Space Rock: C90

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I want to make a mixtape with lots of out-there space rock stuff. I have a few tunes-"Silver machine"-Hawkwind, "Oh yeah"-Can, "3rd stone from the sun"-Jimi Hendrix, "Be careful with that axe, Eugene"-Pink Floyd, "Enter the mirror"-Les Rallizes Denudes

I need more!

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

space is the plaxe- sun ra

― anthony, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yum yum, what a fun thread. It feels like I've made one too many of these type of compilations tho. Here we go:

1) Spiritualized "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" (okay, that's a bit obvious..

2) The Flaming Lips "They Punctured My Yolk" (sounds like a rocket taking off!)

3) The Pink Floyd "Astronime Domine" (a Syd Barrett-fueled tour of the solar system)

4) David Bowie "Moonage Daydream" (mentions of 'space invaders' from 1972!!)

5) David Bowie "Life on Mars" (bombastic and insane)

6) Cornelius "God Only Knows" (note the ultra-spacey strings)

7) Mercury Rev "Endlessly" (beautiful)

8) The Pixies "Planet of Sound" (either this or "Motorway to Roswell")

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Orb's "Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld"

― Tom Hunter, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Loop - "From Centre to Wave"

― Andy K, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you are going to go with the pixies, use the edited version of 'the happening', that's just the groggiest song.. also it deals with aliens.

― tyler, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, you've gotta have a Gong track in there, haven't you. something ridiculous like... oh, they all are.

― philT, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is Space Rock anyway?

― Justin Case, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A lot of you guys' answers are more poppy and tuneful than what I usually associate with space rock. I like my space rock to make my eyes glaze over and suspend my sense of time and place, and easily recognizable structures, lyrics, and melodies tend to keep the music more firmly anchored to familiar earthly things (which I'm trying to escape when I listen to space rock). Early Labradford usually does the trick for me--you can't make this comp without "Everlast" from the 'Prazision' LP. Also, maybe some Cluster (preferably early), early Tangerine Dream, Surface of Eceon or Landing, lots of stuff on Kranky.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you want some rather further-out-there Pink Floyd, track down the boot1eg of their show in Hamburg, November 14, 1970, where they do something dubbed "Corrosion" (though it's probably just an improvisation) which gets rather crazed. Also live versions of "A Saucerful of Secrets" get pretty wild, and of course there's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".

As for Gong, how about "Isle of Everywhere"? Arguably Gong's finest track, at least instrumentally. Nearly anything from the Radio Gnome trilogy is likely to be good, especially off the live sessions ("Live Etc.", "Live at Bataclan 1973", and so on).

I feel like there are more good options, but I'm blanking out, and don't really feel like advocating stuff like Taj Mahal Travellers. On the other hand, there are a ton of good-to-great Texas bands who are dubbed space-rock -- some of them more appropriately than others. Among the best is Transona Five, for whom I proselytize too much as it is, I won't repeat myself here.

― Phil, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anything by the spacemen 3 out there...in a predictable space way i'd also say anything by sun ra as latter mentioned

― ddd, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I consider Space Rock anything that followed Spacemen 3. For the compelation Flying Saucer Attack's "Come and Close My Eyes" Jessamine's "your head is so small it's like a little light" Slipstream's "Your Presense" Spacemen 3's "Honey" Spectrum's "To the Moon and Back" Spiritualized "Home of the Brave (live)"

― A Nairn, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I consider Space Rock anything that followed Spacemen 3.

HuH? Eh? What about hawkwind? "Space Ritual" (1972) should just about fit on a c90

― Norman Phay, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Space is the Place - More Plastic
The 5th Sun - Parts Unknown

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Telstar"!!

― Tom, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic ("mother Earth is pregnant for the third time..." + that GUITAR) "the Golden Core" by Motorpsycho (only one of their many songs that would qualify as space rock stuff, i guess)

― WiLLeM, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i just remembered, i was in a spacerock "band" in the mid 90s. you can check out some old mp3s here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/83/adelaide.html

yah

― g, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the 1st bowery electric album(the blue one)

― ed, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anything by His Name is Alive

― ejad, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ditto anything by the Asuza Plane too. slow-motion hoovering....

― p^badmusik, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Amboss' from the first Ash Ra Temple alb. It's spacey and it rocks.

Oh, and the excellent Virgin comp 'Jazz Satellites' includes tons of great wigged out sci-fi 'jazz', inc. tracks by 23 Skidoo, Alice Coltrane, Gil Melle, Sun Ra, The Pop Group, Roland Kirk, and Lifetime.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I've just released my first cd, filled to the rim with heavy Space Rock. Check it out at http://users.pandora.be/maninspace

― Man In Space, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i used to be in a space rock "band" (catually i was in a couple)

if you want you can check out a couple MP3s at:

Adelaide

yeah

― g, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

heavy space sounds if you can find it : "Assassins of Silence/Hundred Watt Violence" - Hawkwind covers by Temple of Bon Matin, The Mike Gunn, F/i, Voco Kesh, New Bomb Turks, Monoshock, etc...whole record's good

― , Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've heard a track off that. "Time you left" by Brainbombs. It's good.

― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Windy & Carl, Experimental Audio Research, and maybe some really creepy Bowie/Eno instrumentals? From "Low", say.

― geeta, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

bump

― Michael B, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Weird. My idea of space rock has more to do with stuff like Monster Magnet's "Tab", Ufomammut, F/I, Space Ritual, etc. Thick, repetitive riff goo buried in effects and noise.

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Plus propulsive. It can't just be a throbbing mass (Skullflower), it has to feel like you're actually hurtling through teh Jack Kirby drug cosmos. That's why the Lemmy-era Hawkwind stuff defines it for me.

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

Farflung "Don't Forget to Breathe"

― Mr. Hal Jam, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

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