{"id":63,"date":"2009-12-21T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:38:29","slug":"song-of-the-day-into-the-deep-by-kula-shaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Into the Deep” by Kula Shaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, what a song.\u00a0 And what an album.\u00a0 I don’t know how many people have even heard of Kula Shaker, but their debut album, 1996’s “K” is one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time.\u00a0 I’ve let some friends of mine hear it, and I’ve played it at work, and it gets rave reviews too.<\/p>\n

This song<\/a>, like the album, is about Special K.\u00a0 No, not the delicious breakfast cereal.\u00a0 I’m talking Ketamine Sulfate.\u00a0 One of those illegal drugs that the young kids like to snort\/shoot.\u00a0 I’ve never done it myself, but I’ve read about its effects.<\/p>\n

Apparently, K is what you do when you want to fly up to heaven and meet God.\u00a0 Apparently K is what Kula Shaker did in their formative years as a band, because they mention this drug, its effects and other drugs all over this album.\u00a0 The singer\/guitar picker is Hayley Mills’s son, btw.\u00a0 If you don’t know who Hayley Mills is, it’s probably not important.<\/p>\n

Looking at Wikipedia’s page for the band, apparently they’ve reformed.\u00a0 I wonder if they’re any good now.<\/p>\n

Who cares?\u00a0 Because the album “K” is so fucking good, they need not do anything else to win a place in my Pantheon of Bands that Released One of My Favorite Albums.\u00a0 But I find myself talking too much about the album, and I should save this precious drivel for the proper record review of it.<\/p>\n

“Into The Deep” is one of at least two songs clearly about Ketamine.\u00a0 The other is “Smart Dogs”, and there are probably more.\u00a0 It has a very sing-along-y structure… and is catchy as hell.\u00a0 The production is VERY much like old-school psychedelic rock from the late 60s and early 70s, and since I think that period contains the best rock music ever, this is more than fine with me.<\/p>\n

This is one of the songs I get stuck in my head from this album.\u00a0 Come to think of it, I get EVERY song from this album stuck in my head from time to time.<\/p>\n

But alas, I’m talking about the album more than the song, so now it’s time for a drastic and unnecessary change in topic.<\/p>\n

Spiderwoman 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Spiderwoman 2<\/a><\/p>\n

This is some fembot stuff.\u00a0 Not much fembot stuff, but enough to fap to.\u00a0 The rest of it… good fucking CHRIST ALMIGHTY it’s fucking putrid.\u00a0 Supposedly, television is better than this shit now, but only marginally.<\/p>\n

Go ahead.\u00a0 Watch the whole thing.\u00a0 I dare you.\u00a0 I double dare you motherfucker….<\/p>\n

etc….<\/p>\n

I was just talking to a very good friend of mine, and I had this to say in sweet mockery:<\/p>\n

a few brief scenes of moceness…. but it had dialogue like “I have to stop that elevator from dropping before it kills that ungrateful prick in the leather jacket and the retarded kid with the Ronald MacDonald haircut!\u00a0 I’d better stay stuck to the wall and discuss it with no one, like I’m doing right now.\u00a0 I sure wouldn’t want to go and take over the androids… destroy the male ones and instigate super-spider-sex with the pretty female androids!\u00a0 Oh shit!\u00a0 The elevator has hit the ground and the idiots inside are surely dead!\u00a0 Better cut to a scene where something plausible is going on!”<\/em><\/p>\n

…and…<\/p>\n

did you catch the part where she said “I’m so fucking laid back as I record the dialogue for this shitty cartoon that I sound like I’m in traction!\u00a0 Meanwhile, I’m supposed to be falling to my death and making lame spider-puns!\u00a0 Arachnafuckwaffles!”<\/em><\/p>\n

So, maybe listen to the song instead.\u00a0 If you share my love of female androids, you will have identified the good parts in the video so you can skip everything else.<\/p>\n

Also, “moce” is an intentional misspelling of “nice”.\u00a0 It means “nice” as in “Check out the cute robot chick… she’s MOCE!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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