Awesome Song of the Week! "The Bulblight" by Joe Meek

For this week's awesome song, we have one of the strangest pieces of music to emerge from the depths of the 1950s:

http://alextyson.tumblr.com/post/369466802/bulblight-by-joe-meek-via-songz-this-is-one-of

This song is pretty weird. But it's nothing compared to the rest of what's on the same album. This song is from a concept album (in the 1950s, way before stuff like Tommy or Sgt. Pepper) by producer Joe Meek called "I Hear A New World" where the entire sound of the album is basically what Joe Meek imagined outer space sounded like. Joe Meek was a pretty crazy dude, and he actually believed that there was intelligent life on the moon and Mars (which, if you think about it, wasn't that strange of a belief in the 1950s). Joe Meek actually was kind of crazy though. He had a really tragic personal life that I won't go into here, but if you want to hear about it just google his name.

I guess the bottom line is that this is what Joe Meek thought outer space sounded like, and I believe him. I kind of imagine outer space sounding something like this. Along with George Clinton, Sun Ra, and the Roots Radics, Joe Meek is one of the only people who has created music that actually sounds like it's from outer space.