I Lost My Heart (To A Starship Trooper) (1978)

[Goliath]

You know--I'm probably the last person on Earth to hear of this song. And once I post this, you'll all point and laugh, and wonder where I've been all this time.

But just in case I'm not, I thought I should bring it to that last person's attention.

Just watch the video. It's--well, it's indescribable.

I Lost My Heart (To A Starship Trooper)

 

[Super Grover]

Well that song is just made of awesome.

 

[RoJoHen]

I cannot believe that is real.

 

[ITL]

Yeah, I remember this being in the charts at the time. I was 12. I thought it was fecking awful. I still do.

 

[rramarr]

It doesn't surprise me for the 70s. back then I used to have nightmares about starship troopers coming to get me because I would not join. The only reason I didn't join is because in the dream I couldn't put on the helmet and due to in reality I didn't like having something covering my head at night. Vader was teed off at me and kept sending troopers after me. I should have got some therapy for that maybe.

 

[WillsBabe]

They used to play this at Trek con discos. I always got up and danced to it. We used to sing "I lost my heart to a starship captain," instead. Happy days!

ETA: Forgot to mention we danced to it without any sense of irony!

 

[Goliath]

They used to play this at Trek con discos. I always got up and danced to it. We used to sing "I lost my heart to a starship captain," instead. Happy days!

ETA: Forgot to mention we danced to it without any sense of irony!

Yes, I remember those carefree, innocent days before irony.

*Sighs*

 

[Goliath]

Well that song is just made of awesome.

I did warn you that it was recorded in 1978.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Oh My God That Is So Awsome. How did I somehow miss this? I was an eight-year-old Star Wars fanatic in 1978, I should have picked up on it.

 

[ClayinCA]

This, by the way, is the same Sarah Brightman who was in the original cast of the The Phantom of the Opera and now has an inexplicably popular career doing neo-Opera/New Age-y albums.

 

[Goliath]

^Yes. That's what's so surreal about it. It's like discovering that Renee Fleming started out as a punk rocker, or something.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Ah, yes, early Sarah Brightman!

Of course, I know it now from a Torchwood episode.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Ah, yes, early Sarah Brightman!

Of course, I know it now from a Torchwood episode.

Another reason for me to not watch that show.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

This is the same Sarah Brightman who revealed in a TV interview that her former husband, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, has a very big penis. A fact that I could well have done without knowing, as, I suspect, could you.

I prefer "Starship Trooper" by Yes -- I don't think that ever got the Hot Gossip treatment -- shudder.

 

[David cgc]

You know--I'm probably the last person on Earth to hear of this song. And once I post this, you'll all point and laugh, and wonder where I've been all this time.

Ironically (based on your sig), I learned of it from Yahtzee's review of Halo 3 a while ago, where it was used as the closing song. If not for that, though... well, it was before my time.

 

[ClayinCA]

This is the same Sarah Brightman who revealed in a TV interview that her former husband, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, has a very big penis. A fact that I could well have done without knowing, as, I suspect, could you.

me. I never needed to know that.

 

[Cutter John]

This is the same Sarah Brightman who revealed in a TV interview that her former husband, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, has a very big penis. A fact that I could well have done without knowing, as, I suspect, could you.

Well that explains a lot. She obviously didn't marry him for his looks.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It's ironic how nothing in modern music sounds quite so dated as "futuristic" sounds.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

This is the same Sarah Brightman who revealed in a TV interview that her former husband, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, has a very big penis. A fact that I could well have done without knowing, as, I suspect, could you.

Well that explains a lot. She obviously didn't marry him for his looks.

I think the question posed to her (by Graham Norton IIRC) was along those lines. Strangely, she made no mention of his enormous wad (of cash).

Gotta love 70's TV -- nowadays, I don't think an act like Hot Gossip would even get through the first stages of "Britain's Got Talent".

 

[Jono]

This, by the way, is the same Sarah Brightman who was in the original cast of the The Phantom of the Opera and now has an inexplicably popular career doing neo-Opera/New Age-y albums.

Britney went from cute Mouse minion to Queen of Skanks...they all got to start somewhere.