Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Sy Fy Tu

I first started to make a science fiction themed mix for a costume party hosted by Karen in 1980. I wrote and posted about that initial mix here. I added and expanded that mix over the years to create several CD mixes with a science fiction.

Recently as part of my pandemic mega mix project I put it all together into one long over twenty hour all day listening experience.

Everything here on this mix is from my collection. I spent some time looking for songs about space, aliens, time travel, and assorted science fiction weirdness and I really did have a lot of material. Then it was putting it together. I also always want the mix collection to sound good on shuffle play. Everything needs to work together in any order but of course I do have an initial feel for how it all goes together.

Of course there is a lot of David Bowie. I also started putting this together just after finishing reading a book about science fiction in rock music that I wrote about and posted here last December. Reading this book got me back into doing this updated mix.





The mix...  

1. Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
2. 2000 Light Years From Home The Rolling Stones
3. Astronomy Domine Pink Floyd
4. Have You Seen the Saucers Jefferson Airplane
5. Pulstar - Vangelis
6. Mind - Talking Heads
7. Replicas - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
8. The Man Machine - Kraftwerk
9. O Superman (For Massenet) - Laurie Anderson
10. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
11. (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman - The Kinks
12. Genetic Engineering - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
13. Bionic Man - Fabulous Poodles
14. I Am Superman - R.E.M.
15. Silver Machine - Hawkwind
16. Planet Queen - T. Rex
17. Oxygene Part IV - Jean-Michel Jarre
18. Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament
19. Backwater - Brian Eno
20. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
21. Poor Boy - Split Enz
22. Girl From Outer Space - Damien Youth
23. Space Oddity - David Bowie
24. Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
25. Red Shift - Sex Clark Five
26. Interzone - Joy Division
27. Planet Earth - Devo
28. Planet Claire - The B-52's
29. Booming And Zooming - Tom Tom Club
30. Inner Worlds Part 1 & 2 - The Mahavishnu Orchestra
31. Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds
32. Rocket Man - Elton John
33. Hyperdrive - Jefferson Starship
34. Space Captain - Joe Cocker
35. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship - David Bowie
36. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
37. The DJ From Outer Space - Future Bible Heroes
38. We Will Become Silhouettes - The Postal Service
39. Stranger Things - Michael Stein
40. Know Me When I'm Gone - The Quarter After
41. I Am The Unknown - The Aliens
42. Alien - The Cleaners From Venus
43. Everyone Is An Alien - David Max
44. Earth to Aliens, What Do You Want? - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
45. (Drawing) Rings Around The World - Super Furry Animals
46. A Fun Bunch Of Guys From Outer Space - Sparks
47. Spaceman - 4 Non Blondes
48. Speed Of Light - Teenage Fanclub
49. Floating in Space - The Apples in Stereo
50. Stargazing - Dora Flood
51. Fly Into The Sun - Sun Dial
52. Surfing On A Rocket - Air
53. Faster Than the Speed of Light - The Soundtrack of our Lives
54. Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen - The Pipettes
55. Air - Talking Heads
56. Alien Sex Fiend - Garbage
57. Set Phazer To Stun - The Time And Space Machine
58. Clancy - Damien Youth
59. The Last High - The Dandy Warhols
60. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 - The Flaming Lips
61. Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
62. Interplanetary Music - Sun Ra
63. Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic
64. Unfunky UFO - Parliament
65. Space Truckin' - Deep Purple
66. Orgone Accumulator - Hawkwind
67. Ballrooms Of Mars - T. Rex
68. Starman - David Bowie
69. Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
70. Space Age Love Song - A Flock of Seagulls
71. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
72. Houses in Motion - Talking Heads
73. Rapture - Blondie
74. A Funky Space Reincarnation - Marvin Gaye
75. 1983... - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
76. The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
77. Starship Trooper a. Life Seeker b. Disillusion c. Wurm - Yes
78. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
79. The Robots - Kraftwerk
80. Radio Waves - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
81. Space Monkey - Patti Smith
82. Dirty Creature - Split Enz
83. The Creature From The Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds
84. Telstar - The Tornados
85. Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll - Billy Riley And His Little Green Men
86. Flying Saucer Attack - The Rezillos
87. Mars Needs Guitars! - Hoodoo Gurus
88. Waiting For The UFO's - Graham Parker & The Rumour
89. Saturn Drive - Alan Vega
90. Praying To The Aliens - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
91. Alien - The Soft Boys
92. Spaceman - Harry Nilsson
93. C.T.A. - 102 - The Byrds
94. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane
95. After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
96. In Another Land - The Rolling Stones
97. The Crystal Ship - Dead Meadow
98. Space Oddity - Tangerine Dream
99. In The Year 2525 - Visage
100. Major Tom - The Space Lady
101. Hallo Spaceboy (12" Remix) - David Bowie
102. Paranoid Android - Easy Star All-Stars
103. Take Me To Your Leader - Add N To X
104. Spacejunk - Bel Canto
105. If You Were Alien - The Brunettes
106. Every Planet We Reach Is Dead - Gorillaz
107. She's an Alien - The Red Plastic Buddha
108. Girl From Mars - Ash
109. Motorway To Roswell - Pixies
110. Rok It To The Moon - The Stranglers
111. Complete Control - The Clash
112. Action Time Vision - Alternative TV
113. Ice Age - Joy Division
114. TVC15 - David Bowie
115. I Am The Cosmos - Chris Bell
116. Planet Telex - Radiohead
117. Waitin' For A Superman - The Flaming Lips
118. Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio Picks up Music from Venus - Yo La Tengo
119. Neither Heaven nor Space - Nada Surf
120. Space and Time - The Orange Alabaster Mushroom
121. Robot Man - The Aliens
122. Garage Flying Saucers Stoning - The Zinedines
123. The Black Hit Of Space - The Hidden Variable
124. UFO - Nina Hagen
125. Are 'Friends' Electric - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
126. Ashes to Ashes Pt. 2 - Warpaint
127. Loving the Alien - David Bowie
128. Space Song - Beach House
129. Year One, One UFO - M83
130. Teenage Alien Blues - Foxygen
131. Time and Space - Groove Armada
132. Space-Time Paradox - Bill Laswell
133. The Great Gig In The Sky - Easy Star All-Stars
134. In Space - BMX Bandits
135. Karma Police - Radiohead
136. Song In Space (Short Trip) - The Church
137. Fell to Earth - The Roswells
138. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
139. Colour Yr Lights In - The Besnard Lakes
140. UFOs Over Baghdad - The Flaming Lips
141. Spaceship Ride - Sons Of Hippies
142. After the Space Age - Apache Dropout
143. Spaceman - Zomby
144. Spacegirl - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
145. Planets of The Universe - Stevie Nicks
146. Life On Mars - David Bowie
147. Starman - Jen Chapin
148. The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
149. I Am A Laser - Ava Cherry and the Astronettes
150. My Bionic Eyes - Liz Phair
151. Superman - The Clique
152. Art-I-Ficial - X-Ray Spex
153. Spooks In Space - Aural Exciters
154. Edge of the Universe - Syd Arthur
155. The King Of Outer Space - The Bluetones
156. Space Is The Place - Spacehog
157. Telegraph (Extended Version) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
158. Engineers - Gary Numan
159. Freedom Of Choice - Devo
160. Cities - Talking Heads
161. Space - Simple Minds
162. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
163. Lost In Space - Fountains Of Wayne
164. Space Exploration Disaster - Sunflower Bean
165. Spaceman - Eureka Birds
166. Cosmogony - Bjork
167. Space Age Utopia - Vinyl Williams
168. Waterfall - The Stone Roses
169. One Trip Later - The Quarter After
