# Music For Off-Course Satellite **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396 "2011-09-23T23:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/1 "2011-09-23T23:26:05Z")
No worries, mate: Australia. Later: Out at sea, nowhere near us in North America. Still later: Well, it _could_ hit in North America, due to its collisions with other celsestial shit… No one knows for sure, now, and it _is_ rocket science this time. I know who knows: [The Ventures!](http://youtu.be/D6DmtPQv7V8)😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/2 "2011-09-23T23:57:56Z")
Thanks for that blast from the past Quasi. Back when the sky was the limit and shit just got done. Back when musicians were famous because they were good and not so much that they were good looking or had interesting sex lifes or created constant personal drama to stay famous. I always loved that tune. I like this version a bit better, mainly because of the stuff in the video part. Sad to think Joe Meeks died at the young age of 38. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqxxNol11w) Back in the day I loved listening to that on our QUADRAPHONIC “stereo” system. Sound recorded for FOUR distinct speakers, not just a measly two. Shove THAT in your two puny Ipod earbuds you bunch of young whippersnappers. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/3 "2011-09-24T00:20:28Z")
Everything (all I could get my hands on, anyway, **billfish678** ) The Ventures ever recorded in the US, I had in my collection. I couldn’t _wait_ for the new one, and we even had a short-lived band in high school sponsored by the FFA. We called ourselves The Volcanos (deliberately misspelled so we’d have the right number of letters and a band name beginning with V and ending in s), and we played nothing but Ventures tunes. A couple of our guys had the albums in the “Play Guitar/Bass With The Ventures” series, and I still remember the very first song we all played was “The McCoy” and then on up the Ventures’ ladder with “Walk Don’t Run”, etc. Our Ag teacher, Mr. Arial, who was also our FFA sponsor called us “the string band”, and that’s where I picked up the habit of referring to the guitarists in every band I’ve ever played in as “the strings”: To the keyboardist: “Let’s you and I sit this one out while the strings get their shit together.” 😉 That band lasted through to our junior year and then the lead moved away and all the great picking went with him. Don’t wanna bore anyone, but a great Ventures’ album if you can get it, is called “Swamp Rock”. Los Straightjackets seem to be carrying on rather well in The Ventures’ style. Quadraphonic: Oh yeah, what a sound! Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/4 "2011-09-24T01:07:31Z")
Thanks for the story Quasi. So, this a short documentary about you? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eFjjO_lhf9c/maxresdefault.jpg "Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/5 "2011-09-24T04:06:45Z")
I wish, **billfish678**! 🙂 Especially the way it turned out for Adams. But I wouldn’t ever complain. It was one of the few things my Dad and myself had in common: drums. Thanks for the talk! Q ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/6 "2011-09-24T04:58:37Z")
The music from 2001: a Space Odysey. I guess you can’t sweep anything under the rug anymore, huh. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/7 "2011-09-26T15:34:45Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > No worries, mate: Australia. > > Later: Out at sea, nowhere near us in North America. > > Still later: Well, it _could_ hit in North America, due to its collisions with other celsestial shit… > > No one knows for sure, now, and it _is_ rocket science this time. > > I know who knows: [The Ventures!](http://youtu.be/D6DmtPQv7V8)😉 > > Quasi It should be noted, however, that this was simply a cover of the [original version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQYxqBxJjQ) by the Tornados, which was largely the work of eccentric British producer Joe Meek and was the first US #1 hit for a British group. Let’s see what else we could add to the playlist… “[It Came Out of the Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPtOtGF4TY)” by Creedence Clearwater Revival “[Satellite of Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2EgYq_NCY)” by Lou Reed “[Cosmik Debris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQ_S8G16Rw)” by Frank Zappa (Mainly because of the titles, especially the last one) ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/8 "2011-09-26T15:50:10Z")
Ground control to Major Tom ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/9 "2011-09-26T15:54:21Z")
_Life in the Air Age_ – Be Bop Deluxe > [@](#): > > Life in the air age, isn’t all the brochures say… > Life in the air age, it’s too dangerous to stay… > Life in the air age, airships crashing every day into the bay… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/10 "2011-09-26T16:21:43Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > I know who knows: [The Ventures!](http://youtu.be/D6DmtPQv7V8)😉 We’re both old enough to remember the original by the Tornados. We’re talking about the British breakthrough, #1 on the US charts. A classic of classics. In almost 50 years this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone prefer the Ventures’ note for note yet inferior cover version. Give them the love, baby. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/11 "2011-09-26T16:38:32Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _Life in the Air Age_ – Be Bop Deluxe This is an interesting choice, because although the lyrics make this appear to be a futuristic science fiction song about space travel, if you [read them closely](http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/bebopdeluxe26108/lifeintheairage1126941.html) it seems to really be set in some time period between about the 1930s and the 1950s (i.e., the air age, not the space age)… and the person singing it has apparently traveled through time from an even earlier period (or perhaps is someone who simply feels that they belong to that earlier period). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/12 "2011-09-26T16:39:50Z")
Devo: “Space Junk” ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-off-course-satellite/597396/13 "2011-09-26T16:56:15Z")
XTC - [Another Satellite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnh-HIzqT2s)