[HN Gopher] 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune
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1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune
Author : cainxinth
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-02-19 14:29 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| duxup wrote:
| The thing I find appealing about Dune is how WEIRD it is. There's
| depth too, but it's weird and it really lends itself to all sort
| of styles and IMO they all kinda work.
| conception wrote:
| I've started showing my kids, Herculoids, thundar the
| barbarian, he-man, and other sorts of just really weird old
| cartoons. There's not a lot today that's being produced. That's
| just fun and weird and gets the creative juices going. There
| are a few weird kids books too like the skull and the queen in
| the cave that I highly recommend.
|
| Culture quickly defined by what has already been created could
| definitely use a shot of weird injected.
| seanicus wrote:
| Love The Skull, I'll have to look up Queen in the Cave
| Tade0 wrote:
| My preschooler enjoyed _Du Iz Tak?_ by Carson Ellis. The
| characters are insects who talk in an unintelligible
| language.
|
| On the less weird, but still interesting side there's what's
| known to English speakers as _Adventure Box_ - it 's a
| translated version of the French monthly magazine _J 'aime
| lire_ which is published since 1977.
| duxup wrote:
| I think there's some weird stuff still.
|
| I ran across Gravity Falls with my kids not long ago, that
| was great.
| austinprete wrote:
| Seconded! Also, Adventure Time and its spin-offs are
| fantastic and deeply weird at times. Over the Garden Wall
| is another one.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| IIRC He-Man was pretty merchandising driven so maybe not the
| best example. Except for Skeletor. That IRL origin story is
| priceless.
| jandrese wrote:
| Back in the old days authors didn't know how anything worked
| and there was no Internet to look things up and no budget to
| do research so they were forced to make a lot of the stuff up
| on the spot. In retrospect a lot of those choices were weird
| and often blatantly unscientific, but they worked in context.
|
| I sometimes wonder what He-Man would have been like if they
| had spent more than 5 seconds coming up with character names
| and concepts. The whole universe feels like a rough
| draft/outline where someone went "we're out of budget, this
| goes into production as is."
| caminanteblanco wrote:
| From what I've read, the tie-in with Dune is ostensible at best.
| Plus, the suit by Herbert is why it wasn't released in the US
| paulsmith wrote:
| For fans of this there's another '70s-era LP similarly inspired
| by the novel: Bernard Szajner's "Visions of Dune" from 1979. It's
| proggy, synthy, psychedelic, and just a weird fun listen.
|
| https://bernardszajner.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-dune
| jessemerriman wrote:
| Nice one. Another Dune-concept French progressive album from
| around the same time is Eros, by the band Dun:
| https://www.discogs.com/master/122007-D%C3%BCn-Eros
| _sys49152 wrote:
| For something a little more updated, a partial list of tracks
| that sample dune:
| https://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=dune+david+matthews
| duskwuff wrote:
| Not to be confused with a list of tracks which sample _Dune_
| (the 1984 film):
|
| https://www.whosampled.com/movie/Dune/
| Lalabadie wrote:
| The article mentions MF DOOM's sampling, but for fans of RJD2,
| the bonus track on the original Deadringer CD (Here's What's
| Left) is built on a sample from David Matthews' Silent Running on
| that album.
| giraffe_lady wrote:
| Oh man what a throwback. I played the FUCK out of deadringer
| back in the day but haven't thought about rjd2 many years.
| Going to go see what he's been up to.
| samplenoise wrote:
| Ah thanks for this one, I spent a good half hour earlier today
| trying to recall where I know that intro from. Whosampled
| doesn't have it
| dml2135 wrote:
| I've got this on vinyl! Definitely one of my best record-store
| finds.
|
| On the subject of weird Star Wars musical adaptations like those
| on the second half of the album -- I've recently discovered the
| track "Dark Vader" by Instant Funk from 1979. I love this track
| as it really feels like it captures a moment in time, right
| before The Empire Strikes Back was released and Star Wars really
| became a franchise.
|
| - The misunderstanding of the name, which was exactly what I
| called "Darth Vader" as a kid, seemingly was more prevalent back
| at the time
|
| - The feeling of absolute hype that he was going to return on
| screen (I assume this track came out after initial marketing for
| _Empire_ began)
|
| - The popular conception of Vader as a _Black_ man -- something
| that must have seemed obvious at the time with the voice of James
| Earl Jones, that was really thrown away with his reveal as Luke
| 's Father in Empire
| guiriduro wrote:
| I preferred Toto
| shermantanktop wrote:
| Exhibit #432 in "Why Punk Happened", just after the Bee Gees
| movie based on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and right
| before "The Wiz."
| selimthegrim wrote:
| I suppose Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the rotating suspended
| piano is not far behind.
| emsign wrote:
| Atreides his name. Atreides his game. The Harkonnen wanted
| Arrakis back, they got Atreides up to here!
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| In a similar vein, I recommend checking out Bo Hansson's
| Progressive Rock/Space Rock album interpretation of The Lord of
| the Rings from 1970:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Inspired_by_Lord_of_the_...
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro&list=PL9DD02F58F...
| dabinat wrote:
| This made me think of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the
| Worlds, which is one of my favorite albums. It's really great for
| road trips.
|
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ktYPoln1n-WvUNOQOW...
| mastazi wrote:
| If any Apple employees are reading this, the Apple Music page for
| David Matthews https://music.apple.com/au/artist/david-
| matthews/616619 mixes up 3 different people:
|
| 1. Keyboardist David Matthews born in 1942 who made the album
| "Dune" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matthews_(keyboardist)
|
| 2. Rock musician David Matthews born in 1967
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews
|
| 3. Jazz saxophonist David Matthews born in 1911 (the bio section
| of the Apple Music page is about him)
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_(saxophonist)
|
| I have submitted a feedback ticket to Apple but I thought I would
| also leave it here.
| cytocync wrote:
| Weirdly, can you see the potential in using software engineering
| principles to help manage health better? The cultural connection
| between Dune and jazz-funk music could inspire innovative
| approaches that bridge old and new ideas.
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