I stumbled across this written Rolling Stone interview with Roger Waters that addressed the spoken parts on DSOTM. I thought this was worth exploring, since a lot of songs I've posted here on my blog have spoken parts. In the interview, Waters says, "I wrote questions down on a set of cards, and they were in sequence. Whoever was in the building came and did it. They would read the top card and answer it -- with no one else in the room -- and then take that card off, and do the second one. So, for instance, when it said "When was the last time you were violent?" the next one said, "Were you in the right?" It provided essential color for the record. The questions that provided us with the best material were the ones about violence." I agree that the voices on the album add texture and depth to the album (Just think “Great Gig,” “Money,” “Us And Them”). I think the layering of the voices also serves to pull people together. It reminds us that humanity is not perfect, and all people share similar experiences. It’s sort of along the same lines as what Waters was saying in that 2007 interview: “It’s ok to have bad feelings about things and to experience pain, and this and that, and that we don’t have to live in an anodyne world where nothing hurts.”Thursday, November 27, 2008
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I stumbled across this written Rolling Stone interview with Roger Waters that addressed the spoken parts on DSOTM. I thought this was worth exploring, since a lot of songs I've posted here on my blog have spoken parts. In the interview, Waters says, "I wrote questions down on a set of cards, and they were in sequence. Whoever was in the building came and did it. They would read the top card and answer it -- with no one else in the room -- and then take that card off, and do the second one. So, for instance, when it said "When was the last time you were violent?" the next one said, "Were you in the right?" It provided essential color for the record. The questions that provided us with the best material were the ones about violence." I agree that the voices on the album add texture and depth to the album (Just think “Great Gig,” “Money,” “Us And Them”). I think the layering of the voices also serves to pull people together. It reminds us that humanity is not perfect, and all people share similar experiences. It’s sort of along the same lines as what Waters was saying in that 2007 interview: “It’s ok to have bad feelings about things and to experience pain, and this and that, and that we don’t have to live in an anodyne world where nothing hurts.”
I stumbled across this written Rolling Stone interview with Roger Waters that addressed the spoken parts on DSOTM. I thought this was worth exploring, since a lot of songs I've posted here on my blog have spoken parts. In the interview, Waters says, "I wrote questions down on a set of cards, and they were in sequence. Whoever was in the building came and did it. They would read the top card and answer it -- with no one else in the room -- and then take that card off, and do the second one. So, for instance, when it said "When was the last time you were violent?" the next one said, "Were you in the right?" It provided essential color for the record. The questions that provided us with the best material were the ones about violence." I agree that the voices on the album add texture and depth to the album (Just think “Great Gig,” “Money,” “Us And Them”). I think the layering of the voices also serves to pull people together. It reminds us that humanity is not perfect, and all people share similar experiences. It’s sort of along the same lines as what Waters was saying in that 2007 interview: “It’s ok to have bad feelings about things and to experience pain, and this and that, and that we don’t have to live in an anodyne world where nothing hurts.”
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