This is most noticeable on certain rap recordings which are often full of explicit language. At the same time, I have heard other clean edits, usually on the radio, where large sections of lines have been missing or garbled.
In its case, there is a line which has been changed from featuring the f-word on the album version to "messed up" on the clean version, and the change isn't noticeable until you've heard both versions. I think in the case of the US that the religious nature of some areas made a lot of major retailers uncomfortable to stock explicit albums due to the risk of a particularly reactionary parent filing a lawsuit (which did happen).Īs for how the clean edits sounded compared to the original, was it generally more common for there to simply be a gap in the vocal track where an explicit word was on the uncensored version, or were the lyrics generally rerecorded? I own the uncensored version of Soul Asylum's song Sometime To Return on their album Hang Time, and a clean edit as a 7" single. To the best of my knowledge I own no censored versions of albums (excluding a handful of compilations that I believe contain clean edits of individual tracks), though I live in the UK and to the best of my knowledge clean versions of whole albums were generally rare in Britain (aside from clean singles intended to get radio airplay) since most stores in Britain were happy to sell the regular explicit version. One New York Times article I found from the 1990s suggested that there was a clean US version of a Catherine Wheel album which omitted entire tracks (according to Discogs it was the track "Eat My Dust You Insensitive F***" from Happy Days which was cut, though only from the US cassette version the track looks to have been present on all British releases). This resulted in gaps in the vocal track of songs, and resulted in one Nirvana song being renamed to "Waif Me". I know that due to the refusal of certain US chains such as Wal-Mart to stock music that contained explicit content, many of the major American labels produced clean versions of affected albums in order to get them on the shelves of major discount chains.
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