SONG: “Aquarium” [1] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant [2]. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock [3].
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no specific scientific source. It’s from this album [4]. I never really thought of it as a rarity, but it seems to be impossible to find an mp3 or YouTube video of it. It is on Lala [5], though.
ABSTRACT: Is this a song about science? I’m not sure, really, but it is a song about mystery that has a lot of sciencey set dressing – aquariums, planetariums, things that stand in for that sense of wonder and alienation that Mr. Hitchcock captures so very well.
Has a banjo, a rather nice mellotron synth called Nanotron [6], an electric guitar and the Padawan [7] VSTi from tweakbench. And a bloopy noise I ganked off my old copy of Acid. That’s it. Part of what I wanted to do was get away from click tracks and percussion to make it as spacey as possible. Maybe a metronome would have helped in some ways, but the effect worked, I think.