I've a few questions...one: WHY in hell did they put a Lords of Acid drum loop over the chorus for "piggy"? (If you don't believe me, listen to Voodoo U., track 3 -- "She And Mr. Jones.")
And two...did Trent actually have ANYTHING to do with "at the heart of it all," or did Aphex Twin just borrow his equipment or something? At least I only paid $8 for it...I'd have felt gypped if I'd paid any more. Definitely not Trent's best. I thought the "march of the pigs" and "closer to god" singles were better, and had better remixes.
amy hanauer (hanauer.2@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu):
Okay...I believe it's after "you let me do this to you, I am an exit..." after Trent comes in and starts singing again...there's this lyric that I'm not too sure of. It goes something like:
"...falls to the floor"
Does anyone know what that lyric is? It appears in the "final" mix, too.
stephanie nahas (nahas@acy.digex.net):
I've been wondering about that, too. I think it might be "falls one king to the floor," or "falls wanking to the floor." I'm more inclined to say the former. But neither one really makes clear sense to me. (The former makes some sense....) At any rate, I like the line because it sounds out of place and time. Really pricks up your ears.
On this note, may I say that I think the "mr. self destruct" remixes are my faves on the disc. They're all quite adventurous and intriguing. Even though the Thirlwell mixes are similar, they each have redeeming qualities of their own. The NIN mix is also great. I love the guitar line from the beginning.
Another thing about these two that is at once fascinating and infuriating is how they mess with my expectations. They get to points where I think they're going to just get so hard I can't take it, but they never quite reach the breaking point. They come close, but they leave a little emptiness for me. At first, this irritated me, because I kept waiting for the big moment to come, yet it never did. But the more I become accustomed to the direction and drive of each mix, I become more engrossed in them, and although they don't necessarily take me where I want to go, they take me somewhere worthwhile just the same.
raeven (raeven@ix.netcom.com):
I am hallucinating, right?
I am NOT hearing snippets of David Bowie speaking in the halo 10 "self destruction" remixes.
Right?
Right?
But damn, it sounds like the Thin White Duke....
jason allan (muzicman@solar.sky.net):
Yes...it is indeed my hero, Mr. Bowie. A sound byte from one of his coolest songs in dee whole world, "Time" from Aladdin Sane (1973). It's interesting that it's in there. The whole line from the Bowie song is:
Time, he flexes like a whoreThe song is very NIN-like, meaning it's probably something Trent has been into all his life, like I have. Bowie is cool, man.
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy....
christopher roy (roy@cs.tulane.edu):
Does anyone know what's said in slow motion at the beginning of this song? I sampled the first fifteen seconds or so at 11025Hz. My only choices to speed it up are 22050 or 44100. 22050 is too slow, and 44100 is too fast, but it sounds like the voice is saying "Morris is complaining the blast keeps overtaking him."
This is probably totally off target, a result of my listening to it over and over, but does anyone have a program to alter the frequency bit by bit? I think from sampling at 11025, it should be around 35000Hz to sound like a normal voice. Thanks.
david parmenter (daveparm@world.std.com):
Okay, this MIGHT have been mentioned already, but you can do some cool stuff at the beginning of "eraser (denial, realization)." Sample the very beginning of the song, like the first seven or eight seconds, then change the frequency to 44100 Hz. Then convert the format to 22KHz. I know that the word "fornication" is in it, but I won't ruin the whole thing for y'all.
chris emmerth (rabarret@saturn.acs.oakland.edu):
You can hear it pretty clearly if you transpose it up about 16 half-steps and run it through a low-pass filter. It says, "Yours is the plague of blasphemy and fornication." It sounds like a Southern minister.
f cozzarelli (kgsk13c@prodigy.com):
Does anyone know what those Aphex Twins are remixes of, or are they just like guest appearances? They don't seem to have any NIN foundation in them.
logre2'3 (ogre@netaxs.com):
Am I the only person who hears it? There's "eraser" and "mr. self destruct" in them thar tracks.
marc (marc@newshost.li.net)
Well, I think "at the heart of it all" has that "closer" heartbeat "phffft-thump" sound.
jason allan (muzicman@solar.sky.net):
Now that we have a very bitchen remix of "mr. self destruct" (as told by Mr. Foetus), and he actually remixed the damn whispers, we can all sleep soundly (doh!), and rest assured that it is indeed "I am an EXIT"...!
taylor mclaren (tmclaren@uoguelph.ca):
DAMN! You beat me to it...so much for my "Six-Shooter of the East" prize this month.... Anyway, there it is. Track 3, 4:07 into the thing -- "exit" is nice 'n' loud, nice 'n' clear, etc. Now please kill this thread.
robin colleen moore (robin@uga.cc.uga.edu):
Aw, come on, Taylor -- not until I tell you that one of my co-workers thought it might be "I am an eggman." Coocoocoochooo, indeed.
chris emmerth (rabarret@saturn.acs.oakland.edu):
Sorry, I don't think it sounds like "exit." It sounds like "insect," "innocent," or even "inset" -- but not "exit."
mark dunmire (v065l7q4@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu):
Please, no! Not this again! Tell me you're joking! Please, tell me you're joking! "I am innocent"? Yup, that definitely sounds like something Trent would write.
By the way: What in the flyin' fuck is an "inset," anyway?
dave evans (b239@ee-alta.bham.ac.uk):
The UK edition of FDtS is far superior to the U.S. one (thanks to Charlie Clouser). Unfortunately it's been deleted ... apparently because a quote didn't clear copyright.
Any idea which one?
My guess is the "Do you believe in miracles? Not really" quote on "heresy (version)." Does anyone recognise the origin of this?
nathan dewitt (bdewitt@scott.net):
Same origin as "It can't rain all the time"...The Crow.
logre2'3 (ogre@netaxs.com):
What the hell is that noise at the beginning of "hurt (live)"?
michael israeli (izzy@netaxs.com):
You mean Trent coughing?
logre2'3 (ogre@netaxs.com):
That's what that is?! It sounds like a water bottle hitting the forehead of a 5'9" male Caucasian human right above the bridge of the nose, but...I'm always wrong....
jcon xtc (clmclny@mailserv.mta.ca):
I noticed that the drum track of "at the heart of it all" sounds suspiciously like the drum track from KMFDM's "The Problem," but slowed down quite a bit. I was listening to it thinking, "Where have I heard that rhythm before?" so I looked through some of my CDs and there it was.
grillabisc (grillabisc@aol.com):
If you play the last minute of "the art of self destruction" backwards, it says "kill yourself and you'll be cool."
Swear to God it does.
keeper (steven_meckl@bocaraton.ibm.com):
When I played it back, it said "starve a cold, feed a fever." I guess Trent really does care about us. He's looking out for our health. Thanks, Trent.
stephanie nahas (nahas@acy.digex.net):
What I hear is "turn me the fuck on, dead fucker."