Noises & Samples · The High End of Low

[S.D.]

He got ballsy with their daughter.

[S.D.]

I hate to double-post, but it's been a while, and there's something I noticed recently. Listen to Thaeter, then the opening five seconds or so of I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies, you can hear the clicking of a film reel turning on a projector in both. It's fairly obvious in Movies, there's even a film reel on The High End Of Low disc, but I liked the fact it can be heard on The Golden Age Of Grotesque as well. Also, for a song (Movies) discussing acting, and Thaeter regarding the stage, it's not difficult to establish a thematic link between the two.
The pitch of the sample is slightly different in either song, but I wondered whether or not it was a soundclip, or an actual recording of the projector Manson has set up in his house. Anyway, I hope this is of some interest.

[The Empirical Guy]

I'd heard them both before but never really drawn much relevance between the two until you mentioned it's source. Given that we know Manson is fond of having movies playing while he is working, it could be that's it's part of the ambient room noise going on at the time that they decided to capture.

[S.D.]

Indeed, there's numerous possibilities. I'm not going to make the suggestion that Thaeter and I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies have any deeper relationship to one another due to this sound, but I do find it interesting to observe that Manson made comments about kidnapping girls surrounding The High End Of Low (which would most logically be a part of Movies), and the full-length version of Thaeter was the score for Doppelherz, in which Manson and his band kidnap the Siamese Twin girls.
Also, there was a visual parallel made recently by Mary, relating Manson during The High End Of Low with The Lovers by Magritte, you can read it HERE. Doppelherz also has an image that reminds me of both:-

The sheet placed over the girl's head looks similar to Manson beneath the veil. That was also an thematic reprised for Running To The Edge Of The World, which was allegedly originally supposed to be the Movies video (or similar, with Evan playing the Polk role).

[Elizabeth Casto]

I was feeling nostalgic so I put the album on and was listening with headphones, next thing i know I get to this song and I am hearing some dude talk about checking ID's in the background. What is that? Its around the first chorus about a minute into it.

[Norsefire]

It's interesting, but I don't think anyone has ever found the original source of where it comes from.

[thatrussianman]

It alway sounded like a cop to me... I thought it was just something cool that added to the song

[Atom]

I always thought it added to the post-apocalyptic feel of the song that I got. Whether or not it's intentionally supposed to give that vibe is a different story.

Great song though.