Perplexions

Perplexions
Studio album by Melora Creager
Released	December 4, 2006[1]
Length	20:57
Label	Filthy Bonnet Co.
Producer	Melora Creager

Perplexions is an album by Melora Creager, frontwoman and founder of the band Rasputina, which was released on December 4, 2006, through her own record label, Filthy Bonnet Recording Co.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Girl Lunar Explorer"	3:29
2.	"Warbots"	3:22
3.	"Sky Is Falling"	3:07
4.	"Border Village"	1:48
5.	"Krakatowa"	3:27
6.	"American Girl" (Tom Petty cover)	3:22
7.	"Itinerant Airship"	2:22
Total length:		20:57

Song Inspirations

• "Lunar Girl Explorer", according to Creager, was "inspired by the satellite Gallileo's [sic] explorations of Saturn's moon, Titan",^[3] although she was likely referring to the Huygens probe, which touched down on Titan on January 14, 2005, as the Galileo spacecraft was never involved in such exploration.
• "Warbots" is about the U.S. Government's real life attempts to make robot soldiers. The lyric "the lawyers tell me that there are no prohibitions against robots making life or death decisions", credited in the song to "Mr. Johnson", is indeed a direct quote from Gordon Johnson of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command.^[4][5]
• "Krakatowa" was described by Creager "a tale of Polynesian spite and revenge."^[3]

Personnel

• Melora Creager - Artwork, Cello, Drums, Dulcimer, Engineer, Programming, Vocals
• Jonathon Tebeest - Piano

References

1. "Rasputina's Official Website". Rasputina's Official Website. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
2. "Melora Creager- Perplexions". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
3. "Melora Creager: Perplexions". CD Baby. Archived from the original on 25 December 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
4. Weiner, Tim (20 February 2005). "Pentagon Building 21ST-Century Robot Army For Combat". The Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
5. Weiner, Tim (16 February 2005). "New Model Army SoldierRolls Closer to Battle". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2021.