Trying to source a dialogue sample:

March 19, 2005 1:27 PM

I'm trying to track down the source of a dialogue sample used most prominently in several My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult tracks and Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Acid Again'. It appears to be an interview with a girl describing her experiences with drugs. My Google searches have resulted in a lot of people talking _about_ this particular sample, but never the source itself. (Quotes inside...)

Interviewer: "Are you really happy?"
Girl: "I'm happy as I've ever been...I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all, really. I'm very sad, I'm not happy. I'm so fat. I don't feel very pretty, I really don't."
Interviewer: "You know a lot about drugs."
Girl: "Oh, I live for drugs. It's great. Just lately I...freaked out, on acid. I freaked out very very badly. Now, I don't think I'll ever take acid again, and before I thought that was the best thing in the world. I never want it again. Never acid again."

posted by djwudi to media & arts (5 comments total)

From an interview with Jack Dangers:

UR : The opening sample to "Acid Again," off the new one, features a self effacing girl expressing her "love" for drugs. The sample's also prominent on some other bands' records. Where is it from and what's the obsession with it ?

Dangers : I actually know the records you're tlaking about. And I completely forgot it was in there. When i heard it, it was like, "Huh. That would be good in a song." It's from this promotional record from 1967, an anti-drugs record. I took passages from it and edited words out to give it a more surreal, wierd feeling doesn't make any sense, or makes some sense. The whole record is just this sad, whimpering women. THe actual intro took fivedays. I recorded some stuff under the Golden Gate Bridge while i was on a boat. Just little elements, all this psycho-acoustic stuff. If you listen to it on headphones, oyu hear all this wierd crap. It took me ages to do that. But then the song only took me a day.

(Google: "I freaked out very very badly" "acid again")
posted by Jairus at 3:01 PM on March 19, 2005

this site has a lot of mltkk samples. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have the one you're interested in.
posted by advil at 3:17 PM on March 19, 2005

Hmmm...I guess "a 1967 anti-drugs record" may be the best answer out there at the moment. It at least narrows things down a touch, though not so much that I'd be likely to find it.

Thanks much!
posted by djwudi at 5:14 PM on March 19, 2005

Probably Capitol Records' LSD, released in 1966. Scroll down. Note lurid cover & liner, and don't miss the broader look at the anti-drug documentary record movement. LPs were, at the time, perhaps the most effective non-print communications medium available -- this was the equivalent of anti-drug websites. 1966 was a really big year for LSD hysteria (I'm not sure if that correlates that well with the fad or not): Life did a cover story; a Sal Mineo-narrated film was released.
posted by dhartung at 12:56 AM on March 20, 2005

Wow -- nice work, and many thanks, dhartung!
posted by djwudi at 2:26 AM on March 20, 2005