Bob Seger's "No Man's Land" for Star Trek

YouTube ^

[mairdie]

Or, if you prefer a focus on Spock, Five for Fighting's "One Hundred Years" as a memorial video for Leonard Nimoy.

[mairdie]

Trek was my first fandom, and still makes me smile.

[left that other site]

I remember EVERY ONE of those episodes!

Thanks, Mairdie!

[mairdie]

Forever burned into our memories. Amazing when you think how much else we just forget.

[Vaquero]

Fall of ‘66. I was a freshman at a junior college. Star Trek premierd. I was hooked.

[mairdie]

I didn’t fall until 1984. Husband was a night bird and I a day one. Since Trek came on at midnight in NY, he got me hooked so I’d stay up later. He never forgave himself.

[be-baw]

I thought the Segar song fit the video compilation very well, but I couldn’t get through another mediocre Bob Segar song. On the other hand, “100 years” is a terrific tune, but the video distracted me, so I found the song’s lyrics to look at instead.

[mairdie]

Literary song videos are interesting animals. If the song doesn’t work for you, it’s hard for the video to work. And if you don’t know the song, it’s hard to concentrate on the story the video creates.

Back in the “old days” I used to get requests for tapes of songs that people would then copy themselves so that they would then play a tape until it wore out, then make another tape and do it all over again. For people obsessed in the community, they were things to play over and over and over again. So the videos became familiar and, eventually, they turned into background music where people would just pause what they were doing, listen for a minute while they let the video play in their heads, then continue marking papers, or whatever else they were doing.

It’s much harder in this world of “watch once on YouTube” for literary song videos to make the impact they used to make.

My taste in music is pretty strange, I recognize. I enjoy the 100 years song, but I still really turn on to the Bob Seger. I like perhaps 1 or 2 songs on a CD, so I don’t overdose on most artists.

[WMarshal]

Good stuff!

I always though that a music video spoof of Star Trek to the Beastie Boys’ ‘No Sleep Till Brooklyn’ would be hilarious.

No sleep till,
Vulcan!

Foot on the pedal Never ever false metal Warp drive running hotter than a boiling kettle My job ain't a job It's a damn good time Planet to planet I'm running my rhymes. On location Touring around the Federation Enterprise Boys always on vacation Itchy trigger finger But a stable science table I do what I do best Because I'm willing and able. Ain't no faking Your dilithium crystals I'm taking Going quadrant to quadrant to watch all the girlies shaking. While you're at the job working nine to five The Enterprise Boys at Gamma Station Cold kickin’ it live.

No sleep till Another plane Another train Another bottle in the brain Another girl Another fight Another flight all night. Our Captain's crazy He always smokes dust He's got his own room at the back of the bus. Tour around the galaxy You rock around the clock Beam down to hotel Green girls on the jock.

We're trashing hotels like it's going out of style Getting paid along the way ‘Cause it's worth your while. Four on the floor Scotty's out the door Kirk's in the back because he's skeezin’ with a whore. We got a safe in the trunk with dilithium in a stack With dice in the front and Christine's in the back.

No sleep till
No sleep till Vulcan, no sleep till Vulcan!

Ain't seen the light since we started this band Bones-aye, get on the mike, my man! Born and bred Vulcan - 40 Eridani A They call me, well you can't pronounce it But I'm Spock. Like a lemon to a lime A lime to a lemon I sip the Romulan ale with all the fly women. Got shuttles, phasers, TV-shows Autograph pictures and classy hoes Step off Homes Get out of my way girl Taxing little girlies from here to L.A. Waking up Before I get to sleep ‘Cause I'll be rockin’ this party eight days a week!

No sleep till
No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!

No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!

No sleep till Vulcan!
No sleep till Vulcan!

[left that other site]

yes Indeed.

[mairdie]

You are HYSTERICAL!!!!

I love it all. Is that a real song because you just made a music video. That was so funny.

And your memes are marvelous.

BRILLIANT!

[WMarshal]

The adaption of the lyrics was my own feeble attempt. All of the memes were purloined from others in a true, honest piratical fashion.

The idea for the video came to me while listing to the Beastie Boys and an scene flashed in my mind of Captain Kirk crossing off girls of different colors from a poster. In my demented mind there was a rainbow colored girl that was unmarked with a note next to it saying

“What system!?”

It is so wrong but it made me laugh out loud.

[mairdie]

You’re wonderful and I do enjoy your humor.