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I'm making a mix for the act of stargazing. I meant to explore it as an activity a little bit, rather than have a dozen songs about the nighttime. So there are welcome digressions: astronomy & physics related things like the YLT and roygbiv, spaceships, werewolves, etc.

It's need more songs to fill the tape up and I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some good material I'm missing out on.

Here is what I have so far:

Astral Weeks / Van Morrison
Stay Up Late / Talking Heads
Shine / Depeche Mode
Stone's Throw from the Sky / Josephine Foster
Looking for Astronauts / The National
Baby and the Satellite / Micah P Hinson
Dead Moon Night / Dead Moon
Spaceships / The Telescopes
Center of Gravity / Yo La Tengo
Roy G Biv / Boards of Canada
Wolf Like Me / Tv on the Radio
Life on Mars? / David Bowie
Floating in the Clearest Night / Colleen
Sky Phenomena / Jens Lekman
The Night Knows Nothing at All / Six Organs of Admittance
Mars / Television

― nick gardner (toboggan factory), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Blur - 'Far Out'
Pink Floyd - 'Astronomy Domine' OR 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' (live version on Ummagumma)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

shooting star - dylan

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

kelly watch the stars - air

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Beta Band - 'Space'

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Slowdive - 'Souvlaki Space Station'

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

launch yourself - adem
planet rock - afrika bambaata
space is the place - space hog
space beatle - beta band (come on, louis)

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

shining star - earth wind + fire
moonstruck - booka shade
killing moon - echo + bunnymen

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, it was a straight fight between 'Space' and 'Space Beatle' (those Beta boys had the cheek to stick 'em both on the same album), and althouth Space Beatle is the better song (with the brilliantly devastating breakdown from chorus back into verse), if we're looking for 'astronomical songs' it's gotta come down to lyrical content.

Lyrical point of 'Space Beatle' = "I love you to pieces"
Lyrical point of 'Space' = "The Milky Way results in the crowding of extremely faint stars"

The first is a lovelorn electronic ballad, the latter is a spacey freakout and so wins THIS battle. :-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

gorkys 'starmoonsun'

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

okay okay. relax.

making planets - edan
the moon's a harsh mistress - jimmy webb
i feel space - lindstrom
3rd planet - modest mouse
the stars are projectors - modest mouse

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

which reminds me: T3H TH3RD STON3 FROM T3H SUN by J1M! H3NDR1XXXXXX

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

verve 'gravity grave' and 'star sail' and 'man called sun'

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

marumari's 'the wolves hollow' is a concept album about a war between the wolves on earth and cyberwolves from outer space.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dubstar - Stars
Yes - Starship Trooper

and we've all missed by FAR the best one:

The Flaming Lips - They Punctured My Yolk :-D

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

stars above us - saint etienne
sun vs moon - sage francis
black star - radiohead
sail to the moon - radiohead
the moon - the microphones
supermassive black hole - muse
harvest moon - neil young
pink moon - nick drake
superspace - quickspace supersport
space moth - stereolab
planet queen - t rex
salt the skies - tortoise
atmosphere - joy division

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

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that sounds pretty kick-ass, what with the cyberwolves. do the cyberwolves kick ass?

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

louis, which song has the line "you're just a turtle spinning in space"? cuz THAT one should win.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

one more astronaut - i mother earth

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

pram 'the last astronaut', 'gravity', 'dancing on a star', 'radio freak in a storm'

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's a misheard lyric from 'Liquid Bird' later on that same album (HTZ). I think the word's 'eternal', not 'a turtle'.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.playlouder.com/feature/+thebetaband/

Steve: "I tried to imagine the most pathetic creature ever made and I imagined that would be a turtle spinning in space. You've seen turtles trying to get up on the beach to lay their eggs so imagine one spinning in space. If they landed on a bit of land they'd be fucked, if they landed in the sea there'd be alright but how many planets do you know that have got sea on them? I don't know of any."

Robin: "I thought you'd read too many Terry Pratchett books."

Steve: "I've never heard of him."

Robin: "They're about a world going through space on the back of a turtle."

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

The B-52's - "There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)"

And when the tape ends, chill out to Fripp/Eno's Evening Star and The Equitorial Stars.

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

Paper Moon - preferably Nat King Cole version
Have You Seen The Stars Tonight - Jefferson Starship

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 20 August 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Spiritualized - Take Your Time
Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight
Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man
Billie Holiday - I Wished For The Moon

And many whole albums actually fit this awesomely well.

Slowdive - Pygmalion
Eno - Apollo
Flying Saucer Attack - Further (musically really fitting)
And if it wasn't the most fucking bleak thing I've ever heard and thus very rarely listened, not to even talk about recommending:
Codeine - Frigid Stars

― Antti Piirainen (Antti), Sunday, 20 August 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Sparks-In-Outer-Space-330602.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Sunday, 20 August 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

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