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Back to chaos?
Laurie Anderson - From the Air (1982)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Good evening. This is your Captain
We are about to attempt a crash landing
Please extinguish all cigarettes
Place your tray tables in their
Upright, locked position
Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees
Captain says: Put your head in your hands
Captain says: Put your hands on your head
Put your hands on your hips. Heh, heh
This is your Captain -- and we are going down
We are all going down, together
And I said: Uh oh. This is gonna be some day
Standby. This is the time
And this is the record of the time
This is the time. And this is the record of the time
...
OK, change of pace.
A fun tune, not chaos ...
Flim And The B.B.'s - Funhouse (1985)
www.youtube.com
It's an instrumental, so no lyrics.
Flim & the BB's
en.wikipedia.org
... Flim & the BB's was a contemporary jazz band that was among the first bands to record albums digitally.
...
The group's self-titled debut album was recorded in 1978 at Sound 80 and was ostensibly going to be a direct to disc recording.
Nevertheless, 3M placed an experimental prototype 50.4 kHz digital recorder in the control room as a backup to the direct-to-disc lathe.
Because of the "direct-to-disc" setup (recording directly onto a lacquer platter) the band was required to play the entire LP side without stopping and without being able to do any editing afterward.
When the resulting acetate disc was deemed inferior in sound quality to the digital master tape, the LP record was pressed from that digital backup tape, making it the second-ever U.S. commercially available digital recording.
Since the machine used was a one-of-a-kind prototype, built before any digital recording standards were established"and dismantled within months"there is currently no way to reissue that first album on either LP or CD.[2]
Flim and the BB's recorded its second album, Tricycle, for DMP Digital Music Products, an audiophile record label started by Tom Jung. The album was the first non-classical recording to be released in compact disc format.
It was recorded on the Mitsubishi X-80 digital audio recorder at Sound 80. The disc displayed the full dynamic range available in CDs, becoming a popular test disc for this reason.
It was also the first jazz album to be recorded, mastered, and delivered in the digital domain. ...
View From The Cab
Farmers Pick Corn and Rocks as Harvest Intensifies
www.dtnpf.com
... The excitement of cutting into the first fields each fall never grows old for Chris Weaver.
"I don't really like to talk yields. I'm more focused on whether we maximized what nature offered us this season," said the Finksburg, Maryland, farmer. "It's all about mitigating stress on the crop. We have had some stress this year. Now, we start to evaluate what practices helped preserve yield potential and incorporate those observations into plans for next year."
Cover crop planting and delivering direct to a nearby corn mill were also keeping Weaver's farm crew hopping this week.
In Minnesota, weather woes continued for Tyler Rath, who farms near Belgrade. The first frost of the season came on Oct. 2. Although the timing isn't all that unusual, the cold snap nipped the tops of some double-crop soybeans. Rain events have also slowed harvest progress of corn and edible beans in his area. Still, he was experiencing some respectable yields on irrigated corn, despite the weather challenges. ...
TYLER RATH: BELGRADE, MINNESOTA
Commodity corn harvest usually represents the seasonal finish line for Tyler Rath. But this year, rains have delayed edible bean harvest and compressed operations. This week he was busy rodding kidney beans -- a process where a rotating metal rod slices just below the soil surface to cut the bean plants at or just below the crown. As a second step, a pickup head lifts, conveys and then places the plants into windrows to dry down further. A separate harvesting operation separates the bean from the plant.
Recent rains and cool temperatures have made rodding rougher than usual this year. It takes considerably more power to move through wet soils, Rath said.
"Typically, we can get through 20 to 22 acres an hour. This year I'm down to 5 to 6 acres per hour. These kidney beans aren't drying as quickly as I like, and we're running out of time for good harvest weather," he noted. ...
OK, another "chaos" tune for y'all ...
Swamp Zombies - Unemployed (1992)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
OK, not surprisingly, lyrics do not seem to be generally available.
Oh well ...
France is going through things.
From France local news ...
Fires and clashes rock France amid massive nationwide protests
www.france24.com
... Protesters clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest higher living costs and the declining conditions in schools and other public services. Several town halls were broken into " and in at least one instance set on fire " and many shops were vandalised and ransacked. One protester had his hand torn off by what appeared to be a crowd-control grenade used by police. ...
Police and protesters clashed violently in Paris and other French cities Saturday on the sidelines of nationwide marches against soaring inflation, with one demonstrator's hand blown off, multiple blazes set and looters breaking into dozens of stores to strip them bare.
The widespread unrest follows weeks of student protests and deepens political uncertainty in France as it readies for elections in six months' time to replace President Emmanuel Macron. ...
Giorgio Moroder - The Duel (1984)
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The Hollywood representation of AI from back in the early 1980's.
From the soundtrack of the film "Electric Dreams." The song is the soundtrack when a human celloist goes up against an AI music generating device. While the limits of AI back then are quite apparent, the eventual resulting harmony between the two tells of a hope that AI and humans can work together.
Electric Dreams is one of my (very few) fav movies from the 80's.
And one from out in left field ...
Alvin And The Chipmunks - Alvin's Harmonica (1959)
www.youtube.com
Music was in a different time back then ...
(I may still have the 45rpm single for that tune.... )
:)
New Model Army - White Coats (1987)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Well we know what makes the flowers grow - but we don't know why
And we all have the knowledge of DNA - but we still die
We perch so thin and fragile here upon the land
And the earth that moves beneath us, we don't understand
So we rush towards the Judgement Day, when She reclaims
A toast to the Luddite martyrs then, who died in vain
Down at the lab they're working still, finishing off
How do we tell the people in the white coats
Enough is enough?
Ch: Hey, hey I listen to you pray as if some help will come
Hey, hey She will dance on our graves when we are dead and gone
You and I we made no suicide pact - we didn't want to die
But we watch the wall, little darling, while the chemical trucks go by
This desperate imitation, now, of innocence
Those last few days at Jonestown ain't got nothing on this
...
As children learn about the world, we built that wall of sand
Along the beach we laboured hard with our bare hands
We worked until the sun went down beneath the waves
And the tide came rolling splashing in, washed the wall away
How do we tell the people in the white coats
Enough is enough?
...
(the thread topic did mention "chaos")
:)
New Model Army - Topic
New Model Army
@#1 ... Trump defended Wiles on Friday, calling her "smart" and "tough" and saying she would remain in her job. "Susie is here, and she's going to be here for a long time," he said. ...
Trump showers Katie Zacharia with praise after she bombs first press briefing (October 13, 2026)
www.irishstar.com
... President Donald Trump showered his new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, with praise after her disastrous first press briefing on Tuesday morning.
A gaggle of reporters asked the president what he thought of Zacharia's performance as he prepared to board Marine One on his way to a rally in Alaska.
His verdict? Zacharia did well. "I thought she did very good," he said. "I thought she was very good." ...
Looking towards Halloween ...
Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween (1985)
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More to come ...