Did you like Mark's use of a megaphone (as heard on Dog Is Life, Bremen Nacht, There's A Ghost In My House, etc.)? Sadly this hasn't appeared much since 1988 – on stage or on record.

Early results would seem to suggest that

MES + MEGAPHONE = :applaud:

I say bring back the kazoo.

kazoo thru megaphone, anyone????

three mics plus megaphone...

and a nice string section, too, and a eukelele.

my answer

HE TALKS LIKE THAT ANYWAY


was not there :(

Neil Young uses a megaphone on Green Dale. The live DVD is really funny coz its this little spinny megaphone thats attached to a mic.

megaphone please

....and kazoo - just had The NRWA (A part of America)in my player -

I hope that's not a slight to the humble ukulele, which I still adore playing.

Someone once mentioned on this board that there was a version of some Fall song somewhere that included ukulele. Can someone help me out on where to find this? Love to hear it. Doubly so if there's a kazoo too!

i like the megaphone for vocals.....i used to be in a band where the lead singer used to use one regulary and i thought it sounded great!,,,,,,it actually made him sound better! :o

Sounds like a load of mic wap, huh?

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anyone see Pink tryna cut it with a similarly tiny, toy megaphone? Didn't make her look anything but daft.
. . mes on the other hand B)

Dont mention Pink. My Dads going thru a wierd midlife crisis think at the minute and he thinks listening to Pink makes him cool. Jesus its embarrasing to watch.

Golly that IS terrible.

If you don't mind me asking, you are a lady, right? (PLEASE don't be offended if I am 100% wrong here...I thought you had made reference to being a woman, but there are a lot of posters here...)

And how old is your old man currently suffering from this hipness/second childhood syndrome?

At age 60-something, my old man took up pot after marrying a younger ex-hippie painter woman. Really loosened him up, but it's weird for your square pops to ask you if you know where to get a quarter-ounce...

So why don't we club together and buy him a microphone, seeing the overwhelming result of this poll?

I was going to start a new thread on this, of course, it has previous :rolleyes:

I love the megaphone as used by MES, and would welcome the odd tickle from it again. :)

"What really went on there, we only have this excerpt" - I think thats the little megaphone isn't it? All the better for it too - bring back the 'phone I say!

That as they say, is a cracker. :)

In the 1920s, Rudy Valee(a big star) usually sang through an unamplified megaphone.

I just hope Mark doesn't start phoning his parts in.

I love the sound of someone singing through a megaphone, whether it's MES, Kim Deal, Stipe, Paul Bardsley, Albarn... in fact, I do it a lot on my own recordings. :)

He tried to use one in that clip 'From The Basement', I forget which track. Anyway, it didn't appear to work. :lol:

The megaphone was a novel twist, but not a regular feature, please.

Noted. ;)

Is this any better?



It's Kuriyama Chiaki performing her last single - maybe you recognise her from Kill Bill or Battle Royale? I reckon her megaphone is bigger than Mark's - definitely not a toy, lol. Anyway, Chiaki recorded the tune with that inveterate megaphone abuser, Shiina Ringo...



...so maybe it's no surprise. You can see Shiina giving some megaphone grief in this possibly not safe for work video for her single, Instinct.

Yes, those ones are certainly fit for purpose.

He used a megaphone the first time I saw The Fall, in Cambridge, 1988. I was in awe.

in a wheelchair