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Here's some additional info for the database...
The Geto Boys hit "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" is not listed in the database on the following CD:
Rap Beat From The Street (K-Tel 6070)
The version on this CD is in stereo and runs (5:03). Also, this is the censored version, but the database currently does not distinguish between censored and uncensored.
Does anyone know if the cassette single was issued in uncensored form?
In addition to the above mentioned disc, the entire Geto Boys album We Can't Be Stopped was issued in a censored version. I have mine on cassette, but I have seen it on CD, although it's quite rare. I'm not sure what the catalog number is for the CD, and my cassette is packed away at my parents' place.
I'm also wondering if the versions listed in the database, which currently show mono for all of them, are really in stereo. The backing track for the song does, indeed, sound mono; however, there are some vocal echoes that bounce back and forth between the left and right channels, at least on the censored version.
Edited by aaronk on 02 December 2006 at 3:41pm
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My cassette single is censored. (Actually, it would be more accurate to call it 'clean', since most of the words-you-can't-say-on-the-radio are changed rather than bleeped.)
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That's true, Paul. This version has alternate lyrics to remove the profanities. Pat usually designates it as "censored" in the database, regardless of whether the lyrics were changed or bleeped.
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Digging up another old one here...
I believe I've heard more than one "clean" version of this song. Does
anyone know which one is on the cassette single?
The "clean" version I'm most familiar with is the one that contains
dialogue at the beginning. It starts with Scarface saying the line "I sit
alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles," but then somebody
(Willie D?) jumps in and says "Cool out man, we're on the radio" and then
there's a bit of a spoken back and forth before the song starts in earnest.
This version then has alternate lyrics to the album version (not muted, but
alternate lyrics)--- for example, "4 walls just staring at a n****" becomes
"4 walls, closing in, getting bigger." Is this the version on the cassette
single?
According to Discogs, there may be several "clean" versions--- it looks
like there may be a "radio version," a "pop radio mix," and an "r&b radio
mix." My guess is these are all different than the censored album version,
but I don't know. Discogs says the "radio version" is on the cassette
single.
So, first, does anyone know which version is on the cassette single?
Second, does anyone know what the version I described above is called (if
it is not the version on the cassette single)? And, third, does anyone know
if any of these clean "radio" versions are available on CD?
Thanks.
Edited by JL328 on 17 February 2013 at 4:24pm
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I have the following two CD's:
PCDS-7005 which is a stock copy of "I Ain't With Being Broke" with four versions of that, two versions of "Gotta Let Them Hang" and "pop radio" and "urban radio" versions of "My Mind Playing Tricks On Me".
PCDL-6612 nine versions of "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"
1.Pop Radio Mix 2.Pop Goes The Gangster Mix 3. Pop Radio Kick It Mix 4. Jeffenstein Mix 5. Slammin Radio Mix 6. Instrumental Gank Mix 7. Extended Mix (radio) 8. Extended Mix (club) 9. Ron B Mix (Original).
Note the latter does not have the word "My" in the title.
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Hey Jeff, I also have the same two CDs that Smokin' TomGary has, and I can help you with this. The version you are describing is the clean album version. This mix has many different names:
- clean album version
- Urban Radio
- R and B Mix (Original) (erraneously labeled as "Rond B Mix" on the promo CD)
- Radio Version
All of the above are the same mix and the one you are looking for.
The CD singles are pretty hard to find and/or are expensive, and so is the clean album on CD. Your best bet is to buy a used copy of "Rap Beat From The Street," which I mentioned in my first post. It's a K-Tel compilation that can be found for less than a buck on amazon.
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Thanks, guys.
Aaron, is the version I described also on the cassette single or is that a different clean mix?
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Same one on the cassette single, as far as I know.
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I have both the cassette single and the first CD Smokin' TomGary describes. The version on the cassette single is described only as "radio" and is the same as the "urban radio" version on the "I Ain't With Being Broke" CD. (The "pop radio" version is quite different.)
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Ok, sorry, just so I'm clear--- the cassette single contains the initial dialogue and the line "Cool out man, we're on the radio"??
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Jeff, all four versions that I list above (including the cassette single version) are exactly the same and contain the intro dialog.
The "Pop Radio Mix" does not contain the intro dialog. This mix, as Paul C mentions, is quite different. It still retains the Issac Hayes sample of "Hung Up On My Baby," but the percussion track is completely changed (more of a "new jack swing" feel) and the vocals are also re-recorded for at least Willie D's verse.
Edited by aaronk on 21 February 2013 at 11:23am
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