Inspired by the recent Sea Power chat about hearing a song many, many times and not realising a little detail, curio or fact about it, any more for any more?
A very small thing but it took me 30 odd years of hearing The Beatles’ I’m Only Sleeping to realise that there is a yawn in the small break in play at the two minute mark.
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you know those four boops in the intro to paranoid android? put headphones on and turn the volume up and you’ll hear Thom Yorke saying “boop” on the 4th boop.
Around 2:52, Miles is clicking his fingers to keep the groove going at the right pace. Also, I can’t remember where, but there’s a bit where he very quietly tells the players to “keep it up” with the groove at some point because they’re going too slowly.
On Arcade Fire’s Haiti, Regine recorded her vocals to a tape recorder, and you can hear the cli-click of the recorder just before and after she sings.
Never noticed until I read about it, now it’s a favourite detail whenever I hear it.
Oh wow- I’d never noticed. Really adds to the pining nature of the song.
The drummers pager going off in Rock The Casbah
The drummer loudly shouting “FUCK!” in the background during Kingsmen’s Louie Louie
Likewise one of the Beatles saying “Fucking Hell” in Hey Jude. It’s very low in the mix, but you can hear it if you listen out for it. As far as I know this is present in every version of the song, including the one I listened to a million times in my parents’ car.
I thought it was a Dukes Of Hazzard wristwatch?
A really obvious one (so not necessarily appropriate for this thread) is the bleep in Fischerspooner’s Emerge, just as it’s starting.
You are of course, right!
The version of the song on Combat Rock , as well as many other Clash compilations, features an electronic sound effect beginning at the 1:52-minute point of the song. This noise is a monophonic version of the song “Dixie”. The sound effect source was generated by the alarm from a digital wristwatch that Mick Jones owned, and was intentionally added to the recording by Jones.[
Some of the watches are still around…
fun timing. I was listening to The Tradition by Halsey today, from an album that I rinsed for a full year after it came out, and never noticed that there’s a gradual compression applied to her vocals towards the end that drops out for the final chorus, giving a real push-and-release feel. Trent Reznor is so damn good
Hadn’t noticed this before! Took me an age to notice his high-pitched "La la la la"s in the loud crunchy guitar bit of the same song too.
The neat little lyrical interaction between Mellon Collie’s disc closers. I think I only realized it a couple years ago.
Mellon Collie Dawn to Dusk ends with - “There’s a love that god puts in your heart.”
Mellon Collie Twilight to Starlight ends with - “Goodnight, always to all that’s pure, that’s in your heart”
Listened and by god, you’re right! It’s very pleasing.
Perfect timing, this thread. I only noticed the sound of the Geiger counter in Radiant yesterday.
this is one of my most-listened to albums of the last 3 years and I was totally taken aback by this today, really odd!
*their vocals. My bad
Halsey uses both she/her and they/them, according to…