What are those loud smashing sounds supposed to be....

[PinkAnderson]

...in Amused to Death? I cannot remember the actual track, but on one segment between songs you can hear what appears to be a television announcer babbling away in the background, some distressed breathing, and a series of crashes/smashes...like somebody smashing clay pots with a hammer (or something). What is that?
I find it very disturbing. I want it stopped.
-Pink Anderson (thinking that nobody knows the answer, or if they do, they won't tell me..)

[FloydWright]

Are you talking about the end of "It's a Miracle" (after the chanting, before it fades into "Amused to Death")?

[Madcap Diamond]

Has anyone ever noticed how there is an explosion of some sort between tracks 6 & 7 of TFC...

And then in Amused to Death, there is the same explosion between tracks 6 & 7.

???

You've probably all discovered that, but I just thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

[thorin13]

you thought that was cool? why cool?

[Madcap Diamond]

"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's COOL! HaHaHa!"

I just think it's cool how he can bring back stuff from the past like that. Wait a minute!?!?!....Roger Waters....bring stuff back from the past......Impossible!!!

[ViciousChickenOfBristol]

that explosion between 6 & 7 is part of the song Get Your Filthy Hands off my Desert.
"get your filthy hands off my desert!!"
"what'd he say?"
*BOOM*
if you listen on headphones, it goes from right to left, or, if they're on backwards, left to right. Someone wrote about this already.
But about the noises in Amused to Death, you might be thinking of Too Much Rope. That's the sound of a man chopping wood. I know this because I live in the backwoods of Maine. I don't know what it has to do with the song, but it might not have anything to do with it. Of course, after reading your post, I realized that's probably not what you are talking about. But I'll attempt to explain that too. That's windows breaking. When a bomb strikes a city, or even anywhere near buildings, the shockwaves break all the windows.
It helps when you listen to your music on high. :smile:

[PinkAnderson]

Yes, Mr. Chicken, Yes!!! That is the sound I was referring to! It does sound like somebody chopping wood, and you can even hear the chopper exerting himself, huffing and puffing away. Now somebody please explain the significance, the relevance, the context of that little audio vignette to the story and theme of the album. I cannot. I am not trained to do such things.
-Pink Anderson ( doesn't chop wood because he's too old and already has central heating)

[FloydWright]

On 2002-03-20 13:30, PinkAnderson wrote:
Yes, Mr. Chicken, Yes!!! That is the sound I was referring to! It does sound like somebody chopping wood, and you can even hear the chopper exerting himself, huffing and puffing away. Now somebody please explain the significance, the relevance, the context of that little audio vignette to the story and theme of the album. I cannot. I am not trained to do such things.
-Pink Anderson ( doesn't chop wood because he's too old and already has central heating)

I always thought it was supposed to evoke a country winter of older times--when you hear the sleigh, for instance. But the thing is, that time has passed away. That's just my take, anyway. I wrote a story about Amused to Death, which you can read at my site--it explains my thoughts on that song, but it's otherwise very vague and difficult to explain verbally.

[Driven]

I'm not entirely sure what the significance of the chopping wood sound is...but I agree with the person who posted this topic...it is VERY unsettling. Both the music (kind of ominous violin orchestration), and the chopping wood dude create a really uneasy feeling of something bad about to happen. Maybe the chopping wood is meant to mean winter (mataphorical winter???).

That would fit in with the general theme of the album too.

Just my thoughts.

[FinkPloyd]

What are the first lines of the song "Too Much Rope?" Now, link that to the sound effects. Ok. Now, the song to me is about human betrayal in that first verse, how we'd all sell our granny for a hit of methanthetamine or whatever, but in a wider context, doesn't our government sell us out all the time? The album is about how that process happens through war being televised to us through our lovely idiot boxes and how we absorb every riveting minute of it, in some instance believing the propaganda used to justify acts of terror to that ultimately beget further acts of terror.

Give the human species too much rope and we will **** it up.