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On a science fiction convention we'd like to play a few popular songs with reference to the genre...
Examples: "Mr. Spaceman" (Byrds), "Space Oddity" (David Bowie), "2000 Light Years from Home" (Rolling Stones).
Is somebody here with more ideas?
UFO by Newton Faulkner 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23aw1480WJk
I'll give it some thought and see if I can come up with some more for ya...
Hi Sharkfin
A few suggestions off the top of my head
Rocket Man Elton John. Life on Mars David Bowie, Venus and Mars Paul McCartney, To the Moon and Back Savage Garden, Spaceman Babylon Zoo, Walking on the Moon Police, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft The Carpenters
Is that enough? But there must be lots more.
Ian
When Salome Plays the Drums by Jimmy Buffett, includes the lyric "phasers on stun".
One of my favorites is "arriving UFO" by Yes on the Tormato album...very sci-fi
Phill
Satellite two diff. ones; Lou Reed and Bush
How about a little more obscure? The third verse of Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" is a retelling of a book by Ursula le Guine titled "The Dispossessed" in which space aliens come and take all children from Earth.
Queens "39" - from wiki:
The song's lyrics are a science fiction short story which concerns twenty volunteers who leave a dying Earth on a spaceship in search of new worlds to settle. They return to report success, 100 calendar years later, with only a single year passing from the volunteers' perspective (due to time dilation). The lyrics imply that the song's protagonist faces his child upon return to Earth: For so many years have gone/though I'm older but a year/your mother's eyes from your eyes/cry to me. This, and the fact that all his peers and friends have died, are a terrible grief to the protagonist, as the final words insist: For my life/still ahead/pity me!
To provide 100 years' time dilation on Earth in only one year of spaceship time, the velocity of the spaceship must average to 99.995% of the speed of light.
Brian May described the song as follows:
It's a science fiction story. It's the story about someone who goes away and leaves his family and... because of the time dilation effect, when you go away, the people on Earth have aged a lot more than he has when he comes home. He's aged a year and they've aged 100 years. So, instead of coming back to his wife, he comes back to his daughter and he can see his wife in his daughter... a strange story. I think, also, I had in mind a story of Hermann Hesse, which I think is called "The River" [actually "The Poet" [1]]. A man leaves his hometown and has lots of travels and then comes back and observes his hometown from the other side of the river. He sees it in a different light, having been away and experienced all those different things. He sees it in a very illuminating way, 'cause I felt a little bit like that about my home at the time as well, having been away and seen this vastly different world of rock music... totally different from the way I was brought up, and I had those feelings about home.
I think this fits ,a song from the late fifties I belive called purple people eater,it was a novelty song.
Tool, Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman), Rosetta Stoned, from 10,000 Days.
Good luck
"Flash Gordon" from Queen.
Roger
Most George Clinton stuff (Parliment, Funkadelics) LOL
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller Band - not sure what space he's singing about
Goshwowboyoboy! I'm deeply impressed, guys! I know about a dozen of the songs above... And now it's rehearsal time! (Special thanks to Zurf: How I could I forget "After the Goldrush"? Without Neil Young and this song there would be no "Sharkfin" playing the guitar!)
Try looking into the group called the Cruxshadows. Much of their music is science fiction based. Also: Rush, particularly 2112 and the group Coheed and Cambria.
Here is a couple: High Tech Redneck - George Jones; Come Sail Away - Styx; and of course Fly Me to the Moon by Frank.
And who can forget Iron Man by Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
Major Tom (Coming Home) by a German band I believe but I forget their name...around the early 80s.
"planet claire" by the B52s
"I lost my heart to a starship trooper" Sarah Brightman
Wheres Captain Kirk - spizz energy
Doctorin the tardis - the
Timelords
Anything by "Hawkwind"
how about in the year 2525 by zagar and evens,( I think that was the right year).
Spaceship Superstar , Triumph
A space man came travelling , Chris Deburg
Lovin every minute of it , Lover Boy
badeye 
Zepplin often made reference to Lord of the Rings and Tolkien.
Misty Mountain Hop, Battle of Evermore, Ramble On, etc..
"The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath
The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black."
Good stuff!
A nice Countrysong: "Benson, Arizona" by John Yager. Title Song of the John-Carpenter-Movie Dark Star. My body flies the galaxies, my heart longs to be here...
Major Tom (Coming Home) by a German band I believe but I forget their name...around the early 80s.
The song was "Major Tom (voellig losgeloest)" by Peter Schilling, 1982. There was also an english version (coming home) in 1983. This was the only big hit of Peter Schilling...
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