Submission for rec-music-gaffa

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From: jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka)
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Subject: Re: oops, yeah right...
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Date: 16 Jun 90 04:41:32 GMT
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Really-From: woj@paladin.Owego.NY.US (the best things in life always melt)

[ re:  "Heads We're Dancing" ]

>note a very high-pitched "whine" with about 30 seconds left in the song.

Hmmm.  I'm not sure I've noticed that particular whine.

I have, however, noticed something similar.  My
favorite "pet-peeve concerning the production of TSW" is the
high-pitched whine that accompanies the sample of Kate's father on "The Fog."
Whenever Mr Bush speaks (and I don't mean the 'kindler and gentler' one),
there's a _very_ annoying high-pitched tone that begins just before the
vox, and ends just after.  I'm not IED--I can't rationalize a reason why
Kate wouldn't have filtered this sample in order to add to the overall
feeling of the song.  My guess is that she didn't notice--it's _rather_
high, and at her age, I'm sure she's started losing some of her capability
to hear high frequencies.  (we had an interesting example of this in a 
physics of sound class I took--the prof had a tone generator with a pot
for the freq. adjustment.  He had everybody raise their hand, then he began
to increase the frequency, asking people to lower their hands when they could
no longer hear the tone.  As I recall, in a room of 300 ~20 yr olds, there
was no one who could hear a tone over something like 17kHz.)

Thoughts?

Jeff
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