played on it fairly regularly. Most of his songs are swear-word free.
So, Dave, one of his friends who also happens to be a D.J. tossed in
the CD and randomly picked a song. Oops. It was the one song with
"fuck" in it - once. Of course, the program manager was listening and
freaked out. So, now Aaron's CD's have big labels on them - "Warning -
inappropriate content - screen before playing." (Or something like
that.)
(If you want to hear how woefully innappropriate it is, check out
www.aaronscholz.com.)
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:22:17 -0500, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont think radio stations should play a song if they intend to edit one iota of it. Period.
>
> You ever sat through the repititious first 3 minutes of Layla, putting in your time, waiting patiently for the payoff, the 3 minutes of pure "Goodfellas" bliss that is the second half of that song, only to have the station cut it!?
>
> Ever heard "Load Out" without "Stay"? Or "Travelin Man" without the obligatory "Beautiful Loser" follow up?
>
> I think the most egregious violation i've ever heard though was a rendition of American Pie, with the "now for 10 years..." verse completely removed. Gotta be kidding me.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marlon Moyer
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:03 AM
> Subject: Listening to the radio
>
> Yesterday I was listening to one of the better radio stations in DFW.
> It's called Jack FM. Their slogan is "Playing what we want to". They
> don't have DJ's. They don't take requests and you hear songs on it
> that you haven't heard in ages. It has a wide, wide mix of music.
> You might be listening to CCR one minute and then the latest from
> Nelly the next. All in all a great station to listen to. So
> yesterday when Lou Reed's, "Walk on the Wild Side" came on, I started
> singing along to it. Classic song!
>
> So I'm singing:
>
> "Candy came from out on the island
> in the backroom she was everybody's darling
>
> But she never lost her head
> even when she was errrrp heff"
>
> errrp heff ?????????? So now even radio stations that seem to be on
> the fringe are censoring songs? Truthfully, I've never even heard
> this song censored in my life, all 35 years of it so far. How long
> will this crap last? How long 'til we have thought police. Arrgghhh!
>
> Marlon
> /putting my iPod headphones on again
>
> --
> Marlon
>
>
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