Brainmangling!

[elfs]

This morning, while driving to work, I turned on the radio. It was tuned to NPR, and the first sentence out of the speakers was "Power windows are known to have killed 37 children in the past ten years."

My first thought was "Wow, I knew it wasn't considered one of Rush's better albums, but I didn't think it was that bad."

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It was an educated guess based on the copyright date of the album, backed up by a quick googlesearch.

I'm a second-generation NASA contractor; my father tracked Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo thru 13 for RCA; I was sysadmin for Data Validation for the Upper Atmospheric Research Sattelite (Discovery mission STS-48)... to say I'm a space fan is... putting it mildly. (I've gotta get me a shot of SpaceShipOne and substitute it for this icon... :)

[funos.livejournal.com]

AH. Now I see why folks kept telling you to listen to that tune. :)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I still think Boston's "The Launch" is a better power tune, but the real NASA background makes this one... poignant...

[funos.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard it. I'll look for it.

Now I'm thinking of Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'". :)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard that one. My second favorite "about the space shuttle" music is Trevor Rabin's Launch, which I imagine is a quite different from Boston's version. My favorite is still the Rush tune.