Conference noted::sf

I noticed, while leafing through the latest issue of STARLOG in my local
STOP 'n GO, an ad for soundtracks to sf and other related types of films.
The ad included the soundtrack to SILENT RUNNING (which, if I recall, was
mentioned somewhere else in this notes file).  I don't remember any of the
others, since I didn't pay too much attention to the ad.  (Incidently, that
issue had a feature article on the forthcoming "GREYSTOKE ... " film.)

I've heard the SILENT RUNNING soundtrack album before.  Although it certainly
isn't a major masterpiece, the Joan Biaz track (or tracks, I don't remember
how many there were) was pleasant.

							/mark sornson

Almost every "Jefferson Airplane" album includes a song with
an SF theme, usually written by Paul Kanter.  One whole album,
"Blows against the Empire" has an SF theme.

Grace Slick did an SF (sort of) song, called "Hyperdrive".

Let's try "Trivia" format:

"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss

Name the film.

 Oh, there's a lot of science fiction music floating around. There was a
 group from England called "Hawkwind" (later, "Hawklords"), who put
 out a number of sf oriented albums. These include: "Warriors at the
 Edge of Time", "Quark, Strangness and Charm", and "PXR5". The songs
 are techno-rock, heavily synthesized; amateur in places and brilliant
 in others. Very strange, hard to find - but interesting. Here's a sample
 of the lyrics - picture it with heavy synthesizers, a long intro - with
 an electronic monotonal subtheme: " ... ___ ... " - Morse code for "S.O.S.".

       "I would have liked you to have been deep frozen too -
	but your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you.
	Let's see - you'd be about sixty now, and long dead by the
		time I return to Earth...
	Oh my time-held dreams are full of you as you were when I left -
		Still under-age.
	It's the spirit of the Age - Just the Spirit of the Age."

	I am a clone / I am not alone / Every fiber of my flesh and bone /
	Is Identical to the others
	Everything I say is in the same tone as my test-tube brothers' voice
	There is no choice between us
	If you had ever seen us
	You'd rejoice in your uniqueness
	And consider every weakness
	Something special of your own
	Even this doggerel which crawls from my pen has just been written by
	Another twenty telepathic men
	Oh it's the spirit of the age - just the spirit of the age."

	------------------
	The rhyme-scheme here is complex and twisted - you'd have to hear
	it to appreciate it.

	All in all, I'd give Hawk{ [wind,lords] } a seven for musical ability,
	a nine for composition, and a six on lyrics. Very inventive stuff.

	Gee, I hadn't known that Hawkwind changed its name to Hawklords, but
then I don't really follow them. By the way, Michael Moorcock used to be assoc-
iated with that band -- writing songs as well as playing some instrument (I
forget what). He is credited as co-author with Michael Butterworth (who actually
wrote just about the whole thing) of TIME OF THE HAWKLORDS, which is loosely
based on Hawkwind. It's the first of an sf trilogy (the other two are credited
as by Butterworth alone); the second and third books have only been published
in England that I know of.

	Taking a good look at my record collection, I could probably come up with
quite a list of sf (including fantasy) music. Aside from the previously mentioned
Jefferson Airplane/Starship material, major ones include:

THE INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND (The Intergalactic Touring Band) -- ostensibly a
sort of rock opera about a rock group that tours the galaxy. The ITB is composed
of people from various other groups --- Meat Loaf does one song on the album.

I, ROBOT (The Alan Parsons Project) -- I don't have this record, so I can't really
tell you anything about it, though it is sf.

<various songs> (Blue Oyster Cult) -- BOC has many sf/fantasy songs, including
"Godzilla", "E.T.I.", "Black Blade", "Harvester of Eyes", "Take Me Away", "Veteran
of the Psychic Wars" (used in the film HEAVY METAL)

I'll try to do up a more complete list in the next few days.

---jayembee (Jerry Boyajian)

re .3 - That music was used in 2001.

			John

Speaking of 2001, I find it interesting that every time I hear The
Blue Danube Waltz I see a space station.

Certainly not what Strauss had in mind!

-- Bill

   Somebody (I forget if it was here or in SFL) described a horrible SF 
picture called Liquid Sky.  Believe it or not, there is a soundtrack album 
available.  I haven't heard it.  Just saw it while looking for the soundtracks
in Record Bar last night.
   Also there is a record of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy available.
If you are interested and don't find it in the humor section, look in the Sound
track section.  That's where I found it.

tlh

There is also the music from the BBC Radiophonic workshop (Dr. Who intro etc)

I have not seen Liquid Sky, but from the reviews that I read it does not sound
like SF. Many of the reviews praised it highly.

Tim

Rick Wakeman (??) wrote, produced and generally made a choral and orchestral
version of Jules Verne "Journey to the Centre of the Earth".

Of course, there's the music that QUEEN did for Flash Gordon, ( A great SF
movie, by the way. ) 

	Well, I've given a rather cursory glimpse through my record collection,
and have come up with the following. Format is: Group  ALBUM  "Song" [category].
If an album is mentioned with no particular songs following, it means that the
whole album (or most all of it) is sf. The category is a simplified, one-word
description: "sf" for science fiction; "fantasy" for fantasy; and "weird" for
supernatural or quasi-supernatural. A word of caution: trying to categorize
music as sf is worse than doing the same for fiction, it really depends on where
you draw the line. I've tried to include those songs that I thought were clear
cut sf; you may not agree. In certain cases there is some commentary to clarify
matters.

Jon Anderson		OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW	[fantasy]

Pat Benetar		IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
					"My Clone Sleeps Alone" [sort of sf]

Black Sabbath		PARANOID		[sf]

Blue Oyster Cult   	SECRET TREATIES
					"Subhuman" [sf] "Harvester of Eyes"
					 [weird] "Flaming Telepaths" [sf]
			AGENTS OF FORTUNE
					"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" [weird]
				  "E.T.I. (Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)" [sf]
			SPECTRES	"Godzilla" [fantasy] "Nosferatu" [weird]
			CULTOSAURUS ERECTUS	"Black Blade" [fantasy]
					(an Elric song co-written by Moorcock)
			FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
					"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" [sf]
					 (used in HEAVY METAL)
			THE REVOLUTION BY NIGHT	"Take Me Away" [sf]

(more of BOC's songs are probably sf, but it's been a while since I listened to
 them)

DAVID BOWIE	<various albums>	"Space Oddity" [sf] "1984" [sf] et al.

(I don't have any of Bowie's early albums, but they are rife with sf songs)

Caswell Carnahan   	BORDERLANDS	"The Borderlands" [fantasy]

Alice Cooper, et al.	FLASH FEARLESS VS. THE ZORG WOMEN, PARTS 5 & 6

(There is no Parts 1 through 4.)

Cream			DISRAELI GEARS	"Tales of Brave Ulysses" [fantasy]

Donovan			??? [I have a single]	"Atlantis" [fantasy]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer	TARKUS		[sf] (the first side, anyway)
			BRAIN SALAD SURGERY	"Karn Evil 9" [sf]

Archie Fisher		THE MAN WITH A RHYME   "The Witch of the West-Mer-Lands"
					[fantasy] (also recorded by Stan Rogers)

David Gates		??? [I have a single]	"Starship Ride" [sf]

Chris Hodge		[ditto]			"We're On Our Way" [sf]

Intergalactic Touring Band	INTERGALACTIC TOURING BAND	[sf]

Jefferson Airplane/Starship
			VOLUNTEERS		"Wooden Ships" [sf]
			BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE	[sf]

(I don't have many JA/S albums, but they are undoubtedly rife with sf songs)

Billy Joel [!]		TURNSTILES		"Miami 2017" [sf]

Reggie Knighton Band	REGGIE KNIGHTON BAND	"Rock'N'Roll Alien" [sf]
						"Clone in Love" [sf] "UFO" [sf]

Brian May & Friends	STAR FLEET PROJECT	"Star Fleet" [sf]
					 (this is a rock arrangement of the
					 theme song for a Japanese cartoon show)

Sally Oldfield		WATERBEARER	[first side] Songs of the Quendi:
					"Night Theme"/"Wampum Song"/"Nenya"/
					"Land of the Sun" [fantasy]
					 (inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien)

Queen			QUEEN		"My Fairy King" [fantasy]
			QUEEN II	"Ogre Battle" [fantasy] "The Fairy Fel-
					Feller's Master Stroke" [fantasy] "The
					Seven Seas of Rhye" [fantasy - an in-
					strumental number with the same title
					appears on their first album]
			SHEER HEART ATTACK
					"Lily of the Valley" [not strictly fan-
					 tasy, but occurs in the same universe 
					 as "The Seven Seas of Rhye"]
			A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	"`39" [sf] "The Prophet's Song"
					 [sf] "Bohemian Rhapsody" [fantasy]

Tom Rush		LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS	"Black Magic Gun" [weird]

Peter Schilling		ERROR IN THE SYSTEM	"Major Tom (Coming Home)" [sf]

Simon & Garfunkel   	WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3 A.M.      "The Sun is Burning" [sf]

Spirit			FUTURE GAMES	"Bionic Unit" [sf] "Star Trek Dreaming"
					[sf] "Gorn Attack" [sf] "The Romulan
					Experience" [sf] "Mount Olympus"/"The
					Journey of Nomad" [sf]

The Who			WHO ARE YOU	"905" [sf]

Zager & Evans		??? [I have a single]	"In the Year 2525" [sf]

Warren Zevon		EXCITABLE BOY	"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
					[weird] "Werewolves of London" [weird]


And all this doesn't include any of the supernatural-themed folk songs by Pent-
angle, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Peter, Paul, & Mary, etc. One album
of such, though, is:

John Roberts & Tony Barrand	DARK SHIPS IN THE FOREST: BALLADS OF THE
					SUPERNATURAL

---jayembee (Jerry Boyajian)

 
   Since the songs on the Liquid Sky album where called "How the alien kills"
and other such strange things and the the makeup of the actors was I little far 
out for a mainstream movie,  I think that it was indeed an SF movie.

   Maybe it was in SFL but somewhere really recently I read a reveiw of it.
There is this alien who needs a chemical to survive.  Said chemical is produced
by humans during orgasm.  For some reason the alien kills the very people who
provide this chemical fro him... (Don't blame me, I'm just repeating what I 
read.)

tlh

RE: .12

The note you refer to is 11.40 of this file.  The story was pretty weird,
but then again, everyone has different tastes.  I still maintain it must
be one of the worst sf flicks of all time.

	Mike

re:.11

Oh, my, how could I have forgotten "Hey, Mr. Spaceman" by The Byrds?!

---jayembee (Jerry Boyajian)

Theme albums:

	David Bowie	Diamond Dogs

	Bo Hansson	Lord of the Rings	[1972, Buddah Records]

	Klaatu		Klaatu
			Hope

Assorted tracks:

	Deep Purple	'Space Truckin'

	Brian Eno	'No One Receiving'	Before and After Science

	Pink Floyd	'Astronomy Domine'	A Nice Pair
			'Set the Conrtols for
			 the Heart of the Sun'	    "
			'Interstellar Overdrive'    "

	Jean-Luc Ponty	'Cosmic Messenger'	Cosmic Messenger

	('Space Truckin' from Machine Head - <sorry, no editor>)

Not music, but SF recording:

	Harlan Ellison	'Repent Harlequin!  said the Ticktockman'
			from Ellison Reads Ellison
			[1981, The Ellison Record Collection]

(** Are there any more Ellison recordings other than this one? **)

/mark

I am suprised nobody mentioned Jeff Wayne's musical version of  the War of
the Worlds. This was a british production but included such people as Julie 
Covington (ex Evita), Justin Hayward and David Essex. Richard Burton 
narrates between the tracks.

There was a video (animated, pretty good) made to go with one of the tracks
that was released as a single and talk of a film. 

Anyone else heard of this?

Gary

Answering my own note...

I'd like to recommend the following albums by synthesizer-wizards (much of
which is SF-oriented and *very* spacey):

Jean Michel Jarre

	Equinoxe
	Oxygene
	Magnetic Fields

Larry Fast (Synergy)

	Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra
	Sequencer
	Computer Experiments Volume 1
	games
	Cords
	Audion
	The Jupiter Menace (soundtrack; mostly cuts from other albums)

Does anybody out there know of any other albums by these gentlemen?

Or of any other synthesizer-only albums?

-- Bill

The only other synthesizer-based album I have ever heard is 
"Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk.  It came out about 4(?) 
years ago.  


				*** Kristy ***

Incidentally, Larry Fast was one of the members of the "Intergalactic
Touring Band", and played on every track except the one vocalized by
Annie Haslam (of Rennaissance).  It had a lot of good artists on it;
not every track was fantastic, but most were pretty good.

Klaatu's first album was excellent - the second was more coherant and
definately more sf, but not nearly as good musically.  The third was
nearly a total loss.

Yes, Rick Wakeman did do "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" - damn nice
album, all over.  I'd rate Rick Wakeman, Larry Fast, and Keith Emerson
as the top synthesizer artists around ... although there's a lot of
other good ones.

As for other all-synthesizer albums, how 'bout Robert Mason's Stardrive?
Excellent album including a great version of Strawberry Fields Forever.

And of course if we're talking about all-synth rather than sf - there's
always Wendy Carlos, the true pioneer of synthesizer (she - actually, at
the time it was "he", Walter Carlos - more or less co-invented the
synthesizer with Moog).

	/dave

Oh yeah, some other groups which frequently get into sf:

Kansas
Electric Light Orchestra

I have a Hawkwind album which I didn't see on the posted list: Hall of the
Mountain Grill.  Didn't really seem like sf to me, except for the cover
(an interesting painting of a crashed spaceship), but most of the music
was good.

	/dave

re response 16:		Yes, I have Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. (I forgot
			to include it.)  It was released here in 1978 by
			CBS records.  I think it's still available.

re response 17: (other all synthesizer music)

		lots of Vangelis (of Chariots of Fire fame) - he also did an
		album or to with Jon Anderson.

		Klaus Schulze has a few.  I have one called 'Time Wind' [1975,
		Virgin Records].  I think they are mostly imports.

		(correction: album or two ...)

	On Jean Michael Jarre - He did an album live in Mainland China.
	I don't know the title of this album - a friend provided a tape
	which I've played down to the mylar - but it's great. There's long
	introductions in Chinese followed by polite applause and then some
	genuinely ripping heavy synthesizer. Other audio effects have been
	dubbed onto the tape (Chinese voice: "Radies and Gentermen, we wirr
	be descending into Xiang-c'hi (Shanghai?) ailpolt...") interspersed
	with the sound of an autowinder - chinese schoolchildren reciting
	poems... Really the sounds of a foreign country on plastic. Very nice,
	and an excellent tape for your walkman if you're flying anywhere.

	This is reportedly the first time that the synthesizer has been heard
	on the mainland, and you can tell the audience is puzzled but
	enthusiastic. I give this album a 9 which is recommended in the
	extreme. Is it science-fiction? Well, maybe a bit - but it's more
	an example of cultural anthropology.

re .22

Mark, no offense taken here, but for your information, Orientals don't
interchange R's and L's bidirectionally.  Japanese typically substitute
R for L, and Chinese (especially Cantonese) vice versa.  Mandarin speakers
should be less susceptible to this linguistic quirk, since both R and L are
present in Mandarin Chinese (nowadays called Putonghwa).

George Clinton has done a lot of SF-type music with Parliament--Star Child, 
the landing of the Mother Ship, etc.

Mike "make my funk the P-Funk" Gruber

"I'm a space cowboy, bet you weren't ready for that;
 I'm a space cowboy, I'm sure you know where that's at (yeah, yeah, yeah)"

---"Space Cowboy" by the Steve Miller Band (from the LP _Brave_New_World_)

Mike

 

                              ACE::MITCHELL

As this is my first reply, I would like to say that I am thrilled by the
conversations on a SF theme.  I am an addict myself.

One of the replys mentioned novels on tape - has anybody listened to the
"Arthur Clarke reads Arthur Clarke"??  They are wonderful and include 
2001 and 2010, The Star, Childhood's End, etc.  Great for the car.

Kathy

In re .27:

Could you post any publishing or other information you might have on the 
"Arthur Clarke reads Arthur Clarke" tapes?  Sounds like something I'd want to
get my paws on. 

Thanks in advance.

					-- Roger

There is an album out called 'The King of Elflands Daughter'. I don't know
who did it.  Also, Rush has some sf stuff (2112 and kilroy).

This one isn't sf but when you listen (no words) it's easy to imagine flying
through space in a starship of some kind.

in the previous note (.29) I was referring to 'Phaedra' by
Tangerine Dream.

sorry

RE: .8
There are two HHGTG albums out (parts 1 and 2) but unfortunatly I haven't
been able to find either in the Nashua area.

Also in the humorous vein, Firesign Theater have done a number of comedy
routines based on SF. One of the best, on their DEAR FRIENDS album is
"Mark Time!". A couple of their albums have loose SF themes:
I THINK WERE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS
EVERY THING YOU KNOW IS WRONG

Steve

  Re .31 -- Also by the Firesign Theater, in an SF vein, is
  "In The Next World, You're On Your Own."  And David Ossman's
  solo LP, "How Time Flies."

       Mike

First, re Firesign Theater "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus"
should be very interesting to anyone who has used DEC-10's (and 20's).
(By the way, "WORKER" is the way to get out of the DOCTOR program and into
(oops- wrong way: AFTER getting from DOCTOR to LISP, (WORKER) restarts DOCTOR.)
This digression may enhance some of the events on that record. 

Also, nobody has mentioned Bowie's _Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars_
album, which has several SF songs on it ("Five Years", "Starman", ...)

I have Alan Parson Project _I, Robot_, and I like it, even though it can be
depressing.

Finally, while Pink Floyd's _The Final Cut_ is (sort of) about the Falklands
war, "Two Suns in the Sunset" is definitely SF. In that vein, Tom Lehrer also
has songs about WWIII.

			Steve Kovner

Does anyone know who performed this song?  It came out mid-'70s, a capella,
about 6 women's voices. Lyrics are sort of like this:

	Well I dreamed I saw the silver space ship flying
	In the yellow face of the sun.
	There were children crying and banners flying
	All around the Chosen One.
	All in a dream; all in a dream.
	The [something] had begun.
	Flying Mother Nature's Silver Stream
	To a new home in the Sun.

I don't know title, performers, or anything else about it, just that it
was 6 female voices a capella, from the 70's.  I'd appreciate any info
about it (I fell in love with the song, the first time I heard it...).

					-- Faith --

re .34: The performer was Neil Young (I think with Crazy Horse)

It's been so long since I heard it, I've forgotten all other details.

					andrew

The song is, I believe, "After the Gold Rush" from the album of the same
name by Neil Young.

-- Bill

One of my favorite themes is from the sequence in 2001 when the Discovery
was introduced to the melancholy strains of the Adagio from Aram Khachaturian's
"Gayne Ballet".  I don't think any other piece could have caught the feeling
of being millions of miles away from Earth with no one to turn to.  If you 
really want to recapture that first impression, just put this piece on the
stereo and lay back and listen with no interruptions.  It's terrific.

I have just bought a copy of Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire V".  The group's
not very well known nationally, I understand.  They live and record in Omaha.
The album takes its theme from "Kepler's Dream", an account of a dream concerning
a visit to the moon as told by the great J. Kepler himself.  Not a bad album.
In fact, the entire series of the five Fresh Aire albums makes great listening.

Also, try an album called Cosmic Suite by Steve Halpern.  Pretty mellow music.

The music of Rush only got a brief mention.  While Rush has changed quite a
bit of late, they have some classic SF music.

	2112: The closing of the first group of tracks on this album
	      can chill your blood.

	Cygnus X-1: A song spanning about ten tracks on two different
	            albums, Fly By Night and Hemispheres.  Hemispheres
		    also has Trees and La Villa Strangiato.

	Red Barchetta: Neil Peart said this was based on an SF story --
 		       anyone know which one?

	 Rush, incidentally, is really good music to read SF by,
even on tracks like Closer to the Heart.

"Attention all planets of the Solar Federation..."

Dave Wall

Almost forgot -- Jacob's Ladder (off Permanent Waves)

DFW

For you  Rush fans ...  the new album, Power Windows, should 
be out next  week.    If you listen to the radio enough, you 
may manage to catch  their  demo EP called Big Money.  It is 
once again different sounding like their latest albums and I 
know I'll have to listen to  it  a  few hundred times before 
I'm used to it.

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Yes, indeed, RUSH has some good old spacey stuff.  There was also a German
group quite a while back that had some good stuff;  The only thing a remember
about their name, is that they always had a white mouse on the cover.

Let's not forget Mike Oldfield, in the synthesizer category, either:  AIRBORN,
TUBULAR BELLS, ...

Moody Blues has some spacey stuff, how much depends on where you want to
draw the line.

I have one album which is called THE EYE OF WENDOR, by MANDELA BAND, which
is priceless.  It is like IGTB, where half of the value of the album, is
off the record, in the art.  This is like a soundtrack from a movie, and
there is a booklet which tells the story, and has great art.

If you want some other just plain different stuff, try a band called CAMEL,
they have one album called MOON MADNESS, where on the cover is a picture
of the moon, with a camel in a space suit.  These guys are also German; there
are more good weird Gerrman groups, but I can't remember them.

    This is very late, but here are some more sf and fantasy music entries:
    
    "Alpha Centauri" by (or at least sung by) Crystal Gale
    
    "Lament for a Red Planet" by some science journalist.  Sorry I can't
    give enough data.  It's about Mars and the theory that long ago
    it might have had liquid water and maybe even life.  It starts,
    "Ten thousand times a hundred thousand dusty years ago, my river
    ran where now the Plain of Gold extends,"  and ends, "Your ochre
    cliffs and umber rocks stand silent and serene, but O my wan and
    wasted world, I miss your blue and green."
    
    "The Road Goes Ever On and On," music by Donald Swann and lyrics
    by J. R. R. Tolkein.  In fact, it is musical settings for the poems
    found in Lord of the Rings.  This is, in a way, the "canonical"
    music, since Swann wrote it in cooperation with Tolkein, who enjoyed
    it, pronounced it good, and wrote a longish preface to the book
    of scores.
    
    Earl Wajenberg

    There's also someone who's relatively recently issued a cassette
    of "Harper Hall" songs written by Anne McCaffrey, with music by
    someone whose name I can't recall.
    
    --- jerry

    	Has anyone read the interview with Arthur C. Clarke in the
    July,1986 issue of Playboy?  In it he states - among other fascinating
    revalations - that he did NOT care for the theme music in 2001:
    A Space Odyssey beyond those first famous bars of music.
    	Are you shocked or what?
    
    	Larry
    

    While I am not positive about this, I do not believe any orginal
    music was written for 2001, hence, he may have disliked it long
    before they put it in the movie.
    
    Except for "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and "The Blue Danube", I'm
    not fond of the music, either.
    
    Dave W.

    I take it the stuff people are talking about is the Ligeti.  I actually
    like it and as a result went out and picked up more Ligeti, which
    I also liked.  I thought the Blue Danube was a little too much of
    a saccharin cliche, and I love R. Strauss, but there's a lot
    more to "... Zarathustra" than just the opening, that nobody seems
    to listen to.  Sort of like the Tchaikovsky 1st Piano Concerto.
    
    But this isn't the MUSIC conference, and what would I know anyway,
    as I'm just a rock and roll drummer...
    
    len.
    

    	Clarke said in the interview that it was the music AFTER the
    famous Zarathustra opening that he did not like.
    	In regards to the Blue Danube piece, Kubrick purposely picked
    that music because he did not want to use the typical REALLY cliche
    space music that movies are so fond of using; you know, the eerie
    synthisizer stuff.
    
    	Larry
    

    Hi,
    
    I'm getting into this discussion late, and I don't want to read
    all 49 replies before adding my own, so forgive me if what I say
    has alredy come up between .18 and .49. That said...
    
    RE .18
    
    Kraftwerk had a few good albums, (I didn't particularly like
    TransEuropeExpress) The best of which I think was Autobahn.
    The first two pieces on the second side were KOMETMELODIE I & II
    (my spelling of the German may not be quite right); in english,
    Comet Melody. Comet I is real spacey, Comet II is very melodic and
    kind of "catchy".
    There was also an album called Ralf and Florian (the two "stars"
    of KRAFTWERK) I don't remember if it was done under the KRAFTWERK
    name, that was very good. One song called "Tower of Power" (I think)
    had no synthesizers, just overlaid flutes of various registers,
    that was very dramatic. The was also a purely synthetic piece on
    that album (the title had something to do with Crystals) that I
    really liked.
    
    sm	(beware the fractal dragon)
    
    PS didn't LED ZEPPELIN do a few songs based in the Tolkien Middle
    Earth mythos?

    re .33 (pink floyd's _The_Final_Cut_ album)
    
    My impression of The Final Cut was that it was all the "out-takes"
    from THE WALL. Seemed most of it had to do with WWII and Waters'(?)
    dealing with the death of his father in the war. "Two Suns in the
    Sunset" I think may have had something to do with Japan (being the
    land of the rising sun). It's been quite a while since I listened
    to it so I may be wrong.
    
    Pink Floyd's best work was done before Dark Side.
    
    sm (b.t.f.d.)

    I am a late entrant to this topic as well!
    
    Try reading Arthur C Clark's 'The City and the Stars' while listening
    to the last track on the flip side of Yellow Submarine. (The Beatles
    - anyone remember the Beatles). 
    This track called I think 'It's all to much' did not appear in the
    film, but it is one of the few tracks written by George Harrison.
    
    Lovely imagery, 'Floating down the stream of time....'
    
    
    
    Stan.

    	I think one could call the animated movie Yellow Submarine a
    fantasy/sf film - so could one then say that the music in it are
    SF theme music?
    
    	Larry
    

    re: .51
    
    I always thought "Two Suns in the Sunset" was about nuclear war.
    A man sees the sun setting in his rear view mirror, then he realizes
    he is driving to the west....
    
    Dave W.

Re: previous

The Led Zepelin song with the Middle Earth reference is _Ramble On_

My favorite post-nuclear_holocost song was an old Jefferson (Airplane, I 
believe) song _Wooden Ships_ but the version I prefered was by Crosby, 
Stills, and Nash.

Others I can think of immediately were _After the Goldrush_ by Niel 
Young, and there was a recent one called _Children of the Sun_ by an 
artist whose name temporarily escapes me.

Also,  Black Sabbath had _Planet Caravan_, _Iron Man_, and _Electric 
Funeral_ all on the _Paranoid_ album.

_Demons and Wizards_ and _The Magician's Birthday_ could be considered 
Fantasy candidates by Uriah Heep.

I'm sure I could think of a lot more given a few moments consideration.

	Mike

    	I would love to have Tangerine Dream do the soundtrack for an
    SF movie!
    
    	Larry
    

    re:.56
    
    Try WAVELENGTH.
    
    --- jerry

    re .54 (ie Two Suns in the Sunset"):
    
    now that you mention it....                                       
    
    As I said, it's been a while since I listened to it. I just didn't
    like it very much. A disappointing album all in all (to me anyway).
    
    sm

	(Re: .29, .30, .56)

	Tangerine Dream  is  a  German  band. Currently, the members are
	Edgar  Froese,  Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling. For info,
	contact  Tadream  Productions,  P.O  Box 303340, 1000 Berlin 30,
	West Germany.

	I don't  know  of  any  SF  movie  having a Tadream soundtrack -
	though  recent  movies featuring Tadream music are 'Flashpoint',
	'Thief'  and 'The Park is Mine'. Most of Tangerine Dream's music
	could  be  said  to  be  SF-related,  though, which becomes very
	evident  if you look at the titles of their songs. Some examples
	of good songs:

	Stratosfear (album: Stratosfear)
	3 am at the border of the marsh from okefenokee (Stratosfear)
	The big sleep in search of Hades (Stratosfear)
	mysterious semblance at the strand of nightmares (Phaedra)
	Rubycon Parts I & II (Rubycon)
	Mojave Plan (White Eagle)
	Convention of the 24 (White Eagle)

	Tangerine Dream fans out there, make yourselves known!


	<PO>

    re:.59
    
    In .57, I mentioned an sf film that had a soundtrack by T'Dream.
    
    --- jerry

    The soundtrack to Labyrinth (admittedly Fantasy rather than SF)
    is by Tangerine Dream.
    
    len.
    

    re: .62
    
    The soundtrack to 'Labyrinth' is not by Tangerine Dream; it's a
    collaboration of sorts between David Bowie (who's responsible for
    the rock tracks) and Trevor Howard (whose previous work includes
    'The Dark Crystal' and 'Excalibur').
    
    - Skip

    re: .62,.63
    
    Ah, er, strike that...  That should be Trevor Jones, not Trevor
    Howard.  Howard is a movie actor; Jones is the composer...
    
    How embarrassing!
    
    Skip

	(re: .61)

	Well, wadda you know...
	I  haven't seen, or even heard of (maybe that sounds as if I was
	born  yesterday)  'Wavelength'.  Can you tell me some more about
	it,  so I can go down to my local video store and patronise then
	until the find it for me?

	<PO>

	Believe it  or  not,  but we up here in the land of the Midnight
	Sun can write SF music too (yours truly excluded...).

	Swedish synthesizer  magician  Ralph Lundsten (have you heard of
	him?)  has  written  a large amount of SF-related music. He uses
	his  own studio outside Stockholm, The Andromeda Studio. I don't
	have any of his albums, so I don't remember the names right now,
	but  you  should  be  able to find them in a well-stocked record
	store.

	Another Swedish  guy,  name of Bo Hansson, made an album on the
	Tolkien theme, 'The Lord of the Rings'. Quite good.

	And finally,  on one of my Al DiMeola albums (Splendido Hotel) I
	found  the  song  'Alien  Chase  on  Arabian  Desert'  with  the
	sub-title

		'An eventful chase across an Arabian desert
		after an alien has landed after traveling
		millions of light-years from his stellar
		suburban home on a planet somewhere on the
		outer reaches of deep space.'

	(Al DiMeola is an American, of course.)

	<PO>

    re:.65
    
    I don't know if I can remember enough details, but the plot of
    WAVELENGTH is roughly the following:
    
    Boy meets girl. Boy and girl meet aliens. Boy and girl help aliens
    get back home. :-)
    
    Seriously, a young musician (Robert Carradine) meets a young woman
    and they get romanticly involved. The woman (I don't recall the
    actress's name) starts getting weird psychic flashes. The two poke
    around a little at a supposedly long-abandoned government facility.
    They manage to get in and find that the government is hiding the
    bodies of three aliens that resemble small, hairless children. The
    scientists think that the aliens are dead and want to perform
    autopsies. Our heroes realize aliens are still alive, and help them
    escape. The ending is very similar to STARMAN (though WAVELENGTH was
    made first), with a big spherical spaceship carting the aliens away.
    
    It wasn't an outstanding movie, but I found it reasonably well-made,
    especially for a low-budget independent film.
    
    A soundtrack album is available, at least on LP and CD.
    
    --- jerry

    re .62, .63, .64 - Well, if it isn't Labyrinth, it's some other
    current movie.  I just read about it in some music magazine.  The original
    composer (Trevor Jones sounds familiar...)'s score was pulled at
    the last minute and TD invoked.  I'll look this up tonight and report
    next week.  Sorry to disinform, no intent there, just defective
    memory.

    len.
    

    re: .68
    
    Oh, I know which one you mean now.  You were thinking of 'Legend'.
    The original score was done by Jerry Goldsmith and when the movie
    was released in Europe, his was the score the audience heard.  But
    director Ridley Scott trimmed out a sizeable chunk of the film for
    the film's release here in the States and Tangerine Dream was brought
    in to do the score for the 'new' version. 
    
    Skip

	In reply 17 someone mentioned "MAGNETIC FIELDS" by Jean Michel Jarre; 
there is someting funny and at the same time shamefull :

	Jean Michel Jarre is French and for that reason his records are first
published in France and their original names are in french; for this reason 
the original name of the record was "CHANTS MAGNETIQUES" which would translate
as "MAGNETIC CHANTS" here there he was using the similarity between "CHAMPS" 
(fields) and "CHANTS" (chants or songs); whoever made the translation did not
realize this and made a wrong translation when he could have kept the idea by
using "CHANTS".

	But that's not all; I live in Mexico City and here we get some imported
records and some others are re-edited here, when they do this they translate
the name in the record to spanish, so when they edited "CHANTS MAGNETIQUES"
they translated it as "CAMPOS MAGNETICOS" which means "MAGNETIC FIELDS"...

	In Mexico there was a rock group named "CHAC MOOL" which no longer 
exists, but in there first record they had a couple of SF songs, the first
one "UN MUNDO FELIZ" was based on ALDOUS HUXLEY's "BRAVE NEW WORLD" and 
another one called "BIENVENIDOS AL EL FIN DEL MUNDO" (Welcome to the end of the 
world) was about (obviously) nuclear destruction. This songs are in spanish.

						Mauricio

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Subject: Revised SF-in-music List 
Posted: 7 May 87 00:40:54 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
 
    This is the revised SF-in-music list.  It covers pop music only,
thus avoiding the huge amount of material which might be called
"classical".  The list also does not cover "filk", because...well,
just because.  It does cover rock, jazz, folk, and electronic music;
most of the items listed here fall pretty well into these categories. 
This choice, and the separate listing of the pure instrumentalists at
the end, are mine, so don't flame anybody else for them.  I did try to
list everybody who helped at the end, in an informal way. 
 
    In many cases, I've relied on the contributions that have been
sent in; in others, I've verified spellings and attributions. 
Corrections (via mail ONLY) are quite welcome, as are additions.  I
will be maintaining this list and re-sending it periodically. 
 
    Note on the update of 5/6/87:  Many thanks to the two dozen folks
or so who sent in corrections and updates and whatnot.  I've managed
to check more of the entries this time, and so the list is beginning
to approach (I hope) a reasonably accurate state. 
 
    Rich Kulawiec, [email protected], j.cc.purdue.edu!rsk
 
1919:
Has an EP "Machine".
 
AC/DC:
"Who Made Who" from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack.
 
Alan Parsons Project:
Albums "I, Robot" (but not based on Asimov) and "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination (Poe). 
 
Ambrosia:
"Nice, Nice, Very Nice" is from the 53rd Calypso of Bokonon from Cat's
Cradle by Vonnegut.  Also "Time Waits for no One"; both are on
"Ambrosia", which also contains a reading of Jabberwocky. 
 
Amon Duul II:
Some sf-oriented material; German band from the mid-seventies. Two of
their albums are "Made in Germany" and "Vive La Trance". 
 
Anderson, Laurie:
Surrealism & sf-type music.  Try "Oh, Superman" and "Language is a
Virus From Outer Space", which I seem to recall is derived from
Burroughs. 
 
Android Sisters, The:
"Songs of Electronic Despair".
 
Androids of MU:
A punk band that never got anywhere; their album "Blood Robots"
includes a track called "Lost in Space". 
 
Anvil:
"Mothra"
 
Aphrodite's Child:
The album "666" is the veritable armageddon waltz. Vangelis was in
this band back then. 
 
B-52's:
"Planet Claire".
 
Bedford, David:
Album "Star's End"; could this be a reference to Asimov's Foundation
series ("Star's End", "Tazenda")? 
 
Benatar, Pat:
"My Clone Sleeps Alone".
 
Black Sabbath:
Sort of.  Tends to black magic et. al.  See "Paranoid" for "Iron Man"
(mechanical golem?), "Black Sabbath" (1st LP) for demented ravings
like  "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Lovecraft). "Heaven and Hell" is all
fantasy.  Some speculation that "Iron Man" refers to the comic book
hero (paraplegic w/special iron alloy suit and powers far beyond...) 
 
Blake, Tim:
Electronic New Age.  Albums "Crystal Machine", "Blake's New
Jerusalem", both SF.  Was in Hawkwind 1979-80. 
 
Blondie:
SF themes in some songs: e.g. the "Man from Mars" in "Rapture".
 
Blue Oyster Cult:
Many tracks on many albums with SF themes; "Soul Survivor" and
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (which also was on the "Heavy Metal"
soundtrack) from "Fire of Unknown Origin", "E.T.I.", "The Subhuman",
"Flaming Telepaths" and most of the rest of the LP's "Tyranny and
Mutation" and "Secret Treaties".  Later work includes the album
"Cultosaurus Erectus", "Godzilla" (from "Some Enchanted Evening") and
"Black Blade" (from "E.T. Live", a song done with Michael Moorcock). 
 
Boney M.:
"Night Flight to Venus" (title track of LP).
 
Bonzo Dog DooDah Band:
"Urban Spaceman" from "The Best of the Bonzos", and "There's a Monster
Coming" from "Gorilla". 
 
Boston:
The LP "Third Stage" has a track emulating aspaceship take-off.
 
Bow Wow Wow:
Punk.  "I want my baby on Mars", "Giant sized baby thing!".
 
Bowie, David:
"Space Oddity" (most emphatically NOT "Major Tom") discusses eerie
experiences in orbit.  Also has a film, "The Man who Fell to Earth".
See also "Diamond Dogs" and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from
Mars", about pop stars from the cosmos, which includes "The Man Who
Sold the World", "Life on Mars", and "TVC15".  See also "Five Years",
"Ashes to Ashes", "Starman", and "Memory of a Free Festival", and
"1984". 
 
Buggles, The:
The LP "Age of Plastic" contains many SF themes;for instance, the
title song has the lines "They send the Thought Police to put you
under cardiac arrest" (1984 meets Harlan Ellison's Ticktockman?) Also
"I Love You, Miss Robot".  See also "Johnny on the Monorail". 
 
Bunnydrums:
"PKD", for Phillip K. Dick.
 
Bush, Kate:
"Fallout" or something like that from "The Dreaming", and "The Sound"
from the same LP about designing a sound that can kill.  Also see
"Experiment IV" (which might be what I'm thinking about in "Fallout").
 
Byrds, The:
"Hey Mr. Spaceman" from "The Fifth Dimension". "Space Odyssey" from
"Notorious Byrd Brothers" is a retelling of Clarke's "The Sentinel". 
 
Camel:
"Lunar Sea" from the album "Moonmadness".
 
Captain Beyond:
"Astral Lady", "Voyagers From Distant Planets", etc.
 
Caravan:
"Cthulhu" from "Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night".
 
Cheap Trick:
"Dream Police" (title track).
 
Chicago:
Last side of Chicago III is a suite about ecodeath and final war;
title unknown. 
 
Cooper, Alice:
On "School's Out", the words "Klattu barrada nicto" occur in
background vocals near the end of "My Stars".  The album "Alice Cooper
Goes to Hell" is a fantasy.  Also see "I'm Flash" (Gordon, that is). 
 
Credence Clearwater Revival:
"Who'll Stop the Rain" (post-holocaust?)
 
Creme, Lol/Kevin Godley:
"Consequences" is an ecological parable.
 
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
"Wooden Ships"--post-nuclear war survival?
 
Deep Fix:
Michael Moorcock's band of the late seventies-produced one album, "The
New Worlds Fair".  A sort of cross between rock and slow square dance.
 
Deep Purple:
Occasional forays into SF.  "Space Truckin'", "The Mule" (Asimov's
'Foundation'?), both from "Machine Head", etc. 
 
Def Leppard:
Heavy Metal.  First album has a futuristic track, "When the Walls Came
Tumblin' Down", and a fantasy "Overture". 
 
Devo:
"Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO" and "Duty Now for the Future" are
full of SF themes; examples are "Space Junk" and "Jocko Homo".
"Freedom of Choice" and "New Traditionalists" also have some SF
material. 
 
Donovan (w/Paul McCartney):
"Atlantis" (Georg Danzer translated and sang a German version.)
 
Duran Duran:
"Planet Earth"
 
Dylan, Bob:
"Talkin' World War III Blues"
 
Electric Light Orchestra:
"Mission (A World Record)" on "A New World Record".  The entire album
"Time" involves a man from 1981 winding up in the 21st century.  The
"10538 Overture" is a dystopia set in that year. 
 
Emerald Web:
(small obscure west coast duo [flute & synthesizer]) New age material,
but one album is "Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales", a fantasy story set
to music. 
 
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer:
Space battle in "Karn Evil 9" from "Brain Salad Surgery".  See also
"Tarkus". 
 
Eno, Brian:
Albums: "Apollo" and "On Land".
 
Erickson, Roky:
"The Evil One" has a track entitled "Creature with the Atom Brain"
 
Eurythmics:
Did the soundtrack to the recent version of "1984".
 
FM:
The album "Black Noise" is entirely SF, and deal with topics such as
suspended animation; "RocketRoll" from "Surveillance" is about SF
Rock. 
 
Fink Brothers:
"Mutants in Mega City One", from the Judge Dredd comic.  America
portrayed as three cities under police control. 
 
Flanders & Swann:
"The Road Goes Ever On", settings of Tolkein songs.
 
Flash Fearless and the Zorg Women, parts 5&6:
Another weird IGTB type collaboration album from the late 70's with
some well-known rockers on it. 
 
Fleetwood Mac:
"The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown". (Judas Priest did an
eminently forgettable version) "Rhiannon" might be about a Welsh
witch. 
 
Flock, The:
"Dinosaur Swamps"
 
Gabriel, Peter:
"Here Comes the Flood", with Robert Fripp.
 
Genesis:
"Watcher of the Skies" and "One for the Vine" from "Wind and
Wuthering" concern time travel; perhaps "The Return of the Giant
Hogweed" (Hello Triffids), "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
(surrealism), and "A Trick of the Tail" (fantasy).  Oh, and "Get 'em
Out by Friday".  See also "Keep it Dark" in which visiting aliens
persuade the person they contact to remain silent about the visit. 
More stuff: "Am I Very Wrong", "Solitude", "The Knife", "The Musical
Box" (horror), "The Fountain of Salmacis" (fantasy), "Supper's Ready"
(the ultimate battle of good and evil), "Firth of Fifth", and Dancing
Out with the Moonlit Knight" (both containing heavy fantasy elements).
 See also "Squonk". 
 
Gentle Giant:
Much material, including "The Advent of Panurge", and "Ulacard" (spell
it backwards). 
 
Gong:
New Age.  Three albums about the Planet Gong, Zero the Hero & the
Pot-Head Pixies!: "Radio Gnome", "Angel's Egg", "You". 
 
Gowan, Larry:
See "Oceania" from "Gowan" (first LP) might refer to Oceana. See also
"Strange Animal", his second LP. 
 
Greenslade, David:
"The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", a double album of electronic music.
A derelict alien spaceship enters our solar system.  Their language is
decoded (details in the accompanying illustrated book); the music is
the story of their race. 
 
H.P. Lovecraft:
Couple of albums...one contains "At the Mountains of Madness". 
Estimates place them in the late 60's.  Another track is "The White
Ship", directly referencing an H.P. Lovecraft story. 
 
Hackett, Steve:
"Narnia" on "Please Don't Touch" (one of his solo albums;he was with
Genesis). His album "Voyage of the Acolyte" isbased on the Tarot, and
includes "Star of Sirius", "The Hands of the Princess", "A Tower
Struck Down", "The Lovers", "The Hermit", "The Shadow of the
Hierophant", and "Ace of Wands". 
 
Hawkwind:
The all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock.  *Some* of their
albums are: "Hall of the Mountain Grill", "In Search of Space",
"Quark, Strangeness, and Charm", "Space Ritual--Alive in Liverpool &
London", "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "In Search of Space", "Doremi
Fasol Latido", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music","25 Years On",
"Levitation", "Sonic Attack", "Church of the Hackwind", and "Choose
Your Masks".  Michael Moorcock, long associated with the group, has in
fact written some fantasy-sf,including "Time of the Hawklords", a
fantasy about the band saving the world.  He co-wrote "Veteran of the
Psychic Wars", from the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal".  He also released
a solo album late in the 70's.  Many of their tracks are explicitly
linked to SF books,e.g. "Lord of Light", "Jack of Shadows", "Damnation
Alley" (Zelazny), "Steppenwolf" (Hesse), "High Rise" (Ballard).  The
lyrics of "Warriors" are taken from Moorcock's "The Eternal Champion";
the lyrics to another spoken track on "Space Ritual" from his book
"The Black Corridor" The lyrics of "The Awakening", "Spirit of the
Age" and "The 10 Seconds of Forever", are SF poems from Robert
Calvert's collection of poems, "Centigrade 232".  Robert Calvert was
lead singer of Hawkwind from 1976-1978 (or thereabouts) and produced a
solo album late in the 70's. 
 
Hendrix, Jimi:
Delta blues, except that the delta is on Mars.  See "1983...A Merman I
Should Turn to Be","Hey Baby", and "Third Stone from the Sun", "UFO",
and lots of other stuff. 
 
Hillage, Steve:
His album "Green" includes an instrumental called "UFO over Paris".
 
Hitchcock, Robyn:
See "The Fly", "Man with the Light Bulb Head".
 
Human League:
"I Am the Law", also from Judge Dredd (futuristic cop) comic.  Process
of apprehension, trial, conviction, and sentencing telescoped into a
very short time period. 
 
IGTB:
Stands for Inter-Galactic Touring Band; Mish-mash album put out in
1977 with all sorts of people on it, purporting to be a group on
galactic tour. 
 
Incredible String Band:
"I Was a Young Man (back in the 1960's)", a future retrospective.  See
also "Swift as the Wind", wherein a child's fantasy-hero turns out to
be more substantial. 
 
Inner City Unit:
Punk band led by Nik Turner of Hawkwind.  Their first album, "Pass
Out", includes the tracks "Fall Out" (nuclear war), "Polly Ethelene",
"Cybernetic Love". Their second album, "Maximum Effect", starts with a
track suggesting that Elvis has been given Everlasting Life Via
Induced Suspendedanimation. 
 
Iron Maiden:
"Dune" from "Piece of Mind".
 
Jade Warrior:
LP "Horizon" contains "Images of Dune: a) Prescient Dawn, b) The
Fremen, c) Journey on a Dream".  Other albums contain fantasy and SF
themes; like Mannheim Steamroller, another prototype "New Age" group. 
Most work done 1974-1978; other LP's include "Kites", "Waves",
"Released", and "Way of the Sun".  Frequent references to Oriental and
Egyptian mythology. 
 
Jefferson Airplane:
"Blows Against the Empire" (album)  "Have you seen the Saucers?"
from"Thirty Seconds Over Winterland".  Also did CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships"
(post-nuclear holocaust) and "Crown of Creation" from Wyndham's
"Re-Birth". 
 
Jethro Tull:
Album "A".
 
Joel, Billy:
"Miami 2017" from "Turnstiles"; a backwards reflection on our own
future. 
 
John, Elton:
"Rocket Man"...perhaps from Bradbury's "Illustrated Man"?  Anyway,
another road song.  Also "I've Seen the Saucers". (from "Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road"?) and "I am Your Robot" from "Jump Up". 
 
Joy Division:
"V for Vendetta", an Alan Moore story by one of the members of J.D.
 
Judas Priest:
"The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown".
 
Kansas:
Lots of stuff.  See "Kansas", "Song For America", "Masque" and
"Leftoverture" for details. 
 
King Crimson:
Most anything from either the "Lizard" or "In the Court of the Crimson
King" albums. 
 
Kinks:
"I wish I could Fly (Like Superman)".
 
Klattu:
Best know for "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", and "Little
Neutrino".  Albums: "Klattu", "Hope".The Carpenters also recorded
Calling Occupants...Apparently the song was conceived as prayer to be
recited all over the globe to induce aliens to visit. 
 
Kraftwerk:
Sf-themes occasionally.  Certainly sounds sf-ish. Albums include
"Autobahn", "Radioactivity", "ManMachine", "Computerworld", and
"Trans-Europe Express". 
 
Lancaster, Jack & Lumley, Robin:
Album "Marscape" gets re-included because I think it actually has lyrics.
 
Led Zeppelin:
"No Quarter" from  "Houses of the Holy" is rather eerie, but no one is
quite sure what it's about.  "The Battle of Evermore", from Led Zep IV
mentions Ringwraiths.  Also see "Ramble On" on Led Zep I for mention
of Mordor and Gollum.  See also "Misty Mountain Hop" on Led Zep IV. 
Some speculation that "Stairway to Heaven" is about Saruman'sjourney
to the west, but nobody seems to be sure.  Also "Kashmir" from
"Physical Grafitti". 
 
M:
"The Official Secrets Act" (an innocent gets caught up in government
plots and secret police, a la 1984) 
 
MC-5:
On "Kick Out the Jams", "Rocket Reducer" and "Starship".
 
Magma:
"Inedits", "Udu Wudu"...sort of cross between German language research
and H.P. Lovecraft.  Tried to invent their own subculture.  Curious
reference to "Ork" on Udu Wudu. 
 
Mannheim Steamroller:
One of the prototype "New Age" groups, whose albums are simply "Fresh
Aire I", "Fresh Aire II", etc. "V"'s theme is hard SF, while "I"-"IV"
are fantasy. 
 
Matthews, David:
"Dune".
 
Men at Work:
"Helpless Automaton" from "Business as Usual" is about a robot falling
in love with a human. 
 
Metallica:
"Kthulu" [sic] on "Ride the Lightning".
 
Moody Blues:
"To Our Children's Children's Children".
 
Move, The:
"Yellow Rainbow"
 
NRBQ:
"Rocket 9".
 
Nektar:
"Remember the Future", "Recycle".
 
Nelson, Bill/Red Noise:
"Sound on Sound" has a number of songs with SF themes.
 
Nena:
"99 Luftballons" (WW3 & aftermath)
 
New England:
"L-5".
 
Nilsson, Harry:
See "Spaceman" from "Son of Schmilsson".
 
Numan, Gary:
"Cars", and the LP "Are Friends Electric", which discusses a future
utilitarian society. 
 
Pallas:
Issued an album with stories of Atlantis and other SF/Fantasy items;
title unknown. 
 
Pink Floyd:
Of course.  "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" & "Astronomy
Domine", (on "Ummagumma") are fairly representative.  Much of their
instrumental music has an sf/fantasy feel to it.  See also "Piper at
the Gates of Dawn", "Saucerful of Secrets", "Welcome to the Machine"
(the latter from "Wish You Were Here").  Some speculation that "Set
the Controls..." influenced Douglas Adam's writing about the group
Disaster Area. 
 
Planet P:
Albums: "Planet P" and "Pink World".  Now known as Planet P Project.
 
Platinum Bond:
Album "Alien Shores".
 
Police:
"Walking on the Moon" from "Regatta de Blanc", "Wrapped Around Your
Finger", and "Synchronicity II" (Loch Ness monster references, but not
really an ST tune) from "Synchronicity", and "Demolition Man" (also
done by Manfred Mann) from "Ghost in the Machine". 
 
Queen:
"Thirty-Nine", from "A Night at the Opera", discusses the problems of
relatavistic travel.  Also "Machine World" from "The Works"; other
albums include the Flash Gordon soundtrack and "Fun in Space". "Ogre
Battle" (seems to be about the fantasy game Ogre) "March of the Black
Queen" and "Seven Seas of Rhye" from "Queen II".  The album "A Kind of
Magic" contains fantasy tunes from the film "Highlander". 
 
