# Whyat were they thinking when they recorded \*that\*? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185 "2020-02-19T17:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/1 "2020-02-19T17:49:09Z")
So, listening to my old _Easy Rider_ Soundtrack (ripped from Vinyl, naturally) and this [Kyrie Eleison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxHWXep27g) song comes on and, I mean, like, wow. I get how drugs can make you do some crazy stuff in the moment but writing, developing, recording, producing, marketing…a song is a far longer process than metabolizing even a healthy portion of mushrooms. No, I can’t lame this one on drugs. Someone thought this song was a good, nay a _brilliant_ idear. A money maker that would justify it’s hogging nearly two whole minutes of precious LP space. Whot. The. Phoughque? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/2 "2020-02-19T18:04:13Z")
I _like_ that song. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/3 "2020-02-19T18:08:20Z")
This must be allowed, but which part of your personal aesthetic does it please? Because it offends nearly all of mine. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/4 "2020-02-19T18:52:33Z")
While we await the forum change, I’ll just say I was quite surprised when I clicked on the link. I think it’s very pleasant to listen to, verging on easy listening. In terms of late 60s musical weirdness, this comes somewhere around the middle, if that. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/5 "2020-02-19T20:19:05Z")
You must not like any 60’s era psychedelic rock then. Here’s [Bill Hicks in the intro to Tool’s Third Eye](https://youtu.be/c41Tjx8DPvY). Maybe it’ll help you understand, maybe it won’t. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/6 "2020-02-19T22:12:01Z")
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9… :smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/7 "2020-02-19T22:15:01Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > This must be allowed, but which part of your personal aesthetic does it please? While it’s not the first thing I might choose to listen to, there’s nothing particularly offensive or hard to listen to about it. But then I came of age during the 1960s. > [@](#): > > Because it offends nearly all of mine. Obviously you must be a person of exceedingly refined and exalted taste, then.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/8 "2020-02-19T22:17:48Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > You must not like any 60’s era psychedelic rock then. > > Here’s [Bill Hicks in the intro to Tool’s Third Eye](https://youtu.be/c41Tjx8DPvY). Maybe it’ll help you understand, maybe it won’t. Whenever I think of that I like to Google the quote with a random number of “r”‘s at the beginning of the word “real” and see how many people have transcribed it that way … at any rate, it’s a rrrrrrrrrreal freakin’ high number of r’s. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/9 "2020-02-19T22:28:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Obviously you must be a person of exceedingly refined and exalted taste, then.🙂 Only the best, most serious music for me. 😉 Re: '60s psych, I can do it sometimes but it’s never been my go-to. Too blurry and jangly, makes my skin crawl. I can’t imagine being on acid and trying to deal with that kind of reaction. There is a bit in Kyrie Eleison where a super bright single note guitar jumps in and rips through the otherwise not unpleasant warm and blurry blanket of mystical prayer, and the effect (for me) is like getting an ice pick smacked under a fingernail. It’s the aural equivalent of drawing a Sharpie mustache on an otherwise unremarkable portrait. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/10 "2020-02-20T01:27:03Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/11 "2020-02-20T01:31:55Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Only the best, most serious music for me. 😉 > > Re: '60s psych, I can do it sometimes but it’s never been my go-to. Too blurry and jangly, makes my skin crawl. I can’t imagine being on acid and trying to deal with that kind of reaction. There is a bit in Kyrie Eleison where a super bright single note guitar jumps in and rips through the otherwise not unpleasant warm and blurry blanket of mystical prayer, and the effect (for me) is like getting an ice pick smacked under a fingernail. It’s the aural equivalent of drawing a Sharpie mustache on an otherwise unremarkable portrait. You would _not_ have enjoyed concerts by the Butthole Surfers, I’m guessing. \ Ddamn I miss shows like they used to have. