Re: The Laugh (final statements)

[halley!steve@cs.utexas.edu (Steve Williams)]

In some article or another, jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (Jon Drukman) writes:
>I assume you all remember my survey about whether the laugh belonged
>to "The Fog" or "Love And Anger," right?  Well, I got a bunch of
>answers, and here's the verdict.
>
>Of the six respondents, five thought it went with "The Fog" with the
>odd man out thinking it belonged to neither song and was just a piece
>of audio flotsam thrown in for no apparent reason by Kate.  Most of

I'm not sure I'm the "odd man out", but I did post something that
proposed that the laugh might not be part of either song, but may have
been placed between the two in an intentionally ambiguous way by Kate
as a sort of joke (it IS a laugh, right?).  I certainly never suggested
it was flotsam, or that Kate threw it in without a reason.  With 4+ years
to work on an album, I don't think Kate does anything w/o a reason.

With reports about various CD pressings that show the laugh in one song
or the other, I even considered it possible that _that_ was done
intentionally, rather than through some engineering error (as someone
else proposed).  I personally think it fits better as part of The Fog,
but my own CD player shows it to be part of LaA on both a US-pressed
and an Austrian-pressed CD.  Finally, I don't *really* give a shit which
song it belongs to, but I haven't used my share of net bandwidth in a
couple of weeks and this posting is a start at catching up...

On another subject:  If you haven't heard the new song ("I'm Still Waiting")
from the new British single, then you're missing something.  Kate hasn't
done such raw vocals since GOOMH.  Yow!  

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