Was listening to Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and realized that track 9, titled "Cries of Help", was just a clip from the short film The War Game, which I'd see a while back. There is nothing altered about it, no music underneath, nothing but just the sound clip from the movie. Yet the soundbyte still gets its own track and an actual track title, despite Discharge not having anything to do with its creation or having added anything to the original source.
what other tracks like this exist? always felt like it was kinda lame when this happens....
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)
There are a couple tracks on U2's "Rattle and Hum" album that are simply clips of historic rock'n'roll or blues recordings.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 12 August 2011 08:19 (fourteen years ago)
That's a couple of street musicians playing a song they wrote (Freedom For My People), recorded live on the sidewalk in Harlem and included in the documentary.
Saint Etienne are a better example, but even then the clips of film dialogue that pop up intermittently over the first 2 albums are usually played over music (Etienne Gonna Die) and/or used to introduce songs (the snippet of Peeping Tom that leads into Railway Jam). This is Radio Etienne, first track on Foxbase Alpha, is AFAICT a recording of the intro music to a French football broadcast, probably cut up / collaged somewhat.
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Friday, 12 August 2011 08:43 (fourteen years ago)
Check out Jowe Head's "Pincer Movement" album, it's chocfull of such things, in lieu of silence between tracks usually.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 08:59 (fourteen years ago)