Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified
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Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified
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#2If you're a fan of Pink Floyd's Young Lust (from the album "The Wall" released in 1979) but are scratching you head as to all the beeps and boops you hear during the telephone call portion of the song - this article explains it all.
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#3Love all the 2600 Hz tones! :)
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#4Is the assumption that the middle of the phone number area was spliced out for privacy reasons? The article doesn't appear to say...
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#5Neat! As a former Pink Floyd maniac, and a reformed phreak, I found this excellent!
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#6When I first started reading, I thought it was going to be explaining to the Millennials and GenZ what a telephone operator was, what a long distance call was, and why they used one to make a long distance phone call!
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#7I remember when the album was released and bought a copy. Much was made at the time that this was a real call: one of the PF guys (don’t remember who) told a friend in the UK that if they received a call from “Mr Floyd to Mrs Floyd” just hang up.
The genius part was the the real phone operator quickly tweaked onto the fact that the call was to Mrs Floyd, who should have been alone, but a man answered…
Re: Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified
#8If you're a fan of Pink Floyd's Young Lust (from the album "The Wall" released in 1979) but are scratching you head as to all the beeps and boops you hear during the telephone call portion of the song - this article explains it all.
As a nerd, and a huge Pink Floyd fan, I'm embarrassed to say I never really paid attention to those noises.
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#9Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight:
https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/
WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site.
We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.).
I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), Mozart and sometimes Bach are my favorites to "get into flow and stay in flow".
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#10If you're into vintage telephone network sounds (and some really excellent technical descriptions of phone phreaking) take some time to listen to Evan Doorbell's recordings: https://www.evan-doorbell.com/
I grew up in the tail end of analog switches near my home. I remember the sounds of making phone calls changing over a few years. They became a lot less interesting and a lot more uniform. The sounds you'd hear calling the bigger towns in the area slowly took over the sounds you'd hear when calling smaller towns or out into the country.