"calling occupants of interplanetary craft" c or d?

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.

But I really like how in the Carpenters version the alien sounds like he's going to eat you.

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.

Just think of your parents doing house work. On Valium.

This is in Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights. One of the best uses of music in film in a long time!

that's what inspired the thread revive! although it wasn't my favorite use of music in that film.

I sometimes sing little bits of this song to myself- usually the "we are your friends" part- it's soooooo creepy

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.

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 know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown

that's what inspired the thread revive! although it wasn't my favorite use of music in that film.

― wizzz! (amateurist), 4. februar 2016 21:11 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There might be a couple of Perfidia's above it. A lot of great music choices in that film.