Trying to make a playlist of songs about space and the universe. I've got the obligatory Space Oddity by Bowie, Supermassive Black Hole by Muse and Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. Any others you can suggest?
Music about space and the universe?
Rec.Me: theme/moodOoh hadn't thought of Elton
Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd
Good one, I'll add Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Let There Be More Light
Isn’t that instrumental?
You're prob thinking of Interstellar Overdrive
I've just listened - it's not fully, but a lot of instrumental parts. Only 10 odd lines in a 4 minute song. I like it though.
I must’ve mistook it for the 9 minute one in that album then
The whole Darkside of the moon album! 🫶🏼
What songs are about space on the album? 🤔
The moon is in space, silly. Both sides.
took the words right out of my mouth
Yes I forgot to put it on this post, but I already had done. Thanks though!
And Life on Mars. Bowie has a stacked catalog of kick ass space tunes.
That's my favorite tune from him too. 👍
Also moonage Daydream.
Weyes Blood - Andromeda
Kate Bush - Hello Earth
Ugh, Weyes Blood ❤️💜❤️💜❤️
Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling.
Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath (or Pantera’s remake)
That's a brilliant idea, cheers
So glad this was mentioned.
good call
There it is.
That was gonna be my first one, and then Astronomy by Blue Öyster Cult.
100% amazing songs.
Cosmic by Avenged Sevenfold
Chiasm - Major Tom
The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets - Slave Ship
Ayria - Red Shift
Dope Stars Inc. - Riding UFOs
Pain - Black Knight Satellite
ISON - HELIOS
The Police - Walking On The Moon
Wow! :O Another „Darkest of the Hillside Thickets“ Fan! :O
Space song-Beach House
American Sport-Arctic Monkeys
Jealous Sun-the Horrors
Alien Days-MGMT
fun fact - Sun Ra actually was from space. A quick google should suffice
Is. He and the Arkestra just played here during Jazzfest. Unfortunately we were busy purchasing property. Did catch The Headhunters though.
Do You Realize? By Flaming Lips
Vangelis - Theme from Cosmos
I was going to suggest this.
Mars - the bringer of war is the prototype for heavy metal. So good.
Hey! I didn't actually think anyone else would comment this! Awesome!
Space Ritual by Hawkwind has you covered.
Hawkwind's music is largely about space and other sci-fi themes. If they weren't the very first Space Rock band, they certainly are the first one most associated with the genre.
They've been around since the late 60s. They have a huge discography to explore.
Here are some specific tracks to check out:
Also Children of the Sun, Dead Can Dance
Space Olympics by The Lonely Island. You're a winner!
Starrider by Foreigner
Saturn by Stevie Wonder
Brain damage/ eclipse by Pink Floyd
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Space man - Sam Ryder
Life on Mars? - Bowie
Starman - Bowie
Space oddity by Bowie as well
Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe
Come Sail Away - Styx
Standing in the Doorway - A Flock of Seagulls
Down in the Park - Gary Numan
Space Lord - Monster Magnet
Praying to the 👽Aliens -Gary Numan🎹🎵🇨🇦
Public Service Broadcasting. The Race For Space.
I actually saw that today whilst I was looking through other posts and I LOVE it. Never knew I would be so excited about sample/electronic sort of rock.
Cygnus X-1 - Rush
Surfing with the Alien, Joe Satriani
Styx - Radio Silence (whole Mission to Mars album)
The Beatles - Across the Universe
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
Neil Young - After the Goldrush (also covered by Prelude)
Wow…..so eclectic. Great list!!
Supernaut - Black Sabbath
Space Lord - Monster Magnet
Also...
Into the Void - Black Sabbath
There are quite a few Monster Magnet songs with space references. Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Look to your Orb for the Warning are the first two that come to mind.
Space dementia - muse Subterranean homesick alien - Radiohead
'Countdown' and 'Cygnus X-1' by RUSH
'Space Truckin' by Deep Purple
Rush 2112 opening
Sleeping at last has an amazing space themed album called Atlas:space. I highly recommend checking it out
This was my favorite album when it came out! One of my first favorite artists (I think I was a freshman in high school when it came out)!
Spaceship Superstar by Prism.
Kraftwerk - space lab
Doesnt has many vocals but definitely resembles what u are looking for
Sigrid - It Gets Dark
Spaceslug would like a word. Most of their songs fiollow this concept.
Also
Riding the Wormhole - Agents of Oblivion
Momentarily Lost in Space - Deadboy and the Elephantmen
MarijuanautsTheme - Sleep. "Behold as he enters the clearing, planet Iommia nearing" always loved that lyric
Into the Void by Black Sabbath And pretty much all of Electric Wizards discography.
Souvlaki Space Station-Slowdive
Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space - Spiritualized
Can't believe I had to scroll this far for this masterpiece!!!
