sciencegeek --

Hey, no complaints about the YTB sessions at all! -- it's a cool tradition/institution. Just the observation that it "felt" this time as one ("one" meaning one like me!) would feel awkward singing certain things, due to the way the atmosphere happened to turn out -- a constant variation over years, as you say. Of course the college kids could hear that stuff. But as Sandra and EBarnacle have noted, some people (e.g. Stan Hugill) feel "funny" about singing for certain audiences and under certain conditions. If younger folks, women (yes!), family relations, non-drinking people, etc !!! are there, it can be weird. The lights could even be too bright, or the room too large, or lack of background noise...and it would make some singers feel shy.

When I am among my male friends of the same age, anything goes to say. Even among workmates when I have done jobs in factories, warehouses, etc, cursing is a necessary accompaniment to every sentence. But I don't do it much around women, and even less with people below a certain age. Just old-fashioned rules of propriety.

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Is there any sense of what all the songs are (roughly) that one would be expecting there to be unexpurgated versions of? Or is it certain verses (floaters)?

Perhaps if a list could be established, items could start being crossed off, based on the community knowledge.