Rainbow:
Heavy Metal.  Some fantasy tracks, e.g. "Temple of the King", "16th
century greensleeves", "Kill the King", "Stargazer". See the album
"Rainbow Rising". 
 
Ramases:
"Space Hymns", including great fold-out cover, studiowork by Godley &
Creme; apparently expounds religious visions of infinite regress of
microscopic universes. 
 
Ramatam:
"In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns" contains "Downrange
Party".  Band featured April Lawton, the female Jimi Hendrix. 
 
Reed, Lou:
"Red Joystick" and "Down at the Arcade".
 
Residents:
"The Mole Trilogy", a conflict between two alien cultures.
 
Rolling Stones:
Wrote the ultimate road song for astronauts, "2000 Light Years From
Home", which is on "Their Satanic Majesties' Request".  Also "2000
Man", about how child-parent relationships still don't work, even in
the 21st century. 
 
Roth, Uli John:
"Electric Sun".
 
Rundgren, Todd:
"King Kong Reggae" and "Sons of 1984" from "Todd".  See also Utopia.
 
Rush:
In "2112", the protagonist discovers an ancient guitar and winds up
battling the dictatorial priesthood.   "Red Barchetta" on "Moving
Pictures"is similar, except the guitar is replaced by a car. (It's
based on the story "A Nice Morning's Drive".)  See also "Cygnux X-1"
(thought to be a black hole),  "Rivendell" (Tolkien reference), "The
Necromancer".  See also "The Body Electric" and "Red Sector A" from
"Grace Under Pressure".  See also "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" from "Fly
by Night".  "Hemispheres" (title track thereof) is a sequel to "Cygnus
X-1". 
 
Saga:
Canadian progressive synth-rock band with a series of songs which
combine to tell a single story spread out over four albums, to wit:
From "Saga": Chapter 4: Will It Be You?, and Chapter 6: Tired World;
From "Images At Twilight":  Chapter 1: Images, and Chapter 3: It's
Time; from "Silent Knight": Chapter 2: Don't Be Late, and Chapter 7:
Too Much To Lose; and from "Worlds Apart":  Chapter 5: No Regrets, and
Chapter 8: No Stranger.  Roughly speaking, the story tells of space
war, alien encounters, and the aftermath of war. 
 
Sanders, Ed:
(A member of the Fugs at one time) released "Beer Cans on the Moon",
which contains such gems as a song about a yodeling robot in love with
Dolly Parton as well as some more topical songs.  "Dark Carnival" sets
a number of Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" stories to music. 
 
Sandy Bradley and the Small Wonder String Band(?):
"Interstellar Sweetheart"
 
Schilling, Peter:
"Major Tom (Coming Home)"; perhaps a sequel to or re-telling of
Bowie's "Space Oddity"? from "Error in the System" (originally titled
"Fehlerim System"); also "The Noah Plan" (about an exodus from Earth),
"Error in the System" (Earth as lostinterstellar colony), and others. 
"Things to Come" includes "Zone 804" (aliens come to bring peace) and
"Lone Survivor" (man hides in bomb shelter, but war is averted; he's
stuck). 
 
Scorpions:
"Robot Man" on "In Trance". See ex-Scorption Uli Jon Roth.
 
Sensational Alex Harvey Band:
See "The Tale of The Giant Stone-Eater" from "Tomorrow Belongs to Me",
and "Nightmare City" from "Rock Drill". 
 
Seventh Wave:
"Things to Come"
 
Shadowfax:
Much sf/fantasy material.
 
Sigue Sigue Sputnik:
The album "Flaunt It" includes "21st Century Boy" along with other
SF-sounding stuff; the lyrics are difficult to decipher. 
 
Sphynx:
Another band led by Nik Turner, produced the album "Xitintoday" which
was based on the Egyptian book ofthe dead.  The flute was recorded
inside the sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid. 
 
Spirit:
"Future Games" has interspersed fragments of old "Star Trek" episodes
between tunes. 
 
Starcastle:
A Yes clone.  First album has a nice piece, "Lady of the Lake".
 
Stevens, Cat:
"Freezing Steel" from "Catch Bull at Four".
 
Stewart, Al:
"The Sirens of Titan" (Vonnegut); also "Merlin's Time" from "24 carrots".
 
Sting:
"Dream of the Blue Turtles" has the track "Moon Over Bourbon Street"
based, according to the liner notes, on Anne Rice's "Interview With A
Vampire". 
 
Styx:
Usually has one sf-ish piece on each album.  All of "Kilroy was Here"
is a fable (this is the LP with "Mr. Roboto").  See also "Man of
Miracles" and "Come Sail Away".  There is some speculation that "Lords
of the Ring" on "Pieces of Eight" is Tolkien-derived. 
 
Supertramp:
Album "Brother Where You Bound".
 
The Steve Miller Band:
"Brave New World" and "Space Cowboy" from the album "Brave New World".
 
Thorpe, Billy:
"Children of the Sun"
 
Tonio K:
"Mars Needs Women" from "La Bomba".  "Life in the Foodchain" has the
songs "How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror?" (Answer: because the
subject is a vampire.) 
 
Tubes:
"Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman", on "Completion Backward Principle";
also "Space Baby". 
 
Uriah Heep:
"The Magician's Birthday", and "Demons and Wizards".
 
Utopia:
"Winston Smith Takes It on the Jaw" from "Oblivion".  (Orwell's 1984)
Possibly "Adventures in Utopia".  Also "Utopia", "Abandon City" from
"Oops, Wrong Planet"  and "Emergency Splashdown" (which also appears
on one  of Roger Powell's solo albums).  "RA" is heavily  fantasy,
including the epic "Singring and the Glass Guitar, an Electrified
Fairy Tale". 
 
Van der Graff Generator:
"Pioneers Over c", and *lots* of others. (c = speed of light)
 
Violinski:
"No Cause for Alarm" (WW3 breaks out in your neighborhood)
 
Visage:
Redid Zager & Evans "2525"; also did some other SF-type material.
 
Wakeman, Rick:
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" retells Verne's story.
 
Wayne, Jeff:
"War of the Worlds".  H.G. Wells' story with Richard Burton doing
narration, and awful music (purely a personal opinion ;-) ). 
 
Weird Al Yankovic:
"Yoda" (to the tune of "Lola") and "Slime Creatures from Outer Space",
an original music-tribute to B-movies; both are from "Dare to Be
Stupid". 
 
Who, The:
"Tommy" is half-fantasy, half-opera.  "905" from "Who Are You?". Also
"Rael" from "The Who Sell Out". 
 
Wings:
"Nineteen Eighty-Five" from "Band on the Run".  Also "Magneto and the
Titanium Man" and "Venus and Mars (Reprise)" from "Venus and Mars". 
 
XTC:
"Reel by Reel" (the government can hear and record your thoughts)
 
Yes:
Much sf-oriented work.  Try "Astral Traveller", "Starship Trooper"
(Heinlein?), "The Gates of Delirium".  See also Jon Anderson's "Olias
of Sunhillow".  See also "Then" with references to telepathy. Also,
"Arriving UFO" from "Tormato". 
 
Young, Kenny:
LP "Last Stage for Silverworld"
 
Young, Neil:
"After the Gold Rush", and "Ride my Llama" from "Rust Never Sleeps".
 
Zager & Evans:
"In the Year 2525"; dated but cute; was #1 when Armstrong walked on
the Moon (1969). 
 
Zappa, Frank, and the Mothers:
From "Roxy and Elsewhere", "Cheapness", the story of a grade Z
monster. "Billy The Mountain". 
 
    Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michael Jarre, Return to Forever, Weather
Report, Vangelis, Klaus Schultz, Deodata, Eno, Jean-Luc Ponty, Michael
Urbaniak, Stomu Yamashta & Go, The Enid, Peter Michael Hamel, Bo
Hansson: ...have all been listed down here because several people have
pointed out that "sounding like SF" doesn't make it SF music.  Note
that some of these people have done some SF soundtracks, and that some
of them have done instrumental material with SF/fantasy titles. 
 
Hitchhiker's Guide:
    Just a note that the theme music for THHGTTG is "Journey of the
Sorcerer" from the Eagles' "One of These Nights".  Marvin is credited
with a single called "Marvin", backed with "Metal Man".  Tim Souness
did a single of the HitchHiker's Guide theme.  Disaster Area is
credited with "Only the End of the World Again", the B side of the
theme single. 
  
Hastily-assembled montage of names of people who sent this stuff in:
 
Alan Greig, Alastair Milne, Alex Melnick, Anderson, Becky Slocombe,
Bill Kaufman, Brandon Allbery, Brent Woods, Brian Ritchie, Brian
Yamauchi, Bruce Holloway, Carlo N. Samson, Charlie, Chisholm, Craig
Wilcox, Dan Duval, Daniel Dern, Dave Berry, Dave Fiedler, Dave Platt,
Dave Rosik, David Adler, David Gibbs, Don Reeves, Doug Alan, Doug
Mink, Edwin Wiles, Ellen Keyne Seebacher, Francini, Freeman, G. T.
Samson, Gareth, Gareth Husk, Gerard Lachac, Greg Samson, Hall, Henry,
Husk, Jack Ostroff, Jay, Jed Hartman, Jef Poskanzer, Jeff Rogers,
Jessie, Jim, John, John Romkey, John Turner, Jonathan D. Trudel,
Joseph McLean, Ken Fricklas, Kyle Grieser, Lewis Barnett, Lionel
Marcus, Mark Schlagenhauf, Martin, Michael Caplinger, Mijjil, Miles
Bader, Nicholas Simicich, Paul S. R., Peter Alfke, Randall Shane, Rich
Kulawiec, Robert Pietkivitch, Russ Williams, Scott A., Sean Ellis,
Sheila Coyazo, Shelli Meyers, Smith, Steve, Steve Herring, Steve
Lionel, Stewart, Stuart Sullivan, Terry Poot, The Roach Above
Reproach, Thomas Gayler, Tim, Tom Galloway, Tynor, Vlach, Vogel, Wayne
Barber, William Ingogly, edge!walker, lary%ssdevo. 

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Path: decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!ames!amdcad!amd!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard
Subject: Re: Revised SF-in-music List 
Posted: 20 May 87 23:32:51 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Services Organization, Chandler AZ
Posted: Wed May 20 16:32:51 1987
 
    In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Wombat)
writes: 

>Anderson, Laurie:
>Surrealism & sf-type music.  Try "Oh, Superman" and "Language is a Virus
>From Outer Space", which I seem to recall is derived from Burroughs.
 
    It's a quote from Burroughs, but the song title is "Language is a Virus".
 
>Android Sisters, The:
>"Songs of Electronic Despair".
 
    I don't know who these are, although the title is obviously
borrowed from an old Firesign Theater album.  However, there was a
pair of identical twin sisters (Alyce and Rae Andrece (sp?)) who were
in a group called Sound of Feeling (interesting, often microtonal,
vocal music), *AND* who appeared as androids in the "I, Mudd" episode
of STAR TREK.  I've thought of them as the TRUE Android Sisters ever
since. 
 
    No mention of the Beatles?  If you include fantasy (which you do),
surely "Yellow Submarine" qualifies! 
 
>Credence Clearwater Revival:
>"Who'll Stop the Rain" (post-holocaust?)
 
    And "Graveyard Train" tells the story of terrible and fatal
accident; at the end of the song you realize the singer was one of the
victims.  But don't forget: 

	"It came out of the sky, landed just a little south of Molene,
	 Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn't believe what he'd seen, ..."
 
>Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
>"Wooden Ships"--post-nuclear war survival?
 
    There's some dispute over who actually wrote this first, CSNY or
the Airplane. 
 
>Eno, Brian:
>Albums: "Apollo" and "On Land".
 
    These are INSTRUMENTAL albums!  For SF, try some of his SONGS! 
Like "No One Receiving". 
 
    You missed Grateful Dead.  "Terrapin Station" is pure fantasy,
including the story-within-a-story "Lady with a fan".  So is
"Franklin's Tower".  "Dark Star" was the source of the movie title. 
 
>Jefferson Airplane:
>"Blows Against the Empire" (album)  "Have you seen the Saucers?"
>from"Thirty Seconds Over Winterland".  Also did CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships"
>(post-nuclear holocaust) and "Crown of Creation" from Wyndham's "Re-Birth".
 
    I didn't think of "Have you seen the stars tonight?" as SF, until
I saw it in a planetarium light show.  "Would you like to go up on A
deck and look at them with me?" takes on a different meaning when you
imagine a spaceship instead of a luxury liner! 
 
>Moody Blues:
>"To Our Children's Children's Children".
 
    And much other stuff.  Most of "On the Threshold of a Dream", for
example. 
 
>Shadowfax:
>Much sf/fantasy material.
 
    This is bullsh*t.  I have ALL of Shadowfax on CD except for
Watercourse Way, and while the music is wonderful, there are almost no
lyrics (and NONE that are SF/F related). 
 
    What about (early) Ultravox and John Foxx?  "I Want to be a
Machine" clearly qualifies.  "Dislocation" would make a good piece of
soundtrack for a movie version of Samuel R. Delany's "Dhalgren"; they
share a certain sense of disorientation.  "Artificial Life",
"Hiroshima Mon Amour". 
 
>Young, Neil:
>"After the Gold Rush", and "Ride my Llama" from "Rust Never Sleeps".
 
    Don't forget "(I need a human to) Sample and Hold".
 
>Zappa, Frank, and the Mothers:
>From "Roxy and Elsewhere", "Cheapness", the story of a grade Z monster.
>"Billy The Mountain".
 
    Yes, and "Who are the Brain Police?", which predates Cheap Trick
by a decade. 

	"What would you do if we let you go home
	 and the plastic was melted and so was the chrome?"

    Also "Concentration Moon" and other dystopias.

	Howard A. Landman
	...!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard
	howard%cpocd2%[email protected]
	"That weird shall never daunt me"

Both the Grateful Dead's "Morning Dew" and Bob Dylan's "Hard
Rain's Gonna Fall" seemed like nuclear holocaust type songs
to me (at least when I first heard them).  The threat of
radiation poisoning (which we used to worry about even as a
part of "peacetime" before the test ban treaty got pushed
through) seemed to be lurking in the rain and the dew of
those songs.

	Andreas Vollenweider - ``Caverna Magica'' ...?

	-- POL

              -< Ach! How could you forget ?? >-
                                
    Seventy-five notes on this topic and NOT ONE acknowledging the MASTER
    of the Genre, Bernard Herrmann.
    
    He wrote the film music to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Fahrenheit
    451, and Journey to the Center of the Earth (the one w/ Pat Boone).
    Also Hitchcock's Vertigo and many others.  Vertigo was released
    a few years ago on some limited-edition mystery label.
    
    A London recording a few years back had excerpts of the above and
    also Sinbad the Sailor.  If you find it, put on TDTESS and play
    it LOUD.
    
    Mike
    

    re:.76
    
    Well, I think the general idea is to think of songs with sf
    lyrics, and not include the musical scores from sf movies.
    some people seem to have lost sight of that, but...
    
    --- jerry

    Well they both make for good listening, I guess.  Seems though that
    the great stuff HAS to include the film scores.  Many of the SF
    "songs" listed previously are in fact instrumental works, many of
    extended or album-side length.  Are these budding "film scores" in
    search of a film?  Music by Eno, Jarre (whose father is Maurice
    Jarre: film music for Dr. Zhivago, etc etc), Tangerine Dream, Tomita,
    Carlos, etc. especially come to mind.
    

    
    	You know, looking over some of the notes in this conference,
    I've come to the final conclusion that there is no music out there
    that can really compare to the William's soundtrack, or even Holst's
    revolutionary work, The Planets.  It's funny because almost everyone
    else has mentioned popular (or unpopular) rock groups as creators
    of some of the other sci fi music out there; they use synthesizers,
    and all sorts of neat hi-tech equipment to try and make music that
    sounds spacey.  The thing is, it doesn't come close to the feeling
    you get when you listen to the soothing violin section as they play
    a part corresponding to flight, or the brash sounds of the brass
    sections that make your heart pound with visions of intergalactic
    warefare....
    
    	In the end, I feel it just goes to show that writing sci-fi
    music means more than having a lot of fancy equipment and "neat"
    devices.  The most stunning music is still those pieces that can use
    orchestral instruments to produce intertwining melodies and
    countermelodies which ellicit better responses than most of the
    trashy space music now produced..
    
    	I mean, look at George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg:  they have
    always used orchestral pieces in their movies...and the effect is
    tremendous.
    
    	Does anyone else feel this way - I mean, I have some of these
    other sci fi pieces, but they just don't compare.
    
    
    - Sunil

    re:.79
    
    I don't think that you've really listened to a lot of what was
    being listed. Very few of the pieces I have in my collection,
    even those used by "popular rock groups" use synthesizers and
    "all sorts of neat hi-tech equipment to try and make music that
    sounds spacey".
    
    Most of the sf music that I have and like is sf because of the
    lyrics, not because of the sound. Queen's "'39" is predominantly
    acoustic, 12-string guitar, for example. Blue �yster Cult is
    hard-rock, not syntho-pop.
    
    Personally, I *don't* consider "The Planets" to be science fiction.
    Any more than a painting of the Martian surface in a random issue
    of ASTRONOMY magazine is science fiction.
    
    --- jerry

    re:.80
    
    	Well, even if you are right in disputing "The Planets" as being
    science fiction, I have an even more basic argument as a whole...
     I don't believe music can be classified as science fiction.
    
    	Although I know you'll disagree, I think there is a good
    argument to back up my statement.  First, let's look at the definition 
    of science fiction, from the American Heritage Dictionary
    (I would have used a Webster's, but I can't seem to find one).
    
    	science fiction n.  Fiction in which actual or potential scientific
    developments form as part of the plot -> science-fiction adj.
    
    	Now looking at this definition, I would say it is pretty difficult
    to prove that Queen's "'39" fits the suit, if you catch what I mean.
     Most of the music mentioned is fiction, and it is derived from the
    imagnition, as fiction describes, but many of the pieces first
    don't have a definable plot, and second, DO NOT SHOW ACTUAL OR
    POTENTIAL SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS AS A PART OF THE PLOT!  
    
    	When Asimov or any other real Sci-Fi writer (not including trashy
    second class writers like Piers Anthony or anything) sits down and
    writes a book, he or she intertwines their own imaginitive ideas
    with a little bit of reality, and they usually try to make their
    stories sound reachable.  Even Asimov's psychohistory is very much
    a plausible thought, and I believe there are some researchers in
    both psychology and sociology who have done research and used the term
    "psychohistory".  
    
    	Music unfortunately cannot be discussed in the same fashion.
    Terms such as fiction don't mean a thing, since all music is "fiction",
    if you even dare to use that word when describing it.  Even if one
    writes a song about a true event, it is still fiction.
    
    	fiction n.  1.  A product of the imagination
    
    	And music is the product of the imagination.  Moreso, it stimulates
    other people's imaginations when they listen to music.  But I challenge
    you to try to find one piece of music that can TRULY be classified
    as science fiction.
    
    	music n.  1.  The art of organizing sound so as to elicit an
    aesthetic response in a listener.  2.  Vocal or instrumental sounds
    having some degree of rhythm melody, and harmony.  3.  A musical
    composition or body of such compositions....etcetera
    
    	I believe using science fiction to describe a type of music is
    wrong and shows a poor understanding of the English language, god
    forbid we'd have to know how to use it.  All right, so language does
    change and should, and maybe some day science fiction will become
    a widely used term to describe certain types of music.  But for
    now, I think a more plausible label would be "futuristic music",
    as in music which ellicits abstract feelings about futuristic events,
    either through instrumental or vocal sounds.  Music is a tool man
    uses and has used for both pleasure, as well as for a method of
    recording history.  Listening to music, or even learning to read
    music is very different from listening or learning another language,
    though languages are often described as being "musical" or "melodic".
    
    	The tools are quite different, and therefore need different
    terms for describing aspects of them- again, though, often the same
    words can be used to describe music and literature.  But I don't
    believe science fiction is one of them!  
    
    	I have not given a perfect argument, but I think I've made my
    point (boy, it seems that every note I write is to argue about
    something...oh well).  What's your opinion?


		-- Sunil

    	Then again, looking over some of the stuff listed, including
    many pieces which I myself have, I must admit that using the terms
    such as science fiction or fantasy type works does not do as great
    an injustice to the English language, as I had first written!  I 
    just think futuristic, or maybe indeed fantasy are better words 
    for describing them.
    
    	But a quick question; I also have the record Olias of Sunhillow,
    written by Jon Anderson, but it was by a fluke that I even found
    a copy.  I wonder if there is anything special about that album,
    in terms of its scarcity, or was it just a flop, or am I just blind??
    It indeed does have a plot, and does a superb job of coming
    up with a fantasy theme (although note that I believe fantasy is
    here an appropriate word to use, though I still basically believe
    that science fiction is not!)
    
    
    		-- Sunil  
    
    	

    re:.81
    
    By your arguments, one could not describe a piece of artwork as
    being science fiction.
    
    Also, by your definition, Queen's "'39" is *most definitely*
    science fiction. There is a plot in the lyrics --- a crew of
    volunteers sets out in a starship to find a new planet for
    colonization and returns one hundred years later, though the
    crew has aged only slightly due to relativistic effects. A
    basic scientific principle is a necessary factor in the plot,
    and of course, there is obviously postulation of scientific
    advancement, since we currently don't have the technology to
    build manned starships.
    
    re:.82
    
    OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW isn't particularly rare. I've seen it in any
    number of cut-out bins.
    
    --- jerry

    re:.83
    
    Exactly, artwork can't be described as science fiction.  Again,
    it's a term used within the framework of literature and movies.
     Now of course I guess you could argue that, for example, Fredrick
    Pohl's work Gateway is in a sense a piece of art, or perhaps that
    Alien is an artistic movie...not really (aliens that is)...
    
    Anyway, I do understand the use of the word "fantasy" or "futuristic",
    since they are adjectives describing the type of work plausibly
    and allowing a more general idea about the type of piece being talked
    about.  But science fiction as I described (re:.81) is too strict
    a definition to be applied correctly to music.
    
    As far as Queen's "'39" goes, maybe I am wrong; and again, I did
    not make the statement that it makes no sense with every piece of
    music - just most of them.  But anyway, I guess science fiction
    is the easiest way to classify music with the qualities of fantasy
    and futuristic moods, or lyrics that define a future or fantasy
    situation.
    
    --- Sunil

    re: .80, .81
    
        I think that the reason that this topic is titled "Science Fiction
    Music" is because "Songs Which Can Be Considered Science Fiction
    Due To Their Lyrics, Or Songs Which Give You The Feeling Of Science
    Fiction" is too long a title and wouldn't fit on one line.
    
        Are you missing the intention of the title on purpose, or do
    you always takes things literally?
    
    ASP

    re .85;
    
    If I remember, this current digression was started by someone's
    insistence that G. Holst's _The_Planets_ was definitely NOT S-F
    Music.  By your definition, _anything_ is S-F music if it gives
    me "...The Feeling Of Science Fiction..."

    re:.84
    
    I don't always take things literally (I think), but I just thought
    it would be interesting to delve into whether or not the title was
    really correct.  Actually I am quite curious as to whether the term
    "science fiction" is correct for use with music.  
    
    I just thought it would be interesting to argue -- and maybe there
    might be an English major or two who might know the answer (English
    majors here....nah!)
    
    
    --Sunil

    SF is a genre of literature, just as ballet is a genre of dance.
    It seems to me as natural and sensible to speak of SF music or pictures
    as it does to speak of ballet pictures or music.
    
    If music was originally composed for a ballet and is commonly known
    to be so, and if a picture is of ballet dancers, it is perfectly
    natural to call those things ballet music or ballet pictures.
    
    Similarly, if music was originally composed for an SF picture and
    is commonly known to be so, or if it is a song with a plainly SF
    lyric, or if a picture is of scenes, characters, or objects unique
    to SF or usually bringing SF to mind, then why should it be
    objectionable to call these works SF music or SF pictures?
    
    This is not to say there aren't gray areas.  Not all theremin and
    synthesizer music was SF in intention, but may suggest it to some
    people.  Not all astronomical art is really SF art, but the connection
    is close.
    
    Earl Wajenberg

    Re .88:
    
    Ballet pictures are not ballet.  But I think science fiction pictures
    could be science fiction.
    
    Ballet is dance, and pictures are not dance.  But a picture might tell
    a (very brief) story in which scientific developments are important, so
    it could be science fiction. 
    
    
    				-- edp 

    This has to be one of the weirder discussions in this conference!
    
    To me, music is appropriate to or evocative of science fiction even
    if that were not the intent of the composer. I used to listen to
    Bloch and Bartok when I was reading SF. It fit the mood, therefore
    it was "science fiction music".
    
    Is "The Nutcracker Suite" a fantasy piece? There is a story line
    to the ballet, but without the costuming and the program description,
    how would you know that it was fantasy? Separate the dance (and
    its costuming) from the music and ask the same question.
    
    "I may not be able to define science fiction music, but I know it
    when I hear it"... sometimes...
    
    - Richard

    re:.85, .90
    
    I believe again that this feeling that you get of science fiction
    or ballet does not make the music ballet or science fiction music.
    
    A good example is the music composed for a ballet originally, and
    which was used in a science fiction movie later on - I believe this
    is the case with "The Blue Danube".  Somebody correct me if it wasn't
    used in a ballet...but that does not matter.  
    
    What do you think of when you hear it?  I think of space, and 2001,
    and yet I would not call it science fiction music.  Sure it gives
    you the feeling of space, and floating free in a vaccuum, but I
    would absolutely flip if anyone ever called it a science fiction
    piece!!!
    
    So what does this leave us with...not much.  Oh well, I don't know

   > A good example is the music composed for a ballet originally, and
   > which was used in a science fiction movie later on - I believe this
   > is the case with "The Blue Danube".  Somebody correct me if it wasn't
   > used in a ballet...but that does not matter.  
    
    
    Consider yourself corrected.  "The Beautiful Blue Danube" was not
    composed for a ballet -- it may have since been used in a ballet,
    (I don't think it was) but that wasn't its original medium.  And 
    yes, you're right, it really doesn't matter.
                          
    					andrew
     

    I think Sunil is taking some things too literally.  Would it be better
    to list SF 'songs' rather than music (a song being a poem set to music
    - you can have SF poetry can't you)?  I can see some of his points. The
    thoughts on the "Blue Danube"'s use in "2001" brings up a good point,
    with music (instrumental - no lyrics), the context is what causes the
    peice to be ballet, SF, adventure, whatever. 
    
    Sunil's labelling of music as strictly fantasy/futuristic seems to me
    to be a rehash of the SF/Fantasy arguments. 
    
    Jerry, thanks for the insight into "'39" by Queen (one of my favorite
    songs by them).  I kept thinking in terms of sailing ships instead of
    space ships.  In fact, I was thinking of it in terms similar to the
    ships used by the Elves to leave middle earth.  Your interpretation
    seems to fit better with the lyrics. 
    
    For the record, I don't think "Planets" is SF either.
    
    I don't know if this song was mentioned (I haven't read through all of
    the replies), but I'll nominate Billy Joel's "Broadway 2017" (I may
    have the year wrong).  It describes post-holocaust NYC - very SF, if
    you ask me. 

    re:.93
    
    The Billy Joel song is "Miami 2017", from the TURNSTILES album.
    I listed it in .11.
    
    --- jerry

                       < More Tuneless Meanderings >
    
    I recently noticed a "new" album by Dave Bedford (of Star's End)
    entitled "Rigel 9". Having suffered previous Bedford compositions
    I had no urge to purchase. However I was surprised to see that it
    was written in collabaration with Ursula K LeGuin.
    
    Other interesting songs/albums:
    
    The Cellar Tapes by Haze   One good song here, "The Exiles Song"
                               based on the Silmarillion.
    
    Fact and Fiction by Twelfth Night
                               Not really SF but an interesting view
                               on thought control in 2 songs, "We Are
                               Sane" and "Creepshow"
    East of Eden by Twelfth Night
                               This is the B side of a single. Contains
                               a multitude of SF references.
    
    Legend by Clannad          Soundtrack album to a TV series about
                               the Robin Hood legend. Very atmospheric
                               album containing fantasy and legendary
                               influences.
    
    
        Not too sure about the availability of the above outside the
    U.K.
    
            Clive S.
    

    .... but why hasn't anybody listed themusic used as the theme from
    Hitch-Hiker's Guide (the original radio shows, anyway)
    
    Give up ?
    
    Something like The Way of the Magician (Sorceror ?), by ,of all
    people, the Eagles. (One of those nights)
    
    

    
    This is concerning Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
    I just picked it up in cassette form in Record Town at Auburn Mall in 
    Auburn, MA.  Does anyone have any liner notes to it that would list
    credits and related information?  Or how I could get a hold of them?
    
    Also, has anyone seen Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" around Central 
    Mass or the Boston are?  What section of the record store would it be
    in?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Night Train
    

    
    I've got the CD, and I believe there are credits in the booklet.
    I'll try and remember to check.
    
    I've seen Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds on CD very regularly. 
    There's a common misconception that the recording is a movie
    soundtrack.  Try looking there.
    
    DFW

    re: .98,.99
    
    Isn't that Jeff Lynne?
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    

    re:.100
    
    There is a Jeff Lynne, but he wasn't responsible for WAR OF THE
    WORLDS. Jeff Wayne definitely was.
    
    --- jerry

    Jeff Lynne was with Electric Light Orchestra
              
    Jeff.
    {:^{0
    

    
    Or, more recently, the Traveling Wilburys.
    
    DFW

    
    	And before both of those, The Move.
    
    		Ian G.

    Another entry is Warren Zevon's new album, "Transverse City".  
    The first two songs have a definite cyberpunk feel to them:
    
    Here's the hum of desecration
    Here's the test tube mating call
    Here's the latest carbon cycle
    Here's the clergy of the mall.
    
    The second has a scratchy recorded voice whispering chemical 
    formula behind the lyrics:
    
    And it's worse when I try to remember
        (Four-aminobyphenyl hexachlorobenzene)
    When I think about the the then and now
        (Dimethylsulfate, chloromethylmethylether)
    I'd rather watch it on the news at eleven
        (2,3,7,B Tetrachlorobenzo-)
    Sit back and watch it run straight down
        (para-dioxin, carbon disulfide)

    It may read strangely, but sounds eerie.  You may remember Zevon from
    "Werewolves of London" and "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money".   Glad 
    to have him back.
    
    /jlr

    Does anyone have the address of Off Centaur?  I want to get their
    catalog.

    Beth

See note 870.0, which answers in great detail.  This didn't quite seem like
the right topic for the reply (although it is a GREAT topic).

						-- Spencer

Truly amazing!! I read the entire topic on SF Music (I skipped the
theoretical parts near the end), and actually have some things to add:

Holy Modal Rounders: Mr. Spaceman (not the Byrds version, a different song
		     entirely!).

Edgar Var�se: Pretty much anything by Zappa's (apparently) favorite composer.

Firesign Theatre: don't forget their single: "Aliens" --- but not really music:

		  "calling all aliens..."

		   A parody of the TV/radio call for U.S. Alien registration,
                   but this time looking to register ETs!

Steely Dan: King of the World, a post-holocaust song on Countdown to Ecstasy

Fleetwood Mac: "Hypnotized" on Mystery to Me. The song is about strange
               occurrences linked to UFOs.  

Captain Beefheart: "Golden Birdies" (on Clear Spot).  Perhaps "Ant Man Bee" (on
		Trout Mask Replica).  Hard to tell with the Captain.

Michael Hurley: "The Werewolf" also covered (utterly) by the Holy Modal
		Rounders.

Carl Ruggles:  Sun-Treader (orchestral, reminiscent of Zarathustra)

Paul

From: [email protected] (Daniel Fischer)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll,sci.astro
Subject: Astronomical Song List (107 lines)
Date: 7 Jan 91 15:48:52 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
  
    Songs with Astronomical/Space context --- Version 1.0 [28 Dec 1990]
    =====================================     ======= === =============
 
This is the first compilation of songs and instrumental pieces of music that
I received after a call in alt.rock-n-roll on 7 Nov 1990. Thanks to D.Lee,
R.Halonen, M.Schwartz, J.Vail, S.Swann, G.Otto, D.Wagner, D.Wiggins, G.Ahrendt,
H.Schmiedehausen, E.Peterson, D.Gokhman, Tra-C, M.O'Brien, The Floydian Slip,
M. Stuczynski, J.Jansen and C.Mungall. Corrections, additions etc. welcome.

In particular, historic material would be of interest, e.g. there were lots
of songs on Halley's Comet in 1910, as well as more details on the titles
already listed.  Does anyone know about similar listings (there was one in
Astronomy or Sky&Telescope many years back, I vaguely recall)?
 
                                  Format:

Title < Group [LP,EP etc.] : Lyrics extract or :: description of contents
 
Astral Traveller < Yes [Time and a Word]
Astronomy < Blue Oyster Cult [Secret Treaties, 1974]
Astronomy Domine < Pink Floyd [The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967]:
 instrumental; was also covered by Vovoid
Atmospheres < Gyoergy Ligeti [1968]
Attack Of The Giant Ants, The < Blondie [1976] : ... giant bats from space
Awakening, The < Hawkwind [1973?] : ... a clear century of space away from
 Earth (spoken) (about landing on another planet)

Black Corridor, The < Hawkwind [1973?]: ... space is so infinite, it is so 
 dark, it is neutral, it is cold... stars occupy minute areas of space...
 they are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there as if seeking
 consolation in numbers... (spoken)
Born To Go < Hawkwind[1973?] : We were born to go as far as we can fly ...
 To make our way through space, to help the human race...

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft? < Klaatu/The Carpenters
Children of the Moon < Alan Parsons Project [1982]
Children of the Sun < Billy Thorpe
Come Sail Away < Styx [The Grand Illusion, 1977]
Cygnus X-1 (??) < Rush

Dragonfly < Blondie [1982]: satellites, moons, stars...

Earth Calling < Hawkwind [1973?]: This is the Earth calling... (repeated)
End Of The Run < Deborah Harry [1989]: ... the Sun was falling ...
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence < Blue Oyster Cult [Agents of Fortune, 1975]

Follow Me < Blondie [1980]: ... inbetween Earth and ...

Holiday in the Sun < Sex Pistols

I Got The Message < Men without hats [1982] : ... it's long and hard, 
 this way to Mars.
Interstellar Overdrive < Pink Floyd [The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967]:ins.

Lighthouse < Hawkwind [1979] :: about a deep-space version of a lighthouse,
 for space travellers to navigate by
Living In The Real World < Blondie [1979]: ... walk on the Moon ...
Lux Aeterna < Gyoergy Ligeti [1968]

Mars, The Bringer of War < Emerson, Lake and Powell [1987]; from -> Planets
Maybe '80 < Rick Wakeman : ... we're in space, we're clever men /
 but there was noone there so we came back again ...
Moonage Daydream < David Bowie :: Spiders from Mars
Monsters < Blue Oyster Cult [Cultosaurus Erectus] :: about some people 
 stealing a spaceship to get away from the ruined planet Earth, and what
 happens on the voyage

Nightgown of the Sullen Moon < They Might Be Giants [They'll Beed a Crane]

One World < Dire Straits :: somewhat metaphoric

Planet Caravan < Black Sabbath
Planets, The < Gustav Holst [Attn.:This is 'serious' music! But was also
 recorded by ELP, see -> Mars, The Bringer of War]
Pretty Baby < Blondie: ... need the Sun ...

Radio Waves < Roger Waters [1988] : ...from distant stars
Rocket Man < Elton John

Satellite < XTC :: astronomy (orbital mechanics) metaphor...
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun < Pink Floyd [1968] : set the...
Shayla < Blondie [1979] : ... some cosmic energy
Space Cowboy < The Steve Miller Band
Space Is Deep < Hawkwind [1972]: Space is dark, it is so endless...
Space Odyssey < David Bowie
Space Race < MI-SEX [1980] 
Space Ritual :: Hawkwind Album from 1973 with lots of space songs
Space Truckin' < Deep Purple [Machine Head] :
 ... We danced around the borealis ... / We had a lot of luck on Venus /
 We always had a ball on Mars / We've meeten all the groovy people /
 We've rocked the Milky Way so far / We've got music in the Solar System /
 We're space truckin' around the stars ...
Spiral Galaxy 28948 < Hawkwind [1975]: instrumental
St.Judy's Comet < Paul Simon [Negotiations & Love Songs, and others]
Starflight < Hawkwind [1987] :: spoken - pilot preparing spaceship for takeoff
Stars are Stars < Echo and the Bunneymen
Stars on 45 < The Shadows
Starship Trooper < Yes [The Yes Album]
Startrekkin' < The Firm : Startrekkin' across the Universe on the starship
 Enterprise under Captain Kirk ...
Surfing With the Alien < Joe Satriani [Surfing With the Alien]

Take Me Away < Blue Oyster Cult [The Revolution by Night, 1984] :: a plea to
 ETI to come and get us, much like the Vigil, part II. :-)
Third Stone From the Sun < Jimi Hendrix [Are you experienced?]
This Prison Moon < Gary Numan [1983]
Ticket To The Moon < Electric Light Orchestra [1980]
Time We Left This World Today < Hawkwind [1972]:
 ... time we left this world today ... leave this star far behind ...

Venus < Blue Velvet (???) and Bananarama
Vigil, The < Blue Oyster Cult [Mirrors] :: about the wait for "contact" with
 ETI, and what it will be like when it's made

Walking On The Moon < The Police [1979]
We Must Believe In Magic < Crystal Gayle [We Must Believe In Magic] :
 Night is the Captain of Alpha Centauri / We must be out of our minds /
 Still we are shipmates, bound for tomorrow / And everyone here's flying blind!
Workshop Of The Telescopes < Blue Oyster Cult [: Selftitled 1st album]

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (?) < David Bowie
 
        Compiled by Daniel Fischer, [email protected]

    Re: .109
    
    > Venus < Blue Velvet (???) and Bananarama
    
    The original was done by Shocking Blue.
    
    K.C.

    re .109 re .108 - I think it was Venus the goddess, not Venus the
    planet, that the song was about, but that may not be an important
    distinction.
    
    Obvious omissions (unless I scanned the list too quickly) -
    
    In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
    Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds
    CTA-102 - The Byrds
    Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins - The Byrds
    
    I think The Byrds also did a song based on Arthur C. Clarke's "The
    Sentinel", which was the basis for "2001".
    
    Also, there's Blomdahl's "Aniara", a true "space opera". 
    
    len.
    

    RE .109
    
    Let's not forget "Space" ... a regular part of Grateful Dead concerts
    since the '70's.  And more recently, "Standing on the Moon" by the same
    group.
    
    ... Bob
    

    RE.109
    
    Let's not forget Planet P (with Tony Carey)
    The whole album is about a guy who leaves earth on a routine mission,
    while he's away the earth gets destroyed and he ends up landing on some
    other planet and meets a sort of Eve there and lives happily ever
    after. They had a hit with "Why Me" several years back.
    
    
    
    Chaos
    

    There is a comedy song by Barbra Streisand (off of her "A Happening in
    Central Park" album) called "Marty the Martian"...
    
    "He was looking right at me
     I was falling for his charms
     But only one thing bothered me
     he had 11 arms!"
    
    K.C.

    Does anyone know where I can get THE PLANETS, or if some one could dub
    a piece of it for me?
    
    J. E SApp

    
    Which version of it?  Probably one of the most recorded pieces in the
    classical music section of any record/CD store.  Interesting renditions
    have also been done by Tomita and (well, a piece, anyway) by Emerson,
    Lake, and Powell.  There's a terrific version done by Bernstein and the
    New York Philharmonic that you can probably get on CD for five bucks by
    now.
    
    What part, specifically, are you looking for?
    
    
    DFW

    It really doesn't matter. I'll just head to my local store and get a
    cassette of it.
    
    
    JES

    
    RE -1, are you refering to the PLANETS by HOLST, definately a good, and
    popular, bit of clasical music.
    
    Some other SF musical goodies must include Hawkwinds works, e.g. Space
    Ritual and don't forget Sonic Attack. See Michael Morcock's books.
    
    Mike Webster.

While not strictly SF, does anyone have a clue where I could find the music 
from the movies _Ladyhawke_ and _The_Name_of_the_Rose_  ?

BobW

    Re: .119:
    
       The Ladyhawke sound track was done by the Alan Parson's Project, if
    that helps...
    
    					-mjg
    

>    Re: .119:
>    
>       The Ladyhawke sound track was done by the Alan Parson's Project, if
>    that helps...
Yes it does - I'm ordering it as I write...

>    
>                                        -mjg
Thanks,
BobW

    
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This is the revised SF-in-music list.  It isn't comprehensive, but
it does try to cover rock, jazz, folk, classical and electronic music.
Most of the items listed here fall pretty well into these categories.
There is also a list of SF-based operas, which was assembled by
Evelyn C. Leeper and is reproduced here with permission.  I've attempted
to list everybody who helped in the large (and growing) montage at the end.

SF can stand for whatever you'd like it to; science fiction, science fantasy,
speculative fiction, you pick it.  My personal definition is rather broad,
which, coupled with the copious contributions of those of you on the
various networks, accounts for the length of this list.

One thing that I've changed since the last revision: I'm now listing
purely instrumental pieces along with everything else, rather than
bundling them at the end.  This is mostly due to the large number
of updates that folks have sent in which list instrumental pieces.
I guess we'll see how it goes.

I'm not really interested in adding filk or novelty records to this list;
not that I have anything against them, but they would probably be
more appropriate on another list.

In most cases, I've relied on the contributions that have been sent in;
in others, I've verified spellings and attributions.  Thus, the accuracy
of the information is uneven; so be it.  Corrections (VIA MAIL ONLY)
are quite welcome, as are additions.  I will be maintaining this list
and re-sending it periodically.

Further update: it's probably getting to be about to split this into
two postings, or to prune it dramatically.  I'll decide which of the
two options to exercise in the near future.

--
Rich Kulawiec, [email protected]
--


1919:
Has an EP "Machine".

801
Track "East of Asteroid".  See also Eno, Brian.

AC/DC:
"Who Made Who" from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack.

Acen:
Has a song called "Trip II the Moon (The Darkside)".

Adam Ant:
"Forbidden Zone" from "Kings of the Wild Frontier" is about the
invasion of the earth by ants.

Adolphson & Falk:
This Swedish band had a hit with "Control is Flashing Blue", a song
about how computers/sensors say everything is okay, but something
is crawling in the shadows. Most of their albums have a very dominant
SF theme. One example is 'Med Rymden I Blodet' (With Space In The Blood).
(In the same sense that one might say that a family with a seafaring
tradition "has the sea in their blood").

After the Fire:
"Suspended Animation" is either about weightlessness or genuine
suspended animation, and "Starflight" describes interstellar flight.

Alan Parsons Project:
Albums "I, Robot" (but not based on Asimov) and "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination (Poe).  The title track from "Ammonia Avenue" is about a
world destroyed by pollution.

Alice Cooper:
On "School's Out", the words "Klaatu barada nikto" occur in background
vocals near the end of "My Stars".  The album "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell"
is a fantasy.  "Clones (We're All)" appears on "Alice Cooper '80: Flush
the Fashion"; it's about a collection of clones who revel against their
situation. He also refers to "the twilight zone" in "The Quiet Room"
from "From the Inside" and in "Wish You Were Here" from "...Goes to Hell".
Also, check out "BB on Mars" from "Pretties for You".
Finally, "No Baloney Homo Sapiens" from "Zipper Catches Skin" is about
a human challenege to potential marauding aliens.

Alien:
Early '80's post-disco group whose album "Sons of the Universe" has SF
themes running all through it.

Alphaville:
The album "Afternoons in Utopia" include tracks such as "Afternoons
in Utopia", "20th Century" and "Lady Bright" (which contains an old
rhyming couplet about generally relativity).  See also "For a Million"
of "Breathtaking Blue", with its reference to dancing under an alien sun.

Ambrosia:
"Nice, Nice, Very Nice" is from the 53rd Calypso of Bokonon from
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.  Also "Time Waits for no One"; both
are on "Ambrosia", which also contains a reading of Jabberwocky.
Ambrosia is probably known to most readers for their mid-70's
hit "Holdin' On to Yesterday".

America:
"Sandman" refers to Nolan's "Logan's Run."

Amin Bhatia:
Has an entire album entitled "Interstellar Suite" about space travel.

Amon Duul II:
Some sf-oriented material; German band from the mid-seventies.
Two of their albums are "Made in Germany" and "Vive La Trance".

Amos, Tori:
There is a Tori Amos song with a line something like "If you need me,
me and Neil are hanging out with the Dream King."  Neil Gaiman is the
creator of "Sandman".  (Side note: One of the "Sandman" issues includes
some of the lyrics from that song.)  And the song "Happy Phantom"
is about traipsing around the world after one is dead.

Anderson, Ian:
Vocalist from Jethro Tull.  His 1983 LP, "Walk Into Light" contains a
notable SF-related track, "User Friendly".

Anderson, Jon:
Vocalist from Yes.  Solo album, "Olias of Sunhillow", from 1976.
"Olympia" from "Animation" seems to discuss a futuristic world;
"Boundaries" from the same album may be about the aftermath of a future war.

Anderson, Laurie:
Surrealism & sf-type music.  Try "O Superman" and "Language is a
Virus From Outer Space", which I seem to recall is derived from
Burroughs (William S., that is).  (Did she collaborate on an
album with him?)

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe:
(With bassist Chris Squire, these are the five core musicians of Yes.)
The eponymous album includes "Fist of Fire", a song about some sort
of acension after death, and "Birthright", about British atomic testing
carried out at Maralinga during the 50's and early 60's, which has
left many Aboriginal sacred sites and traditional lands uninhabitable.

Android Sisters, The:
"Songs of Electronic Despair".

Androids of MU:
A punk band that never got anywhere; their album "Blood Robots"
includes a track called "Lost in Space".

Ange:
(French progressive group) "Au-dela du delire" is a time-travel story.

Ant, Adam:
"Apollo 9" is about a trip to the moon.

Anthrax:
The album "Among the Living" contains "I Am the Law" (about Judge Dredd,
the 2000 AD hero) and "Among the Living" (about the antihero of Stephen
King's "The Stand").

Anvil:
"Mothra", about the monster from the "Godzilla" movies.

Aphrodite's Child:
The album "666" is the veritable armageddon waltz; it is a musical
retelling of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelations).  Vangelis was
in this band back then.

Apocrypha:
"West World" is presumably about the film.

April Wine:
A heavy metal band who indulge in fantasy imagery; note "The Whole
World's Goin' Crazy" and its references to Lewis Carol.  Along
with Nektar and Pavlov's Dog, cult heroes in the St. Louis area
thanks to twenty years of airplay on KSHE-FM.

Art of Noise:
"Paranoimia" features Max Headroom.

Asia:
"After the War", from "Astra" refers to post-WW III era.
"Wildest Dreams", from the first album, might also be about a war that
is yet to happen.  "Sole Survivor", also from the first album, seems
to be in a similar vein.

Athletico Spizz '80:
LP "Do A Runner".

Atlantics:
An Australian instrumental band from the early 1960s, had popular singles
entitled "Moon Man" and "War of the Worlds."  The latter is
amazing for its evocative sound effects.

Automatic Man:
Two albums of SF-ish mystic stuff; notable track "I.T.D."
(Interstellar Tracking Device).

B-52's:
"Planet Claire", and "53 Miles West of Venus" from "Wild Planet".
"Cosmic Thing" and "Planet" (is this the correct title/album?)
from "Cosmic Thing"  Also see the soundtrack to "Earth Girls Are Easy".

B.A.L.L:
"Little Tex in Trouble" and "Little Tex's Prelude" from "Trouble Doll"
are about a cowboy who sees his cattle being taken by aliens.

The Bags:
"September", from the album "Night of the Corn People", is about
a love affair between astronauts.  "L. Frank Baum" is a tribute to the
Wizard of Oz books.

Ball, Edward:
Releases under many names, including Teenage Film Stars, The Times and
The Missing Scientists.  Has done several songs with references to "The
Prisoner" including "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape".

Banks, Tony:
See "Man of Spells" from "Fugitive".

Barbarella:
Their album "The Art of Dance" consists only of songs about
Barbarella and containing samples from the film Barbarella.

Barenaked Ladies:
Another Canadian Band, with a song called "Grade 9", with the lines:
     "Some of them are crazy and the others are depressed,
      None of them can help me study for my math test.
      I got into the classroom and my knowledge was gone;
      I guess I should have studied 'stead of watching Wrath of Khan."

Bauhaus:
Did a cover of "Ziggy Stardust", and the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead",
which opens the film "The Hunger" (they perform in it, too).  Their lyrics
are obscure enough so that most of their songs can be taken for SF - or
anything else, for that matter.  They broke up in '83. 3 members became
Love and Rockets, the other, Peter Murphy, got a solo career.  (See below)

Be Bop Deluxe:
Tracks include "Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus" (vague reminiscences
about '50s British SF-comics, also thought to be poking a little fun
at Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) and "Life In The Air Age" (a time
traveller stranded in a Gernsbackian future).  Also see
"The Dangerous Stranger from the Highway to the End of Time" on "Modern Music".

Beatles:
The "Yellow Submarine" movie and accompanying soundtrack probably deserve
a mention as an example of an interesting animated fantasy experiment.

Bedford, David:
Albums include "Star's End"; could this be a reference to Asimov's
Foundation series ("Star's End", "Tazenda")?
He also wrote a sort of Rock Opera, "Rigel 9", to text by
Ursula le Guin. And "The Dark Nebula" to words by Arthur C Clark.

The Bee Gees:
"Edge of the Universe" is a space travel/love song
which first appeared as a track on the "Main Course" LP in 1975.
Two years latter was included as part of the "Here at Last .. Live"
album.  The live version was released as a single and was the last
Top 40 hit for the Bee Gees before their "Saturday Night Fever"
releases and disco fame.

Belew, Adrian:
"Phone Call from the Moon", as well as "Looking For a UFO" from "Young
Lions" - a message of hope that aliens will come and save us
from destroying ourselves. The song "The Momur" from "Lone Rhinoceros"
tells the story of a man who's wife turns into a "momur" (a critic);
probably not really science fiction.

Benatar, Pat:
"My Clone Sleeps Alone".

The Bevis Frond:
Lots of SF and fantasy imagery, eg. "The Miskatonic Variations" from
"The Auntie Winnie Album".

Big Country:
Some songs have a magical theme, but the most outstanding is "The
Seer" from the album by the same name, about a woman who foretells the Roman
invasion of Scotland.

Black, Frank:
Frank Black is Black Francis from the Pixies.  His solo album has the track
"Parry the Wind High, Low" which is about a UFO/Trekkies convention.

Black Sabbath:
Sort of.  Tends to black magic et. al.  See "Paranoid" for
"Iron Man" (mechanical golem?), "Plant Caravan" and "Electric Funeral"
(nuclear war?);"Black Sabbath" (1st LP) for demented ravings like
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Lovecraft).  "Heaven and Hell" is all fantasy.
Some speculation that "Iron Man" refers to the comic book hero (paraplegic
w/special iron alloy suit and powers far beyond...) The song "Computer God",
from "Dehumanizer" concerns a sinister cyberpunk-like virtual reality.

