Ghost Train = Stranglers & techno-subliminals & KT in Library of Congress

[andrews@cs.UBC.CAN (Jamie Andrews)]

     The "one of few good songs on the radio" that someone mentioned,
"Ghost Train", is from the Stranglers' latest album, _Dreamtime_.
(No relation to KT's work except through the Australian Aborigines!)
I encourage all to give this one a listen.  It's one of the best albums
I've heard in a long time; it's beautifully produced (though if you like
thrash you'll probably fall asleep on it), and the Stranglers can put
more interesting themes in one song than Bryan Adams and David Foster
can put on a whole album.  I particularly like "Mayan Skies".

     (...Me, slander two homegrown B.C. boys?...  Never!...)

     Techno-subliminals:  in Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Two Tribes"
video, there were definitely *visual* subliminals:  one section (I
think right after Chernenko punched Reagan in the puss or vice versa)
had a screen of all red, and another section had the word "Death" or
"Kill" or a skull-and-crossbones on it.  I know this because I didn't
notice it for a long time, and then once I did notice it I could spot
them consistently.  Their music was (is?) total crap but their videos
were pretty subversive.

     And now, the Ultimate in KT Trivia:  while looking for _Book of
Dreams_ in the UBC library, I came across the section with the call
letters starting with K.  Well, it turns out that in the Library of
Congress classification system, all books beginning with the call
letters "KT" are pertaining to:  Law and Legal Issues in Asia.

     Make of it what you will.

--Jamie.
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