emrath@uiuccsb.UUCP (08/27/83)
#R:tekmdp:-215800:uiuccsb:5700005:000:782 uiuccsb!emrath Aug 27 03:10:00 1983 While we're on the subject of Pink Floyd, can somebody tell me what the female vocalist says on "Dark Side of the Moon", I believe it is toward the end of "Great Gig in the Sky", the one featuring the female vocalist (her name has slipped my mind). Some small phrase is said (not the bits about cruisin' for a bruisin' or I was really drunk at the time), but this is one I can't figure out, and I've never met anybody else that has this one figured out. As for this and the others mentioned elsewhere for "Wish You Were Here", I would be quite suprised if ANY sound on a Pink Floyd album was there not by design. Does your "Dark Side of the Moon" have a pitch change on the last note on side 1? mine does. Trivia ?: On "Meddle", where does the title "One of These Days" come from?
rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (08/29/83)
here is a list of the 'neat things' I could call up from
memory:
On Meddle ('71), you can hear in the first song (entitled 'One of
These Days') an evil voice saying "one of these days I'm going to
cut you into little pieces"
on Dark Side ('73), my friend and I have (separately) counted
13 chimes at the beginning of 'Time.' The stereo effects on
'Any Colour You Like' are really excellent (sit in the middle
of your two speakers, or use headphones).
On The Wall ('79) there are tons of goodies.
* At the beginning of 'What Shall We Do Now', there is a message
recorded in reverse. Get an old cartridge (this trashes them)
and spin the record backwards a bit.
* One of the TV shows I have identified is 'Gomer Pyle.' There
is one that sounds familiar at the beginning of 'One of My
Turns' (when the groupie first walks in) that talks about
a Mrs. Bancroft (and the guy says 'let me know when you're
entering a room), but I can't place it.
The Final Cut ('83) is even better. Some of these I didn't know
about until I listened to it on my 'Walkman' with headphones.
* There are constant sounds in the background (glass breaking,
cars, household sounds).
* Just before the song 'Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert,'
someone says that (very low). You here the beginning of a
rocket's whoosh, and someone says "What did he say?" and then
there's the explosion.
* On 'Two Suns in the Sunset,' you hear cars driving by during
most of the song. You can also hear children screaming.
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BTW, does anyone know if it's true that they're breaking up?
I noticed there was a 'new' album out with a bunch of old
songs and one 'not previously released' song. I don't think
I'm going to buy it, just out of principle...
--
Randwulf
(Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)rkp@drufl.UUCP (08/29/83)
AH HA! Someone else noticed the pitch change. I have listened to about four different copies of that album and heard the same thing on all. I am really glad I am not going bonkers. As far as "One of These Days" on Meddle, go see the Pink Floyd movie that was done in an old Greek (Roman?) stadium ruins. The only words in that song are, "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." It took me 4 years to find out those words. That movie sometimes plays at midnite shows in larger cities (I actually first saw it in Johnson City, TN). Russ Pierce WECo Denver Works
hlee@hplabsb.UUCP (Ho John Lee) (08/29/83)
More Pink Floyd album obscurities often missed by casual listeners... * change in tape speed at the end of side one of Dark Side of the Moon * AM radio whining in intro to Wish You Were Here, on album titled same * Garbled voice (Nick Mason's) speaking title of song One of These Days I'm Going to Cut you into Little Pieces, from Meddle * Reversed message in Empty Spaces, side 2 of The Wall * Cyclical form of The Wall, "Isn't this where we..." * "Audio holophonics" in The Final Cut, used to insert whispering and background sounds in various points in the album with realistic ambience and perspective -- Ho John Lee (...hplabs!hlee)