Night of 1000 Furry Toys (RWr) Question

BTW--The part with those kids screaming: that's a roller coaster. You can hear the clacking of the wheels on the track, and if you listen to how it speeds up and slows down, it seems pretty clear to me that it's a roller coaster. I suppose it has to do with some sort of sense of life being out of control, subject to radical ups and downs about which you can do nothing...

I meant the 'fun fair' music in the background sounded like a merry go round.



Picky picky

Ahh. I know I'm picky! It may be that it's both cho.manno and I who do that kind of stuff! If you ever try it again and get any more of it, I would be interested.

I am also trying to transcribe the words during "Unfair Ground", as well as the dialogue in "Satellite", and see if I can pick any words out of the crowd noise in "Reaching for the Rail". Picky, picky indeed...but it's a fun challenge! :grin:

If you can get anything out of Reaching For The Rail... Wow.

There's a chance I might be able to pull one of the voices out of there...but I probably won't be able to get TOO much.

It's just white noise, really.

Intentionally so, I would suspect. Imagine this. You're sitting in a restaurant--you're there in body, but in mind, you feel completely disconnected from the scene, and the words have no meaning.

"White noise" indeed.

I may have a LITTLE bit of luck with it, but we'll see.

This is a song I really like. I tried to listen to the lyrics closely to see if I could pick up on the things FW and Driven were discussing, but I couldn't get any further with it than they.
I really liked Renwick's guitar solos. Great clean tone and that bluesy tension that makes the hair on your neck stand up. A creepy but great song.
I had a similar reaction to Ozzy's "No More Tears".....awesome song, but creepy when you realize the lyrics are Jack-the-Ripperish. (saucy Jack!)

If I may, Stratman, did you concur with the things we already had, or do you have any different interpretations to be considered?

The first time I heard that sick stuff underneath that one verse (can you see why Mr. Wright didn't want those lines?), I had quite the shivers! I get that now just thinking about it!

I didn't hear anything that you two didn't discuss. In fact, I couldn't hear a couple of the words being referred to. I want to listen to it with headphones, though. But I doubt I'll get any more out of it than you, Driven or Byron did.
It conjured in my mind an image of a child molester who uses stuffed animals as bait to lure victims. You said Rick writes of things from his experience, maybe he was victimized as a child by some pervert.

Absolutely not.

That was his wife's experience, actually--she was the one who was abused.

His experience has to do with trying to support her through his illness, and all the feelings he had to deal with. When people suffer things like depression, it's not just the person with the disease who goes through a trauma.

As for the art, I think it's a symbol of innocence being destroyed. Notice the bear's head isn't completely off, so it isn't the total end of hope...but the damage is pretty extensive. (Mr. Thorgerson, judging from interviews, does seem to think things through with that much detail, so I don't think I'm reading too much into it.)

All I have is the song I downloaded off Audiogalaxy before they went kaput, I have not seen the artwork and I know nothing of Mr. Wright's history; so that evaluation is purely an uninformed impression.

I just visited your website and read the bio on Rick, and your comments. (nice site, BTW) It makes more sense now.

a couple of corrections/additions to the lyrics you've transcribed, if I may: it should be "when they push your levers...."

also, after the psycho says "mama", he says "uuuummm, yeah!" just before Rick starts singing over the top of it.

Thanks for the correction; I'll make sure to get it taken care of today. Angelfire seems to be down at the moments, so I'll get it when the site comes back up. Since I can't look at my site right now, I'm not even sure if I have put my attempted transcriptions of the psycho up yet.

I didn't mean to sound so vehement yesterday, but I'm sure you can understand that for the sake of those who might not know the history behind the album, I wanted to step on that notion as quickly as possible!

BTW, I THINK I made a little progress with "Reaching for the Rail". Here's the voice that I've been able to get a bit from. It is a male voice with an American accent that starts at 2:22, pretty much in the right channel:

"...ah, yeah, there's just one problem, though [a section I miss]...three thirty..."