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“I’ll come back later and pick up my stuff when the flipping place don’t stink so bad.”
Heard the radio edit version of Dinosaur Jr’s “Freak Scene” this morning (”don’t let me freak now will you”) and it got me thinking about the crazy art of over-dubbing in music and films. To make them, y’know, more family friendly. Alex Cox was even generous enough to add a few deleted scenes to the TV cut of Repo Man, including this one with the now-classic replacement of “motherfucker” with “melon farmer”:
The line “I’m going indie” caused a lot of confusion in my indie-rock addled, mostly (at the time) un-Americanized brain when I first saw it.
D12′s “Purple Hills,” their heavily altered version of “Purple Pills,” is kind of a masterpiece of this genre, if it can be called that. It’s actually pretty inventive. Favorite line: “He’s upstairs wrestling with Elton John” (changed from: “He’s upstairs naked with a weapon drawn”).