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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 11:32:17 GMT -5
I have heard the week Digital Undergroun´d The Humpty Dance debuted on CT40 , on May 26, 1990.
IMHO, instead of advising the stations that this song is not that correct, the song has been edited with sounds and effects to hide the nasty parts.
As far as I remember AT40 played the unclean copy, but the track slot is easily scoped of the show , and advised in the cue sheet. for those stations which considered the song is not appropiated.
What do you think about both methods?.
IMHO, those acts that cannot do music without that kind of word using show that they have no talent when the best is saying the same things without that nasty words, but that is another subject.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 12:10:23 GMT -5
Your latter point is very true. I had no idea Pinks song Perfect had vulgar lyrics in it until I went to iTunes. It's entirely unnecessary. I may have to listen to that show now because I don't remember sound effects and all being used on Casey's Top 40. I remember those type things on the Weekly Top 40 though. As far as method, I don't know. Even if a song can't be played because of content I like it acknowledged which is what I hated about the AT40 method which I actually never heard happen. Believe it or not, it was Casey's Top 40 I first heard something like this occur. For whatever reason "Rump Shaker" was deemed inappropriate in the middle of its chart run for 2 weeks and they did this. This was prior to the no rap/no hard rock crap they instituted a few months later.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 12:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by mkarns on May 30, 2012 14:11:08 GMT -5
Your latter point is very true. I had no idea Pinks song Perfect had vulgar lyrics in it until I went to iTunes. It's entirely unnecessary. I may have to listen to that show now because I don't remember sound effects and all being used on Casey's Top 40. I remember those type things on the Weekly Top 40 though. As far as method, I don't know. Even if a song can't be played because of content I like it acknowledged which is what I hated about the AT40 method which I actually never heard happen. Believe it or not, it was Casey's Top 40 I first heard something like this occur. For whatever reason "Rump Shaker" was deemed inappropriate in the middle of its chart run for 2 weeks and they did this. This was prior to the no rap/no hard rock crap they instituted a few months later. What happened to "Rump Shaker"? Did just the individual station you listened to stop playing it in the countdown, or what? As with AT40 and other shows, I don't think Casey ever refused to play a song even if individual stations objected; they were just given instructions on how to remove it if they wished. Regarding "The Humpty Dance", the station I then heard AT40 on (WRQX) routinely cut it from the countdown, without announcement. I used to write down the countdown each week then and for several weeks was confused by what seemed like Shadoe skipping numbers. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 14:54:23 GMT -5
It was the individual station WAPE. For some reason "Rump Shaker" was fine for the first few weeks. It aired on the countdown with no problem. Then for some reason for I think 2 weeks they didn't play it. I think 1 week it was leading the segment off so they came back from commercial with the "number" whatever jingle for the next song in the segment, and then the other week it was the last song in a segment and they ended the segment after the preceeding song and went right to commercial. Then, after this brief absense, the song was back for all remaining weeks on the chart. And like I said, this was a couple of months prior to WAPE's no rap/no hard rock screw up the entire station and mess up Casey's Top 40 on a weekly basis kick they went on for the next several years.
Anyway, up to this point Rump Shaker was the only song I remember being removed from a countdown show I heard. Back when WAPE was still playing AT40, Banned in the USA, Me So Horny, Tic Tac Toe, etc so on and so forth aired.
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Post by mstgator on Jun 2, 2012 12:22:37 GMT -5
FYI, the version of "The Humpty Dance" aired on CT40 was the same version used in the video aired on MTV (note the "crowd" sounds at the beginning). CT40 removed one additional line, "Yo ladies oh how I like to funk thee" (guess they thought it sounded too much like the other f-word). Sometimes they also faded the song early (as in the clip posted by jcaragon).
