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Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 14:00
I've been meaning to start this one for ages - well, makes a change from flutes, saxophones and harmonica!

The first track I remember featuring a ping-pong balls was Depeche Mode - Pipeline (from Construction Time Again) from 1984.

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(Takes a while, but there's definitely Ping-Pong balls there - starts around 1min.)

I also remember this one from a Sunday Best compilation - which I love:
Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong

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...and I'm sure I've got other tracks in my collection with Ping Pong in it - but I can't remember any of them!

I'm especially interested in trying to establish if the Depeche Mode track is the first know use of the Ping Pong ball in recorded music... Yes, I know, I AM sad!

So, (could be the shortest Spotify playlist in history...) - does anyone know of any other tracks featuring Ping Pong balls!? :lol:
WAD62
28-07-2011, 14:11
How about...

Flying Lotus - Table Tennis from the album Cosmogramma

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Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 14:19
:thumbsup: Nice one Will! :cool:

It's on the Playlist! :)

http://open.spotify.com/user/alex_steel1969/playlist/4eP53J83CtH5Uw5LuiGKwx
Beechwoods
28-07-2011, 18:56
Can - Ping-Pong (3m20secs into this video)

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I have an 18 minute EP by Safety Scissors and Kit Clayton called 'Ping Pong' as well. All the tracks are created from mashed up samples of ping pong balls, plus glitchy electronic bleeps and clicks of course.

http://www.discogs.com/Safety-Scissors-vs-Kit-Clayton-The-Ping-Pong-EP/release/72674
Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 19:10
Thanks Nick, I knew I could rely on you for some bleepy electronic weirdness! ;)

Amazingly, that EP is on Spotify (http://open.spotify.com/album/0znSrG4JT00r7kW0W11BkS), albeit broken into 36 tracks!
DSJR
28-07-2011, 19:47
Oh Alex, you mean that the only thing you like on Construction Time Again is the ping-pong balls??????? I'm afraid that "side 2" had such a profound effect on me when I first heard it I tend to stay there, which is my bad I suppose :lolsign:
Beechwoods
28-07-2011, 19:52
:lol: A prima facie reason why Spotify needs gapless playback! At least you got to hear it!
Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 20:01
Oh Alex, you mean that the only thing you like on Construction Time Again is the ping-pong balls??????? I'm afraid that "side 2" had such a profound effect on me when I first heard it I tend to stay there, which is my bad I suppose :lolsign:

:nono: Oh no, not my favourite, but just something which has been wandering round my mind for a few months (the ping pong balls that is!) - The whole album is superb - I'll have to lend you all of the DM CD remasters to try.
Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 20:07
At least you got to hear it!
It's fab, but I think we'll just have one of the more pingy pongy ones on the playlist. :)
DSJR
28-07-2011, 21:49
:nono: Oh no, not my favourite, but just something which has been wandering round my mind for a few months (the ping pong balls that is!) - The whole album is superb - I'll have to lend you all of the DM CD remasters to try.

I've been playing some of the originals all evening 'cos of you :D

Please excuse my (lack of) humour. The only other track I can think of with a sort-of ping-pong ball is Kytes, by Simon Dupre - my memory is so vague, but I'm sure I have the right one...

Them Fairlight and Synclavier thingies have a lot to answer for in the 80's methinks :lol:
Alex_UK
28-07-2011, 22:13
I've been playing some of the originals all evening 'cos of you :D

Hope you enjoyed!


The only other track I can think of with a sort-of ping-pong ball is Kytes, by Simon Dupre - my memory is so vague, but I'm sure I have the right one...

Pretty sure it is the track you are thinking of, but I'm not convinced it is a ping pong ball... Maybe I should start a ping pong poll :lol:

http://open.spotify.com/track/55sAqa3Qjrrkr7Vs522GHR
Marco
28-07-2011, 23:35
How about a sister thread in Abstract Chat, lads, entitled 'Great Fanny Stunts of Thailand Featuring... Ping-Pong Balls'!"

Pictorial posts only... :eyebrows: :eyebrows:

Marco.
Alex_UK
29-07-2011, 05:49
How about a sister thread in Abstract Chat, lads, entitled 'Great Fanny Stunts of Thailand Featuring... Ping-Pong Balls'!"

:lolsign:
DSJR
29-07-2011, 09:01
I think mars bars do it better - I'll get me coat :eek:
Barry
29-07-2011, 14:24
Don’t dismiss it – these Asian artists have developed and perfected amazing adroitness and control of the pubococcygeus muscle. I think it should be an Olympic sport. :lol:

Yours, 'a man of the world'
Marco
29-07-2011, 14:33
I think mars bars do it better - I'll get me coat :eek:

Mmm... Not sure if seafood foam and chocolate mix.... :hmm:

Marco.
Tim
29-07-2011, 19:26
How about a sister thread in Abstract Chat, lads, entitled 'Great Fanny Stunts of Thailand Featuring... Ping-Pong Balls'!"
See, I have been looking at this thread for a few days now, having travelled extensively in Thailand and most of SE Asia I had a funny response in mind, but thought "Nah, I can't put that - it's rude" But daftee here has trumped me :lol:
Barry
29-07-2011, 19:41
See, I have been looking at this thread for a few days now, having travelled extensively in Thailand and most of SE Asia I had a funny response in mind, but thought "Nah, I can't put that - it's rude" But daftee here has trumped me :lol:

A frequent visitor to Patpong, Bangkok perhaps?
Marco
29-07-2011, 19:46
See, I have been looking at this thread for a few days now, having travelled extensively in Thailand and most of SE Asia I had a funny response in mind, but thought "Nah, I can't put that - it's rude" But daftee here has trumped me :lol:

I'm really very shy..... :o

Marco.
Tim
29-07-2011, 20:14
A frequent visitor to Patpong, Bangkok perhaps?
Nope, went there once only after being persuaded by a young Scottish couple who asked me to be their guide, as they wanted to see what all the fuss was about. As it was a free night I took them and we had quite a laugh. They nearly got scammed by the taxi driver on the way back too, until I said a few words to him in Thai I had been taught for such an occasion - he backed off luckily and I have never been there since and don't intend to repeat the experience either. But I love the country, it's people and the food..... especially the food :eyebrows:

Northern Thailand is my favourite place and around Khao Sok National Park, had my foot eaten by a rat one night in a water bungalow there! I always pass right through Bangkok now, but not been there since all the unrest, which breaks my heart to see a wonderful country in such turmoil. Anyway, I'm rambling now ....... :o

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w63/greatgig/Cus10009.jpg
Beautiful Khao Sok - that's me!
DanJennings
06-09-2011, 06:45
I was listening to this track the other day, and thought.... I must find that old thread!

Misty's Big Adventure - Biscuit Tin (on spotify) (http://open.spotify.com/track/1VIcTCQNoCNBI5X4xj9uHS)
WAD62
06-09-2011, 08:09
And now combining 2 threads...the ping pong ball comes in at the end :)

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Alex_UK
06-09-2011, 20:17
Well done chaps, duly added! Hopefully next time anyone hears a track with ping pong balls, they'll think of this thread too!