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 The Radio Is Broken

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The cosmos at large
It's so very big
It's so far away
The comets...the craters...the vapors
The solar wind
The residual echoes...the residual echoes
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  It seems to be sequel to the Cheepnis from Roxy album. No doubts Frank simply adored all kinds of stupidity sci-fi as well.
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  Frank really loved outer-space monster movies from the 1950s. Most of this song refers to the kinds of things you find in those movies, especially the cheap ones.
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The residual echoes from the giant explosion
Where they said it beginned

The germs from space!
The negative-virus knit-wear
The blobulent suit
That's right! THE BLOBULENT SUIT
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  Really looks like something from Captain Beefheart poetical arsenal.
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  I always thought it was "globulent soup" referring to primordial ooze. I could be wrong.
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The things that were supposed to be green
In the balck and white movies
They get you in the neck when you're not looking
They get you, the get you, they get you, get you, get you
The radio is broken -- it don't work no more
The radio is broken -- it don't work no more
The lovely Lisa Kranston:
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The pointed brasseries
The atomic war
The tiny little dresses on the space girls
A love-starved race begging to reproduce
With earthmen
They need to reproduce (with John Agar)
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They need to reproduce (with Morris Ankrum)
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They need to reproduce (with Richard Basehart)
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They need to reproduce (with Jackie Coogan)
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They need to reproduce (with Sonny Tufts)
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  All of the names are actors who played in 1950s outer-space monster movies. John Agar starred as the hero in several of them.
From: wave@u.washington.edu (S. Fortney)
  John Agar was Shirley Temple's first husband. I think she was about 16 years old and he was about 23 or something. It was big in the press back then.
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The botchino...the botchino...the botchino
From: "Eric Muhlheim"
  The word "Botchino" comes directly from _Queen of Outer Space_, an excruciating 1950's sci-fi film starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. I ran across it on cable a few years ago, and it is truly a classic. $# The plot: Our intrepid band of three astronauts and one scientist blast off from earth in a way-too-long launch sequence (in which the facial effects of g- forces are simulated by a lot of unconvincing grimaces), get caught in a poorly- animated space battle, and crash onto the surface of Venus, which looks a lot like a soundstage full of rubber plants. It turns out that Venus is inhabited entirely by chesty women in short skirts and high heels -- their tyrannical queen has banished all of the Venusian men to the surface of Venus's moon after she got disfigured by something having vaguely to do with the men's warlike tendencies.
  When the men are captured by the Venusian beauties, one of them very clearly uses the word "Botchino!" as a command. It is not translated, but it obviously means something like "March!" It appears again later on in the film, and is oddly the only Venusian word heard in the entire film (the vixens speak English, of course).
  To make a long story short, Zsa Zsa Gabor plays a Venusian scientist (!) who hatches a plan to escape with our astronauts to Earth, along with two of her girlfriends. She frees the astronauts, they run away; the Venusian queen decides to destroy the earth, the astronauts somehow save the earth; etc.
  Of special note:
  1) There is a navigator, but he does not get killed at all, much less by a bad space person.
  2) The Venusian babes don't seem to have any particular need to reproduce. They just want to hang out with these particularly drab astronauts.
  3) In the scene right after the astronauts are freed by Zsa Zsa, they hide in a cave and start making out with their new Venusian squeezes. From out of nowhere, they are attacked by a giant spider. I don't remember being able to see a string, but it is clearly made out of rubber.
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The gigantic spider
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  Sleep Dirt's Spider of Destiny once again. And of course Nylon String powered one from ROXY Cheepnis
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