Strangely enough, I heard that song, that version, for the first time in years -- yesterday on the way in to work while contemplating how one would follow-up these observations.

Don't go too far down the beginning-of-the-end track. There is of course some truth (nextersol is the first sol of the rest of your life ...). But there is more than one variable that determines whether frost forms. [incidentally, this line of thought is purely speculative and based only on released images--we'll know more later]

Ah... I get it... ( nudge nudge...)... you're saying that the "frost" is actually the condensed breath of subsurface martian lifeforms which worship The Bangles as gods, but you can't say anything until the - (wink) - Proper Authorities have been briefed and the comeback album is recorded...



JOKE!!!!! <------ please read.

Then there will be peace between Man & Martian. I too worshipped The Bangles, but only from afar, alas...<sigh><swoon><drool>...

Oh, man, that was soooo not supposed to be leaked yet...

Beautiful to see this frost..... but a harbinger that time is marching on for Phoenix.

nprev... must admit I am from the S and G generation but the Bangles are a heckuva lot more fun to watch

Thanks all...

Craig

Yes, they are, aren't they? A very talented and IMHO underappreciated group in many ways. The fact that every one of them is stunning of course plays no part at all in my estimation (really!)

Really really...always thought that song truly kicked a**. They looked every bit as good as they sounded! (Must confess; I share Stu's infatuation with Susanna, but we ain't gonna fight for her; she's taken.)

(cough, splutter) Steady on there, I didn't say I was infatuated! I actually preferred the bass guitarist, the striking redhead who never smiled. I think she was called "Michael" tho, for some reason.

Anyway, Bangles were ok, but if you want to see real 80s talent then look no further than the GoGos, who not only gave us some great tunes as a band but also gave the world Jane Wiedlen AND Belinda Carlisle, who gave us the classic "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" the 12" of which I could always rely on to fill dancefloors when I was dj'ing school parties... (warning: video contains bizarre jogging masked children... twenty years on I still have no idea why...)

Sorry... I think I'm scaring the younger members now... I'll shut up.

Sorry;I damn sure am! (Cool; now all I gotta fight is her husband!)

I prefer the S&G version of the song, for a couple of reasons: first, they wrote it; second, it's one of those sliding-key things that Art Garfunkle liked to play with, and that his voice seems uniquely suited to; third, it's the first version of the song that I was familiar with, and in such things are preferences forged.

Besides, we sang that song in Chorus in high school, and performed it at a choral concert in the fall of my senior year, and it was the S&G tempo and presentation we used as a guide. The Bangles' version is punctuated differently, from a percussion and general rhythm perspective.

Now, if you were to ask me for a preference between the Bangles and S&G for sitting around and chatting in a clothing-prohibited sauna, well... the Bangles win that, hands down. I'll always Walk Like an Egyptian for those girls...

As for the lines that feel to me very much a part of what Phoenix is doing right now, there are two little clips I'd like to point out:


Seasons change with the scenery,
Weaving time in a tapestry,
Won't you stop and remember me...?


and...


Look around,
Leaves are brown,
There's a patch of snow on the ground....


-the other Doug

... and if there are any young whippersnappers out there thinking "What's all this fuss about the 80s?" then take a look at this, and then you'll know why we oldies shake our heads at your 'hippety hop' music and think your bling-draped gangsta goons are so silly!

Oh, and our cartoons were much better than today's too...

At first I thought they were the usual suspects, ccd noise/cosmic rays, but now I think they are true reflections. Other morning frost spot images (taken before the first frost) don't show such sparkles, and in the sol 79 frames that do show them, there are many that coincide exactly in their locations between the R, G, and B frames.

I don't know about that, but you're scaring me, and I'm almost 40!

So, about this Mars lander thingy... I can't help but notice we've less than a week before the end of the original, 90 sol mission.

Here you go, "the other Doug"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yheo2AgNywU

Love the little trumpet duh duh Dah de DA

GROOVIE!!!!!!!

Three years after they performed this I had hair below my shoulder blades..... (memories... it was the springtime of my life)

And Stu... ahem, every generation "does their thing". Tolerance!?

Apologies to Doug for getting WAY off topic... promise to behave after this

Craig

I've been pondering this too, and there just seem to me to be too many of them, and of so many different colours, for them all to be noise or cr hits. Will definitely be worth keeping an eye on this area - and others, tho this one seems to be the fave frost hunting ground - for more frost as the sols pass. I hope we'll see a concerted effort now to monitor this area and observe the frost forming and creeping towards the lander as the days and weeks pass, should tell us a lot, as well as giving us some truly beautiful pictures.

Speaking of which, will we see anything as dramatic as this Viking pic, do you think..?

Join ya in way OT...The Bangles really did do it better, all due respect to the original composers.

(Good Lord, I've created a monster!!! Everybody back to Phoenix activities, now, now, now!)

Stu, with respect to that V2 pic: sure hope so, and more.