Blake, Tim:
Electronic New Age.  Albums "Crystal Machine", "Blake's New Jerusalem",
both SF.  Was in Hawkwind 1979-80, and Gong 1972-1975.

Blitzkrieg:
The song "Blitzkrieg" talks about aliens arriving and some sort of war.
Song was covered by Metallica.

Blondie:
SF themes in some songs: e.g. the "Man from Mars" in "Rapture";
also "Dragonfly" from "The Hunter", which is a half-spoken half-sung
description of a race between spaceships that uses a collage of
sf buzzwords.  See also "The Attack of the Giant Ants".

Blue Oyster Cult:
Many tracks on many albums with SF themes; "Veteran of the Psychic
Wars" (which also was on the "Heavy Metal" soundtrack; the narrator
is Corum, of Moorcock's "Chronicles of Corum") from "Fire of
Unknown Origin", "E.T.I.", "The Subhuman", "Flaming Telepaths" and most
of the rest of the LP's "Tyranny and Mutation" and "Secret Treaties".
Later work includes "Godzilla" (from "Spectres" and "Some Enchanted
Evening"), which about our favorite Tokyo-bashing reptile; "Monsters"
(from "Cultosaurus Erectus"), which is about a small group of people
who escape a ravaged Earth but wind up battling each other over one of
the women; "Black Blade" (from "Cultosaurus Erectus" and "E.T. Live",
a song done with Michael Moorcock; the nararator is Elric, from
his Elric saga) "Nosferatu" (from "Spectres"), which is a
retelling of the Dracula story; "Vengeance (The Pact)" (from "Fire
of Unknown Origin), which retells the "Taarna" segment from the movie
"Heavy Metal"; and "Sole Survivor" (also from "Fire..."), tells the
story of the last man alive on earth, who runs away when aliens come to
rescue him.  The LP "Imaginos" tells the story of a sorcerer attempting
to release the demonic other-worldly beings called "Les Invisibles".
"The Great Sun Jester" from "Mirrors" is based on the novel
"The Fireclown" by Michael Moorcock (also released as "The Winds
of Limbo"). "Joan Crawford" from "Fire..." might be SF depending
on how you feel about wire hangers.  Incidentally, a couple of
Karl Edward Wagner's "Kane" series contain direct references to
the BOC song "Astronomy" (from "Secret Treaties"); in particular,
there's a chapter entitled "On the Origin of Storms".  "Take Me Away"
(from "The Revolution by Night") is about a guy who wants to go visit aliens.

Boney M.:
"Night Flight to Venus" (title track of LP), and "Steppenwolf",
a werewolf story, on the same LP.

Bonzo Dog DooDah Band:
"Urban Spaceman" from "The Best of the Bonzos",
and "There's a Monster Coming" from "Gorilla".

Boom Crash Opera:
Australian band whose song "The Best Thing" from "Look! Listen!"
describes an astronaut's experiences in flight.

Bored Games:
Song "Joe 90".  Classic Kiwi underground pop.
This schoolboy band was one of the early proponents of the "Dunedin Sound"
associated with the Flying Nun label, and band members went on to play
in virtually every important Dunedin band, including the Chills,
the Verlaines, the Clean, Straightjacket Fits etc.

Boston:
The LP "Third Stage" has a track emulating a spaceship take-off.
(All three of their album covers tell the story of the Guitar Spaceship
and its quest for a new home.)

Bow Wow Wow:
Punk.  "I want my baby on Mars", "Giant sized baby thing!".

Bowie, David:
"Space Oddity" (most emphatically NOT "Major Tom") discusses eerie
experiences in orbit.  Also has a film, "The Man who Fell to Earth".
See also "Diamond Dogs" (mutated life on earth after the bomb)
and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", about a rock band on
an earth with five years left; this LP also contains "Five Years"
and "Starman".  From "Hunky Dory", see "Life on Mars", and from "Station
to Station", see "TVC15".  See also "Ashes to Ashes", "Memory of a
Free Festival", and "1984".  Also, "Cat People (Putting out the Fire)"
from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie.  His collaboration
with the Sales Brothers (Tin Machine), released an album with some
SF-oriented tracks, such as "Tin Machine", "Video Crime", and "I Can't Read".

--- Some commentary on Bowie...

Bowie, David:
A lot of his albums contain at least a few sf songs.  The major ones are:
"Space Oddity", the title track (often mistakenly referred to as "Major Tom")
was apparently played on the BBC broadcast of Neil Armstrong's moon walk;
"The Man Who Sold the World"; "Hunky Dory" which contains 'Life on Mars';
"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", the first
side has sf songs, the second is about a rock band whose lead singer self-
destructs (presumably the band which sang the first side); "AladdinSane";
"Diamond Dogs", a sort of Orwellian '1984' album which contains the song
'1984' and other songs about big brother; "Heroes", "Scary Monsters (and
super creeps)" which contains the title track and 'Ashes to Ashes', a
followup to 'Space Oddity'. Also, 'Cat People (Putting out the Fire)'
(tenuosly sf) from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie of the same
name.  "Tonight" contains a song, 'Loving the Alien" and his latest
album, "Never Let Me Down", has another.  "Station to Station" was originally
written, but not used, as the soundtrack to one of his films, "The Man who
Fell to Earth", a classic about an alien stranded on earth.  Bowie has done
a couple of other sf films, "The Hunger", about vampires, and "Labyrinth",
where he plays the goblin king who has kidnapped a young girl's baby brother
after she brattishly announces, "I wish the goblins would take him away!"

        -- Scott Butler
---

Brickel, Edie and the New Bohemians:
The title track from "Ghost of a Dog" is, uh, well, about the ghost of a dog.

Brightman, Sarah
"I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper", "Love In A U.F.O.", and
"The Love Crusader" (not quite sf, but has many snips of supposed
intergalactic radio conversations, etc.) and "Lost in Space"
are all from a 1979 album.

Broderna Brothers:
Swedish band, with an song "Karlek i rymden" ("Love in Space") about
the boyfriend of a female astronaut.

Brown, Arthur:
In the late sixties, "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" had a big hit
with "Fire".  In the mid-to-late-70's, he released an album called
"Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come", rife with SF themes.  For example,
the first track is "Time Captives", about a group of people who have
crashed their timeship.  (The album may have been a double LP in the UK.)

Brown, Julie:
"Earth Girls are Easy". :-)

Brownsville Station:
"The Martian Boogie" was a 1977 single about an alien who learns to
rock n' roll.  The song was sort of a minor cult classic for this
band in the midwest as they tried to follow-up on their "Smokin' in
the Boy's Room" success.  The single was issued on the Private Stock label.
(Your editor would like to mention that he saw Brownsville Station and
Styx on a double bill in a converted skating rink outside St. Louis around
1975 or so...it was an interesting pairing, to say the least. ---Rsk )

Buckner and Garcia:
"Hyperspace", "Defender".  (These *are* the guys that did
that awful Pacman song.)

Buggles, The:
The LP "Age of Plastic" contains many SF themes;for instance, the title
song has the lines "They send the Heart Police to put you under
cardiac arrest" (1984 meets Harlan Ellison's Ticktockman?) Also "I Love
You, Miss Robot".  See also "Johnny on the Monorail".  See also
"Adventures in Modern Recording", with SF tracks such as "Vermillion Sands",
"Inner City", "Rainbow Warrior", and maybe "On TV".
For trivia fans: "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video shown
on MTV.

Bunnydrums:
"PKD", for Phillip K. Dick.

Burnett, T-Bone:
"We Are Humans From Earth" from the soundtrack of "Until the End of
the World".

Bush, Kate:
"Breathing", about breathing the fallout following a nuclear blast, (supposed
to be sung by an unborn child) is from "Never For Ever", and "Experiment IV"
from "The Whole Story" about designing a sound that can kill.
"Cloudbusting" is about a boy (played by Kate in the video) whose father
builds a rain-making machine and is kidnapped by the government.

        (This song was inspired by Peter Reich's "The Book of Dreams".
        The lines "I hid my Yo-yo/In the garden/
                what made it special/made it dangerous"
        is a reference to the fact that the rainmaking energy was inhibited
        by radiation, so Peter's father made him throw away his yo-yo.
        Peter buried it in the garden instead.  -- Theo O'Neal)

        (Peter Reich's father, Wilhelm Reich, was actually a 'scientist'
        (regard the quotes) who did research in 'orgone energy'. Don't ask
        me seriously what 'orgone energy' should be, but one of it's
        abilities should have been to make it rain. The story
        behind that is not sci-fi at all, it is true life (more or less).
        Wilhelm Reich was actually arrested by the government and died in
        prison, something the nine (or so) year old Peter couldn't comprehend
        as a child. Peter later wrote 'a book of dreams' to cope with that
        experience. -- Ulrich Grepel )

See also "Hammer Horror" from "Lionheart", a throwback to the
horror films of the 60's.  "Deeper Understanding" from "The Sensual
World" is about computer addiction. "Hello Earth" from "Hounds of Love"
refers to an astronaut viewing the earth from his spaceship.
KB also covered Elton John's "Rocket Man".

Byrds, The:
"Hey Mr. Spaceman" from "The Fifth Dimension". "Space Odyssey"
from "Notorious Byrd Brothers" is a retelling of Clarke's "The Sentinel".

Byrne, David:
"In the Future", from the "Civil Wars" soundtrack is an
often-contradictory list how we will be in the future.

Camel:
Lots of fantasy stuff on various albums, notably "Mirage", which
contains the song "White Rider" (about Gandalf). "Moonmadness" contains
the instrumental "Lunar Sea". See also "Echoes" from "Breathless".

Camper Van Beethoven:
"The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon" from "Telephone Free Landslide
Victory", 1985; cover of Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" from self-titled
album, 1986.  Other songs include some "fantastic" imagery.  The title of
their album "II & III" is an oblique reference to R.A. Wilson's
"Illuminatus!" books (they also did the theme for a TV show Wilson did,
apparently; it appears on their album "Key Lime Pie").

Can:
First album "Monster Movie", 1969; occasional spacey themes in songs
("Cascade Waltz" on "Flow Motion" mentions a spaceship and an astronaut).

Candlemass:
A Swedish heavy metal band - pretty much slow heavy doom metal
with fantasy themes.  LP's include "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", "Nightfall",
"Ancient Dreams" and "Tales of Creation".  This last often suggests
Michael Moorcock characters, particularly Corum.

Captain Beefheart:
"Big Eyed Beans from Venus" and "The Floppy Boot Stomp".  The latter is
that tale of a farmer who accidentally summons the devil while squaredancing.

Captain Beyond:
"Astral Lady", "Voyagers From Distant Planets", etc.

Caravan:
"Cthulhu" from "Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night".

Carlos, Wendy (Walter):
The soundtrack recording to "A Clockwork Orange".

Carpenters:
See "Klaatu".

Cassandra Complex:
Their album "Satan, Bugs Bunny and Me..." contains "E*O*D", a track
which discusses Cthulhu.  The album "Cyberpunx" contains some tracks
with cyberpunkish dark visions of the future, e.g. "Nightfall (over the EC)".

Caswell and Carnahan:
Do a song called "Borderlands" which is about a man who
goes back in time to meet a woman but must return to his own time.
[There is a novel called The House On The Borderland by William Hodgeson(?)
Among its (sub)plots there is a man who goes back (or maybe sideways) in
time to meet a woman but must return to his own time.]

Cheap Trick:
"Dream Police" (title track).

Chicago:
Last side of Chicago III is a suite named "Elegy" about ecodeath and final war.

----Some commentary on this from Ed Eastridge:

The side as a whole is named Elegy. Elegy's principal writer was trombonist
James Pankow. It is about humans killing themselves off in the name of
progress. Another song off of this album which is in a similar vein is
"Mother" describing the Raping of the Earth by Highways and other man-made
occurences. Anyway, If I can rememeber correctly Elegy consists of five
movements, the names As I can recall are:

"When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow" (a small poem)
"Canon" (Brass quartet type of feel,interesting harmonies.)
"Once Upon a Time"(Soft Jazz ballad featuring Flute and Trombone.)
"Progress?" (Dissonant and forboding. Uses taped sounds of jackhammers,
             traffic, etc. Most interesting is the use of the toilet...:))
"The Approaching Storm" (Normal Jazz type number like mid-60's "cool" sound)
"Man vs Man = The End"  (Contemporary almost 12-tonal in sound, definitely not
                         like "normal" Chicago)

All in all, this is a good piece. The songs are cohesive, transitions are
smooth and subtle. (If you couldn't tell by now, yes, I am a Chicago freak).
        --- Ed Eastridge
----

The Church:
Their last three albums ("Priest = Aura", "Gold Afternoon Fix", and
"Starfish") contain a good deal of SF material, such as:
"Pharaoh", "City", "Terra Nova Cain", "Priest = Aura", and "Dome".

Clannad:
New-age Celtic-folk stuff; numerous songs about druids, Stonehenge,
that sort of thing.  Also did much of the music for the British
"Robin Hood" TV show, as well as the film "Last of the Mohicans".

Clarke, Stanley:
Jazz bassist, who spent considerable time with Chick Corea and Al Dimeola
in "Return to Forever".  His self-titled solo release (mostly instrumental)
has a vocal track called "Vulcan Princess", about a woman he has loved
"through eternity".  This track also appears on a recently released CD
of his live performances, "Stanley Clarke Live 1975-1976".

Clash, the:
A band pretty much centered in the (then) Now, but had a couple songs
taking place in the future.  "Groovy Times" (from "Black Market Clash")
is roughly about a fascist state, apparently sparked by the sight of
chain-link fences around a soccer stadium.  "London Calling" (from the
LP of the same name) is about the apocalypse, a possibility which is
treated rather ambivalently.  "Atom Tan" (from "Combat Rock") is about
the apocalypse again, from sort of a Beat-Marxist angle.

Clark, Allan:
Album (title unknown) with multiple songs dealing with reincarnation.

Clark, Anne:
On her "Changing Places" album, "Sleeper in Metropolis" deals
with loss of all human contact in a future (or present) world;
"Poem for a Nuclear Romance" is about what will happen to two
lovers in a nuclear war.

Clinton, George (and Parliament/Funkadelic):
Parliament released a series of albums during the seventies with overt
SF themes: "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein", "Mothership Connection",
and others. Clinton had a solo hit with "Atomic Dog" in the mid-80's.
All this music ranges from slow-burn funk to beat-heavy disco.
(Their influence is still felt in a number of places -- e.g. one
of the sequences in the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" film.)

Clouds:
Australian pop music quartet.  Have a song "Fox's Wedding" inspired by
a Japanese fairy tale.  Their debut album "Penny Century" is named after
the character in Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez' comic book "Love and Rockets".

Colourbox:
A track from their "Colourbox" LP entitled "Just Give "em Whiskey." has
quotes from "Prisoner", "2001" and "West World" on it.

Concrete Blonde:
The album "Bloodletting" has "The Vampire Song" which sounds like it
was patterned after Anne Rice's Vampire novels.

Cooder, Ry:
"UFO has Landed in the Ghetto" from "The Slide Area".  Cooder is
extremely well-regarded among other professional guitar players,
and is known responsible (with Steve Vai) for the music in the
film "Crossroads".

Consolidated:
Rap group, used a sample from They Live!. It's part of the speech that
someone (the President?) is holding on TV. Part of it is "We have faith in our
leaders".

Costello, Elvis:
"Tokyo Storm Warning" from "Blood and Chocolate"; mentions the cheap
sets found in some Japanese horror/sf movies.  (In the sleeve notes to
"Girls Girls Girls" (a retrospective collection of Elvis Costello + The
Attractions songs) Costello says that Tokyo Storm Warning is influenced
by "brutal SF stories", and mentions Philip K Dick as one of the
influences.)  "Waiting for the End of the World" from "My Aim Is True",
(self explanatory) and "Night Rally" (fascist rally/totalitarian government)
"Hurry Down Doomsday (the Bugs Are Taking Over)" from "Mighty Like a
Rose". "Satellite" from the album _Spike_ is based on concepts from
"Radio Free Albemuth" by Philip K. Dick.

Crack the Sky:
"Robots for Ronnie" off "Crack the Sky" (not about Ronnie Reagan, but
could easily be adapted!).  "Invaders from Mars" off "Animal Notes"
(the martians are coming for our hero, but he doesn't care, 'cause
it's probably better over there!).  "Nuclear Apathy" off "Safety in
Numbers" discusses how the situation looks to those on the Moon.

Cracker:
Led by David Lowery, formerly of Camper Van Beethoven.
"Nostalgia" (from "Kerosene Hat", 1993) is about a stranded cosmonaut,
also mentioned on the single "Low", from the same album.

Cramps:
Contributed a song to the soundtrack of "Return of the Living Dead",
called "Surfin' Dead" (about zombies and the like, not
to mention numerous uses of 50's-60's era hot-rod lingo.)

Crash Test Dummies:
A Canadian group. "Superman Song" from their first album, "The Ghosts that
Haunt Me", is about the man of steel himself, comparing his lifestyle to that
of Tarzan.

The Cravats:
A number of albums contain SF references. For example the album "The
Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes" uses recordings from TV's "The
Twilight Zone" and "The Prisoner" plus the film "Them!". The title
track ends with the narrator's father being eaten by his roses. The
Cravats later turned into The Very Things and released the album
"Motortown!", which contains the track "The Land of the Giants" about
the TV series.

Cream:
(Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce.)
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" from "Disraeli Gears" is about the
well-known mythological character; "Those Were the Days"
from "Wheels of Fire" is about Atlantis.

The Creatures:
"Pluto Drive" from "Boomerang".

Creedence Clearwater Revival:
"It Come Out of the Sky".

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
"Wooden Ships" is a resigned tale of survival in a post-nuclear world.
"Teach Your Children" is part of the soundtrack to "Silent Running".

The Cure:
On the "Faith" LP there is a track called "The Drowning Man" based on
chapter 75 in 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake describing the death of Fuschia.

Dalek I Love You (aka Dalek I):
Who are these folks?

The Damned:
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (single + live on "The Black Album")
deals with a future military state in the UK.

Danse Society:
On their "Heaven is Waiting" LP is cover of "2000 Light Years from home".

DeBurgh, Chris:
"The Vision", "The Leader", and "What About Me?", a three-song
series from "Into the Light" discusses the Revelation, which may or
may not be a fantasy, depending on your viewpoint.  See "A Spaceman Came
Travelling" and "The Tower" from "Spanish Train", "The Girl With April
in Her Eyes" from "Crusader", "Sight and Touch" from "Man on the Line"
(post-WW3), and "Don't Pay the Ferryman" from "The Getaway".
Also note "The Devil's Eye" from "Crusader", about the Devil taking over the
world through TV screens, and "Sin City" from "Far Beyond These Castle Walls",
about the Devil tempting people on Earth.

Dead Milkmen:
Have done a number of SF songs, including "Right Wing Pigeons" from
"Big Lizard in my Backyard", and "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies".

Deep Fix:
Michael Moorcock's band of the late seventies-produced one album, "The
New Worlds Fair".  A sort of cross between rock and slow square dance.

Deep Purple:
Occasional forays into SF.  "Space Truckin'", from "Machine Head".
"The Mule", from "Fireball" (Asimov's 'Foundation'?).

Def Leppard:
Heavy Metal.  First album ("On Through The Night" has a futuristic track,
"When the Walls Came Tumblin' Down", and a fantasy "Overture".
The videos for "Foolin'" and "Rock of Ages" from "Pyromania" contain
fantasy/SF elements, although the lyrics of the songs aren't explicitly
SF-ish. The LP "Hysteria" includes "Gods of War", "Run Riot",
"Armageddon it" and "Rocket" which have s-f themes (It sounds so, at least).
The video for "Women" (also from "Hysteria")is about a s-f comic story
(called "Def Leppard and the Women of Doom").

Devo:
"Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO" and "Duty Now for the Future" are
full of SF themes; examples are "Space Junk" and "Jocko Homo". "Freedom
of Choice" and "New Traditionalists" also have some SF material.
Also "Shout" has a couple of SF tracks on it: "Are You Experienced?"
(the Hendrix song) and "4th Dimension".  "Mr DNA" from "Duty Now for the
Future" is apparently about genetic engineering.

Diamond, Neil:
"Heartlight" is based on "E.T."

Dio:
Most Dio albums are fantasy in tone, i.e. covers & liners.  "The Last
in Line" is about a quest to find a witch.  Other songs and videos
have similar themes.

Divinyls:
Australian grunge band, did a track called "Science Fiction" on
their "Desperate" album. It's more about your average sf fan
"I thought love was science fiction...now that love is my addiction,
I've thrown all my books away."

DOEF:
(the OE being O umlaut, DOEF stands for Deutsch-Oestereichische-Freunschaft,
German-Austrian-Friendship) once wrote a song called 'Codo'.  It's about
a peace and love bringing alien.

Dogzilla:
Boston funk band with songs "Mr. Toad's WIld Ride", "Scarab of Ra",
"The Two-Headed Baby Song" and "Giant Squid" as examples from "There's
Always Something Wrong"/"Allizgod".  Fun.

Dolby, Thomas:
"Golden Age of Wireless" is mostly (if not all) songs about
science/technology and man. "The Flat Earth" also contains these themes
to a lesser extent.  The album "Aliens Ate My Buick" (an SF title if ever
I heard one) includes the track "May The Cube Be With You" (first line -
"Late one night a happy Martian with nothing to do").  See also the
album "Astronauts and Heretics".

Donovan (w/Paul McCartney):
"Atlantis" (Georg Danzer translated and sang a German version.)
See also "The Intergalactive Laxative" and the title track
from "Cosmic Wheels".  "Sunshine Superman" probably deserves
a mention as well.

Dorough, Bob:
"Little Twelvetoes" is about an alien with 12 toes.

Geoffrey Downes New Dance Orchestra:
"Plastic Age" on one of their albums (which one, anybody?).

Dr. John:
"Gris-Gris" and "Gumbo" are heavily into New Orleans voodoo party mysticism.

Dschinghis Khan:
A German band with a song called "Kaept'n Nemo" about Jules Vernes'
undersea captain.

Duran Duran:
(Note: The group's name comes from a character in the Jane Fonda/Roger Vadim
film "Barbarella".)

Some comments from Gabrielle de Lioncourt on Duran Duran:

        Their first album has "Planet Earth" and "Sound of Thunder" (the
        latter about waiting for the bomb to drop).  A B-side, "Faster than
        Light", was also SF.  Duran Duran have a very interesting video
        history for SF lovers.  The majority of their videos were directed
        by Russel Mulchaey, director of Highlander.  Some video plots:

        "Night Boat" - zombie horror video
        "Hungry Like The Wolf" - man chases woman who turns into panther.
        "New Moon On Monday" - near future story of peaceful revolt against
                        totalitarian regime.
        "Union of the Snake" - man from Earth travels into the world
                        beneath ours.
        "View to a Kill" - James Bond fantasy.

        "Wild Boys" wasn't a tribute to Barbarella.  It was taken from
        their film "Arena", a _very_ surreal story that takes place half
        in the arena where Duran Duran are holding their concert and half
        in the strange underworld below the arena (where Wild Boys takes
        place).  The videos by Arcadia, a splinter portion of the band,
        are also surreal and SF-ish.


Dylan, Bob:
"Talkin' World War III Blues"

Earth, Wind & Fire:
"Jupiter" from "All 'n All"; the singer is visited by an alien
who wants to bring love and peace to the world by means of a
flower from his plant. "Electric Nation" from the "Electric Universe" album
tells how it won't be so bad to become a country of robots, as long as
we can still dance. ;-)

Edelweiss:
An Austrian band who've recorded a parody of the Star Trek theme entitled
"Raumschiff Edelweiss" ("Spaceship Edelweiss"); they also have a
corresponding video.

Electric Light Orchestra:
"Mission (A World Record)" on "A New World Record".  The entire album
"Time" involves a man from 1981 winding up in the 21st century (or perhaps
the other way around). The "10538 Overture" is a dystopia set in that year.
(Although closer examination of the lyrics indicates that "10538" might
be a person, not a year.)

Elektric Music:
The Kraftwerk offshoot band's first album "Esperanto" has a song about
making love to a machine ("Kissing The Machine").  Co-written by and
features the vocals of OMD's Andy McCluskey.

Elephant's Memory:
The track "Old Man Willow" is apparently a reference to the sentient
trees described by Tolkien.

Eloy:
(German/Swiss electronic progressive rock) See "Ocean", the atlantis
myth; "Planets","Time to Turn",  a two album story of fantasy with a
twist.  (It's about "the rise and fall of the most beautiful planet in
the universe, Salta".) Also, "Giant" from "Colours" and "Night Riders"
and "Metromania" from "Metromania", about the high tech near future.  The
LP "Power and the Passion" is based on a story involving a student who
ingests some of his father's experimental timedrug. He travels back 600
years and falls in love, gets involved in her father's fight with the
peasants and eventually finds a wizard to send him back to the future.
(The name of the band was based on the Eloi race from H. G. Wells'
"The Time Machine".)

Emerald Web:
(small obscure west coast duo [flute & synthesizer]) New age material,
but one album is "Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales", a fantasy story set
to music.

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer:
Space battle in "Karn Evil 9" from "Brain Salad Surgery".  (Artwork
by H R Giger, of "Alien" fame.)  See also "Tarkus", whose tracks
seem to loosely correlate with the cover artwork, but which I've
never been quite able to figure out.

Eno, Brian:
Albums: "Apollo" and "On Land"; see also "The Fat Lady of Limbourg"
from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", a bizarre story of
SF and espionage.  See also "Nerve Net".

----Some commentary on Eno from Tim Day:

Re "Apollo": This is purely instrumental.  It was apparently written as
sountrack for a video documentary of the Apollo missions (bits were
also used in the film "Static"), but I don't think this qualifies
it for the main section of the list any more than <random Tangerine Dream track>

"On Land" is also instrumental.  #1 of a series entitled "Ambient" (sort of
intelligent background muzak). It is intended to suggest large open spaces
(and succeeds very well).  But SF ?  No way.

Eno's philosophy towards song lyrics seems to be summarized by the first
track (I forget the name) on "Another Green World":
"All the clouds turn to words;
All the words float in sequence
And no-one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them"
Eno's songs generally aim to invoke an atmosphere, mood or emotion.
Like the music, lyrics are just another tool to serve this purpose; this can
often be done using particular words or phrases.  However, the song they form
in combination is essentially meaningless (which is why it's so difficult
to classify any of his stuff as SF !).  "The Fat Lady of Limbourg" is
probably the closest he's come.  (Though it really seems to be just about
bumbling espionage agencies.)

        --- Tim Day
-----

Enya:
"Aldebaran" is dedicate to Ridley Scott; but does it deal with SF themes?
Another track, apparently Tolkien-derived, is "Lothlorien".
The album "Shepherd Moons" is a sort of reference to moons found in
the rings of Saturn, which, due to their gravitational influence,
hold some of the rings in place. (See also Clannad: Enya is the sister of
the lead singer, and was part of their early line-up.)

Eon:
Their album "Void dweller" include several tracks with samples from SF
and horror movies.  For example, "Spice" and "Fear: The Mindkiller"
have samples from Dune (saw that coming, didn't you?), "Electromagnetic
Waves" has samples from "Prince of Darkness" and so on.

Erasure:
Their song "Sweet Sweet Baby" includes samples from the films "Dark Star"
and "Barbarella".

Erickson, Roky:
"The Evil One" has a track entitled "Creature with the Atom Brain"
Also see "I Walked with a Zombie" (now you know all the lyrics :-) ).

Etheridge, Melissa:
Her 1992 release "Never Enough" includes "2001", a rocker with
semi-cyberpunk lyrics about the near future.

Europe:
A Swedish heavy metal band, which did the song "The Final Countdown", about
being exiled from Earth.

Eurythmics:
Did the soundtrack to the recent version of "1984".

FM:
The album "Black Noise" is entirely SF, and deal with topics such
as suspended animation; "RocketRoll" from "Surveillance" is about SF Rock.
Also see "Phasers on Stun".

Fagen, Donald:
"True Companion", about a lonely starship pilot, appears on the
soundtrack for "Heavy Metal".  (Incidentally, some folks have
interpreted I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) to be futuristic;
but it refers to the optimistic vision held *during* the IGY, 1957.)
"Tomorrow's Girls" from "Kamakiria".

Fairport Convention:
A few fantasy-related songs -- most notably "Tam Lin", the classic
celtic tale of an encounter with the Queen of Faerie.  F.C.'s music
is mostly based around traditional English folktales.  (See also
Steeleye Span.)

Faith No More:
The last-minute addition of new singer and lyricist
Mike Patton before they came out with "The Real Thing" necessitated
that he write all the songs in about eight days, so he went on sort
of a scavenger hunt for topics. Among the usual assortment of love
songs, and some other truely weird topics, "Surprise! You're Dead!"
is about getting turned into a Vampire. "The Morning After" is about
a ghost, and is an adaptation of the film Siesta.

The Fall:
They have a song called "Lay of the Land" which starts with the chanting of
some "Planet people" from the British TV series "Quatermass".
"Spectre vs. Rector" on "Dragnet" is a story about exorcism/possession- the demon is called Yog Sothoth (from H.P. Lovecraft's horror books). "Jaw Bone and the Air-Rifle" on "Hex Induction Hour" is about a curse.
See also "Elves", "Bug Day".

Falling Joys:
Australian band; the title trakck from the album "Psychohum" is the
story of the galaxy being saved by the crew of a spaceship...until
the lyrics abruptly change direction and start describing a genie.

Farmer, Mylene:
This French singer has a song "Tristana" which tells the story of that
beautiful girl ("Schneewitchen" in German) with the seven dwarfs.

Fiona:
"Nights on Earth", from the soundtrack to "Hearts of Fire",
features the chorus line "Remember all the nights we spent on earth, long
before the colonies were planted in the sky".

Firm:
"Star Trekkin'".  This is not the same "Firm" who did "Radioactive",
i.e. it's not Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page.

Fink Brothers:
"Mutants in Mega City One", from 2000AD comic (origin of Judge Dredd).
America portrayed as three cities under police control.

Fishbone:
Off their self titled album, "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." stands for
"Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts" and is
about a government attempt to convince everything that Hiroshima was
actually caused by Godzilla farting. I kid you not.
"Party at Ground Zero" from the eponymous album.

Fisher Z (the Z is pronounced the Britisch way, sead with a soft s):
The title track from their album "Red Skies Over Paradise" is
about nuclear war in Britain.

The Five Blobs:
"The Blob".

The Fixx:
"Driven Out", about environmental disaster, from "Calm Animals".
(Known for early-80's hit "One Thing Leads to Another".)

Flaming Youth:
The album "Ark II" is a concept LP about the trials and tribulations of
a generation ship leaving earth.  (Phil Collins was the drummer.)

Flash & the Pan:
"First and Last" is based on a combination of Olaf Stapledon's
"Last and First Men" and Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" or "2001,"
whichever you prefer. The song "California" is based on the novel
"Fail-Safe".  See also "Atlantis Calling".

Flash Fearless and the Zorg Women, parts 5&6:
Another weird IGTB type collaboration album from the
late 70's with some well-known rockers on it.
Includes "I'm Flash" by Alice Cooper.

Fleck, Bela and the Flecktones:
"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo", and "UFO Tofu" a couple of songs
with self-explanatory titles.  Incidentally, one of the Flecktones
is called "Future Man" and plays a futuristic SynthAxe Drumitar.

Fleetwood Mac:
"Green Manalishi".  (Judas Priest did an eminently forgettable version.)
"Rhiannon" is about a Welsh witch.

Flock, The:
"Dinosaur Swamps" is an early LP.  Notable for quality of musicians,
including Jerry Goodman who later joined the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Flock of Seagulls:
British band (circa 1982) very much associated with science fiction.
Songs with titles like "Man Made", "DNA", "Modern Love is Automatic",
and "Space Age Love Song".

Flying Pickets:
Have an a cappela cover of Bowie's "Space Oddity".

Foreigner:
"Starrider" is a track from their self-titled debut album in which
the singer is taken to the stars and "sails the celestial ways."
Reference is made to higher beings with the power to travel between the
stars and the singer seeks to gain their knowledge to become a Starrider.
A 3rd generation band, Foreigner followed in the footsteps of Bad Company,
who in turn followed in the footsteps of Free.

Foxx, John:
Former lead singer for Ultravox -- slightly harsh electro-pop.  Futuristic
tracks include "20th Century" on the B-Side of the "Burning Car" single.
Surreal tracks include "He's a Liquid".  First solo album "Metamatic"
is futuristic and minimalistic synth music, including "No-one's Driving"
and "Underpass"

Frank Chickens:
"Mothra", based on the movie monster.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood:
Their 1984 "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" album has two tracks with SF'isch
connotations.  The title track is about the Coleridge poem ("In Xanada
did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree", if memory serves ---Rsk),
and 'Two Tribes' is about nuclear war.

Front 242:
Has a sample from the movie Videodrome in one of their songs...
(the "You know me. And I sure know you! Everyone!" part).

Front Line Assembly:
An industrial band, their latest album is titled "Tactical Neural Implant"
and they have a single from that album called "Mindphazer". The video for
this single has footage from a japanese live-action sci-fi film
called "GUNHED".

Gabriel Bondage:
"Another Trip to Earth" (LP), religious/fantasy mixture.

Gabriel, Peter:
"Here Comes the Flood", with Robert Fripp, and "Solsbury Hill" are typical
of his work. "On the Air" from his second album is about running a pirate
radio transmitter under a totalitarian regime. Many of his other songs deal
with aspects of science and technology and progress, and their effects
on people, but many of them are metaphorical and interpretations vary.
See also Genesis.

Game Theory:
"One More for Saint Michael" on the album "Lolita Nation" includes
references to Captain Jim, the Prime Directive, T'Pau, etc.  "Nine Lives
to Rigel 5" from "Distortion" and "Regenisraen" from "Big Shot Chronicle"
also have SF themes.  Finally, "Room for One More Honey" from "Two
Steps From the Middle Ages" seems to be about Americans taking over Asia.

J. Geils Bands:
"No Anchovies, Please" frommm "Love Stinks" is about diabolical
scientists who kidnap a woman and transform her into...

Genesis:
"Watcher of the Skies" (from "Foxtrot") could be either a "last man
on Earth" story or a "alien comes upon a deserted Earth" story.
"One for the Vine" from "Wind and Wuthering" concerns time travel;
perhaps "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" (Hello Triffids,
from "Nursery Cryme"), "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" (the entire album)
(surrealism), and "A Trick of the Tail" (entire album) (fantasy).
Oh, and "Get 'em Out by Friday" (from "Foxtrot") which sounds like something
the BBC should have turned into a Doctor Who plot -- tenants are being kicked
out of their apartments by their new landlords, who just happen to be the
directors of Genetic Control, who just happen to have just announced a new
'four-foot restriction on humanoid height', thus enabling them to fit twice
as many people to a building...   See also "Keep it Dark"
in which visiting aliens persuade the person they contact to remain silent
about the visit.  More stuff: "Am I Very Wrong", "Solitude", "The Knife"
(--maybe, from "Trespass"), "The Musical Box" (horror, from "Nursery Cryme").
According to the story told in 1970s concerts (and apparently on the liners
of the original release, but on present in the current American release): A
boy (Henry) is killed when his playmate (Cynthia) takes his head off with a
croquet mallet (one concert telling of the tale begins, in fact, with the
line, "Croquet is a particularly vicious British sport"). Upon reaching The
Great Hereafter, he is rejected and sent back to Earth, only to manifest
himself again when Cynthia comes upon his musical box. Upon her opening the
box, Henry pops out (and the song begins). Over the course of the song,
Henry's body ages rapidly, until, by the final strains, he is an old man,
who finally collapses and dies (assumedly for good this time).
"The Fountain of Salmacis" (fantasy, from "Nursery Cryme"),
is a retelling of the myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis.
Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, comes upon a pool wherein
dwells the naiad Salmacis. Salmacis, smitten with love, asks the gods to
make the two of them one being. The result -- a single being of both
genders; hence, the term 'hermaphrodite'. "Supper's Ready"
(the ultimate battle of good and evil, from "Foxtrot", possibly based on
an experience Peter Gabriel had one night when his wife began speaking
with another voice ), "Firth of Fifth", and Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"
(both containing heavy fantasy elements, both from "Selling England by
the Pound").  (It's also possible that "Dancing..." is political allegory
instead -- which I tend to agree with, given the album title and a re-reading.
"Cinema Show", from the same album, mentions the mythical figure of Tyresias,
a being who has been both male and female (but not at the same time).
See also "Squonk" from  "A Trick of the Tail", and "The Lady Lies" from
"...And Then There Were Three...", a fantasy about a traveller captured
by a demon in the form of a young woman.  See also "Little Nemo" and
"Snowbound" from the same album, which also have fantasy elements.
 "Domino" from "Invisible Touch" is about nuclear war,
death, damnation, and other cheery topics.  BTW, Peter Gabriel used to
tell stories before some of the songs in concert, although those stories
seem to have nothing to do with the songs (occasionally).

Gentle Giant:
Much material, tending towards fantasy including "The Advent of Panurge",
and "Alucard" (spell it backwards).

Gerry and the Holograms:
The single "Gerry and the Holograms" is about a man who is split into
several copies of himself. If I remember rightly the man behind this
group was the singer from Albertos Y Los Paranoias.

Gong:
New Age before anyone had coined the label "new age".  Three albums about
the Planet Gong, Zero the Hero & the Pot-Head Pixies!: "Radio Gnome",
"Angel's Egg", "You". Earlier albums had vaguely SF ideas, e.g.,
"Fohat Digs Holes in Space" from "Camembert Electrique".

Gowan, Larry:
See "Oceania" from "Gowan" (first LP) might refer to Oceana.
See also "Strange Animal", his second LP.

Graham, Mark:
The album "Natural Selections" contains several humorous songs on
various scientific topics, including "Big Bang Theory" (the story of
the universe in six minutes), "Working on the Food Chain", "I Can
See Your Aura and It's Ugly" and "Their Brains Were Small and They Died".
Great harmonica playing, too.

Grand Funk Railroad:
See "Time Machine" and "Into the Sun" from "On Time", and
"Life in Outer Space" from "What's Funk?"

Grateful Dead:
"Standing on the Moon" is a reflection by a singer who is standing on
the moon watching petty wars on earth; possibly SF-ish although it
seems to be more of a love song.

Greenslade, David:
"The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", a double album of electronic music.
A derelict alien spaceship enters our solar system.  Their language is
decoded (details in the accompanying illustrated book); the music is
the story of their race.

H.P. Lovecraft:
Couple of albums...one contains "At the Mountains of Madness".  Estimates
place them in the late 60's.  Another track is "The White Ship",
directly referencing an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Hackett, Steve:
"Narnia" on "Please Don't Touch" (one of his solo albums;he was with Genesis).
His album "Voyage of the Acolyte" isbased on the Tarot, and includes
"Star of Sirius", "The Hands of the Princess", "A Tower Struck Down",
"The Lovers", "The Hermit", "The Shadow of the Hierophant", and "Ace of Wands".
See also Genesis.

Hagar, Sammy:
"There's a Crack in the Earth".

Hamm, Stuart:
"Radio Free Albemuth" is based on the novels of Phillip K. Dick.
"Count Zero" is based on William Gibson's material.

Hammill, Peter:
Has done an operatic treatment of "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Happy the Man:
"Time Considered as a Helix of Precious Laughs" is based on Samuel R.
Delany's story "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones".
Great story, lousy song...from the album "Happy the Man".

Hardcastle, Paul:
The "No Winner" album is filled with songs about nuclear attacks and SDI.

Hatfield and the North
"Son of There's No Place Like Homerton" from their eponymous album.
It's a lengthy song which has sparse lyrics and seems to be
about an orchestra from Mars.

Hawkwind:
The all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock.  *Some* of their
albums are: "Hall of the Mountain Grill", "In Search of Space",
"Quark, Strangeness, and Charm", "Space Ritual--Alive in Liverpool &
London", "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "In Search of Space", "Doremi
Fasol Latido", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music","25 Years On",
"Levitation", "Sonic Attack", "Church of the Hackwind", and "Choose
Your Masks".  Michael Moorcock, long associated with the group, has
in fact written much fantasy-sf, including co-authoring "Time of the Hawklords",
a fantasy about the band saving the world.  He co-wrote "Veteran of the
Psychic Wars", from the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal".  He also released a
solo album late in the 70's (See "Deep Fix").  Many of their tracks are
explicitly linked to SF books,e.g. "Lord of Light", "Jack of Shadows",
"Damnation Alley" (Zelazny), "Steppenwolf" (Hesse), "High Rise" (Ballard).
The lyrics of "Warriors" are taken from Moorcock's "The Eternal Champion";
the lyrics to another spoken track on "Space Ritual" from his book
"The Black Corridor" The lyrics of "The Awakening", "Spirit of the Age"
and "The 10 Seconds of Forever", are SF poems from Robert Calvert's
collection of poems, "Centigrade 232".  Robert Calvert was lead singer
of Hawkwind from 1976-1978 (or thereabouts) and produced a solo album,
"Lucky Leif in the Longships" in the late 70's, and two more in the mid-80's.
"Lucky Leif" is based on the premise "What if the Vikings had
succeeded and colonizing America?", and features several Hawkwind
regulars as guest musicians.  The 1985 Hawkwind LP "The Chronicle of
the Black Sword" is based loosely on Moorcock's Elric character.
Debut album was called "Hawkwind".  Another album is PXR5.

Some commentary on "Live Chronicles" from Stephen Swann:
        "Live Chronicles" is the double-album concert rendition of their
        "Chronicle of the Black Sword" album, and features several events from
        the Elric books (especially "Stormbringer"), loosely intertwined into
        an 80-minute music-story performance.  The tour also featured Michael
        Moorcock himself on stage with the band, doing narration between
        musical numbers.  Moorcock's spoken parts didn't make it onto the
        final cut of the album, because of legal problems between himself and
        the band, but he -is- on the _Chronicle of the Black Sword_ video
        (which is a live performance from the same tour, even though it
        sports the name of the studio album).

                        --- Stephen Swann

For further info on Hawkwind, please see the rather massive entry
at the end of the list.

Hazard, Robert:
A Philadelphia-area performer who released the album "Wings of Fire"
in the mid-80's.  It included a track entitled "Interplanetary Private Eye",
which was essentially the Bladerunner story -- and there was even
an attribution to it in the liner notes.

Hazel O'Connor:
"Eighth Day" track. This is about how, as man advances, the world we know is
destroyed - part of lyrics - "Nobody laughs, nobody cries".  Very similar
to Zager & Evan's "2525".

Heaven 17:
This band took their name from a band mentioned in "Clockwork Orange".
"Let"s All make a Bomb" from their "Penthouse and Pavement" LP is about The
Bomb and nuclear war, but is apparently not too SF-ish.  See also
"Five Minutes to Midnight", on the same theme.

Heldon:
French band that took it's name from Norman Spinrad's "The Iron
Dream" and takes some song titles from the novel as well.  A later LP called
"Interface" has a beautiful female alien face on the cover and the titles
seem suggestive of leading up to sex with green women.

Helloween:
Two loosely-related albums, "Keeper of the Seven Keys" Parts 1 & 2.  The
first has songs about a future world, including "Twilight of the Gods"
which is about a planet that makes their own computerized gods, and the
new and old fight, and the whole planet gets trashed.  In the credits, it
says thanks to Herman Frank for INSANIA 2016, which is mentioned in the
song, that's possibly what it's based on. Also, on "Pt. 1" there is a
song called "Halloween" (with an 'a' not an 'e') that is like a part one
to the song "Keeper of the 7 Keys" which is on "Pt. 2".  The second LP
also contains "Dr. Stein", a comic Frankenstein, and the song of the
title, which is some sort of fantasy adventure.

Hendrix, Jimi:
Delta blues, except that the delta is on Mars.  See "1983...A Merman
I Should Turn to Be","Hey Baby", and "Third Stone from the Sun",
"UFO", and lots of other stuff.  "Third Stone from the Sun" reportedly
contains an entire sound clip from the Star Trek TV series, of Kirk
and Spock on the bridge, which can be heard when the song is played
at faster speed.

Hillage, Steve:
His album "Green" includes an instrumental called "UFO over Paris".
Many albums have SF tinge, e.g. "Earthrise" from album "OPEN".  See
also Gong and Khan.

Hitchcock, Robyn:
See "The Fly", "Man with the Light Bulb Head".

Holdsworth, Allan:
Fusion guitar, for the most part. "Atavachron" is the instrumental title
track about the Atavachron, a time machine from a "Star Trek" episode
which an entire race used to escape from their sun which was about to
go supernova. "The UnMerry Go-Round" from "Metal Fatigue" is a conceptual
"soundtrack" to a story about a space traveler who must leave for a
distant star, never to see his beloved ones again because his ten-year
voyage, by Einstein's laws, will last several hundred earth years.
The succeeding track, "In the Mystery" is about some sort of quest.

Holy Modal Rounders:
"Mister Spaceman", complete with yodeling.

Hoodoo Gurus:
Have a song called "Another World" which is about an alien.  Also
see the song "Mars Needs Guitars".

The Horse Flies:
"Human Fly" from album of the same name--a cover of the Cramps' song.

Horslips:
Their 1970's album "The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony" (IMHO one
of the most underrated albums ever produced --Dave Weingart) is one long
suite of magick and faerie.  Good solid Irish rock 'n' roll, with nary
a bad cut.  (Horslips has produced some other similar works; would anyone
like to add to the list? ---Rsk )

Huey Lewis & the News:
"Back in Time" from the "Back to the Future" soundtrack.

Human League:
"I Am the Law", also from Judge Dredd (futuristic cop) comic.  Process
of apprehension, trial, conviction, and sentencing telescoped into a
very short time period.  (This reminds me of the short story, "10:01 AM"
by Alexandar Malec; it appears in a hard-to-find collection called
"Extrapolasis" ---Rsk.)  Also "Black Hit of Space" from the "Travelogue"
album.  Top 40 hit songs arrives from space and takes over the charts.
"Circus of Death" from "Reproduction" (and misc EPs) mentions that the
last verse is spoken by "the last man on earth"...it is actually a drug song.
(And, to top it of, it mentions Steve McGarret from Hawaii 5-0.)
Also "Seconds" from "Dare!", possibly about a scientist blinding the dictator
of an African country with a laser. (The lyrics don't make direct reference
to it, but the tour slide show does...on the other hand, some folks report
that the tour slide show contained stills from the Zapruder film of the JFK
assassination.  Much dispute and confusion on this point.) See also
"Tom Baker", on the CD of "Reproduction", which might be about Dr. Who.

Hypnotic Clambake:
"Chef Mobie's Gumbo Gator" is more nonsense than SF, but one verse
talks about "a huge aligator on the planet neptune drinking wine".

Icehouse:
"Icehouse" contains "Icehouse" which seems to be a gothic tale of some
sort (haven't heard the album in a while) and "Sister" which is about
a computer/android (not sure which off-hand for same reason above).

IGTB:
Stands for Inter-Galactic Touring Band; Mish-mash album put out in 1977
with all sorts of people on it, purporting to be a group on galactic tour.

IQ:
Several possibilities here; "Last Human Gateway" from "Tales From a Lush
Attic"; "Outer Limits" from "The Wake"; "Human Nature" (about evolution)
and "Screaming is About Dying" from "Nomazmo"; "Falling Apart at the
Seams" from "Are You Sitting Comfortably?".

Incredible String Band:
"I Was a Young Man (back in the 1960's)", a future retrospective.  See
also "Swift as the Wind", wherein a child's fantasy-hero turns out to be
more substantial.  The double-LP "U (A Surreal Parable in Song and
Dance)" includes "Robot Blues".

Information Society:
Their albums are peppered with audio excerpts from Star Trek;
SF (or at lest computer) themes are common.  "Mirrorshades" from "Hack"
is pure cyber-bandwagonism (at least they beat most of the "mainstream"
to it by a couple of years).

Inner City Unit:
Punk band led by Nik Turner of Hawkwind.  Their first album, "Pass Out",
includes the tracks "Fall Out" (nuclear war), "Polly Ethelene",
"Cybernetic Love". Their second album, "Maximum Effect", starts with
a track suggesting that Elvis has been given Everlasting Life Via
Induced Suspendedanimation.

Iron Maiden:
The track "To Tame a Land" from "Piece of Mind" is about Dune.  (Frank
Herbert wouldn't let them call it "Dune", supposedly, 'cause he doesn't
like heavy metal.)  "Flight of Icarus" and "Quest for Fire" also appear
on "Piece of Mind".  "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is a concept album
about a mystical clairvoyant.  The title track from "Powerslave" is about
the death of an Egyptian god; "Flash of the Blade" from the same LP is
about a young boy who is trained as a warrior and who avenges the death
of his master/teacher.  "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", from the same LP,
is based on the Coleridge poem.  They've also done two songs based on the
TV show, "The Prisoner": "The Prisoner" from "The Number of the Beast"
and "Back in the Village" from "Powerslave".  The title track from
"Number of the Beast" deals with the discovery of a Satanic ritual -- it
might be based on "The Omen".  Also from that album, "Children of the
Damned" (more horror than SF).  The album "Somewhere in Time" contains
"Caught Somewhere in Time", which is about time travel, the devil, and
other assorted fun stuff.  "Stranger in a Strange Land" from the same LP
is SF, but is apparently not related to the Heinlein book of the same
name.  It's based on a newspaper story about a body found in the ice
near the North Pole.  (The cover of that album really deserves note -- it's
a sci-fi scene, lots of details. Ditto for the 2 singles from that album,
"Wasted Years" and "Stranger in a Strange Land", which have sci-fi covers.)

Jackson, Joe:
"In the T.V. Age" from "Night And Day" (aliens as TV sets).
The album "Blaze of Glory" is a concept album with two album-side
long song sequences about (among other things) human interaction
with technology, and living with myths of the future.
"Tommorrow's World" especially deals with images of science and the
future seen by those growing up in the sixties.

Jackson, Michael:
"Thriller", with narration by Vincent Price.

Jad Fair and Kramer:
"Nosferatu" (vampire) and "King Kong" from "Roll Out the Barrel".

Jade Warrior:
LP "Horizon" contains "Images of Dune: a) Prescient Dawn, b) The Fremen, c)
Journey on a Dream".  Other albums contain fantasy and SF themes; like
Mannheim Steamroller, another prototype "New Age" group.  Most work done
1974-1978; other LP's include "Kites", "Waves", "Released", and "Way of
the Sun".  Frequent references to Oriental and Egyptian mythology.

