![]() ![]() “Weird Al” even outlines their invasion plan in suspicious detail: first they’ll destroy New York, then Tokyo, and then Weird Al’s block. ![]() Will atom bombs work? Nope, the song is very clear about that. How will the Slime Creatures from Outer Space dispatch us? Well, they have death ray eyes, will “rip your head off just for fun,” and, in some cases, may “suck your brain out with a straw.” The Slime Creatures from Outer Space are all about options. This aspirational ditty is essentially the Tom Clancy novel of pop songs about aliens delivering our comeuppance: military details, military details, and more military details. Despite their celestial name, the Astro Zombies come from the 1968 film Astro-Zombies, and aren’t so much “Astro” as they are “reanimated coupses created by a process whereby, in the words of the film’s trailer, ‘beating hearts and throbbing, living brains are transplanted by a scientist whose motives are entirely dedicated to evil.’ ” Why “Astro-Zombies” instead of “Zombies” or “Frankensteins” or even “Frankenstein’s Monsters,” you ask? Because the film’s mad scientist-played by John Carradine-sets off on his path to murder humanity after getting fired from “The Space Agency.” Still, “Astro Zombies” gets points for being very clear about what it’s like to meet an Astro Zombie: “Your face drops in a pile of flesh / and then your heart, heart pounds till it beats in death.” Not a moment too soon! A cheerful punk rocker about the Astro Zombies, beings with one “prime directive: exterminate the whole human race.” But despite the song’s spacey title and relatable, positive theme of giving planet earth a nice clean sweep, this one is technically disqualified.
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