The song is truly creepy -- meaning well-conceived and well-recorded -- but crassly exploitative of the teens, tweens and grade-schoolers whose imaginations were all wrapped up in their AM radios (and really, what else was there besides the Bradys and the Partridges on TV?) It's the same sort of hucksterism that gave us "Timothy" (which I also think is a great recording).
The song is truly creepy -- meaning well-conceived and well-recorded -- but crassly exploitative of the teens, tweens and grade-schoolers whose imaginations were all wrapped up in their AM radios (and really, what else was there besides the Bradys and the Partridges on TV?) It's the same sort of hucksterism that gave us "Timothy" (which I also think is a great recording).
Both songs haunted my sleep when I was little.
Both songs haunted my sleep when I was little.
I've read that the song was "inspired" by a college football team's plane crash -- I think the one from the "We Are Marshall" movie....
I've read that the song was "inspired" by a college football team's plane crash -- I think the one from the "We Are Marshall" movie.
This song comes from one of the band members, he was interested in learning to fly. One of his friends had just learned to fly and crashed his plane as he watched.
This song comes from one of the band members, he was interested in learning to fly. One of his friends had just learned to fly and crashed his plane as he watched.
The question remains; is he remembering from "the beyond" ? Or, did he recover and is recalling the incident?
The song is truly creepy -- meaning well-conceived and well-recorded -- but crassly exploitative of the teens, tweens and grade-schoolers whose imaginations were all wrapped up in their AM radios (and really, what else was there besides the Bradys and the Partridges on TV?) It's the same sort of hucksterism that gave us "Timothy" (which I also think is a great recording).
The song is truly creepy -- meaning well-conceived and well-recorded -- but crassly exploitative of the teens, tweens and grade-schoolers whose imaginations were all wrapped up in their AM radios (and really, what else was there besides the Bradys and the Partridges on TV?) It's the same sort of hucksterism that gave us "Timothy" (which I also think is a great recording).
Both songs haunted my sleep when I was little.
Both songs haunted my sleep when I was little.
I've read that the song was "inspired" by a college football team's plane crash -- I think the one from the "We Are Marshall" movie....
I've read that the song was "inspired" by a college football team's plane crash -- I think the one from the "We Are Marshall" movie.
This song comes from one of the band members, he was interested in learning to fly. One of his friends had just learned to fly and crashed his plane as he watched.
This song comes from one of the band members, he was interested in learning to fly. One of his friends had just learned to fly and crashed his plane as he watched.