Worst Edit you've ever heard...

I did buy the the single first and alright now by Free. Love the single and album versions. Also White Room by Cream.

 

I believe we don't get a taste of the real world when we hear the single of Miracles by Jefferson Starship.

 

I'll put my opinion of "Won't Get Fooled Again" down here - the single edit is massively inferior, but as far as edits go, it's competently done, with nothing excessively jarring unless you're accustomed to the long version. By that, I mean that someone who hadn't heard the song before could listen to the edit and not think it was edited. There's no major change in tempo or drive caused by the edit, and it's certainly interesting to listen to a song I know in my bones and still be surprised by it.

But in terms of what I want to listen to, the full version wipes the floor with the single.

 

Love the song, but “Do It Til You’re Satisfied” has the worst edit I’ve ever heard on its album version. Included here at 2:10.



I bought the CD several years ago and thought the CD itself was screwed up when I first heard it, but that jarring change is in every version on other media too.

 

Never heard the song before but even to me the edit is appalling on my first listen!

 

I have a Promo of AC/DC's "For Those About To Rock..." at least 1 measure is cut before the rhythm guitar starts & the whole thing is pitched up, not good.

 

what exactly is going on at 1:35? Sounds like a jarring edit to me.

 

I was seeing how far it would be before I heard that one here.

 

I don't even pick up on it lmao

 

Incredible!

 

The old Syndication?-TV version of the Monkees Theme Song.

 

A note on Autobahn. The label in the UK version specifically mentions "Highlights from Kraftwerk' album Autobahn". And it's completely different from the US version.

 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10ljs9

Definitely a few clunkers in there.

 

Supremes/Four Tops single edit of River Deep Mountain High. Second chorus completely butchered.

 

Can we mention the atrocity of Lyin' Eyes? Talk about destroying a song!

 

Wrong answer - the UK edit is one of the greatest works of editing ever done. US one is OK but it lacks the urgency that the UK one has (even if it does have the flute-led section that the other leaves out).

EDIT: Sorry, this was directed the previous poster. Not you Mulderre...

 

This 45 isn't supposed to exist. What is the catalog number, B-side, and ZSS numbers of both sides?

According to the still photo, it looks like the catalog number is 4-46028, which was actually used for a Johnny Cash single, "Ragged Old Flag"/"Don't Go Near the Water", released in March 1974. The matrix number looks like ZSS 159673, which I can't find associated with another CBS 45, but seems to date from mid to late 1974. (Those other 45s with ZSS numbers in the same range came out after the CBS label changed its numbers and started using a black "starburst" on the label.)

That this record isn't listed on Discogs, 45cat, Popsike, Worthpoint or especially on any Springsteen collector's site is interesting, too.

 

Do you mean the closing theme ("For Pete's Sake")? That was pretty badly edited. But the opening theme wasn't an edit - the TV theme is a different recording than the longer album track version. (For one thing, the TV theme comes to a full ending after "...coming to your town," whereas the album version fades out.

 

how about the lead guitar break in Aime! Pure Prairie League!

 

Yes, you're right, it was the closing theme, of course!

 

If you want to hear a bad edit of the opening theme, you'll have to listen in Italian. "Tema dei Monkees" was recorded for the opening credits, and then the label in Italy extended that 40-second track to song length with repeats and the instrumental sections of the standard album track, and issued it as a single.

 

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl: An edit was made that censored the line "Makin' love in the green grass..." with an awful, obvious copy/paste job that involved taking the line "laughin' and a' runnin' " from earlier in the recording and patching it over the apparently offending lyrics.

This may have not ended up being such a big deal, however in 1990 upon the release of The Best Of Van Morrison compilation, someone involved in the compiling accidentally pulled a tape of "Brown Eyed Girl" with the censoring edit which led to it being used for the well selling compilation. This caused this edit of "Brown Eyed Girl" to be distributed and heard pretty widely. This was corrected later on in the '90s when The Best Of Van Morrison was reissued.

 

I’ve heard some of the Sirius stations inconsistently play a version of “Money for Nothing” that clumsily removes the “that little ******” verse, while other times they just play the normal single edit.