The whole album of Black Holes and Revelations.
(something almost anything by) ELO
"Don't stop me now", Queen
And Queen’s “39” — a relativity love song.
Galaxy song - Monty Python. It’s fun AND educational.
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid Obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had Quite enough Just remember that you're standing On a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second So it's reckoned The sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at four hundred thousand miles an hour In the galaxy we call the Milky Way Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side to side It bulges in the middle, six thousand light years thick But out by us, it's just a thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go 'round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, of the speed of light, you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth.
Sinatra…Fly me to the moon
Elaine Walker's band "Zia" has one or two, such as "Planetarium"...
Say it to me S.A.N.T.O.S - Kasvot Växt
Life on earth sung by Phillip quast
Champagne supernova - Oasis https://open.spotify.com/track/2UjLzxf4oYjHOVOBoVojlL?si=stifW4JATWWqV5UUj2bdrw
Lost in space- Apollo 440 https://open.spotify.com/track/1Bx22c2P85L9IieHpdPJS4?si=A7gn5-NPSUWHEVmG5o6ZNg
Space Walk - Lemon Jelly https://open.spotify.com/track/4HtL8YlrABgueh0Sw1bR6G?si=gc3gZjhoRci6y9yuH6zoXg
Walking on the Moon - the police https://open.spotify.com/track/4Xgr8IWwGSGyqLjwiwOxqk?si=SWsCfI_BTLyDsMUs_d41bA
Sputnik Stan - Hawkwind https://open.spotify.com/track/6KwQFaI55VB4HSGfjJq6w8?si=DYAMogj0QVqocOZOUwNRNw
Race for Space - Public Service Broadcasting (album) https://open.spotify.com/album/10QhRYxVBuSFgC5mjulTgO?si=Cid9cT1rRBa7oVkQY9LnFg
Sun Ra
The Flaming Lips:
Vein of Stars
My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
Take Meta Mars
U.F.O. Story
Time Travel... YES!!
Sun Blows Up Today
Flowers Of Neptune 6
I forgot about Vein of Stars. Thats my favorite song from that album!
Iron Maiden - Starblind Europe - The Final Countdown Peter Schilling - Major Tom Rainbow - Stargazer Metallica - Astronomy (cover) Coldplay - Sky Full of Stars
Powers by boygenius
Space Man- Harry Nilsson
Across the Universe
Calling Occupants of interplanetary craft by the carpenters
Saturn - sleeping at last
Came to make sure this was dropped, one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
'Please Mr. Spaceman" The Byrds
"Space Trucking" Deep Purple
'Have You Seen The Saucers' Jefferson Airplane
'Inca Roads' The Mothers of Invention
'Destination Moon' Dinah Washington
I forgot 'It Came Out of the Sky' Creedence Clearwater Reveval
Space man - Sam Ryder
Hell yeah have I got that, best Eurovision song in 2022 IMO
TELSTAR!!!
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Carpenters
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Across the Universe - Beatles
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - Spiritualized
Distant Solar Systems - Julien Baker
Apollo by Brian Eno
Far Out by Blur, the lyrics are basically a list of moons and stars.
Higgs Boson Blues — Nick Cave and Bad Seeds.
Why Does the Sun Shine - They Might Be Giants
Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by The Carpenters: https://youtu.be/teBV0EoJJY8?si=HO_GFMW8Tn_PmbEQ
Spacebound- Eminem
We are the world !!!! 🌝🦋🌈
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If you'd be interested in something more niche and not English, there's a Korean singer ID:Earth, her general concept is space and aliens.
Laurie Spiegal: The Expanding Universe
This was playing in our car as we arrived at sunset to Badlands. I wept.
h.s by tom cardy :D
also astronomy by Conan gray <33
“2000 Light Years From Home” by The Rolling Stones
All 200 albums in Sun Ra's discography
Valleys of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix
Dark Star - Grateful Dead
The Night - Moody Blues
Spaceman - Bif Naked One More Astronaut - I Mother Earth
They're Not Here, They're Not Coming, by Don Henley
Walking On The Moon by The Police.
Speeder by Sabaton
Above the Clouds by Paul Weller; Walking on the Moon by the Police
Zeitgeist by Black Sabbath
I like the whole album, Infest the Rats’ Nest by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. About going to Venus with Hellish themes
We Travel the Spaceways (lp) - Sun Ra Much of his recorded output fits…
UFO Man - Jonathan Richman
The KLF - Space
actually, now that i think about it, also The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Belakor - Vessels
A concept album about life, told through a sort of cosmic evolutionary lens.
Theres another post just like this from about 2 or 3 days ago if you can find it. Satellite Flight by Kid Cudi was my answer on that one too. Ypu aint gonna learn about the planets, but i think it fits this perfectly.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/contact/1533966879?i=1533966883
This song is about aliens I wrote.
