A message for Kevin for tomorrow!
And what a short turn around it is.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: RE: Science Fiction In Music
> > I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you'd have to carry a lot of > water to say you are "the" (sorry Nick) resident music freak.
He is still pretty new here. So he deserves some slack. Besides.... he seems like a pretty nice guy IMO. No harm. No foul. <G>
I know. I just read it and wrote my mind. No apologies.
> > I have to side with Rob. BOC is very SF. In fact (much to my delight) he > didn't list Sole Survivor, close to my favorite song, with Secret Treaties > being my favorite album. (But I'll admit to not knowing Black Blade, never > heard of it).
Black Blade is on Cultasaurus Erectus along with Joan Crawford Has Risen >From The Grave. If you like BOC, you are gonna love Black Blade. Its absolutely one of the best pieces the band ever created. Buck Dharma's guitar smokes all over the song.
Well, I had CE when it came out all those years ago. I don't know any of the songs on it now, I never got it on tape or CD. Joan Crawford is on Fire of Unknown Origin, the same one that has Sole Survivor.
>How does a band from New York City end up writing such messed > up lyrics?
They write better song titles than lyrics.<G> Actually, I think the quality of their lyrics has improved greatly over the years. But I agree that on the first three albums they could be pretty bad.
Woah Nelly! I didn't mean messed up as bad. (And not trying to put down Deep Purple with this example). Just compare Highway Star to:
Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst Out at you from their hiding place Like acid and oil on a madman’s face His reason tends to fly away Like lesser birds on the four winds Like silver scrapes in May And now the sands become a crust Most of you have gone away
Or this (about a German jet in WWII)
Get me through these radars, no, I cannot fail While my great silver slugs are eager to feed I can’t fail—No, not now When twenty five bombers wait ripe
They hung there dependent from the sky Like some heavy metal fruit These bombers are ripe and ready to tilt Must these Englishmen live that I might die Must they live that I might die
ME 262 prince of turbojet Junkers Jumo 004 Blasts from clustered R4/M quartets in my snout And see these English planes go burn
(Wonder if Eric Bloom ever spoke with Roger Waters?) Yes it's nonsensical, but it works. Other bands are struggling to compare women with cars and these guys are writing this on their third album.
> > Would the themes of Boston's first three albums qualify? Only one or two > songs were SFish, but they had the cover art.
Great covers, but not SF&Fnal that I can recall.
I'm thinking of the instrumental before It's Easy on the second release. I know you were discounting instrumentals, but you can certainly make distinctions between western sounding and urban, so some instrumentals can sound SF.
> > Iron Madien also has Stranger in a Strange Land and To Tame A Land (about > Dune). Not fantasy DnD at all. > > I don't think any of Pink Floyd's music is SF related. It works as a > soundtrack, but not as directly as the above. Heck, they are more agrarian > than futuristic.
I always thought of it as either Horror or an Orwellian nightmare.
I may have been stretching that.
> > What about Devo? The Devolution theme is SFish, but none of their songs > really fit the bill.
I love DEVO. The whole DEVO concept is SFish as is quite a bit of Oingo Boingo's music. I think you would have to fit them into the Phillip K. Dick "reality is turning against me" conspiracy/paranoia theme file.
Marginally SF at best.
> > Can't add any more right now. I only flipped the 'puter on because of > insomnia. Hopefully my 15 hour working day tomorrow will fix that. > Good Luck!!!!!
xponent Peek-A-Boo Ha Ha Ha Ha Peek-A-Boo Maru rob
I started this at 5am, just got home to finish it. I saw the Peek A boo and it meant nothing then. Thanks for it.
Kevin T. - VRWC Back to sleep again, only nine hour day tomorrow
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