SPACE the final Frontier! Best of the best space songs!

[Charger]

So time for another TOP 10 list!

This time we shall venture outside the safety of our little blue orb and into the vastness of Space!

Songs about aliens, other worlds, planets, galaxies, asteroids and other space stuff shall be entered here!



I shall kick things off with a song from MEGADETH about a very unlucky MISSION TO MARS!

[Vyn]

Number One:

Spacegoat soothes the mind and calms the nerve with a delicate composition they call, "Erase the Sun".

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

A quick pick to start off with. I'll be more considered about the rest!

The Stranglers - The Last Men on the Moon

Their last album had a number of high spots but non quite reached the heights of this one.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick 2 for me

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

I like some Muse... there's quite a lot I don't like! This is from the period where I quite liked them

[Vyn]

Numero dos:

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. I have always enjoyed this tune, the first time I heard it I was sitting on the back veranda of a guy's place in Long Island, the sun just coming up across the Great South Bay - a fresh cup of coffee and a cigarette at hand.

[Charger]

I can honestly say I deeeeeeeeply dislike both bands mentioned above!   


My pick number 2 takes us all the way to the 13th Sun...

It's CANDLEMASS telling the story of the ELEPHANT STAR

This song is kind of a tribute to Black Sabbath's Symptom Of The Universe.

[Zzzptm]

I got periodontal work done yesterday, so I didn't feel much up to digging and posting. So I'll get my first few picks today. Not all count towards my count of ten, of course... 

Parliament had LOTS of space songs! This one's about being enlightened via a space zap from a UFO. One of my favorites from their catalog with some tasty horns from Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, and friends.

[Zzzptm]

If you want to know what Ritchie Blackmore was listening to that really deeply influenced his sound, put on "Space Guitar" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson.

100% serious here - this is the guitar that inspired so many of the artists of the 70s that we know and love. And it's from 1954! But if you likes the Deep Purple, you owe it to yourself to listen to this under-heard gem of a tune.

And, yes, it's a space song. Says so in the title!

[Zzzptm]

OK, so my hard rock one for the count today comes from Chile, a band I love called Vuelveteloca. The song is "Jinete Galactico" - Rider of the Galaxy - and it is a great mood piece to get into.

Lyrics may be in Spanish, but the instruments are in Heavy. Enjoy the beats of galactic distances.

[Vyn]

The opportunity for space songs is...massive lol

Cool to see and hear material I've never seen or heard before!

Number three:

When this came out, it was the only song in what turned out to be a set:

Rush, with Cygnus X-1!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Crosses that Cygnus X1 off my list!!!

[Charger]

My 3rd pick comes from the opening part of the INFINITE ENTANGLEMENT trilogy...

This is BLAZE BAYLEY and SOLAR WIND

Considering this whole album trilogy is about a 1000 year space journey to a new planet I believe I shall take one song from every album for this list.

[Zzzptm]

... and it's Vyn with the first list ninja-ing!


For funk and soul, there's Marvin Gaye's "A Funky Space Reincarnation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8RTsL4U-2g which totally points the path out that bands like Jamiroquai would follow decades later. It's a great track with lots of texture, all around a solid dance beat. If you wanna get funky, that's the way to do it today.

My second official pick will be...

Yuri Gagarin "First Orbit"

When a band names themselves after the first dude in space and makes a track built around said dude's transmissions to and from Earth, said band is a bona fide space rock band. First 90 seconds or so will set up the track, then the band starts to bash out music that would do Hawkwind proud.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

This one popped into my mind for some reason... I probably haven't heard it in 40 years!

Pick number 3

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

[Charger]

Pick #4

Lets step onto the SUICIDE ASTEROID with CATHEDRAL!

Nice faster heavy rocker from the Dooom lords.