From their 1974 album, "Secret Treaties" (and 1988 album "Imaginos").
The song's lyrics are selected verses from a poem by Sandy Pearlman, the band's producer and mastermind behind their image, called "The Soft Doctrines of Immaginos". In the poem, which was later released under the BÖC moniker as "Imaginos", aliens known as Les Invisibles guide an altered human named Imaginos, also called Desdinova, through history, playing key roles that eventually lead to the outbreak of World War I. In "Astronomy", the character of Imaginos comes to realize his heritage and his role as the altered human. References are made to celestial objects throughout the song-- "The light that never warms" being the moon, "The Queenly flux" the constellation Cassiopeia, "My dog, fixed and consequent" being Sirius, the dog star. The "Four Winds Bar" may reference the Tropic of Cancer. All in all, it has Imaginos explaining his position as part of Les Invisibles.
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fireflysays...Not sure if this is obscure enough, Farhad. You can always remove it...
deathcowsays...This is from the album "Imaginos" as well... this sounds exactly like the Imaginos version, are they identical? Imaginos is killer by the way.
fireflysays...^ I first thought one version was longer, but after checking the track listings, they're both over 6 minutes, so I don't know. Anyway, I've updated the description, thanks.
swampgirlsays...*cowbell
deathcowsays...Cannot add this to cowbell channel because there is NOT ENOUGH COWBELL.
fireflysays...*requeue
siftbotsays...Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 7:31am PDT - requeue requested by submitter firefly.
Fadesays...Personally I prefer the Metallica cover. It's a lot more RAWK!! if you know what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Xl4oQkNAQ&mode=related&search=
legacy0100says...*dead
siftbotsays...This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by legacy0100.
siftbotsays...Awarding jonny with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.
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