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Question: What does Mike say about 6 seconds into Platinum? :: Total Votes:59 Poll choices Votes Statistics "Platinum" 30  [50.85%] "Guitar" 4  [6.78%] "Kids' stuff" 2  [3.39%] "Catch it" 11  [18.64%] Something else (please specify below) 12  [20.34%] Guests cannot vote

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ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Aug. 23 2006, 17:40 I've never been convinced that it is an actual word. I've often thought that it might just be a bit of vocal percussion - a bit of rhythmic nonsense, if ya like. In the end I don't suppose it matters very much - it's the placing of it and the feel of the thing that really counts - a little bit of human-being-ness inserted into a largely instrumental track. Of course, it might just be a sneeze, in which case we're probably all wasting our time... -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Aug. 27 2006, 09:10 I'm still think it could be a bit of unintentional noise on the clavinet(?) track on the multi-track tape, and they didn't bother to re-record it. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1545 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Aug. 27 2006, 10:02 It's 'Platinum' for sure. No doubt about it. I will bet for 1000 pounds   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 27 2006, 12:23 i have always heard platinum. I have more problems with angelique from light and shade... agelshhh hehe -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 28 2006, 00:59 Thanks Stefan and Kay, of course it is Platinum, no doubt about it. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

CuNimb Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: July 2003 Posted: Aug. 30 2006, 08:36 Platinum...Platinum...a thousand times Platinum. If you slow it down.... it is obvious!   -------------- Happy? ha ha ha.... Back to top

Bag O'Secrets Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: April 08 2007, 18:42 Most definitely a whispered "Platinum". As an aside, while listening closely to try and identify what was being said, I noticed for the first time a faint chime/glockenspiel playing the main melody line that kicks things off proper on guitar at 1:31. Guess I've had my cloth ears on until now for that one! Also, does anyone else remember this being used as the theme music for a BBC Scotland school quiz show called 'First Class' in the mid-80s?? Cheers Rob -------------- ...and nothing was ever heard from him again, except for the sound of Chew-bew-lar Bells. Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: April 19 2007, 18:56 Quote (ATTMO @ Jan. 06 2005, 14:25) I guess it is Platinum but not said as   [plae tie num] but as [pla tshinm] I slowed it down - but I think it is something backwards.   It starts to abruptly to be said normally.  I cant listen to it backwards just now but i'll try it.   This was used by the Beatles on the inner ring track on their album (sgnt peppers). BTW....An 'album' is a flat disc with a long grove in it that you used to put on a turn table and rotate at 33rpm and it made music come out of the loud speaker! Katchina, or Kitchiner - is what it sounds like. Ray   -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

fragile Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: April 2006 Posted: April 20 2007, 04:28 I always heard that he said "closer"! Come "closer" to the microphone or listen "closer" to the headphones. Thats what I always hear. That don´t sound as a backward tape or as a more syllable word. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: April 20 2007, 15:49 When I first posted my question/poll, I had no idea that it would spawn 4 pages of discussion, as it did. However, I still wonder what's the whole meaning of this - if there is a meaning! I thought it was 'Guitar' because the guitar starts right after that - an announcement of some sort. But, IMHO, saying 'Platinum' as an announcement at the start of a piece of music that's not actually called "Platinum" (indeed it's called "Airborne") makes very little sense - doesn't it? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Marky Group: Members Posts: 390 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: April 21 2007, 12:46 I have not heard this so I'm going to listen to it, BUT, BUT...correct me because I must be wrong here...my understanding (in fact worse than that my memory, unchecked) was that Mike called the album Airborne and it was changed to Platinum after being recorded. That would mean its highly unlikely he said Platinum if its a correct recollection. Some clever clogs like Mr David Porter will know for sure, David, should you be looking in, or another erudite soul with better memory! Meantimes, I'ld better get my cans on! Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: April 22 2007, 12:41 Well, the name of the suite is still Platinum, so the voice introduces that. -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 22 2007, 17:57 Quote (Ugo @ April 20 2007, 15:49) I thought it was 'Guitar' because the guitar starts right after that - an announcement of some sort. Hmmm... I can see where you're coming from, but there's still at least a couple of bars between his announcement and the guitars coming in, though...   -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: April 22 2007, 22:58 Quote (Ugo @ April 20 2007, 06:49) When I first posted my question/poll, I had no idea that it would spawn 4 pages of discussion, as it did. However, I still wonder what's the whole meaning of this - if there is a meaning! I thought it was 'Guitar' because the guitar starts right after that - an announcement of some sort. But, IMHO, saying 'Platinum' as an announcement at the start of a piece of music that's not actually called "Platinum" (indeed it's called "Airborne") makes very little sense - doesn't it? Actually I was the first one that brought up this question Ugo remember and then you changed it into a Poll taking the question away from my original thread. It doesn't sound like Guitars to me or anything else in the slightest, it always sounded like Platinum. The reason I asked the question in the first place was because it was SO obvious to me right from the first time I noticed it (which I will admit was a long time after I got the album) that he was saying Platinum (altho I will accept some earlier opinions that he may have been a little sloshed when he said it, hence the 'sh' sound in the middle of it), but I could get no-one I knew that I played it to to agree with me, so I asked the question on this site back in 2004 I think it was. It is excellent that it is still being discussed and the Poll Vote has shown Platinum to be the favourite choice. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Taurus 4 Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Sep. 09 2007, 14:13 I always thought it was "platinum", what with it sounding like "platinum" and the album being called "Platinum". I've got the 2000 remaster, by the way. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Sep. 09 2007, 16:00 Quote (Ugo @ April 20 2007, 15:49) I thought it was 'Guitar' because the guitar starts right after that - an announcement of some sort. OK I smell a conspiracy here. What if Platinum was originally going to be called Tubular Bells '79? What if they dragged Viv Stanshall out of his bathtub to announce the instruments for the opening section? What it the noise we here is a bit of Viv's announcements that they forgot to erase? This must be the truth. The album even ends with Tubular Bells being striken in grandiose fashion. Come to think of it, what's up with all the "skibbidy-bap"-stuff? Isn't there a Bonzos-style jazz influence there? Must have been Viv's influence. And the original Sally? It even mentions gorillas. Totally Viv! Rawlinson's End and all that... Come on, isn't it spooky!   -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

jonnyw Group: Members Posts: 522 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: Sep. 09 2007, 16:09 He is saying "Platinum." -------------- Grand piano. Reed and pipe organ. Glockenspeil. Bass guitar. Vocal chords. Two slightly sampled electric guitars. The venitian effect. Digital sound processor. And Tubular bells. Solo music - http://-terrapin-.bebo.com Band music - http://www.rsimusic.com Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Sep. 09 2007, 16:36 God, is this topic still alive? Jeez, this was in full swing when I was heavily active... about a year ago! woah! -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Sep. 11 2007, 19:30 It's been going for 3 years now, cool huh! -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Sep. 13 2007, 07:01 LOL, i find it really comical... Next we'll be having a debate on which order i should make you all my sandwich... Of course, you'll have to specify whether you want the original sandwich, the 2nd sandwich, the sandwich remix or the sandwich that was supposed to be exactly like the first. -------------- Arron J Eagling Everyone's interpretation is different, and everyone has a right to that opinion. There is no "right" one, I am adding this post to communicate my thoughts to share them with like-minded souls who will be able to comment in good nature. (insert the last 5 mins of Crises here) Back to top

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