Rebels of Mars

Dance of the Firefly

I found this at YouTube while looking for other stuff.

Cross-posted at The Sudden Curve

Posted by Tom Ender who wishes a Happy New Year to all !

Space Music :: The Alan Parsons Project ~ I Robot

Speaking of  space music, this one was always my favorite : The Alan Parsons Project - I ROBOT. I've always wondered who those people in the tubes on the album cover art were.   Although, come to think of it, I've never looked before to see if there was a CD version of I ROBOT until just now. If any of you whippersnappers don't recognize what this red thing is .. it's the liner notes insert from my original I ROBOT cassette.  I got it when the album came out.  What you've never seen a cassette? Oh, well, they were like scotch tape for music... they have them in museums now.

Hmm, I think I'll stick this into my twenty-five thirty year old Pioneer CT- F8282 and see how she plays.

posted by Tom Novak who is now fast forwarding to the part that sounds like Ghosts of Mars wailing from the sandy red arroyos

It's a fair wind...

...that blows against the empire.

Since Tom Novak has brought up the subject of "space music," I feel compelled to mention Paul Kantner's sci-fi outer space rock 'n roll opus Blows Against the Empire. I've been listening to this LP/CD for 35 years -- it's one of my personal "essential top 10" -- and I'll probably have the goddamn thing playing in my cryogenic chamber when the time comes.

Blows Against the Empire started out as a Jefferson Airplane album (following 1969's Volunteers) but grew into something much more. It's a musical manifesto for those of us who dream of going to the stars. Part Heinlein, part Sturgeon, and a whole lot of Kantner, this album dramatizes an uprising of people against an oppressive regime, the hijacking of a starship, and an honest-to-gawd secession from Planet Earth itself. Sure, the rocket engines on Blows sound like vacuum cleaners, but what the hell, this was recorded in 1970 by a bunch of  acid-dropping San Francisco hippies...and the music still sounds great.

At first, I was irridescent. Then, I became transparent. Finally...I was absent.

Blows Against the Empire won an unprecedented Hugo Award in 1971...first and only time for a record album. Kinda cool, huh?

Posted by Wally Conger, who remembers really loving Grace Slick when he was much younger.