Favourite Pink Floyd sound effect?

Dowie100 · Post by **Dowie100** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:12 pm

Since as im sure you all know Pink Floyd use a lot of sound effects in their songs. So I was wondering which ones were your favourites.

For me it has to be the missile in "Get Your Filthy Hands off my Desert" sounds stunning with some good headphones

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:14 pm

Seagull sounds in Echoes! if you can call that a sound effect.

carefule eugene · Post by **carefule eugene** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:17 pm

the Helicopter!

nemesis11f · Post by **nemesis11f** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:10 pm

Mine has to be Roger Water's screaming at the top of his lungs, "Hey you, yes, you behind the bike-stands! Stand still, laddie!...If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding, how can ya have any pudding if you dont eat your meat....etc."

I laugh so hard everytime I hear that.

Second choice, the beginning of Welcome to the Machine.

Also, there are no Seagulls in Echoes, so I assume you mean Marooned.

I also like the bell from High Hopes. Hell, there aren't many sound effects Pink Floyd used that I didnt love.

EDIT
The missile in GYFHOMD is stunning, especially, like you said, with great headphones.

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:16 pm

nemesis11f wrote:Also, there are no Seagulls in Echoes, so I assume you mean Marooned.

Yes there are. The reverse wah-wah pedal in the middle section gives the seagull sound.

They start somewhere around the 11 minute point where the jam part fades out.

nemesis11f · Post by **nemesis11f** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:31 pm

If you say so, although to me it sounds like a guitar with a reverse wah-wah pedal applied. Certainly the "seagulls" would fit in with some of the earlier lyrics, but if it is supposed to be seagulls, they certainly chose to portray them in a very roundabout manner. Honestly, the thought that those are supposed to be seagulls is so far out of my mind, it's just incredible. Perhaps someone else could shed some light on this issue, as I would rather have this from more than one source.

cRaB · Post by **cRaB** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:39 pm

more crows than seagulls to me

ironbaden · Post by **ironbaden** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:27 pm

My favorite is the simulated dog noises on Dogs..... the sounds using ...I think a vocoder effect.....very cool... my 2 dogs go crazy everytime they hear it...LOL

zag · Post by **zag** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:30 pm

must be the "ducks" on the "Bike"

or what would you call that effect ?

The Gunner's Dream · Post by **The Gunner's Dream** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:56 pm

My favorite inorganic sound effect is obviously the Pig effect on Pigs 3DO

My other favorite sound is the bell on The Gunner's Dream, simply a beautiful touch after the "you hear the tolling bell" line

Vidar · Post by **Vidar** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:28 pm

I will have to say, the explosion in Atom Heart Mother Suite, around maybe 18th minute or so. It is really cool.

I also like the pig noises Dave makes with his guitar, on Pigs 3DO.

azza200 · Post by **azza200** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:11 pm

the dogs barking in durrrr Dogs
Echoes seagull effects
Speak to me intro
the voices during Us and them
Learning to fly - radio chatter
Cirrus Minor intro

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:14 pm

the doggies in Dogs
rice crispies snap, crackle and popping and bacon frying in Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast

azza200 · Post by **azza200** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:52 pm

the effects in several species

J Ed · Post by **J Ed** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:50 pm

aye to all sounds in Several Species
imagine jamming with a band of rodents like that yourself one day
bet that Pict had been into the Amanita Muscaria,
but whatever, thats attaining some oneness with nature!

I like the monstrous pigsqueals you hear on live versions during the animals tour
the TV smashing in The Wall, stuff all over The Wall really, its like several species expanded to a doubleLP
the Jimmy Young cut-up bit that began the 1974 shows
Marv Albert in Perfect Sense
the guillotine in Ca Ira (gonna give it another listen tonight just to judge the many sound effects)
daddy smoking a doob while reading Winnie-the-Pooh to his kids during Go Fishing ("come on, dad!")
oh yeh and the hitchhiker gasping during Running Shoes!