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“Recording Angels” means, by a kind of echo, the heavenly sweetness of
their work as “recording artists,” but the older reference is an Islamic
concept of angels who watch over each of us and record our deeds, good
and bad. They are judges of our righteousness. The Mothership arrives as
a party but also as a time of reckoning: toward the end of the song. Star
Child says of “Getting’ it on, partying on the Mothership./ When
Gabriel’s horn blows, you’d better be ready to go.” Good times await.
Star Child tells us, but to enter the Mothership will require some
reflection of our shortcomings, a conversion and a turn to uprightness.
Our “unfunkiness” is on trial — a parody “everyman” figure
would appear on the 1977 Funkentelechey vs. the Placebo Syndrome
album, slinking through b