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All songs written
and performed by Clawjob.
Recorded and mixed August 2005-February 2006, at
April Fog in Cambridge, MA.
Mastered by Colin Sapp at Specialized
Mastering.
Banjo on "Horrible Death" by Ernie Kim.
Album art, design, and layout by Clawjob.
Tribute Roman font by Emigre Type Foundry.
Thanks to Farhad Ebrahimi, Luke Kirkland, Kevin
Micka, Matt Boch, Alec Tisdale, Ricky Hull, Allison
Haar, Danny Shektman, and Ben Macri.
Special Thanks to all the residents of April Fog.
Clawjob's Space Crackers is published under
a Creative
Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5
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Space
Crackers
Clawjob's debut album / science
fiction rock opera.
Tracklist
- Description & Info - Reviews
Tracklist
(Click title to download mp3)
1.
Welcome to Space School MP3 4.9MB
2.
I Got My Space Pass MP3 6.7MB
3. (Let's Focus on the) Research
4. Crackers + Chips
5. Zero Gravity
6. The Vast Emptiness of Space
7. Julian
8. Dooks of Doom (Pts. I, II, & III)
9. (Meanwhile...) One Hundred Million Years in the Future
10. Probabilities
11. The Dookarist
12. CHAMPS
13. Space Crackers
14. Horrible Death
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Plot
In the future, the world is at peace, and two of Space
School's most promising young scientists are to be sent
into orbit to discover a solution to global hunger.
When one of the scientists can't go, his replacement
sees the mission as an opportunity to woo his unsuspecting
female spacemate. Things get a little awkward when 50
million ravenous aliens land on Earth, hoping to feed
on human flesh!
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Space
Crackers vocal cast:
JULIAN: Nick Burgess
GREG: Mike Gintz
MADELEINE: Kris Palumbo (Fox
and the Sound)
DR. O: Devin King (Night
Rally)
MISSION CONTROL: Sarah MacDonald
THE DOOKS OF DOOM: Daniel Espeset
RADARTRON: Deb Nicholson
(The Empties,
Robotvoice)
SNIPER: Ernie Kim (Tristan
da Cunha)
SOLDIER 1: Farhad Ebrahimi (Night
Rally)
SOLDIER 2: Kevin Micka (Animal
Hospital, The Common Cold)
SPACE SCHOOL FACULTY: Luke Kirkland (Night
Rally, Boo
Radley Bruises Badly), Martin
Pavlinic
(Reports),
John Perotti
(Paper Thin Stages),
Nate McDermott (Paper
Thin Stages), Chris Hislop
(Piles,
artchikent),
Diane Akerman, Elio DeLuca(Keys
to the Streets of Fear), Jessica
Rudis, Nellie McKesson, Ellen Gintz, Christina Cameron
ADDITIONAL SOLDIERS: Mike Dacey, Steve
Gintz, Ross Farley (Bakula,
Clickers),
Alec Tisdal
(Badman),
Paul DeGeorge (Harry
and the Potters), Joe DeGeorge
(Harry
and the Potters), Doug Harry
(Bakula,
Clickers)
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Critical
Reaction:
"Space Crackers is an epic tale of unrequited love,
research at a space station, and the eradication of
humankind by the Dooks of Doom. Supporting clever lyrics,
the music runs the gamut of styles, from a Queen-y intro
to straight indie rock to dissonant metal. The chorus
of "I Got My Space Pass!" channels Superchunk,
and "Probabilities" has a Pixies/Veruca Salt
thing going on. Love it." - 75orless.com
"This sprawling drama sports...
some of the catchiest songs ever to address the impending
eradication of humanity by hungry aliens." - Boston's
Weekly Dig
"An instant classic in the mold
of Queen's Flash Gordon score... in addition to being
really silly, it's also really great." - The
Boston Phoenix's OnTheDownload
"...Space Crackers needs to be
funny. It needs to grab the attention, tie it up in
an unfurnished room with a bag over its head and ransom
it back to its family. Then it needs to be backed up
by the kind of theatrical, pomp-rock which the project
clearly demands. Turns out, it pretty much manages all
of that. Huzzah!" - stylusmagazine.com
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