[LH] RE: Love-Hounds Digest, Vol 34, Issue 11
Mitchell Parks
From: Douglas Alan <nes...@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [LH] Aerial - First impressions
To: TTu...@aol.com
Cc: love-...@gaffa.org
Message-ID: <2005110500473...@lexx.mit.edu>
TTu...@aol.com wrote:
>> I'm on the fence here. Lyrically, I dunno.
>You dunno?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!
>Who other than Kate would have the genius to make a song that sings the
>digits of an eternal perfect circle -- a number that has obsessed
>mankind for thousands of years, and yet no one thought to write a song
>about it until now.
>I guess someone did make a movie about it -- but nevermind that....
|>oug
That's my primary disappointment with "Pi" - it HAS been done before:
http://www.alldumb.com/items/2005/09/16254.wmv
I'm still very much looking forward to the album, though.
-Mitch
David Hyland
Kate injects so much passion into this number though - I really love it. I actually think this song is more about the sensitive man obsessed with calculating pi than it is about the calculation itself. To the man calculating pi, it is a thing of beauty, and Kate gets this across so well.
Mitchell Parks <mitc...@uidaho.edu> wrote:
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:47:30 -0500
From: Douglas Alan
TTu...@aol.com wrote:
>You dunno?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!
|>oug
-Mitch
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P
> http://www.alldumb.com/items/2005/09/16254.wmv
Oh that is hilarious!
Not sure who the slightly smutty rap break in the middle is aimed at, but
the rest of the song could have been written by Phillip Glass. Studio
footage seems partially inspired by SIYL! LOL
pDale
What in Kate's holy name WAS that?! Starts out looking like something
off Sesame Street, but that's gotta be a parody. I don't see any
reason for disappointment with Kate's version, they couldn't have been
any more different if she'd decided to do e instead.
Pi by Hard 'n Phirm
When ink and pen in hands of men
Inscribed your form by beetle P
They draw an altar on which God has
Slaughtered all stability
No ice could ever soak in all the
Places you annoint
And yet to see you all at once
We only need the point
Flirting with infinity
O geometric progeny
That fit inside you oh so tight
With triangles that feel so right
(3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459)
Forever constant harmony
Says far as discipline
The patron saint of imperfection
Frees us from our sin
And if our transcendent intellect
Should find the final floor
Then men will know the death of God
Where wonder was before
Yeah, I know this math shit backwards and forwards
Check it out
Bi-bi-di-di
I bit three chicks then I pointed at the door
A girl entered in so that made it four
I snapped one time in came another five
Add 'em all up and that makes nine
The average age 26.5
Now that's what I call gettin' some pie
Five of the chicks wore 6-inch heels
Two of the nine squealed like seals
514 was the area code
Cause that Canada my window abode
And my 1.3 million dollar chalet
Pi backwards, pi forwards, all night and all day
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948
(fade out)
--
pDaleC
pDale
> On 11/5/05, P <pn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's my primary disappointment with "Pi" - it HAS been done before:
> > > http://www.alldumb.com/items/2005/09/16254.wmv
I pulled the lyrics off
<http://www.thedoctordementoshow.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=12139>.
After watching and reading along, I see some errors, e.g. it's "Quebec
Canada" not "Cause that Canada".
--
pDale
Ooops
Bill Kawalec
call it "The Song Formerly Known As Pi"??
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"P" <pn...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:436d5460$1...@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> That's my primary disappointment with "Pi" - it HAS been done before:
>> http://www.alldumb.com/items/2005/09/16254.wmv
>
Samantha Hatch
Does anyone else think "Pi" sounds dated -- like Kate recorded it during the
TRS recording sessions, decided not to put it on TRS, but later decided to
throw it on her next album?
Since we know KoTM was recorded over a decade ago, I can't help but wonder
which other songs are also "older."
Love,
Sammi
Rich
"pDale" <pda...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5494c3ae0511052023x6f5...@mail.gmail.com...
> What in Kate's holy name WAS that?! Starts out looking like something
> off Sesame Street, but that's gotta be a parody. I don't see any
> reason for disappointment with Kate's version, they couldn't have been
> any more different if she'd decided to do e instead.
Not Sesame Street... ZOOM!
Come on and Zoom zoom zooma zoom......
Rich
Rich
"pDale" <pda...@gmail.com> wrote in message
<snip>
> After watching and reading along, I see some errors, e.g. it's "Quebec
> Canada" not "Cause that Canada".
>
> --
> pDale
> Ooops
Ah... I thought he said:
"Calls" that Cananda
...which would still make sense regardless of the area code.
Rich
pDale
You meant "Sexual Healing was recorded...", right? Or do you have
some source for this information?
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-----Original Message-----
From: pDale <pda...@gmail.com>
To: Katians <love-...@gaffa.org>
Sent: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 07:22:09 -0500
Subject: Re: [LH] Pi
>
> Since we know KoTM was recorded over a decade ago, I can't help but
wonder
> which other songs are also "older."
You meant "Sexual Healing was recorded...", right? Or do you have
some source for this information?
***Well, the Mojo interview stated it was written about 10 years ago,
but it didn't say anything about it being recorded 10 years ago......
W
stanne...@comcast.net
> some source for this information?
She stated in her BBC Front Row interview from last Friday that she recorded KoTM over 10 years ago.
--Sammi
Douglas Alan
Hey, that's pretty cool. But they clearly stole the idea from Kate. I
mean, just look at those outfits the two geeks are wearing -- they are
right out of "Sat in Your Lap" -- only they are red, rather than white.
|>oug
P
> right out of "Sat in Your Lap"
Didn't I say this 2 days ago? Are you not receiving my posts, |>oug? Maybe
this is why my two requests for ETV artwork have been (apparently)
ignored....
Not KTBush
http://www.keithschofield.com/pi/
http://www.keithschofield.com/news.html
07-11-05
hey so all done w/ the shooting of the Hard 'N Phirm video for the song "pi"
now to cut it
I must admit - it's catchier than Kate's too.
Douglas Alan
> > just look at those outfits the two geeks are wearing -- they are
> > right out of "Sat in Your Lap"
> Didn't I say this 2 days ago?
Oh, you expect me to read what *other* people write???
|>oug
Douglas Alan
> > What in Kate's holy name WAS that?! Starts out looking like something
> > off Sesame Street, but that's gotta be a parody.
> Not Sesame Street... ZOOM!
> Come on and Zoom zoom zooma zoom......
"Boston, Mass., oh, two, one, three, four. Send it to Zoom!"
Dubo yubou spubeak Ubububby Dububbuby Lubangubuage?
|>oug
Douglas Alan
> Looks like the Zap video/song predates Kate's
> http://www.keithschofield.com/pi/
> http://www.keithschofield.com/news.html
> 07-11-05
> hey so all done w/ the shooting of the Hard 'N Phirm video for the
> song "pi" now to cut it
7/11/05? That's just a few months ago. That doesn't predate Kate's
version! Kate's been working on that album for the last decade! No
doubt Hard 'n Phirm got wind of what Kate was working on, and rushed
their version out to beat her to the punch.
I have to admit, though, that the Hard 'n Phirm video is awesomely
clever.
|>oug
Bill Kawalec
news:110720051642.27187.436F83E10009B9C0000...@comcast.net...
If I were just guessing, I would judge KotM to be the oldest track here. It
just sounds the most like Kate on TRS.
Bill Kawalec
news:2005110800320...@lexx.mit.edu...
>P <pn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > just look at those outfits the two geeks are wearing -- they are
>> > right out of "Sat in Your Lap"
>
>> Didn't I say this 2 days ago?
>
>
> |>oug
hmmmm. Shall we test that?
Hey Dougie, BITE ME!!!!
:-)
Douglas Alan
> > Oh, you expect me to read what *other* people write???
> > |>oug
> hmmmm. Shall we test that?
> Hey Dougie, BITE ME!!!!
No thanks.
|>oug
Not KTBush
> Not KTBush <nkt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looks like the Zap video/song predates Kate's
>
>> http://www.keithschofield.com/pi/
>
>> http://www.keithschofield.com/news.html
>
>> 07-11-05
>
>> hey so all done w/ the shooting of the Hard 'N Phirm video for the
>> song "pi" now to cut it
>
> 7/11/05? That's just a few months ago. That doesn't predate Kate's
> version! Kate's been working on that album for the last decade! No
> doubt Hard 'n Phirm got wind of what Kate was working on, and rushed
> their version out to beat her to the punch.
Back in July when all Kate fans everywhere were soaking up the tiniest of
titbits about the new album, we didn't know there was going to be a track
called Pi or that she would be singing the numerical value. So I doubt they
got wind of it and rushed out their own version.
I've emailed the producer to ask him to clarify whether Kate was an
influence because he describes on his site how they came up with it and
Kate's not even hinted at.
BTW - if you google for songs about Pi, you'll be surprised at how many have
been written.
good i am
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Anyone noticed the odd time signature on Pi.
I wonder if it is in Pi/4 time.
Douglas Alan
> Anyone noticed the odd time signature on Pi.
> I wonder if it is in Pi/4 time.
Hmmmm, is that possible?
On the other hand, I've seen sheet music for stuff from "The Kick
Inside" and some of the songs change time signatures just about every
few bars....
|>oug