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wildelf

Steampunk Music Review: The First

Sep 26, 2010 21:45

I'm going to kick off these reviews with a band that was doing Steampunk music even before the subgenre was a 20th century revisioning. I was introduced to this group in the late 1970s by a friend in the small town of Kemptville and had the positive joy of seeing them play live on their ONLY tour in late 1981/early 1982. If you're old enough you ( Read more... )

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neilx September 27 2010, 02:17:28 UTC

Now you see thanks to you I had to go to Youtube and listen to Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.

You still in Toronto these days?

wildelf September 27 2010, 02:20:25 UTC

I am still in Toronto, yup.

neilx September 27 2010, 02:27:56 UTC

Speaking of songs the Carpenters did and covered by others, check out "Super Star" by Sonic Youth.

fuzzpsych September 27 2010, 03:35:44 UTC

I was quite happy to find those first 3 albums on CD earlier this year--hadn't listened to them in ages! I hadn't thought about them as a steampunk group, but you're right, it's certainly there.

wildelf September 27 2010, 03:53:25 UTC

I have all their early stuff... now I want to find the later releases - the best ofs and demo stuff. Which will be a right bugger to find, I imagine.