to one of my favorite DUers!



Full Apollo album...great spacey ambient!



Michael Stearns - Encounter

And Bowie is classic!

When I was in high school, I babysat for a guy who had played drums with Steve Miller in some capacity years before. He was underage at the time, Steve Miller was far from famous, and I've never been able to find any info about it online, but the guy had an awesome drum kit set up in the family room.

Rolling Stones

Thanks for posting!

I didn't realize there were rumors that Klaatu was really the Beatles performing under a pseudonym.

a very strong rumor being passed around by the radio stations that it was actually The Beatles.

Gotta love the theramin!

Trivia alert -- that wasn't a theramin in Forbidden Planet. It was a thingamagig called a ring modulator. I imagine it worked on the same principles. Miklos Rosza was the first film composer to use the theramin in a film score -- Hitchcock' s Spellbound.

To another 20,000 post!

That CCR songs is one of my faves.

Any genre... Holst - The Planets

If that includes alien contact... the brilliant John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind; ET; Star Wars;

...and my Jr High band played arrangements of Close Encounters AND Star Wars when I was 13.

"Quantum Physics" by the brilliant German avant-gardists CAN:

I have a HW Pandora station.

Thanks!

from "A Sea Named Solaris", featured on the original "Cosmos" series

Definitely fun!

One of my faves!

I have the song on vinyl somewhere...never even considered there was a video. Fantastic!

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From a fellow swede

That's a classic.

I feel entirely unhip.

Congratz!

I think they're touring - bet it's a fun show!

Did I read that they have a new album out?

Get down wit yo funky bad self cyberswede!

...or fan-funkin'-tastic!

your funk is da best.

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bother all down here on Earth

That was a fun tune, and it was fun reading about the band on Wikipedia. Thanks!

it's not so much the song, but the video that goes along with it that's full of rocket ships and stars and the moon...... and I'm not a big fan of Smashing Pumpkins, but I love this video. This video is also a take off of the 1902 silent film called A trip to the Moon.

I love "A Trip to the Moon!" I had that mood face/rocket DU avatar for a long time.

I probably haven't heard that song in 30 years. Thanks for posting!

that Peter Schilling song always comes to mind when I hear Bowie's Space Oddity, of course, and Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low

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...by Jefferson Starship - V1.0.

Videos not available here in Germany, probably OK in the USA.

Can't wait to see the boys May 22nd in New Orleans!