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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Friday, 15th July 2011
Staines station with the Members and the Sound of the Suburbs at 2:20 here:
There's Carter and Tulse Hill: (at the beginning)
Now remind me, the female announcer's voice was platforms 3 and 4 from Peckham Rye, wasn't it? (1 and 2 from Herne Hill only was a male voice)
Any more?
Can't think of any more songs with train announcements in, but I did find this.
Here is Julie Andrews doing the announcements at Utrecht.
How depressing that, in 2009, we cannot do anything without stopping to film it - and no music is safe without the boom of the beatbox!
Not sure what this is all about. Some chin stroking, a lot of nodding and a lovely cat at 2.57.
I agree about the cat. They seem to have thrown away a great opportunity to sample the "BONG! MIND THE GAP" from the Underground - which I seem to recall Radio 1 using for a parents/children "Gap" special.
I am guessing that what I have just experienced was Portuguese rap. I also had to take a couple of looks at the gum-chewing one sitting on a handrail - now I thought that modern rap videos used different clichés to identify the women other than "she's the one without a beard"...
There would be so much mileage in "Stand away from the edge of platform - 2. Fast train approaching".
Talking of missed opportunities, announcement samples could have been used during Bowie's Station to Station and enlivened a rather dreary song. Another example that springs to mind: Down in the tube station.. by The Jam could have included some announcements mixed in with kicking and grunting noises (come to think of it, I'd prefer three minutes of grunting etc and no song).
I did think of including some of my family in one of my own music videos. If I were to go ahead with it, the "she's the one without a beard" rule wouldn't apply. I can remember my sisters using hair removing gunk on their faces when they were probably about 14-15 and I'm sure this can't be normal. They certainly don't bother these days and I think that accounts for the fact that the elder of the two often gets mistaken for Brian Blessed (the other is a dead ringer for George Bernard Shaw).
I seem to recall a rare interview with Ralf Hütter on Radio 1 - maybe in 1981? - in which he appeared to say "we only had to lean out of the studio window when recording "Trans Europe Express" to get authentic train noises".
I think a conditional "we WOULD only HAVE had to lean out" got lost in translation.
Meanwhile, did ex-Kraftwerk man Klaus Dinger's "La Düsseldorf" record an airport announcement?
Ooooooooooooh, look at you with yer umlauts. Klaus Dinger sounds like a character from Karry on Kraftwerk.
Ooooooooooooh, look at you with yer umlauts. Klaus Dinger sounds like a character from Karry on Kraftwerk.Â
Well they aren't *my* umlauts. Yes, Klaus Dinger sounds quite an unlikely name - it seems just as likely that he founded NEU! as that Kraftwerk's studio might be called "Klingklang".
Klaus gave a lot to music and I only discovered recently myself that he died in 2008:
(Reading the above I see Klaus's girlfriend actually "went to Norway"!) ("Hero")
I'll come clean, I'm insanely jealous 'cause I don't know how to make an umlaut appear. However, I can make a mean cheese omelette with saute (sorry, no acute accent) potatoes.
Talking of cheese, Has Gid done a cheese-related thread yet? If he hasn't, edam well ought to.
Well, I'm supposed to be doing something else so it's time for some posting.
Is it Collings who has recently started pressing chefs for their recipes for scrambled eggs?
For umlauts, either type "charmap" at the "run" prompt, or hold down "alt" while typing out numbers off the numerical keypad:
alt + 0228 = ä
alt + 0246 = ö
alt + 0252 = ü
alt + 0232 = è
alt + 0233 = é
Thanks for the character tips, duly noted and copied to wordpad.
I missed AC and his scrambled egg musings. My technique could definitely do with some tweaking.
And here's a brand new one (from 13/12/12) as Kim and Ricky Wilde perform "Looking out this dirty old window" live on a train. An ode to "other train companies are available" or "We're the Kids in Potter's Bar"?
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