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In a [[2007]] ''Rolling Stone'' magazine 'Rock & Roll Daily' feature the album was called one of rock music's "mythical lost masterpieces." In an April 2007 issue of the Australian weekly print mag "Zoo", the album was named number seven in their "Top Ten Never Released Albums" list. | In a [[2007]] ''Rolling Stone'' magazine 'Rock & Roll Daily' feature the album was called one of rock music's "mythical lost masterpieces." In an April 2007 issue of the Australian weekly print mag "Zoo", the album was named number seven in their "Top Ten Never Released Albums" list. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|earliest known written draft]] of ''Songs from the Black Hole'', as presented in the book ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]'', was dated [[November 28]], [[1994]]. The characters of the story were to be [[Jonas]] (voiced by [[Rivers Cuomo]]), [[Laurel]] (voiced by [[Rachel Haden]] of [[that dog.]]), [[Maria]] (planned to be voiced by [[Joan Wasser]] of the Dambuilders), [[Wuan]] & [[ | The [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|earliest known written draft]] of ''Songs from the Black Hole'', as presented in the book ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]'', was dated [[November 28]], [[1994]]. The characters of the story were to be [[Jonas]] (voiced by [[Rivers Cuomo]]), [[Laurel]] (voiced by [[Rachel Haden]] of [[that dog.]]), [[Maria]] (planned to be voiced by [[Joan Wasser]] of the Dambuilders), [[Wuan]] & [[Dondó]] ([[Brian Bell]] and [[Matt Sharp]], respectively), and a robot called [[M1]] (voiced by [[Karl Koch]] via the use of a vocoder). At the time, Wasser was unaware of Rivers' intention of having her play a role on the album. | ||
The initial draft of the story differed from later drafts, seemingly taking place on Earth in a futuristic setting. Subsequent drafts re-imagined the characters explicitly as space travelers. In the words of Rivers, taken from an interview in the [[November 15]], [[2007]] issue of Rolling Stone: "There's this crew - three guys and two girls and a mechanoid - that are on this mission in space to rescue somebody, or something. The whole thing was really an analogy for taking off, going out on the road and up the charts with a rock band, which is what was happening to me at the time I was writing this and feeling like I was lost in space." | The initial draft of the story differed from later drafts, seemingly taking place on Earth in a futuristic setting. Subsequent drafts re-imagined the characters explicitly as space travelers. In the words of Rivers, taken from an interview in the [[November 15]], [[2007]] issue of Rolling Stone: "There's this crew - three guys and two girls and a mechanoid - that are on this mission in space to rescue somebody, or something. The whole thing was really an analogy for taking off, going out on the road and up the charts with a rock band, which is what was happening to me at the time I was writing this and feeling like I was lost in space." | ||