[mod.music.gaffa] The Dreaming

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/07/87)

Really-From: cbmvax!eric@gilligan.ARPA (Eric Cotton)


Does anyone know what the aboriginie says at the end of "The Dreaming"
(the song).  I would guess that it's not english.  Thanks.

	Eric Cotton

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."
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Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/07/87)

Really-From: nessus (Doug Alan)

> Does anyone know what the Aborigine says at the end of "The Dreaming"
> (the song).

It is some lyrics from an Aboriginal song entitled "Airplane, Airplane".
I don't know what the lyrics are however.  Notice that this then makes
the perfect aesthetic segue between the themes of "The Dreaming" and
"Night of the Swallow", once again providing more evidence for IED's
claims about mult-layered meaning, sophistication, refinement, and all
that crap.

			|>oug

P.S.  Oh, yeah, also notice that the digeridoo, which connects "The
Dreaming"  and "Night of the Swallow" sounds a lot like an airplane
engine (or something similar -- in fact, that's what I thought it
was for years, until someone told me it was a digerdoo), again showing
how FUCKING brilliant Kate is.

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (04/16/87)

Really-From: drukman%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu
          (Jonathan S. Drukman)

I have been following the debate concerning The Dreaming's "rough edges"
and the relative "smoothness" (if that is the word) of "Houdini"'s string
passage.  To throw in my miserable gutter spawned opinion, let me say
that for some reason, "Get Out Of My House" has more impact on me than
"Houdini".  When I hear "Houdini", I feel myself in the medium's parlor,
and I can see the pain and loss apparent in all concerned, etc... but
"Get Out Of My House" paralyzes my soul with terror!  Maybe it's my
strange love of Kate's "trick" of singing backing vocals with her
voice slightly filtered.  In this case, the screams of "Get out of my
house!"  just blow me away.  Houdini seems a bit calculated in comparison,
although there's obviously genuine feeling in it too.  Still, "Get Out
Of My House" was placed at the very end of the album for a reason - to
shock the listener, to scare him/her and to make him/her ruminate on
the past ten songs... think about the themes brought up, the locales
visited, etc.  We've just taken a trip through Kate's mind (house) and
now she wants us OUT!!  Think about _that_ next time you plunk the
CD in your player.

--Jon