Chipmunk Christmas, slowed down to original speed

AKA "Satan confers with His minions". The MP3 link blogged here some time ago is sadly dead.

"Put it on repeat and you'll drift gradually into madness - it's like an acid flashback to fetal languor, the surreal sounds that filtered through the uterine wall." — Sean Michaels

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd8jPj5l-S8

Patton Oswalt gold :)
Boundegar

This is so great! I think I did this with an LP back in… well… the 20th century. But as a kid, I never noticed how exaggerated their enunciation is. Probably they did a first take with natural voices, and found it was unintelligible. There’s some craftsmanship to this.
- relawson
  
  My cousins and I used to take one of those mini tape recorders with speed selection and make our own chipmunk skits. We got pretty good at the timing and switching back and forth for regular voice parts. Great times were had by all! :)
10xor01

Speeding up can also be funny. If you play the LP of Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire at 45 rpm, it’s Dolly Parton’s voice you hear.
cellocgw

Can anyone verify they actually produced the songs this way? I had blithely assumed they just used a Fourier Transform to shift the voice frequency. (And, yes, there were FT techniques available even in the analog days)
- http://www.facebook.com/scareduck Rob McMillin
  
  I don’t think they would have. The Wikipedia page says it was just sped up, which certainly make sense.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks
  - Boundegar
    
    Analog fourier transform curcuitry is AKA ring modulator, and it makes really bizarre sounds. Instead of doubling frequencies, it shifts them by a fixed amount, so the harmonics are all wrong. Everything comes out sounding like a bell.
    - http://twitter.com/_TheGeoff Geoff Robbins
      
      …or a Dalek (ring modulators were used in the old days, don’t know if they still do, but it wouldn’t surprise me) – Dalek chipmunks, there’s a spooky idea…
- Jonathan Roberts
  
  I’m presuming it wasn’t just the songs – or was there another way to make the dialog sound like that without using this method? (taking into account Rob’s comments about FT)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

My friend Paulie had that very album (I remember the calendar page) and a turntable with a 16 rpm setting (for “talking books” records). It was very eerie, hearing the singers’ natural voices.
voiceinthedistance

Even more festive than Cyriak. You rawk, Rob.

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Rob Gehrke

Did you know that “Santa” is an anagram for “Satan”? Coincidence?
Wake up, sheeple.
- http://billmcgonigle.com bill_mcgonigle
  
  The Judeo-Christians got nuthin on Saturnalia, the winter holiday of human sacrifice, ‘festive’ rape, and property destruction. Caroling used to be naked and gingerbread men are echoes of alleged cannibalism. Anagrams can go back to their tame corners now.
  - dragonfrog
    
    That would be an extremely short round of caroling, in this neck of the woods.
- Boundegar
  
  Needs more caps lock.
wrybread

Ha, whoever wrote that description in the box, well done.
- kevin casey
  
  He writes this music blog
  http://saidthegramophone.com/
musesum

The satan free sped up version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StC8MhcgALc
http://twitter.com/dovekwartel Willem Oosterhof

Here’s the mp3.
http://kiwi6.com/file/2cj5ed4cat

And the orignal link where it used to be.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080220120504/http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/with_you.php
Andreu LaFleur

Um, I heard you needed a link. Found it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FxOu2gg10
Photomonkey

This always reminds me of the Daedelus song that sampled this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–iO4ZpTE-c