Let's Talk About Pixies' "Alec Eiffel" and Smiths' "I Know It's Over".......and sound effects that directly convey shit

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Pixies, Alec Eiffel.....now there's a lot going on in that song......I love that song....I think it's the smartest song ever made, and it's become something of a theme song to me, because I'm a little fucker that's pretty underrated......my enemies don't know the half.....but back to the song.....the lines about standing in the archway....very cinematic, very cool, inspirational harbinger steez......the tricky multi-edged genius of the "Little Eiffel, Little Eiffel" mantra.....(little 'eyeful'.....sorry if that's common knowledge....I think I'm special for clocking it).......the shout at the end of the second, "Keepin low dont make no.....SENSE!!!".....gyeaaaah nikkuhhhh......immediately following that is that winding, ascending guitar part that sounds like raw, twisted metal scrambling skywards, right?.....(that is 'sound effect that directly conveys image or concept' example one).......and at the end, oh shit, the most angelic coda......what a rush....shit is hawklike....it represents to me the celestial unveiling of the tower, realized potential, etc, you bitch......yo man, sorry for calling you bitch but i am a rugged man and when I use words like angelic and celestial I have to balance it out......alec eiffel rules.....talk about it, and add any hidden things about it I may have missed.

Sound effect that directly conveys image or concept example two: Smiths - "I Know It's Over"........when he's asking you all those questions and it goes, "if you're so very good looking, why you sleep alone tonight?"....and these chimes comes in, but the way they hit.....they sound.......inquisitive.......like they're highlighting that particular question by asking again, rubbing it in.....like a fucking cartoon chipmunk with huge eyes......they always look like they wanna know something.......little fuckers......so talk about cleverly placed sound effects that work like the two examples I have given you.....and make sure you're on point....none of this "I think the 'shredding guitar' of such and such represents the nebulous rage of emo fuckface on vocals".....be specific or die.......out.

― Ramosi, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, try to talk about Mogwai's "Two Rights Make One Wrong".....i dont care for Mogwai but this song deserves to have a movie made about it.......just so much happening in that song......hearing it is more cleansing an experience than that time I watched Judge Dredd with your mother and we ended up talking over the whole thing.....ah, the good old days.

― Ramosi, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too late to think of anything but that review of Alec Eiffel is bloody good.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hell, all three are good -- and the man is spot on about the Mogwai track, that's for damn sure. What perfection.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks niggas......you know I love you back.....and you two got to resurrect that Top 100 singles/albums of the 90's feature of yours for FT....these kids need to learn a few things.......I got to bounce now but I just listened to it again.....a few things......1. Correction: the winding guitar spiral happens after the FIRST "make no sense"....sorry......2. "Sometimes people can be oh so *dense*".....remember how people scoffed at the idea of a hollow building that air could flow through?......shit, Frank Black brings the angles.

― Ramosi, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The final bit of "Here Comes the Nice" by the Small Faces, is a good example. It sounds like a dirty speed buzz grinding to a halt.

― Dave Beckhouse, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Move's "Fire Brigade," with the roaring sirens...

― Andy, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you two got to resurrect that Top 100 singles/albums of the 90's feature of yours for FT

Hey, thanks, but I'm talking just a bunch of personal smack in mine (but it's my personal smack, hurrah!). I think you can still google the stuff, I keep getting comments on it from people who find a page or two. Ya wanna do a formal archive update, Tom? Like you, I could revise it heavily now -- but it's a moment in time and I'll stick to it.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I say it again and again. The end of Radiohead's Like Spinning Plates has this beautiful sighing sound effect. Like the song just gave its last breath. It's beautiful. The whole song is.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn right you can google it. It's my personal 'gaze/"postrock" bible - handy whenever the urge to try and track down OOP CDs on musicstack/gemm! Sheer madness!

One of my first intimations of the whole ILx thing was when I'd read about an album on that list, go to AMG to cross-check . . . and find the AMG reference was written by the same person. Then google for info on a band, and get directed to ILM threads with . . . the same person making comments. Disco Inferno 4eva!

― Ess Kay, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do not adjust your set. We control the horizontal.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth's "Scooter + Jinx" from Goo is in this vein, where they make their guitars sound like zooming race cars. Also, that song from EVOL about the car crash, where they make the guitar sound like a car sliding along a metal railing.

― o. nate, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And there's probably a thousand country songs about trains that do the chugga-chugga thing with the guitars to sound like train wheels, and use the lap steel to sound like its whistle.

― nickn, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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