The Byrds - C.T.A. - 102 (Audio)

Music video by The Byrds performing C.T.A. - 102 (Audio). Originally released 1966. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

[@bisket2003]

could you imagine hearing this for the first time in 1966 and being thrown for an absolute loop? HELL, I heard this for the very first time in 2022 on vinyl was perplexed!

[@BonzJR]

Did & Done #BonZjR

[@DocJJohnson]

Love loud and clear

[@Memory_Gatherers]

I used this as part of my Uni assignment back in 2005, you gotta dig this :D ....Baby

[@theeecandlemaker2197]

This will be the anthem for the area 51 raid

[@rodri7321]

I'm here for C Sagan

[@JorgeLuisVacaT]

El mundo y sus demonios, página 198

[@rodri7321]

@@JorgeLuisVacaT pa no me acuerdo cual era, pero seguramente jej

[@Ri.carter]

Yo tambien.

[@Sumeyyyye]

Ben de

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

The Cosmic Connection, one of my favorite books.

[@CristianoSilva-ko8ne]

Carl Sagan bring me here

[@CaptainCharismaY2J]

What from out of curiosity?

[@1dgram]

​@@CaptainCharismaY2JFrom my favorite chapter of the demon-haunted world, the dragon in my garage

[@marclayne9261]

I have always been a WanderVogel.......

[@pogolo1387]

El mundo y sus demonios

[@miguelospitia9011]

Lo mismo me trajo aquí

[@thomasrobinson182]

McGuinn's 'space-rock'.

[@CaptainCharismaY2J]

It's not exactly Hawkwind or Gong, but in my opinion, this is definitely one of the earliest examples of what we consider as "space rock".

[@twillis449]

CTA 102 stands for 'Cal Tech A list number 102'. It was one of the first flat spectrum time variable quasars discovered by Ph.D. student Dan Harris at the Cal Tech radio telescope observatory in Owens Valley California. Time variable extragalactic radio sources are now quite common and are assumed to be powered by black holes in the centers of galaxies, but back in 1960 this discovery was quite sensational and led the Russian astronomer N.S. Kardashev to suggest that the signal might come from an extraterrestrial civilization. As far as I know, Dan Harris remains the only astronomer to have a discovery form the basis of a song recorded by a famous pop group.

[@fosterhart2013]

Had some vague concept of the songs origins but not the specifics ! Thanks,now I have a clue !

[@JohnOverturf]

While not exactly a "famous pop group" nor a "song," the stacked plot of CP 1919's radio emissions (discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell) serving as the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album should count for something, no? 😉

[@ceilingsandfloors]

@@JohnOverturf Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures? That t-shirt everyone wears?

[@1dgram]

Maybe “Jupiter Crash” by The Cure?

[@marshalleubanks2454]

Rush has two songs about Cygnus X-1.

[@willminkorea2010]

From interviews-At that time Crosby was convinced that "aliens" were talking to him.

[@edised71]

acid was really strong back then!

[@mackb909]

@@enricorigon1925 One person's hell could be another's enlightenment. Just need to be careful with anything you do.

[@stephengorin2685]

That could explain the unlistenable "Mind Gardens". Why it was included is another mystery.

[@1978garfield]

@@stephengorin2685 I think he was high on his own farts for that one. I honestly would have rather heard his song about a 3 way than Mind Gardens. If you will excuse me I am looking for mind bleach to get the image of a David Crosby 3 way out of my head. I wonder if the girl he wrote it for had said "That's a great idea. I'm so glad you are open to it. Let me call my friend Tyrone and he will be right over." if Crosby would have had second thoughts?

[@errolfellows409]

McGuinn had - still has? - an interest in astronomy. This song is mentioned in IS ANYONE OUT THERE, by Frank Drake and Dava Sobel.

[@vercas.1664]

+1 οποίος ήρθε από τον Astronio

[@ΝΙΚΟΣΠΑΠΑΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ-κ3ι]

+1

[@duckbrew]

exactly!

[@WolfDaddy420]

More like DMT 101, truth be told, but that's a whole 'nother trip...🤙🌹🇺🇸✌🏻

[@kirkdavis7360]

I think put this song in outer space so an alien can listen to it

[@parmec1875]

Very innovative!!!

[@vincentdavis3453]

Beautiful...Just Beautiful. Bought the album (got nicked). Hey, someone should do an extended version to this song, perhaps Ringo Starr or Bryan Ferry?

[@duckbrew]

This is more of a VU groove than anything

[@fosterhart2013]

Why not Roger Mcquinn ? I hear he is still pretty healthy .

[@lawrenceedmiston3509]

Cool effects. The "alien" in the fadeout sounds a bit like Donald Duck, or maybe Huey, Dewey or Louie.

[@AnalyzedRhyme]

I think it's just backwards voices.

[@GeoffreyGentryMusic]

AnalyzedRhyme Roger said that the voices weren't backwards. The band members spoke gibberish into the microphone and pitch shifted it. It was a trick to make you think that the record was backwards.

[@PAULLONDEN]

*AnalyzedRhyme* ___ 🛸......Reversed and slowed down the speed ,but can't decipher what these aliens (Crosby & McGuinn ?) are babbling on about..........apart from maybe "What a ruck and rull...🤖👽

[@ConglomerationCat]

@@GeoffreyGentryMusic Most likely recorded at 3 3/4 ips and sped up to 7/12 ips

[@howardamess452]

More like Take Hart's Morph plasticine man lmao!

[@cosmefulanito519]

Like si viniste por Carl Sagan (nadie) ;(

[@JorgeLuisVacaT]

El mundo y sus demonios, página 198

[@manueljnunezv]

Yeah!!!!

[@dr_orient4782]

...about the the first discovery of a quasar by Soviet scientists who thought intelligence was behind the regularly oscillating signal...

[@superrockmetalrock]

YES! ROCK ON

[@jurgen18ful]

¿Alguien más llegó aquí por el libro de Carl Sagan? ewe

[@cesarquiteriomiguel511]

Si, no me quedé con la duda.

[@abriljuanc]

Yo, jejeje

[@moto3z]

Tenía q escucharla xD

[@Sumeyyyye]

Ben 🤚🏻😂

[@omarcardona5570]

Otro más 😅

[@estebandelafp]

Came from The Demon-Haunted World

[@dang2443]

nobody cares

[@Boronezekieltube]

Cya -102. The quasar and blazar😮

[@LouKnoll-pt7jv]

Some of the best of our baby boomers music,this is real music youngsrers

[@supermetalrockmetal]

a Super-Great

[@비정한세상]

[Verse 1]C.T.A.-102 Year over year receiving you Signals tell us that you're there We can hear them loud and clear [Verse 2]We just want to let you know That we're ready for to go Out into the universe We don't care who's been there first [Verse 3]On our radio telescopes Science tells us that there's hope Life on other planets might exist

[@1761Charlie]

We're over here . . .

[@matheusmaques6053]

Vim pelo Carl Sagan

[@jonathanryberg7585]

Well, ehm… dont do drugs

[@enricorigon1925]

LSD

[@BobbyMejia-b2r]

Pi

[@RedGoldGreen-Dub]

Great song 😎👌🏻

[@RafayButt-ch8mc]

Your foll

[@taavipiipponen3085]

i was born in 2008 and i loved this song when I was a kid

[@kirkdavis7360]

56 years ago 2023

[@Frisbieinstein]

The quintesential throwaway song.