What They Say Before or After Songs

 

 
You know what I'm talking about here. The little spoken bits sometimes found at very low volume at the very beginning or end of a track on a CD (no, not "Paul is dead" -- you have to spin the vinyl* backwards to hear that, while under the influence of some pretty heavy drugs). Well, you'll figure it out  as we go along here. If you have any good ones, email me.

"That geezer was cruising for a bruising" ("Money," Pink Floyd). This is one of many sub-voice-tracks on this album (yes, I just made that term up. So sue me).  I'll try to get these in order from the album:

From Speak to me:

"I've been mad for f*cking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."
"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

From On the Run:

"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, (laughter)!"

From The Great Gig in the Sky:

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."
"I never said I was frightened of dying."

Well, even though the song is an instrumental, it is called The Great Gig in the Sky, right?

From Money:

"(laughter) I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely. It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out"

 

From Us and Them:

"I mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off lightly, 'cuz I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once. It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

From Brain Damage:

I can't think of anything to say except... I think it's marvellous. (laughter)"

From Eclipse:

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

Shoot! It took me 28 years to figure this out. There's a story here, spread throughout the album in barely audible voice tracks.  All I had to do was put these in order (well, first spend much time deciphering the audio). I'm not sure exactly what the story means -- some madman got thrashed, that's all I can figure out. And here I was trying to play this music to The Wizard of Oz. Maybe Paul is dead after all....

"We've done four already but now we're steady and then they went:  One, two, three, four" Intro to The Ocean, from Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy album (1973). Well, near as I can figure, as this is the last song on their 5th album, ("four already") they were just real happy to get it over with. Any suggestions? Anyone notice that the title song to this album was on their next album? What are the odds on that happening?

 

* Vinyl -- slang for LP, or record, or album. Pre-historic methods for transmitting recorded music. Killed in battle by the CD sometime during the '80s.
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