I know a lot of people are wondering about this still, so I'll go ahead and post it… the source of the sample that everyone loves (including me… a great outro/intro):
"I feel— like my heart is being touched by Christ…"
It was taken from an old movie called "Altered States", which was released in 1980. That was the year I was born, haha… so I imagine most of you reading this hadn't even been born yet. Here is the good stuff though… the sampled dialogue is about 17 minutes into the movie:
00:17:14 Do you feel different now?
00:17:16 Yes.
00:17:18 Less anxious?
00:17:20 Much less.
00:17:22 Do you have any special feelings?
00:17:24 I feel…
00:17:26 …like my heart is being touched by Christ.
To me, what makes this part so appealing to everyone is the effect that it creates in the mind/body. Picking it apart, first is the tempo drop to a half-time feel at the tail end of "Anthem" from 3:25-3:53 that begins "winding things down"… fading into that peaceful/serene feeling sample, which quickly calms you down… the dialogue, then the line (the way she pauses halfway through it creates a brief feeling of subconscious tension)… then instantly the track clicks over… "It Never Ends" intro starts up and kicks your ass in. It essentially takes you from tension (Anthem), into a calm, then right back into tension. It almost seems like there is a freeze or pause between her last word and the intro, but it's only created by your mind (in reality, it's no more than a fraction of a second). There was no accident in all of that, I'm sure.
Also, many of you probably didn't notice this: The exact same open low-string strumming/droning is played in both "Anthem" and "It Never Ends". Didn't realize? Listen to 2:42-2:51 in "Anthem"… then listen to the first two seconds of "It Never Ends". Identical— which further binds the two songs together with a common element (again… probably subconsciously, if you hadn't noticed this until now).
I know a lot of people are wondering about this still, so I'll go ahead and post it… the source of the sample that everyone loves (including me… a great outro/intro):
"I feel— like my heart is being touched by Christ…"
It was taken from an old movie called "Altered States", which was released in 1980. That was the year I was born, haha… so I imagine most of you reading this hadn't even been born yet. Here is the good stuff though… the sampled dialogue is about 17 minutes into the movie:
00:17:14 Do you feel different now? 00:17:16 Yes. 00:17:18 Less anxious? 00:17:20 Much less. 00:17:22 Do you have any special feelings? 00:17:24 I feel… 00:17:26 …like my heart is being touched by Christ.
To me, what makes this part so appealing to everyone is the effect that it creates in the mind/body. Picking it apart, first is the tempo drop to a half-time feel at the tail end of "Anthem" from 3:25-3:53 that begins "winding things down"… fading into that peaceful/serene feeling sample, which quickly calms you down… the dialogue, then the line (the way she pauses halfway through it creates a brief feeling of subconscious tension)… then instantly the track clicks over… "It Never Ends" intro starts up and kicks your ass in. It essentially takes you from tension (Anthem), into a calm, then right back into tension. It almost seems like there is a freeze or pause between her last word and the intro, but it's only created by your mind (in reality, it's no more than a fraction of a second). There was no accident in all of that, I'm sure.
Also, many of you probably didn't notice this: The exact same open low-string strumming/droning is played in both "Anthem" and "It Never Ends". Didn't realize? Listen to 2:42-2:51 in "Anthem"… then listen to the first two seconds of "It Never Ends". Identical— which further binds the two songs together with a common element (again… probably subconsciously, if you hadn't noticed this until now).
Anyway, for the rest of the movie transcription, follow the link: http://www.subzin.com/search.php?title=Altered+States&search_sort=Popularity&type=All&genre=-1&pag=7
Oh, and one other bit of shinfo— the exact same line was also sampled in the Ministry song "Psalm 69".
Here's the page from the book that the film was based on:
Here's the page from the book that the film was based on:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PBB7kLkQSKQC&pg=PA241
http://books.google.com/books?id=PBB7kLkQSKQC&pg=PA241
There is a little bit more said in the book, plus it gives you a bit of a different angle on the scene.
There is a little bit more said in the book, plus it gives you a bit of a different angle on the scene.