vballs wrote:During the cold war era, the Russians and Americans were apparently training telepaths for use in spying and to help create deadly weapons (somehow).
Yes it does. It's that calliope synth sound. If you have a yamaha keyboard, there's a good chance it will have a "calliope lead" voice. A real calliope is like an organ but with steam.
It's a very 80's sound. It just feels like a dark 80's sci-fi or horror movie. And according to that interview they were going for it.
And like someone else mentioned, I do also get that "call for help lost in time" feel. Like no one ever heard it and it was a long time ago... off in some dark place underground or something... or alone on a space colony.
One of my favorites from the album. Not a good one to listen to while falling asleep.
I think I've noticed a thing or two in telepath that hasn't been brought up yet:
at :41 i believe he's saying "sseevvenn, hhaatte, niine", or at least it sounds that way to me. I feel like it'd be classic BoC form if they added a subtle "h" sound to the eight to make this a little ambiguous.
the more interesting one however is at 1:04, if you listen very closely after the drawn out "fiiiiiiiiiive", it sounds as if they very quietly tacked on a "six" as if in the same breath as the long five. This would then give us "5iiive 6 6 6 7".
I almost feel like the album could be just an hour of this song, of a broken-spirited lost radio broadcast into the void for help. I'd still love it to pieces
as it is, it feels like just a two minute clip of something that has been going on for decades
Isolated the vocals quite on this track and I hear this.
Testing, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. [background: 6] 6 [6]. 7. [background: dieeee.[?]] 8. 9. 10
Up and down. Now [/how?] I see.
[Background (Irish or perhaps Shetland accent): warning! (cannot hear, but definitely something else)]
The stuff that they know! Hold the right and then turn it up.
On counting: 1. 2. 3. 4. Fiiiiiive. 6. 7. 8.
[It's too loud!]
Well, this is pointless. His brainwave's concealed. Once again.
[Celtic voice again: One voice is neeeervous. / Don't be nervous!]
1. 2. 3. 4. Fiiiiiiiive. 6.[echo: 6, 6] 7.
This must be from an old sci fi movie right? Possibly a cartoon.
It seems slowed down so speeding it up might make it easier to understand and source
"Up and down, now I see"
I hear possibly "Gustav, they knooooow"
Also I don't hear "it's plainly concealed" but something like "just play (stay?) where he can see you"
Jesus, I had to stop listening to this. I was listening to it with my eyes closed in the dark for like an hour straight with closed headphones and I was getting such a paranoid feeling.
