Bah-Bum-BUMM!

Yep, that's the dramatic feeling you will thrill to when you hear ...

Come with us now to the dazzling World of Tomorrow!  Visit the Tenth Planet! Dance under the Moonbeams, or pass away a Martian Summer! Beware the Mysterons and the Nasty Little Green Men!

01 - Followers of the Space Race - The Positions - 1982  (3:24)

02 - Mysterons - The Perfectors - 1980  (2:43)

03 - Lunapark - Starter - 1981  (3:50)

04 - Lost in Space - Platinum Blonde - 1985  (4:02)

05 - In the Stars - Oxo - 1983  (4:12)

06 - Tenth Planet - Solid Space - 1982  (2:47)

07 - Alien Nights - The Scooters - 1981  (3:07)

08 - Taking the City by Storm - The Haskels - 1980  (2:15)

09 - Mars with You - The Woz - 1983  (4:09)

10 - Universe in Time - IQ - 1983  (3:53)

11 - Blast Off - Class Action - 1984  (4:16)

12 - Martian Summer - Johnny Warman - 1981  (4:40)

13 - Moonbeams - Naffi - 1982  (2:28)

14 - Do You Read Me - D-Day - 1983  (3:25)

15 - Life on Earth - Silent Treatment - 1983  (5:24)

16 - Why Me - Planet P Project - 1983  (4:05)

17 - Planet X - The Puget Sound - 1986  (2:06)

18 - Space Brothers - JFA - 1988  (1:43)

19 - Space Race - Mi-Sex - 1980  (3:43)

20 - Martian Man - Lora Logic - 1982  (4:15)

21 - Alien Beach Party - The Delinquents - 1981  (4:06)

22 - Nasty Little Green Men - Classix Nouveaux - 1980  (3:15)
                   

https://www.filefactory.com/file/s0sicuq0g7w/MA-158.rar

Hope you return from Planet X in time to get Monday's comp!
  

Welcome to the MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY 2023!

All this month, here on the Super Blog and on the Record Round-Up, we'll have a new music compilation every Monday and Thursday. (Some are reissues because they've been updated or had lapsed links.)
                           
Here's an updated version of The Insect Lounge, which brings back memories of the overnight then-now-music broadcast on KSCS, Edmond, OK.

The original post, with excruciating details, is here.

Since 2017, I've come across a 1984 article about the radio station at (now) KUCO.

Since the original post: In July 2022, I came across the original typed cassette insert in a box of blank cassettes.  I used the insert to arrange the tracks in their “correct” order—the way the tape sounded until I wore it out.

To preserve the historicity of the original cassette recording, Tracks 3-4-5-6 — Tracks 9-10 — and Tracks 13-14 are crossfaded.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/2vjqty00v442/MA-119V2.rar

See you Thursday!

 

A WATCHMEN Oopsie

 A WATCHMEN Oopsie

It’s a small thing, but Watchmen is such an intricately planned, scripted, and drawn creation that I was amused to find a continuity boo-boo on the ding-dang second page of the first issue.

            Above is the entire page 2.  Look at the bottom row of panels, Panel 6 and Panel 8.  Detective Steve Fine is the blond cop in the trench coat with the ciggie in his mouth.

Look at the smashed mirror in the panels. This is supposed to be the same smashed mirror. But the holes aren’t the same.

See you Monday for the first instalment of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY, with new comps every Monday and Thursday!

  

Flaws in Perfection

I hope you can agree with me that Jonny Quest is in many ways the quintessential kids' adventure cartoon.

Sadly, not even perfection is perfect.  My grown-up eyes caught a couple of continuity goofs in a couple of episodes.

In this one, a hot-air balloon gets snagged on the titular peak or mesa.

The balloon is anchored at the camp of Race, Jonny, and Hadji.  In the screengrab above, you can see that Race is doing something to the tether of the balloon.

He's using a control lever the adjust the tension of the cable.

The only problem is, in other close-ups of the reel, it ain't got no control lever!  Huh???

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In "The Dreadful Doll," there's a laugh-inducing goof.

Race gets locked up in a room whose door opens inward.

Boy, if only he could pull the door open and crawl under that board!

But it's a magical door, I guess!  Jonny has to remove the board from the outside, before Race can open the door inwards and leave.

Who's dumber ... the bad guys for rigging the door that way ... Race for falling for it ... or me, for worrying about it?

See you Thursday for the last of this year's April Foolishness!

  

Liberty in the Living Room

One day I chanced to look upwards.  I noticed the Liberty Bell in our living-room ceiling.

Below is a close-up.  It's about as big as your outspread hand.

Below is a clipart bell superimposed,

And bour last image is my freehand outline around this strange, accidental artifact.

You can see it, can't you?  I'm not mad for liberty?

See you Monday, fellow Fools for Freedom!

  

Lost Atlantis -- Found in the Fridge

Sometimes you see interesting shapes in semisolid foods.  Could be a pool of oil in your peanut butter.  Or the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey in your butter dish.  Or a particularly forbidding lunar landscape in your bowl of oatmeal.

                                        

Mashed potatoes don’t count, Roy Neary!

  

Back to our house … At Thanksgiving time we got ready to eat some pumpkin pie.  THANK YOU JOYCE!  We didn’t use whip-cream-in-a-can (too many itchy trigger fingers and open mouths).  We went with good ol’ Cool Whip.

But when I got ready to put the top back onto the tub, I paused at a familiar shape.  It made me think of Ignatius Donnelly, and Otto Muck, and Plato—that is, I thought of Atlantis!

Specifically, it reminded me of Thera, aka Santorini, the little Greek island which blew its top and might have ended the Minoan Empire.

What do you think?

See you on Thursday!