"The sound of the atom splitting" inspiration

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"The sound of the atom splitting" inspiration

#1 Post by shamelessbehave »

On a comic title. Take a look at The Invisibles, volume 2, number #7:

http://ocean.accesswa.net/Comics/2483/Comic.aspx
http://www.comune.modena.it/glamazonia/ ... biblio.htm
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shamelessbehave wrote:On a comic title. Take a look at The Invisibles, volume 2, number #7:

http://ocean.accesswa.net/Comics/2483/Comic.aspx
http://www.comune.modena.it/glamazonia/ ... biblio.htm
Inspired by PSB or PSB were inspired by this comic?

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#3 Post by Bulldog »

Wasn't that inspired by Derek Jarman?

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One of the crowd wrote:
shamelessbehave wrote:On a comic title. Take a look at The Invisibles, volume 2, number #7:

http://ocean.accesswa.net/Comics/2483/Comic.aspx
http://www.comune.modena.it/glamazonia/ ... biblio.htm
Inspired by PSB or PSB were inspired by this comic?
That´s what I would like to know too.
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bobo wrote:Wasn't that inspired by Derek Jarman?
I don´t know. :?:
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#6 Post by Dipso »

bobo wrote:Wasn't that inspired by Derek Jarman?
Apparently so.
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To quote the always interesting Wayne Studer:

"The title The Sound of The Atom Splitting, which the song employs as something of a refrain and comes across as a non sequitur, was taken from a line in Derek Jarman's film The Last of England. And just what is the sound of the atom splitting? It's apparently supposed to be an "atomic age" metaphor for the end of the world."

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