There are some good and not so good guesses here… but that clown one was real creative… :) But as it’s been said, this was an early part of the Imaginos project.
From Wikipedia;
“In "Astronomy", the character of Imaginos comes to realize his heritage and his role as the altered human. References are made to celestial objects throughout the song-- "The light that never warms" being the moon, "The Queenly flux" the constellation Cassiopeia, "My dog, fixed and consequent" being Sirius, the dog star. The "Four Winds Bar" may be a reference to the Tropic of Cancer. All in all, it has Imaginos explaining his position as part of Les Invisibles.”
As for the Metallica cover, I found the original pretty even with it… but by far the best version is the newest from BOC’s latest live album, A Long Day’s Night. They used to do a good job of it live, but what makes this live version triumph is Buck’s guitar solo… It is quite fantastic, especially that riff in the middle. I can’t say for sure, but I almost think Buck Dharma made the incredible solo to put their version on top… Either way, if you still question which is better, check out that track. It might take a couple listens, but the new live version is by far the best. As for the Metallica cover, I think that they detected a song with much more potential than it was originally played with (they were right too), but I don’t think they were well suited to cover it (cover it to fill in it's gaps anyway). But all this flat out "you're a clueless !@#$@#!" stuff is not going to get anyone anywhere...
There are some good and not so good guesses here… but that clown one was real creative… :) But as it’s been said, this was an early part of the Imaginos project.
From Wikipedia; “In "Astronomy", the character of Imaginos comes to realize his heritage and his role as the altered human. References are made to celestial objects throughout the song-- "The light that never warms" being the moon, "The Queenly flux" the constellation Cassiopeia, "My dog, fixed and consequent" being Sirius, the dog star. The "Four Winds Bar" may be a reference to the Tropic of Cancer. All in all, it has Imaginos explaining his position as part of Les Invisibles.”
As for the Metallica cover, I found the original pretty even with it… but by far the best version is the newest from BOC’s latest live album, A Long Day’s Night. They used to do a good job of it live, but what makes this live version triumph is Buck’s guitar solo… It is quite fantastic, especially that riff in the middle. I can’t say for sure, but I almost think Buck Dharma made the incredible solo to put their version on top… Either way, if you still question which is better, check out that track. It might take a couple listens, but the new live version is by far the best. As for the Metallica cover, I think that they detected a song with much more potential than it was originally played with (they were right too), but I don’t think they were well suited to cover it (cover it to fill in it's gaps anyway). But all this flat out "you're a clueless !@#$@#!" stuff is not going to get anyone anywhere...