C90: songs that use space travel as a metaphor for drug use

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Give me ideas!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

david bowie - "space oddity"*
elton john - "rocket man"*

* may not be true

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

flaming lips - the abandoned hospital ship

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

― brainz, Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the julian cope catalogue.

― notfazed (notfazed), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Climb Every Mountain.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 10 April 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Across The Universe" -- The Beatles

"Mr. Tambourine Man" -- Dylan

("Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
My hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step...")

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic

"if we travel by my . . . dragonfly"

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 10 April 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Flaming Lips - They punctured my yolk

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 10 April 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

come to think of it, it's a methaphor for something, but not drug use

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 10 April 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Supernaut" by Black Sabbath

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan, surely

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ashes to ashes - bowie

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

COME ON FOLKS!!!!!!! There is one obvious answer and also one THE greatest adverts for heroin addiction ever: "Another Girl, Another Planet"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I just thought it was an interplanetary love song. Silly, naive me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

What Alex, you didn't suspect this was a about heroin:

I always flirt with death
I could kill, but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
Stand up tall and scream and shout about it

I think I'm on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you

You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
But I don't need rehabilitating

Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet

Space travels in my blood
There ain't nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
I know I can't live without it

Another girl is loving you now
Another planet, forever holding you down
Another planet

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought it was "I look ill but I don't care about it".

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm. One of my band's songs uses surfing/wiping out/sinking/drowning as a metaphor for heroin addiction, how 'bout that?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"I always thought it was "I look ill but I don't care about it".

You're right Tag, of course it is. I got the lyrics from some crappy website. You know there are times when I think Peter Perrett was a better lyricist than Lou Reed and Bob Dylan COMBINED.

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

To be perfectly honest, I never really gave the song nor the band a great deal of thought. But, yeah, I totally can see how that could be read into it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ten thousand light years from home by the stones. or whatever it's called.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Byrds-"Space Odyssey"
MC5-"Starship"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Kyuss-"Space Cadet"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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