Noise du Jour: "Pluto Drive" by the Creatures

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The NdJ theme this week has been “space”. Today is the last day I’ll be posting space songs, so I wanted to highlight this interstellar roadtrip by the Creatures, Siouxsie Sioux’s post-Banshees ensemble.

Let's go to Pluto, the atmosphere's clear
We'll be really cool there with nothing to fear
Let's go to Pluto, it's cold and it's damp
Where children are heroes, death is high camp
I want to see Pluto... I want to have fun
I want to turn blue under an alien sun

The lyrics remind me acutely of the novel Charon’s Ark, which is set in the eighties. A chartered jet full of high school students is diverted to Charon, a moon of Pluto (which will always be a PLANET to me, assholes), on which they discover robots and dinosaurs and an ancient computer mainframe that’s running the whole planette.

It is both earnest science fiction and high camp, and it has been suggested to me that the main adult character–an alcoholic Vietnam veteran–should be played by Bruce Campbell.

After the trilogy is finally published, I’ll write a screenplay, and this song will roll with the opening credits.