On 9 May, 14:55, na...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Anthony Nance) wrote:
> capitangugle <capitan.gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Hi All!,
>
> > I'm member of "Grupoasimov", a spanish group from yahoo's groups,
> > which is making a list of science fiction songs. More exactly, we are
> > making three lists: one, with lyrics; other more instrumental and
> > without lyrics (John Williams, Vangelis...); and finally, a list of
> > songs with lyrics in our language, in spanish.
>
> > Yes, we will include the "Clone's song" singing by Asimov :).
>
> > The Youtube Channel is:
> >http://es.youtube.com/user/ScienceFictionSongs
>
> > When we finish the list, we will gather them in three different
> > colections, which we will put at "youtube", "rapidshare" and "emule".
>
> > If you find it interesting, let's share your favourite science fiction
> > songs. If your song there isn't at "youtube", just upload it, or send
> > us the song's name and the name of the band. Thank you.
>
> > Sincerely,
> > capitangugle ( capitan.gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
>
> > - From Malaga, Spain
>
> > P.S. I'm sorry, mi english is bad :(
>
> As many have mentioned your English is very good.
>
> Depending on how you are defining "Science Fiction Songs",
> there are at least 100s and probably 1000s of them.
>
> Two quick examples:
> Hawkwind has done a ton of these throughout their career
> of nearly 40 years. =A0Michael Moorcock even has had performing
> and/or writing credits on some of their albums. =A0Their
> "Damnation Alley" is a version-in-song of the Zelazny
> story. =A0They've written other songs with titles taken from
> SF authors, such as "Lord of Light" and "Jack of Shadows"
> (both Zelazny) and "High Rise" (Ballard), and the lyrics for
> "Warriors" are directly taken from Moorcock's "The Eternal
> Champion". =A0The songs they've done that are merely SF-themed
> is too long to list.
>
> Mike Oldfield also wrote/performed an album called "The Songs
> of Distant Earth" which he considers a soundtrack to the Clarke
> novel of the same name. =A0(If memory serves, Clarke contributed
> liner notes to this album as well.)
>
There's Queen's song "39" from the album _A Night at the Opera_ -
Relativistic time dilation as a subject for a Folk/Rock song. Other
Queen songs ? Well there's "Flash" of course. While "Radio GaGa"
wasn't and SF song, the video included clips from Fritz Lang's movie
_Metropolis_.
Cheers,
Nigel.
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