"calling occupants of interplanetary craft" c or d?

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― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Classic. The second song I remember hearing and liking after moving to America (the first was Don McLean's "American Pie"). Thus, part of this nation's essential soundtrack.

― french for cane break (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

You're talking about the Carpenters version, I assume? I listened to it yesterday and as always, I'm astonished at the intro with the DJ and "Mike Ledgerwood" calling. The Klaatu version has a similar strange lengthy intro, this time of what sounds like someone walking through a forest. What is it with this song and the weird intros?

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think the song is classic, but I have never heard the Carpenters version to my knowledge.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Just for reference sake:

Anyone here think Klaatu is a great band?

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to say Classic. The final "..we are your friends" in the Carpenters version is an absolutely stellar moment.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even know there was a Carpenters version. The Klaatu version is classic, though not as much so as "Sub Rosa Subway."

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

There's the Langley Schools version too. But the Carpenters is the best.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Thus, part of this nation's essential soundtrack. "

For the record, this song is already owned by the people of Canada.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

the carpenters version pwns all

― slam your doors in golden silence (get bent), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

No doubt whatsoever about that (in case you didn't hear me the first time).

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

We declare World Contact Day.

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Carpenters version is great - I really oughta get a copy of that. You really into the 70s smooth pop thing lately Tim...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about in general, but I love Klaatu.

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

we. are. observing. your. earth.

sampled by Ultramarine, among others.

Love the Carpenters version, but cannot STAND the DJ intro.

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think Underworld also sampled the alien, for "ME"...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I love this song. There is also a Babes in Toyland version (from that mid-90s Carpenters tribute CD) that is not bad!

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

The Babes In Toyland version kinda rocks.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah xpost

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand why anyone would ride around in an interplanetary crap. It took up a lot of my time as a child trying to figure out the aerodynamics of that.

― humansuit, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Because wee is your friend.

― everything, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

OMG please don't make contact with me.

― humansuit, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Klaatu version superior to all others.

(Well, I haven't heard the Babes in Toyland version, but I can't imagine it being as good.)

― John Justen, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

When I was a little kid I had to go have tooth fillings done once. They gaeve me the novocaine gas, and I watched my arms detatch from my shoulders and rotate slowly in front of me. I was like, 8, I had no idea what a hallucination was.

On the PA over my head in the dentist room, the Carpenters version of "Calling Occupants" was playing. I'll never forget it.

― Trayce, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

But I really like how in the Carpenters version the alien sounds like he's going to eat you.

― humansuit, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

no memory of starting this thread nine (!) years ago.

can someone help me reconstruct the late-1970s zeitgeist by which something like this was conceivable?

i like this song a lot, but whenever i hear it i think of the hippies dancing on top of the skyscraper in independence day, cheerfully welcoming the aliens, only to be the first humans to be blasted into oblivion by the mothership.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 21:13 (nine years ago)

Just think of your parents doing house work. On Valium.

― djh, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 22:26 (nine years ago)

This is in Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights. One of the best uses of music in film in a long time!

― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 10:14 (nine years ago)

that's what inspired the thread revive! although it wasn't my favorite use of music in that film.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:11 (nine years ago)

I sometimes sing little bits of this song to myself- usually the "we are your friends" part- it's soooooo creepy

― the tune was space, Thursday, 4 February 2016 20:49 (nine years ago)

The final "we are you friends" (in the Carpenters version) is the highlight of the song and spins it into a more serious place of optimistic catharsis.

― everything, Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:00 (nine years ago)

fuuuuck this song is really stuck in my head

this is a pretty good song considering it begins with the dumbfounding couplet

In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:10 (nine years ago)

that's what inspired the thread revive! although it wasn't my favorite use of music in that film.

― wizzz! (amateurist), 4. februar 2016 21:11 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There might be a couple of Perfidia's above it. A lot of great music choices in that film.

― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:33 (nine years ago)

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