February 25, 2006

Tom Baker Says... in the UK there is a new system from BT where SMS text messages can be voiced by Tom Baker. Fucking TOM BAKER, people. This site is about what you can make Tom Baker say. For instance, you can make Tom Baker say 'motherfucker' which I think is astounding, and for me, that proves we really are in the 21st Century and slightly makes up for the lack of flying cars and domed cities on the moon. Particularly check out the movie quotes section. Also the Tom Bakaraoke. Warning: contains embedded AUDIO you luddites.
posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • I bought a Tom Baker book the other week. The Boy who Kicked Pigs. It's wonderfully weird/ bizarre/ gruesome.
  • Here
  • Luddites?
  • The audiobook of The Boy Who Kicked Pigs is read by TB too. It was an awesome way to spend a summer evening, sitting and listening to that book. (It also came with another CD of interviews with him - about how he was a sex symbol in the UK for a while and he didn't really get it.)
  • I've been enjoying this all week, everyone's posting their compositions and it's so fantastic. I wish I could use the service here, drats. I really liked the jokes - particularly "what goes bang thud?" and his rendition of Video Killed The Radio Star is glorious, but I do have to agree that it was when he said motherfucker that I absolutely lost it. In fact, I think I'll have to go listen to that again.
  • If you want to hear him cuss, check out the movie quote page. Your mother sucks cocks in hell!
  • I said about that
  • Oh, there is something so... so... Fucked Up Zen about Tom Baker's voice being sampled to replace the vocals on Video Killed The Radio Star. I mean, "Rewritten by machine and new technology" for Christ's sake! Actually, which prompts a question that perhaps one of the more knowledgeable audio Monkeys can answer: how would you go about removing the original vocals from a song? The Baker version of Video Killed The Radio Star sounds like it's using the original track, not some re-recorded karaoke version. Any ideas?
  • Thank you planetthoughtful for your contribution. However you should know this: you are so fucking right man, that just freaks my mind dude.
  • This is why I love the internet so much. Awesome!
  • Particularly check out the movie quotes section, also note that you can make Tom Baker say: 'motherfucker'. I can't get enough of that.
  • I SAID ABOUT THAT
  • "The Baker version of Video Killed The Radio Star sounds like it's using the original track, not some re-recorded karaoke version." It's not. It's a karaoke version. Removing a vocal track is simple in most cases since the vox are usually in the center of the stereo field, you just use a notch filter or other method to blitz out the center of the field and you have an almost vocal free track (you can still hear the voice thru the echo &/or other reverb effects they might be using). I used to have a hifi I bought in the 90s that had that feature, it was all the rage, then, plug your crappy radio shack mic into the input and bleat away to your favorite shits. But no, that sounds like a prof. backing track to me. My wife uses ones for her solo act that are near identical to the originals.
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  • I hate the Tom Baker robot voice messages when I recieve them on my phone Stupid Tom Baker I'd punch him if I dared
  • For all the disappointing reality that is the twenty first century, like no cities on the moon, or flying cars; this slightly makes up for it.
  • Wow, this really proves that we're in the 21st Century now.
  • Yes that is what I said. About. Alnedra.
  • I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard!
  • There's really something about the way he says "motherfucker" that gets me, y'know?
  • Who's Tom Baker?
  • Who's Tom Baker? *feels old*
  • vertexOfLife Tom Baker.. the man from Little Britain. He does the voice overs.
  • VOL: I'm guessing he was one of the Dr Who actors.
  • the man from Little Britain. He does the voice overs. *weeps* Motherfuckers, the lot of you!
  • planet, Chy: Sounds to me like it was the original track, with the left or right channel flipped upside-down for Tom Baker's bits. You can tell by the way the stereo goes crazy wide when he's, uh, singing. I used to have some music software that called that `Surround Sound'. (It also gets a lot more crackly and MP3-artifacty, possibly from the fact that the left and right channels are no longer positively correlated. That's just a guess, though; I deal mostly in mono MP3.)
  • Also, more Tom Baker swearing in a furniture commercial. (via)
  • Why can't William Shatner do this?
  • Because there is a god that loves us, Skrik.
  • allusion: I agree. I've got a pretty good ear for these sorts of things, and while I would never claim that I can't be fooled, that really does sound too much like the original track for me to go with Chy's assertion that it's a karaoke cover. As always, could be wrong.
  • Eh, I've been wrong before. We use backings that are near perfect rerecordings, so I just assumed.
  • Shatner could do this better, because he already speaks in a broken voice. It's like they figured out this technology fifty years ago, and used it for the tracking of every piece of work Shatner did.
  • I have heard that use of the BT Textback service has increased by almost 70% since they got Baker to do the voice. Until I saw this site, I was convinced that this was entirely due to Doctor Who fans texting each other the phrase "Tom's putting it in now."
  • "How did he manage to do a spoken-word version of a rap song?" "HE FOUND A WAY."