OFF: Lyrical SF

[Ted Jackson jr. 6L6]

> From:          Horse Whisperer <beautiful_foot at HOTMAIL.COM>
>
> Too Troo!  But why is it that the only effective & successful
> space-rockers are the ones who give you space-music with space-sound
> before they give you the space-words?
> I'd have thought that this is obviously the only way to do it, but so
> few people seem to have gotten the point.
> "Somewhere in Time" by Iron Maiden.  Yes, it's cod-metal, but a fairly
> sci-fi set of themes.  Did it feel futuristic or
> interstellar-spacial????  My arse it did, just like almost everyone else
> who tries it on.
> Hawks can't be whipped at this one.
>
> Chris.
>
How do you rate Pearlman-era BOC by these standards?  Space words,
definitely;  space music, from time to time; space sound, open to
interpretation.  Christian, care to comment?



theo

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