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mainrhythm 
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 Topic: Prince - Erotic CityPosted: 07 February 2011 at 8:44pm |
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Besides reversing the questionable? lyrics, were there or did anyone do their own clean edit of this back in the day?
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Jody Thornton
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 10:40pm |
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I realize that it had dance club success, and that there was a 12" disc of this. But I thought it was the flipside to "Let's Go Crazy". Was it actually a radio hit in some places?
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 6:50am |
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I don't know about when it was first released, but the top 40 station I
worked for in Detroit in the early 2000s played it as a gold. I'm not sure where they got their edit, but my guess is that it came from a RetroMix show. Ron and I were recently discussing this song, and it's debatable how many "f" words are in it. My old station, for instance, left the line "thoughts of pretty u and me" but some consider the word "thoughts" to also be the "f" word. |
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 6:58am |
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i remember hearing "erotic city" on the radio in new york back in the 1984/1985 timeframe.....i don't know the station, most probably Z-100, or if it was an edited version.....years later i realized it was actually the B-side of one of his hits at the time, either "purple rain" or "let's go crazy".....i'm not in front of my boxes of 45's the check....
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 7:59am |
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It got substantial airplay in New York City on both Z100
and WPLJ at the time. It was widely known to be a B- side, and was played right alongside the other tracks from Purple Rain. Both stations had custom edits, probably by their in- house people (not by WB). The Z100 edit used a percussive THWACK sound in place of each F-word. The THWACK might have been a snare drum from some other Prince song - never figured that one out. The WPLJ edit just cut out the offending lines that included the F- word, which disrupted the flow of the song. At the time, my friends and I preferred the Z100 THWACK edit. |
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 1:06pm |
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Ah yes, i remember Z100 playing this very well. (i was impressed at the time, thought it was very bold of them, but after all they were the "Flamethrower...")
Ron, as i recall it, that "thwack" sound was a snare hit they took from the intro. They placed it everywhere that sounded like an "F" bomb. Funny, i'm reading the lyrics now, and they may indeed be "thoughts of pretty u and me" ... but to my ears (and the radio censors) i am hearing "f**k's afraid o' u and me". I'm sure the vague-ness of the line was quite intentional, as it sounds that way when either she or he sings it. :-) MM |
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 1:31pm |
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I always thought it was "F- so pretty...", although that
doesn't make much sense grammatically. |
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 3:25pm |
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To add to the vagueness, some even say the other offending line might be "we can funk until the dawn." Considering his later hit "Batdance" has the line "get the funk up," it could be. Better to err on the side of caution, though, for broadcasters.
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 4:03pm |
That's the view I took, so when I DJ at weddings or the like, I have edited my own censored version of it. Luckily there are lots of measure of the music during the song to use as suitanble filler for those few seconds. The hard part? I did this edit years ago on open-reel. I was very patient back then. |
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Jody Thornton (Richmond Hill, Ontario) |
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 6:40pm |
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It was a power for me in OKC at KJ-103, my competitor KOFM was too lazy to edit it. Number one requested song. I was able to splice in "Erotic City" in place of the Thoughts of pretty. Because sometimes Prince sings "Erotic City can't you see, Thoughts of Pretty you and me, and at another place sings "Thoughts of Pretty you and me, Erotic City Come Alive"
So I just made it every time that line came up I cut it to say "Erotic City can't you see, Erotic City come alive" For the word funk I put in the snare. I didn't censor the cherry line. |
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