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Pixies' "Gouge Away" Censored on Rock Band

Grateful Dead still operating massive public transportation vehicles while high on cocaine

by Dominic

    I don't get it.  Words like blunt, weed or marijuana are often censored on the radio.  Yet songs such as Weezer's "'Hash Pipe"  go unedited without a problem.  Here again I find myself a little upset with the selective censorship, but this time it's in my damn video game!  The word "marijuana" has been removed from the newly release Pixies song "Gouge Away."  Here's the unedited verse along with the original song:

missy aggravation
some sacred questions
you stroke my locks
some marijuana
if you got some

(starts at :40 seconds) 



And here we have Gouge Away censored in Rock Band:



    Editing out "bad words" can be understandable.  Children play the game as well so it's probably a good idea to prevent them from saying such words instead of having Harmonix get heat for it.  I'd be just fine with that if that was the case with all songs...which it's not.  Grateful Dead's "Casey Jones" remains unedited and sounds a little like this:



That's right!  Drive a freakin' train while freakin' high on COCAINE!  GREAT. IDEA

    I kid, I kid.  I wish all the songs on Rock Band were uncensored as DLC ESRB rating does not effect the intial rating of the game.  It just seems pointless to censor one and not the other.  It'd probably save Harmonix some time to not censor and leave all songs unedited.  I've contacted Harmonix on the matter and will update once I receive a reply. 

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  • Nikkita
    Nikkita

    wow, of all the bands to censor too

    BOOOOO!!!

  • Raccoonacorn
    Raccoonacorn

    Headline FTW.

  • Raccoonacorn
    Raccoonacorn

    Too be fair, Nikkita, Pixies do have, like, 8000 songs scattered throughout all the guitar hero and rock band games.

  • Nikkita
    Nikkita

    IT'S NOT ENOUGH

  • Sean
    Sean

    This shouldn't be too shocking. Holiday in Cambodia is edited on GHIII (n-word) as is Sabotage (got this effin' thorn in my side)...

    The Dead thing is a little weird though. I guess the cocaine lobby has gotten to MTv...

  • Dominic
    Dominic

    Editing out the N and F bomb are understandable. But I guess it just wouldn't make sense if the song went:

    "Drivin' that train! _____________ Casey Jones you better watch your speed!"

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