Pink - Raise Your Glass..... is it me or did they make a mistake?

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Pink - Raise Your Glass..... is it me or did they make a mistake?

Post by Henry-S »

Right now I know this song has been on the radio and driving along in my van with the radio playing I have been noticing this sorta high pitch "ding" noise. Now to my ears it is really distracting and ruins the otherwise good chorus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmfHZuJe0E&feature=fvsr

The video can be found at the above link. I have no idea why this sound is in the chorus, it seems to just be really horrible sound. It first occurs at 44 seconds and it just goes "ding". Then it happens again at 52 seconds.

comes in at 1.01, 1.44, 1.47, 1.55, 2.03...... you get the idea :)

It happens only on the chorus parts of the song and it really distracts my ears. I have listened on radio and on youtube and both share the time dinging noise :frown:

Why would they put this in??
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Post by Jonnypopisical »

I would not loose sleep over it - it sounds like a guitar harmonic to me - but nothing too distracting to me...

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Post by Paul_XT »

Not really sure if its a mistake or not, but its something I never notcied when hearing it.....but will do from now on!

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Post by Guest »

I think it's just one of those things that once you know it's there it bugs you, but if you didn't know you'd never notice it!

I opened this thread and opened the link before I'd read the whole of your post so it was already playing and the first coupla times it happened I didn't even notice it, but once I'd read your post it stuck out like a sore thumb!

I agree, it sounds like guitar harmonics... you can actually hear similar high-pitched notes a lot quieter just before the 'ding' one, so I reckon it was a deliberate stylistic choice. Given that the dynamics of the guitar are far outweighed by those of the other instruments, they probably thought it fitted quite well, so I would presume it is not a 'mistake' in that sense :)

I know what you mean about it being annoying though... there are certain sounds in songs that annoy me once I've realised they're there. This song annoyed me hugely when they played it on the radio because the glissando bass note in the chorus just really jarred with me. >.<
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Jennifer Jones wrote:This song annoyed me hugely

Yeah, Will Young has that effect on me, too...
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desmond wrote:
Jennifer Jones wrote:This song annoyed me hugely

Yeah, Will Young has that effect on me, too...

I'm sayin' nuthin'... 8-)
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Post by Andi »

I loaded some tracks onto my Walkman for when I'm out running. One day I heard a particulary spikey hat that I'd never noticed before in years of listening. Ruined - not only can I not not hear it, but I'm anticipating it in advance - it's like the old dripping tap torture to the point where I'm going to have to import it into Cubase and see if I can frig the 2 track.

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Post by A Non O Miss »

i was going to say it sounded like the guitar, never really noticed it before... doesnt bother me at all.

Jennifer Jones wrote:
I know what you mean about it being annoying though... there are certain sounds in songs that annoy me once I've realised they're there. This song annoyed me hugely when they played it on the radio because the glissando bass note in the chorus just really jarred with me. >.<

haha wow... yeah that totally doesn't work in that song, sounds like a big ol whoopie cushion or something...
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desmond wrote:
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You're having an "animal" phase lately, aren't you Zuke.? ;)

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There's a squeak in the Coronation Street theme that always gets me.

It occurs in the fourth bar and stands out like Giant Haystacks in a boyband.
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InactiveX wrote:There's a squeak in the Coronation Street theme that always gets me.

it could be the clarinet. it happens - i knew a person who hated bassoon
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I'm a clarinettist myself! And I'd never settle for it!

It occurs in the outro theme and really jars me...
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Ugh, it's in the third bar of the outro, not the fourth.

Just heard it again...
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Er... surely the easy solution is to, well, not watch Coronation Street...?

Your soul would feel all the lighter for it, I'm sure... :)
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That never occured to me. ;)

More time for music making.

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If you want to have your enjoyment of many of your favourite Beatles tracks ruined for all time in this way, suggest you go here. Careful, it's kind of addictive at the same time!

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Post by onesecondglance »

A Non O Miss wrote:haha wow... yeah that totally doesn't work in that song, sounds like a big ol whoopie cushion or something...

that's the first time i've heard that... and now it's going to bug me forever! it's horrible, who on earth thought that was a good idea?
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onesecondglance wrote:that's the first time i've heard that... and now it's going to bug me forever!

Heh, sowwee!!

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Post by onesecondglance »

:D

has anyone else ever noticed the engineer shouting "that's it" rather too early on Leper Messiah by Metallica? the band do a final-sounding riff, pause for two secs, and then play the riff again. it's in the pause you hear the shout. of course, you can only hear it if you turn it right up, which is an entirely appropriate way to listen to Metallica...
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Careful, onesecondglance, or you may get Lars on here telling us that it's a Metallica album and that's the way it's supposed to be, and if you call yourself a fan, then you're not, and anyway, he doesn't want people like you to be his fans.

Just like he always does.

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