Jan 23
Meg March Comments: She’s sad her boyfriend dumped her. But his remains made great houseplant compost.
Published 1975
Meg March Comments: She’s sad her boyfriend dumped her. But his remains made great houseplant compost.
Published 1975
January 23rd, 2020 at 10:24 am
Bikini top. No bottom. Very Seventies.
January 23rd, 2020 at 10:49 am
I know Bob Dylan lyrics can be indecipherable, but there’s no excuse for that.
January 23rd, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Oh, show me the way to the next ferny bar…..
January 23rd, 2020 at 2:04 pm
After a long EVA, only potpourri will get your spacesuit smelling fresh again.
January 23rd, 2020 at 2:32 pm
One thing I’ll say about this Charles Moll guy. He can draw feet.
He’s also a specialist in covers featuring space suits and naked ladies:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?tag=charles-moll
January 23rd, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Time to cue up my favourite sci-fi music video!
I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper
January 23rd, 2020 at 3:18 pm
Well, it’s nice that Norman Spinrad week here at GSS finally features the cover with a sentient, space-faring Lilium auratum.
@Tweet Jane, thank you for that link to a truly outstanding music video. I can’t believe that this is not a more popular song.
January 23rd, 2020 at 3:27 pm
@Ryan – This song is playing in my head every day while I am slogging away here at GSSHQ
January 23rd, 2020 at 4:51 pm
Alas, her love was not to be: her space traveler was self-pollinating.
@Tweet Jane: nice find!
January 23rd, 2020 at 5:19 pm
@Ryan: it gets trotted out every time Sarah Brightman’s training for the ISS or Richad Branson’s rocket gets into the news(or any time her ex, Lord Lloyd Webber, makes a tit of himself in public).
January 23rd, 2020 at 5:22 pm
I don’t know about these new novelty planters…
January 23rd, 2020 at 6:13 pm
@B’Mancer—That model seems to specialize in the naked lady role for Moll’s covers. I knew I’d seen her before.
January 23rd, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Think that’s a high altitude suit, not a space suit. Poor choice of footwear for a space walk.
January 23rd, 2020 at 7:28 pm
She’s in floofen pose. There is some serious sass on the way!
floofen
January 23rd, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Looked at contributor’s name and thought “does Marmee know she’s reading this?”
No wonder he has No Direction Home — it’s hard to find your way sans head.
We also would have accepted “No Direction (Art)”
@B’man: he’s definitely got a style and themes, doesn’t he?
@Tag: isn’t this “spacesuit” and “bubble helmet” that the ex is wearing? At least I think it’s supposed to be a spacesuit, though @fred’s right about the shoes.
@Tweet Jane: I had that song pegged for yesterday’s cover! It’s Hot Gossip week here at GSS.
I recall hearing the song regularly on the radio, though apparently it never made the US charts. We were under no illusions about the quality or originality of the song, but it was catchy. Here in the US, we were never graced with the amazing video.You can imagine everyone’s confusion when Brightman turned up a few years later in musicals. “The Starship Trooper disco girl?” I, er, may or may not still own the 45, koff koff.
My mother’s cat loved her musical and classical work. Seriously, he’d run to the TV or radio whenever he heard her, but no other singer. Perhaps her being in “Cats” created a psychic link or something.
@JP: speaking of cats! My cat has the most sass possible, but I don’t get floofen-ed at much.
January 24th, 2020 at 12:41 am
For the disco connoisseur (there are such people), I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper is all the better for inspiring Chic to rip it off on the classic cut Spacer, for Sheila B. Devotion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuMNApRuWHo
Sheila looks just fresh from a sci-fi paperback in the video.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:58 am
Where did my comment go?
All I said was that this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFCwKvlKZo was a year earlier than Spacer and released before Sarah Brightman’s ditty – it’s the apex of a disco/space-opera food-chain parodied affectionately twenty-odd years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRMFQxd7ye8.
