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Another Planet
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If we trash the Earth with global warming and deaths of species, there's no other hospitable place in the Solar System. Targeted to politicians who cater to businessmen whose only priority is short-term gain. A good song for Earth Day.
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A mainly one-person band featuring strong vocals and guitar back-up, playing a variety of songs in a rock, folk, and pop blend. The songs range from science ner
Cosmos II is the pseudonym of Alan Marscher, a professor of astronomy at Boston University. Usually, he performs alone on guitar and vocals. The songs are all originals composed and copyrighted by Marscher. Some are "science nerd" songs that Cosmos II performs to science students at B.U. The majority, though, are just general songs about life, love, the pursuit of happiness and meaning, and various other random topics. Most of the songs are in English, while some are in Russian, the country where Marscher's wife, Svetlana hails from. The style is a mixture of rock, pop, and folk - what is often termed "adult contemporary." Many are humorous - e.g., "Medical Miracle" about how Viagra has revitalized a lot of middle-aged men or "Relatively Weird" about the wonders and perils of traveling around at near-light speeds. Others are philosophical, such as "All from Nothing?" about how the universe came to exist and "Elusive Truth" that asks whether absolute truth can exist. Some are just plain love songs - an example is "Together or Apart" - and others are love-is-difficult songs, like "Winter's Darkness." Laughs and tears for everyone! Marscher recorded all of the songs himself on a small digital recorder. He doesn't have loads of free time, so he hasn't worked hard enough to remove imperfections, add a drum pattern, etc. But most songs have harmony and are at least at the "demo" level of quality. Friends who have listened to them have neither gone mad nor rushed the CD to the local recycling center. More importantly to Cosmos II, Marscher can listen to them without wretching in horror over the slight mis-timings of the different tracks and other imperfections.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
#6 in subgenre Peak #1
Charts
Peak #3
Author
Alan Marscher
Rights
2007 by Alan Marscher
Uploaded
March 29, 2008
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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:49
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Intro: Your defiant attitude mystifies me, are you malicious or simply dense? The world is heading for catastrophe while you ignore the evidence You claim to be conservative but you only care about the bottom line You ignore ecological imperative but where will we go when the Earth is dying? 1. On Mercury we'd roast all day & during the night we'd freeze We'd gasp for air to no avail with no atmosphere to breathe On Venus we would suffocate from CO2 gas so dense The greenhouse effect would bake our hide, the heat would be so intense 2. On Mars we could walk on dust-swept plains & climb old volcanoes high But the air's too thin so it's freezing cold, & soon we would collapse & die Jupiter would crush us in it clouds highly pressurized And its hydrogen molecules would give our lungs a nasty surprise Chorus 1: We can't just move to another planet if the Earth is no longer alive Even if we could transport there, it would be impossible to survive 3. Saturn has such gorgeous rings, but poison gas it contains Uranus & Neptune are bitter cold with deadly ammonia & methane Pluto & Eris are icy worlds, very dark & lacking heat Even if we could get that far, our destruction would be complete [Chorus 1] Chorus 2: I'd like to send you to another planet, it would be my finest hour 'Cause it's dangerous here on Earth as long as you remain in power end: Yes, it's dangerous here on Earth as long as you remain in power
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lee1102
Oct 16, 2019
Amazing how a song uploaded in 2008 remains at the top of the charts in 2019. You'd think that this must be a fantastically awesome song, right? Well judge for yourself. Listen to it, then listen to some of the songs on the chart around this one. Notice anything? Sure, how can this song compare to the other songs in the top of the chart? It can't. It's being artificially maintained on the top charts from the composer repeatedly clicking on his song. He also uses his students and forces them to listen to his songs as part of his class's curriculum. Hey, if you can't get your songs on the charts by quality songwriting, then cheat! Nice going Cosmos II, keep clicking on those songs.