But! Kanye’s not the first to dip into the Apollo program to bring heat to a song. Gang Starr’s 1998 Moment of Truth featured Above the Clouds, another aeronautically-inspired track that took fragments of JFK’s famous “We choose to go to the moon” speech for its introduction.
I don’t think an entirely NASA-themed concept album would be a bad idea. And it’s really only the next place for Kanye to head at this point, anyway. International Space Station status. [The Atlantic]
red t-rex
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 3:36 PMAlan Parsons was there before these guys with the “On Air” flight concept album in 1996. He has an instrumental track “Apollo” which features excerpts from the JFK speech as well as ground control radio chatter. This is followed on the album by the song “So Far Away” with some moving lyrics as a tribute to the space program and a tip of the hat to Challenger.
You can check out both of these on youtube with fan created videos.
Daniel Morgan
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 6:41 PMcheck out Apoptygma Berzerk’s most recent Album “Rocket Science” it has Apollo samples all through it.