Clean version
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Clean version of an album
Some albums (mainly in the United States) have been released for sale in a clean version - that is, the entire album, but with all the profanity censored. Famous examples include Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, Eminem's The Slim Shady LP, 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' (track #7 "Heat" didn't appear on the clean version), 2 Live Crew's As Clean As They Wanna Be (a clean version of As Nasty As They Wanna Be which had six songs cut and one replaced with a cover of Oh, Pretty Woman), and N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton. "Fuck Tha Police" (track #2 on Straight Outta Compton) was not included at all on the clean version, because it contained so much swearing that making a clean version would have been almost pointless. Though many fans object to releases of "clean" versions in general, some specific examples of clean versions seem especially pointless; for example, Theory of a Deadman's self-titled debut featured one profanity in the entire album, and a clean version was released. In addition to this, some "clean" albums are not censored at all in protest against such albums such as Slipknot's self-titled album or Limp Bizkit's Three Dollar Bill, Yall$. Also, on the edited version of Garbage's greatest hits album Absolute Garbage, the only song with the word fuck is not censored. Occasional, spoken comedy albums have a clean version released. Several Jerky Boys albums have had clean versions where the profanity is bleeped out.
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