Jefferson Airplane/Starship:
"Blows Against the Empire" (album) done by JA+Crosy, Nash, Freiberg.
etc.  "Have you seen the Saucers?" from"Thirty Seconds Over Winterland".
Also did CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships" (post-nuclear holocaust)
and "Crown of Creation" from Wyndham's "Re-Birth".  Finally, "War
Story" from "Bark" tells of rebellion in the US, mind control.
"Hyperdrive" from "Dragonfly", "Modern Times" and "Alien" from "Modern
Times", "Lightning Rose", "Awakening", "Freedom at Point Zero" from
"Freedom at Point Zero", "Back from the Jaws of the Dragon" from "Winds
of Change", "Connection", "Rose goes to Yale", "Champion" from "Nuclear
Furniture".  See also Paul Kantner's "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll
Orchestra", a followup to "Blows...".  The 1971 LP "Bark" has a
track called "War Movie" in which Kantner rants about a revolt against
the government in 1975.

Jesus Jones:
Besides *sounding* like science fiction, Jesus Jones' third album
"Perverse" begins with the song "Zeros and Ones", about computer technology.

Jethro Tull:
"Passion Play" is about the afterlife (from the vantage point of
the first person singular).  There's some speculation that "War Child"
is similarly constructed. "Dun Ringill" on "Stormwatch" is about some kind of
druidic rites ("We wait in stone circles/'til the force comes through.")
Folk tale "Jack in the Green" from "Songs From the Wood", and the songs
"BroadSword" and "Beastie" from "Broadsword and the Beast".  "Orion"
and "Flying Dutchman" off "Stormwatch", "Fylingdale Flyer" (Flyingdale
is an ICBM early warning station in the UK, and this seems to be about
the possibility of false alarms leading to a nuclear exchange),
"Protect and Survive" (nuclear war), "Batteries Not Included" (android
child), "And Further On" from the album "A".  "Astronomy" on the CD
version of "Under Wraps", and "Apogee" (either version).  Also see
"March, the Mad Scientist" from a 4-song EP (untitled, also contained
"Ring Out, Solstice Bells" and two other songs).

Jobson Eddie/Zinc:
"The Green Album" has some interesting SF-style tracks; for instance,
"Listen to Reason" and "Through the Glass".

Joel, Billy:
"Miami 2017" from "Turnstiles"; a backwards reflection on our own future.
(Incidentally, "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions "Stranger in a
Strange Land".)

John, Elton:
"Rocket Man"...perhaps from Bradbury's "Illustrated Man"?  Anyway,
another road song.  Also "I've Seen the Saucers"...from "Caribou".
"I am Your Robot" from "Jump Up".

Jones, Grace:
"Slave to the Rhythm" is about man as a slave to machines.

Jones, Howard:
"Automaton" on "Dream Into Action" is about a man
from the future who turns out to be a robot.

Jonzun Crew:
Album "Lost in Space" includes "Space Cowboy"--apparently not the same
as the Steve Miller Band song.

Journey:
"Look in into the Future", from the album of the same name,
"Spaceman" from "Next" and "Wheel in the Sky" from "Infinity".

Judas Priest:
"The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown".  See also "Electric
Eye" from "Screaming for Vengeance", an Orwellian song about covert
surveillance drones in the sky. Some commentary on the latest Judas Priest LP:

        The band's last album, "Painkiller" (1990) is basically a science
        fiction concept album, a story set in a time/place frame similar
        to the future of "The Terminator", in which human beings are hunted
        down and killed after a third world war, but it seems less by outside
        forces (though one song is about a monster that hunts people down,
        the "Nightcrawler") than by internal strife. "Between the Hammer and
        the Anvil" is a song about priests who hunt down heretics in the
        collapse of civilization, and the title song is concerned with the
        post-apocalyptic world's hero, only known as The Painkiller.
                                --- Brian Landwehr

Kaleidascope:
The song "The Sky Children", an epic fairytale.

Kansas:
Lots of stuff.  See "Kansas", "Song For America", "Masque" and
"Leftoverture" for details...note, though, that Kerry Livgren is
heavily into Chrisianity, lending an alternative interpretation
to many of the lyrics.  "Point of Know Return" also has sf-related
stuff, such as "Nobody's Home".  Livgren says that he didn't consciously
think of himself as writing Christian-influenced songs until "Monolith",
the LP after "Point...", so interpretation of his earlier work in an
SF context is probably not reaching too much.  Note also the influence
of Native American mythos on several albums such as "Monolith".
Finally, "Taking in the View" and "Tomb 19" from "Power" have
a historical fantasy tinge.

Kayak:
Nearly all of their work is fantasy/sf-related.  The tracks
"Journey Through Time", "Daphne (Laurel Tree)", "Phantom of the Night"
are interesting examples from the LP "Phantom of the Night".  The first
is an interesting time-travel song and the last two deal mostly with
Greek-mythology and its associated fantasy story-lines.  The album
"Periscope Life" contains "Astral Aliens".  The "Starlight Dancer" LP
contains the title track, an interesting piece.  The song "Relics
from a Distant Age" from "The Last Encore" is an SF piece.  Another is
"Trust in the Machine" from their first LP, Kayak.

Khan:
Early Steve Hillage group.  Had album "Space Shanty".

Killdozer:
The quentissential mid-80's Wisconsen grundge-hardcore band
has a song off "Twelve Point Buck" named after that ancient British TV
series "Space: 1999", but it's pretty much about "babes."
The band's name is also the title of a terrible movie about a
possessed Caterpillar D-8 bulldozer, which in turn quite probably
comes from an old Theodore Sturgeon novelet of the same name, first
published in "Astounding" in the late 40's.

King Crimson:
"Epitaph" and "21st Century Schizoid Man" from "In The Court of the
Crimson King".  Also "Dig Me", from "Three of a Perfect Pair",
is about an automobile found in the wild which begs the listener
to "Dig me, but don't...bury me".  The LP "Lizard"'s second side
is about a terrible war in a fantasy world.  (Lyrics by Pete Sinfield.)
"Earthbound" from album of same name (not released in U.S.).

Kinks:
"I wish I could Fly (Like Superman)", and "A Gallon of Gas" from "Low Budget",
about a not-too-distant time when you can't buy a gallon of gas.

Kiss:
"(Music from) The Elder", a soundtrack for a never-made film.

Klaatu:
The group took their name from "Klaatu", the alien robot in "The Day The Earth
Stood Still". Their albums include "3:47 EST", "Hope", "Endangered Species",
"Sir Army Suit" and "Magenta Lane".  (The first album was original released
eponymously, but picked up the title later.)  They're probably best known
for "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", and "Little Neutrino".
The former was apparently conceived as prayer to be recited all over the
globe to induce aliens to visit; it was also covered by the Carpenters.
The album "Hope" is a concept LP telling of the demise of a very earth-like
society on the planet Venus which eventually destroyed itself
with self-paranoia.

Kraftwerk:
Sf-themes occasionally.  Certainly sounds sf-ish.
Albums include "Autobahn", "Radioactivity", "ManMachine",
"Computerworld", and "Trans-Europe Express"; tracks of note
include "The Robots", "Spacelab" and "Metropolis".  Also,
see the track "Kometenmelodia (1&2)".

Kooper, Al:
"Childhood's End" based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel.
A wild cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" appears on
the Bloomfield-Kooper-Stills "Super Session" album.

Landscape:
On "From The Tea-Rooms of Mars...to The Hell Holes of Uranus", see
"Einstein A-Go-Go"; nuclear terrorism ("You better watch out,
you'd better beware; Albert said that E equals M C squared") a classic.
Also "European Man", a life of leisure in an automated world.
and still from that same LP, "Live... from the Tea-Rooms of Mars";
synthesized tea-room dance music with some gently crooned SF lyrics,
(e.g "Do you know what it's like to live where there's no trees and no sky ?
Night and day are just controls.")  See also "My Name is Norman Bates",
which isn't exactly SF, but horror.

Leatherwolf:
"Gypsies and Thieves" from their first album is Melnibonean
(that is, it concerns "Elric of Melnibone", one of Michael Moorcock's
characters who jointly are "The Eternal Champion".  See the entry
on Hawkwind.) and some of their other material is fantasy-ish.

Led Zeppelin:
"No Quarter" from  "Houses of the Holy" is rather eerie, but no one is
quite sure what it's about.  "The Battle of Evermore", from Led Zep IV
mentions Ringwraiths.  Also see "Ramble On" on Led Zep II for mention of
Mordor and Gollum.  See also "Misty Mountain Hop" on Led Zep IV.  Some
speculation that "Stairway to Heaven" is about Saruman'sjourney to the
west, but nobody seems to be sure.  Also "Kashmir" from "Physical Grafitti".

Level 42:
Song, "Star Child" -- is this about the Star Child from 2001?
(Level 42's name was based on the Answer to the Ultimate Question from
the Hitchhiker's Guide.)

Limor, Gilead:
You Are The Stars. This album is an instrumental epic
describing a fantasy travel through solar systems and universes.
The album (on CD and Cassette) was released by Nesak International
Inc., New Jersey, and is part of a so-called "You Are..." series of
instrumental titles.  (I believe Gilead is the first person to submit
one of his or her own works for inclusion in the list; congratulations
are in order for making it through the daunting process of cranking
out a release!  Contact address: [email protected] ---Rsk )

Little River Band:
"Orbit Zero" from "Time Exposure" is the sad story of an alien race with
hopes of settling on Earth, only to find it already crowded by us humans.

Love and Rockets:
Rumored to have done songs relating to Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez'
comic book for which they're named.  See "Holiday on the Moon", a
B-side to a single, and their cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam".

Lovich, Lene:
"Telepathy" from "Stateless", about a maddening psychic gift.

Lyon, Steve:
"Deimos and Phobos" is about a guy who is homesick for Mars.

M:
"The Official Secrets Act" (an innocent gets caught up in government
plots and secret police, a la 1984)

MC-5:
On "Kick Out the Jams", "Rocket Reducer" and "Starship".

MacDonald & Giles:
Two alumni of the early King Crimson, who released an LP who
second side is a long suite called "Birdman" about a scientist
who invents wings that work.

Machover, Ted:
"VALIS", an electronic space opera version of Philip K. Dick's novel.

Magma:
"Inedits", "Udu Wudu"...sort of cross between German language research
and H.P. Lovecraft.  Curious reference to "Ork" on Udu Wudu.
Here's a bit of background on the band...

  About Magma & its founder Christian Vander...what he invented was rather a
  cult than a subculture. Most Magma material deals with a mythology that
  Vander claims to have been given knowledge of during a revelation. This is
  when he also was given the umlaut-seasoned language "Kobaian" that pervades
  the lyrics on the Magma albums. In short, according to the mythology, there
  is a "highest being" in the Universe by the name of "Kreuhn Ko:hrmann". (I
  use ":" after a letter to denote umlaut, two dots over it.) Vander sees
  himself as some sort of prophet, and the people of the Earth have to listen
  and convert their lives to be more in accordance with the Right Way or a
  global disaster, a sort of divine punishment, will be the result. Also
  appearing are "orks" which "are to machines what machines are to men". All
  this sounds like bad heavy metal fantasies but Vander has persisted for many
  years so maybe he really believes in it, who knows? A good example of the
  Vander/Magma type of stuff is the album "Mekhanik Destruktiw Kommando:h"
  that is a sort of mass with lots of mystical chanting. The second side of
  "U:du Wu:du:", "De Futura", is about travelling in time which according to
  the liner notes on the sleeve enables us to see the orks.  --Bjorn Lisper

Magnum:
Many songs with generic SF&F themes such as "On A Storyteller's Night",
"Firebird" and possibly "Don't Wake the Lion".  (There's some speculation
that the latter might really be about WW I.)

Manhattan Transfer:
Recorded a (snappy) version of the theme to the TV show "Twilight Zone".

Man or Astro-Man?:
[the question mark is part of the band's name] A current
instrumental band who make science fiction part of their identity.
The band has constructed an elaborate mythology about its members being
visitors sent from space by The Unmentionable One.  Their live shows
feature half a dozen TVs on stage showing sci-fi images ranging from
1950s B movies to recent Ultraman episodes.  Their 1993 debut album "Is
it ... Man or Astro-Man?" (Estrus Records) features cover art by Richard
Powers, who I'm told is famous for sci-fi novel covers.  Song titles
include "Invasion of the Dragonmen," "Illudium Q-36," "Escape Through the
Air Vent," "Alien Visitors."  Many tracks begin with dialogue clips of
corresponding sci-fi content.  They have lots more music, similarly
themed, in the pipeline for late 1993 and 1994 release.  For more info write
them at Man or Astro-Man? HQ, 429 Moores Mill Rd. #4, Auburn, AL 36830.

Mannfred Mann's Earth Band:
"Solar Fire", "Time is Right".

Manowar:
They generally sing about heroic deeds, from days of old, when
men were bold. They like to dress like Conan, and their music
brings to mind images of Viking feasts and adventures.
"Defender", from "Fighting the World" is an example wherein the
hero goes off on some mighty quest.

Manufacture:
An industrial band from Boston.  "Pain Amplifier" on
"Voice of World Control" takes its title from the device in _Dune_.

Marillion:
"Grendel", i.e. Beowulf & friends is the B side of "Market Square Heroes",
a 12-inch EP.  This track is now also available on an import CD called
"B'Sides  Themselves".  (The band took its name from "Silmarillion".)
"Season's End" from the LP of the same name, talks about global warming.

Martha and the Muffins:
"Echo Beach" seems to be about a desire to travel back in time to
a beach at pre-war Hiroshima.  Update: nope, doesn't look like it.
It's apparently about a beach in northern Ontario (Canada), near Barrie.

Mary's Danish:
Their album "Circa" includes the song "Venus loves Leonard", which is
sort of a '50s SF movie soundalike.

Material:
The entire CD "Seven Souls", with liner notes from William S. Burroughs.
Appears to be about the effect of nuclear explosions on electromagnetically-
constituted souls.

Matthews, David:
"Dune".

McGear, Mike:
Paul McCartney's brother, who goes by Mike McGear, put out an album in
1975 which I think was called "McGear".  It was produced by Paul, and most
songs were either written or co-written by Paul, with the Wings crew
playing backup.  Included was a song called "The Man Who Found God on the
Moon", co-written by McCartney/McGear, whose title is pretty descriptive,
and which features sound clips of Buzz Aldrin, broadcast live from the Moon.
The song was more adventurous musically than McCartney's own solo work.

Meco:
Schlock disco camp versions of things like the main title from "Star Wars".
Possibly the only band to record a disco track worse than "A Fifth
of Beethoven".  Mired in a 70's timewarp somewhere.  Thankfully.

Mekons:
Who are these folks?

Men at Work:
"Helpless Automaton" from "Business as Usual" is about a robot falling
in love with a human.  "Doctor Heckle and Mister Jive" refers to
the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.

Men Without Hats:
"The Great Ones Remember" from "The Rhythm of Youth"; "Folk of the 80's"
from "Folk of the 80's (Part III)"; "Moonbeam" from "Pop Goes the World".
"In the 21st Century", "Hey Men", and "Here Come the 90's"
from "The Adventures of Men and Women Without Hate in the 21st Century"

Metallica:
"The Call of Ktulu" on "Ride the Lightning" (Lovecraft reference; the
name was changed from "Cthulhu" to avoid legal entanglements)
and "The Thing That Should Not Be" from "Master of Puppets" (also
Lovecraft-ian, about a critter named Nyogtha -- it's unclear whether
Lovecraft mentioned this particular beastie or not).  However,
the lyrics of the song are very similar to HPL's phrasing in a quote from
the Necronomicon in "Call of Cthulhu", leading to the inference that "The
Thing..." is in fact about Cthulhu. Also see "The Four Horsemen"
from "Kill 'Em All".

Midnight Oil:
Albums "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" and "Red Sails in the Sunset"
both have nuclear cautionary themes running thru them.  "Red Sails"
depicts Sydney, Australia after a nuclear strike.

Midnight Star:
"Freak-A-Zoid" is about the perfect robot lover.

Mike and the Mechanics:
"Silent Running" depicts life after a major war; as far as I can tell,
it's unrelated to the SF film starring Bruce Dern.

Ministry:
"Thieves" seems to have references to a future facist government.
"Faith Collapsing" from "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste"
consists largely of samples from one or another of the _1984_ films.

Misex:
An Australian-based band (really from New Zealand) released a
minor hit single "Computer Games", from the album " Space Race".
The rest of the album is also SF.

Monkees:
See "Door Into Summer" on their album "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn
& Jones Ltd.". The song's writer, Bill Martin says "The title came from
the Robert Heinlein book _The_Door_Into_Summer_, which was about time travel.
The song is about the search for happiness, and is basically an anti-war song."

Monks of Doom:
Side-project-turned-spinoff from Camper Van Beethoven.
"Off On A Comet" (instr.) and "Virtual Lover" (ick! how could they?) both
from "Forgery", 1992; "The Insect God" (from an EP), based on a book by
Edward Gorey, author and illustrator of countless strange, scary little books
(he did the opening sequence to PBS' "Mystery!").

Moody Blues:
"To Our Children's Children's Children", which seems to be a musical
score for Olaf Stapledon's novel, "The Star Maker"; also "On the
Threshold of a Dream" begins with a man questioning his existence and
turns into computer rantings.  Spooky psychedelia...
Also, the cover of "Long Distance Voyager" shows an 18th century
scene with something in the sky that looks like a Voyager space probe.

Moorcock, Michael:
(Some commentary on M.M. from Jeff Berry; see also the entries
for Blue Oyster Cult, Candlemass, Deep Fix, Hawkwind, and Leatherwolf.)

        Michael Moorcock is a very prolific science fiction fantasy writer,
        most widely known for the "Elric of Melnibone" series, a fantasy
        staple.  That series is, however, part of a more sweeping
        "supra-series" concerning the Eternal Champion, a warrior who returns
        again and again to live out various lives in a grand and ultimately
        doomed cycle of birth and re-birth.  (As an aside note, this concept
        is satirized in Craig Shaw Garnder's "Ballad of Wuntvor" as
        the Eternal Apprentice).

        Moorcock has published at least 30 or 40 books, in many different
        series, as well as a number of stand alone novels, both in science
        fiction and in fantasy.  Musically he has collaborated with Hawkwind
        and Blue Oyster Cult, writing songs and occasionally performing.
        Futhermore, Elric cover art by Michael Whelan has appeared as album
        cover art in at least a few places (for example, Cirith Ungol
        uses one of his covers for one of their albums).

        The Chaosium Game Company has acquired rights to most of Moorcock's
        work for gaming purposes, and has released games based on both Elric
        and on Hawkmoon (yet another incarnation of the Eternal Champion).
        Moorcock books should be available at almost any reputable book dealer.
        More info available at request.
                --- Jeff Barry, [email protected]

Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix:
A companion single to "The New Worlds Fair" was also released called "Star Cruiser/Dodgem Dude" (on Flicknife records).

Moore, Gary:
"Nuclear Attack" from "Dirty Fingers" is about World War III; the
title track from "After the War" seems to focus on the same topic.

Moraz, Patrick:
The entire theme of the album "i" is SF; also see another LP,
"Transplanetary Flight".

Mortifee, Ann:
Has done a few albums with fantastic themes on them.  Her album
"Journey To Kairos", includes the song "Centaur", about the mythological
beast, "Shankarananda", about the afterlife as described by Eastern
religions, "Streets of Banaras", which seems to be about a rather
surreal search.. On her album "Born To Live", she does a song called
"Merlin" about the mythical wizard, and a pair of songs at the end
called "The Companion/Phoenix" about a strange creature called
The Companion that attends an old man, or something like that.

Move, The:
"Yellow Rainbow".  See also Electric Light Orchestra.

Murder the Disturbed:
The EP "Genetic Disruption" contains "Walking Corpses" which is about
robots and "Ultimate System" which is about time travel.

Murphy, Peter:
The song "Shy" has a segment called "The Sister of Sleep" which
is based on the comic "Sandman".  He also is the physical basis for the
character Klaus in the comic book Night's Children.  (See also Bauhaus.)

NRBQ:
"Rocket 9".

National Health:
"Tenemos Roads", from their eponymous debut album, is about a war on Mercury.

Nektar:
"Remember the Future", "Recycle" and "Journey to the Centre of the Eye"
are all LP's with SF-ish themes.   "Remember the Future" is highly
recommended on vinyl; the CD mix, at least the pressing I've heard,
overemphasizes the keyboards at the expense of some terrific guitar work.

Nelson, Bill/Red Noise:
"Sound on Sound" has a number of songs with SF themes, including
"Atom Man Loves Radium Girl".  He's also done a lot of (mainly instrumental)
tracks with SF/magic themes.

Nena:
"99 Luftballons" (WW3 & aftermath)

The Neon Judgement:
"Billy Tcherno and Pretty Petrouchka" from "Horny as Hell" is about
Russian mutants after a nuclear accident.

New England:
"L-5".

New Model Army:
"White Coats" talks about genetic engineering and its problems.

New Musik:
"On Islands" asks the question whether there might be other beings
in the universe, and "Living by Numbers" rehashes the old numbers
instead of names theme; both are found on the "Straight Lines" EP,
and on the "From A To B" LP.

Nilsson, Harry:
See "Spaceman" from "Son of Schmilsson"; and "Son of Dracula",
the soundtrack for a very silly movie he made with Ringo Starr.

Normaali, Eppu:
"Science Fiction", which is mostly derogatory things about people reading SF.

Numan, Gary:
"Cars", of course, and an LP done with a band called "Tubeway Army",
"Are Friends Electric", containing the title track and "Praying to
the Aliens"; it's apparently about alien androids taking over the earth.
See also "Down in the Park", "We Are Engineers", and "I Dream of Wires"
(also covered by Robert Palmer on "Addictions II").

O'Brien, Richard:
"Science Fiction Double Feature", from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Oh, and the entire rest of the music and lyrics too, by the way.

O'Connor, Sinead:
This well-known operatic diva :-) has recorded a track entitled
"The Emperor's New Clothes", but it would appear that the title
is the only reference to the fairy tale.

Oingo Boingo:
"Perfect System" and "Controller" (both from the LP "Only a Lad") discuss
Orwellian/Huxleyian societies.  "No Spill Blood" from "Good for Your Soul"
is based on "The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells.  See also the
soundtrack for "Weird Science", and "Dead Man's Party" for various
songs on spooks and life after the bomb.

Oldfield, Mike:
A track from "Discovery" called "Saved By the Bell"
describes a trip through the universe.

Oldfield, Salley:
(yes, this is Mike's Sister) The album "The Water Bearer" is
based primarily on the Lord of the Rings trilogy from Tolken.

Omega:
(Hungarian) has a record called "Idorablo" (add some dots and
accentes here), meaning "Time Robber". The title suite contains
one part called "Napot hoztam csillagot", "Sun and Stars I brought".

The Only Ones:
A New Zealand band with a song "Another Girl, Another Planet", which
is about futuristic space travel....well, maybe.  Some folks are inclined
not to agree with this interpretation.

The Orb:
Their album "U.F.Orb" includes songs such as "Close Encounters", "O.O.B.E.",
"Blue Room" (supposedly the nickname of the room in the US where UFO's
are kept), "Majestic", and the title track.  Their first album, "The Orb's
Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" featured songs identified by orbits
and probes instead of numbers, viz.:
        Earth Orbit One - Little Fluffy Clouds
        Earth Orbit Two - Earth (Gaia)
        Earth Orbit Three - Super Nova at the End of the Universe
        Earth Orbit Four - Perpetual Dawn
        Earth Orbit Five - Into the Fourth Dimension
        Ultraworld Probe Six - Outlands
        Ultraworld Probe Seven - Star 6 & 7 8 9
        Ultraworld Probe Eight - A huge ever growing pulsating brain that
                rules from the centre of the ultraworld: live mix mk 10.
They also have all sorts of SF related singles.
A double-album version of "Ultraworld" exists which has extra "Lunar Orbit"
tracks.  According to Keyboard magazine, "Towers of Dub" on "U.F.Orb" uses
samples from the movie "Sleeper".

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD):
A lot of their songs have a futuristic feel to them. Tracks called "Genetic
Engineering" and "Pretending to see the future" are examples.  See also
"Enola Gay", about the bombing of Hiroshima.

Orion:
"Star Trek", a techno mix.

PTP:
A collaboration between Al Jourgensen of Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire.
The name stands for Programming The Psychodrill, which is a phrase from a
J.G. Ballard collage.

Pallas:
The album "The Sentinel" contains "Rise and Fall" and "Atlantis", which
are both about Atlantis; also on this album is "Ark of Infinity", which
is about a deep space hibernation ship.

Parker, Graham:
"Waiting for the UFOs" on "Squeezing Out Sparks".

Pearls Before Swine:
"Ring Thing" -- Three rings for the elven kings...good rendition.

Peek, Kevin:
"Starship Suite" from "Awakening", actually managed to work the word
"cryogenic" into a song.

Petra:
Christian rock band with numerous SF allusions in their cover art and
music; see "Computer Brains" on "Beat the System".

Phillips, Anton:
"1984", inspired by Orwell's book.

Pickett, Bobby "Boris":
Famous for "Monster Mash", he also recorded a song titled "King Kong"
(chorus:  "King Kong, King Kong, the white man done you wrong.") and a Star
Trek parody called "Star Drek" (with Peter Ferrara).

Pinhas, Richard:
Has done an LP about Dune ("Chronolyse") and also has Norman Spinrad
doing vocals on a piece on "East/West" that is about some air disaster.
(Chronolyse is entirely instrumental, by the way.)
Pinhas did and electronics and played guitar in Heldon (see above).

Pierre Etoile ("Stone Star"):
Song "In The Sun" on Rough Trade records.
Can be found also on Indie Top 20 Vol.13.

Pink Floyd:
Of course.  "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" & "Astronomy
Domine", (on "Ummagumma") are fairly representative.  Much of their
instrumental music has an sf/fantasy feel to it.  See also "Piper at the
Gates of Dawn", "Saucerful of Secrets", Some speculation that "Set the
Controls..." influenced Douglas Adam's writing about the group Disaster Area.
Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" borrows its title from
a chapter in the children's classic, "The Wind in the Willows," in
which some animals innocently encounter the god Pan.

Pixies:
"Wave of Mutilation" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" from "Doolittle",
"Allison" and "The Happening" from "Bossanova". "Trompe Le Monde" has,
in addition to the title track, "Palace of the Brine" and
"Olympus Mons" (the large extinct volcano on Mars).  Much of the whole
album may be about an alien looking for the "Planet of Sound" (Earth).

Planet P:
Albums: "Planet P" and "Pink World".  Now known as Planet P Project.
"Planet P" is the name that Tony Carey ("A Fine Day for a Reunion")
uses when writing SF-oriented music.

Platinum Blonde:
The album Alien Shores is only half sci-fi...the B side is
supposedly dedicated to the idea of UFO sightings.  Unfortunately, the A
side is Better.  Earlier, on their first album, they did two great songs,
-Standing in the Dark- and -It Doesn't Really Matter-, both of which had
mild SF themes, and incredible sci-fi/post-holocaust videos, which are
really what put the band on the map.

The Pogues:
On their album "If I Should Fall from Grace with God," there's a song called
"Turkish Song of the Damned," which is about a sailor who is haunted by
the ghost of a crewman who he had let drown. Another song from that album,
"Sit Down by the Fire," is a bedtime story about demons.

The Polecats:
"Juvenile Delinquents from a Planet Near Mars"

Police:
"Synchronicity II" (Loch Ness monster references, but not really an
SF tune) from "Synchronicity".  Also "Synchronicity" (a different
song on the same LP) is about action-at-a-distance; it seems to be
part mystical, part quantum mechanics.  (There's a short short SF story
called "Synchronicity", but I can't recall the author.)
Also see "Wrapped Around Your Finger", which some claim is about a spirit
trapped inside a sorcerer's ring; I tend to go with a more mundane
interpretation.  "Demolition Man" (also done by Manfred Mann) from
"Ghost in the Machine".

Pop Will Eat Itself:
This band often samples the movie "Blade Runner"; the song "Wake Up!
Time to Die..." is built around that quote from the film.  "Def Con One"
from the album "This is th Day...This is the Hour...This is This"
describes a nuclear attack.  "X Y & Zee" from "Cure for Sanity"
is a description of a future world.

Porno for Pyros:
"pets" on "Porno for Pyros" is about Martians coming
to Earth and cleaning it up, making pets out of the human race.
("We'll make great pets.")

Powell, Roger:
Former keyboard player with Todd Rundgren's Utopia; has a solo
album ("Cosmic Furnace"?) with tracks like "Sandworm of Arrakis".

Prism:
"Take Me to the Kaptain" was a minor hit for this Canadian band on
AOR stations in 1977-78.  The singer falls asleep and wakes up on
a starship -- thus his plea to see the "Kaptain"!!  The record was
released in the U.S. under the Ariola Records - America label.

Propaganda:
On the album "A Secret Wish", the song "p: machinery" is about people
commanded/directed by machines.

Punishment of Luxury:
"The Laughing Academy" is the name of the album containing a track
about receiving signals from an alien civilization.  The track itself is
called "Message Received" (I think...). See also "Radar Bug/Metropolis"
from the same album.  The track "Brainbomb" (B side of the single
"Secrets") is about telepathy.

Quadrophonia:
Album called "Cozmic Jam" contains songs "Djoum 1000", "The Wave of the
Future", "Cozm'" and "Ovo", along with the title track.

Quantum Jump:
(group lead by Rupert Hine) "No American Starship".

Queen:
"Thirty-Nine", from "A Night at the Opera", discusses the problems of
relativistic travel.  Also "Machines (back to humans)" from "The Works";
other albums include the Flash Gordon soundtrack and "Fun in Space", a solo
album by drummer Roger Taylor. "Ogre Battle" (seems to be about the fantasy
game Ogre) "March of the Black Queen" and "Seven Seas of Rhye" from "Queen II".
The album "A Kind of Magic" contains fantasy tunes from the film "Highlander".
And the video from "Radio Ga-Ga" includes clips from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

--- A note on Queen from Elisabeth Anne Riba

    Both Brian May & Roger Taylor were big SF fans.  Brian's first group
    was called 1984.  Before Queen, Brian, Roger &Tim Staffell were a group
    called "Smile."  They had only one single released, called "Earth,"
    about a lonely spaceman.  The chorus goes "I have seen many worlds, for
    what it's worth.  But I'll never see again, the planet Earth, my Earth."
    The song closes with "the green hills of Earth," a Heinlein reference.

    In addition, the cover for Queen's News of the World album comes from
    the October 1953 issue of Astounding SF. Likewise, Roger Taylor's Fun
    In Space features Roger reading Creepy #119 on its cover.  The title
    track begins "Strangers In A Strange Land" and talks about "Little
    Green Stories." (I love that term)

Queensryche:
Their first and second albums, "The Warning" and "Rage for Order"
both contain songs about sentient machinery, e.g. "Screaming in
Digital" and "I Only Dream in Infra-Red".  Most of their self-titled
EP is also fantasy, include "NM 156" which is full of computer terminology.
The album "Operation: Mindcrime" is a rock opera about mind control.  It
tell the story of a man who is programmed by revolutionaries to kill political
and religious leaders (and his girlfriend).

The Rah Band:
Had a mid-80's hit single, "Clouds Across the Moon" which is about a
woman taking a phonecall from her husband working on Mars,
the phonecall is cut off by interference by the clouds of the title,
before she can say how much she loves him.

Renaissance:
"Jekyll and Hyde" from "Azure D'Or", and "Kalynda (A Magical Isle)".
"Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)" from the eminently
forgettable "Camera Camera" album.  And, of course "Scheherezade",
an entire LP side's worth of it.  Highly recommended if for
no other reason than Annie Haslam, an operatically-trained singer
with incredible range and power.

Replacements:
"Androgynous" off "Let it Be" discusses "unisex evolution" and how
"Dick and Janes" who wear pants and skirts will be future outcasts.

Return to Forever:
Fusion jazz with Chick Corea, Al DiMeola & Stanley Clarke.
"Romantic Warrior" is a medieval/fantasy concept album.  Tracks include
"The Sorceress" and "The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant".
Return to Forever's "Where Have I Known You Before" is Scientology
(a weird religion invented by the late SF writer L. Ron Hubbard) set
to kick-ass jazz-rock fusion music. It's all instrumental, but the
pieces are linked with titles taken from a poem about some kind of
quest through space.  Fusion fans should also check out  "Hymn of
the Seventh Galaxy".

Revolting Cocks
"We Shall Cleanse the World" from the album "Big Sexyland" is based
on, and contains samples from the movie "The Omega Man." "Attack
Ships on Fire" is on the same album, but the only SF connection seems
to be the title (Rutger Hauer quote from "Blade Runner.")

Rezzilos:
See "2000 AD", and "Flying Saucer Attack" from "Can't Stand the Rezzilos".

REM:
Single "Superman".

Radiorama:
This Italian pop/disco group released an album entitled "2nd Album",
which contains ongs like "Aliens" (inspired by the movie), "Yeti"
and "Vampire".

Rainbow:
Heavy Metal.  Some fantasy tracks, e.g. "Temple of the King",
"16th century greensleeves", "Kill the King", "Stargazer".
See the album "Rainbow Rising".  See also Deep Purple.

Ramases:
"Space Hymns", including great fold-out cover, studiowork by
Godley & Creme; apparently expounds religious visions of infinite
regress of microscopic universes.

Ramatam:
"In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns" contains
"Downrange Party".  Band featured April Lawton, the female Jimi Hendrix.

Rapp, Tom:
The lead singer of Pearls before Swine broke out with two solo
albums which included these songs:  "The Rocket Man", based on the
Bradbury short story of the same name;  "Stardancer", based on the
Bradbury story, Kaleidoscope;  and "For the Dead in Space" an
original (and equally depressing) song.

Reed, Lou:
"Red Joystick" and "Down at the Arcade".  Also "Satellite of Love".

Residents:
"The Mole Trilogy", a conflict between two alien cultures.  Other
SF-ish songs and albums, included "God in Three Persons", which is
about a pair of Siamese twins with healing powers.

The Rheostatics:
A Canadian band; on their album "Melville", the song "Aliens(Christmas 1988)"
is about a woman getting kidnapped by UFO-style aliens, one of whom falls in
love with her.

Rhodes, Happy:
Has a song called "Wrong Century", about a woman who somehow leaves the
past for the present, but can't cope with this century and would like
to return to her own time. On "Equipoise", there is a song called
'Save our Souls' questioning the reasoning behind humans trying to
contact aliens, when we can hardly cope with our problems here on earth.
Also on "Ecto", there is a song called 'Look for the Child' from  which the
following line is taken: 'When the ships come down from the sky'. It is
about first contact, and how are we going to choose a representative,
given the conflicts and prejudices that exist among us.

Richman, Jonathan  & the Modern Lovers:
Their eponymous 1976 album includes "Here Come the Martian Martians",
a funny song about the Martians' inability to deal with earth and
the concept of capitalism, and "Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket",
which is similar in nature.  The album "Rockin' and Romance'" includes
the song "UFO Man", about a visitor who flies around Jonathan's town
in his flying saucer doing stunts at high speed.

Ridgway, Stan:
Ex-vocalist from Wall of Voodoo. Quirky subject matter in general,
but sci-fi specifically on the album "Partyball".  See the songs
"I Want to be a Boss", "Overlords", and "Beyond Tomorrow".

Riley, Billy Lee:
"Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll"  An example of rockabilly, one of the
staples of the Memphis-based Sun record label.  It's about a flying
saucer whose crew play rock'n'roll - nothing too profound.

Rinder & Lewis:
Early 80's new-wave group that produced some SF songs, including
"Apocalypse" and "New Malibu".

Robinson, Tom:
"Merrily Up on High", about a war that is yet to happen.  (Co-written
Peter Gabriel)

Rolling Stones:
Wrote the ultimate road song for astronauts, "2000 Light Years From
Home", which is on "Their Satanic Majesties' Request".  Also "2000
Man", about how child-parent relationships still don't work, even in
the 21st century.

Roth, Uli John:
"Electric Sun".

Rudimentary Penii:
This group did a whole album about H.P. Lovecraft. (Can't remember it's name).
The lyrics are extremely witty.

Rundgren, Todd:
"King Kong Reggae" and "Sons of 1984" from "Todd".  See also Utopia.
"Healing" is about a man who recives the power to become a healer.
"A Capella" includes "Miracle in the Bazaar" and "Lockjaw", both
of which deal with traditional themes like ogres and genies.

Rush:
In "2112", based on the book "Anthem" by Ayn Rand, the protagonist
discovers an ancient guitar and winds up battling the dictatorial
priesthood.  The LP also contains "Twilight Zone", about the TV show of
the same name.  "Red Barchetta" on "Moving Pictures"is similar, except
the guitar is replaced by a car. (It's based on the story "A Nice
Morning's Drive".)  See also "Cygnux X-1" (thought to be a black hole),
"Rivendell" (Tolkien reference), "The Necromancer".  See also "The Body
Electric" and "Red Sector A" from "Grace Under Pressure".  See also
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog" from "Fly by Night".  "Hemispheres" (title
track thereof) is a sequel to "Cygnus X-1".  "Countdown" from "Signals"
is about the space shuttle.  See also "Manhattan Project" from "Power
Windows".  The song "Xanadu" from "A Farewell to Kings" is based on the
Colerige poem of the same name.  See also "The Fountain of Lamneth" from
"Caress of Steel" and "Anthem" from "Fly by Night" -- both songs deal
with individuality.  See also "Natural Science" from "Permanent Waves",
which deals with future dystopias, utopias, etc.
(Note -- most of their work tends to be Olde Englishe Ballades, which of
course have much to do with things fey and weird.  (Prime example would
be "Thomas the Rhymer", a rock version of "Thomas Rymer"))

Russell, Leon:
"Stranger in a Strange Land" -- based on the Heinlein novel.

S.P.O.C.K:
Swedish space pop band.  They were originally  called 'Spock' but
due to legal problems they changed their name to 'Space Pilots On
Channel K' or 'S.P.O.C.K' Their synthesizer based music is heavily
SF / Star Trek inspired. Their debut album 'Five year mission' contains
the following songs: Neutral Zone, Never Trust a Klingon, Charlie X,
Mr.Spocks Brain, Black Hole, Space Race, Edge of Forever,
and Last Man on Earth.

Saga:
Canadian progressive synth-rock band with a series of songs which
combine to tell a single story spread out over four albums, to wit:

        From "Saga": Chapter 4: Will It Be You?,
                 and Chapter 6: Tired World;
        From "Images At Twilight":
                     Chapter 1: Images,
                 and Chapter 3: It's Time;
        from "Silent Knight":
                     Chapter 2: Don't Be Late,
                 and Chapter 7: Too Much To Lose;
        and from "Worlds Apart":
                    Chapter 5: No Regrets,
                and Chapter 8: No Stranger.

Roughly speaking, the story tells of space war, alien encounters,
and the aftermath of war.

Sanders, Ed:
(A member of the Fugs at one time) released "Beer Cans on the Moon",
which contains such gems as a song about a yodeling robot in love with
Dolly Parton as well as some more topical songs.  "Dark Carnival"
sets a number of Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" stories to music.

Sandy Bradley and the Small Wonder String Band(?):
"Interstellar Sweetheart"

Sangster, John:
Australian jazz musician, has two albums "The Hobbit Suite" and "Lord of
the Rings" which are jazz tone poems based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Satriani, Joe:
"Surfing with the Alien" and "Back to Shalla-Bal" are about the
Silver Surfer of comic book fame.

Scanner:
They are a German speed-metal, and their first album, "Hypertrace", is an
SF story.  7 criminals were turned into supersoldiers during an experiment
during WWII.  They went berzerk, and were shot into space, and their rockets
exploded, except one, who was found by aliens, and they taguht him to bring
peace to the world.  The aliens gave him the mechanical planet Galactoss, where
he built 5 androids to send back to Earth, to collect data, so that he
could save the Earth from destroying itself.  Their second album (recorded
with a new lead singer) also contains a few SF songs.

Schilling, Peter:
"Major Tom (Coming Home)"; perhaps a sequel to or re-telling of
Bowie's "Space Oddity" from "Error in the System" (originally
titled "Fehler im System") [also possibly based on the Bradbury story
Kaleidescope]; also "The Noah Plan" (about an exodus from Earth),
"Error in the System" (Earth as lost interstellar colony),
"Only Dreams" (computers plotting to take revenge on humans),
"Lifetime Guarantee (mind-controlled Utopia) and others.
There is some speculation that the translator may be responsible for the
SF content of some of these; for instance, the original (German) version
of "Only Dreams" ("...dann truegt der Schein") seems to be a non-SF song.
"Things to Come" includes "Zone 804" (aliens come to bring peace) and
"Lone Survivor" (man hides in bomb shelter, but war is averted; he's stuck).
Also, the song "Berlin, City of Night" (about fighting to reunite Belin
and Germany) was speculative fiction at the time that it was written.

Schultz, Mark:
There's a delightful short piece by Mark Schultz entitled
"Dragons in the Sky" for horn, percussion, and electronic tape.  This is
supposedly the third work Mr. Schultz has written based on The Silmarillion,
though I have not encountered the first two.  This one musically describes
the battle of the elves with the dragons of Morgoth.  The only performance
of which I am aware is with Thomas Bacon on horn, and Richard Brown on
percussion on a Summit Records CD, DCD 135.

Scorpions:
"Robot Man" on "In Trance". See ex-Scorption Uli Jon Roth.

Screaming Blue Messiahs:
The album "Totally Religious", has some SF-related tracks:
"Mega-City One" -- Very Judge Dredd-influenced lyrics, about policeman
in a MegaCity of the future.  If you're not familiar with Judge Dredd,
he is an English comic character, who is a "Judge" in a future
underground hyperviolent city called MegaCity One.
"Four Engines Burning over the USA" -- May be stretching it a bit,
but this song could be about a nuclear attack on the United States.

Sensational Alex Harvey Band:
See "The Tale of The Giant Stone-Eater" from "Tomorrow Belongs to Me",
and "Nightmare City" from "Rock Drill".  Also "Vambo" and "The Faith
Healer" from "Next".  Bizarre Scottish lads.

Seventh Wave:
"Things to Come"

The Shamen:
The album "Boss Drum" contains "Space Time" and "Scientas".

Shonen Knife:
A Japanese band, they often sing about space travel and other SF-ish
themes. "Parallel Woman" (Japanese) from the "Shonen Knife" album, is about
a superheroine in a parallel universe.  "Riding on the Rocket"
(japanese), on "Pretty Little Baka Guy", is about visiting different
planets in a space ship.  "The Moon World" (japanese), on "712", is
about visiting the Moon.  "Neon Zebra", a single, is about a zebra
who gets transformed by aliens.  In "Space Christmas" (english), a
single,  Naoko asks for a space ship for Christmas so she can visit
Pluto.  Their latest album, "Let's Knife", includes an
English-language version of "Riding on the Rocket", as well as "I am
a Cat" (english), about turning into a cat and dancing on a flying
saucer.  The CD single "Riding on the Rocket" also includes an
instrumental called "Milky Way".

Shriekback:
Did a song "Nemesis" about the comics character of the same name.
(The video shows him/her/it prancing in the background.)  However,
the song may also have a second meaning: "Nemesis" is the name of
the hypothetical "dark companion" to the sun which (according to one theory)
is responsible for periodically disturbing the Oort cloud and causing a
rain asteroids on the earth producing the periodic extinctions that
(some say) are present in the fossile record.  Much of the lyrics
of "Nemesis" seem to refer to the death of the dinosaurs as the
result of this sort of cosmic catastrophe. On the album
"Oil & Gold" (whence Nemesis comes as well), they have "This Big Hush",
about life after nuclear war, and "Health & Knowledge & Wealth & Power",
which contains the lines "Touchdown on a different world/White eyes
look 'round".  On "Big Night Music", they have the song "Underwaterboys",
whose title says it all..

Sigue Sigue Sputnik:
The album "Flaunt It" includes "21st Century Boy" along with other
SF-sounding stuff; the lyrics are difficult to decipher.  Their
song "Love Missile F-11" includes samples from "A Clockword Orange".

Sinfield, Pete:
(See also Caravan, King Crimson, ELP.)  His solo LP "Still" contains
the track "Song of the Sea Goat" which may or may not be fantasy.
Like much of Sinfield's work, the lyrics are very surreal and difficult
to interpret.

Sisters of Mercy:
"Black Planet" from "First and Last and Always" is another
one of those cheerful post-nuclear-holocaust ballads.  :)

Skinny Puppy
"200 Years" from the album "Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" is
based on and contains samples from a Twilight Zone episode.

Smithereens:
Just a quick note to mention that "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is *not*
a Lovecraft adaption (see the entry for Black Sabbath) but is about
having an obsession with a woman bass player.

Sonic Youth:
On the album "Daydream Nation," a lot of sci-fi/cyberpunk
themes, and direct references to 'jacking in' as in Gibson's "Neuromancer".
See also the songs "Eric's Trip", "Hyperstation" and "Silver Rocket".
Sonic Youth draws heavily on the material of Phillip K. Dick and
William Gibson, in general; see "The Sprawl".

Southwind:
"The Green Hills of Earth" -- lyrics by Heinlein (or Rhysling, if
you prefer) from the story of the same name.

Spacemen3:
Covered "Starship" by Sun Ra and the MC5.

Sparks:
LP "Kimono My House" has a hilarious fantasy song called "Here in
Heaven" dealing with a petulant teenage suicide's thoughts in heaven.
He keeps wondering why his girlfriend didn't kill herself, too.

Sphynx:
Another band led by Nik Turner, produced the album "Xitintoday" which
was based on the Egyptian book ofthe dead.  The flute was recorded
inside the sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid.

Spin Doctors:
Their album "Pocketful of Kryptonite" includes the
single "Jimmy Olsen's Blues."

Spirit:
"Future Games" has interspersed fragments of old "Star Trek" episodes
between tunes.  Also see "Potatoland" -- the songs aren't at all SF,
but are strung together by "The Adventures of Captain Copter and
Commander Cassidy" in a totalitarian state -- very bizarre.

The Leslie Spitt Treeo:
A Canadian band, has done a song called "UFO" about someone going to watch for
UFOs with hopes of getting picked up by one.  From their first album--may be
self-titled, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Spizzenergi:
"Where's Captain Kirk"; band renamed "Athletico Spizz '80".
Spizzenergi live also used to a slower version of "Where's Captain Kirk?"
called "Who's Spock?".

Split Enz:
An New Zealander band; their song "Poor Boy" is about a romantic/sexual
encounter with an alien.

Stackridge:
UK band from the 70's: see "Purple Spaceships over Yatton", "Slark" (monster
gets boy, boy gets girls), and "Frankenstein's Pillow".

Starcastle:
A Yes clone.  First album has a nice piece, "Lady of the Lake".
Believe it or not, they're from Pekin, Illinois (across the river
from Peoria).  If you like Yes's Fragile-era material then you should
grab their first LP ("Starcastle") and later ones ("Citadel", "Fountains
of Light").

Starr, Ringo:
The song "Hopeless" mentions aliens.

Steeleye Span:
Folk-rockers who tend to sing traditional songs with modern instruments.
"Elf Call" is about elves; "The Demon Lover", a well-known song,
appears on the LP "Commoner's Crown" along with "Elf Call".
(See also Fairport Convention.)

Steely Dan:
Fantasy genre rather than straight science fiction: "Home At Last" is a
retelling of the story of the Trials of Odysseus from Greek mythology -
the chorus, "still I remain tied to the mast" evokes the story where he
tied himself to the mast to resist the song of the Siren.  Also,
"The Caves of Altamira," fantasizing about cave dwellers who made the
cave drawings in Altamira, Spain.  See also Donald Fagen.

Stevens, Ray:
Song, "Diana and the Robotics", which is about a group
of appliances that form a band.

Stepford Wives:
Apparently took their name from the old horror film.

Steve Miller Band:
"Brave New World" and "Space Cowboy" from the album "Brave New World".

Stevens, Cat:
"Freezing Steel" from "Catch Bull at Four"; also "Longer Boats"
from "Tea for the Tillerman" is about flying saucers.  (It may
not be implicit in the lyrics, but Cat Stevens discussed it in
an interview.)

Stevens, Steve:
The title track "Atomic Playboys" is about nuclear war; there are
 probably a few more cuts of a similar nature on the rest of the album.
Album artwork by H R Giger, of "Alien" fame.

Stewart, Al:
"The Sirens of Titan" (Vonnegut) from "24 Carrots". See also the title
track from "Last Days of the Century" and "Red Toupee" from that same
album -- apparently he cited it as SF in an interview. "Nostradamus",
from "Past, Present, and Future" is a little bit occultish.

Sting:
"Dream of the Blue Turtles" has the track "Moon Over Bourbon Street" based,
according to the liner notes, on Anne Rice's "Interview With A Vampire".
On the album "Nothing Like The Sun", "Straight To My Heart" speculates, in
7/8 time, about forms of sharing love in the future; "Rock Steady" retells the
story of Noah(which >could< be considered fantasy); "The Lazarus Heart" is
based on a dream which is apparently a form of the Fisher King story, and has
fantasy elements to it.  The title track from "The Soul Cages" also has
fantasy elements.

Strange Advance:
See "Nor Crystal Tears" from "Strange Advance 2wo" (not a typo).
See also the album "Worlds Away"; several tracks with SF allusions and
themes, notably the title track, "One Chance in a Million", and "Sister Radio".
Cover artwork had examples of Arcologies for futurist-architect Paulo Soleri.

Stranglers, The:
The album "The Gospel According to the Meninblack" is about a race of
people from another planet who are raising humans on Earth for their
food.  Considering there are over 5 billion people now, they should be
very happy.  The Meninblack are first introduced in the song "Meninblack"
on the album "The Raven".  See also "Rockit to the Moon", a B-side.

Stubbs, Levi:
"Mean Green Muther from Outer Space", from the musical "Little Shop
of Horrors", in which it is revealed that Audrey II is actually
an alien planning to take over the earth.

Styx:
Usually has one sf-ish piece on each album.  All of "Kilroy was Here" is
a fable (this is the LP with "Mr. Roboto").  See also "Man of Miracles"
and "Come Sail Away".  There is some speculation that "Lords of the Ring"
on "Pieces of Eight" is Tolkien-derived.

Sudden Sway:
Little known synthesizer based independent band.
Their "Spacemate" double album contains some futuristic advertising jingles
for imaginary products. The LP comes with some instructions on how to
"spacemate" which stands for "Super Dimensional Perceptive Aid Combining
Every Manner and Type of Everything".  A note of explanation from the LP
cover - "which means it helps you expand your dimensions".
There are some puzzles and other goodies included by the previous 'owners'.
A non-musical track from a Peel session named "A Walk in the Park from the
Hypno-stroll" has a very "Hitchhiker's" feel to it.

Sun Ra:
An unusual jazz musician who has been obsessed with space travel; his
band is the "Arkestra". Some of his songs from the 70's are
"Rocket Number Nine to the Planet Venus" and "We Travel the Spaceways".

Supertramp:
Album "Brother Where You Bound".  "Fools Overture" is about the threat
of nuclear war.  Possibly "Crime of the Century".

The Surprises:
The single "Flying Attack" is about being invaded by flying saucers.

Swann, Donald:
Donald Swann provides music for a number of poems from J.R.R.
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," and plays the piano on this album.  The
piano score is also available from Houghton Miffin in book form; the
book also explains the motivation for adding music to the poems as
well as other historical notes about the pieces.  The B side of the
album has J.R.R. Tolkien, reading some of the poems from his book, "The
Adventures of Tom Bombardil."

