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Hi, I'm new here. Stumbled across this site looking for more of the leaked TVOTR album. Looks fun, in an awful kind of way.

Anyway, here's a question: where are the vocal samples in the Books "An Animated Description of Mr. Maps" from? Specifically the one about the "pleasant aroma of donuts and chicken tenders". And is the last one Woody Allen? It sounds like him.

I only want to know because I think it's pretty incredibly lovely. Thanks.

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

This should be entertaining.

http://www.doc.state.ok.us/Training/devices.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Cool, I'm glad I joined. Nothing I like more than to be made fun of because I love music.

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

I didn't mean it as a threat. More as a warning...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Well then, I eagerly await the nasty comments to accompany an innocent question.

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Stumbled across this site looking for more of the leaked TVOTR album.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

i don't know the answer to your question, emily. sorry. i think that what justen means is that a lot of people don't like it when people arrive or join looking for free music. and we like to communicate with things we find on google image search because a picture is worth a thousand words.

you should probably look here for an answer: http://www.thebooksmusic.com/news/contact.htm

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Well said.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

That's fine. I'm not really looking for free music, though I was in the case of TVOTR because I'm a huge fan. I did, in fact, read most of the thread about the new album, and judging from what people posted I probably should have realized I would have gotten a ration of shit by even mentioning TV and Radio in the same sentence. Oh well.

I know I could email them, but this site looked like it was visited by lots of people who knew lot of things about lots of things that I happen to enjoy. And I thought someone might know.

I like pictures. I also like TV on the Radio. Don't hate, yo (not that you specifically are, but...yeah).

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 16 March 2006 02:48 (twenty years ago)

i know that the books make a point of collecting impossibly obscure sources for sampling (like homemade audio and video recordings). maybe it's so they don't have to think about licensing. the kicker is that even though people here know lots, they probably don't know these samples. i have had only good experiences emailing bands. if they give an email address to the public, they usually respond. i say go for it.

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

the only sample i recognise on that track is "I don't suppose it matters which way we go" which is spoken by the boy from Nic Roeg's "Walkabout".

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

actually that sample is from "be good to them always".

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Emily, it's self-consciousness the animals smell first. Without it, they get confused and tend to leave you alone.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I read somewhere that the samples for this album were collected from tapes found in Salvation Army stores. I like the song with the journalist describing the painting and getting paint all over them. It's funny.

― Heath Pardoe (badg), Friday, 17 March 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

That last one doesn't sound like Woody Allen to me. There's a similar inflection in the way he says the word "possibly" -- but otherwise not really.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 March 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

it sounds a bit like woody allen being blanche dubois (from "a streetcar named desire") in Sleeper. i don't think it is woody though, if it was i dare say google would tell me ;)

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Pilo mon fiata.

I like that song a lot.

― James, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

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