"on hold" music challenge

dial siemens customer care 08705 334411
press '1' three times
identify the music !
i know it, and i like it, but i can't remember what it is !
you should have a couple of minutes "on hold" before anyone interrupts you.

 

I don't know the music but I think the song title might be "Good morning, Siemens customer service how can I help you?"

I got about 2 bars worth before they answered the phone...I might try again at lunchtime when it might be busier

Michael.

 

OK, tried it again and it's "Moments in Love" by Art of Noise

(assuming they always play the same track)

Michael.

 

COOL!! That's a great track, and infinitely superior to BT's hold music...

And let's not even go near the special recorded message for Aloud.com's Glastonbury number...

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Gone mad yet?? We did...

 

that's it, art of noise, of course - thanks !
actually dont have any, have to source a "best of"
wasn't there a "who's afraid of the art of noise ?"

 

It's funny because that's about the only Art of Noise track I have and it's on a very dodgy compilation CD called "Spiritually Ibiza volume II" (I've got volume I aswell ). It just so happens those two CDs have three of my favourite ambeint/balearic dance tracks on them (of which the Art of Noise track is one) - the other 2 I've never heard of anywhere else:

Audio Deluxe - "60 seconds". An absolutely classic track IMO. There's no lyrics and it's all done to a backing sample of the chiming pocketwatch theme from the end of Sergio Leone's "For A Few Dollars More" :MILD:

The Aloof - "Never get out of the Boat". Another classic. Has a sample of Martin Sheen's classic quote from Apocalypse Now: "Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole ****in' program. "

Back to Art of Noise, didn't they have a much more famous track in the late 80s? I can't remember much about it at all atm except that it was one huge sample fest (and that I didn't like it much).

Michael.

 

Hi,

The Art of Noise had a few quite big tracks that hit the pop charts.

could it be.

Peter Gunn with Duane Eddy,

Kiss with Tom Jones,

Paranoimia with Max Headroom

or Dragnet 88

or was it Legs.


SCIDB

 

Thanks Dean - it was the Peter Gunn track I was thinking of. Still can't recall how it sounded though, I'll have to dig up an MP3 on the net.

Michael.

 

plus "close to the edge"
with all the "dum dum dum" voice sample / "bass" line.

my fave from around that time is propaganda "a secret wish" - same label ztt / trevor horn (plus fgth of course, that's a classic, "welcome to the pleasure dome")

 

Here's some brief snippets to remind you:-

Peter Gunn was with the track with the guitarist Duane Eddy playing his twangy de-tuned several octaves below normal guitair:

Best Of Art Of Noise

...and "Close (To The Edit)" was the one with the sampled car engine starting up at the beginning and the blusey bassline, this was their biggest hit IIRC - it features on a Now album from the 80s anyway :

Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise

 

Now I'm not sure, perhaps it was Close (to the edit) that I was thinking of. That "dum dum dum" voice sample is I think the bit I found particularly irritating....and it wasn't the only 80s song by a long stretch to suffer the malaise of "hey look, we've just got a sampler and we can play silly sounds at all pitches"

Another massively overused 80s electronic sound was the Yamaha DX7 "bell" sound which now just sounds cheesy in the extreme.

Michael.

 

That'll be just about most of Art Of Noise's output then! There's one of their tracks I can think of where they use a sample of a ruler being twanged by someone on the edge of a desk, just like school kids do in classroom, which gets played back at various pitches aong with a sample of a woman saying "Can I say something?".

Erm, some tracks with silly or annoying use of sampling... Let's start the ball rolling with Black Box's "Ride On Time"... Not that I find it annoying as I really like the track but can see how it'd be annoying for some.

 

I absolutely can't stand "Ride on Time" - I'd hate it even without the silly sampling bit

To continue the thread, Paul Hardcastle's "n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen" :bub:

Michael.

 

I am amazed RA hasn't come up with the first audiphile telephone yet.

Of course he will tell us how brillaint this new phone is but forget to tell us that telephone lines seem to have a frequency of around 600hz to 8000hz due to the extremly low bandwidth

 

I can never listen to that song nowadays without being reminded of the "Nineteen Not Out" paradi done by The Commentators i.e. the one with the impersonations of cricket commentaries. :lol:

http://www.fact-index.com/r/ro/rory_bremner.html

 

Damn - KNEW you'd beat me to that, Henry That was on the first pop tape I ever owned (NOW 5) got for me on my 10th birthday, along with a Philips Skymaster IV walkman (nice lack of antiroll) so I know that track rather well!

Ride on time is unadulterated HORSEPLOPS. I hated it on hearing it, and I sure as hell hate it now!

BEST use of sampling (from when the technology was new-ish) is Jack 'n Chill's "The jack that house built" - pure mayhem and pure class. The 12 inch mix ROCKS.

A mate of Henryt's and mine, Joe Topp, got one of those el-basico Casio keyboards with a built in sampler in about 1986 - as we'd just got into listening to the Beastie Boys, we had hours of fun with said synth - burps, farts, breaking mugs, anything was fair game on that thing. It sounded crap, but was so much fun!