Songs *about* Laika

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Was listening to the Divine Comedy's last this morning, and noticed that Hannon references Laika not only in "Laika's Theme", but in the titular "Absent Friends". Coincidentally, had an Aluminum Group album in today's listening pile, and remembered that "Oxygen" references Laika, too. ("There's a spacecraft full of dog orbiting both of us / and the oxygen has left its ship long ago").

Any other songs? Enough to make a compilation? Assuming Laika, the band, has to have one song in honor of the dog.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

'the space dog lives' by pushkin.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

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― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.computing.edu.au/~bvk/astronomy/3rdGrade/lowRes/03.jpg

Click the link above if you can't read this one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire, Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/dogs/

would suggest there were a few space dogs.

a quick google turns up 'Space Dog' by tori amos but, to be honest, that could be about anything judging by the lyrics.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I checked AllMusic and found a handful of tracks w/ Laika in the title.

Max Richter - Laika's Journey (Yahoo! ILM turned me on to Max's _The Blue Notebooks_, which I love, so now I have another reason to hunt down his _Memoryhouse_ cd.)

Cardigans, Damon & Naomi, Ghost 7, Moxy Fruvous, Mecano, Ira Stein, Those Norweigans, Walnut Grove Band all have songs titled "Laika".

El Nino has a track called "Dog, Laika" and Laika & the Cosmonauts have "C'mon, Do the Laika".

So it's songs like the first suggestion (thanks!) that don't reference Laika by name that will fill out a mix disc.

And now I've got cover art. Thanks, Mark.

Ah, Arcade Fire! I knew there was another song I had that referenced Laika. Excellent!

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Moxy Fruvous?

http://www.fruvous.com/barglyr.html#laika

"When I was 3, my mother said to me
Eat up your greens and say your grace
While on TV they put a dog in space
And left her there... you shoulda seen her face"

that's disturbing. the whole thing is tbh.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming Laika, the band, has to have one song in honor of the dog.

yes: there was a little song at the end of their first album about her. very touching, IIRC.

one of my iPods is called laika. why? i can't remember. other than the fact that all three of my iPods have had russian names.

there's a huge list of songs here on wikipedia ... i'm sure there's another that i really like, but i can't for the life of me recall what it is. fuck, that's going to bug me now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.answers.com/topic/laika#Music lists a few

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

i am the same as mr fiendish in thinking there's one i know that isn't listed. Looper?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(why?)

think i have it
Damon And Naomi: Laika (from More Sad Hits)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

god damnit i didn't mean at all to keep posting the same image.
if a mod wants to kill those posts, feel free.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Looper has "Dave the Moon Man", which might come in handy if I need to cheat to a 'space' theme to fill out a disc.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Camper Van Beethoven "The Day Lassie Went to the Moon"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. Just searched the local library database and put Cracker on hold. No Damon & Naomi, though - odd for a Seattle library not to have all the SubPop discs.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Howbout that fictional "Dogs In Space" band and their song of the same namee: Was that on topic? (Never heard/seen it myself.)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming Laika, the band, has to have one song in honor of the dog.
Er, can't remember one, but at the end of the Sounds of the Satellites CD there's a "hidden track" with about a minute's worth of an old news report about the dog.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

yes, we've done that one :)

Looper has "Dave the Moon Man", which might come in handy if I need to cheat to a 'space' theme to fill out a disc

based, so my mate david says, on him. he is actually sadly mistaken, but we let him think it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

L. Kage's album Brazilliant has a heart-rending song called "Space Dog" which is about Laika ... fantastic tune. Don't have it with me but if you need an mp3 just e-mail.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

-"Moxy Fruvous?"

Aye, Canadian band circa 1990ish-1999 (dates could be wrong?) they do sort of folky canadian/vocal harmonies. Check them out, the album to get is "Bargainville" - usually find it on eBay for $10-15 (£7-10).

And yes, a song called Laika...

― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Saturday, 15 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

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