Sweet, Matthew:
"Children Of Time (Forever)" from "Earth" is a story of the future.
The video for "I've Been Waiting" is loaded with clips
from the Japanese Animation series "Urusei Yatsura".

Symphonic Slam:
One album, with tracks "Universe" and "Fold Back".

T99:
Songs include "The Skydreamer", "Maximizor" (a single with some Japanese
SF-style artwork).

T'Pau:
This band is named after the Vulcan High Priestess in the (original)
Star Trek episode, "Amok Time".

T. Rex:
Before they hit it big with "Get it On (Bang a Gong)", they recorded
music dominated by sylvan fantasy themes vaugely inspired by Tolkein.
(Their percussionist went by the name Steve Peregrin Took, f'instance.)
The album entitled "T.Rex" includes "Ride a White Swan" and "Wizard";
two earlier albums, recorded when the band used the long form of their
name, i.e. Tyrannosaurus Rex, are "My people were fair and had sky in
their hair...But now they're content to wear stars on their brow"
and "Prophets, Seers, and Sages."

Talking Heads:
"Life During Wartime" from "Fear of Music", about an America at war.
"Moon Rocks" from "Speaking in Tongues", a surrealistic piece about
nuclear physics and magic.  "(Nothing But) Flowers" from "Naked",
discusses a future return to an agrarian, nature-oriented lifestyle.
"The Facts of Life" from "Naked" recapitulates human history
extending it into the future.

Taylor, Roger:
LP "Fun in Space".

Telex:
Belgian electro-pop; futuristic tracks include "Rendezvous Dans L'Espace".

Ten Years After:
"Year 3000 Blues" on "Cricklewood Green" is about someone having to report
to some sort of euthanasia center because he wasn't up to the society's
eugenic standards.  Also "Here They Come" from "A Space in Time",
which is about some visiting space travellers.

They Might be Giants:
"For Science!" is about a man willing to date "the girl from Venus'
despite the risk of radiation poisoning.  Their latest LP is entitled
"Apollo 18" (the Apollo program stopped at #17).  See also "The Guitar".
The also perform (live) a song called "Why Does the Sun Shine?" which is
somewhat Mr.Wizard-ish; it's recently been released as a single.
(They performed it live on Nicks Rocks _ages_ ago, and some people still have
a copy floating around.)  Strangely, it is a cover of an educational children's
record.  It starts out with "The sun is a mass/ of incandescent gas..."
(It's originally from the album "Space Songs", an album of space songs
for children performed by Tom Glazer (a children's singer) and
Dottie Evans (a Country/Western singer). They also did an album called
"Energy and Motion Songs", about Physics.) There's also a song on one
of their  CD-singles called "Moving to the Sun", sort of sf-ish.
"The Statue Got Me high" is also sf-ish, and "Actual Size" may be
about Armageddon.  Another notable track: "Particle Man"
(from "Flood", 1990) combines superhero imagery with quantum physics.
TMBG were Musical Ambassadors for the International Space Year.

Thin Lizzy:
The title track of "Jailbreak" is about a (futuristic?) jailbreak.

Thorpe, Billy:
"Children of the Sun", a curiously popular song from the early 80's,
is about an massive alien ship landing.

Titus Groan:
A band named after, and taking most of their material from,
Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" books.  Relevant songs include "The
Hall of Bright Carvings" and "Fuchsia".

Tomita, Isao:
Highly influential electronic musician whose works often have SF themes
or are derived from SF sources.  Some citations by album:

        Kosmos: "Star Wars Theme," by John Williams and "A Space Fantasy"
        based on "Also Spracht Zarathustra" (R. Strauss) and
        "Die Valkure" (Wagner).  "The Sea Named Solaris," which is Tomita's
        tribute to the Russian SF film "Solaris". The movie is about a planet
        covered by a sea of lava that seems to be sentient. Cosmonauts
        establish a station to study the sea, and the sea studies them by
        reincarnating dead loved ones from the cosmonauts' past.

        The Planets: Holst's superb work depicted as a travel through the
        solar system.

        "Firebird" includes Moussorgsky's classic "Night on Bald Mountain,"
        which is about a witches' sabbath.

        The Bermuda Triangle: A very complex work featuring compositions by
        Prokofiev, Sibelius and others. The album's concept suggests that
        there is a connection between the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon and
        aliens visiting from outer space. The work also includes a section
        with Tomita's electronic version of the famous musical dialogue with
        the alien spaceship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

        (Thanks to Gilead Limor and Kendal Stitzel for the writeup on Tomita.)

Tonio K:
"Mars Needs Women" from "La Bomba".  "Life in the Foodchain" has the
songs "How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror?" (Answer: because the
subject is a vampire.)

Die Toten Hosen:
A German punk band.  Their album "Eine kleine Horrorshow" is an
interpretation of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange", the
novel which Stanley Kubrick made into film.
("Die Toten Hosen" translates to "dead pants", which is a German
slang expression for "nothing going on".  Thanks to Thomas Koenig
for pointing this out.)

Toto:
Several tracks of the "Hydra" and "Isolation" albums have SF themes;
they also handled the soundtrack for "Dune".

Pete Townshend:
"Uniform", from "All The Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes" discusses
the use of computers in the service of the state.
"The Iron Man" LP/rock opera is about an (alien?) robot who eats
everything in sight that's made of iron, including tanks and guns;
features the song "Heavy Metal".

Toyah:
"Sheep farming in Barnet" - Near future high tech (mind to machine transfer)
Messianic story.  "Anthem", Story of a girl growing up in the present, but
uses *lots* of SF imagiary.  "The Changling" seems to be a pre-post holocaust
story but is open to other interpretations.  See also "Martin Cowboy"
from "Love is the Law".

Tubes:
"Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman", on "Completion Backward Principle";
also "Space Baby" and "Cathy's Clone".

Turner, Tina:
"Private Dancer" has the track "1984".

Twelfth Night:
"We are Sane" from "Fact and Fiction" is about state control of thoughts
by the implantation of a "component".

U2:
Bono and The Edge did the score for a new stage production of
"A Clockwork Orange." One song is available on the single of
"The Fly" -- no relation to the horror movie.

Ubangi:
Swedish band wrote "Monster ombord" (Monsters on board,
something has invaded the space ship)  Some of their albums
have English lyrics...also, the LP "Disco Baby" has a song
"They Came From Outer Space".

Ultravox:
"All Stood Still" is apparently about an accident at a nuclear power
station. "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" is about a nuclear attack.
Futuristic/surrealistic tracks from the Foxx era include "Slow Motion" and
"The Man Who Dies Every Day". Also, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "I Want
to be a Machine".

Underground Zone 0:
A Hawkwind-connected band, did a song "Canes Vanatici" about a very
powerful alien telling us to clean up our act.

Uriah Heep:
"The Magician's Birthday", and "Demons and Wizards".  Both are
concept albums, although the former is more cohesive than the latter.
Musical quality varies from subtle to bombastic wretched excess...
but then again, I tend to like bombastic wretched excess. :-)

Utopia:
(See also Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell.)
"Winston Smith Takes It on the Jaw" from "Oblivion".  (Orwell's 1984)
Possibly "Adventures in Utopia".  Also "Utopia", "Abandon City" from
"Oops, Wrong Planet"  and "Emergency Splashdown" (which also appears on
one  of Roger Powell's solo albums).  "RA" is heavily  fantasy, including
the epic "Singring and the Glass Guitar, an Electrified Fairy Tale".
"Zen Machine" from "POV" is cyberpunkish.  "The Seven Rays" from
"Another Live" might be SF.

Vai, Steve:
"Little Green Men" and "Next Stop Earth" from his album "Flex-Able".
Vai claims his album "Passion & Warfare" is a conceptual SF story
with the plot being too detailed to publish with the CD and says that
"Passion and Warfare - The Novel" will be published soon, but until then
it's pretty disjointed.

Van Halen:
On the album "5150", the song "Love Walks In" is about falling
in love with an alien.

Van der Graff Generator:
"Pioneers Over c", and others. (c = speed of light)
See also "Still Life" (immortality) and "Childhood's End" (destiny
of mankind; presumably based on Clarke's book) from "Still Life".
Also "After The Flood" (melting of polar icecaps) from "The Least Can Do
is Wave to Each Other". From "Godbluff", see "Arrow" (fantasy),
"Sleepwalkers" and "Scorched Earth" (programmed soldier?).

Vanity 6:
"Flippin' Out" is about vampirism.

Ventures:
(Yes, those guys with the Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters and
Champ Amps with the tremolo turned up playing "Walk, Don't Run.")
Had an album entitled "The Ventures in Space" on which virtually all
tunes had sci-fi titles, like "Invasion of the Satellites" and "Moon Child."
Also, one of their best known tunes is "Journey to the Stars," which appeared
on "The Fabulous Ventures" and "The Ventures on Stage," and also (I believe)
as a single.  (They also covered "Telstar", originally done by The Tornadoes.)

Violinski:
"No Cause for Alarm" (WW3 breaks out in your neighborhood)

Visage:
Redid Zager & Evans "2525"; also did some other SF-type material.

VoiVod:
Their lyrics are largely SF.  Most of their albums are conceptual and
loosely based around the VoiVod character. The earliest stuff is
standard post-holocaust type business, although they developed
considerably with "Dimension Hatross", an allegorical story in which
the VoiVod creates a parallel microdimension and monitors the development
of the inhabitants from tribal societies to technocratic states eventually
to apocalyptic destruction. "Nothingface", contains more surreal
cyberpunk(ish) SF lyrics with more introspective themes.  "Angel Rat"
deals with a variety of concepts from Chaos theory to robot sentience.

Wah!:
"The Seven Thousand Names of Wah!" on "Nah Poo- The Art of Bluff"
deserves a mention since its title is borrowed from Arthur C. Clarke
and finishes with the lines "One by one the stars are going out" which
is a direct quote from the Clarke story  ("The Nine Thousand
Names of God").  The single "Better Scream" concerns a
future apocalyptic war.

Wakeman, Rick:
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" retells Verne's story; "No
Earthly Connection" has a fantasy slant to it.  "Myths and
Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" tells
the story of Camelot.  See also Yes.

Randy Van Warmer:
On the album "Terraform", the title track is a three part SF song, the last
part of which is "I'm so 21st century" (repeated ad-nauseum).  The song,
as well as the album, is absolutely dreadful. ;-)

Warrior:
The LP "Fighting for the Earth" deals with saving the earth
from demonic evil by forming a band of hard-core warriors to
do battle with it.  The band has been characterized as
"a nontypically environmentally concerned metal band".

Was (not Was):
"Born to Laugh at Tornadoes" contains "Man vs. the Empire Brain
Building" a cyberpunk piece in which the vocals mostly consist of
the following line repeated over and over:
"In my life there's just three things:
    Man vs. Nature
    Man vs. Woman
    and
    Man vs. the Empire Brain Building"
Of course, "Walk the Dinosaur" is about...

Waters, Roger:
"Radio K.A.O.S." is a story about a psychic who hears radio
waves in his head; he learns to control them and takes over
a military computer system.  His 1992 release "Amused to Death"
exmaines mankind's fascination with television, and ends with
the arrival of "alien anthropologists" who declare that mankind
had evidently "Amused itself to death."  See also Pink Floyd.

Wayne, Jeff:
"War of the Worlds".  H.G. Wells' story with
Richard Burton doing narration, and awful music (purely
a personal opinion ;-) ).

Weather Report:
"I Sing the Body Electric" borrows the title from Ray Bradbury and
shows an android on the cover.

The Weathermen:
LP "Ten Deadly Kisses" features a track "Space", which is about
a space-age yuppie.

Who, The:
"Tommy" is half-fantasy, half-opera.  "905" from "Who Are You?".
Also "Rael" from "The Who Sell Out".  "Baba O'Riley" from "Who's Next"
seems to possibly be about some post-holocaust world.  (Note:
"Baba O'Riley" and other tidbits were part of the very SF-ish
concept album "Lifehouse", which was never released.)
See also "Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde" from Quadroprhenia (depends on
how you interpret it).

Winders, Wim:
The soundtrack "Until the End of the World" soundtrack from the
Wim Winders' film of the same name is listed here because a number
of artists contributed to it.  The movie is a futuristic thriller
about the end of the world, and the music supports the action.
Some terrific stuff from U2, REM, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, and many others.

Wings:
"Nineteen Eighty-Five" from "Band on the Run".  Also "Magneto and
the Titanium Man" and "Venus and Mars (Reprise)" from "Venus and Mars".

Wishbone Ash:
"The King Will Come", "Phoenix", and "Throw Down the Sword"
(all from "Argus") are all heroic-fantasy type pieces.  (By the way,
W.A.'s double/triple lead guitar work is worth hearing. ---Rsk)
Also see the title track from "Number the Brave".

Winter, Edgar:
Recorded an entire soundtrack for L. Ron Hubbards' ten-book
series 'Mission Earth'.  The material was written by Hubbard and recorded
by Winter.  Its available on vinyl in most record stores.
L. Ron Hubbard also collected a bunch of artists to do a soundtrack for
his novel 'Battlefield Earth'; chief among these is Chick Corea.
And don't forget the instrumental version of "Frankenstein", which
was a pop hit in the early 70's.

Wood, Roy:
"Miss Clarke and the Computer" from "Boulders" (computer falls in
love with its operator).  See also The Move, Electric Light Orchestra.

Wooley, Sheb:
"Purple People Eater"

XL Capris:
Australian band, did a song called World War III on their "Where is Hank?"
album. (They have connections with New Zealand band Dragon, through
Todd Hunter.)

XTC:
"Reel by Reel" (the government can hear and record your thoughts);
"This World Over" from "The Big Express" which is a post-nuclear
holocaust cautionary tale.  "That's Really Super (Supergirl)"
from Skylarking is about Supergirl's boyfriend becoming distraught
over her "other life".  "Science Friction" (yes it's supposed to have
an 'r' in it) on "3D EP" (also on the CD version of "White Music").

X Ray Spex:
"Genetic Engineering" from the album "Germ Free Adolescents" is about
the dangers of creating genetically 'superior' beings.

Yankovic, Weird Al:
"I Think I'm a Clone Now" from "Even Worse" (parody of the 60's hit
"I Think We're Alone Now", recently recut by Tiffany).
"Yoda" (to the tune of "Lola") and "Slime Creatures from Outer Space",
an original music-tribute to B-movies; both are from "Dare to Be Stupid".
Also "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars"
on the soundtrack for "UHF", and "Christmas at Ground Zero" from
"Polka Party".

Yaz:
There's a song on the album "You and Me Both" about childhood
during a nuclear war.

Yellow Magic Orchestra:
"Citizens of Science" from "X Infinite Multiples".

Yes:
Much sf-oriented work.  Try "Astral Traveller", "Starship Trooper"
(Heinlein?  maybe), "The Gates of Delirium".  (One reader commented that
this latter LP is actually based on Tolstoy's "War and Peace".  I can't
confirm or deny that since I've never made it through the book.)
See also Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" and Anderson & Vangelis's
song "Mayflower" from "The Friends of Mr. Cairo".  See also "Then" with
references to telepathy.  Also, "Arriving UFO" from "Tormato", "Machine
Messiah" from Drama (computer/controller), most of the entire album
"Close to the Edge" (which your editor regards as unquestionably the most
complex and finest piece of music ever written and performed by a rock band),
"South Side of the Sky" from "Fragile", and "Awaken" from "Going for the One".
"Tales from Topographic Oceans" is a 2-LP concept albums about
(possibly intelligent) life in the oceans singing to stars they can't see.
Tracks include "The Revealing Science of God", "The Remembering",
"The Ancient", and "Ritual". "Shoot High Aim Low" from "Big Generator" might
be about a futuristic war. The problem with figuring out much of Yes's work
is that the abstract poetic style often obscures the meaning
and multiple interpretations are possible.  See also Rick Wakeman,
Jon Anderson, & Anderson, Wakeford, Bruford and Howe.

Young, Kenny:
LP "Last Stage for Silverworld"

Young, Neil:
"After the Gold Rush", and "Ride my Llama" from "Rust Never Sleeps".
("After the Gold Rush" ends with a line about a mothership arriving
and "...taking Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun".)
On the album "Trans", see "Computer Age", "We R In Control", and "Sample
and Hold".

ZZ Top:
Just a note to mention that the videos for the songs from their "Afterburner"
album had SF themes; also the song "TV Dinners" from "Eliminator" had
some SF references.

Zager & Evans:
"In the Year 2525"; dated but cute; was #1 when Armstrong walked on the moon.

Zappa, Frank, and the Mothers:
"Cheapnis", from "Roxy and Elsewhere", is the story of a grade Z monster movie.
"Thing-Fish" (evil scientist, etc.).  "Inca Roads" from "One Size Fits All"
discusses the question of whether or not extraterrrestrials made the
huge patterns visible from the air in the Andes.  See also "The Radio is
Broken" (from "The Man from Utopia") and the title track from "Drowning Witch".
See also "Billy the Mountain" from "Was Mothers Just Another
Bands from L.A.?", the story of a sentient mountain which refuses
induction into the U.S. armed forces.  Also "Joe's Garage", a dystopian
operatta about a society which controls its citizens by making as many
things as possible illegal; presented as if it were an object lesson
told by an enforcer from that society.

Zevon, Warren:
"Werewolves of London" from "Excitable Boy", just for fun.
"Transverse City" is a concept album which, according to interviews
with Zevon, is based in part on "Bladerunner" and the works of
cyberpunk author William Gibson.  SF tracks on the album include the
title cut, "Run Straight Down", and "The Long Arm of the Law".

Miscellaneous Notes and Comments:
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Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michael Jarre, Return to Forever, Weather Report,
Vangelis, Klaus Schultz, Deodata, Eno, Jean-Luc Ponty, Michael Urbaniak,
Stomu Yamashta & Go, The Enid, Peter Michael Hamel, Bo Hansson, Mannheim
Steamroller, Lancaster & Lumley, Lol Creme & Kevin Godley, Shadowfax,
Larry Fast aka Synergy, Kitaro, Mark Shreeve, Kevin Braheny, Steve
Roach, Constance Demby, Michael Sterns, Software and B.J. Cole:

 ...have all been listed down here because several people have pointed out
that "sounding like SF" doesn't make it SF music.  Note that some of these
people have done some SF soundtracks, and that some of them have done
instrumental material with SF/fantasy titles.  Notable works include Hansson's
"Lord of the Rings", Creme & Godley's "Consequences", an ecological parable,
Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire V", a musical retelling of Kepler's
fantasy about a trip to the moon and back, and Klaus Schulze's "Cyborg"
and "Dune".  Jarre's "Rendez-Vous" album was going to have had the sax part
for the track "Final Rendezvous/Ron's Piece" played, in orbit,
by Ron McNair on the ill-fated Challenger launch.

Hitchhiker's Guide:
Just a note that the theme music for THHGTTG is "Journey of the Sorcerer"
from the Eagles' "One of These Nights".  Marvin is credited with a single
called "Marvin", backed with "Metal Man".  Tim Souness did a single of
the HitchHiker's Guide theme.  Disaster Area is credited with "Only
the End of the World Again", the B side of the theme single.
A second single called "Marvin I Love You" was released later--in it, Marvin
discovers an old recording of a female voice declaring her love for him
while perusing his memory banks.  (Of course, he doesn't know where it
came from.)

Doctor Who:
Just a note to mention "Doctorin' the TARDIS" and "Gary and the TARDIS"
by the Timelords (now The KLF), "Who is the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee,
"Doctor...?" by Blood Donor, "Doctor in Distress" by Who Cares, and
"S.O.S. Daleks have landed" by ??.

SF Themes in Opera:
This section was originally posted to rec.music.classical by
[email protected] (Evelyn C. Leeper), who has kindly
granted permission to reproduce it here.

Benford, David & LeGuin, Ursula K.      "Rigel-9"
        Standard sf fare - astronauts on strange planet, one sensitive,
        the rest rednecks. Only he sees the strange city in the forest etc.

Benford, David                          "Star's End"
        A fantasy on SF themes.

Blomdahl, Karl-Birger                   "Aniara"
        About a space ship leaving Earth (which is in an environmental
        crisis).

Davis, Anthony & Atherton, Deborah      "Under the Double Moon"
        Attempt of a government Inspector to force telepathic twins to
        accompany him to feed the powers of the Empress.

Dresher, Paul & Eckert, Rinded          "Power Failure"
        About an evil tycoon who has spent millions on a perpetual youth
        machine for himself. When the moment comes to use it, a power
        failure traps him, his assistant, secretary, and the janitor in
        the underground laboratory. Despite the morality-play aspects of
        what follow, it comes off as a powerful statement against rampant
        materialism and exploitation of people and the environment.

Glass, Philip                           "Einstein on the Beach"
        Has a scene where a flying saucer appears

Glass, Philip                           "1000 Airplanes on the Roof"

Glass, Philip                           "Hydrogen Jukebox"

Glass, Philip                           "Juniper Tree"

Glass, Philip & Lessing, Doris          "The Making of the Representative
                                                from Planet 8"

Haydn, J.                               "Il Mondo della Luna"
        "It isn't straight sci-fi in the modern sense; the setting was meant
        to provide a distant enough context to present a parody of powerful
        people and institutions."  But it *isn't* set on the moon; it has
        someone tricked into believing they have traveled to the moon when
        they haven't.

Janacek                                 "The Excursions of Mr Broucek"
        Two stories, one of which is Mr Broucek goes to the moon.

Janacek                                 "The Macropoulous Affair"
        Original by Karel Capek; the story of a 400+ year old opera
        singer who possesses the formula for endless youth

Ligeti, G.                              "Le Grand Macabre"
        I. The setting is the countryside in Brueghelland.  Preceded by
        the drunken Piet the Pot, the two lovers Amando and Amanda look
        for a secluded place in which to make love.  Out of a sepulchre
        to one side of the stage emerges Nekrotzar, Angel of Death,
        Great Reaper, Demon, Vampire etc, to announce the end of the
        world that day at midnight.
        II.  Astradamors, court astrologer and hen-pecked husband, sees
        apparitions through his telescope portending disaster.  His wife
        dreams of Venus, whom she asks to be sent a real man for a
        husband.  Astradamors' fears are confirmed with the arrival of
        Nekrotzar, who first fulfils Mescalina's sexual desires and then
        kills her.
        III.  The gluttonous ruler Go-Go receives word from the Chief of
        his secret police ('Gepopo') that a comet is headed on a collision
        course for Breughelland.  Nekrotzar arrives with appropriate pomp
        and ceremony to announce once more the end of the world.
        Astradamors celebrates the death of his wife with Piet the Pot in
        a drinking bout, and Nekrotzar, imagining the cup is filled with
        sacrificial blood instead of wine, joins in. Becoming increasingly
        intoxicated, Nekrotzar boasts about his cruel misdeeds and fails
        to notice that midnight has already passed.
        IV.  With everyone wondering whether or not the world has really
        ended, Mescalina breaks out of her tomb and recognises Nekrotzar
        as her first husband, who then sinks into oblivion under the
        weight of his failure.  Having missed all the excitement, the two
        lovers reappear.

Mackover, Todd                          "Valis"
        Based on the Philip K. Dick novel

Menotti, Gian Carlo                     "A Bride from Pluto"

Menotti, Giancarlo                      "Help, Help the Globolinks!"

Monk, Meredith & Chong, Ping            "The Games"
        About a human society in a spacecraft that has been en route to a
        distant star system for many generations.  The games are simple
        children's games which have acquired ritual status in the spaceship
        culture.  (Ballet?)

Offenbach, Jacques                      "Tales of Hoffman"
        Robot

Offenbach, Jacques                      "Journey to the Moon"

Rice, Jeff                              "The War of the Worlds"

Swan, Donald                            "Perelandra"
        Based on the C. S. Lewis

Swan, Donald                            various Tolkien songs (not opera)

?                                       Robert Anton Wilson's stuff

?                                       "A Wrinkle in Time"

And some random comments:

George Coates has a new work that takes place in virtual reality at
a theater in San Francisco. I don't know the name or composer, sorry.

For what it's worth I'm not sure I'd eliminate Wagner too soon: the
Ring may seem pretty fantastic, but many of the plots turn on the
appropriate use of technology (always Promethean, of course) and the
power it confers on the user.

Or sf novels with opera themes?  How about Jack Vance's _Space
Opera_?  As I recall the plot, it concerns the adventures of an
interstellar opera company.

Much thanks to:
        [email protected]@usc.edu (William Alves)
        [email protected] (Barb Miller)
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        [email protected] (Diarmuid Pigott)
        [email protected] (Mats Bengtsson  TX/DK )
        [email protected] (Gene Lavergne)
        [email protected] (Mr. Gower)
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        [email protected] (J.K.Pearson)
        [email protected] (Keith Andrew Falconer)
        [email protected] (Bob Kosovsky)
        [email protected] (Max Stern 310-524-6152)
        mgresham%[email protected] (Mark Gresham)
        [email protected] (Peter Delafosse)
        [email protected]
        [email protected] (Robert Marshall)
        [email protected] (R M Price)
        [email protected] (Raymond Tuttle)
        [email protected] (R. Wilmer)
        [email protected] (Steve Apter)
        [email protected] (Claudia Zornow)

(end included material on SF themes in opera)

---------------------------------

One of the readers of the list ([email protected])
also sent along this material on Hawkwind, which I've included
here.  If this isn't enough to justify the title I gave them
(all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock) then I don't
know what is. ;-)

(Begin included material on Hawkwind)

Re the Hawkwind entry on your music sf list.

The sf related songs that they've done are:

Adjust Me
Angels of Death
Arrival in Utopia
The Awakening
Black Corridor
Born to Go
The Changing
Children of the Sun
Choose Your Masks
Coded Languages
Damnation Alley
The Dark Lords
Down through the Night
Dragons and Fables
Dreaming City
Dream Worker
D-Rider
Dust of Time
Elric the Enchanter
Fable of a Failed Race
Fahrenheit 451
Fall of Earth City
Fifth Second of Forever
First Landing on Medusa
The Golden Void
Green Finned Demon
Heads
High Rise
Hi Tech Cities
Horn of Destiny
Images
Infinity
In the Egg
Jack of Shadows
Joker at the Gate
Levitation
Lighthouse
Living on a Knife Edge
Looking in the Future
Lord of Light
Lords of Chaos
Lost Chances
L.S.D.
Magnu
Master of the Universe
Messengers of Morpheus
Micro Man
Moonglum
Needle Gun
Neon Skyline
Note From a Cold Planet
Nuclear Drive
Nuclear Toy
Orgone Accumulator
Oscillations
The Phenomenon of Luminosity
Processed
Psi Power
Psychosis
PsychoSonia
PXR5
Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Robot
The Sea King
Seven By Seven
Silver Machine
Sleep of a Thousand Tears
Solitary Mind Games
Song of the Swords
Sonic Attack
Space is Deep
Space Travellers
Spirit of the Age
Standing at the Edge
Star Cannibal
Starflight
Streets of Fear
Sword of the East
Ten Seconds of Forever
Time We Left (This World today)
Transdimensional Man
Uncle Sam's on Mars
Virgin of the World
Waiting for Tomorrow
Warrior on the Edge of Time
Warriors
Wastelands of Sleep
The Watcher
We Took the Wrong Step
Web Weaver
Welcome to the Future
Who's Gonna Win the War
Wings
The Wizard Blew His Horn
You Know You're Only Dreaming
You'd Better Believe It
Zarozinia
Black Hole in Space
Upside Down
Dying Seas
The War I Survived
Raping Robots in the Street
Where are They Now?
Elements
Mutation Zone
My Armour's Killing Me
The Timeship Will Not Sail Again

and a list of their albums:

1970  Hawkwind  [re-released as pic disk 1980]
1971  In Search Of Space
1972  Doremi Fasol Latido
1972  The Text Of Festival: Live 1970-2 (live)
1972  Glastonbury Fayre (with various artists)
1972  Greasy Trucker's Party
1973  Space Ritual Alive (live) [double album]
1973  Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Garagin (live)
1973  Hawkwind in Concert
1974  Hall Of The Mountain Grill
1974  US Forces Radio album featuring Hawkwind & Jefferson Starship
1975  Warrior On The Edge Of Time
1976  Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
1976  Roadhawks
1977  Quark Strangeness And Charm
1977  Hawkwind/Van Der Graaf Generator [Swedish album on Phillips}
1977  Masters of the Universe (Compilation)
1978  PXR5
1978  Hawklords - 25 Years On
1979  Repeat Performances (Compilation)
1979  Hawkwind Live (live)      [British release:  Live '79]
1980  Levitation  [original release was on blue vinyl]
1981  Sonic Attack
1981  Hawkwind Live at the Bottom Line (New York 1978)
1981? Hawkwind at Glastonbury 1981
1981  Sonic Assassins  12EP
1981  Motorhead / Valium 10 (single)
1982  Church of Hawkwind [originally with booklet]
1982  Choose Your Masques
1982  Hawkwind Live at Stonehenge and Watchfield (Festival Records)
1982  Friends And Relations - Hawkwind
1983  Friends And Relations II  (Twice Upon A Time)
19??  Friends And Relations III
1983  Zones  [also released as pic disk]
1984  The Earth Ritual Preview (EP)
1984  Utopia 1984  [Material from ERP, Stonehenge, and Zones]
1984  Stonehenge (This Is Hawkwind/Do Not Panic) (live) [LP & EP]
1985  The Chronicle Of The Black Sword
1985   Needle Gun (EP)
1985   Zarozinia (EP)
1985  Space Ritual II
1985  Live Chronicles
1985? Ridicule (live 1973)
1985  Welcome To The Future (Mausoleum Records)
1985  Live '70/'73
1985  In The Beginning  (Live "Top Gear" BBC Session 1970)
1986  Bristol Custom Bike Show
1986  Angels of Death (compilation) [all tracks previously released]
1986  The Hawkwind Collection
1986  Hawkfan 12"
1986  Independent Days, Vol. I
1986  The Approved History of Hawkwind  (Samurai Records)
1986?  Independent Days, Vol. II
1987? British Tribal Music (live, compilation) [Good sound quality.  Digitally
1987?  Early Daze
'77-82 The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. I
87-88? The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. II
87-88? The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. III
1988   Traveller's Aid Trust (with various artists)
1987  Out And Intake
1987  Hawkwind Box Set - The Official Picture Log Book
1988  The Xenon Codex
1988  Spirit of the Age
1988  Hawkwind Live  [German CD: Imtrat]
19??  Hawkwind Zoo 12EP
19??  Silver Machine (live) 12EP
19??  Victoria double album
1989  The Night Of The Hawk  (compilation)
1989  Ironstrike [Avanti Records ISTCD 004]
1990  Stasis - The U.A. Years 1971-1975  (Compilation)
1990  Night Riding
1990  The Best and the Rest of Hawkwind  [Action Replay records.
1990  The Best of Hawkwind (volume #2 of Metal Classic series by EMI)
1990  Acid daze Vol. I LP
1990  Acid Daze Vol. II LP
1990  Acid Daze Vol. III LP
1990  Space Bandits
1991  Palace Springs (live)
1991  Hawkwind: Space Rock from London
1991  The Golden Void
1991  The Early Years Live EP
1991  Masters of The Universe [ Marble Arch Rock CMA CD 129]
1992  Electric Teepee
1992  Mighty Hawkwind Classics 80-85
1992  This is Hawkwind: Do Not Panic CD
1992  Psychedelic Warlords
1992  The Hawklords Live
1992  California Brainstorm
1992  Solstice at Stonehenge 1983
1992  Tales From Atom Henge
1992  Orgasmatron

Hope this helps :-)

FoFP

(End included material on Hawkwind)

---------------------------------

Well, that's it.  Remember, please send your comments, corrections
and additions via *mail*.  Thanks!

Rich Kulawiec, 2/93

Hastily-assembled montage of names of people who sent this stuff in:

Aaron Tucker, Al Crawford, Alan Greig, Alan Meiss, Alan Vymetalik,
Alastair Milne, Alex Melnick, Andrew Priestley, Andrew Raphael, Andy
Tucker, Becky Slocombe, Berry Kercheval, Bill Kaufman, Bjorn Lisper,
Blake Sobiloff, Bob, Brad, Brandon Allbery, Breebaart, Brent Woods,
Brian Ritchie, Brian Yamauchi, Bruce Holloway, Calle Dybedahl, Can
Altinbay, Carl Fongheiser, Carlo N. Samson, Chisholm, Chris Klausmeier,
Christopher Dollin, Chuck Koelbel, Corey Liss, Craig Wilcox, Dan Bloch,
Dan Duval, Daniel Dern, Dave, Dave Berry, Dave Gourley, Dave Rosik,
Dave Steiner, Dave Fiedler, David Adler, David Datta, David Gibbs,
David Kuznick, David Cook, Dean Lawrence Higgins, Devin Ben-Hur, Doug
Alan, Doug Mink, Ed Eastridge, edge!walker, Edwin Wiles, Eerke Boiten,
Ellen Keyne Seebacher, Eric Pepke, Erland Sommarskog, Ethan Miller,
Francini, Fricklas, Fujitsu, fyfesh, G. T. Samson, Gabrielle de
Lioncourt, Gareth, Gerard Lachac, Greg Samson, Guy Harris, Guy
Middleton, Hall, Hartman, Henry, Hirai, Husk, Imko Molenbuur, Jack
Ostroff, Jay Freeman, Jed Hartman, Jef Poskanzer, Jeff, Jeff Rogers,
Jessie Jim, Joanne Brooks, John, John, John A.Mariani, John Ockerbloom,
John Turner, John Relph, Jon Reeves, Jonathan Watts, Jonathan D.
Trudel, Joseph McLean, Kai-Miakel J{{-Aro, KarenColten, Ken, Ken
Leonard, Kyle Grieser, Lance A. Sibley, larry@ssdevo, Leo, Lewis, Lewis
Barnett, Lionel Marcus, Loren "Buck" Buchanan, Loring Holden, Malc,
Malcolm Humes, Malcolm Mladenovic, Mark Schlagenhauf, Maroney, Matthew
Belmonte, Mel, metlay, Michael Caplinger, Mijjil, Mike Holmes, Mike
Swiston, Mike Linksvayer, Miles Bader, Neil Weinstock, Nicholas
Simicich, Nick Smith, paszkows, Patrik Jansson, Paul Czarnecki, Paul S.
R., PaulCzarnecki, Pete, Peter, Peter Alfke, Platt, Randall Shane,
Randy Orrison, Richard Caley, Richard Smith, Robert Pietkivitch,
RobynTarter, Romkey, Russ Williams, Ryk E Spoor, Samir Chettri, Scott
A., Scott Butler, Sean Ellis, Seth Kadesh, Sheila Coyazo, Shelli
Meyers, Smith Steve, Smithson, Stephen Mulrine, Stephen Pearl, Steve
Herring, Steve Lionel, Stuart Sullivan, T. William Wells., Templeton,
Terry Poot, The Roach Above Reproach, The Roach(dan'l), Theo Hong,
Thomas Gayler, Thomas Koenig, Thomas Koenig, Tim, Tim Day, Tim Walters,
Tim Smith, Tom Galloway, Tony Towers, Tynor, Vlach, Vogel, Walker
Aumann, Wayne Barber, William Ingogly, William J. Richard, Dave Vernal,
Ben Waggoner, Chris Mungall, Steve Greer, Jason O'Broin,
Christopher Davis, Brian Kendig, Matt Maxwell, Richard Barrett, Dayne
Miller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alfvaen, Ronny H. Arild, Paul R. Joslin,
Alexander Yok-Wai, Ronald D. White, Kjetil Wiekhorst J|rgensen,
Jim Gillespie, Diarmuid Pigott, Evelyn C Leeper, Christopher Haynes,
Jim Atkinson, Robert Chansky, [email protected], Michael Simla,
Ray Charbonneau, TheO O'Neal, Alex Melnick, Richard K Fox, Dion Francois.
Derek G Bacon, Daniel F Boyd, Jeff Berry, Richard Heritage, Joe Decker,
James Gillespie, Ulrich Grepel, Mark Parker, Jim Freund, Mike Alberghini,
Paolo Valladolid, Francisco X DeJesus, Scott Grier, Andrew Raphael,
Steve W. Hill, Curt Wiederhoeft., Andrew Bettison, Jeff Wilson,
Michael Burstein, Dennis Sacks, Steve ([email protected]),
J.H.M. Dassen, Paul W. Grimes, James Matthew Farrow, Mike Kring,
Chuck Turner, Dave Weingart, John Purpura, Ilsa VanHook, Adrian Hassall Lewis,
Corran J. Webster, Steve Wechsler, Brian Leibowitz, Rick Scaia,
Andrew Phillips, William Rucklidge, Gregg T. Parmentier, Andrew Hatchell,
Bengt Kleberg, Brian Landwehr, Dan Johnson, ]dne Brunborg, James Hartman,
Richard C. Miske, Aaron Humphrey, Rajesh Goel, [email protected],
[email protected] (Neilski), Tony Cummins, Terry Carroll, Brad Smith,
Jeffrey L. Popyack, Steve Ward-Smith, Jerry ([email protected]),
Daniele ([email protected]), Lance R. Bailey, Heather Kendrick, Bec Hamadock,
Glenn Mcdonald, David Wilkinson, Joseph Brenner, Bonnie L. Johnston,
Arthur Delano, Laurent Somers, Angelos ([email protected]),
Brent C. Williams, Brad Smith, [email protected] (rob), Len Jaffe,
Kevin L. Wright, Chuck Jordan, Anthony J.R. Heading, Michael McAfee,
Gladys ([email protected]), Robert Bowdidge, Andreas Orphanides, Marc Ortlieb,
David Wilkinson, Gilead Limor, Chandrasekhar Puranapanda, David Datta,
Stephanie M. Clarkson-Aines, Russell Morrison, Stephen Swann,
Michael S Shappe, Gary Nelson, Howard J. Browning, Michael McAfee,
Christian Treber, Thomas W. Day, Kathleen (Jocelyn) Goldfein, Ronald Carrier,
Chris Siebenmann, [email protected], Jonathan Gowland,
Kevin Grover, Suzan Humphrey, Tim Isakson, Kendal Stitzel, Jay Shorten,
Mike McComas, Crone, Keith Neufeld, Aaron Sherman, Eli McIlveen,
Elisabeth Anne Riba, Gareth Bellaby, Jens Wall, Anders Gabrielsson,
Walter Roberson, Rich Ulisky, Bill Leue, Peter Fenelon

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Copyright Rich Kulawiec 1993, 1994.
 
This is the revised SF-in-music list.  It isn't comprehensive, but
it does try to cover rock, jazz, folk, classical and electronic music.
Most of the items listed here fall pretty well into these categories.
There is also a list of SF-based operas, which was assembled by
Evelyn C. Leeper and is reproduced here with permission.  I've attempted
to list everybody who helped in the large (and growing) montage at the end.
 
SF can stand for whatever you'd like it to; science fiction, science fantasy,
speculative fiction, you pick it.  My personal definition is rather broad,
which, coupled with the copious contributions of those of you on the
various networks, accounts for the length of this list.
 
One thing that I've changed since the last revision: I'm now listing
purely instrumental pieces along with everything else, rather than
bundling them at the end.  This is mostly due to the large number
of updates that folks have sent in which list instrumental pieces.
I guess we'll see how it goes.
 
I'm not really interested in adding filk or novelty records to this list;
not that I have anything against them, but they would probably be
more appropriate on another list.
 
In most cases, I've relied on the contributions that have been sent in;
in others, I've verified spellings and attributions.  Thus, the accuracy
of the information is uneven; so be it.  Corrections (VIA MAIL ONLY)
are quite welcome, as are additions.  I will be maintaining this list
and re-sending it periodically.
 
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, [email protected]
-- 
 
10 CC:
Old Mister Time (from the album "Bloody Tourists") is
a story about an old man (living in a broken shack on the railway)
who is collecting junk to build a time-machine;
eventually he makes it work and disappears.
 
1919:
Has an EP "Machine".
 
801
Track "East of Asteroid".  See also Eno, Brian.
 
AC/DC:
"Who Made Who" from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack.
 
Acen:
Has a song called "Trip II the Moon (The Darkside)".
 
Adam Ant:
"Ants Invasion" (elsewhere reported as "Forbidden Zone")
from "Kings of the Wild Frontier" is about the invasion of the earth by ants.
 
Adolphson & Falk:
This Swedish band had a hit with "Control is Flashing Blue", a song
about how computers/sensors say everything is okay, but something
is crawling in the shadows. Most of their albums have a very dominant
SF theme. One example is 'Med Rymden I Blodet' (With Space In The Blood).
(In the same sense that one might say that a family with a seafaring
tradition "has the sea in their blood").
 
After the Fire:
"Suspended Animation" is either about weightlessness or genuine
suspended animation, and "Starflight" describes interstellar flight.
 
Alan Parsons Project:
Albums "I, Robot" (but not based on Asimov) and "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination (Poe).  The title track from "Ammonia Avenue" is about a
world destroyed by pollution.
 
Alarm, The:
"The Stand" -- about Stephen King's "The Stand".
 
Alice Cooper:
On "School's Out", the words "Klaatu barada nikto" occur in background
vocals near the end of "My Stars".  The album "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell"
is a fantasy.  "Clones (We're All)" appears on "Alice Cooper '80: Flush
the Fashion"; it's about a collection of clones who revel against their
situation. He also refers to "the twilight zone" in "The Quiet Room"
from "From the Inside" and in "Wish You Were Here" from "...Goes to Hell".
Also, check out "BB on Mars" from "Pretties for You".
Finally, "No Baloney Homo Sapiens" from "Zipper Catches Skin" is about
a human challenege to potential marauding aliens.
 
Alien:
Early '80's post-disco group whose album "Sons of the Universe" has SF
themes running all through it.
 
Alphaville:
The album "Afternoons in Utopia" include tracks such as "Afternoons
in Utopia", "20th Century" and "Lady Bright" (which contains an old
rhyming couplet about generally relativity).  See also "For a Million"
of "Breathtaking Blue", with its reference to dancing under an alien sun.
 
Ambrosia:
"Nice, Nice, Very Nice" is from the 53rd Calypso of Bokonon from
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.  Also "Time Waits for no One"; both
are on "Ambrosia", which also contains a reading of Jabberwocky.
Ambrosia is probably known to most readers for their mid-70's
hit "Holdin' On to Yesterday".
 
America:
"Sandman" refers to Nolan's "Logan's Run."
 
Amin Bhatia:
Has an entire album entitled "Interstellar Suite" about space travel.
 
Amon Duul II:
Some sf-oriented material; German band from the mid-seventies.
Two of their albums are "Made in Germany" and "Vive La Trance".
 
Amos, Tori:
"Tear in Your Hand" contains the line "If you need me,
me and Neil are hanging out with the Dream King."  Neil Gaiman is the
creator of "Sandman", and is apparently a good friend of Tori's.
(Side note: The "Sandman" issue "Brief Lives" includes
some of the lyrics from that song.  Tori also wrote the introduction
to the "Death: High Cost of Living" trade paperback.)  And the song
"Happy Phantom" is about traipsing around the world after one is dead.
 
Anderson, Ian:
Vocalist from Jethro Tull.  His 1983 LP, "Walk Into Light" contains a
notable SF-related track, "User Friendly".
 
Anderson, Jon:
Vocalist from Yes.  Solo album, "Olias of Sunhillow", from 1976.
"Olympia" from "Animation" seems to discuss a futuristic world;
"Boundaries" from the same album may be about the aftermath of a future war.
 
Anderson, Laurie:
Surrealism & sf-type music.  Try "O Superman" and "Language is a
Virus From Outer Space", which I seem to recall is derived from
Burroughs (William S., that is).   Anderson has released several
works in collaboration/cooperation with Burroughs:
 
	"You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With" 
	(This one is not very easy to find) (Laurie, William, and one other
	artist all contribute sections of this, but there is no tie between
	the sections; more like an anthology than a collaboration in effect.)
 
	"Home Of The Brave" (soundtrack from her movie "Home Of The Brave",
	which included Burroughs in person);
 
	"Sharkey's Night" (the album companion to "Home Of The Brave" movie;
	the movie's -artistic- companion, rather than its soundtrack)
	(Burroughs speaks once or twice)
 
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe:
(With bassist Chris Squire, these are the five core musicians of Yes.)
The eponymous album includes "Fist of Fire", a song about some sort
of acension after death, and "Birthright", about British atomic testing
carried out at Maralinga during the 50's and early 60's, which has
left many Aboriginal sacred sites and traditional lands uninhabitable.
 
Android Sisters, The:
"Songs of Electronic Despair".
 
Androids of MU:
A punk band that never got anywhere; their album "Blood Robots"
includes a track called "Lost in Space".
 
Ange:
(French progressive group) "Au-dela du delire" is a time-travel story.
 
Ant, Adam:
"Apollo 9" is about a trip to the moon.
 
Anthrax:
The album "Among the Living" contains "I Am the Law" (about Judge Dredd,
the 2000 AD hero) and "Among the Living" (about the antihero of Stephen
King's "The Stand").
 
Anvil:
"Mothra", about the monster from the "Godzilla" movies.
 
Aphrodite's Child:
The album "666" is the veritable armageddon waltz; it is a musical
retelling of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelations).  Vangelis was
in this band back then.
 
Apocrypha:
"West World" is presumably about the film.
 
April Wine:
A heavy metal band who indulge in fantasy imagery; note "The Whole
World's Goin' Crazy" and its references to Lewis Caroll.  Along
with Nektar and Pavlov's Dog, cult heroes in the St. Louis area
thanks to twenty years of airplay on KSHE-FM.
 
Archer, Tasmin:
Her first hit, "Sleeping Satellite" (from her album "Great
Expectations") is a lament for the end of the Apollo programme.
[ Damn...I thought it was about the end of a love affair! ---Rsk ]
 
Art of Noise:
"Paranoimia" features Max Headroom.
 
Asia:
"After the War", from "Astra" refers to post-WW III era.
"Wildest Dreams", from the first album, might also be about a war that
is yet to happen.  "Sole Survivor", also from the first album, seems
to be in a similar vein.
 
Atlantics:
An Australian instrumental band from the early 1960s, had popular singles
entitled "Moon Man" and "War of the Worlds."  The latter is 
amazing for its evocative sound effects.
 
Atomic Rooster:
(one of the early heavy metal bands) "Lost in Space".
 
Automatic Man:
Two albums of SF-ish mystic stuff; notable track "I.T.D."
(Interstellar Tracking Device).
 
B-52's:
"Planet Claire", and "53 Miles West of Venus" from "Wild Planet".
"Cosmic Thing" and "Planet" (is this the correct title/album?)
from "Cosmic Thing"  Also see the soundtrack to "Earth Girls Are Easy".
 
B.A.L.L:
"Little Tex in Trouble" and "Little Tex's Prelude" from "Trouble Doll"
are about a cowboy who sees his cattle being taken by aliens.
 
The Bags:
"September", from the album "Night of the Corn People", is about
a love affair between astronauts.  "L. Frank Baum" is a tribute to the
Wizard of Oz books.
 
Ball, Edward:
Releases under many names, including Teenage Film Stars, The Times and
The Missing Scientists.  Has done several songs with references to "The
Prisoner" including "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape".
 
Banks, Tony:
See "Man of Spells" from "Fugitive".
 
Barbarella:
Their album "The Art of Dance" consists only of songs about
Barbarella and containing samples from the film Barbarella.
 
Barenaked Ladies:
Another Canadian Band, with a song called "Grade 9", with the lines:
     "Some of them are crazy and the others are depressed,
      None of them can help me study for my math test.
      I got into the classroom and my knowledge was gone;
      I guess I should have studied 'stead of watching Wrath of Khan."
 
Bauhaus:
Did a cover of "Ziggy Stardust", and the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead",
which opens the film "The Hunger" (they perform in it, too).  Their lyrics
are obscure enough so that most of their songs can be taken for SF - or
anything else, for that matter.  They broke up in '83. 3 members became
Love and Rockets, the other, Peter Murphy, got a solo career.  (See below)
 
Be Bop Deluxe:
Tracks include "Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus" (vague reminiscences
about '50s British SF-comics, also thought to be poking a little fun
at Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) and "Life In The Air Age" (a time
traveller stranded in a Gernsbackian future).  Also see
"The Dangerous Stranger from the Highway to the End of Time" on "Modern Music".
 
Beatles:
The "Yellow Submarine" movie and accompanying soundtrack probably deserve
a mention as an example of an interesting animated fantasy experiment.
 
Bedford, David:
Albums include "Star's End"; could this be a reference to Asimov's
Foundation series ("Star's End", "Tazenda")?
He also wrote a sort of Rock Opera, "Rigel 9", to text by
Ursula le Guin. And "The Dark Nebula" to words by Arthur C Clark.
 
The Bee Gees:
"Edge of the Universe" is a space travel/love song
which first appeared as a track on the "Main Course" LP in 1975.
Two years latter was included as part of the "Here at Last .. Live"
album.  The live version was released as a single and was the last
Top 40 hit for the Bee Gees before their "Saturday Night Fever"
releases and disco fame.
 
Belew, Adrian:
"Phone Call from the Moon", as well as "Looking For a UFO" from "Young
Lions" - a message of hope that aliens will come and save us
from destroying ourselves. The song "The Momur" from "Lone Rhinoceros"
tells the story of a man who's wife turns into a "momur" (a critic);
probably not really science fiction.
 
Benatar, Pat:
"My Clone Sleeps Alone".
 
The Bevis Frond:
Lots of SF and fantasy imagery, eg. "The Miskatonic Variations" from
"The Auntie Winnie Album".
 
Big Country:
Some songs have a magical theme, but the most outstanding is "The
Seer" from the album by the same name, about a woman who foretells the Roman
invasion of Scotland.
 
Black, Frank:
Frank Black is Black Francis from the Pixies.  His solo album has the track
"Parry the Wind High, Low" which is about a UFO/Trekkies convention.
 
Black Sabbath:
Sort of.  Tends to black magic et. al.  See "Paranoid" for
"Iron Man" (mechanical golem?), "Plant Caravan" and "Electric Funeral"
(nuclear war?);"Black Sabbath" (1st LP) for demented ravings like
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Lovecraft).  "Heaven and Hell" is all fantasy.
Some speculation that "Iron Man" refers to the comic book hero (paraplegic
w/special iron alloy suit and powers far beyond...) The song "Computer God",
from "Dehumanizer" concerns a sinister cyberpunk-like virtual reality.
 
Blake, Tim:
Electronic New Age.  Albums "Crystal Machine", "Blake's New Jerusalem",
both SF.  Was in Hawkwind 1979-80, and Gong 1972-1975.
 
Blitzkrieg:
The song "Blitzkrieg" talks about aliens arriving and some sort of war.
Song was covered by Metallica.
 
