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ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 20-10-2012 19:14 Post subject: Most fortean song... |
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Having a bit of random bounce around on the interwebs, I found this the track Camouflage by Stan Ridgway (possibly a forgotten classic as it got to #4 here in the UK) and, given it's urban legend style narrative, it got me to think about what a top ten of fortean inspired tracks would be like.
Discounting the obvious Ray Parker Jr with Ghostbusters but including Ghost Riders (in the Sky) - Outlaws version  , what other tracks can we add-in fortean pop pickers? |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:16 Post subject: |
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| Oops - didn't notice the fortean music thread below. Errr... mods, could you do the honours please? Thanks! |
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| beakboo Great Old One Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Total posts: 1081 Location: The Home for Bewildered Gentlebeaks, St Peter's Close. Age: 50 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:22 Post subject: |
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| Bowie's Drive-In Saturday springs immediately to mind. |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 849 Gender: Unknown |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:29 Post subject: |
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Always good to hear Ella There's probably an entire subgenre of Flying Saucer related jazz and rock and roll from the 50s. |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:32 Post subject: |
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| beakboo wrote: | | Bowie's Drive-In Saturday springs immediately to mind. |
Bowie does a time travel riff before life on mars did well... life on mars... |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:39 Post subject: |
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'I Ran' by A Flock of Seagulls is a little Fortean.
It seems to be vaguely about alien abduction and the cover art shows a UFO reflected in a pair of sunglasses. |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 849 Gender: Unknown |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:52 Post subject: |
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Can't really let the Moody blues be ignored. Here's Slide Zone in concert. With flute solo. 
There's also Zagler and Evans with In the Year 2525 if you want to be depressed after that  |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:54 Post subject: |
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Liking the very non-plussed ToTP audience in the video  |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 849 Gender: Unknown |
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| ginjabadja Yeti Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Total posts: 49 Location: Elsewhere... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 19:59 Post subject: |
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I'm sure I read a Pete Townsend interview where songs like that and Baba O'Reilly and so on were part of a aborted rock opera/concept album dealing with a society in collapse. Can't quite remember the ins and outs but it sounded a lot like a rock version of the 1970s Quatermass serial. |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 849 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 20:07 Post subject: |
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Yes, I think it was his Lifehouse project.
905 is from an abandoned project John Entwistle was working on about a future society. |
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| gordonrutter The Indescribable Horror that is a
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| Posted: 20-10-2012 20:11 Post subject: |
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| ginjabadja wrote: |
Always good to hear Ella There's probably an entire subgenre of Flying Saucer related jazz and rock and roll from the 50s. |
Ian Simmons did a talk on this for the Edinburgh Fortean Society and there are such delights as everything by Gong and Sun Ra.
More recently "What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster" with Bigfoot etc in the video. There's an Ogopogo Waltz and many, many more... |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 849 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 20:17 Post subject: |
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| We should compile an album "Now That's What I Call Fortean Music!" |
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