(Maybe the link to the full, bizarre story of Dierdre Crozier and her Brazilian clone gave the website hiccups. I’ll post that separately and see how it goes.)
January 24th, 2020 at 2:04 am
So here’s that peculiar tale of how Esther and Abi Ofarim, Harold Faltermeyer and a runaway bridegroom made a teenager from Oxfordshire cross Europe to become a disco sensation
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/automatic_lover_outer_space_euro_disco_diva_dee_d_jackson
That certainly gave the Ghost of Tchaikovsky something to think about.
(I do listen to good music too, but this stuff’s so much more memorable.)
January 24th, 2020 at 2:33 am
@Tat – 3 links bad. 2 links good.
January 24th, 2020 at 5:00 pm
@Tag Wizard: sounds like the ‘healthy’ builders’ breakfast option nobody ever requested.
January 24th, 2020 at 11:57 pm
@Tat: I must say that Sheila’s video is a bit less disquieting, and the lyrics are less of a ripoff (or a mashup as they say now) of then-popular franchises. And Chic was tops at disco.
The parody didn’t have enough fog machines.
Dierdre never made it in the US, but her story’s fascinating.
January 25th, 2020 at 10:37 am
Elon, cut down on that weed!
January 25th, 2020 at 9:36 pm
But Tat – this IS good music! Don’t let the snobs tell you otherwise. I’d argue space disco really took off with Meko’s version of the Star Wars theme, but Jean-Michel Jarre always embraced the future, as did Cerrone.
And then there were these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ukfGAd8T4
No lyrics, but it’s totally cosmic.
January 25th, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Oh, and let us not forget Geoff Love and his Orchestra keeping the British end up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQedUjHW5A
January 26th, 2020 at 12:38 am
@THX 1139: Scousers in SPAAAAACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDboC4mBYk
And I see your Meko and raise you Gerorge Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT3ecv01xDE
January 27th, 2020 at 12:53 am
@Tat: P-Funk is one of the Ur-bands as far as space/cosmic rock goes.
But I see your George Clinton and raise you Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYnmVmmN2Gg
As far as the honkies-come-lately, the Meco 45 and some albums/videos of Jean-Michel Jarre also are somewhere in this house.
January 27th, 2020 at 2:34 am
Let’s not forget Michael Moorcock’s side hustle: “Hawkwind”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO4iKnwA6hw
January 27th, 2020 at 4:08 am
@Tag: Certainly SF, but you can’t disco to it while wearing gold lame’ spandex.
Also, they look like they need some dwarves and a one-foot-high Neolithic monument.
January 27th, 2020 at 4:20 am
@GSS ex-noob: I had ‘Kingdom of Not’ lined up for if anyone threw The Ventures or Joe Meek into the mix. But you had to go straight for the least danceable Sun Ra (apart from ‘Next Stop, Mars’)
And I know people who would gamely strut their funky stuff to Hawkwind, especially this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcsT5ERNhU
Marc Bolan thought so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPLgGWMndc
January 27th, 2020 at 6:27 am
@Tat: for reasons, I couldn’t have the sound up, so I just picked the funkiest-looking Sun Ra video on a quick search.
But Q,S&C is a swell song.
March 3rd, 2020 at 11:08 pm
The girl in the background looks hella like Iggy Pop!
March 4th, 2020 at 12:31 am
@Tracy: Too many clothes for Iggy.
March 4th, 2020 at 1:02 am
@THX: The teat shields are actually somehow making Iggy’s boobs stand out further so he can pass for a girl?
The other parts are, blessedly, hidden in shadow.
May 18th, 2022 at 3:28 am
I actually kinda like the cover – good balance of shapes and colours, however very deserving of its place on GSS – sheer kookiness.
Speaking of kookiness… @Tweet Jane: I had never seen/heard Brightman’s Starship Trooper before (in my defence, no cable tv as a kid). For fun I muted the volume and watched the highly skilled dancers trying to remain serious thru extremely cheesy jazz combos/poses… very amusing!