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Paul Haney 
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 Topic: "Drive" - The CarsPosted: 31 January 2013 at 12:32pm |
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I don't know how many hundreds of times I've heard this song over the years, but something just jumped out at me today. At the (1:49) mark (during the line "when you scream"), there is some sort of anomaly. It's on all of the CDs that I checked (even the music video on youtube). Does anybody else hear this or am I just hearing things?
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MMathews
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 1:27pm |
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You had me curious so i just listened (?) I'm not picking
up anything anomalous... what does it sound like? |
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 1:40pm |
Sounds like somebody bumped a mic or something similar (or maybe I'm just losing it). Edited by Paul Haney |
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 1:50pm |
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I listened at 1:49, and like Mark, I don't hear anything wrong there. This topic reminds me of what I hear in the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" on headphones, in the 1st verse. I hear a repeated thump that I don't think was intended to be in the music (like somebody bumping a mic). I never noticed it on vinyl, on speakers. It wasn't until I heard it from a CD source on headphones, early '90s, that I noticed the weird anomaly.
To be specific, the loudest occurence is after the world "brain" at the 0:17/0:18 mark, and to a lesser extent over the word "something" at 0:15. Does anyone else hear it? and know what is going on there? Edited by EdisonLite |
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 4:32pm |
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Paul, I do hear what you're talking about. It's on all copies of the song on the second beat during the word "you," exactly at 1:49.
It's very subtle, but it basically sounds to me like they spliced two takes of the word "you" together right in the middle. Of course, this could just be my imagination, too, as I had never noticed it until you pointed it out. Edited by aaronk |
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crapfromthepast
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 6:18pm |
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Nice catch, Paul.
Except that we can't unhear it, and will forever know that it's there every time we hear the song! (It's the same for the splice at the end of the opera section in "Bohemian Rhapsody".) Actually, how did we not hear it for 29 years? |
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Santi Paradoa
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 7:19pm |
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I also hear it on "Drive" right where you say Paul, but
always thought that was just a part of Benjamin Orr's distinctive vocal. I don't hear the thump on "I Think I Love You" that Gordon mentioned. |
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MMathews
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Posted: 31 January 2013 at 9:02pm |
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Ok with Aaron's detail i listen again and now i make it
out. Boy, that's some impressive ears Paul to zero in on that. And yeah, it almost sounds like there is a splice on that exact beat. Interesting. Could be a hundred reasons... but it is an elaborate mix, i could see them piecing together 2 mixdowns they liked. Just one theory. MM |
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Paul Haney
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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 5:57am |
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Thanks for the confirmation, guys! I have a copy of the music video on a DVD and I watched it last night and sure enough, there's the "splice" (or whatever it is). If you guys couldn't hear it too, then I probably would've ended up in the sanitarium depicted in the video! The rest of that song is so smooth, that the "splice" was driving me crazy (pun intended).
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The Hits Man
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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 4:22pm |
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I hear it too. Dammit! Now i'll always hear it!
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