170. Nova - Sun Dial
171. Vapour Trail - Ride
172. Atmosphere - Joy Division
173. Spaceball Ricochet - T. Rex
174. Space Oddity - Exitmusic
175. Master Of The Universe - Hawkwind
176. Like A Rocket Man - David Bowie
177. Alien - Wild Nothing
178. The Moon - The Bright Light Social Hour
179. Supernova At The End Of The Universe - The Orb
180. The Center of the Universe - Viva Voce
181. Idioteque - Radiohead
182. Spaceman In Your Garden - Prinzhorn Dance School
183. Manned Space Flight - The Three4Tens
184. Spaceship - The Vines
185. Man It Feels Like Space Again - Pond
186. Moons of Jupiter - Scruffy The Cat
187. Flying Saucer Blues - Margot and The Nuclear So and So's
188. In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe - Restorations
189. An Elliptical Galaxy - Nik Turner
190. Alien Days - MGMT
191. Spaceboy - Smashing Pumpkins
192. 2000 Man - The Rolling Stones
193. Starsailor - Tim Buckley
194. Breathe (In The Air) - Pink Floyd
195. Starship - Jefferson Starship
196. Space Boss - T. Rex
197. Computer Love - Kraftwerk
198. Fohat Digs Holes In Space - Gong
199. Space Odyssey - The Byrds
200. Spaceship Races - Carole King
201. Rocket Man - Pearls Before Swine
202. Rocket Man - My Morning Jacket
203. Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
204. Across The Universe - David Bowie
205. Five Years - The Polyphonic Spree
206. I Am The Cosmos - Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
207. Highwayman - The Highwaymen
208. Spaceman - The Roches
209. Alien - Robert Wyatt
210. Field Of Mars - The Church
211. My Flying Saucer - Billy Bragg & Wilco
212. Superman - Love Spit Love
213. Superman - Rockfour
214. UFO Love Letters - Boston Spaceships
215. Space Age Romeo - The Lackloves
216. Mojo Man from Mars - The Cramps
217. Flying Saucers Rock & Roll - Robert Gordon
218. Mr. Spaceman - The Holy Modal Rounders
219. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
220. Bootzilla - Bootsy Collins
221. Wondaland - Janelle Monáe
222. Spacemen - Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
223. Spaceship Coupe - Justin Timberlake
224. Cosmonaut - The Red Plastic Buddha
225. Lotus Flower (Sbtrkt Rmx) - Radiohead
226. Spaceman Blues - Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor
227. Rings of Saturn - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
228. Martians - Lilies On Mars
229. Solar Circus - The Soundtrack of our Lives
230. Vast Space - Gulp
231. Lost In Space - Luna
232. Birthday On Mars - The Ruby Suns
233. Introducing Cosmic Space - Elf Power
234. The Space Race - Destroyer
235. Recycled Air - The Postal Service
236. Space Energy Age - Sensations Fix
237. Space Program - Drug Cabin
238. Mars - Sinkane
239. Alien Observer - Grouper
240. Flying Saucers Are Real - Sleep 8 Over
241. Starship - Spacemen 3
242. Radar Love - The Space Lady
243. Space & Time - The Pierces
244. I Love Planet Earth - Eleni Mandell
245. Alien - John Paul White
246. The Universe Expanded - Franz Ferdinand
247. Love Your Spaceman - Robert Pollard
248. The Gloaming - Radiohead
249. Do You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Floating In Space Mix) - The Flaming Lips
250. Dub Ø 9 (Starshine) - Gorillaz Vs. Spacemonkeyz
251. Emergency On Planet Earth - Jamiroquai
252. No UFO's (Remix) - Model 500
253. Toxygene - The Orb
254. The Truth About Planet Earth - Sun Ra
255. Traveling to Different Planets - The Parson Red Heads
256. Space Saviour - The Church
257. U.F.O. - Blonde Redhead
258. Born In A UFO - David Bowie
259. Spaceman - The Killers
260. Space Invader - Pretenders
261. Master Of The Universe - Pulp
262. Saturn Song - Beach House
263. Space & Time - Black Sonic Revolver
264. Goodbye Space and Time - Eureka Birds
265. Beacon From Mars - Kaleidoscope
266. Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
267. Alone in the Universe - Electric Light Orchestra
268. After The Gold Rush - The Time And Space Machine
269. The Sun Shines On Jupiter - Grant Lee Phillips
270. Apprentice of the Rocket Man - Angus Stone
271. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud - David Bowie
272. Space Is the Place - Sun Ra

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