Sci-Fi Themed Songs?

[InvisibleTouch]

I'm on the lookout for sci-fi themed songs that have to do with space travel, spaceships, alien worlds and alien beings, etc. My preference is in the rock/pop genre; I seldom like clashing heavy metal, I almost universally detest instrumental pieces, and I'm usually not big on parodies - I'm looking for something listenable with decent lyrics. Can anyone make suggestions?

Here are some examples of what I mean:

"Starrider" by Foreigner
"Praying to the Aliens" by Blue System
"Million Miles Away From Home" by Dune

As you see, I don't have many, and I'm looking for more. Any help is appreciated. :)

[Deja Q]

1. Half the songs penned by the B-52s...

:7

[InvisibleTouch]

2. Thanks, I'll check them out! :) n/t

[Blue-Jay]

3. "Ghostbusters"?

ugh.

[InvisibleTouch]

5. I do have that one.

I guess it's kind-of an "alien theme." :)

[Archae]

4. "Space Oddity" by David Bowie

I'm showing my age again, aren't I? ;-)

[InvisibleTouch]

6. Not familiar with it...

...not because of the era it may have come from, but because I pretty much live on the fringes of the world. :) I'll look into it, thanks for the reference!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

32. (MP3) Cover of "Space Oddity" from 'The Langley Schools Music Project'

"The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in.me." --David Bowie

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/BL/0511/im/21_-_Langley_Schools_Music_Project_-_Space_Oddity.mp3

[jobycom]

7. "Come Sail Away" by Styx.. And their "Mr. Roboto" album.

That may or may not violate your "listenable with decent lyrics" requirement. I always liked Styx. Not loved, liked.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Rush's "2112" and "Cygnus X-1"

[Gatchaman]

10. 39 by Queen

39 is a cool song about travelling through space and time.

There's always Space Truckin' by Deep Purple too.

The Rush tracks mentioned above are also highly, highly recommeneded.

Also, while it's not space oriented per se, Journey of the Sorcerer by the Eagles was used by the BBC as the theme for the 1970's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy TV series.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Deltron 3030 might work, though not sure if you're a hip-hop fan.

30 Seconds To Mars' self titled album is another good one.

[BulletproofLandshark]

11. "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling

[InvisibleTouch]

12. Very cool. Thanks all!!

All the suggestions are much appreciated. I like Queen and the Eagles; I'm less familiar with most of the other references (told you I'm on the fringes of the world ;) ), so I look forward to seeking them out.

A couple more sort-of sci-fi themed songs I dug out of my own paltry collection:

"Drops of Jupiter" by Train
"Renegade Survivor" by the Wailing Souls (from the animated movie "Titan A.E.")

I'll check this thread again tomorrow to see what else may have popped up. Thanks again to everyone who replied!

[tuvor]

13. "Alien" by the Deserters

Canadian new wave, ca. 1982. Their self-titled album wasn't a bad album, actually.

I think one of their songs was banned in Britain because it mentioned rubber bullets.

[Alexander]

14. "Starship Trooper" by Yes

Get the "Yessongs" version, with the dueling guitar and keyboard solos from Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman.

On the other hand, their drummer on that version wasn't as good, Alan White instead of Bill Bruford...

[KitchenWitch]

15. Rush - Red Barchetta

[AllegroRondo]

54. Nearly everything Rush did in late 70's early 80's

2112
Cygnus X-1
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Tom Sawyer
Manhattan Project
Red Sector A
Distant Early Warning
Countdown
Chemistry

and many more

[democracyindanger]

69. Ever read the short story the song was based on?

Pretty good.

[XemaSab]

16. A Flock of Seagulls:

I RAN!!!!!

:woohoo:

[lakemonster11]

17. All the sci-fi songs I can think of:

Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic." Its listenability will definitely depend on your opinion of the Beastie Boys.

There's always "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" by REM. It's definitely sci-fi, but maybe not space-oriented.

I guess you could call Shirley Bassey's "Moonraker" (from the James Bond film) sci-fi themed.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do a song version of Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric!" (I always think of that as sci-fi because of the Ray Bradbury story of the same name. It does talk about planets and stars a lot).

There's a Metallica song called "Astronomy," but I don't know the lyrics or what it's about.

Steve Miller has a song called "Space Cowboy." If you can stomach boy bands, so does N-Sync.

