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familyman Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: Nov. 2009 Posted: Feb. 13 2010, 11:04 Just a quick note to ask if anyone knows who it is actually saying "Happy?" throughout Amarok? And where did Mike get this idea from? Back to top

Herod Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Feb. 13 2010, 11:10 A toy dog. -------------- The last 80 seconds of 'Amarok' are one of the reasons for being happy to live in this planet. Back to top

SunkenForest Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: Jan. 2010 Posted: Feb. 14 2010, 19:36 I'm still not quite sure I understand the "why" of the happies, but it's all good.  A least it doesn't say "sad". Back to top

Herod Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Feb. 15 2010, 03:44 Ah ah, well said! Anyway, I think that the right approach to "Amarok" should be void of why's... everything there is the result of a free imagination going completely and freely wild. In that system anything makes sense; toy dogs and guitars can coexist happily... and anyway it is NOT chaos! But Sunken's remark is really wonderful!   -------------- The last 80 seconds of 'Amarok' are one of the reasons for being happy to live in this planet. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Feb. 15 2010, 09:33 It's just a sample shoved through some kind of vocal effect.Probably Mike. I like the idea of toy dogs and guitars living in harmony.Add to that the contents of an aeromodeller's toolkit,season with a little punchball and club and celebrate with fake fireworks et voila the perfect society! The republic of Amarok is born! or Maybe planet Caveman....population 1. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

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Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Feb. 15 2010, 20:53 Sounds like MO sampled to me. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 16 2010, 18:54 I may be terribly wrong here, because I'm not familiar with regional English accents, but the voice almost sounds like someone from Lancashire - it's not «Happy?», but rather «'Appy?» with a very open A. The Thatcher impersonator (her name escapes me right now), at the end, says it in what I assume to be standard English, i.e. «Hæpy?», but the other voice sounds really Northern to me. Mike is from Reading, so it can't be him. However, it's definitely a sample. @ Ommagest: more than a Speak and Spell machine, which has of course a very robotic/mechanical voice, I'd say that some artificial speech software may have been used. But, as far as I know, synthesized voices don't have any accent. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 16 2010, 19:43 Sounds very similar to the voice used in certain parts of 'Songs' like 'The Chamber' or 'Ascension'. It has the same voice tone and that little bit of distorsion, if only the one in 'Songs' seems to be a little bit more reverbered. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

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Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Feb. 17 2010, 15:40 Zorry?   -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Marky Group: Members Posts: 390 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Mar. 12 2020, 08:38 Does anybody know where I can obtain a sample of the "happy" sound? I'd like to use it to say Happy Birthday to somebody! Back to top

manintherain Group: Members. Posts: 546 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Mar. 12 2020, 10:22 I strongly believe that the question is directed to Richard Branson, who originally hoped for Tubular Bells II. For the same reason, Mike implemented a Morse code in response to the request to go on tour. Back to top

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