Johnny B. Goode: The only rock song on the Voyager Golden Record

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An interesting choice. I'm surprised they didn't include Elvis or the Beatles.

Here's the Wikipedia article on the VGR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

― Nigel (Nigel), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

How the fuck did that record go gold?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

After NASA received much criticism over the "smut" on the Pioneer plaque (the line drawings of a naked man and woman) from the Christian right that objected to "using tax dollars to send pornography into space" they chose not to include anything on the subject of male-female interaction.

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how much that record would be worth on Ebay. If you found it in space could you claim ownership of it?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Did Albini produce?

― PB, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm so sure aliens are going to have mad jerk-off parties over the line drawing of human nakedness.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

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