SF Music

[coalescent]

The challenge: create a good sf-themed compilation.

The contestants:
[natalie|Stewart|Andrew]

My entry:

01 ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - spiritualised
02 paranoid android - radiohead
03 killing stars - geneva
04 first man in space - the all seeing i
05 star guitar - the chemical brothers
06 utopia - goldfrapp
07 luke warm skywater - the rock of travolta
08 future boy - turin brakes
09 george lassoes the moon - elbow
10 to earth with love - gay dad
11 light from a dead star - lush
12 daisies of the galaxy - eels
13 brave new world - richard ashcroft
14 world war 24 - ryan adams
15 satellites - doves

A fantasy compilation:

01 angel - massive attack
02 song to the siren - chemical brothers
03 i see monsters - ryan adams
04 vampire - garbage
05 werewolf - cat power
06 zombie - the cranberries
07 mulder and scully - catatonia
08 magic - ben folds five
09 insect royalty - primal scream
10 dragon song - the music
11 goddess on a hiway - mercury rev
12 the great beyond - rem
13 fallen angel - elbow

An interstellar voyage compilation:

01 galaxy of emptiness - beth orton
02 there's a star - ash
03 space boy dream - belle and sebastian
04 dollars in the heavens - geneva
05 ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - spiritualised
06 starship - turin brakes
07 timestretched - the divine comedy
08 when the stars go blue - ryan adams
09 george lassoes the moon - elbow
10 feeling gravity's pull - rem
11 brave new world - richard ashcroft
12 daisies of the galaxy - eels

An apocalypse compilation:

01 utopia - goldfrapp
02 the scientist - coldplay
03 fallen angel - elbow
04 world domination - ash
05 giant robo - the rock of travolta
06 attack el robot! attack! - calexico
07 kill all hippies - primal scream
08 rockets over california - geneva
09 world war 24 - ryan adams
10 it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine) - rem
11 the last broadcast - doves
12 the great beyond - rem

Random songs that didn't make the cut:

ash - girl from mars
babylon zoo - spaceman
crowded house - distant sun
gay dad - dimstar
moby - we are all made of stars
primal scream - higher than the sun
radiohead - subterranean homesick alien
rem - man on the moon
rem - saturn returns
the rock of travolta - i am your father

Be thankful we weren't trying to do lemur compilations, that's all I'll say.

Comments

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Either you've all missed the most obvious pick or have no taste...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

If you were planning to suggest Bowie, I may mock you forever.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Jeff Wayne man!

Ullaaaaaaa

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Easy answer: I don't own that :P

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Easy question: Why not?

[snowking.livejournal.com]

It scared me when I was a kid.

[fba.livejournal.com]

It is *entirely* your fault that I have 'Eve of the War' running through my head and even more your fault that I have just order the CD!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I have two questions. Who is Jeff Wayne, and what does 'Ullaaaaaa' have to do with SF?

[fba.livejournal.com]

You don't know who Jeff Wayne is? You really don't have a clue about *any* music pre-1990 do you?

War of the Worlds you f001!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

That looks so bad it's not even funny...

[fba.livejournal.com]

:p

Again with the 'Niall has no taste' theme.

'War of the Worlds' is very good. Admittedly nothing Jeff Wayne has done since has been any good at all (erg - Sparticus with Catharine Zeta Jones *shudder*) - but Richard Burton as narrator = \0/

[snowking.livejournal.com]

what does 'Ullaaaaaa' have to do with SF?

Bloody n00bies.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Elitist scum.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Tempting as it is to offload all knowledge to Google, I can't believe you didn't know "Ulla" was from War of the Worlds. CLUELESS N00B!

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!
No really, stop kidding us around Niall.

Anyway, I've finished my collection of stuff. I'll pop a link in here when it propogates to my lj feed.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

ooh, it's the futyar and it's all musical

[fba.livejournal.com]

Niall has no taste:

HTH HAND

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

well...

And now to join you in the madness.

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

Cross-post this to instant_fanzine, I say.

And I did not know you were a fan of gay dad - that's scary :)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Cross-post this to instant_fanzine, I say.

I might do a meta linking-to-everyone's list when Alex has posted his. Maybe even a poll! :)

And I did not know you were a fan of gay dad - that's scary :)

'Fan' might be overstating it! Although I suppose I do own the second album that nobody paid any attention too. They have a couple of good songs.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

I saw them live when I was still at school. They were quite rockin', if memory serves...

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, am very tempted to join in and create a compilation significantly different from what everyone else has chosen... :)
Hoggy will almost certainly hate it.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Hate engines to full power! Prep the mock cannons! Launch all Anti-Wronghead defences!

[(Anonymous)]

The only one i'd add:

The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us ("Come with us ... and
leave your earth behind!")

Well, and i've got loads of techno-type music that would fit, i expect.

-- Tom