Posted on 06/13/2008 1:29:37 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Many years ago (I won't give the exact number) I was a college student, and for a while worked in the college radio station which at that time concentrated on jazz and instrumental music (it was a religious college and many contemporary song lyrics were problematic). Each weekday morning there was an hour of what is conventionally called "new age" music.
One of the new age albums was entitled New Age Songs and was by a duo named the Frugivores ("fruit eaters"). It appeared to be a man and a woman (though the pic on the front of the album was a bit androgynous) and, by their thick accents, Brits of some variety.
You've heard of "so bad it's good?" Well, this stuff was so bad it was fascinating. Weird, jangling drones hummed in the background as the twosome warbled "This is a tale for a neclear age" or celebrated "the optimist." The final song on the album was actually quite pretty ("So close to the edge of my heart / Where no one comes near / You got so close to the edge of my heart / Then walked away out of fear"). But the one track that was most often played on the air was the "train crash" song ("You died inside a train crash / A fate of twisted rail / Now people call you dead / But your engine doesn't fail").
Despite, or perhaps because of, my own anti-new age prejudices, I found them fascinating. I'd love to borrow the album from the station again and listen to it . . . except the album long ago mysteriously disappeared, and no one knows what became of it.
I have done web searches galore for "The Frugivores" and "New Age Songs." As you know, it isn't easy to do a web search for something and come up totally empty. But any time I do this search I always do.
There is one exception. A few years ago I found a copy of the album online in a European record store. I believe they had one copy left. I actually bought it . . . gave them my credit card number and every thing . . . and for a while I was happy as a lark. Then they contacted me to say that their only copy had disappeared and I would not be receiving it. That is the last evidence I have ever had that the Frugivores and their album ever even existed. They seem to have conveniently dropped off the face of the earth, as if they had never existed.
What is going on here? Were these two loopy people beamed up to the mother ship? Did The Man send out his "Men In Black" to destroy all evidence they had ever existed because otherwise their weird jangling would have ushered in a nirvana of peace and justice and made the "military/industrial complex" obsolete? Just what is going on here?
I'm serious: has anybody out there heard of the Frugivores or this album?
Google frightens me. I thought that sounded familiar and I could picture Alex Trebek dressed in black, but I had no idea what it was from. So I hit google with a few key words and this thread came up first. @*(@((@! Google is fast linking to FR.
And for those who want to know, it was from the X-Files episode "Jose Chungs From Outer Space" in season 3.
As I told Eepsy, for whatever reason the first track refuses to play. Any other place to find a download?
Help? Please?
I'm exhausted!
Thank you all!
Thanks anyway, guys.
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