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    Posted: 04 April 2008 at 11:16pm
Regarding Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", the database states the following:

(dj copies of this 45 ran (4:20) and are a "clean" version).

First, Pat, were DJ copies of this song pressed as 45s, or only as CD singles? Second, I have the song on the 2006 Grammy Nominees CD (Grammy Recordings/Sony-BMG Strategic Marketing Group 74277) and it appears to be the clean version. The "F-word", which is fully intact on the uncensored CD and single version at the 1:47 mark, plays in reverse to mask the swear word at the same point on the Grammy Nominees disc. Therefore, it would be helpful to note in the database which CDs contain the clean version.

Taking a look at the I-Tunes retail download website, I see "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was released as a stand-alone single in its uncensored form with the "F-word" intact, but I don't see a clean commercial single or album version. Was one ever released for either?
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I have a promo CD of this with no catalog number. It's on a CD-R with black lettering printed on a plain silver top. It has two tracks:

1. Pop Edit (3:33 - printed & actual)
2. Clean Edit (4:21 - printed & actual)

It sounds like the "Clean Edit" is the one mentioned above, as it reverses the "f" word. The "Pop Edit" shortens the song, but also it mutes the "f" word rather than reversing it.
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Excellent info, Aaron, my friend. Thanks!

Now, has anyone come across a censored commercial single or album version?
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

I have a promo CD of this with no catalog number. It's on a CD-R with black lettering printed on a plain silver top. It has two tracks:

1. Pop Edit (3:33 - printed & actual)
2. Clean Edit (4:21 - printed & actual)

It sounds like the "Clean Edit" is the one mentioned above, as it reverses the "f" word. The "Pop Edit" shortens the song, but also it mutes the "f" word rather than reversing it.
I own an "official" promo CD single for this:

Green Day-"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" (PRO-CDR-101456)
1-Clean Edit (listed 4:20; actual 4:21)

But it's also very good to know about the existance of that other 3:33 promo CD single "Pop Edit" version as well, Aaron - many thanks!
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I know it's difficult to get ahold of the "pop edit" promo but I do believe this version appears on an issue of "promo only." Basically the f word is muted and the guitar section at the end is very short. I think there are versions out there that run the length of the LP but mute the f word and there are versions that replace the f word with "nuffed" up. Can anyone verify this? And what about a version that cuts out the guitar part in the beginning and starts cold with the vocals??
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

I have a promo CD of this with no catalog number. It's on a CD-R with black lettering printed on a plain silver top. It has two tracks:

1. Pop Edit (3:33 - printed & actual)
2. Clean Edit (4:21 - printed & actual)

It sounds like the "Clean Edit" is the one mentioned above, as it reverses the "f" word. The "Pop Edit" shortens the song, but also it mutes the "f" word rather than reversing it.


I've got a regular promo CD single of this (PRO-CDR-101480) that matches the above, except that the listed time for the "Pop/Clean Edit" is 3:34 and the "Clean Album Version" is 4:20.

There were no commercial releases of this song in the U.S. as a single except on download sites, and there were no U.S. 45s; Pat seems to use "45 version" as shorthand for "single version," regardless of whether there is a real 45 (one of the things that bothers me about the printed version of his book).
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Is there a radio edit (i.e., 3:33) of "Boulevard..." that is explicit? If not, has anyone here created one by taking the word from the explicit album version? (I've been listening to the song a fair amount lately - and I find the edits/silent vocals/bleeps jarring. I'm also not a fan of a melody being interrupted (missing a note) when a clean version like this is created.
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Originally posted by EdisonLite EdisonLite wrote:

Is there a radio edit (i.e., 3:33) of "Boulevard..." that is explicit? If not, has anyone here created one by taking the word from the explicit album version? (I've been listening to the song a fair amount lately - and I find the edits/silent vocals/bleeps jarring. I'm also not a fan of a melody being interrupted (missing a note) when a clean version like this is created.


No edit exists in Explicit for the song, sorry Gordon.
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Does anyone know if there's an album-length clean version similar to the
"Pop Edit" out there? I think I heard a version like that on my local station
today, and I'm wondering if it was an official edit or not.
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The "Clean Edit" is 4:21 and also mutes the "f" word. Is that what you're looking for?
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