Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Solid Space
I'm slowly ripping old audio cassettes to MP3 so that they are no longer lost to our listening pleasure. It's pretty tedious - about an hour a tape including all the editing and messing about. Should be all over by the start of the London Olympics.
Got as far as Solid Space's "Space Museum", a tape I bought after seeing it mentioned in 2000AD back in 1982. It's a classic album and one we loved listening to (and still do). So I had a look on the Internet - as I have done occasionally over the years to see if it's mentioned anywhere - and, amazingly, someone has put a track up on YouTube. Even eBay has the tape on sale and some kind pirate has ripped the tracks to MP3 for me to download. Christmas has come early!
It's only recently that I've become aware of the literary influences behind the songs. I've taken them at face value, interpreting them as I saw fit at the time (a geeky teenager into SF and Cthulhu) so maybe quite differently to that intended by the band. For example, "New Statue («Morning Song»)" is part of Sylvia Plath's poem about motherhood set to 80s synth music.
Got as far as Solid Space's "Space Museum", a tape I bought after seeing it mentioned in 2000AD back in 1982. It's a classic album and one we loved listening to (and still do). So I had a look on the Internet - as I have done occasionally over the years to see if it's mentioned anywhere - and, amazingly, someone has put a track up on YouTube. Even eBay has the tape on sale and some kind pirate has ripped the tracks to MP3 for me to download. Christmas has come early!
It's only recently that I've become aware of the literary influences behind the songs. I've taken them at face value, interpreting them as I saw fit at the time (a geeky teenager into SF and Cthulhu) so maybe quite differently to that intended by the band. For example, "New Statue («Morning Song»)" is part of Sylvia Plath's poem about motherhood set to 80s synth music.
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