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I'm sure you can find the full version on YouTube.Quoth Racket_Man View PostNOW if you can find the FULL version of that song these days, GOOD LUCK.
Canadian Radio (and TV I assume, if you can find a TV station playing music) can't play the full version. The song actually got banned in Canada for about 6 months a couple of years ago (yes 30-some years after it was released) because of the "That little faggot, he's a millionaire" line.
The CRTC relented a bit and said stations could play it, as long as it was a radio edited version without that line. Apparently because of the song length, that line was already edited out in a lot of the play versions anyway.
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Funny you should mention that. While surfing through those channels one night I came across "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.Quoth computeraide View PostMusic Choice on our local digital cable.
All kinds of genres on all kinds of channels!
On the very next channel: the song MC Hammer sampled, Rick James' "Superfreak."Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
"I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily
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Even here in the US most of the radio stations have completely edited out the 2d verse with the offensive reference NOT just the one line. which is weird because there are enough songs that have one offensive word and either the word/phrase is silenced or changed/dubbed over.Quoth Jetfire View PostI'm sure you can find the full version on YouTube.
Canadian Radio (and TV I assume, if you can find a TV station playing music) can't play the full version. The song actually got banned in Canada for about 6 months a couple of years ago (yes 30-some years after it was released) because of the "That little faggot, he's a millionaire" line.
The CRTC relented a bit and said stations could play it, as long as it was a radio edited version without that line. Apparently because of the song length, that line was already edited out in a lot of the play versions anyway.
If you do browse YouTube for that song Mark Knoffler have done at least 5 or more versions where he subs other words or terms for the offensive one.I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
-- Life Sucks Then You Die.
"I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."
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Nice. This thread came to mind yesterday as I was getting on the highway and Money for Nothing came on the oldies radio station I was listening to.Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View PostFunny you should mention that. While surfing through those channels one night I came across "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.
On the very next channel: the song MC Hammer sampled, Rick James' "Superfreak."
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