Talk:Bananaphone

WTF?

This page looks like something out of Uncyclopedia. Which is awesome and all, but this is wikipedia.69.14.56.149 (talk) 23:32, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Another Bananaphone SWF

By Medoukali Vincent Origin 06/28/2004 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/178196

6 semitones

The article states that the flash animation version was sped up by 6 semitones. Changing the pitch doesn't change the speed. I played around with the original song and Audacity and found that pitch 6 semitones gets the right pitch, but not the right speed. To get the right pitch & speed, just speed up the song by 40%. This isn't an exact measurement but to the untrained ear, is close enough.

Sunny Walker 03:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I didn't verify, but changed it in the article, since it appears to be verifiable enough. --AySz88^-^ 04:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

it's sped up so that it sounds 6 semitones higher - strictly speaking it's not a pitch shift, just a time shift which gives the pitch shift. It can be done in most |DAWs by doing a pitch shift without time correction.Toomuchrockcankill (talk) 16:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

The article states that the music was speeded up to produce an "epileptic" effect and links to the epilepsy entry. Is this really the right word to use? What about to produce a frenetic effect or something like that? Redclaire 17:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Brainwashing And Subliminal messaging

Hi ive heard that banana phone contains subliminal messaging and can brainwash kids into harming other infants im not sure if this is true but the subliminal messaging is there the ones i heard is:

Kill yourself x2

Eat my horse

?????? tortoise

???????? sister

im not sure if this is deliberate or not but raffi has been branded on the internet as someone who puts subliminal messaging in his songs can someone play this song backwards like i did and see if you hear the same things or maybe more please —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Geordanuk (talk • contribs) .

That's fascinating and all, but Wikipedia doesn't deal in rumours or original research. If there was a published paper on this, then we'd have something. — Saxifrage ✎ 17:23, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

The only hidden message in Banana Phone is "Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Danana Phone!" Also, how many kids with access to Banana Phone would have horses? --72.195.177.247 (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

lol w...t..f.... 70.238.158.189 (talk) 05:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

"the subliminal messaging is there the ones i heard is" If the messages were subliminal then you would not notice them. This is the whole point. 90.211.114.238 (talk) 19:31, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

External Influences

Those seemed to be just made up and whatever any normal person would think. Totally not appropriate. 71.194.6.238 05:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring-ring... BANANAPHONE!

Teatro

The music in "David Teatro's Bananaphone 2 is called "Cats on Mars".

I'm not a major presence on wikipedia but as an admin of dave teatro's forum and since my likeness is one of the 3 new characters in BN2, I attempted to clarify them as avatars from his forum instead of "bizarrely animated stand-ins" but my edit was quickly reversed.

I'll assume what I did is unacceptable for some unknown reason.

AMV HELL

Instead of bringing to an admin, let's bring this to the Talk page.

Over the past several months anons have been adding AMV HELL to this page and linking directly to the "new release" of version 3. This always smelled strongly of spam to me so I reverted it on sight. Since this is finally being contested by an editor of better standing than that, let's discuss it.

My position is that Wikipedia's not for promotion and the links have always been added in a promotional way; what this indicates to me is that the creators think it doesn't have enough widespread recognition and they need to "spread the word". If the word needs spreading, then it's not notable enough to be included anywhere on Wikipedia. Note that it doesn't have an article like most notable internet phenomena. What arguments are there for including this? — Saxifrage ✎ 21:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Sax the anon's (or a few of them) were me before I joined. I admit my first edits were not NPOV however I went back just a few days ago and thought my last edit did look to adverty so I changed it. Oh, it's not to promote the 'movie' which really is just a collection of funny clips from anime. I have nothing vested other than I enjoyed the collection and remember this is where I first hear the song. I found out that the clip was a parody of the flash and decided to link it here because of that. That's about it. It's not about 'spreading the word' about the 'movie' (which anyone that has been into AMV's has probably seen it or heard about it). It's just that someone made a parody of the flash and I thought that it would be a good addition to the article. --Brian ^{(How am I doing?)} 22:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I think we disagree on whether it's important enough to be mentioned. I don't think it's on-par with the Gundam animation, since that was the original "push" that made the song an internet phenomenon. The AMV HELL videos seem to me as just another place where the meme has shown up rather than a significant event in its ongoing history. — Saxifrage ✎ 18:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

