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TrendyRechauffe
@ctd: One crucial difference--Charles Kitteridge Thompson IV's belief in flying saucers was non-ironic and absolute.
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ctd55
Surf music for those of you out surfing among the stars, punk for nerds who use safety pins only for pinning mittens to their jackets. (You aped this for your entire career--just admit it, Black Francis.) There's a simple recipe here, and you can throw this together at home--only you won't do it quite as well because you're not this good. Take a three-minute slab of old-school punk. Strip out the anger and grit; replace with humor and irony. But, whatever else you do, don't remove any of the energy or fun! Now, clean up the production, and bring the bass up in the mix (so you can, like, actually hear it). Trade your ranting male vocalist for a female vocalist who can actually sing, and find a guitarist who can solo, for at least ten seconds at a time. Mix that all together, and top it off with a heady mixture of 50s sci-fi cliches and 70s nostalgia for a time when 50s sci-fi cliches were taken seriously. Ta da! You've got yourself a Rezillos song.
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