Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XIV : Not A Double Devil’s Dozen

Shades of... I was going to name a famous glass-shattering singer but I am not sure who, so shades of Black Canary and Tyroc!

The Shade and Black Canary appeared in Robinson's Starman. No time travelling Tyroc but there wa a future Starman.

Our lovely Legionnaires Star Boy and Umbra appeared too. And Uncanny Amazers Atmos and Insect Queen.

Dream Girl is considered the loveliest of the Legionnaires.

"Dreams I'll Never See" is a so-called "Southern Rock" song written in the late 60s and recorded many times since.

The song's lyricist, the late Gregg Allman, once quipped, "Why the hell do they call it "Southern Rock?" Rock music's roots are all in the South. Might as well call it "Rock Rock."

You hear a lot these days about the decline of rock music.

You hear a lot these days about the decline of the middle class.

What you don't hear much about is the fact that these two events are intimately connected.

What is this "middle class" you speak of, EDE?

Does it date from the Jurassic Era? Is there proof it ever existed?

(Just kidding, EDE. I agree with you 100 percent. Rock music is so symbiotic with things like suburbia and casual comforts and chain restaurants and shopping malls. We are so living in the end of an era. And lately, I've found that I actually have mixed emotions about it!)

It's the end of the world as we know it! And Ann feels ambivalent!

LOL



That reminds me, the 1991 MTV Unplugged: R.E.M. version of "It's The End of the World As We Know It" blows the studio version out of the water, in my opinion.

I should check that out sometime. I probably saw it back in the day, but don't remember it.

R.E.M. is one of those bands that I periodically remember how great they are and spend about two or three days listening to them.

EDE, same here. With me, it's always the first four REM albums in chronological order, then random gems from the rest of the catalog (though I rarely listen to anything Post-Monster.)

Heh. I think Monster is kinda like the Beach Boys' Smile of the 90s -- but unlike in the 60s, highly hyped major-label albums in the 90s *always* got released, no matter what messy state they were in by the time the masters had to be turned over.

A few years ago, I had a nice PM chat with Matlock about REM, because I was planning to write a book about their first six albums.

Sometimes I think I might still write that book.

I think I love everything up through Automatic for the People, and then it starts to get spotty with Monster. I'm not sure I've even heard all the post-Berry albums.

When I was younger I would overanalyze album titles. Like, there must be some common theme to all the songs here, and it must run through all of them in some kind of subtle hidden story linking them all together!

I first heard R.E.M. from the bathroom, where my brother was playing it. It had been put on the B-side of a C90* and included It's the end of the world. I was just thinking that I probably heard most of their albums through him. But it was me that went to see them, so there must have been a spot after that C-90 when I was liking them quite a bit.

My musical tastes changed to the extent that Automatic for the People wasn't as interesting to me at the time. I did hear Monster, but I think my brother didn't get anything more after that. I don't recall hearing any anyway when visiting.


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I've seen people try to argue that Genesis's Invisible Touch is actually a concept album about nuclear war. I mean... two songs do pretty clearly fit the theme, but the rest are a massive stretch.

Yeah. On the other hand, I think the master tape of that album's "Everything She Does" ought to have a nuclear bomb dropped on it. I mean, "Illegal Alien" from The Shapes Album was bad enough with its flippant racism, but the lyrics of "Everything She Does" are so blatantly pedo, and the tune is prefab ska *years* after ska had stopped being hip in Britain. YUCK.

I should make it clear I *am* a Genesis fan, and I own all but 2 of their studio albums*. But even some of the best bands have some real stinkers in their discography.






*"Abacab" and "We Can't Dance"

Hmm... I've never seen it as "blatantly pedo". I mean... it's about lusting after pin-up girls, but I've always thought you were supposed to see the p-o-v character as a pathetic loser, but maybe the moral doesn't quite stick. Musically, it's definitely the weakest track on the album, though (and I can't defend Tony Banks's obsession with trying to do ska badly). Many fans have suggested that it should have been replaced with the B-side Feeding the Fire. That would give you three songs that fit in with the nuclear war theme!

And, if you're going to not own two Genesis albums, Abacab and We Can't Dance are probably the ones to not own, imo.

Cheers, my friend!

And, FTR, I also dislike Genesis's one-off hit single "Paperlate", from the Abacab sessions. I've even subjected it to my patented toilet-humor parody:

"Pooper late, pooper late
Pooper late, pooper late
Pooper late, oh, I'm sorry but there's nothing in the can
Pooper late, oh, I'm sorry, but rest easy, no poop is good poop

Oh, it's easy to crap like clockwork
Tick tock watching the turd spiral down
Any change would take too long
So zip your pants

Ooh, it's too easy to live in a cold sweat
Just sitting dropping feces below
You can wipe your ass
Kill the pain
But the odor won't go, no, no

Pooper late, pooper late..."

Sometimes, a cool album name is just a cool album name

I guarantee that a "Who did an Invisible Brainiac invisibly touch?" thread will end in tears and probably lawsuits.

I would recuse myself.

Weird Invisible Touch fact: the music to "Throwing it All Away" was apparently originally written as a Led Zeppelin-esque heavy rock track. As the lyrics were written, it became obvious they didn't really fit the feel of the music, so it was slowed down to become the soft rock/adult contemporary track that appears on the album. I've always been *really* curious as to how exactly the original version sounded.

You don't have any evidence!

I disabled the infra-red scanners!

You overlooked the flour I scattered on the floor.

I realize that I am too late with this reply

Wait, did I kill another one??