Members rasputin1963 Posted July 28, 2012 Members Share Posted July 28, 2012 Maybe teens don't put on headphones and scrutinize every nuance of their favorite records anymore... as we used to do in the 60's, 70's, 80's. What are your favorite subliminal... or barely perceptible moments on recorded disk? Cool musical things happening... that became apparent to you only on detailed listening? The "ghosted" instrumental part? Maybe even something as subtle as an unusual EQ suddenly cropping up? A vocal part subtly blended in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tim Mayock Posted July 28, 2012 Members Share Posted July 28, 2012 I will ask a question that is related. what do you let pass on a recording? I will not let computer fan, printer fan, preamp noise, etc. But if there is a distant dog barking, birds or crickets I keep it. Okay Tom petty has stuff where you can hear a click track. I am contributing in a meaningful way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted July 28, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 28, 2012 Yes. I meant "unwanted" sounds, too, but especially "wanted" ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 29, 2012 Members Share Posted July 29, 2012 The first rock album I ever bought when I was 12 years old was Led Zeppelin II. I had probably heard Whole Lotta Love a thousand times until about ten years ago I started hearing a little two note lick towards the end of the song. It starts at 3:52 in the left speaker and repeats every other cycle of the riff. You can hear it real clearly at 4:41 as it fades. [video=youtube;HQmmM_qwG4k] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 29, 2012 Members Share Posted July 29, 2012 I used to really like the song "Under the Milky Way" by the Church. For twenty years I would always turn it up when it came on the radio. About five years ago I started hearing a cheesy little electronic percussion sound in the background. It's rhythm pattern changes randomly through out the song. I find it so incredibly annoying that I now change the channel whenever it comes on the radio. It starts at 0:44 [video=youtube;-Q6nKP10j4s] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 [video=youtube;J3jrWVp2L7U] Cranberry Sauce at 4:04 [video=youtube;otdHbA4GlSI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI It's an egg at 4:46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 My girlfriend in college had given me Pink Floyd's new album "the Wall" for Christmas. I had played it at least a half a dozen times, maybe more I don't remember. One night I was laying in my dorm room bed with the lights out listening to it on headphones when I realized that something I was hearing sounded like human voices. I got out of bed and went over to the turntable and moved the needle back and played it again when I realized that the voices sounded like they were backwards. I put the needle at the end of the section where the sound was and manually turned the turntable in reverse with my hand. Immediately I heard these words: "Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont..." I'd never felt chills run down my spine that intense in my whole life. I wanted to wake my friends up and tell them what I had discovered but I decided that I should wait until the next day. I sat up half the night replaying it. The next day after classes I played it for several people and before I knew it, practically the whole dorm was in my room listening to it. None of us knew anything about backwards masking or had ever heard a secret message before. We all sat there debating what it meant. Was it really a secret message? Were we the first people to discover it? Was it only on my album copy? What would we get if we answered the secret message? We were in a small southern town with no access to big city radio and this was way before the internet so none of us had any idea of what we had discovered. One kid decided to go to the library and look up the words "funny farm" and "Chalfont". He came back and told us that there was a place in England called Chalfont. We decided that there was probably a mental institution in Chalfont and that Syd Barrett was most certainly being held there. I don't think anybody ever sent an answer to Chalfont. I know I didn't. Where in Chalfont would you sent it? A few months later I went home to Atlanta expecting to let my friends back home know about my super cool discovery only to find out they already knew about it because some DJ on the radio had already told them.. The message starts at 1:13 [video=youtube;cLu__NNxX_g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLu__NNxX_g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Listen to Brian Wilson exclaim "Awesome!" at 2:21 [video=dailymotion;x34j25]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34j25_glen-campbell-i-guess-i-m-dumb_music We've all heard this recording many times, but it was only with the advent of digital that I was able to hear a very subtle vocal riff on the tag of this song: Starting at 2:22, listen to the girls' vocal part in the background, going "Woo-woo-woo-woo-WHEW!" On the tonic note to the Maj3rd. A nice little touch, and you'll only hear it in the original 1963 hit recording. No remake ever features it. [video=youtube;_2aL4NPw7M0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aL4NPw7M0&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CxtFtruUh44noJI5o0YQvD Ghosted into this great record is a vocal part, vocoded into a percusson riff. If you'll listen to various remixes, you'll hear "Pick up the beat! Pick up the beat!" vocoded into the percussion riff. [video=youtube;v4kKL-1F2yI] A very subtle sax riff can be heard in this great record starting at 2:13. (And I mean SUBTLE! I only heard it once Bill Inglot remastered this to digital). [video=youtube;LEgxuE7WD6U] A weird, inelegant tape splice heard at 4:44: [video=youtube;AdKjEHfHINQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjEHfHINQ At 1:08, you can hear