Talk:Rocket Ship

"Rocket Ship is the 1992 demo of a song that didn't get any further than this, because the chorus was cannibalized to make Spiraling Shape." doesn't seem quite right to me.. is that a TMBG Unlimited quote or did somebody write it themselves? I mean, it seems more like that RS wasn't rejected because they used the chorus for a later song, just that it was rejected, and then later canablized for the new song. I mean, four years is a long time. Anybody agree? -TDK

Well, obviously the song was rejected, because it never got beyond the demo form. Martorano

If you read what I said again you'll see that I agreed with the fact that they rejected it. What I was questioning was whether or not they had Spiraling Shape in mind when they did. -TDK 20:26, 5 Feb 2006 (CST)

Sorry, didn't mean to sound argumentative ;) I think that's a good question.Martorano

It's from the newsletter. I just added a note on that. -Buschap

Just heard this on dialasong.com. i love how it was a boring, not all that great tmbg song at first, and then, almost randomly, the future spiraling shape chorus pops up, and it becomes instantly recognizable.--4.143.134.145 20:28, 1 Jun 2006 (CDT)

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I'm sort of sad that they didn't use this song in any of their albums. I kinda like it. I like this part of the song the most:

Messed up my face when we fell off the sofa

I injured my hair when we fell from the plane

But nothing can hurt me, I have no nerve endings

I lost so much blood that I'm ready to faint -CuppaCoffee 16:41 7 June 2006 (EDT)

Then I'm guessing you haven't heard the song Spiraling Shape on Factory Showroom. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 16:53, 7 Jun 2006 (MDT)

Nope. -CuppaCoffee 20:52, 9th June 2006 (EDT)

Well, those lines become:

Put out your hands and you fall through the window

And clawing at nothing you drop through the void

Your terrified screams are inaudible drowned

In the spiral ahead and consumed in the shape -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 18:57, 9 Jun 2006 (MDT)

Oh. Well, ok. - CuppaCoffee 19:03, 9th Jun 2006 (EDT)

WOAH! I just heard Spiraling Shape from a video made by Klimdeeni and I think it's better than Rocket Ship! - CuppaCoffee 21:28, 9th June 2006 (EDT)

Get Back

I just bought Let It Be (the Beatles), and after I heard "Get Back," I thought its chorus ("get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged") sounded a little too similar to Rocket Ship in the part, "on a trip, on a trip, on a trip inside a ro-uh-cket ship." Has anyone else ever noticed this, or am I just weird like that?  ~ magbatz

You're just weird like that. :o -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 02:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

That's what I figured.... ~ magbatz

In truth, I'd never noticed that listening to the song, but now I've heard it with that in mind I do agree with you... --༺𝄞𝄆Ⓠⓤⓔⓛ⎈Ⓓⓞⓜⓜⓐⓖⓔ𝄇༻ 08:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

One of the best "demos" ever

I never heard this until Podcast 55.

I would guess that Flansburgh does the main vocal for the "rocket ship" section and Linnel is the main vocal for the "makes you go insane" section, with some backing from the other. But it's possible they are doing some distortion effects that make it hard for me to tell in the "rocket ship" section.

The "rocket ship" section reminds me a lot of Robot Parade. "Rocket ship, rocket ship, Want to ride inside a rocket ship" -> "Robot parade, robot parade, wave the flags that the robots made".

As far as demos go... this ranks up there with the demo of "Which describes how you're feeling all the time". Wow, this is about as good as it gets.

the whole song is definitely linnell, just in a low, perhaps slightly pitched-down voice for the verses. -Apollo (colloquia!) 15:47, 15 May 2012 (EDT)

Familiar

The organ melody at the beginning reminds me a lot of Iowa and Dan Vs. Cog (although the latter song is a lot slower). It might be coincidental, but I think its an interesting idea that this demo could have influenced more than one song.