Remember Wild Stallyns from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure?

[Gone Fission]

I was flashing back to the premise of their eventual music forming the basis of an eventual utopian future civilization.

I happened to have been listening to Sigur Ros when this came back to me.

Other candidates?

[goroth]

Cannibal Corpse.

[Blackened Soul]

Throbbing Gristle?

[jrmy]

Pretty sure both Chumbawumba and Crass wanted to be in the running...

[friendship]

Enya

[dubkitty]

the Grateful Dead would have qualified if they'd vanished from the face of the earth in 1974.

[dubkitty]

and then there were the utopian space projects: the original Paul Kantner Jefferson Starship LP which won a special Hugo Award for science fiction, Hawkwind, and Gong all have a case. though i don't know that you could call Hawkwind "utopian" except in an extremely broad sense.

[Blackened Soul]

and then there were the utopian space projects: the original Paul Kantner Jefferson Starship LP which won a special Hugo Award for science fiction, Hawkwind, and Gong all have a case. though i don't know that you could call Hawkwind "utopian" except in an extremely broad sense.

I’m not even sure if hawkwind was more or less utopian than Motörhead was

[dubkitty]

on one hand, Motorhead dodged utopianism with e.g. “Love Me Like A Reptile,” on the other Hawkwind had the Calvert poems some of which were genuinely horrifying. it must have fucked the trippers up when he started ranting about his body dissolving or the Seventh Second of Forever.

my 2000s ex and i used to love intoning “SPACE…IS DEEP” in our best approximation of Calvert’s, erm, unique delivery. “plummy” is a good old English word. “plummy and psychotic” just about nails it.

[echorec]

Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

I heard this for the first time during a night of teenage experimenting. I crawled across the floor to get closer to the speakers. It was an overwhelming delight to be treated to this out of the blue. When I bought the album, I was disappointed to realize the opening title track far-surpassed the rest of the album.

If I was making a band in a lab, the initial outline would be something like: psychedelic orchestral music with Beach Boys-inspired harmonies.

[friendship]

Enya

or GWAR.

Incidentally, which do you think would be more interesting: Enya covering GWAR, or vice versa?

[dubkitty]

i actually gave this some consideration. Enya doing GWAR would be more listenable, GWAR doing Enya would be funnier. not sure either would be that interesting except in having to bridge polar opposites.

[Gone Fission]

Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

[. . .] When I bought the album, I was disappointed to realize the opening title track far-surpassed the rest of the album. [. . .]

Title track is a strong candidate for the thread. As album opener, it’s a bit like Skynyrd opening a concert with Freebird. I’m a bit too likely to just loop that one track.