Talk:Windowlicker

message: Really? Ask anybody who speaks French as their native language and they will tell you that it means "I love making dog nuggets". French cannot be translated literally. If you were to translate the original quote word-for-word (Which is rarely ever an effective method to translate something) you would come up with "I love make some nuggets of dog". Notice how tense is ignored?
Also, who the hell decided to input their own subjective opinion at the end? Let alone one that has no real rational basis. Ph33rspace (talk) 00:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: French Girlfriend

message: It might be useful to include something about the Windowlicker video, which is just too 'king weird for words...I mean, does James really want to hang out with ugly hermaphrodites?! Lee M 21:42, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't particularly like Aphex Twin, but I think Richard D. James is a narcissist, meaning he is in love with himself. That's why he uses his face as a "logo" in all his videos. That's why he makes out with chicks who sport his face. - Ndrly 00:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Richard David James is NOT A NARCISSIST. The Reason in 3 of his music video's he puts his own face on the face of most charictars is because he is saying everybody is the same, and nothing is original. 
Somebody put up the album cover image!  -  Insomniak
Can anyone say anything about the remix version of the song that the two men are playing in the car at the beginning of the video? It sounds incredible and would be worth noting if this version had been released. 70.89.177.158 (talk) 21:46, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Music video

message: I would they the images within the spectrogram of Track 2 is not a usual photography, but a infrared photo. I must say it's hard to determine if that image really is Richard D. James or someone else. --Abdull 5 July 2005 16:48 (UTC)
:The picture is taken from the images associated with the Donkey Rhubarb EP.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.123.242.175 (talk) 05:44, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not infrared. You can't take an infrared picture of sound because it isn't a physical object. You need to run it through a Spectrogram under certain settings.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.243.215 (talk) 20:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infrared image 

message: The link to the spectrogram of his face is dead.  Remove it?
:Probably. I made a really nice image of the face encoded in the song but it got deleted as a copyright violation ;-(. --Russell E 03:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you put any license tag on it? —Keenan Pepper 03:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sheesh, you could use an mp3 bootleg; I doubt spectrographic images of stolen music is a copyright violation. How could it be proven it wasn't from the actual cd? —Family Guy Guy 03:30, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you couldn't use an MP3, because the spectrograph looks different. That's how MP3 works. It alters the spectrum to store the audio in less space. —Keenan Pepper 16:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks similar to my eyes! http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/9402/128kbitmp3.jpg Tomas9922 (talk) 11:43, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

message: The page says now that there are two demos out (one on bleep, and a "different" one--I think that these subjects could definitely use some clarification. Another thing that's been eating me up is if the music played at the beginning of the video is released, and if it's the different demo, so these could definitely use some more sources.
Replicate 02:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes! I'm trying to find out about the music at the very beginning of the video clip too, when the homies are driving. It is possible this isn't a mix of windowlicker but a different song... can anyone shed some light? sebiv 09:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: remix by luke vibert (no official release)
I was thinking it might be the Acid Remix of Windowlicker, but I have no evidence of that. 211.28.247.229 02:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demos/Japanese Imports 

message: Anyone knows the name of the scraching track that appears at the beginning of the WL video? XamiXiarus 21:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scratching track 

message: Are we sure the name of this record isn’t “Window Licker?” The cover says APHEXTWIN, so the name of the album could be two words as well. Wiki Wikardo 08:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article/album name 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:WAP105CDR.jpg

message: I have seen on last.fm that there is a version of the title song that goes for 14 minutes. But there is no reference to it here. Are we missing something or is it just last.fm mislabeling? 211.28.247.229 11:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unedited Version 

message: The article said that embedding the image in the spectrogram is steganography.  While steganography requires embedding data within a cover text (which this track does) it also requires the intent of it to be hidden in the cryptographic sense.  Since the artist intended the image to be seen by anyone that bothers then it clearly has no sense of cryptography.
Let me restate in another way.  Cryptography uses math to encrypt data.  Saying this track uses steganography is like calling "x+1" a cryptographic cipher because it is a math equation.  Cburnett (talk) 23:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not steganography 

message: I was watching 1000 Ways to die and afterwords there was a Spike Commercial using The begining bit from windowlicker. Shoud someone add this?
CONKERN65</span> • Wins! Fatality! • 18:38pm • 00:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spike TV 

message: About a year before the album came out an early version of the title track was leaked to the internet. No idea how I would begin to find sources to prove that tho.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.131.138 (talk) 07:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leaked version 

message: "The term is also an approximate English translation of the French term faire du lèche-vitrine (literally "do some window-licking"), a term used when looking for prostitutes"
--The French term means 'window-shopping'. Collins-Robert has an example: "we wandered around looking in the shop windows :  nous avons flâné en faisant du lèche-vitrine" 93.218.156.98 (talk) 15:22, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Windowlicker is actually an offensive slang term for people with learning difficulties, based on how severely disabled people often appear when passing by in buses. No mention of this is made in the article for some reason. --Ef80 (talk) 19:05, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: faire du lèche-vitrine

message: I edited out the word "prostitutes", as they are quite obviously not prostitutes, as some sheltered cretin evidently thought. Batchuba (talk) 14:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Not prostitutes