I found something lovely (gives me some terrible thrills)
Philip Hautmann I especially like this song and the lyrics as they transport – well – nostalgia for a more perfect world within a mind that is otherworldy and that is at home in outer space repectively that lives in the future which is, paradoxically, the subject of his inverted nostalgia. It leaves open room for various other interpretation as well. It somehow makes you feel such secureness and embeddedness in something that cannot be explicitly described and Patricia Quinn as the nostalgic as well as timeless Usherette looks very cute. It is Proustian as recovery of memory and lost time, the climax of the Proustian enterprise to achieve total information awareness and completion of self as Time Regained. What is especially admirable is that does not stand at the end point of the geniuses quest, something he has won after hard effort of creating a hyprcycle out of his own self, but as a somehow light and fluffy introduction to the enterprise, thereby clearly taking Proust unexpectedly and by surprise. Hail Richard O´Brien!
Stephan S
vor 4 Monaten
Does anybody know if this is really the voice of young Patricia Quinn?
However, it is badly sung but so genuine and authentic that I wish I’d been there in 1973. Times of craziness and creativity. So sad it’s all over.
happytree68
vor 5 Jahren
I wish they had kept the usherette to introduce the movie. I think she’s just so delightful. She’s so adorable, she seems to represent an age to true movie escapism. You could almost imagine her being yelled at by her boss because she keeps lingering in the theater to watch the movie instead of working.
Addendum Sept 2 2022:
When I was a child, both me and my mother, Eva, liked the Rocky Horror Picture Show a lot and we watched it multiple times. And I used to feel attracted to the intro song, Science Fiction Double Feature; as it seems to display a thoughful, ruminative, a bit melancholic nostalgia about a dreamy world bygone, yet still present, persistent and accompanying at the same time. All the same, the more propelling original version (I came across much later), performed by the girlish, enthusiastic yet solitary Usherette, is way more heartwarming than the film version. I think the strange charisma of the song lies in being, in an unexpected way, expressive about being safe, about being sheltered, due to some innocent enthusiasm, in and by some innocent, protective, reconciled, quasi celestial world, that has been erected by others, but that is nevertheless all yours. In a world full of monsters, killing technology and aliens there is are still realms of some naive, comforting harmlessness; if you stick to it. I seem to like it that way. Maybe I even need it.