One More Astronaut by I Mother Earth
Andromeda— Weyes Blood
Non-pop suggestion:
The unanswered question - Charles Ives
Bit weird but when you realise that the disjointedness is actually a narrative, it makes sense and is so profound
Empire of the Sun
Standing on the moon ( Grateful Dead )
134340 by BTS - its actually a nice groovy song themed loosely about Pluto (hence the name)
Eric Idle-Galaxy Song
Across the universe by the Beatles
SPINNING - Billy Strings
Contact-Daft Punk
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl and Feels So Good
Dead Brain Cells - The Genesis explosion
Foreign Objects - The other side of the end of the universe
Thrice - Music Box (a song inspired by the doc. For all mankind, detailing the moon landing)
A lot of Man or Astroman songs.
Intergalactic Beastie Boys
Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath
Shooting Into Space — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Rocket Man — Elton John
Space Age Love — Zolar X
Out of the Silent Planet — Iron Maiden
Invincible — Pat Benatar
Space Truckin’ — Deep Purple
Kashmir — Led Zeppelin
Have You Seen the Stars Tonite — Jefferson Airplane
In the Space Capsule — Queen
Message From Nine to the Universe — Jimi Hendrix
Jump the Moon — Ozzy Osbourne
Space Child — UFO
The Great Gig In the Sky — Pink Floyd
Ziggy Stardust — David Bowie
Across The Universe by Jim Sturgess but also Satellites by Kevin Gates 🤣
Fantasy Pillow - Cosmic Weight
The Planets - Isao Tomita
Daft Punk and Infected Mushroom if thats your jam. Very spacey.
Satellite of Love--Lou Reed
Under the Milky Way--The Church
The Common Men - Interstellar Smoke Signals
The Mission album by Styx. Locomotive is my favorite, but the whole album is about a trip to Mars.
Space Pants by Peter Dinklage and Gwen Stefani
Drops of Jupiter by Train
Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra
E.T. by Katy Perry
Major Tom by Peter Schilling
Major Tom(Coming Home)-Peter Schilling
‘39-Queen
The Final Countdown-Europe
Meco close encounters of every kind Excellent music
Life on Mars? by David Bowie
Space Station No. 5 by Montrose
The Planets by Holst
(You didn't exclude classical music. )
Satellite 15/The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden
Detour Through Your Mind - B52’s
Galactic ~The String Cheese Incident.
Telescope by cage the elephant
Lots of songs by ELO - mission statement, alone in the universe, really that's their whole aesthetic in general
Satellite by gate
Gregory Alan Isakov describes his genre as "sad songs about space" lol. Many of the songs are about space in one way or another.
It's black metal (Though not extremely hardcore black metal) so could be way off the style of songs you're looking for depending on how wide your tastes are, but a band by the name of Agalloch have an album called "The Serpent & the Sphere" worth checking out for it's "Space and universe" sort of theme. Maybe you'll find a song that will fit into your playlist somehow.
Ground control to Major Tom.....
Some Kind of Hero, Guardians, and Sam Jones. All by Leslie Fish
Cult Of Dionysus
earth sun moon by love and rockets
come take a trip in my airship by dirt poor robins (natalie merchant also covered it)
Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling
Third Planet - Modest Mouse
Ten Years After ... 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
Robin Trower ... For Earth Below
I made one. It's not as good as the others mentioned.
Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica has some perfect tracks.
Black Sabbath also has quite a few tracks about space. I feel like they get overlooked when it comes to space songs but Planet Caravan, In to the Void and Supernaut are very cool space themed songs.
Time and Space - 311
Super Unknown - Soundgarden
Through the Nothing - Metallica
Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds
Space Age Love Song - Flock of Seagulls
Across the Universe - The Beatles
The Moon song - Beadadoobee
Rises the moon - Liana Flores
Everything Joe Satriani- but especially Crystal Planet and Engines of Creation
Hawkwind- Silver Machine
Black Sabbath or Pantera- Planet Caravan
Google klaatu
Kraftwerk - Spacelab
Klaus Nomi - Rubberband Lazer
OMD - Apollo XI
Julian Cope - SPACEROCK With Me
Julian Cope - I Come From Another Planet, Baby
Might not be in English (only a few songs, but they sound better in German), but the entirety of Peter Schilling's discography is about space travel, stars and the universe.
Pink Floyd discography
Fate of the Stars by Tally Hall
look for stuff by Jamiroquai or Moon Panda
Black hole sun by sound garden Droid by clutch
The Key and Thresholds by Nocturnus. Sci Fi death metal.
Planet caravan by black sabbath. Not at all like their others.
Check out the cover by brownout too.
Rocket Man ~ Elton John