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Sucking rats: Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

The Adam Roberts Project

Ladies, gentlemen, permit me to present to you the stone cold weirdest SF music ever recorded: ELP’s 1971 magnum opus Tarkus. Interestingly, Tarkus backwards is Suk Rat, which must be more than a coincidence, because that’s precisely what the song “Tarkus” does. It sucks a rat. It sucks a rat’s balls. It sucks a futuristic cyborg rat’s balls. Continue reading Sucking rats: Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer