File this under oddities. I used to subscribe to Andy Mabetts, The Amazing Pudding (a Pink Floyd fanzine). I remember engaging in a debate there that was never fully qualified. The tale goes as such...

At the very last final moments of Darkside Of The Moon, the heartbeats and fadeout after Eclipse, there is "music" or some strange sounds way off in the distant background. I described this in TAP as "almost like someone leaving a radio on in the studio". The debate comes in when some people also hear this wierd sound while others can't hear a thing. It's most easily heard through headphones.

If anyone has experianced this oddity, or better yet can explain it, speak up. It boogles me too this day. My only explanation is mastering, different qualities for different batches...I dunno?

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I've heard it, and like so many others that say this too, I think it's The Beatles. The "noise" is a guitar playing an upbeat melody. The notes are high pitched so mabey it's a solo, but I deffenetly hear it to.

You too eh?. The mystery continues.

Richardw wrote: It's someting like 'Eleanor Rigby' played by an orchestra I seem to remember. I can't hear it on CD but my vinyl copy certainly had it

Yeah, thats right, there was a Beatles reference. I could never figure out the tune.

They must have edited it out on new versions cause I cranked the volume as high as I could and I don't hear a thing.  Must have been a vinyl thing, probably done intentionally by Floyd, probably whoever remastered the cd just completely wiped the part after the heart beat fades.

edit- Oh wait!  I just checked one more time, it is there!  I had to crank the volume on my speakers, my headphones, and the program, and turn all the EQ settings all the way up to notice.  Its not after the heartbeat fades, its during the heartbeat and while the dude says "there is no dark side, etc."  For those looking for it, its MUCH quieter than the guy saying "there is no dark side fo the moon really" so your really, really going to have to crank the volume.

and I'm pretty sure that is an instrumental version of Eleanor Rigby...

No, I have a cd version, bought it a year ago, and I can hear the music. It is going on right after the singing ends, while the heart is still beating. The melody is very "poppy" that I'm sure it was The Beatles.

Yeah, its almost surprising that anyone ever listened to it that loud, cause at the same volume needed to hear the Beatles in the background the rest of the song would probably make you go deaf.

Tool has one of those faint hidden songs as well, at the beginning of "Crawl Away" from the Undertow album, in the silence before the song starts you can hear something that sounds like a tribal Ewok song if you crank the volume...

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Yeah, its almost surprising that anyone ever listened to it that loud, cause at the same volume needed to hear the Beatles in the background the rest of the song would probably make you go deaf.

Well, I discovered this via headphones, just so I wouldn't go deaf...

what?

I can't hear anything on my CD.

The Beatles had a similiar problem at Abbey Road - if you crank the volume up as the last piano chord of "A day in the life" fades away, you can hear a chair creaking and the air-conditioning.

Witchwoodhermit wrote: File this under oddities. I used to subscribe to Andy Mabetts, The Amazing Pudding (a Pink Floyd fanzine). I remember engaging in a debate there that was never fully qualified. The tale goes as such... At the very last final moments of Darkside Of The Moon, the heartbeats and fadeout after Eclipse, there is "music" or some strange sounds way off in the distant background. I described this in TAP as "almost like someone leaving a radio on in the studio". The debate comes in when some people also hear this wierd sound while others can't hear a thing. It's most easily heard through headphones. If anyone has experianced this oddity, or better yet can explain it, speak up. It boogles me too this day. My only explanation is mastering, different qualities for different batches...I dunno?

Alan Psychedelic breakfast from PF album Atom heart mother has many sounds of Alan walking trough kitchen, reading newspaper and preparing breakfest. (also killing the fly)

I heard it at least 50 times, and still wonder what song from the Beatles was. I dont even think that was a Beatles song, some people say It was a instrumental from Ticket to Ride but Its hard to tell.

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