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Spaceboys, Hello

from Birdstain​-​EP by al Riggs

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This song is one of the more folkier-sounding numbers on the upcoming "Swanville Revisited". It's my view on the rise and fall and slow second rise of the glam rock genre in music. When albums like "...Ziggy Stardust...", "Transformer", "Electric Warrior", and the first Roxy Music album came out, glam was ruling the airwaves and it made a lot of gay, bi, or bicurious teenagers in the 70's feel welcome. Like they belonged somewhere.
Now, the glam genre is looked as something of a joke. A few bands are doing their damndest to bring the sound and image back (of Montreal, Semi Precious Weapons, Smith Westerns) so that's good.
This is my love letter/Dear John letter to glam rock.
*gets off soap box, walks away*

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Spaceboys, hello, how are you?
How are things way back in '72?
Are the people still people in the sense that they screw
All the money that you have accrued?

And I don't know how long it'll last
Only so many people still live in the past
The rest have tied their idols to the front of the mast
You can only get so far with a God-given ass

And the records still sell pretty well
All the conflicted young men still sit for a spell
And let your music take them out of their hell
It catches them if they ever fell

Spaceboys, hello, how are you?
It's the year Aught-Eleven and they forgot about you
Each copy of "Hunky Dory" that they snap in two
Makes me wish I was back in '72

Oh, I wish I was back there with you.

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from Birdstain​-​EP, released February 17, 2011
AL- guitar, vocals

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