Talk:Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band song)

"Blacklisted"?!!!

Ok, is the term "blacklisted" waaaay too strong? The song wasn't banned, for cripes' sake. And the 9-11 thing was seven years ago. Time to leave that sort of thing behind. 12.29.193.101 (talk) 00:34, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How interesting

The sidebar correctly cites the song as being released on Capitol Records in its native USA, but then the photo illustrates a UK release on a different label.

Has anyone a photo to contribute of the US single? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.237.73 (talk) 05:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy (POV??) issue regarding version played on the radio

The article currently states that:

When the song is played on the radio, "shit" is usually replaced with "kicks".

My experience has actually been the opposite; even back in 1990 when I first heard it, the uncensored version was much more common, and these days classic rock radio stations where I live virtually always use it. --☥ Xyzzy Avatar ☥ 09:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I think of the awkward goofy "kicks" version as standard, since that is the version I first learned off 1970s radio.

Varlaam (talk) 19:57, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was watching SNL in the 1970s with friends the first time the Talking Heads played there.

I thought they were great. My friends said, "How can you like that?"

Those radical, cutting edge Talking Heads. Too wild for the 1970s.

Here upon the "buckle of the Bible Belt" (southern Missouri) even the local "hard-hitting" right-on "we are just so cool" radio stations play the "censored" version. The "funky kicks" portion jumps out at me akin to an incoming muli-megaton thermo-nuclear warhead released from an ICBM. Well, kinda' like that. I was semi-repulsed when telephoning the local radio stations to voice my complaint, at various times of the day so as to converse with the various DJs. and NONE of the, to me, young guys knew what I was talking about and were unaware of the non-censored version. Of course, today's radio stations are DJ operated by the push of a button and/or the click of a mouse and thus likely never see the liner-notes, etc. of yore.Obbop (talk) 15:29, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In Cincinnati in the 1970s, the "funky shit" lyrics were played on the FM stations, and "funky kicks" on the AM stations. Now in the 2020s, the only version I hear on the oldies stations in Cincinnati is the "funky kicks" version on both AM and FM.

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