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Songs about stars, universe, cosmos...
Posted by bricameron on 31 May 2010 - 7:54am.
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The Orb, Dub Pistols
"Supernova at the End of the Universe" - The Orb:
"Speed of Light" - Dub Pistols. Some naff rapping, but rappers don't often go into space so they were probably too awestruck to say anything more profound:
Space is the place
Sun Ra told me that - I think he was right
Rappers don't usually go into space?
*AHEM*
So follow me and were ya thinkin' you were first?
Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe
What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away
Planets are small as balls of clay
Astray into the Milky Way - world's outasight
Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite
Now stop and turn around and look
As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took!
So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star
You better follow it cause it's the R
This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin
Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin
The Leader
Yeah, well...
Rakim could have rapped live from Apollo 13 without missing a beat.
"Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells
"Ba-ba-mm-meh-meh,
Ba-ba-mm-meh-meh,
Ba-ba-mm-ba-ba-mm-ba-ba-ba-mm-meh-meh":
Jimi - Third Stone From The Sun
Pretty much sums up psychedelic rock for me! (in a good way)
Silver Star - Four Seasons
I have never used this word before to describe a song - but this is barmy!
Half of Muse's output
is about matters astrophysical...
And there's a long and noble history of "afrofuturism" in dub, funk, jazz, electro and more...
etc
Radiohead - 'Sail to the Moon'
Chris Bell : I am the Cosmos
One of Blur's finest
Little Star - Stina Nordenstam
It's great when the sax comes in about 1.29.
Pink & Blue.
While we're having..
..a bit of Floyd how about Cirrus Minor? Actually I'm not 100% certain it's about space but I'll leave it in because I like it.
Brown and Pink
Ian Brown - 'My Star'
Pink Floyd again - 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun'
Couldn't really choose anything else
could I?
Have I mentioned Quintessence before...?
Their hit-single-that-should-have-been, from 1971.
Really, has no-one suggested this yet?
So much better than the original
You're so right
and in fact that's also true of the whole album!
Space Moddity
Paul Weller - Andromeda
From the little-know last-gasp era when the Mahavishnu Orch...
...were trying to be a mainstream mid 70s funk band... And its just about their only tune to have had an afterlife in hip hop sampling:
"Space March (Capsule in Space)" by John Barry
From the soundtrack to "You Only Live Twice":
Echo and the Bunnymen
made a statement of the obvious, but it was still a wondrous sound.
Is this one too obvious?
Monty Python - Galaxy Song
Well,
considering I've already posted it a little further up the page, I'd have to say it is.
Darn my speed reading skills
Not to self: Slow down, read each post before jumping in and making yourself look a complete ????
There are so many
I like them all but here's one -
As usual.........
I thought this one
would've popped up by now
and isn't that the drummer from Fraser's post?
Girlfriend not pictured...
nor extant.
Far out!!!
Love this shonky demo of Alex James' moment of interstellar glory on Parklife
Spaced out remix
of Kosmos from Paul Weller's bizarrely under-rated first solo album.
I love this inordinately
oddly have been listening to it loads lately...
Destination Venus!
The Rezillos show us all how it's done. Where did she say she was from again?
DON'T PANIC
The only thing I like by The Eagles...
STILL no Hawkwind??
I Lost My Heart
To A Starship Trooper
i was listening to this
when I opened this thread. Beautiful.
The answer, as so often, is Blue Öyster Cult.
Shining star for you to see
what your life can truly be:
Teenage Fan Club
Star Sign
Guiding Star
The inevitable Hawkwind
Strap yourself in and let yourself go.
"Space is Deep":
"Spiral Galaxy":
We need some Norwegian Space Disco here
A few more here
that are not a million miles away in theme, you might say:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/rocket-dreams-and-song-about-moon#...
and v little overlap with the above list, which is great.
A Dumb Link
and of course Aimee Mann (excuse the quality)
B52's
"They're gonna put it down on the Vegas strip "
Pixies again
You are making me feeling old
I remember when the mount in question first poked its head above a Martian dust storm, to be snapped by this:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Mariner9.html
and poring over the pics, and Ludek Pesek's paintings, like these
http://www.ludekpesek.ch/ludek_pesek_mars_paintings_noel_cramer.php
in national Geographic in the local library.