“Holiday” pop radio edit

[twentyphanday]

while i was searching for some lost green day content, i stumbled across a thread on the Lost Media Wiki forum about a lost radio version of holiday. essentially, back then lots of alternative rock songs had to be edited in order to comply with the pop radio stations censor.

An example of this is Boulevard Of Broken Dreams which had one version which censored the profanities only, while the other had the bridge and solo removed thus making it a minute shorter than the original.
The same thing happened to holiday, the pop radio edit removes the bridge/bass solo after the guitar solo at 2:17 and comes back into the final chorus at 3:03.

i’ve seen recreations of the thing however from what I’ve read, that version of holiday is COMPLETELY lost. So i was wondering if anyone here possibly has it or atleast heard of it, I’m aware there’s a rule implemented regarding copyrighted material, but I’ve just been so CURIOUS about the entire thing since every discussion I’ve seen about it is from 4 years ago…

Edited September 14, 2025 by twentyphanday

[Mega Man]

I'm still searching for it haha. I searched through all of Soulseek a little while ago, they only had the clean alternative radio edit. It's funny that I used to hear this version on the radio so many times that it was the default version of the song in my mind.

[Karl Karlson]

The only versions I know of are the Radio Edit (with "Sieg Heil" completely silenced and "F*gs" censored) and the Clean Radio Edit (with "F*gs" censored), on both those edits the last chorus starts at around 3:03. If the bridge was cut the last chorus would start on around 2:18 and the whole song would be around 3:03 long.
Maybe the version you're mentioning was done by local radio stations and was never pressed on CD's? I'm not sure. I have never seen any Holiday promo CD's out there with such an edit, but I don't want to discourage you in your quest
That one BOBD promo with the Pop edits only popped up a few yeas ago, so one like that for "Holiday" might be sold some day.

[Mega Man]

I'm convinced that it was through digital distribution; I've tracked down all the US radio single CDs, and even tried some foreign Holiday singles, but none had that edit. It might be specific to a radio station, if not for feedback from other people around the country back when I was on the hunt.

[twentyphanday]

5 hours ago, Karl Karlson said:

The only versions I know of are the Radio Edit (with "Sieg Heil" completely silenced and "F*gs" censored) and the Clean Radio Edit (with "F*gs" censored), on both those edits the last chorus starts at around 3:03. If the bridge was cut the last chorus would start on around 2:18 and the whole song would be around 3:03 long.
Maybe the version you're mentioning was done by local radio stations and was never pressed on CD's? I'm not sure. I have never seen any Holiday promo CD's out there with such an edit, but I don't want to discourage you in your quest
That one BOBD promo with the Pop edits only popped up a few yeas ago, so one like that for "Holiday" might be sold some day.

Perhaps you’re right and it’s a local radio thing only! But then again many ppl from across the country has claimed to have to heard it before so maybe it was a thing warner made and distributed to radio stations.

 

[Insomniac1984]

Well, it's really common that certain countries like France or Denmark has rare edits for Green Day songs. I know there is another Radio Edit for Oh Love which lenght is just 3 minutes. Also, there is a rare radio edit for When I come around which was in a Radio Promo CD from a Mexican Radio station called "Radio Activa".  Unfortunately, The song at the beggining is watermarked.

 

 

Also, I would dare to say the song 21st Century Breakdown has another Radio Edit which is  a "Lost media". I remember it has the intro part with acoustic guitar sampler, but the song is shorter than the album version.

And finally, one of the biggest "mysteries" in GD's Radio Edits are the Radio Versions for Walking Contradiction. In my youtube channel are available the Radio Edit #2 (The same mix for WC videoclip) and the Radio Version (which comes from a green CD promo). However, there is a "Radio Version 2" from an orange CD Promo. I asked to 3 people who have this CD about this version and one of them told me that (supposedly) is the same as Radio Edit #2. And last year appeared another CD Promo with a "Remix Clean Edition" in discogs.

And these are just a few examples...

[Insomniac1984]

By the way, I remember on eBay there are many post selling CD from radio stations (you know, singles basically) and there are many cases in which they include radio edits/mixes. For example, this has the radio version for Time of your life:

[Yosuke Hanamura]

1 hour ago, Insomniac1984 said:

By the way, I remember on eBay there are many post selling CD from radio stations (you know, singles basically) and there are many cases in which they include radio edits/mixes. For example, this has the radio version for Time of your life:

I'm assuming it's just the song without the "fuck.." intro.

[Insomniac1984]

On 3/2/2026 at 2:26 AM, Yosuke Hanamura said:

I'm assuming it's just the song without the "fuck.." intro.

yeah, that's it basically.