Blondie:
SF themes in some songs: e.g. the "Man from Mars" in "Rapture";
also "Dragonfly" from "The Hunter", which is a half-spoken half-sung
description of a race between spaceships that uses a collage of
sf buzzwords.  See also "The Attack of the Giant Ants".
Debbie Harry (lead singer) and Chris Stein (lead guitar) sing in the
animated SF/fantasy movie _Rock and Rule_ (along with Lou Reed and Iggy Pop).
 
Blue Oyster Cult:
Many tracks on many albums with SF themes; "Veteran of the Psychic
Wars" (which also was on the "Heavy Metal" soundtrack; the narrator
is Corum, of Moorcock's "Chronicles of Corum") from "Fire of
Unknown Origin", "E.T.I.", "The Subhuman", "Flaming Telepaths" and most
of the rest of the LP's "Tyranny and Mutation" and "Secret Treaties".
Later work includes "Godzilla" (from "Spectres" and "Some Enchanted
Evening"), which about our favorite Tokyo-bashing reptile; "Monsters"
(from "Cultosaurus Erectus"), which is about a small group of people
who escape a ravaged Earth but wind up battling each other over one of
the women; "Black Blade" (from "Cultosaurus Erectus" and "E.T. Live",
a song done with Michael Moorcock; the nararator is Elric, from
his Elric saga) "Nosferatu" (from "Spectres"), which is a
retelling of the Dracula story; "Vengeance (The Pact)" (from "Fire
of Unknown Origin), which retells the "Taarna" segment from the movie
"Heavy Metal"; and "Sole Survivor" (also from "Fire..."), tells the
story of the last man alive on earth, who runs away when aliens come to
rescue him.  The LP "Imaginos" tells the story of a sorcerer attempting
to release the demonic other-worldly beings called "Les Invisibles".
"The Great Sun Jester" from "Mirrors" is based on the novel
"The Fireclown" by Michael Moorcock (also released as "The Winds
of Limbo"). "Joan Crawford" from "Fire..." might be SF depending
on how you feel about wire hangers.  Incidentally, a couple of
Karl Edward Wagner's "Kane" series contain direct references to
the BOC song "Astronomy" (from "Secret Treaties"); in particular,
there's a chapter entitled "On the Origin of Storms".  "Take Me Away"
(from "The Revolution by Night") is about a guy who wants to go visit aliens.
 
Boiled in Lead:
Minneapolis-based folk-rock-world outfit.  They record some
folk/fantasy-sounding numbers.  Their latest album, Antler Dance,
includes some songs co-written by SF author Steven Brust (or is it Stephen?).
 
Boney M.:
"Night Flight to Venus" (title track of LP), and "Steppenwolf",
a werewolf story, on the same LP.
 
Bonzo Dog DooDah Band:
"Urban Spaceman" from "The Best of the Bonzos",
and "There's a Monster Coming" from "Gorilla".
 
Boom Crash Opera:
Australian band whose song "The Best Thing" from "Look! Listen!"
describes an astronaut's experiences in flight.
 
Bored Games:
Song "Joe 90".  Classic Kiwi underground pop.
This schoolboy band was one of the early proponents of the "Dunedin Sound"
associated with the Flying Nun label, and band members went on to play
in virtually every important Dunedin band, including the Chills,
the Verlaines, the Clean, Straightjacket Fits etc.
 
Boston:
The LP "Third Stage" has a track emulating a spaceship take-off.
(All three of their album covers tell the story of the Guitar Spaceship
and its quest for a new home.)
 
Bow Wow Wow:
Punk.  "I want my baby on Mars", "Giant sized baby thing!".
 
Bowie, David:
"Space Oddity" (most emphatically NOT "Major Tom") discusses eerie
experiences in orbit.  Also has a film, "The Man who Fell to Earth".
See also "Diamond Dogs" (mutated life on earth after the bomb)
and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", about a rock band on
an earth with five years left; this LP also contains "Five Years"
and "Starman".  From "Hunky Dory", see "Life on Mars", and from "Station
to Station", see "TVC15".  See also "Ashes to Ashes", "Memory of a
Free Festival", and "1984".  Also, "Cat People (Putting out the Fire)"
from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie.  His collaboration
with the Sales Brothers (Tin Machine), released an album with some
SF-oriented tracks, such as "Tin Machine", "Video Crime", and "I Can't Read".
 
--- Some commentary on Bowie...
 
Bowie, David:
A lot of his albums contain at least a few sf songs.  The major ones are:
"Space Oddity", the title track (often mistakenly referred to as "Major Tom")
was apparently played on the BBC broadcast of Neil Armstrong's moon walk;
"The Man Who Sold the World"; "Hunky Dory" which contains 'Life on Mars';
"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", the first
side has sf songs, the second is about a rock band whose lead singer self-
destructs (presumably the band which sang the first side); "AladdinSane";
"Diamond Dogs", a sort of Orwellian '1984' album which contains the song
'1984' and other songs about big brother; "Heroes", "Scary Monsters (and
super creeps)" which contains the title track and 'Ashes to Ashes', a
followup to 'Space Oddity'. Also, 'Cat People (Putting out the Fire)'
(tenuosly sf) from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie of the same
name.  "Tonight" contains a song, 'Loving the Alien" and his latest
album, "Never Let Me Down", has another.  "Station to Station" was originally
written, but not used, as the soundtrack to one of his films, "The Man who
Fell to Earth", a classic about an alien stranded on earth.  Bowie has done
a couple of other sf films, "The Hunger", about vampires, and "Labyrinth",
where he plays the goblin king who has kidnapped a young girl's baby brother
after she brattishly announces, "I wish the goblins would take him away!"
 
	-- Scott Butler
---
 
Brickel, Edie and the New Bohemians:
The title track from "Ghost of a Dog" is, uh, well, about the ghost of a dog.
 
Brightman, Sarah
"I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper", "Love In A U.F.O.", and
"The Love Crusader" (not quite sf, but has many snips of supposed
intergalactic radio conversations, etc.) and "Lost in Space"
are all from a 1979 album.
 
Broderna Brothers:
Swedish band, with an song "Karlek i rymden" ("Love in Space") about
the boyfriend of a female astronaut.
 
Brown, Arthur:
In the late sixties, "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" had a big hit
with "Fire".  In the mid-to-late-70's, he released an album called
"Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come", rife with SF themes.  For example,
the first track is "Time Captives", about a group of people who have
crashed their timeship.  (The album may have been a double LP in the UK.)
 
Brown, Julie:
"Earth Girls are Easy". :-)
 
Brownsville Station:
"The Martian Boogie" was a 1977 single about an alien who learns to
rock n' roll.  The song was sort of a minor cult classic for this 
band in the midwest as they tried to follow-up on their "Smokin' in
the Boy's Room" success.  The single was issued on the Private Stock label.
(Your editor would like to mention that he saw Brownsville Station and
Styx on a double bill in a converted skating rink outside St. Louis around
1975 or so...it was an interesting pairing, to say the least. ---Rsk )
 
Buckner and Garcia:
"Hyperspace", "Defender".  (These *are* the guys that did
that awful Pacman song.)
 
Buggles, The:
The LP "Age of Plastic" contains many SF themes;for instance, the title
song has the lines "They send the Heart Police to put you under
cardiac arrest" (1984 meets Harlan Ellison's Ticktockman?) Also "I Love
You, Miss Robot".  See also "Johnny on the Monorail".  See also
"Adventures in Modern Recording", with SF tracks such as "Vermillion Sands",
"Inner City", "Rainbow Warrior", and maybe "On TV".
For trivia fans: "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video shown
on MTV.
 
Bunnydrums:
"PKD", for Phillip K. Dick.
 
Burnett, T-Bone:
"We Are Humans From Earth" from the soundtrack of "Until the End of
the World".
 
Bush, Kate:
"Breathing", about breathing the fallout following a nuclear blast, (supposed
to be sung by an unborn child) is from "Never For Ever", and "Experiment IV"
from "The Whole Story" about designing a sound that can kill.
"Cloudbusting" is about a boy (played by Kate in the video) whose father
builds a rain-making machine and is kidnapped by the government.
 
	(This song was inspired by Peter Reich's "The Book of Dreams".
	The lines "I hid my Yo-yo/In the garden/
		what made it special/made it dangerous"
	is a reference to the fact that the rainmaking energy was inhibited
	by radiation, so Peter's father made him throw away his yo-yo.
	Peter buried it in the garden instead.  -- Theo O'Neal)
 
	(Peter Reich's father, Wilhelm Reich, was actually a 'scientist'
	(regard the quotes) who did research in 'orgone energy'. Don't ask
	me seriously what 'orgone energy' should be, but one of it's
	abilities should have been to make it rain. The story
	behind that is not sci-fi at all, it is true life (more or less).
	Wilhelm Reich was actually arrested by the government and died in
	prison, something the nine (or so) year old Peter couldn't comprehend
	as a child. Peter later wrote 'a book of dreams' to cope with that
	experience. -- Ulrich Grepel )
 
See also "Hammer Horror" from "Lionheart", a throwback to the
horror films of the 60's.  "Deeper Understanding" from "The Sensual
World" is about computer addiction. "Hello Earth" from "Hounds of Love"
refers to an astronaut viewing the earth from his spaceship.
KB also covered Elton John's "Rocket Man".
 
Byrds, The:
"Hey Mr. Spaceman" from "The Fifth Dimension". "Space Odyssey"
from "Notorious Byrd Brothers" is a retelling of Clarke's "The Sentinel".
 
Byrne, David:
"In the Future", from the "Civil Wars" soundtrack is an
often-contradictory list how we will be in the future.
 
Camel:
Lots of fantasy stuff on various albums, notably "Mirage", which
contains the song "White Rider" (about Gandalf). "Moonmadness" contains
the instrumental "Lunar Sea". See also "Echoes" from "Breathless".
 
Camper Van Beethoven:
"The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon" from "Telephone Free Landslide
Victory", 1985; cover of Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" from self-titled
album, 1986.  Other songs include some "fantastic" imagery.  The title of
their album "II & III" is an oblique reference to R.A. Wilson's
"Illuminatus!" books (they also did the theme for a TV show Wilson did,
apparently; it appears on their album "Key Lime Pie").
 
Can:
First album "Monster Movie", 1969; occasional spacey themes in songs
("Cascade Waltz" on "Flow Motion" mentions a spaceship and an astronaut).
 
Candlemass:
A Swedish heavy metal band - pretty much slow heavy doom metal
with fantasy themes.  LP's include "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", "Nightfall",
"Ancient Dreams" and "Tales of Creation".  This last often suggests
Michael Moorcock characters, particularly Corum.
 
Canto, Bel:
"Picnic on the Moon" from the album "Birds of Passage".
It's about a girl (the singer) who finds an old diary and reads an old story 
she dreamed up about taking a Baron's old balloon (hot-air, I assume), 
flying to the moon, and, upon arrival, well, having a picnic...
 
Captain Beefheart:
"Big Eyed Beans from Venus" and "The Floppy Boot Stomp".  The latter is
that tale of a farmer who accidentally summons the devil while squaredancing.
 
Captain Beyond:
"Astral Lady", "Voyagers From Distant Planets", etc.
 
Caravan:
"Cthulhu" from "Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night".
 
Carlos, Wendy (Walter):
The soundtrack recording to "A Clockwork Orange".
 
Carpenters:
See "Klaatu".
 
Jim Carrol Band:
The song "Nothing is True" is as Robert Anton Wilson as you can get.
 
Cassandra Complex:
Their album "Satan, Bugs Bunny and Me..." contains "E*O*D", a track
which discusses Cthulhu.  The album "Cyberpunx" contains some tracks
with cyberpunkish dark visions of the future, e.g. "Nightfall (over the EC)".
 
Caswell and Carnahan:
Do a song called "Borderlands" which is about a man who
goes back in time to meet a woman but must return to his own time.
[There is a novel called The House On The Borderland by William Hodgeson(?)
Among its (sub)plots there is a man who goes back (or maybe sideways) in
time to meet a woman but must return to his own time.]
 
Cheap Trick:
"Dream Police" (title track).
 
Chicago:
Last side of Chicago III is a suite named "Elegy" about ecodeath and final war.
 
----Some commentary on this from Ed Eastridge:
 
The side as a whole is named Elegy. Elegy's principal writer was trombonist
James Pankow. It is about humans killing themselves off in the name of
progress. Another song off of this album which is in a similar vein is
"Mother" describing the Raping of the Earth by Highways and other man-made
occurences. Anyway, If I can rememeber correctly Elegy consists of five
movements, the names As I can recall are:
 
"When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow" (a small poem)
"Canon" (Brass quartet type of feel,interesting harmonies.)
"Once Upon a Time"(Soft Jazz ballad featuring Flute and Trombone.)
"Progress?" (Dissonant and forboding. Uses taped sounds of jackhammers,
             traffic, etc. Most interesting is the use of the toilet...:))
"The Approaching Storm" (Normal Jazz type number like mid-60's "cool" sound)
"Man vs Man = The End"  (Contemporary almost 12-tonal in sound, definitely not
                         like "normal" Chicago)
 
All in all, this is a good piece. The songs are cohesive, transitions are
smooth and subtle. (If you couldn't tell by now, yes, I am a Chicago freak).
	--- Ed Eastridge
----
 
The Church:
Their last three albums ("Priest = Aura", "Gold Afternoon Fix", and
"Starfish") contain a good deal of SF material, such as:
"Pharaoh", "City", "Terra Nova Cain", "Priest = Aura", and "Dome".
 
Clannad:
New-age Celtic-folk stuff; numerous songs about druids, Stonehenge,
that sort of thing.  Also did much of the music for the British
"Robin Hood" TV show, as well as the film "Last of the Mohicans".
Borderline for inclusion here, since they tend more toward New Age
stuff rather than sf&f.
 
Clarke, Stanley:
Jazz bassist, who spent considerable time with Chick Corea and Al Dimeola
in "Return to Forever".  His self-titled solo release (mostly instrumental)
has a vocal track called "Vulcan Princess", about a woman he has loved
"through eternity".  This track also appears on a recently released CD
of his live performances, "Stanley Clarke Live 1975-1976".
 
Clash, the:
A band pretty much centered in the (then) Now, but had a couple songs
taking place in the future.  "Groovy Times" (from "Black Market Clash")
is roughly about a fascist state, apparently sparked by the sight of
chain-link fences around a soccer stadium.  "London Calling" (from the
LP of the same name) is about the apocalypse, a possibility which is
treated rather ambivalently.  "Atom Tan" (from "Combat Rock") is about
the apocalypse again, from sort of a Beat-Marxist angle.
 
Clark, Allan:
Album (title unknown) with multiple songs dealing with reincarnation.
 
Clark, Anne:
On her "Changing Places" album, "Sleeper in Metropolis" deals
with loss of all human contact in a future (or present) world;
"Poem for a Nuclear Romance" is about what will happen to two
lovers in a nuclear war.
 
Clinton, George (and Parliament/Funkadelic):
Parliament released a series of albums during the seventies with overt
SF themes: "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein", "Mothership Connection",
and others. Clinton had a solo hit with "Atomic Dog" in the mid-80's.
All this music ranges from slow-burn funk to beat-heavy disco.
(Their influence is still felt in a number of places -- e.g. one
of the sequences in the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" film.)
 
Clouds:
Australian pop music quartet.  Have a song "Fox's Wedding" inspired by
a Japanese fairy tale.  Their debut album "Penny Century" is named after
the character in Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez' comic book "Love and Rockets".
 
Colourbox:
A track from their "Colourbox" LP entitled "Just Give "em Whiskey." has
quotes from "Prisoner", "2001" and "West World" on it.
 
Concrete Blonde:
The album "Bloodletting" has "The Vampire Song" which sounds like it
was patterned after Anne Rice's Vampire novels.
 
Cooder, Ry:
"UFO has Landed in the Ghetto" from "The Slide Area".  Cooder is
extremely well-regarded among other professional guitar players,
and is known responsible (with Steve Vai) for the music in the
film "Crossroads".
 
Consolidated:
Rap group, used a sample from They Live!. It's part of the speech that
someone (the President?) is holding on TV. Part of it is "We have faith in our
leaders".
 
Costello, Elvis:
"Tokyo Storm Warning" from "Blood and Chocolate"; mentions the cheap
sets found in some Japanese horror/sf movies.  (In the sleeve notes to
"Girls Girls Girls" (a retrospective collection of Elvis Costello + The
Attractions songs) Costello says that Tokyo Storm Warning is influenced
by "brutal SF stories", and mentions Philip K Dick as one of the
influences.)  "Waiting for the End of the World" from "My Aim Is True",
(self explanatory) and "Night Rally" (fascist rally/totalitarian government)
"Hurry Down Doomsday (the Bugs Are Taking Over)" from "Mighty Like a
Rose". "Satellite" from the album _Spike_ is based on concepts from
"Radio Free Albemuth" by Philip K. Dick.
 
Crack the Sky:
"Robots for Ronnie" off "Crack the Sky" (not about Ronnie Reagan, but
could easily be adapted!).  "Invaders from Mars" off "Animal Notes"
(the martians are coming for our hero, but he doesn't care, 'cause
it's probably better over there!).  "Nuclear Apathy" off "Safety in
Numbers" discusses how the situation looks to those on the Moon.
 
Cracker:
Led by David Lowery, formerly of Camper Van Beethoven.
"Nostalgia" (from "Kerosene Hat", 1993) is about a stranded cosmonaut,
also mentioned on the single "Low", from the same album.
 
Cramps:
Contributed a song to the soundtrack of "Return of the Living Dead",
called "Surfin' Dead" (about zombies and the like, not
to mention numerous uses of 50's-60's era hot-rod lingo.)
 
Crash Test Dummies:
A Canadian group. "Superman Song" from their first album, "The Ghosts that 
Haunt Me", is about the man of steel himself, comparing his lifestyle to that 
of Tarzan.
 
The Cravats:
A number of albums contain SF references. For example the album "The
Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes" uses recordings from TV's "The
Twilight Zone" and "The Prisoner" plus the film "Them!". The title
track ends with the narrator's father being eaten by his roses. The
Cravats later turned into The Very Things and released the album
"Motortown!", which contains the track "The Land of the Giants" about
the TV series.
 
Cream:
(Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce.)
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" from "Disraeli Gears" is about the
well-known mythological character; "Those Were the Days"
from "Wheels of Fire" is about Atlantis.
 
The Creatures:
"Pluto Drive" from "Boomerang".
 
Creedence Clearwater Revival:
"It Come Out of the Sky".
 
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
"Wooden Ships" is a resigned tale of survival in a post-nuclear world.
"Teach Your Children" is part of the soundtrack to "Silent Running".
 
The Cure:
On the "Faith" LP there is a track called "The Drowning Man" based on
chapter 75 in 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake describing the death of Fuschia.
 
Dalek I Love You (aka Dalek I):
Who are these folks?
 
The Damned:
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" (single + live on "The Black Album")
deals with a future military state in the UK.
 
Danse Society:
On their "Heaven is Waiting" LP is cover of "2000 Light Years from home".
 
DeBurgh, Chris:
"The Vision", "The Leader", and "What About Me?", a three-song
series from "Into the Light" discusses the Revelation, which may or
may not be a fantasy, depending on your viewpoint.  See "A Spaceman Came
Travelling" and "The Tower" from "Spanish Train", "The Girl With April
in Her Eyes" from "Crusader", "Sight and Touch" from "Man on the Line"
(post-WW3), and "Don't Pay the Ferryman" from "The Getaway".
Also note "The Devil's Eye" from "Crusader", about the Devil taking over the
world through TV screens, and "Sin City" from "Far Beyond These Castle Walls",
about the Devil tempting people on Earth.
 
Dead Milkmen:
Have done a number of SF songs, including "Right Wing Pigeons" from
"Big Lizard in my Backyard", and "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies".
See also "Rocketship" and "Blood Orgy of the Atomic Fern"
on "Buckey Fellini".
 
Deep Fix:
Michael Moorcock's band of the late seventies-produced one album, "The
New Worlds Fair".  A sort of cross between rock and slow square dance.
 
Deep Purple:
Occasional forays into SF.  "Space Truckin'", from "Machine Head".
"The Mule", from "Fireball" (Asimov's 'Foundation'?).
 
Def Leppard:
Heavy Metal.  First album ("On Through The Night" has a futuristic track,
"When the Walls Came Tumblin' Down", and a fantasy "Overture".
The videos for "Foolin'" and "Rock of Ages" from "Pyromania" contain
fantasy/SF elements, although the lyrics of the songs aren't explicitly
SF-ish. The LP "Hysteria" includes "Gods of War", "Run Riot",
"Armageddon it" and "Rocket" which have s-f themes (It sounds so, at least).
The video for "Women" (also from "Hysteria")is about a s-f comic story
(called "Def Leppard and the Women of Doom").
 
Devo:
"Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO" and "Duty Now for the Future" are
full of SF themes; examples are "Space Junk" and "Jocko Homo". "Freedom
of Choice" and "New Traditionalists" also have some SF material.
Also "Shout" has a couple of SF tracks on it: "Are You Experienced?"
(the Hendrix song) and "4th Dimension".  "Mr DNA" from "Duty Now for the
Future" is apparently about genetic engineering.
 
Diamond, Neil:
"Heartlight" is based on "E.T."
 
Dio:
Most Dio albums are fantasy in tone, i.e. covers & liners.  "The Last
in Line" is about a quest to find a witch.  Other songs and videos
have similar themes.
 
Divinyls:
Australian grunge band, did a track called "Science Fiction" on
their "Desperate" album. It's more about your average sf fan
"I thought love was science fiction...now that love is my addiction,
I've thrown all my books away."
 
DOEF:
(the OE being O umlaut, DOEF stands for Deutsch-Oestereichische-Freunschaft,
German-Austrian-Friendship) once wrote a song called 'Codo'.  It's about
a peace and love bringing alien.
 
Dogzilla:
Boston funk band with songs "Mr. Toad's WIld Ride", "Scarab of Ra",
"The Two-Headed Baby Song" and "Giant Squid" as examples from "There's
Always Something Wrong"/"Allizgod".  Fun.
 
Dolby, Thomas:
"Golden Age of Wireless" is mostly (if not all) songs about
science/technology and man. "The Flat Earth" also contains these themes
to a lesser extent.  The album "Aliens Ate My Buick" (an SF title if ever
I heard one) includes the track "May The Cube Be With You" (first line -
"Late one night a happy Martian with nothing to do").  See also the
album "Astronauts and Heretics".
 
Donovan (w/Paul McCartney):
"Atlantis" (Georg Danzer translated and sang a German version.)
See also "The Intergalactive Laxative" and the title track
from "Cosmic Wheels".  "Sunshine Superman" probably deserves
a mention as well.
 
Dorough, Bob:
"Little Twelvetoes" is about an alien with 12 toes.
 
Geoffrey Downes New Dance Orchestra:
"Plastic Age" on one of their albums (which one, anybody?).
 
Dr. John:
"Gris-Gris" and "Gumbo" are heavily into New Orleans voodoo party mysticism.
 
Dschinghis Khan:
A German band with a song called "Kaept'n Nemo" about Jules Vernes'
undersea captain.
 
Duran Duran:
(Note: The group's name comes from a character in the Jane Fonda/Roger Vadim
film "Barbarella".)
 
Some comments from Gabrielle de Lioncourt on Duran Duran:
 
	Their first album has "Planet Earth" and "Sound of Thunder" (the
	latter about waiting for the bomb to drop).  A B-side, "Faster than
	Light", was also SF.  Duran Duran have a very interesting video
	history for SF lovers.  The majority of their videos were directed
	by Russel Mulchaey, director of Highlander.  Some video plots:
 
	"Night Boat" - zombie horror video
	"Hungry Like The Wolf" - man chases woman who turns into panther.
	"New Moon On Monday" - near future story of peaceful revolt against
			totalitarian regime.
	"Union of the Snake" - man from Earth travels into the world
			beneath ours.
	"View to a Kill" - James Bond fantasy.
 
	"Wild Boys" wasn't a tribute to Barbarella.  It was taken from
	their film "Arena", a _very_ surreal story that takes place half
	in the arena where Duran Duran are holding their concert and half
	in the strange underworld below the arena (where Wild Boys takes
	place).  The videos by Arcadia, a splinter portion of the band,
	are also surreal and SF-ish.
 
 
Dylan, Bob:
"Talkin' World War III Blues"
 
Earth, Wind & Fire:
"Jupiter" from "All 'n All"; the singer is visited by an alien
who wants to bring love and peace to the world by means of a
flower from his plant. "Electric Nation" from the "Electric Universe" album
tells how it won't be so bad to become a country of robots, as long as
we can still dance. ;-)
 
Edelweiss:
An Austrian band who've recorded a parody of the Star Trek theme entitled
"Raumschiff Edelweiss" ("Spaceship Edelweiss"); they also have a
corresponding video.
 
Electric Light Orchestra:
"Mission (A World Record)" on "A New World Record".  The entire album
"Time" involves a man from 1981 winding up in the 21st century (or perhaps
the other way around). The "10538 Overture" is a dystopia set in that year.
(Although closer examination of the lyrics indicates that "10538" might
be a person, not a year.)
 
Elektric Music:
The Kraftwerk offshoot band's first album "Esperanto" has a song about
making love to a machine ("Kissing The Machine").  Co-written by and
features the vocals of OMD's Andy McCluskey.
 
Elephant's Memory:
The track "Old Man Willow" is apparently a reference to the sentient
trees described by Tolkien.
 
Eloy:
(German/Swiss electronic progressive rock) See "Ocean", the atlantis
myth; "Planets","Time to Turn",  a two album story of fantasy with a
twist.  (It's about "the rise and fall of the most beautiful planet in
the universe, Salta".) Also, "Giant" from "Colours" and "Night Riders"
and "Metromania" from "Metromania", about the high tech near future.  The
LP "Power and the Passion" is based on a story involving a student who
ingests some of his father's experimental timedrug. He travels back 600
years and falls in love, gets involved in her father's fight with the
peasants and eventually finds a wizard to send him back to the future.
(The name of the band was based on the Eloi race from H. G. Wells'
"The Time Machine".)
 
Emerald Web:
(small obscure west coast duo [flute & synthesizer]) New age material,
but one album is "Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales", a fantasy story set
to music.
 
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer:
Space battle in "Karn Evil 9" from "Brain Salad Surgery".  (Artwork
by H R Giger, of "Alien" fame.)  See also "Tarkus", whose tracks
seem to loosely correlate with the cover artwork, but which I've
never been quite able to figure out.
 
Eno, Brian:
Albums: "Apollo" and "On Land"; see also "The Fat Lady of Limbourg"
from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", a bizarre story of
SF and espionage.  See also "Nerve Net".
 
----Some commentary on Eno from Tim Day:
 
Re "Apollo": This is purely instrumental.  It was apparently written as
sountrack for a video documentary of the Apollo missions (bits were
also used in the film "Static"), but I don't think this qualifies
it for the main section of the list any more than <random Tangerine Dream track>
 
"On Land" is also instrumental.  #1 of a series entitled "Ambient" (sort of
intelligent background muzak). It is intended to suggest large open spaces
(and succeeds very well).  But SF ?  No way.
 
Eno's philosophy towards song lyrics seems to be summarized by the first
track (I forget the name) on "Another Green World":
"All the clouds turn to words;
All the words float in sequence
And no-one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them"
Eno's songs generally aim to invoke an atmosphere, mood or emotion.
Like the music, lyrics are just another tool to serve this purpose; this can
often be done using particular words or phrases.  However, the song they form
in combination is essentially meaningless (which is why it's so difficult
to classify any of his stuff as SF !).  "The Fat Lady of Limbourg" is
probably the closest he's come.  (Though it really seems to be just about
bumbling espionage agencies.)
 
	--- Tim Day
-----
 
Enya:
"Aldebaran" is dedicated to Ridley Scott; the liner notes about it read:
 
	"The Red giant star, Aldeberan, found in the constellation of Taurus,
	is the Eye of the bull. From the Arabic, Al Dabaran, it means
	'the follower' as it 'follows' the Pleiades. This piece portrays
	future Celts passing Aldebaran on their journey to new territories,
	continuing the migratory pattern which was so predominant in their
	early history."
 
Another track, apparently Tolkien-derived, is "Lothlorien".
The album "Shepherd Moons" is a sort of reference to moons found in
the rings of Saturn, which, due to their gravitational influence,
hold some of the rings in place. (See also Clannad: Enya is the sister of
the former lead singer, and was part of their early line-up.)
 
Eon:
Their album "Void dweller" include several tracks with samples from SF
and horror movies.  For example, "Spice" and "Fear: The Mindkiller"
have samples from Dune (saw that coming, didn't you?), "Electromagnetic
Waves" has samples from "Prince of Darkness" and so on.
 
Erasure:
Their song "Sweet Sweet Baby" includes samples from the films "Dark Star"
and "Barbarella".
 
Erickson, Roky:
"The Evil One" has a track entitled "Creature with the Atom Brain"
Also see "I Walked with a Zombie" (now you know all the lyrics :-) ).
 
Etheridge, Melissa:
Her 1992 release "Never Enough" includes "2001", a rocker with
semi-cyberpunk lyrics about the near future.
 
Europe:
A Swedish pop-slanted hard rock band, which did the song
"The Final Countdown", about being exiled from Earth.
 
Eurythmics:
Did the soundtrack to the recent version of "1984".
 
FM:
The album "Black Noise" is entirely SF, and deal with topics such
as suspended animation; "RocketRoll" from "Surveillance" is about SF Rock.
Also see "Phasers on Stun".
 
Fagen, Donald:
"True Companion", about a lonely starship pilot, appears on the
soundtrack for "Heavy Metal".  (Incidentally, some folks have
interpreted I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) to be futuristic;
but it refers to the optimistic vision held *during* the IGY, 1957.)
"Tomorrow's Girls" from "Kamakiria".
 
Fairport Convention:
A few fantasy-related songs -- most notably "Tam Lin", the classic
celtic tale of an encounter with the Queen of Faerie.  F.C.'s music
is mostly based around traditional English folktales.  (See also
Steeleye Span.)
 
Faith No More:
The last-minute addition of new singer and lyricist 
Mike Patton before they came out with "The Real Thing" necessitated 
that he write all the songs in about eight days, so he went on sort 
of a scavenger hunt for topics. Among the usual assortment of love 
songs, and some other truely weird topics, "Surprise! You're Dead!" 
is about getting turned into a Vampire. "The Morning After" is about 
a ghost, and is an adaptation of the film Siesta.
 
The Fall:
They have a song called "Lay of the Land" which starts with the
chanting of some "Planet people" from the British TV series
"Quatermass".  "Spectre vs. Rector" on "Dragnet" is a story about
exorcism/possession- the demon is called Yog Sothoth (from H.P.
Lovecraft's horror books). "Jaw Bone and the Air-Rifle" on "Hex
Induction Hour" is about a curse.  See also "Elves", "Bug Day".
 
Falling Joys:
Australian band; the title trakck from the album "Psychohum" is the
story of the galaxy being saved by the crew of a spaceship...until
the lyrics abruptly change direction and start describing a genie.
 
Farmer, Mylene:
This French singer has a song "Tristana" which tells the story of that
beautiful girl ("Schneewitchen" in German) with the seven dwarfs.
 
Fiona:
"Nights on Earth", from the soundtrack to "Hearts of Fire",
features the chorus line "Remember all the nights we spent on earth, long
before the colonies were planted in the sky".
 
Firm:
"Star Trekkin'".  This is not the same "Firm" who did "Radioactive",
i.e. it's not Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page.
 
Fink Brothers:
"Mutants in Mega City One", from 2000AD comic (origin of Judge Dredd).
America portrayed as three cities under police control.
 
Fishbone:
Off their self titled album, "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." stands for 
"Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts" and is 
about a government attempt to convince everything that Hiroshima was 
actually caused by Godzilla farting. I kid you not.
"Party at Ground Zero" from the eponymous album.
 
Fischer Z (the Z is pronounced the Britisch way, sead with a soft s):
The title track from their album "Red Skies Over Paradise" is
about nuclear war in Britain.
 
The Five Blobs:
"The Blob".
 
The Fixx:
"Driven Out", about environmental disaster, from "Calm Animals".
(Known for early-80's hit "One Thing Leads to Another".)
 
Flaming Youth:
The album "Ark II" is a concept LP about the trials and tribulations of
a generation ship leaving earth.  (Phil Collins was the drummer.)
 
Flash & the Pan:
"First and Last" is based on a combination of Olaf Stapledon's
"Last and First Men" and Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" or "2001,"
whichever you prefer. The song "California" is based on the novel
"Fail-Safe".  See also "Atlantis Calling".
 
Flash Fearless and the Zorg Women, parts 5&6:
Another weird IGTB type collaboration album from the
late 70's with some well-known rockers on it.
Includes "I'm Flash" by Alice Cooper.
 
Fleck, Bela and the Flecktones:
"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo", and "UFO Tofu" a couple of songs
with self-explanatory titles.  Incidentally, one of the Flecktones
is called "Future Man" and plays a futuristic SynthAxe Drumitar.
 
Fleetwood Mac:
"Green Manalishi".  (Judas Priest did an eminently forgettable version.)
"Rhiannon" is about a Welsh witch.
 
Flock, The:
"Dinosaur Swamps" is an early LP.  Notable for quality of musicians,
including Jerry Goodman who later joined the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
 
Flock of Seagulls:
British band (circa 1982) very much associated with science fiction.
Songs with titles like "Man Made", "DNA", "Modern Love is Automatic",
and "Space Age Love Song".
 
Flying Pickets:
Have an a cappela cover of Bowie's "Space Oddity".
 
Foreigner:
"Starrider" is a track from their self-titled debut album in which
the singer is taken to the stars and "sails the celestial ways."
Reference is made to higher beings with the power to travel between the
stars and the singer seeks to gain their knowledge to become a Starrider.
A 3rd generation band, Foreigner followed in the footsteps of Bad Company,
who in turn followed in the footsteps of Free.
 
Foxx, John:
Former lead singer for Ultravox -- slightly harsh electro-pop.  Futuristic
tracks include "20th Century" on the B-Side of the "Burning Car" single.
Surreal tracks include "He's a Liquid".  First solo album "Metamatic"
is futuristic and minimalistic synth music, including "No-one's Driving"
and "Underpass"
 
Frank Chickens:
"Mothra", based on the movie monster.
 
Frankie Goes To Hollywood:
Their 1984 "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" album has two tracks with SF'isch 
connotations.  The title track is about the Coleridge poem ("In Xanada
did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree", if memory serves ---Rsk),
and 'Two Tribes' is about nuclear war.
 
The Front's:
"Violent World" from their self-titled album (as far as I know,
the only one they ever recorded) - another nuclear holocaust tale.
 
Front 242:
Has a sample from the movie Videodrome in one of their songs...
(the "You know me. And I sure know you! Everyone!" part).
 
Front Line Assembly:
An industrial band, their latest album is titled "Tactical Neural Implant"
and they have a single from that album called "Mindphazer". The video for
this single has footage from a japanese live-action sci-fi film
called "GUNHED".
 
GWAR:
Mentioned here mostly because these folks are sincerely weird.  Its
members all claim to be from another planet and to have been frozen in
Antartica for countless years.  Their music is heavy metal, and they
(aided with lots of latex) really look unearthly.  Currently they are
on their 'World Maggot Tour' where they hope to awaken the sleeping
world maggot from its nest underneath the Pentagon and ride it back
into outer space.
 
Gabriel Bondage:
"Another Trip to Earth" (LP), religious/fantasy mixture.
 
Gabriel, Peter:
"Here Comes the Flood", with Robert Fripp, and "Solsbury Hill" are typical
of his work. "On the Air" from his second album is about running a pirate
radio transmitter under a totalitarian regime. Many of his other songs deal
with aspects of science and technology and progress, and their effects
on people, but many of them are metaphorical and interpretations vary.
See also Genesis.
 
Game Theory:
"One More for Saint Michael" on the album "Lolita Nation" includes
references to Captain Jim, the Prime Directive, T'Pau, etc.  "Nine Lives
to Rigel 5" from "Distortion" and "Regenisraen" from "Big Shot Chronicle"
also have SF themes.  Finally, "Room for One More Honey" from "Two
Steps From the Middle Ages" seems to be about Americans taking over Asia.
 
Gayle, Crystal:
When she appeared on _The Muppet Show_, she sang a song
about a voyage to Alpha Centauri.  As far as I know, the track never
appeared on any of her albums.
 
J. Geils Band:
"No Anchovies, Please" frommm "Love Stinks" is about diabolical
scientists who kidnap a woman and transform her into...
 
Genesis:
"Watcher of the Skies" (from "Foxtrot") could be either a "last man
on Earth" story or a "alien comes upon a deserted Earth" story.
"One for the Vine" from "Wind and Wuthering" concerns time travel;
perhaps "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" (Hello Triffids,
from "Nursery Cryme"), "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" (the entire album)
(surrealism), and "A Trick of the Tail" (entire album) (fantasy).
Oh, and "Get 'em Out by Friday" (from "Foxtrot") which sounds like something
the BBC should have turned into a Doctor Who plot -- tenants are being kicked
out of their apartments by their new landlords, who just happen to be the
directors of Genetic Control, who just happen to have just announced a new
'four-foot restriction on humanoid height', thus enabling them to fit twice
as many people to a building...   See also "Keep it Dark"
in which visiting aliens persuade the person they contact to remain silent
about the visit.  More stuff: "Am I Very Wrong", "Solitude", "The Knife"
(--maybe, from "Trespass"), "The Musical Box" (horror, from "Nursery Cryme").
According to the story told in 1970s concerts (and apparently on the liners
of the original release, but on present in the current American release): A
boy (Henry) is killed when his playmate (Cynthia) takes his head off with a
croquet mallet (one concert telling of the tale begins, in fact, with the
line, "Croquet is a particularly vicious British sport"). Upon reaching The
Great Hereafter, he is rejected and sent back to Earth, only to manifest
himself again when Cynthia comes upon his musical box. Upon her opening the
box, Henry pops out (and the song begins). Over the course of the song,
Henry's body ages rapidly, until, by the final strains, he is an old man,
who finally collapses and dies (assumedly for good this time).
"The Fountain of Salmacis" (fantasy, from "Nursery Cryme"),
is a retelling of the myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis.
Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, comes upon a pool wherein
dwells the naiad Salmacis. Salmacis, smitten with love, asks the gods to
make the two of them one being. The result -- a single being of both
genders; hence, the term 'hermaphrodite'. "Supper's Ready"
(the ultimate battle of good and evil, from "Foxtrot", possibly based on
an experience Peter Gabriel had one night when his wife began speaking
with another voice ), "Firth of Fifth", and Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"
(both containing heavy fantasy elements, both from "Selling England by
the Pound").  (It's also possible that "Dancing..." is political allegory
instead -- which I tend to agree with, given the album title and a re-reading.
"Cinema Show", from the same album, mentions the mythical figure of Tyresias,
a being who has been both male and female (but not at the same time).
See also "Squonk" from  "A Trick of the Tail", and "The Lady Lies" from
"...And Then There Were Three...", a fantasy about a traveller captured
by a demon in the form of a young woman.  See also "Little Nemo" and
"Snowbound" from the same album, which also have fantasy elements.
 "Domino" from "Invisible Touch" is about nuclear war,
death, damnation, and other cheery topics.  BTW, Peter Gabriel used to
tell stories before some of the songs in concert, although those stories
seem to have nothing to do with the songs (occasionally).
 
Gentle Giant:
Much material, tending towards fantasy including "The Advent of Panurge",
and "Alucard" (spell it backwards).
 
Gerry and the Holograms:
The single "Gerry and the Holograms" is about a man who is split into
several copies of himself. If I remember rightly the man behind this
group was the singer from Albertos Y Los Paranoias.
 
Gong:
New Age before anyone had coined the label "new age".  Three albums about
the Planet Gong, Zero the Hero & the Pot-Head Pixies!: "Radio Gnome",
"Angel's Egg", "You". Earlier albums had vaguely SF ideas, e.g.,
"Fohat Digs Holes in Space" from "Camembert Electrique".
 
Gillan:
The title song from "Future Shock" and, from "Glory Road", "On the Rocks"
describes a 1984-like world.
 
Ian Gillan Band:
"Clear Air Turbulence" is an album with some sf-related songs, such as
the title track (5000 'astral explorers' swarm out and return holplessly)
and "Five Moons" (describes the situation of people stranded somewhere
in space).
 
Gowan, Larry:
See "Oceania" from "Gowan" (first LP) might refer to Oceana.
See also "Strange Animal", his second LP.
 
Graham, Mark:
The album "Natural Selections" contains several humorous songs on
various scientific topics, including "Big Bang Theory" (the story of
the universe in six minutes), "Working on the Food Chain", "I Can
See Your Aura and It's Ugly" and "Their Brains Were Small and They Died".
Great harmonica playing, too.
 
Grand Funk Railroad:
See "Time Machine" and "Into the Sun" from "On Time", and
"Life in Outer Space" from "What's Funk?"
 
Grateful Dead:
"Standing on the Moon" is a reflection by a singer who is standing on
the moon watching petty wars on earth; possibly SF-ish although it
seems to be more of a love song.  In the post-apocalyptic vision/love song
"Morning Dew", two lovers decide to walk out in the morning dew
(despite the fallout) because "I guess it doesn't matter anyway".
 
Greenslade, David:
"The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", a double album of electronic music.
A derelict alien spaceship enters our solar system.  Their language is
decoded (details in the accompanying illustrated book); the music is
the story of their race.
 
H.P. Lovecraft:
Couple of albums...one contains "At the Mountains of Madness".  Estimates
place them in the late 60's.  Another track is "The White Ship",
directly referencing an H.P. Lovecraft story.
 
Hackett, Steve:
"Narnia" on "Please Don't Touch" (one of his solo albums;he was with Genesis).
His album "Voyage of the Acolyte" isbased on the Tarot, and includes
"Star of Sirius", "The Hands of the Princess", "A Tower Struck Down",
"The Lovers", "The Hermit", "The Shadow of the Hierophant", and "Ace of Wands".
See also Genesis.
 
Hagar, Sammy:
"There's a Crack in the Earth".
 
Hamm, Stuart:
"Radio Free Albemuth" is based on the novels of Phillip K. Dick.
"Count Zero" is based on William Gibson's material.
Instrumental music includes the song "Ice-9", a reference to Kurt Vonnegut's
"Cat's Cradle".  Hamm has also worked with Joe Satriani.
 
Hammill, Peter:
Has done an operatic treatment of "The Fall of the House of Usher".
 
Happy the Man:
"Time Considered as a Helix of Precious Laughs" is based on Samuel R.
Delany's story "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones".
Great story, lousy song...from the album "Happy the Man".
 
Hardcastle, Paul:
The "No Winner" album is filled with songs about nuclear attacks and SDI.
 
Hatfield and the North
"Son of There's No Place Like Homerton" from their eponymous album.
It's a lengthy song which has sparse lyrics and seems to be
about an orchestra from Mars.
 
Hawkwind:
The all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock.  *Some* of their
albums are: "Hall of the Mountain Grill", "In Search of Space",
"Quark, Strangeness, and Charm", "Space Ritual--Alive in Liverpool &
London", "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "In Search of Space", "Doremi
Fasol Latido", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music","25 Years On",
"Levitation", "Sonic Attack", "Church of the Hackwind", and "Choose
Your Masks".  Michael Moorcock, long associated with the group, has
in fact written much fantasy-sf, including co-authoring "Time of the Hawklords",
a fantasy about the band saving the world.  He co-wrote "Veteran of the
Psychic Wars", from the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal".  He also released a
solo album late in the 70's (See "Deep Fix").  Many of their tracks are
explicitly linked to SF books,e.g. "Lord of Light", "Jack of Shadows",
"Damnation Alley" (Zelazny), "Steppenwolf" (Hesse), "High Rise" (Ballard).
The lyrics of "Warriors" are taken from Moorcock's "The Eternal Champion";
the lyrics to another spoken track on "Space Ritual" from his book
"The Black Corridor" The lyrics of "The Awakening", "Spirit of the Age"
and "The 10 Seconds of Forever", are SF poems from Robert Calvert's
collection of poems, "Centigrade 232".  Robert Calvert was lead singer
of Hawkwind from 1976-1978 (or thereabouts) and produced a solo album,
"Lucky Leif in the Longships" in the late 70's, and two more in the mid-80's.
"Lucky Leif" is based on the premise "What if the Vikings had
succeeded and colonizing America?", and features several Hawkwind
regulars as guest musicians.  The 1985 Hawkwind LP "The Chronicle of
the Black Sword" is based loosely on Moorcock's Elric character.
Debut album was called "Hawkwind".  Another album is PXR5.
 
Some commentary on "Live Chronicles" from Stephen Swann:
	"Live Chronicles" is the double-album concert rendition of their
	"Chronicle of the Black Sword" album, and features several events from
	the Elric books (especially "Stormbringer"), loosely intertwined into
	an 80-minute music-story performance.  The tour also featured Michael
	Moorcock himself on stage with the band, doing narration between
	musical numbers.  Moorcock's spoken parts didn't make it onto the
	final cut of the album, because of legal problems between himself and
	the band, but he -is- on the _Chronicle of the Black Sword_ video
	(which is a live performance from the same tour, even though it
	sports the name of the studio album).
 
			--- Stephen Swann
 
For further info on Hawkwind, please see the rather massive entry
at the end of the list.
 
Hazard, Robert:
A Philadelphia-area performer who released the album "Wings of Fire"
in the mid-80's.  It included a track entitled "Interplanetary Private Eye",
which was essentially the Bladerunner story -- and there was even
an attribution to it in the liner notes.
 
Hazel O'Connor:
"Eighth Day" track. This is about how, as man advances, the world we know is
destroyed - part of lyrics - "Nobody laughs, nobody cries".  Very similar
to Zager & Evan's "2525".
 
Heaven 17:
This band took their name from a band mentioned in "Clockwork Orange".
"Let"s All make a Bomb" from their "Penthouse and Pavement" LP is about The
Bomb and nuclear war, but is apparently not too SF-ish.  See also
"Five Minutes to Midnight", on the same theme.
 
Heldon:
French band that took it's name from Norman Spinrad's "The Iron
Dream" and takes some song titles from the novel as well.  A later LP called
"Interface" has a beautiful female alien face on the cover and the titles
seem suggestive of leading up to sex with green women.
 
Helloween:
Two loosely-related albums, "Keeper of the Seven Keys" Parts 1 & 2.  The
first has songs about a future world, including "Twilight of the Gods"
which is about a planet that makes their own computerized gods, and the
new and old fight, and the whole planet gets trashed.  In the credits, it
says thanks to Herman Frank for INSANIA 2016, which is mentioned in the
song, that's possibly what it's based on. Also, on "Pt. 1" there is a
song called "Halloween" (with an 'a' not an 'e') that is like a part one
to the song "Keeper of the 7 Keys" which is on "Pt. 2".  The second LP
also contains "Dr. Stein", a comic Frankenstein, and the song of the
title, which is some sort of fantasy adventure.
 
Hendrix, Jimi:
Delta blues, except that the delta is on Mars.  See "1983...A Merman
I Should Turn to Be","Hey Baby", and "Third Stone from the Sun",
"UFO", and lots of other stuff.  "Third Stone from the Sun" reportedly
contains an entire sound clip from the Star Trek TV series, of Kirk
and Spock on the bridge, which can be heard when the song is played
at faster speed.
 
Hillage, Steve:
His album "Green" includes an instrumental called "UFO over Paris".
Many albums have SF tinge, e.g. "Earthrise" from album "OPEN".  See
also Gong and Khan.
 
Hitchcock, Robyn:
See "The Fly", "Man with the Light Bulb Head".
 
Holdsworth, Allan:
Fusion guitar, for the most part. "Atavachron" is the instrumental title
track about the Atavachron, a time machine from a "Star Trek" episode
which an entire race used to escape from their sun which was about to
go supernova. "The UnMerry Go-Round" from "Metal Fatigue" is a conceptual
"soundtrack" to a story about a space traveler who must leave for a
distant star, never to see his beloved ones again because his ten-year
voyage, by Einstein's laws, will last several hundred earth years.
The succeeding track, "In the Mystery" is about some sort of quest.
 
Holy Modal Rounders:
"Mister Spaceman", complete with yodeling.
 
Hoodoo Gurus:
Have a song called "Another World" which is about an alien.  Also
see the song "Mars Needs Guitars".
 
The Horse Flies:
"Human Fly" from album of the same name--a cover of the Cramps' song.
 
Horslips:
Their 1970's album "The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony" (IMHO one
of the most underrated albums ever produced --Dave Weingart) is one long
suite of magick and faerie.  Good solid Irish rock 'n' roll, with nary
a bad cut.  (Horslips has produced some other similar works; would anyone
like to add to the list? ---Rsk )
 
Huey Lewis & the News:
"Back in Time" from the "Back to the Future" soundtrack.
 
Human League:
"I Am the Law", also from Judge Dredd (futuristic cop) comic.  Process
of apprehension, trial, conviction, and sentencing telescoped into a
very short time period.  (This reminds me of the short story, "10:01 AM"
by Alexandar Malec; it appears in a hard-to-find collection called
"Extrapolasis" ---Rsk.)  Also "Black Hit of Space" from the "Travelogue"
album.  Top 40 hit songs arrives from space and takes over the charts.
"Circus of Death" from "Reproduction" (and misc EPs) mentions that the
last verse is spoken by "the last man on earth"...it is actually a drug song.
(And, to top it of, it mentions Steve McGarret from Hawaii 5-0.)
Also "Seconds" from "Dare!", possibly about a scientist blinding the dictator
of an African country with a laser. (The lyrics don't make direct reference
to it, but the tour slide show does...on the other hand, some folks report
that the tour slide show contained stills from the Zapruder film of the JFK
assassination.  Much dispute and confusion on this point.) See also
"Tom Baker", on the CD of "Reproduction", which might be about Dr. Who.
 
Husker Du:
Song "Books about Ufoes" on their "New Day Rising" release.
 
Hypnotic Clambake:
"Chef Mobie's Gumbo Gator" is more nonsense than SF, but one verse
talks about "a huge aligator on the planet neptune drinking wine".
 
Icehouse:
"Icehouse" contains "Icehouse" which seems to be a gothic tale of some
sort (haven't heard the album in a while) and "Sister" which is about
a computer/android (not sure which off-hand for same reason above).
 
Idol, Billy:
His recent album, "Cyberpunk", features a number of SF themes,
notably the works of William Gibson (one of the tracks is "Neuromancer").
 
IGTB:
Stands for Inter-Galactic Touring Band; Mish-mash album put out in 1977
with all sorts of people on it, purporting to be a group on galactic tour.
 
IQ:
Several possibilities here; "Last Human Gateway" from "Tales From a Lush
Attic"; "Outer Limits" from "The Wake"; "Human Nature" (about evolution)
and "Screaming is About Dying" from "Nomazmo"; "Falling Apart at the
Seams" from "Are You Sitting Comfortably?".
 
Incredible String Band:
"I Was a Young Man (back in the 1960's)", a future retrospective.  See
also "Swift as the Wind", wherein a child's fantasy-hero turns out to be
more substantial.  The double-LP "U (A Surreal Parable in Song and
Dance)" includes "Robot Blues".
 
Information Society:
Their albums are peppered with audio excerpts from Star Trek;
SF (or at lest computer) themes are common.  "Mirrorshades" from "Hack"
is pure cyber-bandwagonism (at least they beat most of the "mainstream"
to it by a couple of years).  See also "Where Would I Be Without IBM".
Their latest album, "Peace & Love, Inc." has samples from Star Trek and The
Outer Limits.
 
Inner City Unit:
Punk band led by Nik Turner of Hawkwind.  Their first album, "Pass Out",
includes the tracks "Fall Out" (nuclear war), "Polly Ethelene",
"Cybernetic Love". Their second album, "Maximum Effect", starts with
a track suggesting that Elvis has been given Everlasting Life Via
Induced Suspendedanimation.
 
Iron Maiden:
The track "To Tame a Land" from "Piece of Mind" is about Dune.  (Frank
Herbert wouldn't let them call it "Dune", supposedly, 'cause he doesn't
like heavy metal.)  "Flight of Icarus" and "Quest for Fire" also appear
on "Piece of Mind".  "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is a concept album
about a mystical clairvoyant.  The title track from "Powerslave" is about
the death of an Egyptian god; "Flash of the Blade" from the same LP is
about a young boy who is trained as a warrior and who avenges the death
of his master/teacher.  "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", from the same LP,
is based on the Coleridge poem.  They've also done two songs based on the
TV show, "The Prisoner": "The Prisoner" from "The Number of the Beast"
and "Back in the Village" from "Powerslave".  The title track from
"Number of the Beast" deals with the discovery of a Satanic ritual -- it
might be based on "The Omen".  Also from that album, "Children of the
Damned" (more horror than SF).  The album "Somewhere in Time" contains
"Caught Somewhere in Time", which is about time travel, the devil, and
other assorted fun stuff.  "Stranger in a Strange Land" from the same LP
is SF, but is apparently not related to the Heinlein book of the same
name.  It's based on a newspaper story about a body found in the ice
near the North Pole.  (The cover of that album really deserves note -- it's
a sci-fi scene, lots of details. Ditto for the 2 singles from that album,
"Wasted Years" and "Stranger in a Strange Land", which have sci-fi covers.)
 
Jackson, Joe:
"In the T.V. Age" from "Night And Day" (aliens as TV sets).
The album "Blaze of Glory" is a concept album with two album-side
long song sequences about (among other things) human interaction
with technology, and living with myths of the future.
"Tommorrow's World" especially deals with images of science and the 
future seen by those growing up in the sixties.
 
Jackson, Michael:
"Thriller", with narration by Vincent Price.
 
Jad Fair and Kramer:
"Nosferatu" (vampire) and "King Kong" from "Roll Out the Barrel".
 
Jade Warrior:
LP "Horizon" contains "Images of Dune: a) Prescient Dawn, b) The Fremen, c)
Journey on a Dream".  Other albums contain fantasy and SF themes; like
Mannheim Steamroller, another prototype "New Age" group.  Most work done
1974-1978; other LP's include "Kites", "Waves", "Released", and "Way of
the Sun".  Frequent references to Oriental and Egyptian mythology.
 
Jazz Butcher:
Has a song called "Harlan" on the album "Condition Blue",
which is about Harlan Ellison's short stories and contains references to
his story Jeffy, amongst others possibly (not sure).
 
Jefferson Airplane/Starship:
"Blows Against the Empire" (album) done by JA+Crosy, Nash, Freiberg.
etc.  "Have you seen the Saucers?" from"Thirty Seconds Over Winterland".
Also did CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships" (post-nuclear holocaust)
and "Crown of Creation" from Wyndham's "Re-Birth".  Finally, "War
Story" from "Bark" tells of rebellion in the US, mind control.
"Hyperdrive" from "Dragonfly", "Modern Times" and "Alien" from "Modern
Times", "Lightning Rose", "Awakening", "Freedom at Point Zero" from
"Freedom at Point Zero", "Back from the Jaws of the Dragon" from "Winds
of Change", "Connection", "Rose goes to Yale", "Champion" from "Nuclear
Furniture".  See also Paul Kantner's "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll
Orchestra", a followup to "Blows...".  The 1971 LP "Bark" has a
track called "War Movie" in which Kantner rants about a revolt against
the government in 1975.  Incidentally, "Re-Birth" was later revised
and edited, and published under the title "Chrysalids".
 
Jesus Jones:
Besides *sounding* like science fiction, Jesus Jones' third album
"Perverse" begins with the song "Zeros and Ones", about computer technology.
 
Jethro Tull:
"Passion Play" is about the afterlife (from the vantage point of
the first person singular).  There's some speculation that "War Child"
is similarly constructed. "Dun Ringill" on "Stormwatch" is about some kind of
druidic rites ("We wait in stone circles/'til the force comes through.")
Folk tale "Jack in the Green" from "Songs From the Wood", and the songs
"The Clasp", "BroadSword", "Beastie" from "Broadsword and the Beast".
B & tB is probably their most fantasy-oriented album; nice cover art.
"Orion" and "Flying Dutchman" off "Stormwatch", "Fylingdale Flyer"
(Flyingdale is an ICBM early warning station in the UK, and this seems to
be about the possibility of false alarms leading to a nuclear exchange),
"Protect and Survive" (nuclear war), "Batteries Not Included" (android
child), "And Further On" from the album "A".  "Astronomy" on the CD
version of "Under Wraps", and "Apogee" (either version).  Also see
"March, the Mad Scientist" from a 4-song EP (untitled, also contained
"Ring Out, Solstice Bells" and two other songs).
 
Jobson Eddie/Zinc:
"The Green Album" has some interesting SF-style tracks; for instance,
"Listen to Reason" and "Through the Glass".
 
Joel, Billy:
"Miami 2017" from "Turnstiles"; a backwards reflection on our own future.
(Incidentally, "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions "Stranger in a
Strange Land".)
 
John, Elton:
"Rocket Man"...perhaps from Bradbury's "Illustrated Man"?  Anyway,
another road song.  Also "I've Seen the Saucers"...from "Caribou".
"I am Your Robot" from "Jump Up".
 
Jones, Grace:
"Slave to the Rhythm" is about man as a slave to machines.
 
Jones, Howard:
"Automaton" on "Dream Into Action" is about a man
from the future who turns out to be a robot.
 
Jonzun Crew:
Album "Lost in Space" includes "Space Cowboy"--apparently not the same
as the Steve Miller Band song.
 
Journey:
"Look in into the Future", from the album of the same name,
"Spaceman" from "Next" and "Wheel in the Sky" from "Infinity".
 
Judas Priest:
"The Green Manalishi with the Two-Pronged Crown".  See also "Electric
Eye" from "Screaming for Vengeance", an Orwellian song about covert
surveillance drones in the sky. Some commentary on the latest Judas Priest LP:
 
	The band's last album, "Painkiller" (1990) is basically a science
	fiction concept album, a story set in a time/place frame similar
	to the future of "The Terminator", in which human beings are hunted
	down and killed after a third world war, but it seems less by outside
	forces (though one song is about a monster that hunts people down,
	the "Nightcrawler") than by internal strife. "Between the Hammer and
	the Anvil" is a song about priests who hunt down heretics in the
	collapse of civilization, and the title song is concerned with the
	post-apocalyptic world's hero, only known as The Painkiller.
				--- Brian Landwehr
 
KLF:
A British rap group, formerly known as both the JAMS (Justified Ancients of Mu
Mu) and the Timelords.  Both the JAMS and the KLF are Discordian groups
mentioned in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus!" trilogy.
 
Kaleidoscope:
The song "The Sky Children", an epic fairytale.
 
Kansas:
Lots of stuff.  See "Kansas", "Song For America", "Masque" and
"Leftoverture" for details...note, though, that Kerry Livgren is
heavily into Chrisianity, lending an alternative interpretation
to many of the lyrics.  "Point of Know Return" also has sf-related
stuff, such as "Nobody's Home".  Livgren says that he didn't consciously
think of himself as writing Christian-influenced songs until "Monolith",
the LP after "Point...", so interpretation of his earlier work in an
SF context is probably not reaching too much.  Note also the influence
of Native American mythos on several albums such as "Monolith".
Finally, "Taking in the View" and "Tomb 19" from "Power" have
a historical fantasy tinge.
 
Kayak:
Nearly all of their work is fantasy/sf-related.  The tracks
"Journey Through Time", "Daphne (Laurel Tree)", "Phantom of the Night"
are interesting examples from the LP "Phantom of the Night".  The first
is an interesting time-travel song and the last two deal mostly with
Greek-mythology and its associated fantasy story-lines.  The album
"Periscope Life" contains "Astral Aliens".  The "Starlight Dancer" LP
contains the title track, an interesting piece.  The song "Relics
from a Distant Age" from "The Last Encore" is an SF piece.  Another is
"Trust in the Machine" from their first LP, Kayak.
 
Khan:
Early Steve Hillage group.  Had album "Space Shanty".
 
Killdozer:
The quentissential mid-80's Wisconsen grundge-hardcore band
has a song off "Twelve Point Buck" named after that ancient British TV 
series "Space: 1999", but it's pretty much about "babes."
The band's name is also the title of a terrible movie about a
possessed Caterpillar D-8 bulldozer, which in turn quite probably
comes from an old Theodore Sturgeon novelet of the same name, first
published in "Astounding" in the late 40's.
 
King Crimson:
"Epitaph" and "21st Century Schizoid Man" from "In The Court of the
Crimson King".  Also "Dig Me", from "Three of a Perfect Pair",
is about an automobile found in the wild which begs the listener
to "Dig me, but don't...bury me".  The LP "Lizard"'s second side
is about a terrible war in a fantasy world.  (Lyrics by Pete Sinfield.)
"Earthbound" from album of same name (not released in U.S.).
 
King Missile:
Took their name from a Japanese comic-book [and
'Detachable Penis' could be seen as a farce on cybernetics].
[Or not. :-) ---Rsk ]
 
Kinks:
"I wish I could Fly (Like Superman)", and "A Gallon of Gas" from "Low Budget",
about a not-too-distant time when you can't buy a gallon of gas.
 
Kiss:
"(Music from) The Elder", a soundtrack for a never-made film.
 
Klaatu:
The group took their name from "Klaatu", the alien robot in "The Day The Earth
Stood Still". Their albums include "3:47 EST", "Hope", "Endangered Species",
"Sir Army Suit" and "Magenta Lane".  (The first album was original released
eponymously, but picked up the title later.)  They're probably best known
for "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", and "Little Neutrino".
The former was apparently conceived as prayer to be recited all over the
globe to induce aliens to visit; it was also covered by the Carpenters.
The album "Hope" is a concept LP telling of the demise of a very earth-like
society on the planet Venus which eventually destroyed itself
with self-paranoia.
 
Kraftwerk:
Sf-themes occasionally.  Certainly sounds sf-ish.
Albums include "Autobahn", "Radioactivity", "ManMachine",
"Computerworld", and "Trans-Europe Express"; tracks of note
include "The Robots", "Spacelab" and "Metropolis".  Also,
see the track "Kometenmelodia (1&2)".
 
Kooper, Al:
"Childhood's End" based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel.
A wild cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" appears on
the Bloomfield-Kooper-Stills "Super Session" album.
 
Landscape:
On "From The Tea-Rooms of Mars...to The Hell Holes of Uranus", see
"Einstein A-Go-Go"; nuclear terrorism ("You better watch out,
you'd better beware; Albert said that E equals M C squared") a classic.
Also "European Man", a life of leisure in an automated world.
and still from that same LP, "Live... from the Tea-Rooms of Mars";
synthesized tea-room dance music with some gently crooned SF lyrics,
(e.g "Do you know what it's like to live where there's no trees and no sky ?
Night and day are just controls.")  See also "My Name is Norman Bates",
which isn't exactly SF, but horror.
 
Lavin, Christine:
In her song `Bald Headed Men' (performed with the Bitchin' Babes)
she says  ``That guy from Star Trek: The Next Generation (love him).'' :-)
 
Leatherwolf:
"Gypsies and Thieves" from their first album is Melnibonean
(that is, it concerns "Elric of Melnibone", one of Michael Moorcock's
characters who jointly are "The Eternal Champion".  See the entry
on Hawkwind.) and some of their other material is fantasy-ish.
 
Led Zeppelin:
"No Quarter" from  "Houses of the Holy" is rather eerie, but no one is
quite sure what it's about.  "The Battle of Evermore", from Led Zep IV
mentions Ringwraiths.  Also see "Ramble On" on Led Zep II for mention of
Mordor and Gollum.  See also "Misty Mountain Hop" on Led Zep IV.  Some
speculation that "Stairway to Heaven" is about Saruman'sjourney to the
west, but nobody seems to be sure.  Also "Kashmir" from "Physical Grafitti".
 
Level 42:
Song, "Star Child" -- is this about the Star Child from 2001?
(Level 42's name was based on the Answer to the Ultimate Question from
the Hitchhiker's Guide.)
 
Limor, Gilead:
You Are The Stars. This album is an instrumental epic
describing a fantasy travel through solar systems and universes.
The album (on CD and Cassette) was released by Nesak International
Inc., New Jersey, and is part of a so-called "You Are..." series of
instrumental titles.  (I believe Gilead is the first person to submit
one of his or her own works for inclusion in the list; congratulations
are in order for making it through the daunting process of cranking
out a release!  Contact address: [email protected] ---Rsk )
 
Little River Band:
"Orbit Zero" from "Time Exposure" is the sad story of an alien race with
hopes of settling on Earth, only to find it already crowded by us humans.
 
Love and Rockets:
Rumored to have done songs relating to Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez'
comic book for which they're named.  See "Holiday on the Moon", a
B-side to a single, and their cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam".
 
Lovich, Lene:
"Telepathy" from "Stateless", about a maddening psychic gift.
 
Lyon, Steve:
"Deimos and Phobos" is about a guy who is homesick for Mars.
 
M:
"The Official Secrets Act" (an innocent gets caught up in government
plots and secret police, a la 1984)
 
MC-5:
On "Kick Out the Jams", "Rocket Reducer" and "Starship".
 
MacDonald & Giles:
Two alumni of the early King Crimson, who released an LP who
second side is a long suite called "Birdman" about a scientist
who invents wings that work.
 
Machover, Ted:
"VALIS", an electronic space opera version of Philip K. Dick's novel.
 
Magma:
"Inedits", "Udu Wudu"...sort of cross between German language research
and H.P. Lovecraft.  Curious reference to "Ork" on Udu Wudu.
Here's a bit of background on the band...
 
  About Magma & its founder Christian Vander...what he invented was rather a
  cult than a subculture. Most Magma material deals with a mythology that
  Vander claims to have been given knowledge of during a revelation. This is
  when he also was given the umlaut-seasoned language "Kobaian" that pervades
  the lyrics on the Magma albums. In short, according to the mythology, there
  is a "highest being" in the Universe by the name of "Kreuhn Ko:hrmann". (I
  use ":" after a letter to denote umlaut, two dots over it.) Vander sees
  himself as some sort of prophet, and the people of the Earth have to listen
  and convert their lives to be more in accordance with the Right Way or a
  global disaster, a sort of divine punishment, will be the result. Also
  appearing are "orks" which "are to machines what machines are to men". All
  this sounds like bad heavy metal fantasies but Vander has persisted for many
  years so maybe he really believes in it, who knows? A good example of the
  Vander/Magma type of stuff is the album "Mekhanik Destruktiw Kommando:h"
  that is a sort of mass with lots of mystical chanting. The second side of
  "U:du Wu:du:", "De Futura", is about travelling in time which according to
  the liner notes on the sleeve enables us to see the orks.  --Bjorn Lisper
 
Magnum:
Many songs with generic SF&F themes such as "On A Storyteller's Night",
"Firebird" and possibly "Don't Wake the Lion".  (There's some speculation
that the latter might really be about WW I.)
 
Manhattan Transfer:
Recorded a (snappy) version of the theme to the TV show "Twilight Zone".
 
Man or Astro-Man?:
[the question mark is part of the band's name] A current
instrumental band who make science fiction part of their identity.  
The band has constructed an elaborate mythology about its members being 
visitors sent from space by The Unmentionable One.  Their live shows 
feature half a dozen TVs on stage showing sci-fi images ranging from 
1950s B movies to recent Ultraman episodes.  Their 1993 debut album "Is 
it ... Man or Astro-Man?" (Estrus Records) features cover art by Richard 
Powers, who I'm told is famous for sci-fi novel covers.  Song titles 
include "Invasion of the Dragonmen," "Illudium Q-36," "Escape Through the 
Air Vent," "Alien Visitors."  Many tracks begin with dialogue clips of 
corresponding sci-fi content.  They have lots more music, similarly 
themed, in the pipeline for late 1993 and 1994 release.  For more info write
them at Man or Astro-Man? HQ, 429 Moores Mill Rd. #4, Auburn, AL 36830.
 
Mannfred Mann's Earth Band:
"Solar Fire", "Time is Right".
 
Manowar:
They generally sing about heroic deeds, from days of old, when
men were bold. They like to dress like Conan, and their music
brings to mind images of Viking feasts and adventures.
"Defender", from "Fighting the World" is an example wherein the
hero goes off on some mighty quest.
 
Manufacture:
An industrial band from Boston.  "Pain Amplifier" on
"Voice of World Control" takes its title from the device in _Dune_.
 
Marillion:
"Grendel", i.e. Beowulf & friends is the B side of "Market Square Heroes",
a 12-inch EP.  This track is now also available on an import CD called
"B'Sides  Themselves".  (The band took its name from "Silmarillion".)
"Season's End" from the LP of the same name, talks about global warming.
 
Martha and the Muffins:
"Echo Beach" seems to be about a desire to travel back in time to
a beach at pre-war Hiroshima.  Update: nope, doesn't look like it.
It's apparently about a beach in northern Ontario (Canada), near Barrie.
 
Mary's Danish:
Their album "Circa" includes the song "Venus loves Leonard", which is
sort of a '50s SF movie soundalike.
 
Material:
The entire CD "Seven Souls", with liner notes from William S. Burroughs.
Appears to be about the effect of nuclear explosions on electromagnetically-
constituted souls.
 
Matthews, David:
"Dune".
 
May, Brian and Friends:
"Star Fleet" from "The Star Fleet Project" is a rock version of the theme
to a (children's?) science fiction TV show in the UK.  The lyrics are
full of sci-fi references.  Eddie Van Halen and Alan Grazier (REO Speedwagon)
played with Brian on this EP. See also Queen.
 
McGear, Mike:
Paul McCartney's brother, who goes by Mike McGear, put out an album in
1975 which I think was called "McGear".  It was produced by Paul, and most
songs were either written or co-written by Paul, with the Wings crew
playing backup.  Included was a song called "The Man Who Found God on the
Moon", co-written by McCartney/McGear, whose title is pretty descriptive,
and which features sound clips of Buzz Aldrin, broadcast live from the Moon.
The song was more adventurous musically than McCartney's own solo work.
 
Meco:
Schlock disco camp versions of things like the main title from "Star Wars".
Possibly the only band to record a disco track worse than "A Fifth
of Beethoven".  Mired in a 70's timewarp somewhere.  Thankfully.
 
Megadeth:
Has several songs with sf or sf-related themes.  Of note:
"Set the World Afire," from the album _So Far, So Good...So What!_
is a cautionary nuclear holocaust song.  "Psychotron," from
_Countdown to Extinction_, is about a half-bionic, half-organic being
something like the Terminator. Several of the songs from _Rust in Peace_,
notably "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due," "Hangar 18," "Dawn Patrol,"
and "Rust in Peace...Polaris." Several songs from _Killing Is My
Business...And Business Is Good!" and _Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?_
[ Anybody know if "Hanger 18" is related to the B-movie UFO story? ---Rsk ]
 
Mekons:
Who are these folks?
 
Men at Work:
"Helpless Automaton" from "Business as Usual" is about a robot falling
in love with a human.  "Doctor Heckle and Mister Jive" refers to
the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.
 
Men Without Hats:
"The Great Ones Remember" from "The Rhythm of Youth"; "Folk of the 80's"
from "Folk of the 80's (Part III)"; "Moonbeam" from "Pop Goes the World".
"In the 21st Century", "Hey Men", and "Here Come the 90's"
from "The Adventures of Men and Women Without Hate in the 21st Century"
 
Metallica:
"The Call of Ktulu" on "Ride the Lightning" (Lovecraft reference; the
name was changed from "Cthulhu" to avoid legal entanglements)
and "The Thing That Should Not Be" from "Master of Puppets" (also
Lovecraft-ian, about a critter named Nyogtha -- it's unclear whether
Lovecraft mentioned this particular beastie or not).  However,
the lyrics of the song are very similar to HPL's phrasing in a quote from
the Necronomicon in "Call of Cthulhu", leading to the inference that "The
Thing..." is in fact about Cthulhu. Also see "The Four Horsemen"
from "Kill 'Em All". "Of Wolf and Man," from their self-titled album,
is a werewolf story. "Blackened," from _...And Justice for All_,
is not really sf-related, but is an environmental-consciousness song
somewhat futuristic in nature.
 
Midnight Oil:
Albums "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" and "Red Sails in the Sunset"
both have nuclear cautionary themes running thru them.  "Red Sails"
depicts Sydney, Australia after a nuclear strike.
 
Midnight Star:
"Freak-A-Zoid" is about the perfect robot lover.
 
Mike and the Mechanics:
"Silent Running" depicts life after a major war; as far as I can tell,
it's unrelated to the SF film starring Bruce Dern.  However, it might
be the theme song for a British sci-fi show of the same name.
 
Ministry:
"Thieves" seems to have references to a future facist government.
"Faith Collapsing" from "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste"
consists largely of samples from one or another of the _1984_ films.
 
Misex:
An Australian-based band (really from New Zealand) released a
minor hit single "Computer Games", from the album " Space Race".
The rest of the album is also SF.
 
Monkees:
See "Door Into Summer" on their album "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn
& Jones Ltd.". The song's writer, Bill Martin says "The title came from
the Robert Heinlein book _The_Door_Into_Summer_, which was about time travel.
The song is about the search for happiness, and is basically an anti-war song."
 
Monks of Doom:
Side-project-turned-spinoff from Camper Van Beethoven.
"Off On A Comet" (instr.) and "Virtual Lover" (ick! how could they?) both
from "Forgery", 1992; "The Insect God" (from an EP), based on a book by
Edward Gorey, author and illustrator of countless strange, scary little books
(he did the opening sequence to PBS' "Mystery!").
 
Moody Blues:
"To Our Children's Children's Children", which seems to be a musical
score for Olaf Stapledon's novel, "The Star Maker"; also "On the
Threshold of a Dream" begins with a man questioning his existence and
turns into computer rantings.  Spooky psychedelia...
Also, the cover of "Long Distance Voyager" shows an 18th century
scene with something in the sky that looks like a Voyager space probe.
 
Moorcock, Michael:
(Some commentary on M.M. from Jeff Berry; see also the entries
for Blue Oyster Cult, Candlemass, Deep Fix, Hawkwind, and Leatherwolf.)
 
	Michael Moorcock is a very prolific science fiction fantasy writer,
	most widely known for the "Elric of Melnibone" series, a fantasy
	staple.  That series is, however, part of a more sweeping
	"supra-series" concerning the Eternal Champion, a warrior who returns
	again and again to live out various lives in a grand and ultimately
	doomed cycle of birth and re-birth.  (As an aside note, this concept
	is satirized in Craig Shaw Garnder's "Ballad of Wuntvor" as
	the Eternal Apprentice).
 
	Moorcock has published at least 30 or 40 books, in many different
	series, as well as a number of stand alone novels, both in science
	fiction and in fantasy.  Musically he has collaborated with Hawkwind
	and Blue Oyster Cult, writing songs and occasionally performing.
	Futhermore, Elric cover art by Michael Whelan has appeared as album
	cover art in at least a few places (for example, Cirith Ungol
	uses one of his covers for one of their albums).
 
	The Chaosium Game Company has acquired rights to most of Moorcock's
	work for gaming purposes, and has released games based on both Elric
	and on Hawkmoon (yet another incarnation of the Eternal Champion).
	Moorcock books should be available at almost any reputable book dealer.
	More info available at request.
		--- Jeff Barry, [email protected]
 
Moorcock, Michael and the Deep Fix:
A companion single to "The New Worlds Fair" was also released called
"Star Cruiser/Dodgem Dude" (on Flicknife records).
 
Moore, Gary:
"Nuclear Attack" from "Dirty Fingers" is about World War III; the
title track from "After the War" seems to focus on the same topic.
 
Moraz, Patrick:
The entire theme of the album "i" is SF; also see another LP,
"Transplanetary Flight".
 
Mortifee, Ann:
Has done a few albums with fantastic themes on them.  Her album
"Journey To Kairos", includes the song "Centaur", about the mythological
beast, "Shankarananda", about the afterlife as described by Eastern
religions, "Streets of Banaras", which seems to be about a rather
surreal search.. On her album "Born To Live", she does a song called
"Merlin" about the mythical wizard, and a pair of songs at the end
called "The Companion/Phoenix" about a strange creature called
The Companion that attends an old man, or something like that.
 
Motley Crue:
"Shout At The Devil" [from the album of the same name]
includes a spooky voice-over about a future earth being run by a totalitarian
government [demons?  One-World antiChrist government?] and imploring the
listeners to 'Rise up/and Shout at The Devil'.
 
Move, The:
"Yellow Rainbow".  See also Electric Light Orchestra.
 
Murder the Disturbed:
The EP "Genetic Disruption" contains "Walking Corpses" which is about
robots and "Ultimate System" which is about time travel.
 
Murphy, Peter:
The song "Shy" has a segment called "The Sister of Sleep" which
is based on the comic "Sandman".  He also is the physical basis for the
character Klaus in the comic book Night's Children.  (See also Bauhaus.)
 
NRBQ:
"Rocket 9".
 
National Health:
"Tenemos Roads", from their eponymous debut album, is about a war on Mercury.
 
Nektar:
"Remember the Future", "Recycle" and "Journey to the Centre of the Eye"
are all LP's with SF-ish themes.   "Remember the Future" is highly
recommended on vinyl; the CD mix, at least the pressing I've heard,
overemphasizes the keyboards at the expense of some terrific guitar work.
 
Nelson, Bill/Red Noise:
"Sound on Sound" has a number of songs with SF themes, including
"Atom Man Loves Radium Girl".  He's also done a lot of (mainly instrumental)
tracks with SF/magic themes.
 
Nena:
"99 Luftballons" (WW3 & aftermath); the English version is
"99 Red Balloons".
 
The Neon Judgement:
"Billy Tcherno and Pretty Petrouchka" from "Horny as Hell" is about
Russian mutants after a nuclear accident.
 
New England:
"L-5".
 
New Model Army:
"White Coats" talks about genetic engineering and its problems.
 
New Musik:
"On Islands" asks the question whether there might be other beings
in the universe, and "Living by Numbers" rehashes the old numbers
instead of names theme; both are found on the "Straight Lines" EP,
and on the "From A To B" LP.
 
Nilsson, Harry:
See "Spaceman" from "Son of Schmilsson"; and "Son of Dracula",
the soundtrack for a very silly movie he made with Ringo Starr.
 
Normaali, Eppu:
"Science Fiction", which is mostly derogatory things about people reading SF.
 
Nugent, Ted:
"Hibernation" is an instrumental about being frozen inside a space ship?
 
Numan, Gary:
"Cars", of course, and an LP done with a band called "Tubeway Army",
"Are Friends Electric", containing the title track and "Praying to
the Aliens"; it's apparently about alien androids taking over the earth.
See also "Down in the Park", "We Are Engineers", and "I Dream of Wires"
(also covered by Robert Palmer on "Addictions II").
 
O'Brien, Richard:
"Science Fiction Double Feature", from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Oh, and the entire rest of the music and lyrics too, by the way.
 
O'Connor, Sinead:
This well-known operatic diva :-) has recorded a track entitled
"The Emperor's New Clothes", but it would appear that the title
is the only reference to the fairy tale.
 
Oingo Boingo:
"Perfect System" and "Controller" (both from the LP "Only a Lad") discuss
Orwellian/Huxleyian societies.  "No Spill Blood" from "Good for Your Soul"
is based on "The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells.  See also the
soundtrack for "Weird Science", and "Dead Man's Party" for various
songs on spooks and life after the bomb.
 
Oldfield, Mike:
A track from "Discovery" called "Saved By the Bell"
describes a trip through the universe.
 
Oldfield, Salley:
(yes, this is Mike's Sister) The album "The Water Bearer" is
based primarily on the Lord of the Rings trilogy from Tolken.
 
Omega:
(Hungarian) has a record called "Idorablo" (add some dots and
accentes here), meaning "Time Robber". The title suite contains
one part called "Napot hoztam csillagot", "Sun and Stars I brought".
 
The Only Ones:
A New Zealand band with a song "Another Girl, Another Planet", which
is about futuristic space travel....well, maybe.  Some folks are inclined
not to agree with this interpretation.
 
The Orb:
Their album "U.F.Orb" includes songs such as "Close Encounters", "O.O.B.E.",
"Blue Room" (supposedly the nickname of the room in the US where UFO's
are kept), "Majestic", and the title track.  Their first album, "The Orb's
Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" featured songs identified by orbits
and probes instead of numbers, viz.:
	Earth Orbit One - Little Fluffy Clouds
	Earth Orbit Two - Earth (Gaia)
	Earth Orbit Three - Super Nova at the End of the Universe
	Earth Orbit Four - Perpetual Dawn
	Earth Orbit Five - Into the Fourth Dimension
	Ultraworld Probe Six - Outlands
	Ultraworld Probe Seven - Star 6 & 7 8 9
	Ultraworld Probe Eight - A huge ever growing pulsating brain that
		rules from the centre of the ultraworld: live mix mk 10.
They also have all sorts of SF related singles.
A double-album version of "Ultraworld" exists which has extra "Lunar Orbit"
tracks.  According to Keyboard magazine, "Towers of Dub" on "U.F.Orb" uses
samples from the movie "Sleeper".
 
Orbital:
On "Time Becomes", the phrase "where time becomes a loop" shows up,
sampled from ST:TNG and featuring Worf's voice.
 
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD):
A lot of their songs have a futuristic feel to them. Tracks called "Genetic
Engineering" and "Pretending to see the future" are examples.  See also
"Enola Gay", about the bombing of Hiroshima.
 
Orion:
"Star Trek", a techno mix.
 
PTP:
A collaboration between Al Jourgensen of Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire.
The name stands for Programming The Psychodrill, which is a phrase from a
J.G. Ballard collage.
 
Pallas:
The album "The Sentinel" contains "Rise and Fall" and "Atlantis", which
are both about Atlantis; also on this album is "Ark of Infinity", which
is about a deep space hibernation ship.
 
Parker, Graham:
"Waiting for the UFOs" on "Squeezing Out Sparks".
 
Pearls Before Swine:
"Ring Thing" -- Three rings for the elven kings...good rendition.
 
Peek, Kevin:
"Starship Suite" from "Awakening", actually managed to work the word
"cryogenic" into a song.
 
Petra:
Christian rock band with numerous SF allusions in their cover art and
music; see "Computer Brains" on "Beat the System".
 
Phillips, Anton:
"1984", inspired by Orwell's book.
 
Pickett, Bobby "Boris":
Famous for "Monster Mash", he also recorded a song titled "King Kong"
(chorus:  "King Kong, King Kong, the white man done you wrong.") and a Star
Trek parody called "Star Drek" (with Peter Ferrara).
 
Pinhas, Richard:
Has done an LP about Dune ("Chronolyse") and also has Norman Spinrad
doing vocals on a piece on "East/West" that is about some air disaster.
(Chronolyse is entirely instrumental, by the way.)
Pinhas did and electronics and played guitar in Heldon (see above).
 
Pierre Etoile ("Stone Star"):
Song "In The Sun" on Rough Trade records.
Can be found also on Indie Top 20 Vol.13.
 
Pink Floyd:
Of course.  "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" & "Astronomy
Domine", (on "Ummagumma") are fairly representative.  Much of their
instrumental music has an sf/fantasy feel to it.  See also "Piper at the
Gates of Dawn", "Saucerful of Secrets", Some speculation that "Set the
Controls..." influenced Douglas Adam's writing about the group Disaster Area.
Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" borrows its title from
a chapter in the children's classic, "The Wind in the Willows," in
which some animals innocently encounter the god Pan.  (It might also
be a Lovecraft reference; anybody know?)
The video of "The Wall" show's Pink's out-of-control
fantasies about becoming a facsist dictator ruling his audience through music.
The album "Momentary Lapse of Reason", contains tracks called "A
New Machine" parts 1 & 2, which seem to be spoken by a computer.
 
Pixies:
"Wave of Mutilation" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" from "Doolittle",
"Allison" and "The Happening" from "Bossanova". "Trompe Le Monde" has,
in addition to the title track, "Palace of the Brine" and
"Olympus Mons" (the large extinct volcano on Mars).  Much of the whole
album may be about an alien looking for the "Planet of Sound" (Earth)...
or not.  For example, "Head On" is a cover of a Jesus and Mary Chain song.
 
Planet P:
Albums: "Planet P" and "Pink World".  Now known as Planet P Project.
"Planet P" is the name that Tony Carey ("A Fine Day for a Reunion")
uses when writing SF-oriented music.
 
Platinum Blonde:
The album Alien Shores is only half sci-fi...the B side is
supposedly dedicated to the idea of UFO sightings.  Unfortunately, the A
side is Better.  Earlier, on their first album, they did two great songs,
-Standing in the Dark- and -It Doesn't Really Matter-, both of which had
mild SF themes, and incredible sci-fi/post-holocaust videos, which are
really what put the band on the map.
 
The Pogues:
On their album "If I Should Fall from Grace with God," there's a song called
"Turkish Song of the Damned," which is about a sailor who is haunted by
the ghost of a crewman who he had let drown. Another song from that album,
"Sit Down by the Fire," is a bedtime story about demons.
 
The Polecats:
"Juvenile Delinquents from a Planet Near Mars"
 
Police:
"Synchronicity II" (Loch Ness monster references, but not really an
SF tune) from "Synchronicity".  Also "Synchronicity" (a different
song on the same LP) is about action-at-a-distance; it seems to be
part mystical, part quantum mechanics.  (There's a short short SF story
called "Synchronicity", but I can't recall the author.)
The album cover has contains a definition of Synchronicity that goes
with the theme of the first song. Apprarently it has to do with an idea
of Carl Jung's that we're all part of one conscience, etc.
Also see "Wrapped Around Your Finger", which some claim is about a spirit
trapped inside a sorcerer's ring; I tend to go with a more mundane
interpretation.  "Demolition Man" (also done by Manfred Mann) from
"Ghost in the Machine"; borrowed for the soundtrack of the film.
One could also find SF in "Walking on the Moon", "Omega Man" (possibly
about the film) and "When the World is Running Down (last man of earth?),
but these song also have more down-to-earth interpretations.  [I can't
help but think that somewhere Sting is reading this and chuckling
to himself over our attempts to find meanings that aren't there. ---Rsk]
 
Pop Will Eat Itself:
This band often samples the movie "Blade Runner"; the song "Wake Up!
Time to Die..." is built around that quote from the film.  "Def Con One"
from the album "This is th Day...This is the Hour...This is This"
describes a nuclear attack.  "X Y & Zee" from "Cure for Sanity"
is a description of a future world.
 
Porno for Pyros:
"pets" on "Porno for Pyros" is about Martians coming
to Earth and cleaning it up, making pets out of the human race.
("We'll make great pets.")
 
Powell, Roger:
Former keyboard player with Todd Rundgren's Utopia; has a solo
album ("Cosmic Furnace"?) with tracks like "Sandworm of Arrakis".
 
Prism:
"Take Me to the Kaptain" was a minor hit for this Canadian band on
AOR stations in 1977-78.  The singer falls asleep and wakes up on
a starship -- thus his plea to see the "Kaptain"!!  The record was
released in the U.S. under the Ariola Records - America label.
 
Propaganda:
On the album "A Secret Wish", the song "p: machinery" is about people
commanded/directed by machines.
 
Punishment of Luxury:
"The Laughing Academy" is the name of the album containing a track
about receiving signals from an alien civilization.  The track itself is
called "Message Received" (I think...). See also "Radar Bug/Metropolis"
from the same album.  The track "Brainbomb" (B side of the single
"Secrets") is about telepathy.
 
Quadrophonia:
Album called "Cozmic Jam" contains songs "Djoum 1000", "The Wave of the
Future", "Cozm'" and "Ovo", along with the title track.
 
Quantum Jump:
(group lead by Rupert Hine) "No American Starship".
 
Queen:
"Thirty-Nine", from "A Night at the Opera", discusses the problems of
relativistic travel.  Also "Machines (back to humans)" from "The Works";
other albums include the Flash Gordon soundtrack and "Fun in Space", a solo
album by drummer Roger Taylor. "Ogre Battle" (seems to be about the fantasy
game Ogre) "March of the Black Queen" and "Seven Seas of Rhye" from "Queen II".
The album "A Kind of Magic" contains fantasy tunes from the film "Highlander".
And the video from "Radio Ga-Ga" includes clips from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
 
--- A note on Queen from Elisabeth Anne Riba
 
    Both Brian May & Roger Taylor were big SF fans.  Brian's first group
    was called 1984.  Before Queen, Brian, Roger &Tim Staffell were a group
    called "Smile."  They had only one single released, called "Earth,"
    about a lonely spaceman.  The chorus goes "I have seen many worlds, for
    what it's worth.  But I'll never see again, the planet Earth, my Earth."
    The song closes with "the green hills of Earth," a Heinlein reference.
 
    In addition, the cover for Queen's News of the World album comes from
    the October 1953 issue of Astounding SF. Likewise, Roger Taylor's Fun
    In Space features Roger reading Creepy #119 on its cover.  The title
    track begins "Strangers In A Strange Land" and talks about "Little
    Green Stories." (I love that term) 
 
Queensryche:
Their first and second albums, "The Warning" and "Rage for Order" both
contain songs about sentient machinery, e.g. "Screaming in Digital",
"NM 156"  and "I Only Dream in Infra-Red".  Most of their self-titled
EP is also fantasy.  The album "Operation: Mindcrime" is a rock opera
about mind control; it tell the story of a man who is programmed by
revolutionaries to kill political and religious leaders (and his
girlfriend).  The track "Silent Lucidity" on "Empire" is about lucid
dreaming - not quite SF, but maybe close enough.
 
The Rah Band:
Had a mid-80's hit single, "Clouds Across the Moon" which is about a
woman taking a phonecall from her husband working on Mars,
the phonecall is cut off by interference by the clouds of the title,
before she can say how much she loves him.
 
Renaissance:
"Jekyll and Hyde" from "Azure D'Or", and "Kalynda (A Magical Isle)".
"Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)" from the eminently
forgettable "Camera Camera" album.  And, of course "Scheherezade",
an entire LP side's worth of it.  Highly recommended if for
no other reason than Annie Haslam, an operatically-trained singer
with incredible range and power.
 
Replacements:
"Androgynous" off "Let it Be" discusses "unisex evolution" and how
"Dick and Janes" who wear pants and skirts will be future outcasts.
 
Return to Forever:
Fusion jazz with Chick Corea, Al DiMeola & Stanley Clarke.
"Romantic Warrior" is a medieval/fantasy concept album.  Tracks include
"The Sorceress" and "The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant".
Return to Forever's "Where Have I Known You Before" is Scientology
(a weird religion invented by the late SF writer L. Ron Hubbard) set 
to kick-ass jazz-rock fusion music. It's all instrumental, but the
pieces are linked with titles taken from a poem about some kind of
quest through space.  Fusion fans should also check out  "Hymn of
the Seventh Galaxy".
 
Revolting Cocks
"We Shall Cleanse the World" from the album "Big Sexyland" is based
on, and contains samples from the movie "The Omega Man." "Attack 
Ships on Fire" is on the same album, but the only SF connection seems
to be the title (Rutger Hauer quote from "Blade Runner.")
 
Rezzilos:
See "2000 AD", and "Flying Saucer Attack" from "Can't Stand the Rezzilos".
 
REM:
Single "Superman".
 
Radiorama:
This Italian pop/disco group released an album entitled "2nd Album",
which contains ongs like "Aliens" (inspired by the movie), "Yeti"
and "Vampire".
 
Rainbow:
Heavy Metal.  Some fantasy tracks, e.g. "Temple of the King",
"16th century greensleeves", "Kill the King", "Stargazer".
See the album "Rainbow Rising".  See also Deep Purple.
 
Ramases:
"Space Hymns", including great fold-out cover, studiowork by
Godley & Creme; apparently expounds religious visions of infinite
regress of microscopic universes.
 
Ramatam:
"In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns" contains
"Downrange Party".  Band featured April Lawton, the female Jimi Hendrix.
 
Rapp, Tom:
The lead singer of Pearls before Swine broke out with two solo
albums which included these songs:  "The Rocket Man", based on the
Bradbury short story of the same name;  "Stardancer", based on the
Bradbury story, Kaleidoscope;  and "For the Dead in Space" an
original (and equally depressing) song.
 
Reed, Lou:
"Red Joystick" and "Down at the Arcade".  Also "Satellite of Love".
 
Residents:
"The Mole Trilogy", a conflict between two alien cultures.  Other
SF-ish songs and albums, included "God in Three Persons", which is
about a pair of Siamese twins with healing powers.
 
The Rheostatics:
A Canadian band; on their album "Melville", the song "Aliens(Christmas 1988)"
is about a woman getting kidnapped by UFO-style aliens, one of whom falls in
love with her.
 
Rhodes, Happy:
Has a song called "Wrong Century", about a woman who somehow leaves the
past for the present, but can't cope with this century and would like
to return to her own time. On "Equipoise", there is a song called
'Save our Souls' questioning the reasoning behind humans trying to
contact aliens, when we can hardly cope with our problems here on earth.
Also on "Ecto", there is a song called 'Look for the Child' from  which the 
following line is taken: 'When the ships come down from the sky'. It is 
about first contact, and how are we going to choose a representative,
given the conflicts and prejudices that exist among us. 
 
Richman, Jonathan  & the Modern Lovers:
Their eponymous 1976 album includes "Here Come the Martian Martians",
a funny song about the Martians' inability to deal with earth and
the concept of capitalism, and "Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket",
which is similar in nature.  The album "Rockin' and Romance'" includes
the song "UFO Man", about a visitor who flies around Jonathan's town
in his flying saucer doing stunts at high speed.
 
Ridgway, Stan:
Ex-vocalist from Wall of Voodoo. Quirky subject matter in general,
but sci-fi specifically on the album "Partyball".  See the songs
"I Want to be a Boss", "Overlords", and "Beyond Tomorrow".
 
Riley, Billy Lee:
"Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll"  An example of rockabilly, one of the
staples of the Memphis-based Sun record label.  It's about a flying
saucer whose crew play rock'n'roll - nothing too profound.
 
Rinder & Lewis:
Early 80's new-wave group that produced some SF songs, including
"Apocalypse" and "New Malibu".
 
Robinson, Tom:
"Merrily Up on High", about a war that is yet to happen.  (Co-written
Peter Gabriel)
 
Rolling Stones:
Wrote the ultimate road song for astronauts, "2000 Light Years From
Home", which is on "Their Satanic Majesties' Request".  Also "2000
Man", about how child-parent relationships still don't work, even in
the 21st century.
 
Roth, Uli John:
"Electric Sun".
 
Rudimentary Penii:
This group did a whole album about H.P. Lovecraft. (Can't remember it's name).
The lyrics are extremely witty.
 
Rundgren, Todd:
"King Kong Reggae" and "Sons of 1984" from "Todd".  See also Utopia.
"Healing" is about a man who recives the power to become a healer.
"A Capella" includes "Miracle in the Bazaar" and "Lockjaw", both
of which deal with traditional themes like ogres and genies.
 
Rush:
In "2112", based on the book "Anthem" by Ayn Rand, the protagonist
discovers an ancient guitar and winds up battling the dictatorial
priesthood.  The LP also contains "Twilight Zone", about the TV show of
the same name.  "Red Barchetta" on "Moving Pictures"is similar, except
the guitar is replaced by a car. (It's based on the story "A Nice
Morning's Drive".)  See also "Cygnux X-1" (thought to be a black hole),
"Rivendell" (Tolkien reference), "The Necromancer".  See also "The Body
Electric" and "Red Sector A" from "Grace Under Pressure".  See also
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog" from "Fly by Night".  "Hemispheres" (title
track thereof) is a sequel to "Cygnus X-1".  "Countdown" from "Signals"
is about the space shuttle.  See also "Manhattan Project" from "Power
Windows".  The song "Xanadu" from "A Farewell to Kings" is based on the
Colerige poem of the same name.  See also "The Fountain of Lamneth" from
"Caress of Steel" and "Anthem" from "Fly by Night" -- both songs deal
with individuality.  See also "Natural Science" from "Permanent Waves",
which deals with future dystopias, utopias, etc.
 
(Note -- most of their work tends to be Olde Englishe Ballades, which of
course have much to do with things fey and weird.  (Prime example would
be "Thomas the Rhymer", a rock version of "Thomas Rymer"))  [Oops!  I
seem to have dropped this note here, where it probably doesn't belong.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out where it does belong.  Anybody know?
How about Jethro Tull?  ---Rsk ]
 
Russell, Leon:
"Stranger in a Strange Land" -- based on the Heinlein novel.
 
S.P.O.C.K:
Swedish space pop band.  They were originally  called 'Spock' but
due to legal problems they changed their name to 'Space Pilots On 
Channel K' or 'S.P.O.C.K' Their synthesizer based music is heavily
SF / Star Trek inspired. Their debut album 'Five year mission' contains
the following songs: Neutral Zone, Never Trust a Klingon, Charlie X,
Mr.Spocks Brain, Black Hole, Space Race, Edge of Forever,
and Last Man on Earth.
 
Saga:
Canadian progressive synth-rock band with a series of songs which
combine to tell a single story spread out over four albums, to wit:
 
	From "Saga": Chapter 4: Will It Be You?,
		 and Chapter 6: Tired World;
	From "Images At Twilight":
		     Chapter 1: Images,
		 and Chapter 3: It's Time;
	from "Silent Knight":
		     Chapter 2: Don't Be Late,
		 and Chapter 7: Too Much To Lose;
	and from "Worlds Apart":
		    Chapter 5: No Regrets,
		and Chapter 8: No Stranger.
 
Roughly speaking, the story tells of space war, alien encounters,
and the aftermath of war.
 
Sanders, Ed:
(A member of the Fugs at one time) released "Beer Cans on the Moon",
which contains such gems as a song about a yodeling robot in love with
Dolly Parton as well as some more topical songs.  "Dark Carnival"
sets a number of Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" stories to music.
 
Sandy Bradley and the Small Wonder String Band(?):
"Interstellar Sweetheart"
 
Sangster, John:
Australian jazz musician, has two albums "The Hobbit Suite" and "Lord of
the Rings" which are jazz tone poems based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
 
Satriani, Joe:
"Surfing with the Alien" and "Back to Shalla-Bal" are about the
Silver Surfer of comic book fame.  (In fact, he's on the cover of "Surfing
with the Alien".)
 
Savatage:
(heavy metal) "Fountain of Youth" from "Power of the Night", "Hounds"
from "Gutter Ballet", "Beyond the Doors of the Dark", "Legions",
"Strange Wings", title track, and "White Witch" from "Hall of the
Mountain King", just to name a few.
 
Scanner:
They are a German speed-metal, and their first album, "Hypertrace", is an
SF story.  7 criminals were turned into supersoldiers during an experiment
during WWII.  They went berzerk, and were shot into space, and their rockets 
exploded, except one, who was found by aliens, and they taguht him to bring
peace to the world.  The aliens gave him the mechanical planet Galactoss, where
he built 5 androids to send back to Earth, to collect data, so that he
could save the Earth from destroying itself.  Their second album (recorded
with a new lead singer) also contains a few SF songs.
 
Schilling, Peter:
"Major Tom (Coming Home)"; perhaps a sequel to or re-telling of
Bowie's "Space Oddity" from "Error in the System" (originally
titled "Fehler im System") [also possibly based on the Bradbury story
Kaleidescope]; also "The Noah Plan" (about an exodus from Earth),
"Error in the System" (Earth as lost interstellar colony),
"Only Dreams" (computers plotting to take revenge on humans),
"Lifetime Guarantee (mind-controlled Utopia) and others.
There is some speculation that the translator may be responsible for the
SF content of some of these; for instance, the original (German) version
of "Only Dreams" ("...dann truegt der Schein") seems to be a non-SF song.
"Things to Come" includes "Zone 804" (aliens come to bring peace) and
"Lone Survivor" (man hides in bomb shelter, but war is averted; he's stuck).
Also, the song "Berlin, City of Night" (about fighting to reunite Belin
and Germany) was speculative fiction at the time that it was written.
 
Schultz, Mark:
There's a delightful short piece by Mark Schultz entitled 
"Dragons in the Sky" for horn, percussion, and electronic tape.  This is
supposedly the third work Mr. Schultz has written based on The Silmarillion,
though I have not encountered the first two.  This one musically describes
the battle of the elves with the dragons of Morgoth.  The only performance
of which I am aware is with Thomas Bacon on horn, and Richard Brown on
percussion on a Summit Records CD, DCD 135.
 
Scorpions:
"Robot Man" on "In Trance". See ex-Scorption Uli Jon Roth.
 
Screaming Blue Messiahs:
The album "Totally Religious", has some SF-related tracks:
"Mega-City One" -- Very Judge Dredd-influenced lyrics, about policeman
in a MegaCity of the future.  If you're not familiar with Judge Dredd,
he is an English comic character, who is a "Judge" in a future
underground hyperviolent city called MegaCity One.
"Four Engines Burning over the USA" -- May be stretching it a bit,
but this song could be about a nuclear attack on the United States.
 
Scruffy the Cat:
Album called "Moons of Jupiter" with several songs about outer space.
 
Sensational Alex Harvey Band:
See "The Tale of The Giant Stone-Eater" from "Tomorrow Belongs to Me",
and "Nightmare City" from "Rock Drill".  Also "Vambo" and "The Faith
Healer" from "Next".  Bizarre Scottish lads.
 
Seventh Wave:
"Things to Come"
 
The Shamen:
The album "Boss Drum" contains "Space Time" and "Scientas".
 
Shonen Knife:
A Japanese band, they often sing about space travel and other SF-ish
themes. "Parallel Woman" (Japanese) from the "Shonen Knife" album, is about 
a superheroine in a parallel universe.  "Riding on the Rocket" 
(japanese), on "Pretty Little Baka Guy", is about visiting different 
planets in a space ship.  "The Moon World" (japanese), on "712", is 
about visiting the Moon.  "Neon Zebra", a single, is about a zebra 
who gets transformed by aliens.  In "Space Christmas" (english), a 
single,  Naoko asks for a space ship for Christmas so she can visit 
Pluto.  Their latest album, "Let's Knife", includes an 
English-language version of "Riding on the Rocket", as well as "I am
a Cat" (english), about turning into a cat and dancing on a flying 
saucer.  The CD single "Riding on the Rocket" also includes an 
instrumental called "Milky Way".
 
