Censored 'Whats This Life For' on the Greatest Hits
 

I just got the GH for xmas and 'whats this life for' is edited without the 'god-damn' lyric at the end. Did they release a non-edited version of this song on any Greatest Hits CD? I can not find any info so I thought I'd post a messege here. thanks

I don't think so. They should have, though.

they edited out damn?

Oh god what has this world come to?

There is only the one version. Not really sure why they did that.

And, X, they edited out God. Not Damn. It's because the word "God" offends more people than "damn" does. Pretty screwed up, huh? It's weird that the name of a person is more offensive than a profane word.


H-D :pimp:

They do that because it's going from a really bad swear (god damn) to a lesser swear (damn).

Yeah.

Yeah. I always find it amazing the things they choose to edit out, and the things they feel are alright to leave as is. It's like it depends on what side of the bed they wake up on that day! :rolleyes:

Well, the words "God d**n" are offensive to some, and those words might warrant a PA label(not sure of that) so I guess they just decided to play it safe and censor it. I still think they should have came out with both a censored and non-censored version.

I dont see the big deal with it.

the big deal is it sounds like crap ....

the edited version sounds like shit

The big deal with it is that it is probably offensive to some(and by some, I mean some of the Christian fans of Creed) I've heard that some copies of MOP had the PA label on them because of those words. I bet Wind Up just wanted to avoid that and made the edited version. They really should have released two versions of the Greatest Hits, though.

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it was because of the parental warning thing that shows up if u breathe incorrectly on a track nowadays. they had to censor "God" out or they get an explicit lyrics sticker. which dont sell unless your Eminem or whoever the hell else. how stupid is that.

saying gd will not get you a PA sticker and it is not that bad, if they are trying to please the uptight christians or the pop fan base...well they can shove that CD were the sun don't shine (and I just censored myself...oh man...stupid FCC)...but I am glad I did not get the greatest hits now or it would be in a million peices...

Sheesh, I just bought Pretty Hate Machine by NIN and that has f*ck throughout and there wasn't a PA label. Go figure.

That's odd. You'd think the F-Word would warrant a PA label. Anyway, as I said, I don't agree with them releasing just a censored version. They should have released two versions. That would have been the right thing to do.

Sometimes "censorship" really blows....:(

heh i actually heard the song and it sounds stupid

We dont have to settle no score!

Dont have to settle no " Dumb sounding pause" damn score!

They could have done a better job censoring it, that's for sure. I still say they should have released two versions.

like I said: they wanted to please the christian and pop fans...rock fans be damned...

and it may be also money wise: cheaper to sell one set of cds than 2 sets...since the censored one (in their theory) will sell more, they released it....

Releasing 2 versions would be the stupidest idea ever,

An entire different and new CD just so one word on one song out of all of them plus the DVD would be censored? Thats irrational, noone would ever do that.

uhh... yeah... imona say that that's not it. i'm thinking the word "goddamn" is up there in terms of offensiveness alongside "shit" and "fuck" and "cock" and "tit". so, for songs to make sense, to remedy the "don't have to settle no goddamn score", it makes more sense to say "don't have to settle no damn score" than "don't have to settle no god score". am i right?

also, to comment on what others have been saying regarding a "christian-friendly" version: i don't think that's the case. it's the radio version, from what i recall, and, as i mentioned above, "goddamn" is not an acceptable radio word, along w/ "shit", "fuck", etc...

does anyone think that they might have edited it due to scotts recent new-found faith? I thought that maybe since i got my copy at wal mart, thats why it was edited....i can't believe they put out an edited version of one of their most famous songs on a greatest hits cd. Oh well, i guess it cant be helped now.

it does seem crazy.
it freaked me out.
my mum went out and bought it for me so i thought she was just being "Mumsie" and got a crazy screened version.

i guess it's possible, though I'm sure it's more a case of them putting the pop radio version on the CD for mo' money perhaps...

What version of WAWO is on the CD? The original or the symphony version? If they released the symphony(radio) version, I'd say the reason why they released the censored version of WTLF is because they decided to release the radio versions of the songs.

Oh, and I just listened to the censored version of WTLF. Wow, they really botched it when it comes to censoring. I've heard better censoring.

it's the original album version

hey but all through creeds carrier, whats this life for has said GOD DAMN in it.

For the entire MOP CD and single tracks and everything and there was never a problem before... so why one now???

It does pretty much ruin a song when it's censored. Like in "Man in the Box" they replaced the word "shit" with other words that rhymed with it. Wtf?

Well, that depends...

well, i know that i've heard it on the radio w/ it edited as such. in fact, the handful of times i have heard it (mostly on the alt-rock station back in st. louis), it's always been edited.

Well, then it must be the censorship issue. I noticed Higher's the full version, too.(some radio stations played a cut down one) Why couldn't they have just had Walmart sell the censored version, and the rest of the stores sell the uncensored version? It works for other artists.....so why not Creed?

It would be kinda stupid to release 2 versions just for one word. I doubt it was any Christian thing. It's probably just to avoid the explicit lyrics sticker. It would be a shame to have that crappy, stupid sticker on their album. It just wouldn't be deserving of it.

Does anyone know why MOP is missing a few lines in the first verse? Was the original video or song always like that? That bothers me far more than sensoring one word.

I think there's a shorter version of it. I checked WinMX and saw two WTLF's: one at around 3:32 and the other over 4 minutes.