Tunesday Thread - Volume 897,436, Issue 42

[SlumpBuster]

You're not from Kansas City by any chance are you? Surprised to see a Gadjits mention is all.

jc

Ahhh... Kansas City. Home of world reknowned BBQ and strip joints where your allowed touch the girls.

Nope. Not from KC. Just been there a bunch. First saw the gadjits in 97 as a support act in Detroit. Can't even tell you who the headliner was now. They had been on some punk samplers so I was familiar. But the show was such a balls out trainwreck (thats a good thing) that I was hooked.

[noddin0ff]

From wikipedia
The album features recordings from numbers stations, and is named after one of them: a looped recording at the end of the song "Poor Places" of a mysterious female voice reciting "yankee hotel foxtrot" over and over. The woman recorded in the clip is alleged to be a Mossad agent.

The sample came from the Conet Project.There was a lawsuit for copyright infringement
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

Here's a link to an NPR 'All Things Considered' report about the Conet Project(audio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4167689

Very interesting!

[ForeverAutumn]

From wikipedia
The album features recordings from numbers stations, and is named after one of them: a looped recording at the end of the song "Poor Places" of a mysterious female voice reciting "yankee hotel foxtrot" over and over. The woman recorded in the clip is alleged to be a Mossad agent.

The sample came from the Conet Project.There was a lawsuit for copyright infringement
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

Here's a link to an NPR 'All Things Considered' report about the Conet Project(audio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4167689

Very interesting!

That NPR report was fascinating. Thanks for posting the link.

[Mr MidFi]

About YHF, two things...

1. My brother and I have had a heated disagreement as to whether the person speaking that line on "Poor Places" is an English woman (as I say), or an English boy. After repeated listenings on some pretty good headphones, I have to say... meh, could go either way. Listen again and tell me what you think.

2. I recall reading something about the significance (or lack thereof) of those exact letters when the album came out. I believe the sound clip was used before they titled the album, and they just liked the idea of some message, in quasi-code, emerging from the noise and fuzz and clatter. (And by "they" I mean "Tweedy," of course.) I don't think the specific letters are meant to be meaningful.

I think the words "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" make a great album name, regardless of meaning. It sounds like some crazy dance step you can only do after multiple shots at the lobby bar of the Yankee Hotel.

[ForeverAutumn]

I don't think the specific letters are meant to be meaningful.

I think the words "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" make a great album name, regardless of meaning. It sounds like some crazy dance step you can only do after multiple shots at the lobby bar of the Yankee Hotel.

Now that I know the origin, I would tend to agree with you. It's just a great album name, no hidden meaning.