Apeforce

So I’m beboping in my hooptie to work yesterday, listening to a local pop station, Movin’ 107.5.  They were playing “Waterfalls” by TLC, a 90’s tune that brought back a lot of memories from high school.  Reminds me of Gerald “T-Bone” Tibbins.

 But as I got about 2/3 of the way through the song, I remembered that there’s something I ABSOLUTELY HATE about broadcast radio: they take out the “bridge” on a lot of pop songs.  They completely do away with LeftEye’s rap part (which makes the song, in my opinion), and replace it with a shorter instrumental break. 

Off the top of my head, I can’t remember a lot of other songs this happens to, but there ARE others.  I get all excited, and I’m like “LOOKS LIKE IT’S TIME FOR THE BREAKDOWN!” and then I get some wimpy instrumental break or they’ll cut right to the final chorus.  IT TOTALLY SUCKS!!!

I can understand a “radio edit” version when the content is objectionable, but editing a song to make it shorter so that you can play a higher number of songs?  Come on!  If you’re gonna cut anything, why not cut a few of the numerous repeated choruses at the end of the song? 

If you can think of other songs on the radio (any genre) that are egregiously edited (maybe a whalin’ guitar solo removed, a bridge taken out, etc), please leave them in the comments.

More POWAH! to ya -

GhostLemur