X-Message-Number: 24506
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:27:57 -0500
From: Randy Smith <>
Subject: Hal Tindale's "Cryonics" song lyrics, Kraftwerk, cryonicists, etc.
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Hal Tindale wrote:


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>Message #24504
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:53:27 -0400
>From:  ()
>Subject: RE: CryoNet #24501 - #24502
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>some people have asked me for the lyrics to "cryonics" so here it is;
>
>preservation of life
>transport to the future
>preservation of life
>...
>preservation of life
>extention of life
>preservation of life
>...
>preservation of life
>nanotechnology
>preservation of life
>biotechnology
>preservation of life
>cryoprotectorant
>preservation of life
>future
>preservation of life
>
>HAL
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HAL, I really like your Cryonics song, there.  Over the years we have 
heard quite a few extropian/life extension/transhumanist-related songs. 
But your "Cryonics" song is just the best damn one out there, at least 
in my ever-humble opinion.  The more I listen to it, the more I like it, 
and having the lyrics makes it much better, because the lyrics really 
help drive the point home (more on that later).  Of course, I have been 
a devout  Kraftwerk listener for decades, and your Cryonics song is 
obviously very much influenced  by Kraftwerk.

For some reason, in my mind, I have always somehow associated Kraftwerk 
with life extension/cryonics/immortalism. Maybe it has something to do 
with Kraftwerk's interest in technology; they were interested in 
computers over 2 decades ago, and even made an album called 
Computerworld in 1981, which very presciently foretold of the pervasive 
use of computers. 
The lyrics of one of the songs on that Computerworld album seemed to me 
to almost tap into some of the ways we cryonicists feel about technology:
"I program my home computer,
beam myself into the future"

They also had an album called "Man Machine", and in fact, they often 
perform as and are costumed as robots while performing for audiences. 
How similar to many cryonicists, who sometimes see themselves as being 
human-machine cyborgs once revived into the future.

And your song taps into that same coldy rational, ever-insistent, 
machine-like, programmatic style used by Kraftwerk. It seems to me that 
your lyrics are similarly logically insistent, similar to the way we 
cryonicists have kept repeating our same logical/rational cryonics 
mantra to the public (and to ourselves) year after year:

preservation of life
transport to the future
preservation of life
...
preservation of life
extension of life
preservation of life
...
preservation of life
nanotechnology
preservation of life
biotechnology
preservation of life
cryoprotectorant
preservation of life
future
preservation of life



I just wish the lyrics were easier to understand. But a great job, anyway!

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