Sample at end of "The Eternal"?

What is the voice sample at the end of "The Eternal"? Television programme? Movie? Anything known?

Not that it matters much, maybe it has some little meaning or something.

Ive never noticed it TBO.

Can't say I've ever heard it myself.

But point of order, it's not a "sample" as the sampler was still pretty much a thing living in Irie and Vogel's lab, don't think Fairlight shipped comercially until late 1980, and we know Hannet never got one anyway.

EDIT: unless of course they somehow got there paws on the single example of the Melotron that was fitted with record as well as playback heads.

There is definitely something at 5:59 that sounds like it was recorded straight from a television or radio. Be interested to know if anyone has any ideas what it is? Maybe that fuck who is releasing all this dodgy Hannett's Mixes rubbish has a whole double cd set based entirely on this one sound.

sample, found sound, tape... you know what I mean. "The Eternal" seems like the only track from Closer with any extra non-band sounds.

What about the piano at the end of "The Eternal"? The band? or a "sample" lifted from something else?

I knew what you meant, I was just being an uberpedant.

Must actually listen for this.

As for the piano, it's left me wondering for years. It's not a synth (while your Roland XP80 can do a concert grand that would fool Mr Steinway, in 79/80 they went "byyyyerrple" mainly....though they could do killer droney strings as evidence by what plays behind the piano on TE), it's probably not a melotron (the melotron piano tape set is kinda distinctive, and quite low-fi by comparison), and it's not tape looping, radiophoic workshop style (that sticks out a mile). So it's either a real piano, or they "borrowed" the phrase from elsewhere. I think it could well be a piano, though not concert grand, more likely a baby, or an upright (in fact, given the imperfect tuning, my money goes on upright (wankers to keep tuned)).

I reckon it's just Bernard playing that brief motif on a piano that happened to be there. It fits the mood of the song well although it's occasionally out-of-time! The lyric Ian sings is just magic really, especially the bit about "though these years make me older...". I gather it was written from the perspective of a Down's syndrome lad he knew as a neighbour who died, hence the lyric is about the lad's life and funeral.

Its Bernard playing an actual piano. Its not really a hard part to play. Took me 3 seconds to figure it out.

It makes the song though, really goes with the mood set by Ian's lyrics and vocals.

I believe Bernard wrote and played all of the synth/piano parts on Closer.

Get Out on the Control OST reminds me of The Eternal a bit. According to Anton Corbijn in his directos commentary, Get out was written and performed by Bernard on piano and synth, and Hooky and Steve added thier smaller parts later.

it's badly edited sounds like someone pressing pause on a cassette - someone is saying something as well - probably Hook'y yelling at Bernard or something