Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: A walkman gives its all in the name of Kate Bush-ology, Part 1 Message-ID: <8704180808.AA02900@trout.nosc.mil> Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 03:08:28 EST Article-I.D.: trout.8704180808.AA02900 Posted: Sat Apr 18 03:08:28 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 00:59:42 EST Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 73 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: ganzer%trout@nosc.mil (Mark T. Ganzer) ------- For some reason I haven't received a love-hounds digest since this past Tuesday, so I'm a little late in responding (Did you know that we've generated 930K in material since Feb 26? Do you know how long that takes to FTP?). Anyways on with the discussion: >>I haven't had a chance to listen to the backwards tracks in "Watching >>You Without Me", but I did stumble upon something interesting. When I >>slowed down the "scattered" or "chopped" voices something comparable >>to say, going from 45 to 33 rpm, the voices were much more understandable. >That's the problem. How do you get a 33 1/3 RPM record to >play at a slower speed, unless you're an electronics genius >with a bunch of unneeded Walkmans? Actually, I'm not an electronics genius, but a mechanical engineer in which the word "kludge" is part of my job description. All I have done so far is drill a hole in the back cover to give me access to the speed control potentiometer. On the walkman I'm using (an old Sanyo MG7), this provides control over a fairly broad speed range. When listening to the X4 track, I also had the turntable speed set as low as possible and provided some light finger drag on the edge of the LP to further slow it down. Then I used the speed adjustment on the tape player to find the "optimum" listening speed. You can also run your turntable by hand at a slower speed (ouch!)... >> ... The best transcription I can get is "I get blasts from >>too many instruments" although the "blasts" could be "laughs"... >Well, hmmm...Needless to say, IED is very skeptical so far, >since he has placed a lot of faith in his >"I bet my mum's gonna..." interpretation. He >will study the issue tonight, and deliver his judgment in this >courtroom tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. Court is adjourned. All rise. There are actually 10 syllables present (I mis-counted in my previous posting). When slowed down, this becomes very apparent as the echo pattern becomes clearer. The "I get ______ from too many instruments" is pretty clear. The rest requires a little guesswork. There is no way I can fit in your phrase "I bet my mum's gonna give me a little toy" . I can't fit 12 syllables into the pattern of echos I hear! But then you really have to listen to it yourself. Perhaps I can make a tape for you... >>the comparison I would make would be if TD were "Sgt Pepper" and HoL were >>"Abbey Road", then NFE would be "Rubber Soul". Anyways, for what my >>opinion is worth... > .... If that's so, then >The Dreaming is analogous to Revolver, not Sgt. Pepper; which would >make HoL analogous to Sgt. Pepper. Which means Kate's next LP >will be a double album with a loose, non-thematic structure and >a bunch of outtakes;... I haven't listened to these for so long I had forgotten about Revolver (although I will probably pick up it and Rubber Soul on CD when they are released this month). Anyways, before her next album, Kate will have to go study TM under what's-his-name, come back disillusioned but with lots of material that will end up as a loose, non-thematicaly structured double album.:-) The "Don't Give Up" video could still show up on the MTV New Video Hour on Monday. As I mentioned previously, the show doesn't only show videos that are debuting that week. I haven't seen the video yet, but I'm watching for it. "Breathing the fall out-in, out-in, out-in..." MarK T. Ganzer Internet: ganzer@trout.nosc.mil UUCP: {ucbvax,hplabs}!sdcsvax!nosc!ganzer -------