Sympathy Nervous -- Sympathetic Nerves

 

Recently, thanks to the success of "Project Hail Mary", I've been reminded of my latent fascination for exobiology. Seeing the adorable Rocky the Eridian have a fine relationship with Dr. Grace has made me wonder what life would be like on very different planets from Earth.

I doubt that Yoshifumi Niinuma（新沼好文）, the man behind the project known as Sympathy Nervous, was thinking about exobiology when he came up with the track "Sympathetic Nerves" for his self-titled album of 1980. Still, listening to this song which lasts almost ten minutes, it's hard for my roving imagination not to come up with the premise of two digital life forms interacting with each other; one's a rather large and belligerent fellow while the other guy is a small but pesky blip. Then again, I can also imagine this being a rather dark version of a soundtrack to any of the video games that were getting popular with teens like me back in the late 70s and early 80s like Pac-Man and Asteroids. One more theory is that "Sympathetic Nerves" may actually be good for your sympathetic nerves. Only ten minutes a day!😀