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Jun 2, 2012 12:30:26 GMT -5
It was the individual station WAPE. For some reason "Rump Shaker" was fine for the first few weeks. It aired on the countdown with no problem. Then for some reason for I think 2 weeks they didn't play it. I think 1 week it was leading the segment off so they came back from commercial with the "number" whatever jingle for the next song in the segment, and then the other week it was the last song in a segment and they ended the segment after the preceeding song and went right to commercial. Then, after this brief absense, the song was back for all remaining weeks on the chart. And like I said, this was a couple of months prior to WAPE's no rap/no hard rock screw up the entire station and mess up Casey's Top 40 on a weekly basis kick they went on for the next several years. Anyway, up to this point Rump Shaker was the only song I remember being removed from a countdown show I heard. Back when WAPE was still playing AT40, Banned in the USA, Me So Horny, Tic Tac Toe, etc so on and so forth aired. Man I hated that station, it was whack as all ghett out! I remember living in Jacksonville, FL for only half a year back in '96. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2012 14:50:31 GMT -5
It was the individual station WAPE. For some reason "Rump Shaker" was fine for the first few weeks. It aired on the countdown with no problem. Then for some reason for I think 2 weeks they didn't play it. I think 1 week it was leading the segment off so they came back from commercial with the "number" whatever jingle for the next song in the segment, and then the other week it was the last song in a segment and they ended the segment after the preceeding song and went right to commercial. Then, after this brief absense, the song was back for all remaining weeks on the chart. And like I said, this was a couple of months prior to WAPE's no rap/no hard rock screw up the entire station and mess up Casey's Top 40 on a weekly basis kick they went on for the next several years. Anyway, up to this point Rump Shaker was the only song I remember being removed from a countdown show I heard. Back when WAPE was still playing AT40, Banned in the USA, Me So Horny, Tic Tac Toe, etc so on and so forth aired. Man I hated that station, it was whack as all ghett out! I remember living in Jacksonville, FL for only half a year back in '96. Yep, that was during the no rap/no hard rock kick. But as I've mentioned before it made no sense. They'd play Stone Temple Pilots and remove PM dawn. As they continued this nonsense they got better about editing Casey's Top 40. I often wondered since Rick Dees's show had started removing the hard rap songs by then and he'd just gloss over them by giving the name of it and going on why they never switched shows. Fortunately for most of this annoying kick they were on I lived on the Space Coast and got XL 106.7 out of Orlando. |
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Post by Hervard on Jun 2, 2012 19:51:48 GMT -5
The only thing I remember about the CT40 version of "The Humpty Dance" is that they bleeped out "Burger King". I guess BK was up in arms about them using their establishment as a flophouse.
I imagine that the lines "I'm still gettin' in the girls' pants", "In the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear" and "I get laid by the ladies" were silenced out, like they were on Open House Party.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Jun 3, 2012 8:55:44 GMT -5
Personally, I think that blanking out anything remotely offensive (kind of like the Now series cleans songs up more than their radio edits at times) is the way to go.
Now, as for removing a song from the countdown, things in the past that AT40 did were ok. Though I don't find it offensive, I can see how uptight people would be up in arms over things like Only The Good Die Young or Paradise By The Dashboard Light. But as much as I dislike rap, if its a hit, it should get airplay in a countdown show...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 9:08:54 GMT -5
There is an episode on Shadoe AT40, when the song was close to the top 10, that the playing was about 1 minute or so, I think maybe the song got the higher position and maybe it was played after all in every station, with that shorter cut, without mentioning those parts. After all, it seems all the polemic is about commercial issues rather than nasty ones. It´s like Paul Simon´s kodachrome but without the class and the talent.
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Post by mstgator on Jun 9, 2012 22:36:19 GMT -5
The only thing I remember about the CT40 version of "The Humpty Dance" is that they bleeped out "Burger King". I guess BK was up in arms about them using their establishment as a flophouse. I imagine that the lines "I'm still gettin' in the girls' pants", "In the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear" and "I get laid by the ladies" were silenced out, like they were on Open House Party. Nope... as I mentioned earlier, CT40 pretty much used the version shown on MTV, which featured dumb sound effects over the "offending" words. |
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Post by adam31 on Aug 4, 2012 14:07:34 GMT -5
The only thing I remember about the CT40 version of "The Humpty Dance" is that they bleeped out "Burger King". I guess BK was up in arms about them using their establishment as a flophouse. I imagine that the lines "I'm still gettin' in the girls' pants", "In the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear" and "I get laid by the ladies" were silenced out, like they were on Open House Party. Nope... as I mentioned earlier, CT40 pretty much used the version shown on MTV, which featured dumb sound effects over the "offending" words. The "dumb sound effects" you speak of remind me of how they edited Nelly's "Ride With Me" from 2001, when they overdubbed "high" with a whoosh sound like smoking a doobie lol..... |
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Aug 5, 2012 13:48:57 GMT -5
Occasionally AT40 in 2000 would play a horrible remix of The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang that removed the entire "put your hands down my pants and I bet you'll feel nuts" line, but they initially played the original version and used the original on the top 100 of 2000.
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Post by Hervard on Oct 1, 2012 18:29:42 GMT -5
There is an episode on Shadoe AT40, when the song was close to the top 10, that the playing was about 1 minute or so, I think maybe the song got the higher position and maybe it was played after all in every station, with that shorter cut, without mentioning those parts. After all, it seems all the polemic is about commercial issues rather than nasty ones. It´s like Paul Simon´s kodachrome but without the class and the talent. I thought that AT40 played the chopped-down version of the song throughout its entire chart run. In Rob Durkee's Countdown of the century, it said "radio stations were advised that they could edit out what was left of the song; many did." U93, the station I listened to, was one of the stations that cut the song, so I'm not sure how long the one-minute version was played (I don't think U93 edited out the song on the year-end show and, on that one, it was indeed about a minute long). |
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