Green Day - Holiday (Pop Radio Edit)
Jun 15, 2021 7:15:40 GMT
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Post by megaman on Jun 15, 2021 7:15:40 GMT
I've been on the search for this particular song for a while. I'm hugely nostalgic for Green Day's 2004 hit album American Idiot, and fondly remember when their successful string of singles from the album would actually get airplay on pop radio stations. Most alternative rock songs needed to be edited in some way to comply with censors; as such these edits became the versions that were engrained in my head before I was actually able to buy the album.
Now these radio edits can be minor changes like blanking out the swear words, but there's also been more substantial changes to some songs. For instance, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" had its solo and bridge removed to create an edit that's almost a minute shorter than the album version.
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Getting to the point, the single "Holiday" saw significant airplay in my area, but used a unique radio edit I have not encountered since. It's completely removes the chanted bridge/bass solo after the guitar solo at 2:17, and comes back into the final chorus at 3:03 (on the album version), leaving this version shorter by about 46 seconds.
I'm a completist when it comes to collecting the radio singles; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" both have white label promotional CDs containing the abridged pop radio edits. American Idiot didn't get as much airplay, though I seem to recall that using the music video edit instead of the CD promo that uses a humorous "bleep" to censor the profanity.
Anyways, I've bought multiple CD singles trying to find this elusive edit. The only white label US promo only censors the profanity and doesn't edit any of the music; as you can see above, the US singles usually included both a pop radio edit for time/content, and a standard clean version for rock radio stations that only backmasks the swears.
Tracking down this song has been made tougher by the fact that music distribution had become so varied at the time. CD distribution in the US was very limited with singles only having a back cover and plain text writing on the CD (compare to European CD singles that were fully designed and made to be collected). This leaves the door open to being digital only, or even a limited CDr copy. As a collector, I'm still coming across hastily-made CDr radio singles that aren't accounted for.
Thank you for reading my rambling, please chime in if you know anything about this now-lost radio edit. I might try to make a recreation someday just so there's something out there.
Now these radio edits can be minor changes like blanking out the swear words, but there's also been more substantial changes to some songs. For instance, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" had its solo and bridge removed to create an edit that's almost a minute shorter than the album version.
Getting to the point, the single "Holiday" saw significant airplay in my area, but used a unique radio edit I have not encountered since. It's completely removes the chanted bridge/bass solo after the guitar solo at 2:17, and comes back into the final chorus at 3:03 (on the album version), leaving this version shorter by about 46 seconds.
I'm a completist when it comes to collecting the radio singles; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" both have white label promotional CDs containing the abridged pop radio edits. American Idiot didn't get as much airplay, though I seem to recall that using the music video edit instead of the CD promo that uses a humorous "bleep" to censor the profanity.
Anyways, I've bought multiple CD singles trying to find this elusive edit. The only white label US promo only censors the profanity and doesn't edit any of the music; as you can see above, the US singles usually included both a pop radio edit for time/content, and a standard clean version for rock radio stations that only backmasks the swears.
Tracking down this song has been made tougher by the fact that music distribution had become so varied at the time. CD distribution in the US was very limited with singles only having a back cover and plain text writing on the CD (compare to European CD singles that were fully designed and made to be collected). This leaves the door open to being digital only, or even a limited CDr copy. As a collector, I'm still coming across hastily-made CDr radio singles that aren't accounted for.
Thank you for reading my rambling, please chime in if you know anything about this now-lost radio edit. I might try to make a recreation someday just so there's something out there.