the background male vocal go "Hey, hey, hey". It sounds like something that was originally featured in the mix, but that they decided to cut it out... but it still enjoyed some bleed-through into another part: [video=youtube;0MiQzAo6Cp8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiQzAo6Cp8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 I had probably heard Whole Lotta Love a thousand times until about ten years ago I started hearing a little two note lick towards the end of the song. It starts at 3:52 in the left speaker and repeats every other cycle of the riff. You can hear it real clearly at 4:41 as it fades. Oh wow, that's pretty clever actually - it gives the otherwise repetitive riff a bit of movement without sounding like there's another guitar part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 this post with the cover art of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland was removed. Ultraorthodox hobby moralist flemtone gets a free bible, latest edition, and an original recording of Jesus' last speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flemtone Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Hey, thanks so much for the NSFW image. Angelo, once again you show the douche side of your nature. Please, oh please, permaban this shmuck. He pollutes the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Hey, thanks so much for the NSFW image. Angelo, once again you show the douche side of your nature. Please, oh please, permaban this shmuck. He pollutes the site. live must be boring as bureaucrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 I had been listening to Led Zeppelin for many years before I started noticing all the squeaky bass drum pedals. http://www.led-zeppelin.org/joomla/studio-and-live-gear/1338-bass-drum-pedal This pedal has been nicknamed the "Squeak King" because of the large amounts of squeaking it produces. The squeak of the pedal is audible in the following songs: Since Ive Been Loving You, The Ocean, The Rain Song, Houses of the Holy, Ten Years Gone, Bonzos Montreux, All My Love and the live version of I Cant Quit You Baby from Coda. "The only real problem I can remember encountering was when we were putting the first boxed set together. There was an awfully squeaky bass drum pedal on 'Since I've Been Loving You'. It sounds louder and louder every time I hear it! [laughs]. That was something that was obviously sadly overlooked at the time." - Jimmy Page, Guitar World, 1993 I think this was the first song I remember hearing it on:[video=youtube;sn_3s9wmZuQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_3s9wmZuQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 30, 2012 Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 I've always liked the way the tape speeds and back down (I presume that's what it is anyway) at the very end of side one of Dark Side of the Moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 Boy, Rasputin you've got some really good ears !!! I don't think I would have caught any of those.I never did hear the Dirty Vegas one. It sounds like a bad edit two seconds into "Sugar Sugar" also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 Right after Ronnie Van Zandt sings "Well I heard mister Young sing about her" and right before "Well, I heard ole Neil put her down." you can hear Lynyrd Skynyd's producer Al Kooper sing the words "southern man". This was in reference to the song "Southern Man" by Neil Young. Supposedly Ronnie Van Zandt was insulted by the song and it inspired him to write "Sweet Home Alabama" in defense of the south. In interviews Ronnie Van Zandt said that he was actually a big fan of Neil Young. And he wore a Neil Young t-Shirt on the cover of their Album "Street Survivors". You can hear it in the left speaker at 0:56 [video=youtube;9Cyokaj3BJU] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 Ringo says "Yeah" in the left speaker right after John sings "Big Man" at 1:34 [video=youtube;D7P_zqw5Bro] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I've always liked the way the tape speeds and back down (I presume that's what it is anyway) at the very end of side one of Dark Side of the Moon. You can hear it at 19:14 [video=youtube;328WhjAXpcs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328WhjAXpcs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 In "Any Colour You Like" you can here somebody singing along with David Gilmour's lead guitar. It's in the left speaker at 35:04 [video=youtube;328WhjAXpcs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328WhjAXpcs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 Rough tape edit at 1:39 Rough comb over at 2:20 [video=youtube;jsaTElBljOE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I can hear some faint singing far left at various points but it's most obvious during the second string interlude starting at 3:07, Jagger is singing "Angie, Angie, when will those..." [video=youtube;oN_YKJBMagQ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 I always liked the faint 'pre-echo' on the vocal of Led Zepplin's 'Whole Lotta Love' (actually I suspect it's tape print-through bleed through from one tape layer to the next). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 this CD has so many subtle and barely hearable stuff on it, you need to smoke a joint, drop three LETSHEARIT, and get the headphones on: MCMXC a.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JVGM-music Posted July 31, 2012 Members Share Posted July 31, 2012 Play Radar love by the Golden earing on a good stereo and be surprised how much more is going on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted August 1, 2012 Members Share Posted August 1, 2012 This one is a real treat, but read the warning: WARNING: May cause drowsiness. Use care when operating vehicles or dangerous machinery. Slow music may cause a heightened state of suggestibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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