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Author: breno
Date: 08-28-12 18:05
http://news.yahoo.com/mars-rover-belts-am-song-red-planet-cosmic-211659504.html
The first song ever broadcast from the surface of another planet and it's friggin Will.I.Am????????
Whose idea was that? I mean, I don't really give a rat's ass about the Black Eyed Peas one way or the other. I've just always assumed that they competently fill their spot on the pop culture food chain as a disposable pop band. I don't bother them, they don't bother me, live and let live, yadda yadda.
But for crying out loud...you've got a historic event you want to commission a song for and you pick WILL.I.AM to do it?????
This is an outrage.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 08-28-12 19:01
Apparently, the Beatles or Mozart didn't occur to them. What the heck?
I would have blasted the most recent Scott Walker album to scare those martians out of hiding.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 08-28-12 19:03
I think "Do You Compute?" by Drive Like Jehu would have done nicely. But that's just me.
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Author: breno
Date: 08-28-12 20:15
Hell, just go with the cliche and blast Also Sprach Zarathustra. Commission the Kronos Quartet to do a new arrangement of it or something.
It's no wonder the damn Martians want us dead.
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Author: Paganizer
Date: 08-28-12 22:53
I'd have picked Kraftwerk but the obvious:
B52s - Planet Claire
Flaming Lips - Take Me Ta Mars
Rezillos - Destination Venus (would the ensuing disorientation not have been impish?)
Bowie - Life on Mars
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Author: breno
Date: 08-28-12 23:23
Gustav Holst is spinning in his grave. His corpse is screaming "IDIOTS!!!!! Did I not provide you with readymade soundtracks for any such event as this? Was I just writing that crap for my own health? Guess so. Fuck Will.I.Am."
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-29-12 08:37
T.Rex - Ballrooms of Mars
"You talk about day ... I'm talking 'bout night time
When the monsters call out the names of men
Bob Dylan knows, and I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night that are better not to behold."
D.uh.!
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 08-29-12 10:27
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Vol. 1 – Various Artists (and it includes Joe Meek's "Telstar")
Mars Needs Guitars! (the whole album) – Hoodoo Gurus
"Embrace the Martian" – Kid Cudi
"Pump Up the Volume" – M/A/R/R/S
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Author: breno
Date: 08-29-12 10:40
"Here Come the Martian Martians" - Jonathan Richman
"Mars Needs Women" - Tonio K
"Mars" - Television
"Mars Bars" - The Undertones
"I Married a Martian" - Sparks
"Stars" - Hum (She missed the train? plane? I don't remember - to Mars, she's out back counting stars)
"Mission to Mars" - One Model Nation
"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" - Curve
"Venus and Mars" - McCartney & Wings
"I Turned into a Martian" - The Misfits
"Death of a Martian" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Did Roky Erickson never record a Martian song?
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-29-12 10:42
Quote:
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Vol. 1 – Various Artist
Does Mars need Jandek? I think it does.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 08-29-12 10:50
If there is life on Mars, it's holding its Martian nose(s) and asking, "What is this shit?"
Does anyone else here suspect a case of interplanetary payola?
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-29-12 15:43
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Does anyone else here suspect a case of interplanetary payola?
My insect movements vary. Payola's interplanetary.
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Author: zoo
Date: 08-29-12 16:48
Funkadelic - "Cosmic Slop"
Of course, that song has nothing to do with the cosmos but rather a mother turning tricks to support her family. I don't know what kind of message that would send to the Martians.
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Author: hoip chiggs
Date: 08-29-12 20:31
Orson Welles' radio play of War of the Worlds would've done just fine. Sometimes you gotta inspire alien life to invade us in order to blast this Will.I.Am off the planet.
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Author: dj45rpm
Date: 08-30-12 19:17
Glenn Branca's "This Ascension" probably would have worked nicely, or even some Phillip Glass/Steve Reich if they wanted to be more "modern".
But yeah, maybe they're trying to scare away any potential invaders ("they listen to THIS shit?!?").
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Author: diskojoe
Date: 08-31-12 11:28
I remember that Blur had a song that was on the EU Beagle lander that was supposed to be the 1st song broadcast from Mars, but they lost cotnact.
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Author: M. Johnson
Date: 08-31-12 20:30
I watched the Curiosity landing pre-show and was suprised to find "special guest" Will.I.Am. speaking intelligently about national investment in science education. He wants to put some steam behind STEM.
I didn't know it was promotion for a new single.
Another historic moment wasted, but we should be glad (to some degree) that they didn't use Mars to transmit a new PEPSI jingle.
Or a hologram-Michael Jackson marswalking and singing a new PEPSI jingle.
edit. And it's pretty obvious NASA should have commisioned a great mix/mash-up of all great Mars/space songs.
Hey, do any of you gents know how I can find a recording of the Golden Record they sent off with the Voyager spacecraft?
Post Edited (08-31-12 20:35)
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Author: R. Totale
Date: 09-01-12 16:59
One Martian to another: "We still need women, but if that's what they're like on that planet we'll look elsewhere!"
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 09-01-12 17:05
Is it just me or do Slim Whitman, Loudon Wainwright III, and Randy Travis look like brothers?
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