| 词条 | Empty Spaces |
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| name = Empty Spaces | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = Pink Floyd | album = The Wall | EP = | written = | published = Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd | released = 30 November 1979 (UK) 8 December 1979 (US) | format = | recorded = 1978–1979 | studio = | venue = | genre = Progressive rock | length = 2:10 | label = Harvest (UK) Columbia (US) | writer = Roger Waters | composer = | lyricist = | producer = Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = | next_title = | next_year = }} "Empty Spaces" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, featured as the eighth track on their 1979 rock opera The Wall. It is the only known song by Pink Floyd to contain a backmasked message. CompositionThe song is in the key of E minor, and is two minutes, eight seconds in length. It features a long introductory section, with solo guitar and a repetitive drumbeat, and an airport announcement, as a reference to Pink heading for a concert tour. The song reaches a climax of tension, at which point Roger Waters plays a descending blues scale over the minor dominant, B minor, cueing the start of the vocals. Roger Waters sings a short verse, ending on the phrase "How shall I complete the wall?" This track shares a backing track with "What Shall We Do Now?", sped up from D to E, with new guitar and vocals. The last beat introduces the next song, "Young Lust". PlotThe Wall tells the story of Pink, an alienated and embittered rock star. At this point in the narrative, Pink is now grown up and married, but he and his wife are having relationship problems because of his physical distance and nearly complete emotional "wall". Pink asks himself how he should complete its construction. Movie and live versionsOn both the film adaptation the song is dropped in favour of "What Shall We Do Now?", and on the recording of the live performance of this album, this song serves as an intro to "What Shall We Do Now?". Hidden messageDirectly before the lyrical section, there is a hidden message isolated on the left channel of the song. When heard normally, it appears to be nonsense. If played backwards, the following can be heard: {{Listen|filename=Empty_Spaces_Secret_Message.ogg|title=Empty Spaces Secret Message|description=Found by reversing the audio|format=Ogg}} –Hello looker... Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont... –Roger! Carolyne's on the phone! –Okay.[1][2]Roger Waters congratulates the listener for finding this message, and jokes that they can send her answer to "Old Pink" (being either a comical reference to Syd Barrett, or a foreshadowing of Pink's eventual insanity), who lives somewhere in a funny farm (a term to describe a psychiatric hospital) in Chalfont. Before he can reveal the exact location, however, he gets interrupted by someone (James Guthrie) in the background who says Carolyne (Waters' then wife) is on the phone.[3] Personnel
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm|title=Jeff Milner's Backmasking site|publisher=Jeff Milner|accessdate=3 February 2010}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Nemcoff |first=Mark Yoshimoto |title=Empty Spaces: Backwards Messages, Stairway to Heaven and a Failure to Communicate |website=WordSushi |date=4 April 2013 |url=http://wordsushi.com/blog/empty-spaces-backwards-messages-stairway-to-heaven-and-a-failure-to-communicate/ |access-date=11 June 2017}} 3. ^BBC - Culture, The Hidden Messages in Songs 4. ^Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, Comfortably Numb - A History of The Wall 1978–1981, 2006, p.82. External links{{Wikiquote|The Wall}}
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