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1. Steve Miller Band experienced the wrath of the censors when one of his lyrics was changed to "I don't want to get caught up in that funky kicks goin' down in the city." Can you name the song?
2. One of Pink Floyd's most famous songs contains the lyric "Don't give me that do-goody-good..." Most attempts at radio edits just drop the next word altogether, at least one syllable of it. What's the one-word title of this song?
3. In the late 1970s, The Who released "Who Are You" from the album of the same name. The song has Roger Daltrey twice improvising in between lyrics when he softly but audibly says the song title altered into a phrase not airable on this site, nor anywhere else. After 2004, some radio stations created edits of the song to avoid the stiff penalties enforced by the FCC. Since we now know the song and the artist, can you name the television show that revived interest in this song by choosing it as its theme song?
4. On to Prince. From his album "1999", a poppy little Billboard Top Ten song had a radio edit that cut the song to less than three minutes. That's because the last half of the song on the original album version involves Prince trying desperately to get his "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" sticker on his album. Of the song choices below, only one is from his album "1999". Which song is in question?
5. A protege of Prince, Morris Day, sang the song "Jungle Love". If you ever heard the song on the radio, it fades out quickly, due to Morris screaming an obscenity in the last 20 seconds of the album cut. Morris Day sang "Jungle Love" on the movie "Purple Rain" as a member of what group, also the name of his real back-up band?
6. Pearl Jam had a song in 1993 about a young boy. The lyric in question goes: "Clearly I remember picking on the boy, seemed a harmless...". The radio edit simply eliminated the offending word. What was the name of the boy in question?
7. Michael Jackson (no, not innocent Michael Jackson!) had a duet with his sister Janet that required some editing. One time during the repeating of the lyric "Stop pressuring me", Janet changes "pressuring" to words that didn't make the radio edit. What is the title of this song?
8. Everlast had one major American Billboard Top 100 hit, off of his album "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues". The radio edit is laden with numerous record scratches and sound effects to remove references to violence and language. Once you hear the album version, you know why. What's the name of this song, making #13 on the Hot 100 in 1998?
9. Nowadays, Academy Award-nominated songs aren't exempt from required radio censorship. Three of the four answers are Oscar-nominated songs that couldn't be played without some editing. Which song had no problem making the airwaves as is?
10. James Blunt burst onto the music scene with a poignant Number One song in the U.K. (2005) and the U.S. (2006). But a lot of people don't know there is one glaring change from the album version to the radio edit. The lyric "flying high" wasn't originally "flying", it was...something else. Can you name the song in question?
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