See you on Thursday with more refractions of America.
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Monday, July 20, 2026
You May Cringe ...
See you on Thursday with more refractions of America.
Monday, July 6, 2026
Swing to Freedomland
Thursday, April 2, 2026
It's a GOOD Middle!
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Fanatics Take Notice
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Fass-Kinatin'!
A fun 1962 release. It’s all interesting and not too dissonant or aimless, the way much early electronic “music” is. Track 2 has long sequences which would make great background music for a 1960s private-eye show.
“Song of the Second Moon” is also found on 1963’s Electronic Music by “The Electrosoniks.”
Monday, February 9, 2026
Donnerwetter!
It's a combo disc, as shown in the original Lp cover:THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Here's Hoping!
Monday, April 21, 2025
These Grooves Will Drive You ... MAD!
Monday, February 17, 2025
Twisted -- Just Like We Like It!
Monday, January 13, 2025
I Will, Will You?
PERMANENT LINK.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Thankful for ... ADVENTURE!
Monday, October 14, 2024
Son of a Rhino?
Monday, October 9, 2023
Dare You Spend ... A Night of Terror?
Night of Terror!
Don't blame ME if you can't sleep after this one! See you on Thursday for some bloodsucking movie music.
Monday, July 10, 2023
An Alligator in Your Ear!
It's a two-disc set from a record company who wants to present stuff a little raw, a little direct ...
Thursday, June 22, 2023
It's an Adventure, They Promised!
Just think! One track … 13 minutes … ALL of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE! The mind boggles!
And it’s not a bad job at all. The Kirk voice is a good mimic. You gotta love it when he says, “There’s something ….. deadly out there.”
The fx for the transporter are pretty good. The Mr Scott voice’s accent IS NOT.
Ilia’s voice is close to Persis Khambatta—it might even be her. Speaking of accents, the voice for the female Vulcan Master is pretty good, though the English voice has a pretty strong Russianesque tone to it.
The bosun’s whistle heard as Spock boards the ship is true-to-Trek.
On page 12, thirty minutes or more of the movie’s very expensive visual effects are dispensed with, “Once through the mist, the crew was stunned by what they saw—an enormous ship.”
Remember that pesky light-beam probe on the bridge? “To Decker’s horror, the probe took control of Lt Ilia!” And that, as they say, is that—as far as the nine-year-olds need to know.
Remember, if you would like to hear it again, turn the tape over!
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Don't Get It All Over Yourself
See you on Monday for something more that's also fun.
Monday, January 9, 2023
Come Wizz Mee to de Outer Space-uh!
01. Strange Eruptions (0:40)
02. Nebulae (1:04)
03. Cosmic Cycle (1:25)
04. Space Meteors (0:44)
05. Star Clusters (1:41)
06. Song of the Spheres (0:38)
07. Cosmic Twilight (0:54)
08. Mars Craters (0:39)
09. Cosmic Fright (0:51)
10. Space Ship (1:10)
11. Pulse of the Universe (1:04)
12. Sun Lava (0:56)
13. Ionosphere (0:48)
14. Dark Cosmic Clouds (0:37)
15. Cosmic Dawn (0:50)
16. Interplanetary Journey: Slow Misterioso / Mysterious Agitato / Strange Space Spasms (2:21)
17. Voices from Outer Space (1:30)
18. Vibrations in Outer Space (1:02)
19. Cosmic Breath (0:36)
20. Space Spirals (1:27)
21. Atmospheric Reactions: Slow Rising Cosmic Excitement / Woodwinds in Lyrical Interlude / Electronic Finish with Woodwinds (1:05)
Outer Space Music
Not music, it’s clichéd “spooky” or “unreal” soap-opera-type mood emanations. To my ears it's tragically dated to the same era which produced much of the library music used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Why do you think I have this ourageous-uh ack-SENT-uh?
See you Thursday.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Is Anybody Out There? Anybody?
01. Introduction - John Callaway (3:13)
02. The Original Broadcast - October 30, 1938 (59:16)
03. Post-Broadcast Anger - October 31, 1938 - Welles is confronted by the media - (2:03)
04. Commentary - October 29, 1940 - HG Wells meets Orson Welles on KSTA radio, San Antonio, TX - (3:28)
05. FFW - 1968 Buffalo - October 31, 1968 - excerpt from updated version broadcast on WKBW, Buffalo, NY - (3:54)
06. Welles Retrospect - November 3, 1978 - NBC interview with Welles - (2:15)
War of the Worlds Broadcast
If your hair hasn't turned white, or your teeth broken out from chattering, join me on Monday, Halloween, for another new music comp, as we bid farewell to this year's SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!
Monday, August 8, 2022
Go Ahead, I Dare Ya!
I mention this because the seventh track (last on side 1) didn't mention Shazam, despite the cassette label -- and the vocals in this track say ... YOU figure it out!






