There's a Bad Religion song called "21st Century Digital Boy" that has some sci-fi appeal. I have only heard the Pennywise cover, so I don't know what the original sounds like.

There's a Radiohead song called "Paranoid Android." No idea what it's like.

There are a lot of sci-fi songs from the '80s, some of which have already been mentioned:
"She Blinded Me With Science" (Thomas Dolby)
"Weird Science" (Oingo Boingo)
"Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)" (Peter Schilling) - this song is loosely based on "Space Oddity"
"Mr. Roboto" (Styx)

I could name a bunch of Superman songs if that counts (he's an alien). And there's always "Fly Me to the Moon."

I know you said no parodies, but "Science Fiction Double Feature" from Rocky Horror is a great sci-fi song because it references a bunch of classic sci-fi movies, directors, and actors. There's also "The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas" by They Might Be Giants (less science fiction than science fact).

[Kellanved]

18. If you can stomach German new wave

Major Tom:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/15/0,4070,2162479-6-rv_dsl,00.html

[cleofus1]

19. this song haunts me

the only thing i can remember is that it was the early 80's (late 70's) and they used to play it on dr demento and on kroq l.a....

i only remember this phrase...

"when it's the end of the human race...we'll all go surfin' in outer space..."


i loved that song...

[bmbmd]

20. "Rocketman"

by Elton John is the greatest of them all.

[Brewman_Jax]

21. "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...is...excellent! Especially Starman.

:hi:

The actual title of the album is "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars".

[amerikat]

23. "Humans from Earth" from "Until the End of the World" soundtrack

Artist: T-Bone Burnett Lyrics
Song: Humans from Earth Lyrics

We come from a blue planet light-years away
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late


We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here

We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year



Bought Manhatten for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Heres a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?



I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth

[livetohike]

24. 3rd Stone From the Sun - Hendrix

and turn up the sound!!

intro slowwed down talking begins}
Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. over.
I’m in orbit around the third planet from the star called
The sun. over.
You mean it’s the earth? over.
Positive. it is known to have some form of intelligent species. over.
I think we should take a look.
{intro slowwed down talking ends}
Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?
{start slowwed down}
Strange beautiful, grass of green
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?
{end slowwed down}
Although your world wonders me,
With your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand,
So to you I shall put an end
And you’ll
Never hear
Surf music again
{start slowwed down...rough guess at lyrics}
Secret
Oh, secret
Oh
Shhhh...
{end slowwed down}

[livetohike]

25. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - Hendrix

intro slowwed down talking begins}
Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. over.
I’m in orbit around the third planet from the star called
The sun. over.
You mean it’s the earth? over.
Positive. it is known to have some form of intelligent species. over.
I think we should take a look.
{intro slowwed down talking ends}
Strange beautiful grass of green,
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?
{start slowwed down}
Strange beautiful, grass of green
With your majestic silver seas
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer
May I land my kinky machine?
{end slowwed down}
Although your world wonders me,
With your majestic and superior cackling hen
Your people I do not understand,
So to you I shall put an end
And you’ll
Never hear
Surf music again
{start slowwed down...rough guess at lyrics}
Secret
Oh, secret
Oh
Shhhh...
{end slowwed down}

[RebelOne]

26. One of my favorites: "In the Year 2525," by Zager and Evans

Here's the midi version

http://frodisman.com/2525.html

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......

Written by Richard Evans
Produced by Denny Zager and Richard Evans
Released 1969

[Richardo]

31. Please report for immediate 'renewal'

:scared:

[livetohike]

27. EXP + Up From the Skies - Hendrix

Announcer: (mitch mitchell)
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to radio station exp. tonight we are
Ffeaturing an interview with a very peculiar
Looking gentlemen who goes by the name of mr.
Paul corusoe, on the dodogy subject of are there
Or are there not flying saucers or... ahem,
Ufo’s. please mr corusoe, pleased could you
Give your regarded opinion on this nonsense
About spaceships and even space people.

Mr corusoe: (jimi hendrix)

Thank you. as you all know, you just can’t
Believe everything you see and hear, can you. now,
If you will excuse me, is must be on my way.

Announcer: (mitch mitchell)

Bu... but, but... i, i, don’t
Believe it

Jimi Hendrix - Up From The Skies Lyrics
I just want to talk to you. I won't uh, do you no harm,
I just want to know about your different lives, on
this here people farm.

I heard some of you got your families, living in
cages tall & cold,
And some just stay there and dust away, past the
age of old.
Is this true? Please let me talk to you.

