“We’re All Light” might round out the XTC space tunes.
I love that song. Thanks for help with the link btw, I was relying on Bing.com for that.
The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield - a CD based on the Arthur C. Clarke book.
Blows Against the Empire is about hijacking a starship, a la Methusaleh’s Children.
And we can’t forget the Purple People Eater.
On a somewhat different note, Coil has Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
For example:
Cheery, isn’t it?
Shazbot! I wanted to mention that. Oh well, don’t forget “Have You Seen the Saucers?” by Jefferson Airplane, and “Light the Sky On Fire” by Jefferson Starship.
Also, “Space Is the Place” by Sun Ra,
“2000 Light Years From Home” by the Rolling Stones.
Ooh, I thought of another one. It’s kind of Anti-space, but it mentions space, so I think it fits the OP. It’s “Spaceman” from Journey’s third album Next, before Steve Perry joined the band. Greg Rolie sings lead. He sings: “I’m not a spaceman, no”.
Walkin’ on the Sun – Smashmouth
I love these playlist threads…
Aesop Rock “Bring Back Pluto”(definitely fits in here, but good luck deciphering the verses!)
At The Drive In - “Cosmonaut”(a live version where Cedric only even sings about half the lyrics, but his intro makes worth posting.); “Hourglass”(a rare slower song(album version) by AtDi, also has an astronaut theme); “Proxima Centauri” (particular song starts at 3:25)
Built To Spill - “Built to Spill”(another nice one from BtS)
Busdriver - “Sun Showers”(official video, but very chopped; the full version of the song is on the right); “Unemployeed Black Astronaut (Nobody Remix)”(i like the remix better, but the original on the right is good too)
CYNE - “Starship Utopia” (space-based all the way through; awesome sample at 1:40)
Dr. Octagon - “Earth People”(hip-hop sci-fi all the way through; lyrics)
Eric Cartman - “Come Sail Away”(the Styx song, but I am much more partial to this version, ‘you guys’)
Illogic - “1000 Whispers”(one of my favorite songs -period-. lyrics); “Walk Into The Sunset”(one of my favorite lyricists -period-. no lyric sheet, but lots of space lines)
Incubus - “Summer Romance(Anti-Gravity Love Song)”(one of my favorites of theirs, i really dig the bass grove)
Jimi Hendrix - “Astro Man”(last.fm link, use the audio player on the right)
Linda Scott - Every Little Star(a nice change of pace for this list)
MC Hawking - “Big Bizang” (the nerdiest of nerdcore; anyone of his songs works, but this is the most ‘spacey’)
Old 97s - “In The Satellite Rides a Star”(lovely song, but yawn probably better for the end of your shift)
The Pillows - “Ride On Shooting Star”(awesomely weird video and the theme from the even weirder anime series FLCL)
Porno for Pyros - Tahitian Moon(more seas than space, but a good song)
The Raconteurs - “Yellow Sun”(live from Lollapalooza)
Sage Francis - “Sun vs Moon”(the sun and the moon face off in a dj battle)
There are also the entire albums of Del the Funky Homosapian’s Deltron 3030and DJ Q-Bert’s Wave Twisters; epic hip-hop/science-fiction masterpieces. The later is even a full length animated film; and hereare the Deltron vids.
Oldies:
(And now I’ll have to spend most of tomorrow going through this thread and playing everything!)
Pluto by Clare and the Reasons.
Pluto On the Rebound by Rhett and Link
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun (album of the same name)
Has a trippy widefield stereo synth and drum intro with big-sweeping pans that is very cool, Highly recommended.
Rush - Countdown (Signals)
Didn’t notice this one mentioned… It’s about the maiden launch of Columbia, it has a lot of NASA radio traffic and audio clips embedded in it.
Spaceship - Angie Aparo
This song is on the greatest album you have never heard. There’s another song on there called gravity which sort of fits.
Russian Satellite by Mighty Sparrow
Forgotten in Space - Voivod
The original was by Klaatu. Not only is is better, but the group’s name has science fiction connotations.
Klaatu had other space themed songs like “Anus of Uranus.”
Here are some more I thought of. They might not have enough space references in them, but you can decide:
Moonage Daydream - Cybernauts (orig. by David Bowie, but this is my fave version)
Paper Sun - Def Leppard
Gravity - Def Leppard
Sky Blue - Peter Gabriel
This one’s a bit of a stretch, but it would work, I think:
Celestial Soda Pop - Ray Lynch
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Just noticed I forgot the link for Illogic’s “1000 Whispers”, there are a few good ‘space’ lines in there, but the spaciest thing just might be the beat made with a sample from The Who.
Also by Jonathan Coulton:
I’m Your Moon - in which Pluto’s moon Charon consoles Pluto over the IAU’s revocation of its planetary status
Chiron Beta Prime - in which an enslaved family still finds holiday cheer while sentenced to hard labor on a mining asteroid
At least I provided a link. 