♫Electricity is Alive♫

When I was young, I found a Switched on Bach cassette tape. It blew me away. I had heard Bach before, of course, but to hear it like that? Amazing. I had no idea of how influential it was to Moog, to Wendy Carlos, and to electronic music in general.

Oddly (looking back), it didn't spawn an interest in Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, or other musicians using "synthesized" music.

But there were two things I watched regularly on our local PBS station: Dr Who and Cosmos.

The Dreadnik's Electricity Is Alive's intro sounds very Stranger Things to me, which I've always thought was Vangelis-like. 

But this isn't electronica. This is a song. About a force of nature that we have studied, captured, and put to our own use. And lest we forget, a thunderstorm will remind us: electricity is domesticated but not tamed. Just ask Joyce Byers - or Chuck McGill.

I'd heard it listen
I've heard it speak
It flows like water
In a voltaic creek

The analogy is apt. Don't fight the river - work with it. Ignore the rules and you'll regret it. (Nice use of volatic, btw.)

I touched a switch
It kissed my hand
With a silver sting
A boon, a grant

Shuffle those feet! It's a kiss with a fist. And notice all these verbs: breathe, speak, flow, dwell, purr, hiss, kiss, clutch, see, speak, blink, ride, sleep, crawl.

It all leads up to this: 

Electricity is alive
Electricity is alive
Don't flip the switch
Don't kill the light

 If it's alive, how can we kill it?