I just wanna know about, the rooms behind
your minds,
Do I see a vacuum there, or am I going blind?
Or is it just remains from vibrations and echoes
long ago,
Things like 'Love the World' and 'Let your fancy
flow',
Is this true? Please let me talk to you. Let me
talk to you.

I have lived here before, the days of ice,
And of course this is why I'm so concerned,
And I come back to find the stars misplaced
and the smell of a world that has burned.

The smell of a world that has burned.

Well, maybee, maybe it's just a change of
climate.
I can dig it, I can dig it baby, I just want to see.

So where do I purchase my ticket,
I would just like to have a ringside seat,
I want to know about the new Mother Earth,
I want to hear and see everything,
I want to hear and see everything,
I want to hear and see everything.
Aw, shucks,
If my daddy could see me now.

[DelawareValleyDem]

28. The Final Countdown - Europe

Oh wait, you said it had to be listenable with decent lyrics, so that won't qualify. Neither will In the Year 2525. No instrumentals, so Telestar by the Tornadoes is eliminated. I'll go with Mr. Spaceman by the Byrds.

[sarge43]

29. Telstar - The Tornadoes (1962)

No lyrics, but IMHO catches the spirit of optimism and adventure of the early days of space exploration.

[NoPasaran]

30. "Blows Against the Empire" Jefferson Starship

Countercultural fantasy of hippies hijacking a starship and sailing off to a new life somewhere Out There.

[livetohike]

33. 1983 - Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix - 1983... Lyrics
Hurray I awake from yesterday
Alive but the war is here to stay
So my love catherina and me
Decide to take our last walk thru the noise to the sea
Not to die but to be reborn
Away from the lands so battred and torn
Forever forever

Oh say can you see it?s really such a mess
Every inch of earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick-tube shaped things
Continue to rain and cause screamin? pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
As our feet find the sand
And the sea is straight ahad
Straight up ahead

Well it?s too bad that our friends can?t be with us today
Well it?s too bad
The machine that we built
Would never save us that?s what they say
That?s why they ain?t comin? with us today
And they also said it?s impossible
For a man to live and breathe undrerwater
Forever was a main complaint
Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said
Anyway you know good and well
It would be beyond the will of god
And the grace of the king
Grace of the king
Yeah

Ooo

So my darling and I make love in the sand
To salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine it has done it?s work played it?s part well
Without a scratch on our body when we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing
noise
Of the out of style
The out of style out of style oh yeah
Oooo

So down and down and down and down we go
Hurry my darlin? we mustn?t be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear atlantis full of cheer
Atlantis full of cheer
I can hear atlantis full of cheer
Oh yeah

[eyesroll]

34. A few not listed:

"Destination Venus" (by the Rezillos, Man or Astroman, probably others)
"Little Space Girl," Jessie Lee Turner
"Children of the Sun," Billy Thorpe

I'm not testifying to the relative merits of these songs, but here you go.

[Bridget Burke]

35. "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard"--by I Numi

They named the LP after the song. Fairly unlistenable, but I bought it because the phrase is from a story by the the great Cordwainer Smith.

[Blue-Jay]

38. A Cordwainer Smith fan?!?

He truly was amazing.

[Bridget Burke]

40. Yes, since the 60's....

When his work appeared in Galaxy Magazine, illustrated by the wonderful Virgil Finlay.


www.cordwainer-smith.com/CSBiblio/CSBiblio.htm

All his works are still in print. Not that there were that many, alas.

[Fox Mulder]

36. The theme from The X-Files.

;)

[Montauk6]

37. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters (I got more!)

Saturn - Stevie Wonder
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Space Age - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron
You Are My Starship - Norman Connors (Feat. Michael Henderson)
Mr. Moonlight - The Beatles
Voyage To Atlantis - The Isley Brothers (OK it's the undersea world but same spirit)
Booming & Zooming - Tom Tom Club (Perhaps the only gay space traveller song?)
Unfunky UFO - Parliament (you have a treasure trove of space-themed songs with any Parliament album starting with "Mothership Connection")
Walking On The Moon - The Police

[Crankie Avalon]

39. "Rocketman," by Elton John...

...though William Shatner later performed what I consider the DEFINITIVE interpretation.

[REDKING]

41. Are friends electric?..

By Gary Numan loosely based on Blade runner..

