Talk:Yerself Is Steam

Damaged speaker myth

Removed this paragraph from the Miscellanea section:

On releases of the album where "Very Sleepy Rivers" is stretched out to multiple tracks (see above), there are, apparently, somewhere in the 90s, extremely low bass frequencies (below 20 Hz, or below the threshold of most human hearing). These won't do anything on most normal home speakers, and were supposedly included by the band as a prank to damage the high quality speakers used to master the album. According to legend, the low frequencies damaged the particular Columbia studio where the album was being mastered.

It contains 'apparently' and 'supposedly' and 'according to legend', but most importantly the prank story doesn't make any sense. Mastering speakers can not be damaged by low frequencies. The "legend" is nonsense, as anybody working in professional audio can tell you. Besides, the mastering engineer would spot these "hidden" sounds anyway. If they're on the CD, they will not have gone unnoticed and they certainly will not have "damaged" a "studio". This is information of Paul Is Dead quality.

Rien Post 12:51, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-- Actually its entirely plausible, because its not supposed to be a reference to the speakers. Its actually well established that very low frequencies damage record presses and styluses due to the large grooves they cut. A standard part of mastering for vinyl is the heavy bass highpass to eliminate the low rumble to avoid damaging equipment during pressing. That said, standard in vinyl pressing is applying the "RIAA curve" equalization system to knock out the low frequencies (ie the RIAA curve recomends dropping as far as -20db for 20hz) and this is often done at the end of the mastering so unless they had hijacked the record companies mastering, its unlikely a frequency that low would have hit the vinyl cutters. 180.150.93.49 (talk) 13:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your self-esteem

I think it would be worth to mention that the title does not only mean "your self-esteem" but also "yourself is steam". Actually the lyrics in Chasing a Bee say "remember that yourself is steam." (a hint to the temporary nature of life probably). Josieknows (talk) 13:22, 7 January 2011 (UTC) Josieknows[reply]

Yerself Is Steam is not a malapropism. A malapropism is when a speaker or writer uses a word that sounds similar to the word they mean to use but is, in fact, the incorrect word to use in the situation. A famous example of a malapropism from the play The Rivals is: "...she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." When in fact what was meant was that she's as headstrong as an alligator on the banks of the Nile.

I'm not sure what you'd call Yerself Is Steam but it's definitely not a malapropism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by My original username (talk • contribs) 18:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]