badgerbutt

i'd add this --Looris 09:27, December 17, 2005 (UTC)

can't find it anymore. bad thing, it ruled :/ Lo'oris - ロホリス 19:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

yay! i've found a mirror :D Lo'oris - ロホリス 23:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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hi, i'm new to wikipedia (well editing it anyway) and i just decided to make a change on this article pertaining to the fact that in the flash animation it is sped up by 30% not 40%. i actually found this out because i wanted an mp3 of the song and could only find a sped up version and had to change the speed of it myself in audacity. yes, i am that sad - withnail420

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Breakfast show music

You cite John Warburton's breakfast show as the first full radio play for this track, but it has been used in the past as a bed by Lauren Laverne when she presented the breakfast show for XFM (London only).

The piece was used as an introduction to a feature where she spoke to very important guests who had returned an invitation to phone into the show and plug their latest work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markcpowell (talk • contribs) 05:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...Totally Awesome?

Wikipedia may not be the Encarta, but can we at least try to keep some level of advanced literacy people? :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.60.67 (talk) 22:52, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Lauren Laverne used the song as a bed? So... what, she printed the song lyrics out and slept on them? Crazydiamond1to9 04:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Did the page get vandalized? where's all the history about gundam and badgerphone?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.147.10.56 (talk) 21:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

It is also played heavily on the Abu Dhabi Classic FM Kid's Classic radio slot which is at least as big as some London radio station if not significantly bigger... I wish Damien Watson would bloody stop as it is doing my head in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.110.0.220 (talk) 11:39, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Personnel

Need list of personnel/instrumentation of album. Badagnani (talk) 03:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

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Osakaphone

This section was removed over a year ago. I figure that it would be good to leave this on the talk page just in case it somehow gets a reference, in which case it can be used.

Removed Osakaphone section

Osakaphone

The song was popularized as the soundtrack for a Flash animation named osakaphone.swf, which features a wiggling Gundam in a banana suit being held by a flashing Shift JIS art rendition of the character Osaka from the manga/anime Azumanga Daioh. The animation first appeared on cookiethievery.com. The picture of Osaka, drawn in a style characteristic of 2channel Shift JIS art, was from the 4chan imageboard, introduced by "Shii". The song used in the Flash is sped up around 40% (raising the pitch about 6 semitones) from the original for humorous effect.

The Osakaphone Flash also features a hidden Easter egg: clicking on the Gundam Bananaphone's face will bring up a spoof of a scene from the short film Rejected, with a boy standing next to a bowl of cereal and complaining that the spoon he's holding (which is about the size of a pitchfork) is too big. Eventually, the Gundam Bananaphone walks up; after a brief pause, it announces "I am a banana", triggering the sound of a vacuum cleaner (somewhat resembling a burst of canned laughter) followed by the "You're Watching The Family Learning Channel" title and a pair of links. "Needs more Osakaphone" will play the Osakaphone Flash again, while "I don't get it" will link users to Bitter Films' website.

The Gundam "Bananaphone" itself has now appeared elsewhere, although this is something of a misnomer since it has no resemblance to a phone outside of the original Flash.

I doubt it is of much use, but I'll leave it here just in case. (Steampowered (talk) 19:05, 20 July 2008 (UTC)).

Release Date

In the introduction it says it was released in 1994 but in the box it says 1995. Can we clarify this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soxfnz86 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Why does "C-A-N-A-D-A" redirect here?

Why does "C-A-N-A-D-A" redirect here? That song is by Stompin' Tom Connors. While Raffi did cover the song on this album, we don't redirect other covers to the cover versions instead of the original versions.

--Rob Kelk 17:48, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

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