"Just discovered" this very strange tune

I’m one of those totally arrogant “yeah I’ve heard just about everything I wanna hear and everything else is just extraneous lalalalalala”, but recently a friend played the following number that slipped my radar. Still trying to figure out where I “sit” with it, exactly - yeah, it’s an oddie, this one.
Like, really different. A sort of heavy, post-psychadelic dirge with lyrics told from the POV of a plane crash victim - quite a unique idea.
Also, super duper grisly.
Really grisly. Heh, presaging death-metal lyrics!
At first, I couldn’t remember the artist / title, so before I had to eventually text buddy for it, I googled “song - plane crash victim”, and eventually found a page with many “Top 15 / 20 / 30 Worst Songs to Hear on a Plane” lists.
Not one of those lists, it turned out, had the number, which is “D.O.A.” by Bloodrock (1971).
I don’t even need to hear any of those lists to scoff them for not including a song that I’m pretty sure would have been a much more gigantic bring-down than any of those others when it comes to aerial listening pleasure.
(Those have to be Leslie speakers churning away in that Hammond.)
Figured I’d share in case I’m not the only who’s never came across it before.

Not a feel-good song. :slightly_smiling_face:

I wish I’d never heard it.:flushed:

Great tune! Thanks for sharing. My only comment is that it’s 8 minutes and 30 seconds too long.

Good song. Have never heard it before. Horrific lyrics. :dizzy_face:

Some people get grief counselling to deal with loss. Some write really long and gruesome songs. And in 1971, the first option was pretty limited anyway.

It’s fine. A bit sophomoric and repetitive but I’ve heard a lot worse, and it seems typical for the time. And I’m sure it was therapeutic to someone.

I recall that song from when I was about 10 years old. We made up our own lyrics like “We were flying low and hit some dirty underwear”.

Shockung yes, but here were more shocking things going on at the time. Like relatives being drafted and shipped of to Nam and the criminal President and cities on fire in protest of denial of civil rights. Sounds familar, no?

I’ve always liked it. The seventies were a very special time.

I’m guessing the OP hasn’t heard “Pull The Plug” by Starz.

This reminds me of Urian Heep, only instead of wizards, it’s the last thoughts of an accident victim. I think there was an episode of CSI like that. It had corpses in the morgue talking to each other, remembering their last moments.

I remember it well.

Hehehe, I found out about that song from a different thread around here, and god I find that song irritating. Just listened to it again to try to figure out why. I think it’s the vocals and lyrics. Too literal and narrative, and the harmonies in the chorus, ugh.

Checked out the lyrics, and defintely heavy, but nothing to do with plane crash victims, so my point still stands that “DOA” would probably bring out the airplane puke bags more than any other number.

Totally that.
Heh - Or Caravan? Mountain? :grinning:

How can anyone not like this song? It’s great.

I bet you guys just aren’t old enough to remember the teen death songs that were popular in the 50s and 60s.

Parts of that song sound like they were sampled from a c1980 arcade game.

I’ll be surprised, though, if any of them were as happy-go-lucky as this one.

Some were quite angsty.

Wikipedia calls them Teenage Tragedy Songs. “Last Kiss” and “Dead Man’s Curve” are awfully jaunty.

That list doesn’t include the grown-up “Timothy,” a controversial hit first released in 1970, just before “D.O.A.” I wouldn’t mind happy-go-lucky as a descriptor. Something I would never, ever apply to Bloodrock.

Back in the mid 80’s-early 90’s, it would get requested on the lunchtime request radio show. Occasionally, one of the late-night DJ’s would play it. I haven’t heard in maybe 25 years.

I like a good dirge - sounds most like Hawkwind (e.g. ‘High Rise’) to me.

It most reminded me of the song Black Sabbath by the band of the same name.