Originally Posted by WaoBand
Another D[irect] C[urrent] zapper of a chord structure and also a great production. A truly enjoyable romp of a song, though I'm not quite sure what it's saying about the UFO theme. I've been interested in the subject for over 50 years and I've met one of the earliest British researchers into it who became cynical about the whole subject, but I've found over the years that there's oodles of fakery in books on the subject and also on popular TV shows. I now doubt that we've ever been visited by aliens - there are alternative perspectives on and explanations for valid sightings, etc - and the only semi-interesting idea one guy put forward is that a minority of sightings could be human time-travellers (tourists) from the future. I now just have one book on the subject, "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials" which lists countless assumed contacts with ETs, but if every one of them was an actual alien then we're being visited by hundreds of alien species and that's just not possible. For a comic view on the theme I recommend Country Joe McDonald's less than 2 minute song "UFO". It's a hoot! But the important thing is that your song is an excellent hoot, too! laugh

Thank you, Chay! So, MY interpretation of the song works on two levels. First, it riffs on a speculative outcome of Area 51 becoming declassified and the public finding out aliens in flying saucers are a real thing. Second, it lampoons a few obvious co-conspirators in the alien narrative, notably the press. Or it could be gibberish.

I can see slender tendrils of connective tissue between the UFO story and the fantastic universe you've created and presented here as songs.

"UFO" is a hoot of a short song for sure. RIP Country Joe...

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