Your Favorite Science Fictional Songs?

I can't help but adore Sharon Apple - Wanna Be An Angel. The fact that it's in a made-up language brings focus to the purity of the voice rather than the words, which is awesome.

Sharon Apple - Information High is pretty neat too.

The Lonely One said:

I enjoyed the soundtrack to Metropolis. The '20's one, not the '80's one.


Does that count?

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Damn, I wish they released the CD of that one.

Definitely Queen's "'39", a bouncy little skiffle ditty about the heartbreak of spacetime dilation.

Dale

Luke Ski (known singer of demented songs) set the entire original Star Wars movie to the soundtrack from Grease. He performed it at Dragon*Con a couple of years ago at the intermission of the masquerade and it was an absolute frappin' riot.

Also, his "A Man named Jayne" is great also.

(Hey, if Doctor Demento will do a write-up for you, you're doing something right.)

And speaking of the Doctor, two songs he's played on his show a lot over the year with a SF/F feel to them: Star Trekkin' and The Cockroach that ate Cincinnati.

Anyone else remember Gary Numan?

Down in the Park

Lots of his stuff was cyberpunky.

The DIAMOND DOGS album by Bowie (but Bowie's just a gold mine of the stuff across several albums. Dogs is very "1984" inspired)

BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE by Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner
("C'mon and Hijack The Starship! Our babes will wander naked through the cities of the Universe!") He supposedly got sf writer Robert Heinlein's permission after using so many of his ideas.

Starship lyrics
http://www.allyrics.net/p/1839/Paul_Kantner-lyrics/56798/_Starship/index.htm

In The Year 2525 by ... I have no idea who did that. But it's trippy.

Hendrix's 1983 (A merman I shall turn to be) is a cool trippy vibed thing (Electric Ladyland is more acidy fantasy though I suppose)

PINK FLOYD 's stuff always lends itself to sci fi dreams too, obviously ... either SF or madness or both.

I can only approach this from Speculative Fiction:

Metallica:

Call of Ktulu (Instrumental)
The Thing That Should Not Be
Of Wolf and Man

Man O War
Ride the Dragon
Power of Thy Sword

Megadeth
Hanger 18
Five Magics
Psychotron

Savatage
Hall of the Mountain King
White Witch
The Hounds
The Unholy

Sepultura
Dead Embryonic Cells
Orgasmatron
Refuse/resist
Biotech is Godzilla
Nomad

Slayer
At Dawn They Sleep
Skeletons of Society
Dead Skin Mask
SS-3

Over Kill
End of the Line
Who tends the Fire

Ozzy Osbourne
Bark at the Moon
Iron Man/Children of the Grave
Back on Earth

Testament
C.O.T.L.O.D.
The New Order
Trial by Fire
Disciples of the Watch
The Preacher
A Day of Reckoning
Sins of Omission
Envy Life
Face in the Sky
Love to Hate
The Legacy
Dog Faced Gods
P.C.
The Fall of Siple Dome
Henchmen Ride

I could keep going...