A radio edit of "Shut Me Up"?

October 22, 2008 4:20 PM

Where can I find a radio/broadcast friendly version of Mindless Self-Indulgence's "Shut Me Up"?

There's a couple of version of Jhonen Vasquez's video out there, and the audio to both has been edited to remove obscenities (including, in the short version of the video, several uses of the words "knock" and "ass", mysteriously). I have a college radio show and want to play the song, but can find only the album version from You'll Rebel to Anything. Where can I get the edited audio?

posted by Pope Guilty to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Can you extract the audio from any available YouTube clean version? It will be (depending on generation) low-quality MP3 or AAC, re-encoded at least twice, but may not be distinguishable over FM radio or re-compressed to streaming radio bitrates anyway. Alternately, you can download a relatively high-quality scene release or FLAC version and try to EQ out the vocals in Audacity.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 4:37 PM on October 22, 2008

There's a "clean version" of the album. Try looking for that specifically. I haven't listened to that edition specifically, but seems reasonable to try it.
posted by Su at 5:25 PM on October 22, 2008

MP3s available from Amazon, as it turns out.
posted by Su at 5:27 PM on October 22, 2008