[kwassa]

42. Hey, Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along ......

I won't do anything wrong!

- The Byrds

[khashka]

43. I Fell In Love With A Starship Trooper

Sarah Brightman, I believe. Corny disco but kinda fun :)


Khash.

[Squeech]

44. Genesis: Watcher of the Skies

Based on Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. (With your userID I can't believe you missed it!)

Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood" is similarly indebted to Larry Niven's Lucifer's Hammer.

There was an otherwise undistinguished '80s hair band called (I believe) Nantucket whose (only?) album was produced by Todd Rundgren, who composed a song for them called "(I Want to Go To) L-5," about how cool it would be to hang out at a future space colony at the Lagrange point.

More later; they actually want me to work here! Imagine...

[Squeech]

45. Moreover

There's other David Bowie stuff, especially early on. I'm thinking now of a song called "Saviour Machine," about a computer programmed to run the world benevolently.

There's other Jefferson Airplane/Starship stuff, written by Paul Kantner. "Wooden Ships" isn't just a nice daydream about sailing across the ocean, it's a post-apocalyptic scenario where a future nuclear war has rendered the land masses largely uninhabitable.

There's other Byrds stuff. A song called "CTA-102" (from the album Younger than Yesterday) is about the early days of SETI, specifically when they thought that radio waves from the stellar object catalogued as CTA-102 might be information deliberately propagated by intelligent life.

There's a songwriter named Peter Hammill, who I think of as what Bowie would have been like if he'd been obsessed by science and philosophy instead of sex and stardom. Both under his own name and with his band Van der Graaf Generator, he's written a bunch of stuff with a distinct sci-fi flavor: "Still Life," about the sociology of immortality; "Red Shift," about the expansion of the universe as a metaphor for alienation; "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End," etc.

There's a band called Hawkwind that's been around in one form or another since 1970, and their stuff is heavily sci-fi. They're pretty intense metal in sound, with additional electronic noise, which bothers some listeners. A DUer known as silvermachine is a big fan and is probably the one to ask for recommendations out of their humongous (35 years!) body of work, but I like a record called Quark Strangeness and Charm.

Blue Oyster Cult has a number of sci-fi songs, including three with lyrics by Michael Moorcock, who wrote the Elric of Melnibone novels.

If I can think of any other significant records I'll post again.

[Swede]

46. Spaceman by Bif Naked

Not to hard on the eyes,either.

[hyphenate]

47. How about

"Ground Control to Major Tom"

You might want to include "Faith of the Heart" by Russell Watson which was used as the theme song for "Enterprise"

If you are looking for instrumental, soundtrack type stuff, most places have the soundtracks for films and TV shows that were SF.

"Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics.


That's all I can think of right off the top of my head.

[China_cat]

48. Dark Star and Standing on the Moon

Grateful Dead

[AngryAmish]

49. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[Swede]

50. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

I think anyhoo.

[lectrobyte]

51. Try this page

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/sci-fi-refs/

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Fleetwood Mac - Bermuda Triangle

Blue Oyster Cult - Veterans of the Psychic Wars (and much more)

Gary Numan - Down in the Park (and much more)

Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age (and probably much much more)

[lectrobyte]

52. Red Skies Over Paradise by Fischer-Z

I like these kinds of songs.

[lectrobyte]

53. 2000 Man by the Rolling Stones

[evlbstrd]

55. "Cheepnis," Frank Zappa

From "Roxy and Elsewhere." It's about the movie "It Conquered the World."

[Squeech]

56. ELP: Karn Evil 9

The last part of it concerns an epic space battle between the human race and malevolent robots.

The Police: "Omega Man," where the hero is the last human around who hasn't been infected by the bacterium that causes vampirism. It also comes from a sci-fi novel of the same name, I think.

There were some peculiar one-off sci-fi concept albums in the '70s. They were quite obscure, and for the most part deservedly so. California '99 was about a future dystopia where the government chose everybody's job, and the hero tries and fails at three assignments, which it turns out are all just to harden his heart for the *real* job they have in mind for him: soldier. Most of them I don't even remember what they were about, but they had lots of musicians contributing: Marscape, Intergalactic Touring Band, Flash Fearless versus the Zorg Women Parts 5 and 6. (I'm embarrassed I even remember the existence of that last one...)

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. "Caught in the Crossfire" by April Wine,

complete with cheesy "Asteroids" sounding laser beams in the background.

