Home Version Soundtrack Replacement: Difference between revisions

Can often result in [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]], though occasionally this can be done fairly gracefully. Sometimes you need to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] in order to get the version as broadcast.<ref>Incidentally, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] also contains a fairly detailed explanation of why [[Home Version Soundtrack Replacement|Home Version Soundtrack Replacements]] exist, going into the difference between performance and reproduction licensing.</ref>

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Vandread]]'''s original broadcast used the original [[Louis Armstrong]] version of "What a Wonderful World" at the end of one episode, as a callback to a music box from an earlier scene. In its subsequent DVD release, they changed it to a cover version. For the English track, they came up with a completely different song, and changed the music box to match up with the new song.

* Due to half of Kenji Yamamoto's score consisting of plagiarism, this has been invoked upon ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' where the score has been replaced with music tracks which were composed 20 years ago for the original ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.

 

== Film ==

* ''The Big Fix'' includes a lovely scene with Richard Dreyfuss preparing for a date, with Leon Redbone's "I Wanna Be Seduced" as the BGM. Sadly, for the VHS release the song had to be replaced with generic instrumental music. Fans assiduously record the movie every time it shows up on TCM, while holding out hope for a DVD release.

* A rare non-musical example: The voice of the [[Framing Device|narrator/father]] was provided in the original TV screening of [[The Point]] by Dustin Hoffman, but for contractual reasons was been redubbed by Ringo Starr for the home video release, as well as by Alan Thicke for later cable re-broadcast.

* ''[[The State]],'' a sketch comedy show that took advantage of MTV's music licensing opportunities, had its music replaced on its DVD release. This is prevalent with MTV, which has licensing deals with record companies allowing them to use music freely as it counts as advertising, but doesn't have those rights carry over to video releases. (See ''[[Daria]]'' under Western Animation.)

* The second, third, and fourth seasons' ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' Region 1 DVDs were stripped of all licensed music not explicitly mentioned in dialogue, even when it left characters dancing the Twist, shouting "TEQUILA!" in unison, and mouthing the words to "Louie Louie" for no apparent reason. The most notable omission was the [[Ray Charles]] cover of "Georgia On My Mind," used repeatedly in the show to underscore the bigger [[Tear Jerker]] moments. After a vociferous outcry, the final season set was spared from any music cuts.

** One of the first scenes of ''The Chase'' has the Doctor and his companions watching footage of [[The Beatles]] on the newly-acquired Time-Space Visualizer. The BBC released this serial on DVD in 2010, but has announced that outside of Region 2, the original footage will be replaced, as the BBC's license to use the footage does not extend outside the UK.

** ''The Evil of the Daleks'' had the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" playing in a bar. On the narrated cassette release (the story has been lost, but the soundtrack survives), the whole scene was deleted. The scene was retained on the CD release, with "Paperback Writer" replaced by a generic tune that would fit the coffee bar atmosphere.

** ''Revelation of the Daleks'' was one of the last serials to be released on video because of the time it took to secure the rights to the music. Because the music is so integral to the plot and often featured characters talking over the top of it, it could not easily be replaced. Ultimately the only track the BBC could not secure the rights to was [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "Fire". This track had to be carefully digitally excised and replaced without losing the dialogue occurring over the top of it.

** Averted with the [[Nothing but Hits]] soundtrack of ''Delta and the Bannermen'', in as much as they used newly-recorded cover versions in the original broadcast to keep the licensing costs within reach, and no changes were required for the home video version.

* The original BBC DVD release of ''[[The Young Ones]]'' Series 2 omitted the cover version of [[Bob Dylan]]'s "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from the episode "Money", along with a lot of visual gags seen while the song was playing. Fortunately the song was restored in the later complete box set version.

* ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' DVDs have quite a few scenes and jokes cut out entirely due to the use of copyrighted music.

* ''[[21 Jump Street]]'' suffers from this. While the licensed music wasn't the ''whole'' draw of the show, it was an important part of the atmosphere, and lyrics were often used to communicate plot, which makes chunks of some DVD episodes make very little sense now that they're backed by nothing but elevator music.

** The episode "The Tale of the Prom Queen" originally had "In The Still of the Night" by The Five Satins played during the final scene, but it was removed in the DVD release/

** In "The Tale of C7", the C7 tune was originally "Save The Last Dance for Me", but it too was replaced with generic music on the DVD.

* ''[[In Living Color]]'''s DVD releases have a lot of sketches either edited to remove song references or entire music video parodies (often serving as the show's cold opening) removed.

* ''[[Trigger Happy TV]]'', which frequently used licensed alternative-rock tunes as background music, averted this in its Region 2 DVD release, which left the soundtrack entirely intact. North America, however, was not so lucky; this is why there is no official Region 1 DVD, as well as why North American rebroadcasts replaced the music with instrumental soundalikes.

 

== Radio ==

* ''[[The Now Show]]'' often features short excerpts of copyrighted music (e.g., a burst of "I Predict a Riot" in place of the French national anthem) which have to be removed from the podcast version. Usually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the replacing segments: "You are now not hearing the song "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. Frankly, you should count yourself lucky."

 

* ''[[Crazy Taxi]]'''s PC, PSN and XBLA adaptations lack the tracks from [[Bad Religion]] and [[The Offspring]] that the arcade/GameCube/Dreamcast editions had; the PC edition has tracks from other punk bands while the PSN and XBLA versions use original scoring.

* The ''[[Parodius]]'' [[Compilation Rerelease]] for the PSP changed the first stage music of ''Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius'' from "That's The Way I Like It" to a different song. The same thing was also done for "In the Mood" and "Mambo No. 5" in ''Gokujou Parodius''.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==