― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
sampled by Ultramarine, among others.
Love the Carpenters version, but cannot STAND the DJ intro.
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
The Babes In Toyland version kinda rocks.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah xpost
I don't understand why anyone would ride around in an interplanetary crap. It took up a lot of my time as a child trying to figure out the aerodynamics of that.
― humansuit, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Because wee is your friend.
― everything, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG please don't make contact with me.
― humansuit, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Klaatu version superior to all others.
(Well, I haven't heard the Babes in Toyland version, but I can't imagine it being as good.)
― John Justen, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
When I was a little kid I had to go have tooth fillings done once. They gaeve me the novocaine gas, and I watched my arms detatch from my shoulders and rotate slowly in front of me. I was like, 8, I had no idea what a hallucination was.
On the PA over my head in the dentist room, the Carpenters version of "Calling Occupants" was playing. I'll never forget it.
― Trayce, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
But I really like how in the Carpenters version the alien sounds like he's going to eat you.
― humansuit, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
no memory of starting this thread nine (!) years ago.
can someone help me reconstruct the late-1970s zeitgeist by which something like this was conceivable?
i like this song a lot, but whenever i hear it i think of the hippies dancing on top of the skyscraper in independence day, cheerfully welcoming the aliens, only to be the first humans to be blasted into oblivion by the mothership.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Just think of your parents doing house work. On Valium.
― djh, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
This is in Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights. One of the best uses of music in film in a long time!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 10:14 (eight years ago) link
that's what inspired the thread revive! although it wasn't my favorite use of music in that film.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
I sometimes sing little bits of this song to myself- usually the "we are your friends" part- it's soooooo creepy
― the tune was space, Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
The final "we are you friends" (in the Carpenters version) is the highlight of the song and spins it into a more serious place of optimistic catharsis.
― everything, Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
fuuuuck this song is really stuck in my head
this is a pretty good song considering it begins with the dumbfounding couplet
In your mind you have capacities you knowTo telepath messages through the vast unknown
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
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There might be a couple of Perfidia's above it. A lot of great music choices in that film.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:33 (eight years ago) link