Sunday, March 28, 2010

Spies & Conspiracy (#25) Late in the Evening.

Original source here. Recorded on November 9, 1996

This one enters the murky, misunderstood world of international espionage. The jets screaming through the sky in this track mirror the heavy winds currently outside my window, the errant cool breeze carrying an imaginary whiff of JPTS.

This is heavy on the 50's and 60's. The height of the sexy Cold War antics. The later decades, while still dangerous (look it up?) were decidedly less sexy as the budgets shrank and the glamor faded. Perhaps, too, do the Russians and Eastern Bloc countries pine for the early years, where Leon Theremin himself was designing bugs for his country.

The toys got too small, the nerds took over, it became a war of blue jeans and bean counters. It's over, of course. We no longer hide under our desks as practice. Such is the way of the future.
  1. Secret Flyover
  2. Psychedelic Transatlantic
  3. Join the smaller, slower Air Force
  4. Torture Swing
  5. Mission Ricochet
  6. Here comes the rain again
  7. Yet another Bond theme
  8. Can we make Mancini smoother? No.
  9. Damn you, Samuel Morse
  10. The phone call came from the next hotel room
  11. Mistaken Identity
  12. Salute the Flag
  13. Woosh and we're gone

Added by IanF-R:
Flowsheet for this show.