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Gryphonadmin
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"sotd, 2009.06.02"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Jun-03-09 AT 00:11 AM (EDT)
 
[You may have heard this on a recent Lincoln advertisement. It's a quite good cover of an old Peter Schilling song (which is in itself kind of a sequel to an even older David Bowie song). Given the electronic arrangement and the female vocal, it's practically tailor-made to stand as the UF Art of Noise version. (What a weird selection for a car commercial, though.)]

Standing there alone
The ship is waiting
All systems are go
Are you sure?
Control is not convinced
But the computer
Has the evidence
No need to abort
The countdown starts

Watching in a trance
The crew is certain
Nothing left to chance
All is working
Trying to relax
Up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink"
Jokes Major Tom
The count goes on

Four, three, two, one
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home

Second stage is cut
We're now in orbit
Stabilizers up
Running perfect
Starting to collect
Requested data
What will it affect
When all is done?
Thinks Major Tom

Back at Ground Control
There is a problem
Go to rockets full
Not responding
"Hello Major Tom
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on
We're standing by"
There's no reply

Four, three, two, one
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home

Across the stratosphere
A final message:
"Give my wife my love"
Then nothing more

Far beneath the ship
The world is mourning
They don't realize
He's alive
No one understands
What Major Tom sees
Now the Light commands
This is my home
I'm coming home

Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling home
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling home
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Coming, coming home
Home
Home
Home

- Shiny Toy Guns
"Major Tom"
(single, 2009)


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jadmire
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 Jun-03-09, 05:18 AM (EDT)
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1. "RE: sotd, 2009.06.02"
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   I remember the original version well, it was on heavy rotation on MTV when I was in college (yes, I am that old). Would the Art of Noise do it paired with "Space Oddity"?

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22422 posts		 Jun-04-09, 10:21 AM (EDT)
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2. "RE: sotd, 2009.06.02"
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   >I remember the original version well, it was on heavy rotation on MTV
>when I was in college (yes, I am that old). Would the Art of Noise do
>it paired with "Space Oddity"?

I'm not sure; to tell you the truth, I'm not even sure I've heard "Space Oddity" all the way through. Nor many another David Bowie song, come to that. I'm really only familiar with him from his Live Aid appearance.

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jadmire
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3. "RE: sotd, 2009.06.02"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-04-09 AT 05:46 PM (EDT)
 
Mmm. I kind of envisioned a sort of "Space Oddity"/"Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)" medley, with Kate soloing the first on acoustic and then the whole band coming in on the latter song. There's also "Ashes to Ashes", which is also supposed to be a sequel to "Space Oddity", though it's really more about heroin addiction (which Bowie was battling at the time it was recorded).

I can see Kate doing the Bowie/Lennon "Fame", though, in one of her sourer moods about celebrity...

-Joe-


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