Thursday, December 15

December 15, 2016 - Guru Guru - UFO (1970)


Welcome to our tour of the UFO manufacturing plant. I hope you like it. To your right you can see the alien mechanics with their grease guns and blowtorches. Watch out for those oil drums, ma'am. Everyone, this ship is destined for the Alpha Ichnaea system. The mechanics are adding a new VQ-42 compound to the ship's Snailshell manifold. Keep up the good work, fellas! Now, folks, if you will follow me through this doorway, we will look in on a test currently being conducted on the new Silverlex theta generator. The engineers have had a minor setback involving the vento-fan, but after applying a new coating of freshtex they are now ready to run a complete diagnostic. Let's go in, shall we? Guru Guru. Goo goo g'joob.

I really don't know what to say about UFO. Is it music? Noise? It is an abstract sound creation, mysterious and abrasive. It pushes the envelope. We're pretty dang far from a tune like Paperback Writer. At 8:38 we hear a riff that sounds like the main one in Led Zeppelin's No Quarter. Coincidence? 

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