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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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familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Jan. 06 2005, 09:28 Quote (ATTMO @ Jan. 06 2005, 09:25) I guess it is Platinum but not said as   [plae tie num] but as [pla tshinm] Maybe Mike had had a couple of Guinnesses before recording it? Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Jan. 10 2005, 22:59 I love 'fatty bum' and 'platypus', both excellent possibilities but you are all supposed to be agreeing with me, not disagreeing with me. I can't hear the 'sh' sound in it except for the simple fact that it is speeded up so much that it kind of wa'sh'es together if you know what I mean. Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Jan. 11 2005, 09:58 Any votes for "latinum"? Mike being the Trekkie that he is. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: April 22 2005, 11:26 He says "ketchup". It's plain to hear. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Ratty Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: April 22 2005, 18:11 He was moving home at the time, its definately "flat to let"   -------------- Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: April 22 2005, 21:04 Or was that "flat u lent" ? -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ratty Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: April 22 2005, 21:08 Well he was experimenting with Wind instruments at the time!!! -------------- Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: April 22 2005, 21:10 Ah. That must explain "The Wind Crimes" Seriously, it does exist. Check this page http://dnd-rock.com/cgi-bin815/view_list.cgi?listID=4-25 You will find MIKE OLDFIELD - ISLANDS (FRENCH 12" P/S, 3TRK, Incl.WHEN THE NIGHTS ON FIRE & THE WIND CRIMES PART ONE, PROMO STAMPED, 009906) EX / M \3,800 -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ratty Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: April 22 2005, 21:14 Quote (hiawatha @ April 23 2005, 02:10) Ah. That must explain "The Wind Crimes" Or another gem from the same album "Flying Fart"  ( Oh god stop, we cant go there surely!!!! Well ok, maybe.   -------------- Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: April 22 2005, 21:37 Meanwhile, the real Mike drops in, totally unseen, and is amused at all the conversation his accidental supressed sneeze has caused. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: June 22 2005, 21:18 I don't know what he's saying... but this thread has me laughing out loud.  So funny... -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 23 2005, 18:53 A friend of mine, who works as a sound engineer in a small studio here, told me that he managed to isolate that fragment of speech without the music under it. He also told me that there is a very slight echo on that voice, and that, according to him, Mike says "guitar", sounding vaguely like "kitàr". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: June 24 2005, 04:50 Quote (Ugo @ June 23 2005, 18:53) A friend of mine, who works as a sound engineer in a small studio here, told me that he managed to isolate that fragment of speech without the music under it. He also told me that there is a very slight echo on that voice, and that, according to him, Mike says "guitar", sounding vaguely like "kitàr". Is he absolutely sure it wasn't "catargh"? Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: June 24 2005, 11:45 I have an imaginary friend who is a superwizz at computers and recording and stuff, and he isolated the danglewheezer coefficient for this fragment of sound - which of course gave him the key to solving the puzzle. Mike's words have in fact been mightily speeded up (like that episode in Star Trek where long conversations sound like just a little buzz). By slowing it down to the right speed, playing the first half of it backwards, and the last half sideways, he uncovered the following message: 'Great! This'll baffle the cloth-eared nincompoops!' No, really. Back to top

arron11196 Group: Members Posts: 826 Joined: April 2005 Posted: June 24 2005, 13:39 Ha Ha! -------------- 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

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 24 2005, 17:17 Ah... I forgot. My friend also said that if Mike really meant to make a point of the fact that he said "Platinum" there, he would've made it much clearer. And according to him there's no speeding-up at all. It's just a whisper with some echo on it. To my own (cloth) ears, it STILL sounds like "guitar". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: June 24 2005, 19:24 Quote (Ugo @ June 24 2005, 23:17) Ah... I forgot. My friend also said that if Mike really meant to make a point of the fact that he said "Platinum" there, he would've made it much clearer. Well, that's why he's Mike. I wonder how your friend achieved that as the sequences are not exactly the same. Could he make a downloadable file of that isolated speech? Though I think it's not a matter of being isolated or not as I also can hear it as "khitar-ar" if I want but "Platinum" seems much more likely to my ears - or it's rather a whispered "pltnm". Anyway, why would Mike say "guitar" if there isn't any guitar near that speech? -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

c_haese Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: Nov. 2003 Posted: June 25 2005, 00:30 Quote (EeToN @ June 24 2005, 19:24) Anyway, why would Mike say "guitar" if there isn't any guitar near that speech? Is there any Platinum near it? Seriously, though, not so long ago I would have bet substantial amounts of money on Mike saying "guitar" here. However, slowing it down to half speed convinced me that he is indeed whispering Platinum. It's not pronounced the way I would have expected, but the slowed down version sounds much more like Platinum than guitar. (It actually sounds like Platshnum to my ears.) -Carsten Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 25 2005, 20:05 @ EeToN: I never even heard that fragment. My friend said he did it, I have no idea on whether he actually did it or not. And in any case I don't think it could be made into a file because what he supposedly used to do that is ProTools. @ c_haese: yes, the sound coming out of your slowed-down version may very well be 'Platinum', but said with what is, to my ears, a very marked British accent. Anyway, maybe it's me knowing Mike much less than my friend does , but I still don't think that he made a point of the fact that he said 'Platinum' there, especially with that accent. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: June 25 2005, 20:45 Hmmm... Is there an audible interview where Mike mentioned the title of the album? -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

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