Pink Floyd-DSOTM/Beatles Rumour

[spotlightkid]

I once read somewhere that if you listened to Pink Floyd's
Dark Side of The Moon Mfsl Gold cd that with headphones at the very end of this disc you can hear very faintly some chords to a beatles song.True or False.Get out those Headphones.

[Sckott]

Yep. It's there. Got power? Crank it. Loud. LLLLOUD! Right before the tape hiss gets deafening after you hear the Roadie explain "there is no dark side of the moon, really... Mater a fact.. it's all dark!" just keep listening. It sounds like something between "Getting Better" and "Lucy In The Sky". It's crosstalk from another board. It's actually an organ - sound. It's not on the master. :p

[spotlightkid]

ok Hoffman Forum members which beatles song is it.

[whoompley]

Hmmm....it's there all right. Doesn't sound like the Beatles to me, though. It sounds to me like strings (or a keyboard string "patch") and horns.

the other Wes

[Rspaight]

Well, isn't that interesting. It's there, but darned if I can identify it as Beatles or anything else. I wonder if it's print-through of the organ from Eclipse (though all I can hear is the organ and not the vocals or anything else)?

(On a side note, that's first time I had the volume on my receiver cranked all the way. Good thing I didn't accidentally hit the track skip key or else my headphones, and head, would have exploded.)

Ryan

[PsychFan]

This could be way off, but I thought I read somewhere that it's a snippet of an orchestral version of "Ticket to Ride."

I listened to it once a long while ago ... it's definitely there. I should find my CD and listen again ...

[Holy Zoo]

For those that don't have the UD1 DSOTM (hmmm... is it even on the UD2?) here's what we're all talking about.

I've eq'ed this, removed as much of the bass kick as possible, de-essed the hell out of it, and increased the gain an ungodly amount:

www.holyzoo.com/~jeff/dsotm.mp3

Sounds like strings and a horn (towards the end) to me.... some upbeat peppy number you'd hear on a gameshow.

[Joel Cairo]

The final half of it is definitely a MUZAK version of "Ticket to Ride", beginning on a verse... not so sure yet about the first half (could be a strange arrangement of the end of that song's bridge, though).

[Douglas]

It sounds like the strings on the Mamas and Papas I Saw Her Again Last Night. Scary

[tomcat]

I remember reading in an German audio magazine back in the eighties that this print-trough effect of an older recording on that particular tape was generated by an x-ray machine at the airport, where the tapes were going through in a suitcase or so... The source also said that, since MoFi claimed to work with the master tapes, this effect is now on the original master and therefore should be on every remaster...
Conspiracy theories?
Greetings
Thomas

[TimB]

Ticket to Ride, but 101 Strings version or maybe some George Martin instramenatl version of the song. It is so faint that even cranking it up is hard to say for sure. I have listened through Electrostaic phones (Koss 950's) and Grado's. At least to my ears, that is what it sounds like. A note to the curious, you can even hear it on the MoFi vinyl version, but the surface noise makes it even harder to discern. I have listened to it there through headphones as well. Has anyone else heard it, and for that matter, on any other release of DSOTM.:confused:

[Holy Zoo]

and for that matter, on any other release of DSOTM

I was going to say that I've never heard it on any other release of DSOTM, but then I decided to try the same tricks that I did to the MFSL UD1 (see the above MP3) to both the 1978 Pro-Use LP and 1983 Pro-Use CD.

And I had a big surprise! The '83 CD does NOT have the music "print through", while the earlier LP does! Albeit, the print-through (or whatever it is) is much quieter on the LP, it is there. And it's definitely NOT on the cd. BUT... there's some other noise on the cd, sounds like some people talking.

The mystery deepens!

BTW, Tim, did you listen to the mp3 I posted above?

[Ian]

Although I don't have any of the MOFI versions (wasn't in the audiophile CD game at that point) I do have the latest remaster of DSOTM and it is definitely on there as well as the faint voices that holy described....Hmmmmmmmmmmm... Very creepy

[TimB]

Yes, that is even clearer, and I do even more think that it is Ticket to Ride 101 strings or Muzax, Thanks Holy Zoo!

[pdenny]

Wow! I haven't thought about this for years! I too have heard the muzak...it was about 12-13 years ago, through headphones and I'm positive it was from a UK Harvest CD version of DSOTM. At the time I just figured it was coming from my FM tuner or something. Thanks for the mp3 of the snippet in question...I haven't been that creeped out since 9th grade when I listened to a "Paul Is Dead" clues radio show late one night!

[Paul C.]

Thanks Holyzoo for the MP3 - it's incredible! I'm gonna give my old Mofi vinyl copy a listen tonight.

[Pat]

...sounds like Sugar Pie Honey Bunch...nah!...sounds more like Rescue Me...

actually...I believe it sounds like the "muzak" version of A Hard Day's Night to me! :D