# Songs About SPAAAACE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780 "2009-06-15T00:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/41 "2009-06-15T03:11:12Z")
And how about [“Rocket Ride,”](http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/rocket_ride.htm) by Tom Smith? > [@](#): > > How many cities crumble into dust > At the first atomic attack? > How many self-aware, wise, and just > Computers will we have to hack? > > How many supercars will turn to rust > 'Cause we don’t have a spare or a jack? > Give me technology we can trust, > And give it fins like a Cadillac. > > I want a shining tower of glass and steel, > A rubber jumpsuit and a freeze-dried meal, > The will to survive, the need to explore, > The love of adventure, who could ask for more? > > I want you, baby, right by my side, > Help me get out before my brain is fried. > The stars are waiting, so big and wide, > Come on with me, baby, on a rocket ride. > Come on with me, baby, on a rocket ride. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/42 "2009-06-15T03:17:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Mars by Gustav Holst You realize that he wrote pieces for all the other planets, too (well, except for Earth). They’re all good. You could also add Enya’s “Shepherd Moons”. It’s an instrumental, but was inspired by the discovery of the moons which maintain the ring system. And since a few They Might be Giants songs have been mentioned, there’s also “For Science”, and their version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/43 "2009-06-15T03:19:05Z")
Or [“Never Set the Cat on Fire,”](http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/swil/FILKS/filkbook4.html#21) by Frank Hayes. > [@](#): > > Don’t start an interstellar war; it has no helpful uses. > When someone asks you ‘what’s it for?’, you’ll only make excuses. > If thirty trillion folks get hurt, you’ll go to bed with No Dessert! > Don’t start an interstellar war > > CHORUS: And mind your manners, as circumstances may require. > And never set the cat on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/44 "2009-06-15T03:21:17Z")
[Where’s captain kirk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVpUZYTt-rQ) by spizzenergie and REM [Star Trekkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE) by The Firm ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/45 "2009-06-15T03:21:40Z")
\*[To Our Children’s Children’s Children](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Our_Children%27s_Children%27s_Children) \*by The Moody Blues was a concept album based on space travel. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/46 "2009-06-15T03:24:51Z")
Klaatu Anus of Uranus Calling Occupants of Interplantery Craft [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qeUMpAy1NK0/hqdefault.jpg "Klaatu - Anus of Uranus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUMpAy1NK0) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KcgZCXHPkCo/hqdefault.jpg "KLAATU CALLING OCCUPANTS OF THE INTERPLANETARY CRAFT") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcgZCXHPkCo) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/47 "2009-06-15T03:25:23Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > '39 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnpGXPYAIQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnpGXPYAIQ) > > Queen Beat me to it! One of my favorite songs; it never explicitly mentions space, I don’t think, but Brian May (who now has a PhD in astrophysics) has said that the song is about a group of space explorers who take a long trip at relativistic speeds…one year passes for them while 100 years passes back on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/48 "2009-06-15T04:37:36Z")
**Dancin’ in the Moonlight"** by King Harvest ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/49 "2009-06-15T04:43:27Z")
The definitive spacerock band is Hawkwind. Here’s a [Youtube playlist of the Space Ritual album](http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=42D35F6927F52E59&search_query=space+ritual+hawkwind). If you want stuff that deals with aliens and other fortean topics, I highly recommend Pressurehed’s album [Explaining the Unexplained](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001JW4/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1245040770&sr=102-11). ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/50 "2009-06-15T04:54:41Z")
Oh, and if you want a song specifically about astronomers, there’s “[Quark, Strangeness, and Charm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu7Qqmqp3dg)”. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/51 "2009-06-15T05:01:28Z")
There’s also Farflung. For example: “[Vision of Infinity](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbSmhK2JBg)” “[Unborn Planet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7KFDtkK8k)” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/52 "2009-06-15T06:32:50Z")
Pink Floyd- A Saucer full Of Secrets ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/53 "2009-06-15T06:39:04Z")
Space Truckin and Highway Star by Deep Purple [http://www.last.fm/music/Deep+Purple/\_/Space+Truckin](http://www.last.fm/music/Deep+Purple/_/Space+Truckin)’ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/54 "2009-06-15T06:59:08Z")
I didn’t think they had a video for this one, but what do ya know? [Mr. Spock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-lmtY6sis) by Nerf Herder. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/55 "2009-06-15T07:13:09Z")
And then there’s the soothing sounds of Helios Creed. For example, “[Busting Through the Van Allan Belt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybn1NaGX2Yk)”. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/56 "2009-06-15T08:28:45Z")
[Satellite of Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2EgYq_NCY), by Lou Reed [Clouds Across the Moon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4R97AeM6IE), by Rah Band [Under the Milky Way](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6nKP10j4s), by The Church [Sleeping Satellite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw), by Tasmin Archer [Subterranean Homesick Alien](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NH6k6JPZyY), by Radiohead (link is a fan vid) [The Happening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jNZFcwdg0), by the Pixies ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/57 "2009-06-15T08:31:14Z")
_Earthrise_ and _Lunar Sea_ by Camel If sci-fi counts, there’s the “band” [Ayreon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayreon). Each of their records are concept albums, all set in the same “sci-fi reality”. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/58 "2009-06-15T09:25:52Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > Pink Floyd - [Astronomy Domine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2b-TiCPdrE) There’s also the version by [Voivod](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhP9ZGHTEQ) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/59 "2009-06-15T10:13:03Z")
Here’s an entire album of them– > **[Amazon.com: To Touch the Stars - a Musical Celebration of Space Exploration: CDs...](https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Stars-Musical-Celebration-Exploration/dp/B00019RDRI)** > > Product Description To Touch the Stars - a Musical Celebration of Space Exploration by Various artists Review "... I am thrilled by this new collection of original songs...of our great endeavor to reach for the stars."... ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780/60 "2009-06-15T10:23:58Z")
Anything by [Sun Ra.](http://www.amazon.com/Space-Place-Intergalactic-Infinity-Arkestra/dp/B0000065KI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1245061361&sr=1-1) Hey, he’s from Saturn! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-spaaaace/499780.md?page=4)