x-post. OMG "Olivetti Twist", that song must be about me!
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
And there's supposedly a vintage one on that one solo album by that one guy in Mars Volta from last year (he supposedly collects old typewriters!)
― xhuxk, Monday, 1 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
(an awesome track from those out sounds Chusid comps from a couple years back, Songs In The Key of Z.)
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Wenn ich dich sehe KOMMADenke ich DOPPELPUNKTDer Junge macht mir KummerIch möchte PUNKT PUNKT PUNKTDass er mir sagt GÄNSEFÜSSCHENBitte komm mit zu mirJa, wann denn FRAGEZEICHENHeute um PUNKT vier
Oh oh AUSRUFEZEICHEN, es wäre so schön..."
(And there's a French translation of it as well!)
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
hang on, is it GE or is it "telegraph"? it might be the latter, although in that case i've no idea what noise he thinks he's doing. hmmm.
the clip's on the iMac at home: home is somewhere i wish i was, but shan't be for ages. at some point this week, gerard, i shall YSI you the clip (and post the link here too. why not? rock and roll).
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tony W-B (cruz_10q), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
that and REM were the first things I thought of
― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
the way i remember this video clip, MC is definitely rattling away at a typewriter: there's a fairly good shot of it. but i'm becoming more addled and confused by the second (i'm at work, trying to do ten things at once, and i'm still hungover from the weekend).
anyway: yes, whatever it is, it's awesome all the same :)
(x-post: heheheh, having gone to the trouble of typing all that, i'm not deleting it now!)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
shame they stopped short of doing the expanded remastered thingys before Dazzle Ships, I was really looking forward to it. But I have the lovely finyl version with the color coded time zone map inner sleeve picture
grimly, do you know if they're ver going to continue with the remasters? i'm assuming they didn't sell too well which is why they stopped.
― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
i have the original vinyl too. i used to have it on CD (and before that on tape!) but when i was going through my obsessive OMD completist phase in the early nineties i sold all the CDs and picked up the vinyl from record fairs instead. i would love a remastered CD: i've MP3d the vinyl, but a completely crackle-free version would be bliss itself.
it's probably worth hassling andy mcluskey via www.omd.uk.com: i haven't looked at the site for ages, but i think he's quite good at answering people's questions etc. and although it didn't sell well at the time, surely it's been reclaimed as a classic; the most experimental pop album of the eighties, etc etc. i'd have thought there'd be a few bob for virgin if they released a remaster.
well: about 18 quid if you and i each buy a copy, at least.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― - (smile), Monday, 1 August 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Is that the one that has really fast violin playing during each phrase, punctuated by a loud and emphatic "DING!" at the end of each line? I seem to remember Max Miller or Spike Milligan or someone acting this out.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― FelixHapper, Monday, 1 August 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
the typewriter action is in "genetic engineering" and is indeed the chucka-chucka-chucka sound i thought (although paul does, er, "play" a telegraph switch in "telegraph" too). for most of the song, martin (stage right, green shirt) plays a keyboard; right at the end (after the slightly embarrassing bit with the notepads), he turns to his left and plays a typewriter. there's a close-up in the last few seconds if you want to zoom there straight away.
i just spent five minutes hunting through some of my vinyl for "dazzle ships" so i can check the instrument list to see if it mentions a typewriter: i can't find it (seriously: it would take me the best part of an hour to search all the records) so if anyone else can check, that'd be appreciated. IIRC they listed *everything* they used on the record, so i'd have thought a typewriter would be on there if they'd used it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Grimly, the typewriter is indeed listed on the instrumentlist on Dazzle Ships! I've found several sites who mention this in their review, in such similar words that it's probably out of a bio (Lotsofgifts.co.uk: "Any album that lists among the instruments used on it a Sanyo short wave radio,a typewriter and a Texas Instruments "Speak and Spell" machine has to be something different").Unfortunately, I can't seem to save the video-files you linked to ("forbidden"), but found the album on slsk, which in itself made my home a happier place tonight, hearing after such a long time.
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
fuck. two minutes.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― scriblerus (mike lynch), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Sibsi, I most definately should, but it looks like a real hard one to find on the net, let alone a copy of the cd. I don't suppose you can help me out? :-)
― Gerard (Gerard), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gerard (Gerard), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― t. fiend (t. fiend), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Sibsi: Done!
― Gerard (Gerard), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― blue, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Really though I usually loathe the sound of typewriters in songs
― Uncledoj, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
"Gonna Type A Letter" - Billy Fury
― CarlosDP, Monday, 10 November 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Cornelius - Typerite Lesson
― WE ARE ALL GEETIKA (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 10 November 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Brutum Fulmen has a lot of recordings which use typewriters as the sound source. Search the "Flesh of the Moon" album.
― ian, Monday, 10 November 2008 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link