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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7508 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Space Oddity Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:55 pm Central Time Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on 10 Ground control to Major Tom (9) 8 7 6 Commencing countdown, engines on (5 4) 3 2 Check ignition, and may God's love be with you... (1 liftoff)
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Gremashlo Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2343 Gold Stars: 208 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:24 am Central Time This is Ground Control to Major Tom... You've really made the grade-- And the people want to know whose shirts you wear! Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare... _________________ How can you be two places at once when you've never been anywhere at all?--The Firesign Theatre
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HardyGirl66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 4041 Gold Stars: 550 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:22 pm Central Time For years I thought that song was called Major Tom. _________________ Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
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Gremashlo Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2343 Gold Stars: 208 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:59 pm Central Time HardyGirl66 wrote: For years I thought that song was called Major Tom. view ...you're thinking of Peter Schilling's :"Major Tom" from 1984--his is basically the same song ("4,3,2,1--Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating waitless, calling home...") in idea and inspiration--in fact, both have stranded astronauts in outer space. _________________ How can you be two places at once when you've never been anywhere at all?--The Firesign Theatre
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Stratoman Member Since: January 2008 Contributions: 717 Gold Stars: 230 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:22 pm Central Time This song absolutely haunts me. It's so very strange, but it has a beauty all its own.
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sbrening Member Since: May 2007 Contributions: 7605 Gold Stars: 235 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:38 pm Central Time Gremashlo wrote: ...you're thinking of Peter Schilling's :"Major Tom" from 1984--his is basically the same song ("4,3,2,1--Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating waitless, calling home...") in idea and inspiration--in fact, both have stranded astronauts in outer space. view Yeah, I actually like that song better than "Space Oddity". _________________ www.hauntingheather.com DISCLAIMER: I'm not trying to sell anything, just spreading the word.
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HardyGirl66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 4041 Gold Stars: 550 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:35 pm Central Time Gremashlo wrote: ...you're thinking of Peter Schilling's :"Major Tom" from 1984--his is basically the same song ("4,3,2,1--Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating waitless, calling home...") in idea and inspiration--in fact, both have stranded astronauts in outer space. view No, I'm thinking of Space Oddity. _________________ Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
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jukebox dave Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2154 Gold Stars: 22 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:54 am Central Time BOWIE's equally great, but less famous "space" song from that period was STAR MAN...but when i saw him in the late 70s, he didn't perform either one!
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MusicGal Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 125 Gold Stars: 150 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:27 am Central Time Great song, one of my favorites from David Bowie. I loved it when Chandler Bing sang a few lines of the song on a Friends episode. His facial expressions while singing it were priceless; I always crack up when I watch that scene!
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Hans Asperger Member Since: April 2008 Contributions: 39 Gold Stars: 8 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:17 pm Central Time Gremashlo wrote: This is Ground Control to Major Tom... You've really made the grade-- And the people want to know whose shirts you wear! Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare... view The line is "the papers want to know who shot you where..."
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jukebox dave Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2154 Gold Stars: 22 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:57 am Central Time um...wasn't it BILLY JOEL, not DAVID BOWIE, who did SPACE ODDITY?...
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Gremashlo Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2343 Gold Stars: 208 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:54 am Central Time jukebox dave wrote: um...wasn't it BILLY JOEL, not DAVID BOWIE, who did SPACE ODDITY?... view JB Dave--No, it's David Bowie...and the lyric is "whose shirts you wear"--no shooting involved. Here's a great YouTube video of the song-- It's made by a British woman with a wonderfully warped sense of humor! _________________ How can you be two places at once when you've never been anywhere at all?--The Firesign Theatre
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jukebox dave Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2154 Gold Stars: 22 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:11 pm Central Time well, RETRO told me once it was BILLY JOEL...so dadgum it, i believed him. by the way, i have it on good authority that it's "whose SHORTS you wear..."
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RetroBryan Member Since: January 2008 Contributions: 153 Gold Stars: 160 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:09 pm Central Time Gotta love all those songs about the travel into outer space. Last edited by RetroBryan on Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:11 pm; edited 1 time in total
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RetroBryan Member Since: January 2008 Contributions: 153 Gold Stars: 160 View User Posts	Re: Space Oddity Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:11 pm Central Time sbrening wrote: Yeah, I actually like that song better than "Space Oddity". view Ditto.. and neither Bowie's nor Schilling's videos made any sense
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