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/12 "2020-02-20T01:38:51Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > So, listening to my old _Easy Rider_ Soundtrack (ripped from Vinyl, naturally) and this [Kyrie Eleison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxHWXep27g) song comes on and, I mean, like, wow. I get how drugs can make you do some crazy stuff in the moment but writing, developing, recording, producing, marketing…a song is a far longer process than metabolizing even a healthy portion of mushrooms. No, I can’t lame this one on drugs. Someone thought this song was a good, nay a _brilliant_ idear. A money maker that would justify it’s hogging nearly two whole minutes of precious LP space. Whot. The. Phoughque? Wow. You don’t get the point of that? It \*was \*a brilliant choice. You do know that Kyrie Eleison is an important prayer in the Catholic church, don’t you? The juxtaposition of a prayer and a bordello is inspired, especially since Peter Fonda is clearly stoned and he’s seeing the entire scene as a religious experience. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/13 "2020-02-20T02:24:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9… > > :smack::smack: The only possible correct response. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/14 "2020-02-20T03:12:51Z")
So you’re listening to the soundtrack, totally removed from what’s going on in the movie itself. Without that context, the music is practically meaningless. Watch the movie, then tell us what you think of that scene and its music. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/15 "2020-02-20T03:35:47Z")
Here is a Congolese version of the Kyrie that we listened to when we were kids, from the Missa Luba album. [Missa Luba 1965, Kyrie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNb-02n3KY) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/16 "2020-02-20T04:24:43Z")
> [@JWT\_Kottekoe](#): > > Here is a Congolese version of the Kyrie that we listened to when we were kids, from the Missa Luba album. > > [Missa Luba 1965, Kyrie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNb-02n3KY) Ddamn! That totally fucking rocks! Thank you! I got a copy for just $1.50 + $5 for shipping. I can’t wait to hear the whole album! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/17 "2020-02-20T04:36:18Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Wow. You don’t get the point of that? It \*was \*a brilliant choice. > > You do know that Kyrie Eleison is an important prayer in the Catholic church, don’t you? The juxtaposition of a prayer and a bordello is inspired, especially since Peter Fonda is clearly stoned and he’s seeing the entire scene as a religious experience. The scene also takes place just after George (Jack Nicolson’s character) is murdered by rednecks while they camped, and the bordello is one he recommended to them. Billy says “he would have wanted us to” (go to the bordello." “Kyrie eleison” means “Lord have mercy,” and this is their commemoration of George. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/18 "2020-02-20T05:39:25Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Someone thought this song was a good, nay a _brilliant_ idear. A money maker that would justify it’s hogging nearly two whole minutes of precious LP space. It was the most successful song off the album [Mass In F Minor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_F_Minor). Really it was the only successful song off the album because it got used in Easy Rider. They didnt even make money touring. They only attempted to play that album in concert once. That song _was_ the money maker. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/19 "2020-02-20T13:32:07Z")
I was sure this was going to be about that [shite song](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS821US821&sxsrf=ALeKk02iMImd7sWTR-W5abG5OKp_eVqPjA%3A1582204853902&ei=tYdOXsnINvGxggeW54agBA&q=kyrie+eleison+mister+mister&oq=kyrie+eleison+mi&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i20i263l2j0l5j0i22i30l3.21916.25675..29321...0.2..0.91.247.3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i67.ZqlJLQD-2a8) by Mr. Mister about which I wonder the same thing whenever I’m forced to hear _it._ I’ve never seen _Easy Rider,_ had no idea what that scene was about (what the hell are they eating?) but I thought the song fit and is also quite pretty. What other kinds of songs are on the soundtrack? Maybe it sounds off because it doesn’t go with the rest of the music. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185/20 "2020-02-20T13:43:05Z")
[This version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSfX2COuPMU&frags=pl%2Cwn) of “Amazing Grace” totally rocks, beginning with the low throbbing sound of an impending Cosmic Bowel Movement. > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > …I mean, like, wow. I get how drugs can make you do some crazy stuff in the moment but writing, developing, recording, producing, marketing…a song is a far longer process than metabolizing even a healthy portion of mushrooms. I’ve wondered how some movies with totally insane plots and unbelievable characters (particularly from the '80s) ever got released, but decided it must have been because of cocaine. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whyat-were-they-thinking-when-they-recorded-that/848185.md?page=2)