Re: End of "Leave it Open" (was: "Sat in Your Lap")

[Robert K Morrow <rmorrow@afit.af.MIL>]

In article <1arodhINN3f9@iraul1.ira.uka.de> sd@ira.uka.de (Sven Doerr) writes:
>In article <9209291834.AA02114@relay1.UU.NET>, Deb Wentorf writes:
>> A brief nit-picky note to Uli:
>> 
>> In a recent posting, you noted "We let the weirdness in" as being
>> the last line in "Sat in Your Lap."  Actually, if my memory serves,
>> these are in fact the last words spoken at the very end of "Leave
>> It Open."  (...)
>> 
>
>Yes, we meant "Leave it Open", right.
>Interesting: forwards it really sounds like "We let the weirdness in".
>I didn't realize this since I was so certain it is backwards. And
>I still believe it is ! Played backwards, Kates voice is _much_clearer_
>as forwards. The "lyrics" go (bw.) something like:
>    and / they / said / they / wont / really / hear
>        /      / sent / them / on a / weary  / here
>        /      / sat  /      / want / very   /
>but I cannot get them exactly. Perhaps there are even two slightly
>different versions. Or - theory? - while the music plays, it is
>forwards, and at the very end it is backwards, this way conditioning
>the listener for what he has to hear on the following backwards
>lines (and in my case: vice versa).
>Maybe someone else wants to try to turn his record-player backwards
>by hand, or can fool his dual head (autoreverse) cassette-recorder
I remember reading on (I think) this newsgroup back in 1986 or so
that Kate listened to a recorded track of "we let the weirdness in"
backwards, practiced saying it that way, recorded it, reversed it,
and thus created an amazing effect.

Bob Morrow