Are there songs about all the planets of our solar system?

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I used to have a radio show and one of my themed shows was Around the Universe. I played some of the songs already mentioned. Two that haven’t been mentioned.

Hex - “Mercury Towers”

Toyah - “Jungles Of Jupiter”

To avoid a long list and a link, here’s a playlist of the whole show in spoiler tags.

I posted this before, but what the heck.

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Around The Universe
Playlist for 6-9-90

  • Song * * Artist *

1 Goodbye Cruel World - Mary Kelley
2 Rocket’s Tail - Kate Bush
3 I Feel Like An Astronaut - Fetchin Bones
4 Postcard To The Stars - Wendy Wall
5 Picnic On The Moon - Bel Canto
6 Venus Sands - The Creatures
7 Mercury Towers - Hex
8 Solar Choir - The Creatures
9 Solar Systems - Annette Peacock
10 Red Planet - Tiny Lights
11 Jungles Of Jupiter - Toyah
12 Space Between Rings - Christine Lavin
13 Planet - The Sugarcubes
14 Planet In My Kitchen - Siouxsie & The Banshees
15 Pluto Drive - The Creatures
16 UFO - Nina Hagen
17 Starbound She Said/The Stars - Deux Filles
18 Little Spacey - The Cocteau Twins
19 Across The Universe - Laibach w/Germania on vocals
20 Alaap/My Shooting Star - West India Company
21 Bengalis From Outer Space - West India Company
22 Hello Earth - Kate Bush

I don’t have the show digitized but I did make a YouTube playlist for most of the songs. Not all of them were on YouTube.

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The must famous track that mentions Uranus avoids the usual pun so it won’t show up in word searches:

Well there’s a moon, it’s in the sky
It’s called the moon, and everybody is there 'cluding
'Ranus (Neptune)
'Ranus (Pluto)
Destination moon

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if kids shows count

there’s an oft-repeated tune on “ready jet go!” a kids astronomy/science show on PBS that if you watch it long enough you’ll hear a rundown in song of one thing about each planet in fact its so popular it has Craig bartlett a famous animator and creator of the show)doing a speed run of him singing the song in character for the commericals …

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And the B-52s have a song about Planet Claire.

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TMBG also have a song called “How Many Planets” which includes the names of the planets and a couple of the larger dwarf planets.

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If you’re going to count Pluto, then you really need to count at least Eris, also (and probably a number of other iceballs). Are there any songs about Eris (specifically the Solar System body, not the goddess)?

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The TMBG song I linked to just before your post mentions Eris.

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JoCo’s “I’m Your Moon”

(I heard this originally and thought, hey, nice song about a love between two outsiders. And a couple of years later I heard a discussion between a couple of astronomers where one talked about that "Jonathon Coulton song about Pluto...." and I had to think for a bit, then went "Whoah.")
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For completion, They Might Be Giants’ “The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas”

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Ooh, good one. I’d forgotten about that but it is clearly about Pluto and Charon.

Get with the program, man - they’ve updated it now: The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma

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On my cell or I would provide links.

My friend owns a company called “Rock and Learn.” They have albums about all sorts of things, even about the planets and the solar system. The lead singer in my band did the Jupiter song. The production values are amazing and I can’t recommend them enough.

Rock and learn. You might even jam the albums as an adult. I really liked the planets album.

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I figured out how to link on my iPhone! Sorta.

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For what it’s worth, plasma is a subset of gas, and so it’s not incorrect to call the Sun a ball of gas. TMBG never said it was a neutral gas.

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Rocket Man, Elton John: “Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kid.”

Major Tom, Peter Schilling: “Earth below us, drifting falling. . .”

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Aw, thanks! I’d forgotten about the existence of “Fred Vom Jupiter.”

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You might enjoy the episode of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast about what other planets might sound like to human ears:

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Well, this my favourite Jupiter song…
Grant Lee Phillips - The Sun Shines on Jupiter