captain nautical and the space invader army

Last night, I had my Ipod on shuffle while I was driving home. Two songs came on, almost one after the other, and both struck me as being particularly of their era, those being The Tornado's "Telstar" and Captain Groovy's "Captain and His Bubblegum Army". I'm sure much has been written about Telstar, and I recall the last thing I read was that it sounded like an outdated version of the future, and when it was released, listeners considered it sonically ground-breaking. "Telstar" does sound like the 50's version of our future in space, and that sort of utopian dream has passed, but the song is timeless. Yes, it is the musical equivalent of the original incarnation of Tomorrowland, but it is filled with awe and the wonder of possibility, which is also what makes Tomorrowland so fascinating. It is still cool sounding, and unlike so many other 50's/60's pop, it doesn't sound dated, both musically and because of the subject matter: the fascination with what could be.

"Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army", is more dated, because it filled with tics of the era, but it is still charming and catchy. How bubblegum to have a chorus shout "bu-bu-bu-bu-bu bubblegum army". The song sounds like an interlude or song intro to a Sesame Street lesson, filled with allusions to the pervasive psychedelic aesthetic infiltration of mainstream culture.