In
another life I am either a movie maker or film critic because movies are more
than just a hobby to me. I enjoy movies
from Roger Corman to people you have probably never heard of before but make
similar styles only with less of a budget.
This is probably why I find myself relating music to movies (and their
soundtracks) so much, but I don’t really ever see that as a bad thing.
Among
the noises of deep laughing, which reminds me of some horror movie, there are
Transformers (particularly what I like to think of as being Megatron) and then
this whole first side sort of takes a turn towards Jaws before ending with
synth drone ala “Tom Sawyer” (the Rush song) and beeping loops.
The
second side picks up, with some chanting of sorts followed by almost siren-like
whirrs. This reminds me of Elvis for some reason, and
not as a musician but rather as an actor.
When
you go to Graceland and stay at the Heartbreak Hotel, they have a channel that
shows exclusively Elvis movies.
The sirens
reminded me of “Jailhouse Rock”, obviously, but as I went back and thought
about what I heard on the previous side it began to make sense. Granted, Elvis never battled giant robots
that change into things in any of his movies, but the sounds I heard of Jaws
could very easily be placed to any of Elvis’ beach blanket party movies. (Clambake, for example)
If you
wanted to really get right down to it, the beeping loops could even be done as
an homage to the classic Elvis movie “Speedway”, which was about racecars.
So I
see this as a play in two acts, yes, but I see the play as being a tribute to
the film career of Elvis Presley, sort of in the way that “Bye, Bye Birdy” is
about Elvis going into the army. Except,
you know, this is lo-fi and ambient instead of pop. As a stage play though, with the visuals of
Elvis, this is something that I would definitely go see performed live, yet
makes for an impressive tape nonetheless.
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