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[edit] Another Bananaphone SWF

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

[edit] +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)

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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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!

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

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

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 03:32, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original research and unreferenced tags

This article was recently tagged as containing original research and being unreferenced. The edit inserting the tags was marked as minor and no explanation was given. If no one is able to tell why the tags were inserted I suggest they be removed because this kind of tagging clutters up the backlog of tagged pages which is large enough as it is.

To the editor who placed the tag: Please do not mark such edits as minor. They are a serious criticism and should be explained. Unexplained tagging does not constitute constructive editing. A small explanation of why you tagged it can help a lot. Thank you. MartinDK 19:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 19:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Personnel

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