Something for the Weekend
October 14th, 2011
This song used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid. Test tube babies! Withered limbs! Judgement Day! It was nothing like the future I saw on Thunderbirds.
I picked up an old Zager & Evans album on vinyl a few years ago just for this track but my God the rest of it was rubbish, a horrible Folky-Psychedelic stew with social commentary lyrics that would embarrass your average pretentious Sixth Former. This is still a great record though, silly though it might be.
One of the many things I first heard as a kid on my Dad’s ‘Popular Music’s Golden Hit Parade’ box set from Reader’s Digest. It is certainly not an optimistic vision of the future is it? Like the man said, where’s Captain Kirk?
Sorry, fluffed the link again – here.
The first song that scared me was Spirit in the Sky. The last was Reality Asylum by Crass – polar opposites of the same subject matter really.
The first song that scared me was everything on the three Moody Blues albums I bought the week I discoverd them in Jr. High School. Fortunately I discovered Van Morrison the week after and it brought me out of it, although to this day I still often suffer from something I can only describe as “tore down a la Rimbaud.”
If the rest of the album was rubbish, then the whole album was rubbish! ;-)
This was the first record I ever tried to buy (I was eight years old), but when I got to Woolworths in Croydon it was sold out, so I ended up spending my 6 shillings on “Curly” by The Move instead. Looking back I think I struck it lucky.
Are you the Matthew Best?
Er, I think so.