Shriekback:
Did a song "Nemesis" about the comics character of the same name.
(The video shows him/her/it prancing in the background.)  However,
the song may also have a second meaning: "Nemesis" is the name of
the hypothetical "dark companion" to the sun which (according to one theory)
is responsible for periodically disturbing the Oort cloud and causing a
rain asteroids on the earth producing the periodic extinctions that
(some say) are present in the fossile record.  Much of the lyrics
of "Nemesis" seem to refer to the death of the dinosaurs as the
result of this sort of cosmic catastrophe. On the album
"Oil & Gold" (whence Nemesis comes as well), they have "This Big Hush",
about life after nuclear war, and "Health & Knowledge & Wealth & Power",
which contains the lines "Touchdown on a different world/White eyes
look 'round".  On "Big Night Music", they have the song "Underwaterboys",
whose title says it all..
 
Sigue Sigue Sputnik:
The album "Flaunt It" includes "21st Century Boy" along with other
SF-sounding stuff; the lyrics are difficult to decipher.  Their
song "Love Missile F-11" includes samples from "A Clockword Orange".
 
Sinfield, Pete:
(See also Caravan, King Crimson, ELP.)  His solo LP "Still" contains
the track "Song of the Sea Goat" which may or may not be fantasy.
Like much of Sinfield's work, the lyrics are very surreal and difficult
to interpret.
 
Sisters of Mercy:
"Black Planet" from "First and Last and Always" is another
one of those cheerful post-nuclear-holocaust ballads.  :)
 
Skinny Puppy
"200 Years" from the album "Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" is
based on and contains samples from a Twilight Zone episode.
 
Smithereens:
Just a quick note to mention that "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is *not*
a Lovecraft adaption (see the entry for Black Sabbath) but is about
having an obsession with a woman bass player.
 
Sonic Youth:
On the album "Daydream Nation," a lot of sci-fi/cyberpunk
themes, and direct references to 'jacking in' as in Gibson's "Neuromancer".
See also the songs "Eric's Trip", "Hyperstation" and "Silver Rocket".
Sonic Youth draws heavily on the material of Phillip K. Dick and
William Gibson, in general; see "The Sprawl".
 
Southwind:
"The Green Hills of Earth" -- lyrics by Heinlein (or Rhysling, if
you prefer) from the story of the same name.
 
Spacemen3:
Covered "Starship" by Sun Ra and the MC5.
 
Sparks:
LP "Kimono My House" has a hilarious fantasy song called "Here in
Heaven" dealing with a petulant teenage suicide's thoughts in heaven.
He keeps wondering why his girlfriend didn't kill herself, too.
 
Sphynx:
Another band led by Nik Turner, produced the album "Xitintoday" which
was based on the Egyptian book ofthe dead.  The flute was recorded
inside the sarcophagus of the Great Pyramid.
 
Spin Doctors:
Their album "Pocketful of Kryptonite" includes the
single "Jimmy Olsen's Blues."
 
Spirit:
"Future Games" has interspersed fragments of old "Star Trek" episodes
between tunes.  Also see "Potatoland" -- the songs aren't at all SF,
but are strung together by "The Adventures of Captain Copter and
Commander Cassidy" in a totalitarian state -- very bizarre.
 
The Leslie Spitt Treeo:
A Canadian band, has done a song called "UFO" about someone going to watch for
UFOs with hopes of getting picked up by one.  From their first album--may be
self-titled, but I wouldn't swear to it.
 
Spizzenergi:
"Where's Captain Kirk?"; band was then renamed "Athletico Spizz '80",
and released a sequel called "Spock's Missing".  Another sequel
(released when they were named The Spizzles) was "Five Year Mission".
Other songs include "Person-Impersonator" (Athletico Spizz '80),
"Robot Holiday" (Spizzles), "Mega City 3" (Spizzenergi), and a remake
of "Where's Captain Kirk" (Spizz Orbit).
They had a policy of renaming themselves after
each record; their incarnations were (in order of appearance):
 
	Spizz Oil (three EPs)
	Spizzenergi (two Singles)
	Athletico Spizz 80 (three Singles, one LP)
	Spizzo del Fuego (I think this name was only a rumor)
	The Spizzles (two? Singles, one LP)
	Spizzenergi 2 (two Singles)
	Spizz Orbit (two? EPs)
 
There is also a compilation of early singles under the name Spizz.
 
Split Enz:
An New Zealander band; their song "Poor Boy" is about a romantic/sexual
encounter with an alien.
 
Stackridge:
UK band from the 70's: see "Purple Spaceships over Yatton", "Slark" (monster
gets boy, boy gets girls), and "Frankenstein's Pillow".
 
Starcastle:
A Yes clone.  First album has a nice piece, "Lady of the Lake".
Believe it or not, they're from Pekin, Illinois (across the river
from Peoria).  If you like Yes's Fragile-era material then you should
grab their first LP ("Starcastle") and later ones ("Citadel", "Fountains
of Light").
 
Starr, Ringo:
The song "Hopeless" mentions aliens.
 
Steeleye Span:
Folk-rockers who tend to sing traditional songs with modern instruments.
"Elf Call" is about elves; "The Demon Lover", a well-known song,
appears on the LP "Commoner's Crown" along with "Elf Call".
(See also Fairport Convention.)
 
Steely Dan:
Fantasy genre rather than straight science fiction: "Home At Last" is a 
retelling of the story of the Trials of Odysseus from Greek mythology - 
the chorus, "still I remain tied to the mast" evokes the story where he
tied himself to the mast to resist the song of the Siren.  Also, 
"The Caves of Altamira," fantasizing about cave dwellers who made the 
cave drawings in Altamira, Spain.  See also Donald Fagen.
 
Stevens, Ray:
Song, "Diana and the Robotics", which is about a group
of appliances that form a band.
 
Stepford Wives:
Apparently took their name from the old horror film.
 
Steve Miller Band:
"Brave New World" and "Space Cowboy" from the album "Brave New World".
 
Stevens, Cat:
"Freezing Steel" from "Catch Bull at Four"; also "Longer Boats"
from "Tea for the Tillerman" is about flying saucers.  (It may
not be implicit in the lyrics, but Cat Stevens discussed it in
an interview.)
 
Stevens, Steve:
The title track "Atomic Playboys" is about nuclear war; there are
 probably a few more cuts of a similar nature on the rest of the album.
Album artwork by H R Giger, of "Alien" fame.
 
Stewart, Al:
"The Sirens of Titan" (Vonnegut) from "24 Carrots". See also the title
track from "Last Days of the Century" and "Red Toupee" from that same
album -- apparently he cited it as SF in an interview. "Nostradamus",
from "Past, Present, and Future" is a little bit occultish.
 
Sting:
"Dream of the Blue Turtles" has the track "Moon Over Bourbon Street" based,
according to the liner notes, on Anne Rice's "Interview With A Vampire".
On the album "Nothing Like The Sun", "Straight To My Heart" speculates, in
7/8 time, about forms of sharing love in the future; "Rock Steady" retells the
story of Noah(which >could< be considered fantasy); "The Lazarus Heart" is
based on a dream which is apparently a form of the Fisher King story, and has
fantasy elements to it.  The title track from "The Soul Cages" also has
fantasy elements.  Finally, his "Demolition Man" was updated and used
as the theme song for the movie of the same name.
 
Strange Advance:
See "Nor Crystal Tears" from "Strange Advance 2wo" (not a typo).
See also the album "Worlds Away"; several tracks with SF allusions and
themes, notably the title track, "One Chance in a Million", and "Sister Radio".
Cover artwork had examples of Arcologies for futurist-architect Paulo Soleri.
 
Stranglers, The:
The album "The Gospel According to the Meninblack" is about a race of
people from another planet who are raising humans on Earth for their
food.  Considering there are over 5 billion people now, they should be
very happy.  The Meninblack are first introduced in the song "Meninblack"
on the album "The Raven".  See also "Rockit to the Moon", a B-side.
 
Stubbs, Levi:
"Mean Green Muther from Outer Space", from the musical "Little Shop
of Horrors", in which it is revealed that Audrey II is actually
an alien planning to take over the earth.
 
Styx:
Usually has one sf-ish piece on each album.  All of "Kilroy was Here" is
a fable (this is the LP with "Mr. Roboto").  See also "Man of Miracles"
and "Come Sail Away".  There is some speculation that "Lords of the Ring"
on "Pieces of Eight" is Tolkien-derived.
 
Sudden Sway:
Little known synthesizer based independent band.
Their "Spacemate" double album contains some futuristic advertising jingles
for imaginary products. The LP comes with some instructions on how to
"spacemate" which stands for "Super Dimensional Perceptive Aid Combining
Every Manner and Type of Everything".  A note of explanation from the LP
cover - "which means it helps you expand your dimensions".
There are some puzzles and other goodies included by the previous 'owners'.
A non-musical track from a Peel session named "A Walk in the Park from the
Hypno-stroll" has a very "Hitchhiker's" feel to it.
 
Sun Ra:
An unusual jazz musician who has been obsessed with space travel; his
band is the "Arkestra". Some of his songs from the 70's are
"Rocket Number Nine to the Planet Venus" and "We Travel the Spaceways".
 
Supertramp:
Album "Brother Where You Bound".  "Fools Overture" is about the threat
of nuclear war.  Possibly "Crime of the Century".
 
The Surprises:
The single "Flying Attack" is about being invaded by flying saucers.
 
Swann, Donald:
Donald Swann provides music for a number of poems from J.R.R.
Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," and plays the piano on this album.  The
piano score is also available from Houghton Miffin in book form; the
book also explains the motivation for adding music to the poems as
well as other historical notes about the pieces.  The B side of the
album has J.R.R. Tolkien, reading some of the poems from his book, "The
Adventures of Tom Bombardil."
 
Sweet, Matthew:
"Children Of Time (Forever)" from "Earth" is a story of the future.
The video for "I've Been Waiting" is loaded with clips
from the Japanese Animation series "Urusei Yatsura"; the video
for "Girlfriend" has clips from another anime, "Space Adventure Cobra".
 
Symphonic Slam:
One album, with tracks "Universe" and "Fold Back".
 
T99:
Songs include "The Skydreamer", "Maximizor" (a single with some Japanese
SF-style artwork).
 
T'Pau:
This band is named after the Vulcan High Priestess in the (original)
Star Trek episode, "Amok Time". Their biggest hit, "China in Your Hands",
is about Frankenstein. Most listeners never realised this because the
version released as a single was missing a couple of crucial lines.
 
T. Rex:
Before they hit it big with "Get it On (Bang a Gong)", they recorded
music dominated by sylvan fantasy themes vaugely inspired by Tolkein.
(Their percussionist went by the name Steve Peregrin Took, f'instance.)
The album entitled "T.Rex" includes "Ride a White Swan" and "Wizard";
two earlier albums, recorded when the band used the long form of their
name, i.e. Tyrannosaurus Rex, are "My people were fair and had sky in
their hair...But now they're content to wear stars on their brow"
and "Prophets, Seers, and Sages."
 
Talking Heads:
"Life During Wartime" from "Fear of Music", about an America at war.
"Moon Rocks" from "Speaking in Tongues", a surrealistic piece about
nuclear physics and magic.  "(Nothing But) Flowers" from "Naked",
discusses a future return to an agrarian, nature-oriented lifestyle.
"The Facts of Life" from "Naked" recapitulates human history
extending it into the future.
 
Taylor, Roger:
LP "Fun in Space".
 
Telex:
Belgian electro-pop; futuristic tracks include "Rendezvous Dans L'Espace".
 
Ten Years After:
"Year 3000 Blues" on "Cricklewood Green" is about someone having to report
to some sort of euthanasia center because he wasn't up to the society's
eugenic standards.  Also "Here They Come" from "A Space in Time",
which is about some visiting space travellers.
 
They Might be Giants:
"For Science!" is about a man willing to date "the girl from Venus'
despite the risk of radiation poisoning.  Their latest LP is entitled
"Apollo 18" (the Apollo program stopped at #17).  See also "The Guitar".
The also perform (live) a song called "Why Does the Sun Shine?" which is
somewhat Mr.Wizard-ish; it's recently been released as a single.
(They performed it live on Nicks Rocks _ages_ ago, and some people still have
a copy floating around.)  Strangely, it is a cover of an educational children's
record.  It starts out with "The sun is a mass/ of incandescent gas..."
(It's originally from the album "Space Songs", an album of space songs
for children performed by Tom Glazer (a children's singer) and
Dottie Evans (a Country/Western singer). They also did an album called
"Energy and Motion Songs", about Physics.) There's also a song on one
of their  CD-singles called "Moving to the Sun", sort of sf-ish.
"The Statue Got Me high" is also sf-ish, and "Actual Size" may be
about Armageddon.  Another notable track: "Particle Man"
(from "Flood", 1990) combines superhero imagery with quantum physics.
TMBG were Musical Ambassadors for the International Space Year.
 
Thin Lizzy:
The title track of "Jailbreak" is about a (futuristic?) jailbreak.
 
Thorpe, Billy:
"Children of the Sun", a curiously popular song from the early 80's,
is about an massive alien ship landing.
 
Timelords:
Formerly known as the JAMS, now calling themselves the KLF, the Timelords put
out a single called "Doctorin' the TARDIS", which contains lots of samples from
the TV show Doctor Who, and a remix called "Gary in the TARDIS" with samples (I
think) from Gary Glitter.
 
Titus Groan:
A band named after, and taking most of their material from,
Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" books.  Relevant songs include "The
Hall of Bright Carvings" and "Fuchsia".
 
Tomita, Isao:
Highly influential electronic musician whose works often have SF themes
or are derived from SF sources.  Some citations by album:
 
	Kosmos: "Star Wars Theme," by John Williams and "A Space Fantasy"
	based on "Also Spracht Zarathustra" (R. Strauss) and
	"Die Valkure" (Wagner).  "The Sea Named Solaris," which is Tomita's
	tribute to the Russian SF film "Solaris". The movie is about a planet
	covered by a sea of lava that seems to be sentient. Cosmonauts
	establish a station to study the sea, and the sea studies them by
	reincarnating dead loved ones from the cosmonauts' past.
 
	The Planets: Holst's superb work depicted as a travel through the
	solar system.
 
	"Firebird" includes Moussorgsky's classic "Night on Bald Mountain,"
	which is about a witches' sabbath.
 
	The Bermuda Triangle: A very complex work featuring compositions by
	Prokofiev, Sibelius and others. The album's concept suggests that
	there is a connection between the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon and
	aliens visiting from outer space. The work also includes a section
	with Tomita's electronic version of the famous musical dialogue with
	the alien spaceship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
 
	(Thanks to Gilead Limor and Kendal Stitzel for the writeup on Tomita.)
 
Tonio K:
"Mars Needs Women" from "La Bomba".  "Life in the Foodchain" has the
songs "How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror?" (Answer: because the
subject is a vampire.)
 
Die Toten Hosen:
A German punk band.  Their album "Eine kleine Horrorshow" is an
interpretation of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange", the
novel which Stanley Kubrick made into film.
("Tote Hose" translates to "dead pants", which is a German
slang expression for "nothing going on".  Thanks to Thomas Koenig
for pointing this out, and to Horst Kiehl getting the grammar right. :-) )
 
Toto:
Several tracks of the "Hydra" and "Isolation" albums have SF themes;
they also handled the soundtrack for "Dune".
 
Pete Townshend:
"Uniform", from "All The Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes" discusses
the use of computers in the service of the state.
"The Iron Man" LP/rock opera is about an (alien?) robot who eats
everything in sight that's made of iron, including tanks and guns;
features the song "Heavy Metal".  It also involves a dragon from space,
flying to the sun, etc.; it's based on an SF-style children's book by
Ted Hughes called "The Iron Giant".
 
Toyah:
"Sheep farming in Barnet" - Near future high tech (mind to machine transfer)
Messianic story.  "Anthem", Story of a girl growing up in the present, but
uses *lots* of SF imagiary.  "The Changling" seems to be a pre-post holocaust
story but is open to other interpretations.  See also "Martin Cowboy"
from "Love is the Law".
 
Transvision Vamp:
Several SF-themed songs, notably "Hanging Out with Halo
Jones", about the character from the British comic "2000 AD"; the same song
also has a reference to William Gibson's "Neuromancer".
 
Tubes:
"Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman", on "Completion Backward Principle";
also "Space Baby" and "Cathy's Clone".
 
Turner, Tina:
"Private Dancer" has the track "1984".  She also sang the two theme
songs from "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", "One of the Living" and
"We Don't Need Another Hero", as well as acting in the movie.
 
Twelfth Night:
"We are Sane" from "Fact and Fiction" is about state control of thoughts
by the implantation of a "component".
 
U2:
Bono and The Edge did the score for a new stage production of
"A Clockwork Orange." One song is available on the single of 
"The Fly" -- no relation to the horror movie.
They say their latest album, "Zooropa," is inspired by William Gibson/Cyberpunk.
It's set in a very shallow, Godless world etc.  Babyface is about a guy who
falls in love/believes he has a relationship with a model through his tv. (lots
of good puns in that one... 'coming home late at night to turn you on...'...
Stay (faraway, so close) is another Wim Wenders title track, and in the video
the band members play guardian angels for 4 Berlinners.  Lemon is about using
technology to watch yourself. Oh, and "Even Better Than The Real Thing"
from "Achtung Baby" is about virtual sex.
 
Ubangi:
Swedish band wrote "Monster ombord" (Monsters on board,
something has invaded the space ship)  Some of their albums
have English lyrics...also, the LP "Disco Baby" has a song
"They Came From Outer Space".
 
UFO:
British hard rock band from the early 70s to the 80s.  Lots of SF stuff,
most predominant in their first two LPs (UFO and Flying). Tracks like
"Unidentified Flying Object", "Star Storm", "Flying", etc.
 
Ultravox:
"All Stood Still" is apparently about an accident at a nuclear power
station. "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" is about a nuclear attack.
Futuristic/surrealistic tracks from the Foxx era include "Slow Motion" and
"The Man Who Dies Every Day". Also, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "I Want
to be a Machine".
 
Underground Zone 0:
A Hawkwind-connected band, did a song "Canes Vanatici" about a very
powerful alien telling us to clean up our act.
 
Uriah Heep:
"The Magician's Birthday", and "Demons and Wizards".  Both are
concept albums, although the former is more cohesive than the latter.
Musical quality varies from subtle to bombastic wretched excess...
but then again, I tend to like bombastic wretched excess. :-)
 
Utopia:
(See also Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell.)
"Winston Smith Takes It on the Jaw" from "Oblivion".  (Orwell's 1984)
Possibly "Adventures in Utopia".  Also "Utopia", "Abandon City" from
"Oops, Wrong Planet"  and "Emergency Splashdown" (which also appears on
one  of Roger Powell's solo albums).  "RA" is heavily  fantasy, including
the epic "Singring and the Glass Guitar, an Electrified Fairy Tale".
"Zen Machine" from "POV" is cyberpunkish.  "The Seven Rays" from
"Another Live" might be SF.
 
Vai, Steve:
"Little Green Men" and "Next Stop Earth" from his album "Flex-Able".
Vai claims his album "Passion & Warfare" is a conceptual SF story 
with the plot being too detailed to publish with the CD and says that 
"Passion and Warfare - The Novel" will be published soon, but until then 
it's pretty disjointed. Some instrumental pieces on Steve Vai's
_Sex and Religion_ have fantasy titles or themes: "An Earth Dweller's
Return" and "The Road to Mt. Calvary."
 
Van Halen:
On the album "5150", the song "Love Walks In" is (literally) about falling
in love with an alien; this might be too simple an interpretation, however.
 
Van der Graff Generator:
"Pioneers Over c", and others. (c = speed of light)
See also "Still Life" (immortality) and "Childhood's End" (destiny
of mankind; presumably based on Clarke's book) from "Still Life".
Also "After The Flood" (melting of polar icecaps) from "The Least Can Do
is Wave to Each Other". From "Godbluff", see "Arrow" (fantasy),
"Sleepwalkers" and "Scorched Earth" (programmed soldier?).
 
Vanity 6:
"Flippin' Out" is about vampirism.
 
Ventures:
(Yes, those guys with the Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters and
Champ Amps with the tremolo turned up playing "Walk, Don't Run.")
Had an album entitled "The Ventures in Space" on which virtually all
tunes had sci-fi titles, like "Invasion of the Satellites" and "Moon Child."
Also, one of their best known tunes is "Journey to the Stars," which appeared
on "The Fabulous Ventures" and "The Ventures on Stage," and also (I believe)
as a single.  (They also covered "Telstar", originally done by The Tornadoes.)
 
Violinski:
"No Cause for Alarm" (WW3 breaks out in your neighborhood)
 
Visage:
Redid Zager & Evans "2525"; also did some other SF-type material.
 
VoiVod:
Their lyrics are largely SF.  Most of their albums are conceptual and
loosely based around the VoiVod character. The earliest stuff is
standard post-holocaust type business, although they developed
considerably with "Dimension Hatross", an allegorical story in which
the VoiVod creates a parallel microdimension and monitors the development
of the inhabitants from tribal societies to technocratic states eventually
to apocalyptic destruction. "Nothingface", contains more surreal
cyberpunk(ish) SF lyrics with more introspective themes.  "Angel Rat"
deals with a variety of concepts from Chaos theory to robot sentience.
 
Wah!:
"The Seven Thousand Names of Wah!" on "Nah Poo- The Art of Bluff"
deserves a mention since its title is borrowed from Arthur C. Clarke
and finishes with the lines "One by one the stars are going out" which
is a direct quote from the Clarke story  ("The Nine Thousand
Names of God").  The single "Better Scream" concerns a
future apocalyptic war.
 
Wakeman, Rick:
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" retells Verne's story; "No
Earthly Connection" has a fantasy slant to it.  "Myths and
Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" tells
the story of Camelot.  See also Yes.
 
Randy Van Warmer:
On the album "Terraform", the title track is a three part SF song, the last
part of which is "I'm so 21st century" (repeated ad-nauseum).  The song,
as well as the album, is absolutely dreadful. ;-)
 
Warrior:
The LP "Fighting for the Earth" deals with saving the earth
from demonic evil by forming a band of hard-core warriors to
do battle with it.  The band has been characterized as 
"a nontypically environmentally concerned metal band".
 
Was (not Was):
"Born to Laugh at Tornadoes" contains "Man vs. the Empire Brain
Building" a cyberpunk piece in which the vocals mostly consist of
the following line repeated over and over:
"In my life there's just three things:
    Man vs. Nature
    Man vs. Woman
    and
    Man vs. the Empire Brain Building"
Of course, "Walk the Dinosaur" is about...
 
Waters, Roger:
"Radio K.A.O.S." is a story about a psychic who hears radio
waves in his head; he learns to control them and takes over
a military computer system.  His 1992 release "Amused to Death"
exmaines mankind's fascination with television, and ends with
the arrival of "alien anthropologists" who declare that mankind
had evidently "Amused itself to death."  See also Pink Floyd.
Participated (with his Bleeding Heart Band) in the soundtrack
for the English animated film "When The Wind Blows"
about an old couple experiencing a nuclear attack.
The second half of the soundtrack album (Virgin) is by them.
 
Wayne, Jeff:
"War of the Worlds".  H.G. Wells' story with
Richard Burton doing narration, and awful music (purely
a personal opinion ;-) ).
 
Weather Report:
"I Sing the Body Electric" borrows the title from Ray Bradbury and
shows an android on the cover.
 
The Weathermen:
LP "Ten Deadly Kisses" features a track "Space", which is about
a space-age yuppie.
 
Who, The:
"Tommy" is half-fantasy, half-opera.  "905" from "Who Are You?".
Also "Rael" from "The Who Sell Out".  "Baba O'Riley" from "Who's Next"
seems to possibly be about some post-holocaust world.  (Note:
"Baba O'Riley" and other tidbits were part of the very SF-ish
concept album "Lifehouse", which was never released.)
See also "Dr. Jimmy" from Quadrophenia (depends on
how you interpret it).
 
Winders, Wim:
The soundtrack "Until the End of the World" soundtrack from the
Wim Winders' film of the same name is listed here because a number
of artists contributed to it.  The movie is a futuristic thriller
about the end of the world, and the music supports the action.
Some terrific stuff from U2, REM, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, and many others.
 
Wings:
"Nineteen Eighty-Five" from "Band on the Run".  Also "Magneto and
the Titanium Man" and "Venus and Mars (Reprise)" from "Venus and Mars".
 
Wishbone Ash:
"The King Will Come", "Phoenix", and "Throw Down the Sword"
(all from "Argus") are all heroic-fantasy type pieces.  (By the way,
W.A.'s double/triple lead guitar work is worth hearing. ---Rsk)
Also see the title track from "Number the Brave".
 
Winter, Edgar:
Recorded an entire soundtrack for L. Ron Hubbards' ten-book
series 'Mission Earth'.  The material was written by Hubbard and recorded
by Winter.  Its available on vinyl in most record stores. 
L. Ron Hubbard also collected a bunch of artists to do a soundtrack for 
his novel 'Battlefield Earth'; chief among these is Chick Corea.
And don't forget the instrumental version of "Frankenstein", which
was a pop hit in the early 70's.
 
Wood, Roy:
"Miss Clarke and the Computer" from "Boulders" (computer falls in
love with its operator).  See also The Move, Electric Light Orchestra.
 
Wooley, Sheb:
"Purple People Eater"
 
XL Capris:
Australian band, did a song called World War III on their "Where is Hank?"
album. (They have connections with New Zealand band Dragon, through
Todd Hunter.)
 
XTC:
"Reel by Reel" (the government can hear and record your thoughts);
"This World Over" from "The Big Express" which is a post-nuclear
holocaust cautionary tale.  "That's Really Super (Supergirl)"
from Skylarking is about Supergirl's boyfriend becoming distraught
over her "other life".  "Science Friction" (yes it's supposed to have
an 'r' in it) on "3D EP" (also on the CD version of "White Music").
XTC have released under their alter-ego "The Dukes of Stratosphear" (sic)
two fake-psychedelic albums, which do have a lot of SF-pointers.
Most obvious in the songs: "Bike Ride to the Moon", "What in the World ???",
and "Braniac's Daughter"
 
X Ray Spex:
"Genetic Engineering" from the album "Germ Free Adolescents" is about
the dangers of creating genetically 'superior' beings.
 
Yankovic, Weird Al:
"I Think I'm a Clone Now" from "Even Worse" (parody of the 60's hit
"I Think We're Alone Now", recently recut by Tiffany).
"Yoda" (to the tune of "Lola") and "Slime Creatures from Outer Space",
an original music-tribute to B-movies; both are from "Dare to Be Stupid".
Also "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars"
on the soundtrack for "UHF", and "Christmas at Ground Zero" from
"Polka Party".
 
Yaz:
There's a song on the album "You and Me Both" about childhood
during a nuclear war.
 
Yellow Magic Orchestra:
"Citizens of Science" from "X Infinite Multiples".
 
Yes:
Much sf-oriented work.  Try "Astral Traveller", "Starship Trooper"
(Heinlein?  maybe), "The Gates of Delirium".  (One reader commented that
this latter LP is actually based on Tolstoy's "War and Peace".  I can't
confirm or deny that since I've never made it through the book.)
See also Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" and Anderson & Vangelis's
song "Mayflower" from "The Friends of Mr. Cairo".  See also "Then" with
references to telepathy.  Also, "Arriving UFO" from "Tormato", "Machine
Messiah" from Drama (computer/controller), most of the entire album
"Close to the Edge" (which your editor regards as unquestionably the most
complex and finest piece of music ever written and performed by a rock band),
"South Side of the Sky" from "Fragile", and "Awaken" from "Going for the One".
"Tales from Topographic Oceans" is a 2-LP concept albums about
(possibly intelligent) life in the oceans singing to stars they can't see.  
Tracks include "The Revealing Science of God", "The Remembering",
"The Ancient", and "Ritual". "Shoot High Aim Low" from "Big Generator" might
be about a futuristic war. The problem with figuring out much of Yes's work
is that the abstract poetic style often obscures the meaning
and multiple interpretations are possible.  See also Rick Wakeman,
Jon Anderson, & Anderson, Wakeford, Bruford and Howe.
 
Young, Kenny:
LP "Last Stage for Silverworld"
 
Young, Neil:
"After the Gold Rush", and "Ride my Llama" from "Rust Never Sleeps".
("After the Gold Rush" ends with a line about a mothership arriving
and "...taking Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun".)
On the album "Trans", see "Computer Age", "We R In Control", and "Sample
and Hold".
 
ZZ Top:
Just a note to mention that the videos for the songs from their "Afterburner"
album had SF themes; also the song "TV Dinners" from "Eliminator" had
some SF references. Recorded "Double Back", the theme from
"Back to the Future III".
 
Zager & Evans:
"In the Year 2525"; dated but cute; was #1 when Armstrong walked on the moon.
 
Zappa, Frank, and the Mothers:
"Cheapnis", from "Roxy and Elsewhere", is the story of a grade Z monster movie.
"Thing-Fish" (evil scientist, etc.).  "Inca Roads" from "One Size Fits All"
discusses the question of whether or not extraterrrestrials made the
huge patterns visible from the air in the Andes.  See also "The Radio is
Broken" (from "The Man from Utopia") and the title track from "Drowning Witch".
See also "Billy the Mountain" from "Was Mothers Just Another
Bands from L.A.?", the story of a sentient mountain which refuses
induction into the U.S. armed forces.  Also "Joe's Garage", a dystopian
operatta about a society which controls its citizens by making as many
things as possible illegal; presented as if it were an object lesson
told by an enforcer from that society.  This album also includes
a parody of the Church of Scientology (Church of Aplientology)
as well as a funny song about sex with a robot (title?).
 
Zevon, Warren:
"Werewolves of London" from "Excitable Boy", just for fun.
"Transverse City" is a concept album which, according to interviews
with Zevon, is based in part on "Bladerunner" and the works of
cyberpunk author William Gibson.  SF tracks on the album include the
title cut, "Run Straight Down", and "The Long Arm of the Law".
 
Miscellaneous Notes and Comments:
---------------------------------
 
Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michael Jarre, Return to Forever, Weather Report,
Vangelis, Klaus Schultz, Deodata, Eno, Jean-Luc Ponty, Michael Urbaniak,
Stomu Yamashta & Go, The Enid, Peter Michael Hamel, Bo Hansson, Mannheim
Steamroller, Lancaster & Lumley, Lol Creme & Kevin Godley, Shadowfax,
Larry Fast aka Synergy, Kitaro, Mark Shreeve, Kevin Braheny, Steve
Roach, Constance Demby, Michael Sterns, Software and B.J. Cole:
 
 ...have all been listed down here because several people have pointed out
that "sounding like SF" doesn't make it SF music.  Note that some of these
people have done some SF soundtracks, and that some of them have done
instrumental material with SF/fantasy titles.  Notable works include Hansson's
"Lord of the Rings", Creme & Godley's "Consequences", an ecological parable,
Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire V", a musical retelling of Kepler's
fantasy about a trip to the moon and back, and Klaus Schulze's "Cyborg"
and "Dune".  Jarre's "Rendez-Vous" album was going to have had the sax part
for the track "Final Rendezvous/Ron's Piece" played, in orbit,
by Ron McNair on the ill-fated Challenger launch.
 
Hitchhiker's Guide:
Just a note that the theme music for THHGTTG is "Journey of the Sorcerer"
from the Eagles' "One of These Nights".  Marvin is credited with a single
called "Marvin", backed with "Metal Man".  Tim Souness did a single of
the HitchHiker's Guide theme.  Disaster Area is credited with "Only
the End of the World Again", the B side of the theme single.
A second single called "Marvin I Love You" was released later--in it, Marvin
discovers an old recording of a female voice declaring her love for him
while perusing his memory banks.  (Of course, he doesn't know where it
came from.)
 
Doctor Who:
Just a note to mention "Doctorin' the TARDIS" and "Gary and the TARDIS"
by the Timelords (now The KLF), "Who is the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee,
"Doctor...?" by Blood Donor, "Doctor in Distress" by Who Cares, and
"S.O.S. Daleks have landed" by ??.
 
SF Themes in Opera:
This section was originally posted to rec.music.classical by
[email protected] (Evelyn C. Leeper), who has kindly
granted permission to reproduce it here. 
 
Benford, David & LeGuin, Ursula K.	"Rigel-9"
	Standard sf fare - astronauts on strange planet, one sensitive,
	the rest rednecks. Only he sees the strange city in the forest etc.
 
Benford, David				"Star's End"
	A fantasy on SF themes.
 
Blomdahl, Karl-Birger			"Aniara"
	About a space ship leaving Earth (which is in an environmental
	crisis).
 
Davis, Anthony & Atherton, Deborah	"Under the Double Moon"
	Attempt of a government Inspector to force telepathic twins to
	accompany him to feed the powers of the Empress.
 
Dresher, Paul & Eckert, Rinded		"Power Failure"
	About an evil tycoon who has spent millions on a perpetual youth
	machine for himself. When the moment comes to use it, a power
	failure traps him, his assistant, secretary, and the janitor in
	the underground laboratory. Despite the morality-play aspects of
	what follow, it comes off as a powerful statement against rampant
	materialism and exploitation of people and the environment.
 
Glass, Philip				"Einstein on the Beach"  
	Has a scene where a flying saucer appears.
 
Glass, Philip				"1000 Airplanes on the Roof"
 
Glass, Philip				"Hydrogen Jukebox"
 
Glass, Philip				"Juniper Tree"
 
Glass, Philip & Lessing, Doris		"The Making of the Representative
						from Planet 8"
 
Haydn, J. 				"Il Mondo della Luna"
	"It isn't straight sci-fi in the modern sense; the setting was meant
	to provide a distant enough context to present a parody of powerful
	people and institutions."  But it *isn't* set on the moon; it has
	someone tricked into believing they have traveled to the moon when
	they haven't.
 
Janacek					"The Excursions of Mr Broucek"
	Two stories, one of which is Mr Broucek goes to the moon.
 
Janacek					"The Macropoulous Affair"
	Original by Karel Capek; the story of a 400+ year old opera
	singer who possesses the formula for endless youth
 
Ligeti, G.				"Le Grand Macabre"
	I. The setting is the countryside in Brueghelland.  Preceded by
	the drunken Piet the Pot, the two lovers Amando and Amanda look
	for a secluded place in which to make love.  Out of a sepulchre
	to one side of the stage emerges Nekrotzar, Angel of Death,
	Great Reaper, Demon, Vampire etc, to announce the end of the
	world that day at midnight.
	II.  Astradamors, court astrologer and hen-pecked husband, sees
	apparitions through his telescope portending disaster.  His wife
	dreams of Venus, whom she asks to be sent a real man for a
	husband.  Astradamors' fears are confirmed with the arrival of
	Nekrotzar, who first fulfils Mescalina's sexual desires and then
	kills her.
	III.  The gluttonous ruler Go-Go receives word from the Chief of
	his secret police ('Gepopo') that a comet is headed on a collision
	course for Breughelland.  Nekrotzar arrives with appropriate pomp
	and ceremony to announce once more the end of the world.
	Astradamors celebrates the death of his wife with Piet the Pot in
	a drinking bout, and Nekrotzar, imagining the cup is filled with
	sacrificial blood instead of wine, joins in. Becoming increasingly
	intoxicated, Nekrotzar boasts about his cruel misdeeds and fails
	to notice that midnight has already passed.
	IV.  With everyone wondering whether or not the world has really
	ended, Mescalina breaks out of her tomb and recognises Nekrotzar
	as her first husband, who then sinks into oblivion under the
	weight of his failure.  Having missed all the excitement, the two
	lovers reappear.
 
Mackover, Todd				"Valis"
	Based on the Philip K. Dick novel
 
Menotti, Gian Carlo			"A Bride from Pluto"
 
Menotti, Giancarlo			"Help, Help the Globolinks!"
 
Monk, Meredith & Chong, Ping		"The Games"
	About a human society in a spacecraft that has been en route to a
	distant star system for many generations.  The games are simple
	children's games which have acquired ritual status in the spaceship
	culture.  (Ballet?)
 
Offenbach, Jacques			"Tales of Hoffman"
	The story of an automaton.
 
Offenbach, Jacques			"Journey to the Moon"
 
Rice, Jeff				"The War of the Worlds"
 
Swan, Donald				"Perelandra"
	Based on the C. S. Lewis
 
Swan, Donald				various Tolkien songs (not opera)
 
?					Robert Anton Wilson's stuff
 
?					"A Wrinkle in Time"
 
And some random comments:
 
George Coates has a new work that takes place in virtual reality at
a theater in San Francisco. I don't know the name or composer, sorry.
 
For what it's worth I'm not sure I'd eliminate Wagner too soon: the
Ring may seem pretty fantastic, but many of the plots turn on the
appropriate use of technology (always Promethean, of course) and the
power it confers on the user.
 
Or sf novels with opera themes?  How about Jack Vance's _Space
Opera_?  As I recall the plot, it concerns the adventures of an
interstellar opera company.
 
Much thanks to:
	[email protected]@usc.edu (William Alves)
	[email protected] (Barb Miller)
	[email protected] (Chris Ischay)
	[email protected] (Diarmuid Pigott)
	[email protected] (Mats Bengtsson  TX/DK )
	[email protected] (Gene Lavergne)
	[email protected] (Mr. Gower)
	[email protected]
	[email protected] (Charles Hedrick)
	[email protected] (Jason E Frank)
	[email protected] (J.K.Pearson)
	[email protected] (Keith Andrew Falconer)
	[email protected] (Bob Kosovsky)
	[email protected] (Max Stern 310-524-6152)
	mgresham%[email protected] (Mark Gresham)
	[email protected] (Peter Delafosse)
	[email protected]
	[email protected] (Robert Marshall)
	[email protected] (R M Price)
	[email protected] (Raymond Tuttle)
	[email protected] (R. Wilmer)
	[email protected] (Steve Apter)
	[email protected] (Claudia Zornow)
 
(end included material on SF themes in opera)
 
---------------------------------
 
One of the readers of the list ([email protected])
also sent along this material on Hawkwind, which I've included
here.  If this isn't enough to justify the title I gave them
(all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock) then I don't
know what is. ;-)
 
(Begin included material on Hawkwind)
 
Re the Hawkwind entry on your music sf list.
 
The sf related songs that they've done are:
 
Adjust Me  
Angels of Death  
Arrival in Utopia
The Awakening  
Black Corridor  
Born to Go
The Changing  
Children of the Sun  
Choose Your Masks
Coded Languages  
Damnation Alley  
The Dark Lords  
Down through the Night  
Dragons and Fables  
Dreaming City  
Dream Worker  
D-Rider  
Dust of Time  
Elric the Enchanter  
Fable of a Failed Race  
Fahrenheit 451  
Fall of Earth City  
Fifth Second of Forever  
First Landing on Medusa  
The Golden Void  
Green Finned Demon
Heads  
High Rise  
Hi Tech Cities  
Horn of Destiny  
Images  
Infinity  
In the Egg  
Jack of Shadows  
Joker at the Gate
Levitation  
Lighthouse  
Living on a Knife Edge  
Looking in the Future  
Lord of Light  
Lords of Chaos  
Lost Chances  
L.S.D.
Magnu  
Master of the Universe  
Messengers of Morpheus  
Micro Man
Moonglum  
Needle Gun  
Neon Skyline  
Note From a Cold Planet  
Nuclear Drive 
Nuclear Toy  
Orgone Accumulator  
Oscillations
The Phenomenon of Luminosity
Processed  
Psi Power  
Psychosis  
PsychoSonia 
PXR5  
Quark, Strangeness and Charm  
Robot  
The Sea King  
Seven By Seven  
Silver Machine  
Sleep of a Thousand Tears
Solitary Mind Games  
Song of the Swords  
Sonic Attack  
Space is Deep  
Space Travellers
Spirit of the Age  
Standing at the Edge  
Star Cannibal  
Starflight  
Streets of Fear  
Sword of the East  
Ten Seconds of Forever  
Time We Left (This World today)  
Transdimensional Man  
Uncle Sam's on Mars  
Virgin of the World
Waiting for Tomorrow  
Warrior on the Edge of Time  
Warriors  
Wastelands of Sleep  
The Watcher  
We Took the Wrong Step  
Web Weaver  
Welcome to the Future
Who's Gonna Win the War  
Wings  
The Wizard Blew His Horn  
You Know You're Only Dreaming  
You'd Better Believe It
Zarozinia
Black Hole in Space
Upside Down                      
Dying Seas                       
The War I Survived               
Raping Robots in the Street      
Where are They Now?              
Elements                         
Mutation Zone                    
My Armour's Killing Me           
The Timeship Will Not Sail Again 
 
and a list of their albums:
 
1970  Hawkwind  [re-released as pic disk 1980]
1971  In Search Of Space
1972  Doremi Fasol Latido
1972  The Text Of Festival: Live 1970-2 (live)
1972  Glastonbury Fayre (with various artists)
1972  Greasy Trucker's Party
1973  Space Ritual Alive (live) [double album]
1973  Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Garagin (live)
1973  Hawkwind in Concert
1974  Hall Of The Mountain Grill
1974  US Forces Radio album featuring Hawkwind & Jefferson Starship
1975  Warrior On The Edge Of Time
1976  Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
1976  Roadhawks 
1977  Quark Strangeness And Charm
1977  Hawkwind/Van Der Graaf Generator [Swedish album on Phillips}
1977  Masters of the Universe (Compilation)
1978  PXR5
1978  Hawklords - 25 Years On 
1979  Repeat Performances (Compilation)
1979  Hawkwind Live (live)      [British release:  Live '79]
1980  Levitation  [original release was on blue vinyl]
1981  Sonic Attack
1981  Hawkwind Live at the Bottom Line (New York 1978)
1981? Hawkwind at Glastonbury 1981
1981  Sonic Assassins  12EP 
1981  Motorhead / Valium 10 (single)
1982  Church of Hawkwind [originally with booklet]
1982  Choose Your Masques
1982  Hawkwind Live at Stonehenge and Watchfield (Festival Records)
1982  Friends And Relations - Hawkwind
1983  Friends And Relations II  (Twice Upon A Time)
19??  Friends And Relations III
1983  Zones  [also released as pic disk]
1984  The Earth Ritual Preview (EP)
1984  Utopia 1984  [Material from ERP, Stonehenge, and Zones]
1984  Stonehenge (This Is Hawkwind/Do Not Panic) (live) [LP & EP]
1985  The Chronicle Of The Black Sword
1985   Needle Gun (EP)
1985   Zarozinia (EP)
1985  Space Ritual II 
1985  Live Chronicles
1985? Ridicule (live 1973)
1985  Welcome To The Future (Mausoleum Records)
1985  Live '70/'73
1985  In The Beginning  (Live "Top Gear" BBC Session 1970)
1986  Bristol Custom Bike Show
1986  Angels of Death (compilation) [all tracks previously released]
1986  The Hawkwind Collection
1986  Hawkfan 12"
1986  Independent Days, Vol. I
1986  The Approved History of Hawkwind  (Samurai Records)
1986?  Independent Days, Vol. II
1987? British Tribal Music (live, compilation) [Good sound quality.  Digitally
1987?  Early Daze
'77-82 The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. I
87-88? The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. II
87-88? The Hawkwind Anthology Vol. III
1988   Traveller's Aid Trust (with various artists)
1987  Out And Intake
1987  Hawkwind Box Set - The Official Picture Log Book
1988  The Xenon Codex
1988  Spirit of the Age
1988  Hawkwind Live  [German CD: Imtrat]
19??  Hawkwind Zoo 12EP
19??  Silver Machine (live) 12EP
19??  Victoria double album
1989  The Night Of The Hawk  (compilation)
1989  Ironstrike [Avanti Records ISTCD 004]
1990  Stasis - The U.A. Years 1971-1975  (Compilation)
1990  Night Riding
1990  The Best and the Rest of Hawkwind  [Action Replay records.
1990  The Best of Hawkwind (volume #2 of Metal Classic series by EMI)
1990  Acid daze Vol. I LP
1990  Acid Daze Vol. II LP
1990  Acid Daze Vol. III LP
1990  Space Bandits
1991  Palace Springs (live)
1991  Hawkwind: Space Rock from London 
1991  The Golden Void
1991  The Early Years Live EP
1991  Masters of The Universe [ Marble Arch Rock CMA CD 129]
1992  Electric Teepee
1992  Mighty Hawkwind Classics 80-85
1992  This is Hawkwind: Do Not Panic CD
1992  Psychedelic Warlords
1992  The Hawklords Live
1992  California Brainstorm
1992  Solstice at Stonehenge 1983
1992  Tales From Atom Henge
1992  Orgasmatron
 
Hope this helps :-)
 
FoFP
 
(End included material on Hawkwind)
 
---------------------------------
 
Well, that's it.  Remember, please send your comments, corrections
and additions via *mail*.  Thanks!
 
Rich Kulawiec, 2/93
 
Hastily-assembled montage of names of people who sent this stuff in:
 
Aaron Tucker, Al Crawford, Alan Greig, Alan Meiss, Alan Vymetalik,
Alastair Milne, Alex Melnick, Andrew Priestley, Andrew Raphael, Andy
Tucker, Becky Slocombe, Berry Kercheval, Bill Kaufman, Bjorn Lisper,
Blake Sobiloff, Bob, Brad, Brandon Allbery, Breebaart, Brent Woods,
Brian Ritchie, Brian Yamauchi, Bruce Holloway, Calle Dybedahl, Can
Altinbay, Carl Fongheiser, Carlo N. Samson, Chisholm, Chris Klausmeier,
Christopher Dollin, Chuck Koelbel, Corey Liss, Craig Wilcox, Dan Bloch,
Dan Duval, Daniel Dern, Dave, Dave Berry, Dave Gourley, Dave Rosik,
Dave Steiner, Dave Fiedler, David Adler, David Datta, David Gibbs,
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Ostroff, Jay Freeman, Jed Hartman, Jef Poskanzer, Jeff, Jeff Rogers,
Jessie Jim, Joanne Brooks, John, John, John A.Mariani, John Ockerbloom,
John Turner, John Relph, Jon Reeves, Jonathan Watts, Jonathan D.
Trudel, Joseph McLean, Kai-Miakel J{{-Aro, KarenColten, Ken, Ken
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Swiston, Mike Linksvayer, Miles Bader, Neil Weinstock, Nicholas
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R., PaulCzarnecki, Pete, Peter, Peter Alfke, Platt, Randall Shane,
Randy Orrison, Richard Caley, Richard Smith, Robert Pietkivitch,
RobynTarter, Romkey, Russ Williams, Ryk E Spoor, Samir Chettri, Scott
A., Scott Butler, Sean Ellis, Seth Kadesh, Sheila Coyazo, Shelli
Meyers, Smith Steve, Smithson, Stephen Mulrine, Stephen Pearl, Steve
Herring, Steve Lionel, Stuart Sullivan, T. William Wells., Templeton,
Terry Poot, The Roach Above Reproach, The Roach(dan'l), Theo Hong,
Thomas Gayler, Thomas Koenig, Thomas Koenig, Tim, Tim Day, Tim Walters,
Tim Smith, Tom Galloway, Tony Towers, Tynor, Vlach, Vogel, Walker
Aumann, Wayne Barber, William Ingogly, William J. Richard, Dave Vernal,
Ben Waggoner, Chris Mungall, Steve Greer, Jason O'Broin,
Christopher Davis, Brian Kendig, Matt Maxwell, Richard Barrett, Dayne
Miller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alfvaen, Ronny H. Arild, Paul R. Joslin,
Alexander Yok-Wai, Ronald D. White, Kjetil Wiekhorst J|rgensen,
Jim Gillespie, Diarmuid Pigott, Evelyn C Leeper, Christopher Haynes,
Jim Atkinson, Robert Chansky, [email protected], Michael Simla,
Ray Charbonneau, TheO O'Neal, Alex Melnick, Richard K Fox, Dion Francois.
Derek G Bacon, Daniel F Boyd, Jeff Berry, Richard Heritage, Joe Decker,
James Gillespie, Ulrich Grepel, Mark Parker, Jim Freund, Mike Alberghini,
Paolo Valladolid, Francisco X DeJesus, Scott Grier, Andrew Raphael,
Steve W. Hill, Curt Wiederhoeft., Andrew Bettison, Jeff Wilson,
Michael Burstein, Dennis Sacks, Steve ([email protected]),
J.H.M. Dassen, Paul W. Grimes, James Matthew Farrow, Mike Kring,
Chuck Turner, Dave Weingart, John Purpura, Ilsa VanHook, Adrian Hassall Lewis,
Corran J. Webster, Steve Wechsler, Brian Leibowitz, Rick Scaia,
Andrew Phillips, William Rucklidge, Gregg T. Parmentier, Andrew Hatchell,
Bengt Kleberg, Brian Landwehr, Dan Johnson, ]dne Brunborg, James Hartman,
Richard C. Miske, Aaron Humphrey, Rajesh Goel, [email protected],
[email protected] (Neilski), Tony Cummins, Terry Carroll, Brad Smith,
Jeffrey L. Popyack, Steve Ward-Smith, Jerry ([email protected]),
Daniele ([email protected]), Lance R. Bailey, Heather Kendrick, Bec Hamadock,
Glenn Mcdonald, David Wilkinson, Joseph Brenner, Bonnie L. Johnston,
Arthur Delano, Laurent Somers, Angelos ([email protected]),
Brent C. Williams, Brad Smith, [email protected] (rob), Len Jaffe,
Kevin L. Wright, Chuck Jordan, Anthony J.R. Heading, Michael McAfee,
Gladys ([email protected]), Robert Bowdidge, Andreas Orphanides, Marc Ortlieb,
David Wilkinson, Gilead Limor, Chandrasekhar Puranapanda, David Datta,
Stephanie M. Clarkson-Aines, Russell Morrison, Stephen Swann,
Michael S Shappe, Gary Nelson, Howard J. Browning, Michael McAfee,
Christian Treber, Thomas W. Day, Kathleen (Jocelyn) Goldfein, Ronald Carrier,
Chris Siebenmann, [email protected], Jonathan Gowland,
Kevin Grover, Suzan Humphrey, Tim Isakson, Kendal Stitzel, Jay Shorten,
Mike McComas, Crone, Keith Neufeld, Aaron Sherman, Eli McIlveen,
Elisabeth Anne Riba, Gareth Bellaby, Jens Wall, Anders Gabrielsson,
Walter Roberson, Rich Ulisky, Bill Leue, Peter Fenelon,
Sheri Hurt, Ross Smith, Marcus Deininger, Kristian MacCall,
Christian T.S. Crumlish, Horst Kiehl, Gareth Bellaby, Genevieve R. Williams,
Ian Levstein, Kevin Lauderdale, Adam D. Calow, Kate Orman,
Peter Trenning, Rainer Deyke, William Silvey, Khalid Yaqub, Wolfram Wagner,
Jeff Johnston, David Farmer, Chris Camfield, Timothy Binder, Dave Scocca,
Tom Friday, Jordi Sod, Ian J. Greely, Kip Johnson.
 
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