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By Alison L. Roberts
 In addition to featuring a would-be rock star as one of its leads, BGC2040's musical ties run deep: all of the episode titles can be taken as references to either songs or albums.
Please note: This list is by no means official. I have no personal insight or confirmation from the creators that the works listed below are actually the works that they intended to reference. (This is just what happens when I start goofing around on RollingStone.com.)
Ep # |
Title |
Artist(s) and Year Released |
1 |
Can't Buy a Thrill |
Steely Dan (album, 1972) |
2 |
Fragile |
Yes (album, 1972) |
3 |
Keep Me Hanging On |
The Supremes (various, '60/'70s) |
4 |
Machine Head |
- Deep Purple (album, 1972)
- Bush (song, from album Sixteen Stone, 1994) |
5 |
Rough and Ready |
Jeff Beck (album, 1971) |
6 |
Get It On |
T-Rex (song from album Bolan Boogie, 1972) |
7 |
Look at Yourself |
Uriah Heap (album & title track, 1972) |
8 |
Fireball |
Deep Purple (album & title track, 1971) |
9 |
My Nation Underground |
Julian Cope (album & title track, 1988) |
10 |
Woke Up With a Monster |
Cheap Trick (album & title track, 1994) |
11 |
Sheer Heart Attack |
Queen (album, 1974; also, song from album News of the World, 1977) |
12 |
Made in Japan |
Deep Purple (a live album, 1973) |
13 |
Atom Heart Mother |
Pink Floyd (album & title track, 1970) |
14 |
Shock Treatment |
- Edgar Winter (album, 1974)
- The Ramones (song "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment") |
15 |
Minute by Minute |
The Doobie Brothers (album & title track, 1978) |
16 |
I Surrender |
- Cheap Trick (song, "Surrender" from album Live at Budokan, 1979)
- Samantha Fox (song, "I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)" from self-titled album, 1987) |
17 |
Moving Waves |
Focus (album, 1977) |
18 |
We Built This City |
[Jefferson] Starship (song, from Knee Deep in the Hoopla) |
19 |
Are You Experienced? |
Jimi Hendrix (album & title track, 1973) |
20 |
One of These Night(s) |
The Eagles (album & title track, 1975) |
21 |
Close to the Edge |
Yes (album & title track, 1972) |
22 |
Physical Graffiti |
Led Zeppelin (album, 1975) |
23 |
Hydra |
- Hydra (self-titled album, 1974)
- Toto (album & title track, 1979) |
24 |
Light My Fire |
The Doors (song from self-titled album, 1967) |
25 |
Walking on the Moon |
The Police (song from the album Regatta De Blanc, 1979) |
26 |
Still Alive and Well |
- Johnny Winter (song from album The Johnny Winter Story; also album and title track, 1969)
- Edgar Winter (song from album Roadwork, 1972) |
Some more notes about this list from the music geek:
1. The vast majority of the works were released in the 1970s or by bands that were prominent in the 1970s.
2. A significant number of the artists are British.
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS:
TOKYO 2040 © JVC / AIC,
DVD © A.D. Vision, Inc.
English-language release, on DVD and VHS, from ADV Films.
For more information about the original OAVs, read Aligator Pop's Bubblegum Crisis: Mad Machines. |
3. It seems to me that, whoever picked the episode titles may have had a serious jones for classic rock (especially stuff influenced by the U.S.-inspired British blues movement that brought us Clapton), progressive/art rock and also a little late 1970s/early 80s new wave.
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