Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

Gary wrote: There was also a MTV Clean Edit that really removed the f bomb and removed the part of going down on you in the theater. We played that version at our CHR station.

Was this serviced on an official promo? I heard an edit today on my local Jack FM that might have been that edit. It might also have been a custom edit I heard. In the first verse, the words "down on you" are replaced with just music. In the second verse, "f*** her" are both replaced with just music, whereas in the edit our station played it was just a sloppy edit on the "f" word only.

RichM921 wrote: By the way, how many edits were there for "Hand In My Pocket"?

Our station was only serviced with one promo, containing the "Clean Album Version." It was a sloppy edit on the word "sh**." I've never heard the version that cuts the entire line.

Here's all my various promo CD singles, for both tunes brought up. 4 different promos for "You Oughta Know" (with some redundant cuts), and to answer your question, Aaron, yes, the MTV Clean Edit was on one of them. Also, two different promo CD single catalog #'s for "Hand In My Pocket", but with the exact same two tracks and actual times on both. (The WB family of labels did this "two different promo CD single catalog #'s, but the same music on both" surprisingly often during this era, for some reason.) Here goes:

Alanis Morissette-"You Oughta Know" (PRO-CD-7565)
1-The Jimmy The Saint Blend Clean Version (listed 4:12; actual 4:10)
2-Clean Album Version (listed 4:08; actual 4:07) **

Alanis Morissette-"You Oughta Know" (PRO-CD-7563)
1-The Jimmy The Saint Blend Clean Version (listed 4:12; actual 4:10)
2-The Jimmy The Saint Blend (listed 4:12; actual 4:11)
3-All I Really Want (Album Version)
4-Perfect (Acoustic Version)

Alanis Morissette-"You Oughta Know" (PRO-CD-7856-R)
1-(MTV Clean Edit) (listed 4:12; actual 4:10)

Alanis Morissette-"You Oughta Know" (PRO-CD-7732-R)
1-The Jimmy The Saint Blend Clean Version (listed 4:11; actual 4:10)
2-Clean Album Version (listed 4:08; actual 4:07) **

** The version we played at my station in 1995


Alanis Morissette-"Hands In My Pocket" (PRO-CD-7860)
1-Clean Album Version (listed 3:37; actual 3:38) **
2-Album Version (listed 3:38; actual 3:37)

Alanis Morissette-"Hands In My Pocket" (PRO-CD-7891-R)
1-Clean Album Version (listed 3:39; actual 3:38) **
2-Album Version (listed 3:39; actual 3:37)

Pardon a bit of redundancy with versions and times, but in case anyone ends up hunting for one of these and finds a particular #, you will now know exactly what is contained on it.   

Edited by jimct

I just obtained a full-length promo copy of the Jagged Little Pill album, and it contains clean versions of "You Oughta Know" and "Hand In My Pocket." Just like the retail album, the remix of "You Oughta Know" is not listed on the case, but it is on track 13 with the acappella song. Both mixes of "You Oughta Know" cut out the "f" word, and these are the exact edits used on the promo CD singles.

Interestingly, "Hand In My Pocket" on this full-length CD is a slightly different clean version than what is on the promo CD. On this disc, the edit goes:

I'm brave, but I'm chicken sh   [inhale breath]

On the promo CD, it's more like this:

I'm brave, but I'm chicken shhhh   [no inhale breath]

Edited by aaronk

I was working at a small-market top 40 station in northern Michigan when the song was a hit, and we aired the "Jimmy The Saint Blend Clean Version" as it was issued. You can clearly hear "are you thinking of me when you fu.. her" as well as the entire line "does she go down on you..." We never received a single complaint.