Odd. This and other PF audio figured in a dream last night. Then I came downstairs and saw this.
Obviously we are all still in your dream. Please hold on asleep as long as you can as I treasure my existence and don’t want it to end.
Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
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Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#52Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember London area codes being 01 (or 0441 from USA) followed by 6 digits, so maybe 3 are missing. It would be interesting to see if that landline is still available, but with 1000 possibilities (01ABC831) maybe a google search might be the way to go.
Interesting. Normally, films use deliberately fictious numbers, e.g. in the US it's always xxx555xxxxxx. Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including 011x and 01x1. The Pink Floyd number is a bit unusual---it's not made up. According to a previous analysis, the call was the album's "Chief Engineer James Guthrie who called his own London apartment", with a neighbour answering the phone.…
> Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including 011x and 01x1.
Ofcom has set aside blocks of numbers within many different area codes for dramatic use[1]. The note on Wikipedia about 011x and 01x1 is that the reserved numbers in those (real) area codes usually end with 496 0xxx (so, for instance, 0114 496 0000 to 0114 496 0999 are reserved numbers in the Sheffield/0114 area - other 0114 numbers may be allocated to real customers).
[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/phone-numbers/...
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't see the irony. Anyway, having ''The'' as an honourific for band names was commonplace in the UK prior to the '70s, even if the band's name had not been stylized with "The".
It takes exactly the same amount of time to say as “Pink”
“The Floyd” is the name a lot of people who worked with the band use, it shows up on many texts and other documentaries.
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#55On the cassette tape version of The Wall I had if you flipped the cassette over during this phone call sequence it would end up being right in the middle of another song (can't remember which one) which has this recording playing as part of the background. I feel like it couldn't have been intentional but who knows.
Alphaville's second album Afternoons in Utopia starts with quiet muffled word "night", then followed by few seconds of silence and then first song called IAO starts. The last song on that album is about Lady Bright:
There was a young lady named Bright
Who's speed was much faster, much faster than light
She departed one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous...Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't see the irony. Anyway, having ''The'' as an honourific for band names was commonplace in the UK prior to the '70s, even if the band's name had not been stylized with "The".
It takes exactly the same amount of time to say as “Pink”
I'm going to listen to The Stones, then some Skynyrd, maybe put on some Zeppelin or the Dead.
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The band originally was The Pink Floyd (after changing their name from The Tea Set)
But never The Floyd. Just as the band isn’t named after a man called Pink.
It was named after a man called Pink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#58A while back I tracked down the video clip from the show Gomer Pyle that was used for the “But there's somebody else that needs taking care of in Washington” background audio. Seeing that in its original context was jarring
I know what you mean. I recently did the same thing for the little bit from Gunsmoke at the beginning of “Is There Anybody Out There?”, e.g. “Is it unsafe to travel at night?” - incidentally spoken by actress Diana Muldaur, who later played Dr. Pulaski in Star Trek TNG.
Now I wonder if Frankie Goes to Hollywood sampled the voice on "Two Tribes" from some 1950's British government film.
"If your grandmother or any other member of the family Should die whilst in the shelter Put them outside, but remember to tag them first For identification purposes"
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
The band originally was The Pink Floyd (after changing their name from The Tea Set)
But never The Floyd. Just as the band isn’t named after a man called Pink.
Curveball, the band is named after a man called Pink!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Council
Re: Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember London area codes being 01 (or 0441 from USA) followed by 6 digits, so maybe 3 are missing. It would be interesting to see if that landline is still available, but with 1000 possibilities (01ABC831) maybe a google search might be the way to go.
Interesting. Normally, films use deliberately fictious numbers, e.g. in the US it's always xxx555xxxxxx. Wikipedia says the UK uses various area codes for the same thing, including 011x and 01x1. The Pink Floyd number is a bit unusual---it's not made up. According to a previous analysis, the call was the album's "Chief Engineer James Guthrie who called his own London apartment", with a neighbour answering the phone.…
Somebody could contact James Guthrie since he's still alive and probably has his old apartment phone number written down somewhere (if not still memorized).