Language Removal Contest

Here's an end-of-the-work-week audio contest for you. Below are links to ten mp3s of ten famous people speaking, with all of the actual language removed from their speech. All that remains are the interjections, gutteral noises, yawns, screams, background sounds, denture-clacking, tongue flapping and other sonic ephemera that accompanies normal speech. It's not as hard as you might think - various tracks contain all sorts of audio hints as to the speaker's identity. The first person to identify all ten speakers correctly wins a WFMU T-shirt and double CD of live music from WFMU. Put your guesses into the comments section.

The mystery speakers are: Maya Angelou, Phillip Glass, Elton John, Thelonius Monk, Marilyn Monroe, Henry Rollins, Susan Sontag, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Steinem, and Malcolm X.

And here are their MP3s to download: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten.

MP3s courtesy Language Removal Services.

Comments

[kevin]

I'll have a go, ken - I'm into inhaling.

1. monroe
2. stallone
3. elton john
4. s. sontag
5. glass
6. t. monk
7. h. rollins
8. m. angelou
9. g. steinem
10. malcolm x

[Rich]

I don't know.
But I DO know that if you Mix 'em all together it sounds like a meeting of the most influential minds of our generation turned into one of the nastiest orgies that this world has ever seen.

[Rob S.]

1. M Monroe
2. S. Stallone
3. M. Angelou
4. P Glass
5. T. Monk
6. S Sontag
7. H Rollins
8. G Steinem
9. E. John
10. P Glass

Kind of disturbing

[Snoopy]

1 Marilyn Monroe
2 Sylvester Stallone
3 Elton John
4 Maya Angelou
5 Phillip Glass
6 Thelonius Monk
7 Henry Rollins
8 Gloria Steinem
9 Susan Sontag
10 Malcolm X

[Wendell]

okay ...

1) Monroe
2) Stallone
3) Elton
4) Angelou
5) X
6) Glass
7) Rollins
8) Steinem
9) Sontag
10) Monk

(the women were mostly guesses ... strange)

[fatty]

1. monroe
2. stallone
3. john'
4. sontag
5. glass
6. monk
7. rollins
8. angelou
9. steinam
10. mx

[Station Man Ken]

Damn, Kevin and Fatty both nailed it! Congratulations, Kevin, you're the lucky weiner! E-mail me off list so I can send you the goods. Next Friday's audio contest will be a lot harder!
-ken

[fatty]

damn!

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