David Lynch: Good Day Today

[King of Snake]

well during the first (low pitched) gunshot you can also hear that the kick and snaredrum are left out for a beat for effect, which they couldn't have edited at KCRW. I dunno, it sounds like they are part of the original song to me.

[kagenaki koe]

the gunshots in the song Paper Planes by MIA isn't censorship, and i don't think it's the same in this instance either.

[rudydaduck]

they are more clearly justified in mia's song i think. not saying that they are or are not intentional, just proposing a possibility.

plenty of songs use gunshots and other effects. i am not talking about those. just this song and its possibilities. if they are in there certainly violence at home and abroad in the news and in entertainment may be contributing to the speaker's malaise.... melancholy.... whats great is we are all interested in this song. in this music.

ive yet to hear someone say "i'm done. tuning out." this is very nice.

[rudydaduck]

would also like to point out that this sounds like a cross between winjer and 8ball to me both in sound and themes.

with respect to gunshots again... especially them sounding off key.... spike jones' son said in an interview once that he felt his father and his fathers music never received the respect they deserverd because people did not realize how much work went into it nor did they get how much of a genius his father was.. "I mean my father realized that if you're gonna replace the last word in a line of a song with a gunshot and the song is in Bflat you have to replace it with a gunshot in B flat." (paraphrased but you get the point)

[BrotherLovesDub]

the 'gunshots are added by kcrw' and 'this isn't underworld' arguments are completely ridiculous. listen harder guys.

[cacophony]

i'm still not convinced. there was a ton of hype and promotion around scribble's release, and it was well thought out and marketed. this is some random song appearing in a playlist on a state-side NPR station. no mention from the band, no reference to it on the website.

i'm more than happy to be proven wrong if it's on the album when it's released or if someone finds confirmation. but until then i remain dubious.

i mean come on, how many of us have been listening to karl's vocal style for the majority of our adult lives? he doesn't just have a tone that can be masked with a vocoder. he has a particular pronunciation and enunciation quality that's unique to him alone. speaking or singing, when you hear karl you KNOW it's karl. but on this song we're debating it. i just don't feel karl's linguistic fingerprint on it. like i said, i could be totally wrong and i'm just looking for a flaw because i dislike the song. but even my husband, who isn't a fraction of a fan i am, said it didn't sound like karl's delivery style.

so i don't know. he could be trying something new and trying to step out of his "voice." but it's just not clicking with me with the same certainty that some of the rest of you have.

[dc_04]

fwiw, 'morning becomes eclectic' isn't just any 'playlist' on any 'state-side NPR station'.

it's arguably the most important music broadcast in north america, and over the years the hosts have been the first to break just about every act you can think of.

i'd say the chances of it being a 'fake' are slim to none.

- dc

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by cacophony

i'm still not convinced. there was a ton of hype and promotion around scribble's release, and it was well thought out and marketed. this is some random song appearing in a playlist on a state-side NPR station. no mention from the band, no reference to it on the website.

i'm more than happy to be proven wrong if it's on the album when it's released or if someone finds confirmation. but until then i remain dubious.

i mean come on, how many of us have been listening to karl's vocal style for the majority of our adult lives? he doesn't just have a tone that can be masked with a vocoder. he has a particular pronunciation and enunciation quality that's unique to him alone. speaking or singing, when you hear karl you KNOW it's karl. but on this song we're debating it. i just don't feel karl's linguistic fingerprint on it. like i said, i could be totally wrong and i'm just looking for a flaw because i dislike the song. but even my husband, who isn't a fraction of a fan i am, said it didn't sound like karl's delivery style.

so i don't know. he could be trying something new and trying to step out of his "voice." but it's just not clicking with me with the same certainty that some of the rest of you have.

it's definitely not karl's voice, i didn't think that was being debated! has rick ever sung with a vocoder effect? to me it just sounds like a computer voice, or... here, remember when frampton comes alive came out and peter frampton used the tube thing to play guitar inside his mouth while he moved his mouth to make words, even though the sound wasn't coming from his mouth? i'm thinking it could be something along the lines of that.

how do we know it's not juanita?

[BrotherLovesDub]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

it's definitely not karl's voice

how do we know it's not juanita?

I can't decide whether i'm going to use 'definitely not karl's voice' or 'how do we know it's not juanita' as my new signature.

[ThingInABook]

there are tons of ways of using a vocoder or an autotune. autotuners get the vocals distorted beyond recognition if you manipulate them. example: Kid A by radiohead. thom is singing thru an autotune.

the first bits are clearly karl. the chorus, where he raises his voice, sound filtered and layered. if scribble has vocals layered, how about this track? maybe they're not scattered around, but placed in the same line to provoke distortion. like shielding the voice for the mood.

EDIT: rick used to sing when he was in freur probably one of the craziest sights i have ever seen