It's a Pink World comin' down
September 6, 2012 6:40 PM Subscribe
Planet P Project's 1984 release Pink World [1h19m] is a double length post apocalyptic cold war nightmare science fiction concept album. Credits/Lyrics
The songs for which Planet P Project is more well known: Why Me? and Static. (bonus: Why Me (Extended Version))
The songs for which Tony Carey, the one man band behind Planet P, is more well known: A Fine Fine Day and The First Day Of Summer.
The double video Do You See What I See / Behind The Barrier [8m16s], two music videos from the album.
Tony Carey on Rockline (transcript) in 1984, before Pink World's release, talking about recent hits and getting kind of deep into his philosophy of music and such.
A couple of free downloads from Tony Carey showing what he's been doing lately.
The songs for which Planet P Project is more well known: Why Me? and Static. (bonus: Why Me (Extended Version))
The songs for which Tony Carey, the one man band behind Planet P, is more well known: A Fine Fine Day and The First Day Of Summer.
The double video Do You See What I See / Behind The Barrier [8m16s], two music videos from the album.
Tony Carey on Rockline (transcript) in 1984, before Pink World's release, talking about recent hits and getting kind of deep into his philosophy of music and such.
A couple of free downloads from Tony Carey showing what he's been doing lately.
I have had A Fine Fine Day in my head for weeks and it is a welcome earworm. I love his music. Thanks for sharing this.
posted by sciatica at 6:54 PM on September 6, 2012
posted by sciatica at 6:54 PM on September 6, 2012
That video for "Behind the Barrier" gave me total nightmares as a kid. As did the video for "Why Me?".
In fact, any time Planet P came on MTV, I pretty much knew I was in for nightmare fuel.
posted by mykescipark at 7:04 PM on September 6, 2012 [3 favorites]
In fact, any time Planet P came on MTV, I pretty much knew I was in for nightmare fuel.
posted by mykescipark at 7:04 PM on September 6, 2012 [3 favorites]
(Also: I first heard him with his solo single "I Won't Be Home Tonight", which also got considerable MTV airplay.)
posted by mykescipark at 7:06 PM on September 6, 2012
posted by mykescipark at 7:06 PM on September 6, 2012
I feel like I've just gotten a whole bunch of answers for a prog rock trivia game that I will play in the future.
posted by RakDaddy at 7:34 PM on September 6, 2012
posted by RakDaddy at 7:34 PM on September 6, 2012
Not the least bit familiar with any of this.. which frankly surprises me because I am such a nut for both prog rock and overblown concept albums. I'm sad I missed out on this when I was younger, the video for The First Day Of Summer would have been kind company on many a lonely pubescent night.
posted by mediocre at 7:40 PM on September 6, 2012
posted by mediocre at 7:40 PM on September 6, 2012
Get out. Seriously, just get out of my brain. I literally put this record on TODAY for the FIRST TIME in YEARS. And then I come check out MeFi and find this... Spooky.
posted by fikri at 8:41 PM on September 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by fikri at 8:41 PM on September 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
Thanks for this... I really have a strange affinity for cold war apocalyptic media. What a dense album!
posted by Divest_Abstraction at 9:58 PM on September 6, 2012
posted by Divest_Abstraction at 9:58 PM on September 6, 2012
Thanks hippybear. I'm really surprised I've never heard of the album until now. I'm a sucker for sprawling double albums.
posted by davebush at 5:29 AM on September 7, 2012
posted by davebush at 5:29 AM on September 7, 2012
I was a DJ in the 80's and I never heard of this album, but will be checking it out! I DO however remember his single "First Day Of Summer". It was in heavy rotation for a few weeks....still have the 45 somewhere. No kids, the 45 I refer to is NOT a gun!
posted by Yer-Ol-Pal at 6:09 AM on September 7, 2012
posted by Yer-Ol-Pal at 6:09 AM on September 7, 2012
"Why Me" sends me straight back to high school in Central Oregon, tooling around town in my diesel Rabbit, yet somehow I'd never heard the full album. Thanks for the post.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 6:25 AM on September 7, 2012
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 6:25 AM on September 7, 2012
I literally put this record on TODAY for the FIRST TIME in YEARS.
I've done this before.
I believe that, like so many roadside mystery spots, that 50.22.177.14 sits upon a unique point on the web where the forces of nostalgia and rock and roll are perfectly balanced. Well, either that, or it's like the birthday problem.
That said, I always liked "Power Tools" and "Adam and Eve".
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:26 AM on September 7, 2012
I've done this before.
I believe that, like so many roadside mystery spots, that 50.22.177.14 sits upon a unique point on the web where the forces of nostalgia and rock and roll are perfectly balanced. Well, either that, or it's like the birthday problem.
That said, I always liked "Power Tools" and "Adam and Eve".
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:26 AM on September 7, 2012
"Why Me" sends me straight back to high school in Central Oregon, tooling around town in my diesel Rabbit, yet somehow I'd never heard the full album. Thanks for the post.
Actually, Why Me? is off of Planet P Project's first album, Planet P.
posted by hippybear at 6:32 AM on September 7, 2012
Actually, Why Me? is off of Planet P Project's first album, Planet P.
posted by hippybear at 6:32 AM on September 7, 2012
I bought Planet P when it came out—knowing nothing at all about it, just liking the name and the cover—and I played the shit out it. "Power Tools" was always my favorite and my favorite line was "We give 'em Gomer Pyle on the video; they go crazy ..."
There's a whole subgenre of '80's pop, mostly synthpop, that reveled in these kinds of Deco-ish Gernsbackian fantasies, Carey, Dolby, Numan, The Buggles, Fagan's Nightfly, just to name a few.
posted by octobersurprise at 8:43 AM on September 7, 2012 [1 favorite]
There's a whole subgenre of '80's pop, mostly synthpop, that reveled in these kinds of Deco-ish Gernsbackian fantasies, Carey, Dolby, Numan, The Buggles, Fagan's Nightfly, just to name a few.
posted by octobersurprise at 8:43 AM on September 7, 2012 [1 favorite]
just liking the name and the cover
That would be George Snow: a great '80s graphic designer and video director. Compare the Planet P cover to his cover for this Espionage 12" single.
posted by mykescipark at 9:52 AM on September 7, 2012
That would be George Snow: a great '80s graphic designer and video director. Compare the Planet P cover to his cover for this Espionage 12" single.
posted by mykescipark at 9:52 AM on September 7, 2012
+1 on the thread serendipity score. Never heard of any of this before, but it's nearly perfect accompaniment for brainstorming the urban horror/fantasy/sci-fi RPG campaign (that is very likely to be set in the early '80s) I've been working on for the past week or so.
What else from this era/genre has this sort of creepy, concepty, and very very '80s feel? (And preferably stuff without lyrics, but whatever.)
posted by AugieAugustus at 1:38 PM on September 7, 2012
What else from this era/genre has this sort of creepy, concepty, and very very '80s feel? (And preferably stuff without lyrics, but whatever.)
posted by AugieAugustus at 1:38 PM on September 7, 2012
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