07:06 am - Galactic Pioneers
Just to kind of reverse the spin on ‘s new obsession with retro-50’s SF being the only thing worth going on about, I bring you … well, a kind of twisted homage:
The Phenomenauts Galactic Pioneers
We were here before, before four score, before four thousand years. We interbred, which changed your head; at least you kept your ears. Flew past stars and then to mars and then we brought you here. We were just interested in stellar evolution and not religious ideals.
We’re not angels, we’re Galactic Pioneers. We’re not demons, we’ve been comping here for years. Me and Ra and Jehovah, and Yahweh and the kid. We set her down to look around and tried to keep it hid.
Ezekiel saw in full and nearly flipped his lid, so we took him inside and took him for a ride and he got so excited. We regret that when we met, you were so ill prepared. Your scientist did not exist and you got so damn scared, you theorized, it’s no surprise, that out of the thin air, you pulled a crazy old theory about a creator that was scary a man with a long white beard.
If the band that this song evokes isn’t a playable set of character concepts, I’m not in. If it ain’t sleek, and fast, with a duck’s ass hairdo and big fins on your ride, it ain’t retro-50’s. I don’t care how much you chant “Terra, not Earth.”
If you want real retro-40’s to 60’s sci-fi, bust out your copies of 45: Psychobilly Retropocalypse and get ready to ride the big candy-pink beauty right to the stars.
There are times to take a few steps back and see if you’re not just taking yourself a little too seriously. I always have the right tool to avoid that horrific end.