Things you notice after years of listening

Radiobuzz · Post by **Radiobuzz** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:47 am

I'll start: Amo Bishop Roden is SURROUNDED with birds chipping faintly throughout the song. I have listened to this track countless times and I have just noticed it this instant.

TOYOTAセ&#1 · Post by **TOYOTAセ&#1** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 4:34 am

The clicking sound in Kid For Today is a Slide Projector.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 6:08 am

Every year I discover at least another layer in Geogaddi to at least one track.

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:23 pm

Literally JUST noticed a strange CLACK in sherbet head at aboot the 34 second mark
Reminds me of the other mysterious CLACKs (like dandelion and alpha and omega)

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:15 pm

During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Stickyfingers72 · Post by **Stickyfingers72** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 1:16 pm

I don't hear any birds... Just the
percussion making it appear that way.

Radiobuzz · Post by **Radiobuzz** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:44 pm

Stickyfingers72 wrote:I don't hear any birds... Just the
percussion making it appear that way.

I originally realised it was there around the 3:10-3:15 mark, if you're using headphones you can hear some sort of very faint scratching noises. Once you realise it's there and you hear the whole track you can hear they're actually birds. I believe what happens is the music itself doesn't completely occupy the whole left-center-right space and it's a little on the background, so to say, so the chirping being so soft fills the rest of the space but it's not immediately noticeable.

I'm also adding something I wrote in another thread some days ago about a backward melody I never noticed before on '84 Pontiac Dream:

There is a backwards melody at around 01:34 in '84 Pontiac Dream, you can hear it on the left channel. If you reverse it you get this.

akrotiri · Post by **akrotiri** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:00 pm

TOYOTAセ&#1 wrote:The clicking sound in Kid For Today is a Slide Projector.

Interesting that you note that, as I've always identified that song as "Slide song"...

I've recently noticed the background synths of Dayvan Cowboy's climbing section (don't know how to identify it properly)

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:18 pm

this is something that i noticed years ago. but it took me years to notice it

in the track, julie and candy. there is a flute that plays a loop every few seconds, throughout the entire track. its being played very faintly in the background, and i am sure it took you guys plenty of listens to notice, or maybe some of you havent noticed it yet, and now you will after reading this

TOYOTAセ&#1 · Post by **TOYOTAセ&#1** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:08 pm

Fireal420 wrote:this is something that i noticed years ago. but it took me years to notice it

in the track, julie and candy. there is a flute that plays a loop every few seconds, throughout the entire track. its being played very faintly in the background, and i am sure it took you guys plenty of listens to notice, or maybe some of you havent noticed it yet, and now you will after reading this

Does it play in the right channel? Because I can definitely hear a flute there.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:17 pm

TOYOTAセ&#1 wrote:
Fireal420 wrote:this is something that i noticed years ago. but it took me years to notice it

in the track, julie and candy. there is a flute that plays a loop every few seconds, throughout the entire track. its being played very faintly in the background, and i am sure it took you guys plenty of listens to notice, or maybe some of you havent noticed it yet, and now you will after reading this

Does it play in the right channel? Because I can definitely hear a flute there.

i listened to julie and candy again to see if it is in the right channel, and i guess it is.

the flute i am referring to plays as soon as the beat drops. and it plays a 3 tone loop, every 2 seconds, throughout the entire track.

when i first listened to julie and candy, i probably heard the song 100 or more times before i noticed the faint flute in the background. now after spotting it, i dont see how i missed it after all those listens. it holds the entire beat together. and gives the track a really nice dreamy touch.

Distant Nebulus · Post by **Distant Nebulus** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:45 pm

Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:02 pm

Distant Nebulus wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

From 4:13 to the end, it's very very faint!

rolypablo · Post by **rolypablo** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:04 am

There's an amazing 4 note repeating melody that fades in to Dawn Chorus towards the final parts of the song. It's actually quite prolific but I only really noticed it quite recently and it's now probably my favourite part of Geogaddi. Nostalgia overload.

irv · Post by **irv** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:55 am

Torn n Frayed wrote:
Distant Nebulus wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

From 4:13 to the end, it's very very faint!

You must have magical ears! I can't hear that at all

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 1:08 pm

irv wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:
Distant Nebulus wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

From 4:13 to the end, it's very very faint!

You must have magical ears! I can't hear that at all

Come on now, try harder! I guess for me it helps having a massive PA to play it over but I can still hear it on headphones, anyone else care to back me up on this?

Twoist · Post by **Twoist** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:49 pm

You know what I've just noticed? That BoC's full remix of Poppy Seed is actually better than the Reprise version. It's taken me many years to finally figure this out.

TaoTapeTao · Post by **TaoTapeTao** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:58 pm

Fireal420 wrote:this is something that i noticed years ago. but it took me years to notice it

in the track, julie and candy. there is a flute that plays a loop every few seconds, throughout the entire track. its being played very faintly in the background, and i am sure it took you guys plenty of listens to notice, or maybe some of you havent noticed it yet, and now you will after reading this

The whole melody is made out of recordings of a flute I'm fairly sure. But tbh I did notice this right away.

Something I didn't notice until years of listening was the birdsong and sound of a running river underneath the music in Pete Standing Alone, it's pretty subtle. I also think there might be a really subtle voice in that tune too if I'm remembering correctly.

paul · Post by **paul** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:10 pm

TOYOTAセ&#1 wrote:The clicking sound in Kid For Today is a Slide Projector.

bam - me too! funny thing is i recognized it as a mechanical sound but never gave it a moment to figure out what it might be.

its ironic, as i've just begun the massive project of digitizing ALL family 8mm film, hi8, prints, negatives, and slides. some of the slides are still in a chest-high stack of old Kodak carousels!
how did i miss this!?

Headphase · Post by **Headphase** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:51 am

Has anyone else ever noticed how the last 8 tracks on geogaddi all link into each other (sometimes it's a little subtle and hard to hear)