{"id":744,"date":"2002-10-11T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T07:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/11\/kinda-freaky-voices-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:07:43","slug":"kinda-freaky-voices-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/11\/kinda-freaky-voices-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinda freaky &#8211; voices from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15755,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.klf.de&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308021153\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.klf.de\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:33:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:02:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:38:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:38:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15756,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kompaktkiste.de\\\/klf.htm#825927&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251025181405\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.kompaktkiste.de\\\/klf.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:33:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:02:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:38:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:38:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okies, this was kind of weird. As usual in the evenings, I&#8217;m sitting here at my desk, working on my &#8216;puter and letting iTunes grab songs at random. The current track is &#8216;America No More&#8217;, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klf.de\/\" title=\"Welcome to the trance\">KLF<\/a>, off of the single for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kompaktkiste.de\/klf.htm#825927\" title=\"What Time Is Love?\">America: What Time Is Love?<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The song is a combination of war sound effects (planes, helicopers, missiles, explosions, and the like), a bagpipe tune, and samples from various broadcasts from around the time the song was written, in (I believe) 1991.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, I hear George Bush Sr.&#8217;s voice coming out of my speakers\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u2026the legitimate government of Kuwait will be restored to its rightful place, and Kuwait will once again be free. Iraq will eventually comply with all relevant United Nations resolutions, and then, when peace is restored, it is our hope that Iraq will live as a peaceful and cooperative member of the family of nations, thus enhancing the security and stability of the Gulf.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it sounded good at the time, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;the legitimate government of Kuwait will be restored to its rightful place, and Kuwait will once again be free. Iraq will eventually comply with all relevant United Nations resolutions, and then, when peace is restored, it is our hope that Iraq will live as a peaceful and cooperative member of the family of nations, thus enhancing the security and stability of the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2042],"tags":[16,3111],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","tag-quotes","tag-the-klf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}