"Silent Running" - The Korgis
"Winston Smith Takes It on the Jaw" - Utopia (based on 1984)

Lots of Utopia stuff from late 70s to early 80s is sort of sci-fi oriented.

[UncleSepp]

58. Here's an entire CD of them = To Touch The Stars

http://www.prometheus-music.com/buy/thestars-ms.html

It's a benefit CD for the Mars Society, many different genres from various flavors of rock all the way to (!!) shanties. "Fire in the Sky" chokes me up every time, and "First Dog To Walk On The Moon" can squeeze a smile out of me on the worst day. There are some full length samples on the sales site you can listen to.

[InvisibleTouch]

59. Checking in again...

...just to say thanks to all the people who contributed! Some of the suggestions were an "Oh of course!" experience for me, since I did know them and they'd foolishly slipped my mind; but most of the others are totally new to me. So, that's excellent! Especially appreciated are the listings that add some notes as to what the song is about, or what story inspired it. Thanks again for everyone's input. I knew I could count on my fellow DUers. :)

[Patiod]

60. Theme from "Red Dwarf" - I want it on my cell phone

It's cold outside
There' no kind of atmosphere
We're all alone, more or less
I want to fly far away from here
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfishes nibbling at my toes
Fun, Fun, Fun
In the sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun
In the sun, sun, sun...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

61. Elton's "Rocket Man," for sure,

as it's based on a Ray Bradbury short story. David Bowie's "Space Oddity" also comes to mind.

[ksilvas]

62. "People of the earth can you hear me? "

ARTIST: Billy Thorpe
TITLE: Children of the Sun
Lyrics and Chords


People of the earth can you hear me
Came a voice from the sky on that magical night
And in the colors of a thousand sunsets
They traveled to the world on a silvery light

/ E G D A / :

The people of the earth stood waiting
Watching as the ships came one by one
Setting fire to the sky as they landed
Carrying to the world children of the sun, children of the sun

All at once came a sound from the inside
Then a beam made of light hit the ground
Everyone felt the sound of their heartbeat
Every man, every woman, every child

They passed the limits of imagination
Through the door to the world of another time
And on the journey of a thousand lifetimes
With the children of the sun, they started their climb

Children of the sun, children of the sun

No more gravity, nothing holding them down
Floating endlessly, as their ship leaves the ground
Through the walls of time, at the speed of light
Fly the crystal ships on their celestial flight, on their celestial flight

/ E - - - G - - - / :

Children of the sun, children of the sun...


Also:
Astronomy Domain - Pink Floyd

[TheBaldyMan]

63. "Where's Captain Kirk?" by Spizzenergi

and the follow up single "Spock's Missing"

7' vinyl in a picture bag, pure unalloyed joy.

[robbedvoter]

71. I'd love to hear those! :-)

[Orsino]

64. Donald Fagen's "Tomorrow's Girls"...

...was a semi-hit along about 1993. Nominally, it's about an invasion from space, but it's pretty funny if you listen to the lyrics.

The entire album (Kamakiriad)is intelligent sci-fi (but fails to anticipate global warming), and irresistably cool.

[EstimatedProphet]

65. I.G.Y.-Donald Fagen

On the Nightfly album

Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream's in sight
You've got to admit it
At this point in time that it's clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there's time
The fix is in
You'll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we've got to win
Here at home we'll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

[XemaSab]

66. "Space travel is boring"

by Modest Mouse.

[atomic-fly]

67. "the gospel according to the meninblack" by the stranglers. 1981

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MAGE/104-3350665-7925511?v=glance&n=5174

Also the Raven has a few songs about genetics/ufos/nuclear

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MAGD/qid=1138738114/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/104-3350665-7925511?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

[Hardrada]

68. The Martian Hop

We have just discovered an important note from space.

The Martians plan to throw a dance for all the human race.

papa oommmee papa oom meemee, papapapapa ooom mee meee

[robbedvoter]

70. Hone my Cone - Dan Ackroyd - for Coneheads

[zone]

72. David Bowie

"Ground control to Major Tom" (don't know if that is the title or the dominant lyrics).

Also, I think there was some good stuff in Buckaroo Bonsai in the 21st Century, but it's been awhile since I've seen the movie.

Another good Bowie tune that might qualify is "The Man Who Sold the Earth."

[Tikki]

73. "Surfin' On The Planet Zorch".....

The Meteors..


Tikki