List | S | S.P.O.C.K | 'Five Year Mission' CD 1992

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Neutral Zone	4:33
2.	Never Trust A Klingon	4:16
3.	Mr. Spock's Brain	4:20
4.	Charlie X	4:07
5.	E-lectric	3:28
6.	Black Hole	4:29
7.	Space Race	3:45
8.	Time Machine	5:03
9.	Edge Of Forever	4:19
10.	Last Man On Earth	5:18
	Total	43:38

Comments:

The title of this album is a sort of internal joke; when they released this, their first album, S.P.O.C.K had been a band for about five years. Also, if you remember the intro to the Star Trek TV series, the Enterprise is on a 'five year mission'...

The album is generally a bit more blippy than the single for Never Trust A Klingon, and somewhat poppier in places as well. Pure synthetic music, and very good at that.

Track 1 is a very good and blippy tune, with lots of quirky sounds bouncing around. I think I've seen that Star Trek episode that this song seems based on. Track 2 is reviewed in the comments to that single. Track 3 is supposedly an old Mr. Data songs, from back when Android (Alexander Hofman) was a solo performer and used that name. It's pretty weird; the lyrics are quite strange and about a missing brain(!).

Track 4 is also full of Star Trek references, mainly a specific episode I saw quite recently (which was in fact rather silly, but many regard it as a classic). 'E-lectric' is even weirder: "everything you see will be - electric", "put a switch in the wall, nuclear power to us all!". I'm not sure just how to interpret that one (regarding the dismounting of all nuclear power plants in this country by 2010), but it's very funny.

Track six is a more slow piece, of how the Enterprise is being sucked into a black hole. I suppose this is also based on a Star Trek episode. 'Space Race', on the other hand, is a much more up-tempo blippy tune about an, eh, space race. It seems to have nothing to do with Star Trek, but it's pretty hilarious anyway.

'Time Machine' reminds me of a cartoon by Gary Larson (The Far Side), where a scientist is accidently trapped in the jurassic age due to a time machine breakdown. Also a great source for things to say when your computer doesn't work. Track 9 has also sort of 'relativistic' lyrics; more of that time travel stuff and such. It's a bit faster than the previous track, and rather blippy.

The last track is quite slow, and very good. Kind of similar to track 1 when it comes to multiple synth melodies layered over each other, which creates a very spooky atmosphere. Rather dark and depressing lyrics about a lonely man in a world in ruins. The title, however, is rather amusing if you're aware of that Eddie has a side project named Sista Mannen På Jorden, which is a direct translation of that title :-)

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