Um, that would be **Ramble On from Led Zep II
“T’was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her, her, her.”
A great Zep lyric site is
Oops! Sorry, Cabbage. I took a bit of time to find that quote site and didn’t check back before I posted.
That’s the one! Thanks, guys. I was beginning to be afraid it was the voices again, y’know?
Sorry for the detour. Back to the thread currently in progress…
Veb
The Sirens of Titan, on Modern Times by Al Stewart
Cheapness (sp. ?), on Roxy & Elsewhere by Frank Zappa, especially the intro
And Fenris, I don’t recall Starmania being SF but it’s possible (can’t say I especially care for it, after nth rendition of Stone, le monde est stone or Le blues du businessman you are fed up).
PS If you need any help with stuff in French, don’t hesitate to ask
Starlight dancer by Kayak (Bohemian Rhapsody meets Star Wars).
Red skies over paradise by Fischer Z (England after nuclear holocaust)
Life on Mars (David Bowie) - has that been mentioned? His Diamond dogs is also futuristic.
Don’t think anyone’s yet mentioned Sarah Brightman’s single (I think it was her debut), I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper.
But then, the less said about that one, the better…
“Jed the Humanoid” by Grandaddy - the touching tale of a neglected android
“Psychohum” by Falling Joys - a starship captain’s mission to save the galaxy from an enemy force
“Oops, Wrong Planet” (Todd Rundgren’s Utopia)
“Arriving UFO” (Yes)
Fenris:
I’ve been trying to figure out what you’re referring to. The Rick Wakeman album I referred to isn’t a cast album (though is does feature narration . The 25-year-later sequekl has narration by Patrick Stewart). The 1959 movie didn’t have an album that I know of (and, with no songs, wouldn’t have been a cast album). The only other records called JTTCOTE I know of are dramatizations. Is there another I don’t know about?
Cal,
It’s a obscure British(?) recording from 1999. I don’t know the label, but the music and lyrics Stephen Dolginoff (whoever he is). It wasn’t very good.
If you want more info, I can grab the CD when I get home.
Fenris
I just remembered another:
Clones (We’re All) by Alice Cooper off his Flush the Fashion album.
Steely Dan also did the post-apocalyptic “King of the World.” and futuristic “I.G.Y.”
Then there’s Rush’s “Red Barchetta.”
They also did “Rivendell” in the LOTR vein.
Not quite SF: Sting did “Moon over Bourbon Street” about Interview With the Vampire. (On the album notes it’s misquoted “with ‘A’ Vampire.”
[list][li]Planet Claire- The B52s[/li][li]**There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)- The B52s[/li][li]Poor Boy- The Split Enz. (In which our hero falls in love with an alien being after communicating with her on a radio.) Great song.[/li][li]Walking on the Moon- The Police. OK, technically, this one seems to be a drug metaphor, but then so are a lot of the Sci Fi songs.[/li]Moons of Jupiter- Scruffy the Cat.[list]
Can’t believe I forgot these:[ul][li]I Ran- Flock of Seagulls. (In which our hero winds up “floating in a beam of light” with the object of his desire.)[/li][li]She Blinded Me With Science- Thomas Dolby. Maybe not technically a science fiction song, but it deserves a mention.[/ul][/li]
Ah, the 80’s. The golden age of Sci Fi rock…
A couple of bands with science fiction-y themes deserve a mention, too: Devo and Man or Astroman?
I don’t think anyone’syet mentioned '39 by Queen. It’s on their album, “A Night at the Opera.” If I recall the lyrics correctly, it’s a love story about a man travelling to another star system, and due to relativistic time-dilation when he returns to Earth he’s met by his long-since dead lover’s daughter.
Pets- Porno for Pyros (Wherein the Martians arrive and make pets of us.)
Weird Al Yankovich did a parody of Star Wars:Episode One to the tune of American Pie.
Pretty much every song from swedish synthpop group S.P.O.C.K(the dots are there because Paramount got upset when they asked to use the name Mr Spock).
Examples:
Never trust a Klingon
Black Hole
Alien Attack
Mr Spocks brain
Space Race
etc etc
/Andreas
Cosmic Cowboy- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
21st century digital boy - Bad Religion
Songs off Rush’s “2112” concept album