List | S | S.P.O.C.K | 'Alien Worlds' CD 1995

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Mirror World	4:02
2.	Astro Girl	4:07
3.	All E.T:s Aren't Nice	4:32
4.	Take Me To The Stars	4:46
5.	Trouble With Tribbles	3:55
6.	Abducted	5:23
7.	PS9	3:12
8.	Lost In Space	4:09
9.	Cosmic Boy	3:30
10.	Space Is The Place	5:18
14.	Space Is The Place	0:09
	Total	44:00

Comments:

Track 1 starts off this album rather calmly; it's not too bouncy and poppy, but not too slow either. I suppose the lyrics were heavily inspired by a specific Star Trek episode; I've read somewhere that Android's favourite episode was 'Mirror, Mirror' or something like that.

Track 2 is fast, bouncy and blippy, and reviewed in the comments to the single., and the same goes for track 3. Track 4 is fast and bouncy as well, with sort of society critical lyrics. It doesn't really work for me, even though it's pretty good.

Track 5 is rather silly, and sort of 'funky' yet mechanical. It's based on a Star Trek episode I saw once, with some furry, cute and rapidly reproducing life forms known as Tribbles and also some Klingon spies revealed by these fur balls. Very, very silly; both the episode and the track. In track 6 someone gets abducted by aliens and live through their experiments. Sort of half-scary, but not too much. It's quite amusing as well.

'PS9' is one of my favourite tracks on this album. It's fast and blippy, a bit repetative yet still too short at the same time. It's about a 'pleasure station', where you can enjoy yourself in several ways. Imagine it.

Track 8 is probably the most odd on the album. It's somewhat confused and surreal, about (you guessed it) someone being lost in space. I like those HP-filtered vocals; it gives a sort of 'spooky' effect. Following this track is the IMHO disappointment of the album. It's kind of like track 4, but with even less to interest me. Sure, the melody is rather poppy, but the lyrics aren't exactly in my taste.

No, I like the last track a lot more. It's actually spoken (while sung simultaneously turned down in the background), and about how much fun and interesting space is. Sort of silly to hear Android trying to speak relaxed in a language not native to him (he's half Vulcan, y'know ;^) which leads to some slightly unnatural pronounciations. Anyway, the point is that 'space is the place', since it's so much more fun to fly around and see lots of the universe than just "settle down somewhere" and do nothing. It ends with some party conversation in Swedish, which roughly translates to "so I walked up to him and said: give me a full drinking glass of tequila, and he thought I was crazy" followed by some manical laughter and "oh, fu-" exclaimed in disgust.

I stated above that this was the last track. Well, that's not entirely true; it's followed by some completely silent tracks, and then the line "spa-aaa-ce is the pla-aaa-ce for me-eeee to be-eeee" sung a capella. Sort of reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel gone mad.

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