Listening to Musicology, I noticed that Prince seems to be infatuated with that chime sound...

First, it shows up in ICPC around the line "Take a bath in cold Krystal.."....

Then it shows up in Life O' The Party, around the line "All the beautiful people gonna be there/Puttin' the "i" in "Fine"..."....

Then it shows up not once, but TWICE in Call My Name....!!!!

I hate that stinkin' chime...

Is Prince running out of sonic ideas, or is he just being lazy???...

I don't know if these are the "chimes" you mean, but a couple of times on the cd, when I'm playing it in the car, I look around because it sounds like a vehicle with a siren is coming up behind me. Or it will sound like a phone is ringing. I hate that.

I think it's actually called a glockenspeil, but I'm not sure...but yeah, I know what U mean, it gets massively annoying

shit, I say "Enough with the fucking JAZZ"...

BobGeorge999 said:

a glockenspiel is a totally different instrument.

they are chimes.

rappers, r&b artists have played out the chime. Although it is ok 4 Prince 2 use it cuz it dont matter.

FiveFootNine said:

I listen to Prince ESPECIALLY for the chimes.

Chimes chimes chimes, everywhere I can find them.

You are SO very wrong wrong wrong.

Doesn't it drive you mad that he never gives proper credit to his chimes-players?

I hate it when he does that!

I can't remember the name but they're not actually called 'chimes' if ur referring to what I think u are (although they sound like chimes to me, a layman). Know what u mean though. He does use them a lot. They don't really bother me though. Perhaps u have a deep-rooted, in-grained childhood memory of a freak chime accident?

Jazz? Not applicable here. Listen to more jazz.

Dammit, I like his use of chimes! A lot!

It works especially well concerning "take a bath in cold cry-stal".

I say leave them in and add more if necessary!

prince and teh chimes b'damned.

He used to be in love with the cowbell.

lovemachine said:

yeah only on bambi and endorphinemachine though!

lovemachine said:

Turn them headphones down.

Wait til he gets his hands on a vibroslap!!!

Great now I have to go listen to that MUSICOLOGY cd for some chimes!!!??!!
I was avoiding that cd like AIDS.

Is this the same vomit-inducing chime sound that's on "Silly Game" and "Betcha By Golly Wow," or are these different vomit-inducing chimes?

BobGeorge999 said:

Well, it's pretty obvious. It's a recorded chimes, playey very slowly by a sampler. I just love that sound. Maybe he should try to reverse it as a variation.

KingSausage said:

do you mean a twinkling kind of sound? those bits of thin metal on a descending scale that hang down like this?



I think you can get different sized ones, so it doesn't just sound like church bells, sometimes twinkly like stars. Overused. TMBGITW comes to mind.

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Byron said:

BARF!!!