[Mega Man]

On 2/28/2026 at 3:36 AM, Insomniac1984 said:

And finally, one of the biggest "mysteries" in GD's Radio Edits are the Radio Versions for Walking Contradiction. In my youtube channel are available the Radio Edit #2 (The same mix for WC videoclip) and the Radio Version (which comes from a green CD promo). However, there is a "Radio Version 2" from an orange CD Promo. I asked to 3 people who have this CD about this version and one of them told me that (supposedly) is the same as Radio Edit #2. And last year appeared another CD Promo with a "Remix Clean Edition" in discogs.

I always assumed there was just two edits made. Any variation of "#2" is the later remix. The green CD is just the radio edit of the album mix that replaces "shit" with a breaking glass sound effect.

I noticed that CDr on Discogs; the mention of it being a remix means it's likely the same Steve Holroyd remix as the other #2 CDs.

On 3/2/2026 at 12:26 AM, Yosuke Hanamura said:

I'm assuming it's just the song without the "fuck.." intro.

That, and it being a new remix by Richard Dodd. I was just talking about his Nimrod remixes in another thread. I can barely discern it, but apparently there's more bass and snare clarity.

[Insomniac1984]

Well, if you speak about remixes from Nimrod era, these are the best ones!! (And I really wanted them on Nimrod XXV)

And, this has nothing to do with Nimrod, but I wanted to include it here... shitty movie, amazing remix!!

 

[Mega Man]

On 3/4/2026 at 9:45 PM, Insomniac1984 said:

And, this has nothing to do with Nimrod, but I wanted to include it here... shitty movie, amazing remix!!

 

I picked this up at a flea market specifically for Green Day, and I've only been able to listen to it a few times. Unlike the remix of 2,000 Light Years Away on the Jerky Boys soundtrack that I'm actually quite fond of.

[Nikto66]

Is the version you are looking for any of these?

https://greendaydiscografias.blogspot.com/2015/08/holiday.html

 

 

[Karl Karlson]

20 minutes ago, Nikto66 said:

Is the version you are looking for any of these?

https://greendaydiscografias.blogspot.com/2015/08/holiday.html

Unfortunately no.

[Flashback]

Our biggest mainstream radio station regularly plays a short version of Holiday, sometimes without the bridge, sometimes without the second verse 😅 but hey, rather a short version than no version of a GD song 😅

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

One of the things that's made me happiest about streaming is the death of the radio edit. Editing out slurs and not dropping F-bombs on top 40 stations at 8:00 AM, sure, I get it, but there are two long-standing traditions in radio that I hate. One, they speed up the songs' playback. Two, they slice and dice anything they have to to bring a song down to three minutes. That's how 21 Guns on the radio ended up without the guitar solo that the whole thing is built around, and it's why if you've ever thought that Know Your Enemy sounded slightly faster in your car than it does on your iPhone, well, you're right. The radio edit completely ruins songs.

[Spike]

On the subject of "lost" media I swear there was a leaked version of 21st Century Breakdown not long before it came out where the acoustic guitar intro was a piano instead. 

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

1 hour ago, Spike said:

On the subject of "lost" media I swear there was a leaked version of 21st Century Breakdown not long before it came out where the acoustic guitar intro was a piano instead. 

Do you mean 21 Guns? I definitely remember hearing a version that dropped pianos into a couple of spots where they weren’t on the album.

[Dingle]

4 hours ago, Spike said:

On the subject of "lost" media I swear there was a leaked version of 21st Century Breakdown not long before it came out where the acoustic guitar intro was a piano instead. 

Your absolutely right

 

 

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

47 minutes ago, Dingle said:

Your absolutely right

 

Not sure how I've never seen this before. I don't think the raw demo sound suits the song well, and I definitely like the original intro more in the context of an album and show opener. If they ever randomly decide to whip this one out in the middle of a show (where there is Forever Now, there is hope), this intro would suit it better.

[Callmegameface]

7 hours ago, Dingle said:

Your absolutely right

 

 

nahhhh thats cursed XD

[Dingle]

9 hours ago, Tre's Busted Drumkit said:

Not sure how I've never seen this before. 

 

2 hours ago, Callmegameface said:

nahhhh thats cursed XD

https://greenday.fm/audio/demos/

Quote from greenday.fm, "Demo leaked in Feb's 2009, with alternative lyrics and a piano intro". See link, 2nd entry down.

I love demos, with alternative arrangements and those with alternative lyrics. Must admit I prefer album version

I'll wager if they release a 20th anniversary box set in 2009 of 20th C, this will be one of the demos included.