GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (07/15/85)
From: Gern <GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> The really cool tunes I am currently listening to on my Sony as I do my terminal work is Magnetic Fields by Jean Michael Jarre. I studied to it at college. He has several albums out: Magnetic Fields, Equinox, Zoo Look, Oxygene (sic). The music is complex, pure of tone, and completely synthesized, but does not sound or feel synthesized at all. To tie this in with SF: The background music of most of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy radio programs is that from the Oxygene album. If you get a chance, check them out. I think Magnetic Fields is the best. Cheers, Gern -------
GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (07/24/85)
From: Gern <GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> It is a confirm that several segments of background music used for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy BBC, Radiophonics Workshop as beamed about the US by National Public Radio was from the Jean Micheal Jarre Oxygene album. Unfortunately, I do not recall exactly where in the 13 episodes it was used. I do recall that it was played while Peter Jones (as 'The Book') did a naration. I have about 5 out of the 13 shows on tape and I will pin-point at least one segment, I'm sure. More Later, Gern -------
br@cstvax.UUCP (Brian Ritchie) (07/24/85)
In article <2727@topaz.ARPA> GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA writes: >From: Gern <GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> > >To tie this in with SF: The background music of most of The Hitchhiker's >Guide To The Galaxy radio programs is that from the Oxygene album. Are you sure about this? I didn't recognise any J-M Jarre music in the radio series (then again, I only know `Oxygene'). I understood that most of the music was written and performed under the auspices of the BBC's Radiophonics Workshop. It often sounded akin to Jarre's rambling doodles, but Oxygene it sure was not. (Maybe we've heard different radio shows....). -- Brian Ritchie.
littauer@bbnccx (07/26/85)
From: Ben Littauer <littauer@bbnccx.ARPA> The song "2525" is by a twosome named Zager and Evans (sp?) and was released sometime in the late sixties. I loved it as a kid, but now...? I haven't seen mention of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Karn Evil 9" in all this music and SF discussion. For lovers of progressive rock, this is great stuff. All about the bleak future, culminating in a mammoth war beteween the computers and Mankind. And oodles of synths and electronic paraphenalia -- I love it! "Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends..." -ben-
DBarker.SiteSA@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (08/30/85)
From: Deryk Barker <DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>
Excuse the tardiness but I have spent a fair portion of this p.m.
ploughing through the last 60+ issues of SFL.
I am amazed that no_one has mentioned what I have long felt to be the
finest SF song I have ever heard "Space Odyssey" by the Byrds (off
Notorious Byrd Brothers 1968). This is a retelling of Arthur C.
Clarke's "The Sentinel" to a folk-ish melody against an electronic drone
(Beaver & Krause as I recall) Lyrics when I have refreshed my memory.
While speaking of The Byrds I was reminded by someone else of Mr.
Spaceman - another fine song that dumps all over Bowie's Starman on a
similar theme.
The MC5 track referred to is Starship off Kick out the Jams.
Hardly a major theme but as I recall the last man alive on the earth in
Childhood's End finally satisifes his ambition to be the finest pianist
in the world and sits playing Bach waiting for the end.
deryk.