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Say some band finds some interview from a Latvian Scientist from 1952 and puts 40 seconds of the interview before their song starts. I fucking hate that. 9 times out of 10 it's annoying and unnecessary. Less talk more rock.
Weird Soundbytes Before Songs Start
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I love when grindcore/hardcore bands do this because they usually come up with some cool stuff that forces you to wrack your brain to try to find out where it came from. I think as long as it doesn't detract from the song or become really annoying (i.e. overlong) or gimmicky it's cool. Using to add some sort of profundity to the music is a horrible idea - Godspeed You Black Emperor is famously guilty of this.
Here are some notable examples from songs where the samples actually add to the greatness of already great songs:
"She only fucked rock stars...and they only fucked her." <--- from a Charles Bronson song
Or Born Against sampling John Wayne's "Face The Flag" propaganda record where he's speaking over some very corny 1960's sounding music:
Face the flag of stars and bars
Of red and white and blue,
A flag that guarantees the rights
For men like me and you.
"Face the flag, son...Read what's written there,
the history, the progress"
That little soundbyte right before the ominous thundering intro of "Half Mast" is the perfect juxtaposition.
Poison Idea sampling Taxi Driver on "The Badge" is really cool as well:
"Suck on this!"
"You crazy sonofabitch! I'll kill you, I'll kill you! I'll fucking..."
Here are some notable examples from songs where the samples actually add to the greatness of already great songs:
"She only fucked rock stars...and they only fucked her." <--- from a Charles Bronson song
Or Born Against sampling John Wayne's "Face The Flag" propaganda record where he's speaking over some very corny 1960's sounding music:
Face the flag of stars and bars
Of red and white and blue,
A flag that guarantees the rights
For men like me and you.
"Face the flag, son...Read what's written there,
the history, the progress"
That little soundbyte right before the ominous thundering intro of "Half Mast" is the perfect juxtaposition.
Poison Idea sampling Taxi Driver on "The Badge" is really cool as well:
"Suck on this!"
"You crazy sonofabitch! I'll kill you, I'll kill you! I'll fucking..."
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What is a good program that will enable me to do that? I've had to exclude too many songs from mixes because of unusual fadeouts, soundbytes, etc.theaggravatedjew wrote:if the files digital I remove that part myself.
Let's name some more good usages of soundbytes in music. I like the speech that ends Current 93's "Oh Coal Black Smith":
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I use adobe audition.Steezel Weezel wrote:What is a good program that will enable me to do that? I've had to exclude too many songs from mixes because of unusual fadeouts, soundbytes, etc.theaggravatedjew wrote:if the files digital I remove that part myself.
Let's name some more good usages of soundbytes in music. I like the speech that ends Current 93's "Oh Coal Black Smith":