls in to a radio show to make a request, so the censored version is apparently used to maintain the illusion that you're hearing the song being played on-air. "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'", and other tracks by the Wu-Tang Clan, often used standard Kung Fu sound and voice effects to censor curses in radio and video versions.A musical number in Evil Dead: The Musical (yep) has a line that goes "And then we'll take that chainsaw and we'll shove it up your-" "Ash!" which is a bit of a moot point, since there's musical numbers titled "Stupid Bitch" and "What the Fuck Was That?".The album version of the song (oddly, also used on the radio without edit) features the line "But she only comes when she's on top." The MTV version features the edit "But she only sings when she's on top" - and a close-up of the lead singer's face while he obviously sings the original line. Subverted by the band James for the MTV edit of their song "Laid".Oddly enough, the sound effects themselves were evidently too suggestive for some radio stations - one censored version uses entirely different ones. In layman's terms, it's describing a mugging. Another song that has sound effects in the chorus in the official lyrics is "Paper Planes" by M.I.A.: "All I wanna do is *BANG Bang, Bang, BANG*/And *KA-CHING*/and take your money"."Beep" by the Pussycat Dolls, where the sound censor was actually the main lick (no pun intended) of the song, and again aimed at making it sound dirtier than it probably was: "I don't give a Keep lookin' at my Cause it don't mean a thing when you're lookin' at the I'm goin' do mah thing while you're playin witchyour.Some versions also block out "sex", "pants", and "nuts", as well as "getting horny now".And the radio edit of "Bad Touch" replaces the words "doggy style" with the sound of a dog barking.The radio edit of Bloodhound Gang's "Fire Water Burn": "We don't need no water, let the mother- burn." As with the Adam Sandler example above, some people find this edit funnier than the album version.Five Iron Frenzy parodied this (and the copious swearing of gangsta rap) in Part 8 of their mock rock opera "These Are Not My Pants": loud BEEP's are applied liberally and completely at random over Micah's improvised rapping. Some people think this makes that version funnier than the uncensored album version. The radio edit of Adam Sandler's song "Ode to My Car" uses various automobile/traffic noises to censor the ( copious) swearing.(Why say f/when you can say shucks/why say sh, when you can say crud?)
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