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View Poll Results: Sponge Monkeys vs Elton John
Sponge Monkeys--We Like The Moon 1 33.33%
Elton John--Rocket Man 2 66.67%
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Old 10-December-2004, 12:33 AM
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Default Sponge Monkeys vs Elton John

For the past few decades it seems that a lot of science, and sci-fi, fans had a soft spot for Elton John's Rocket Man.

I say phooey!

Consider the lyrics:

Rocket Man

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long long time...



Sounds like a lot of luddite nonsense to me.

"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
"

That ain't what Ray Bradbury thought in the Martian Chronicles!


(If anyone knows of any better, any cooler songs, please let me know.)



So, based on an earlier thread here:

Against the maintream
The Moon Song - Sponge Monkeys
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...+monkeys#64873

I create this thread and poll.

Go here: http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
for the Sponge Monkeys.



(For another cute song in a similar vein here's:
http://www.rathergood.com/laibach/
laibach kittens
Tanz mit Laibach)
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Old 10-December-2004, 01:27 AM
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