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Copyright Rich Kulawiec 1997,2000.

[ January 2000 update: currently being rewritten based on accumulated
feedback. ]

This is the SF-in-music list.  It isn't comprehensive, but
it does try to cover rock, jazz, folk, classical and electronic music.
Most of the items listed here fall pretty well into these categories.
There is also a list of SF-based operas, which was assembled by
Evelyn C. Leeper and is reproduced here with permission.  I've attempted
to list everybody who helped in the large (and growing) montage at the end.

SF can stand for whatever you'd like it to; science fiction, science fantasy,
speculative fiction, you pick it.  My personal definition is rather broad,
which, coupled with the copious contributions of those of you on the
various networks, accounts for the length of this list.

One thing that I've changed since the last revision: I'm now listing
purely instrumental pieces along with everything else, rather than
bundling them at the end.  This is mostly due to the large number
of updates that folks have sent in which list instrumental pieces.
I guess we'll see how it goes.

I'm not really interested in adding filk or novelty records to this list;
not that I have anything against them, but they would probably be
more appropriate on another list.

In most cases, I've relied on the contributions that have been sent in;
in others, I've verified spellings and attributions.  Thus, the accuracy
of the information is uneven; so be it.  Corrections (VIA MAIL ONLY)
are quite welcome, as are additions.  I will be maintaining this list
and re-sending it periodically.

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10 CC:
Old Mister Time (from the album "Bloody Tourists") is
a story about an old man (living in a broken shack on the railway)
who is collecting junk to build a time-machine;
eventually he makes it work and disappears.

1919:
Has an EP "Machine".

801
Track "East of Asteroid".  (This track was originally named
"Mummy was an asteroid, daddy was a small non-stick kitchen utensil". 
The track originally appeared on the "Mainstream" album by Phil Manzanera's
earlier group Quiet Sun.) See also Eno, Brian.

AC/DC:
"Who Made Who" from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack.

Acen:
Has a song called "Trip II the Moon (The Darkside)".

Adam Ant:
"Ants Invasion" (elsewhere reported as "Forbidden Zone")
from "Kings of the Wild Frontier" is about the invasion of the earth by ants.

Adolphson & Falk:
This Swedish band had a hit with "Control is Flashing Blue", a song
about how computers/sensors say everything is okay, but something
is crawling in the shadows. Most of their albums have a very dominant
SF theme. One example is 'Med Rymden I Blodet' (With Space In The Blood).
(In the same sense that one might say that a family with a seafaring
tradition "has the sea in their blood").

After the Fire:
"Suspended Animation" is either about weightlessness or genuine
suspended animation, and "Starflight" describes interstellar flight.

Alan Parsons Project:
Albums "I, Robot" (but not based on Asimov) and "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination (Poe).  The title track from "Ammonia Avenue" is about a
world destroyed by pollution.  "Eye in the Sky" has the title track "Sirius".  "Eye in the Sky" has the title track "Sirius".

Alarm, The:
"The Stand" -- about Stephen King's "The Stand".

Alice Cooper:
On "School's Out", the words "Klaatu barada nikto" occur in background
vocals near the end of "My Stars".  The album "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell"
is a fantasy.  "Clones (We're All)" appears on "Alice Cooper '80: Flush
the Fashion"; it's about a collection of clones who revel against their
situation. He also refers to "the twilight zone" in "The Quiet Room"
from "From the Inside" and in "Wish You Were Here" from "...Goes to Hell".
Also, check out "BB on Mars" from "Pretties for You".
Finally, "No Baloney Homo Sapiens" from "Zipper Catches Skin" is about
a human challenege to potential marauding aliens.

Alien:
Early '80's post-disco group whose album "Sons of the Universe" has SF
themes running all through it.

Alexander, Heather:
Album "Wanderlust".

Alphaville:
The album "Afternoons in Utopia" include tracks such as "Afternoons
in Utopia", "20th Century" and "Lady Bright" (which contains an old
rhyming couplet about generally relativity).  See also "For a Million"
of "Breathtaking Blue", with its reference to dancing under an alien sun.

Ambrosia:
"Nice, Nice, Very Nice" is from the 53rd Calypso of Bokonon from
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.  Also "Time Waits for no One"; both
are on "Ambrosia", which also contains a reading of Jabberwocky.
Ambrosia is probably known to most readers for their mid-70's
hit "Holdin' On to Yesterday".

America:
"Sandman" refers to Nolan's "Logan's Run."

Bhatia, Amin:

Shawn Bird sent along this great writeup on Amin Bhatia:

	Amin now composes film and television scores in Toronto, Canada.
	Interstellar Suite is a soundtrack without a film, but it is easy
	to follow the gist of the story from the song titles.  Since 1987
	when the album first came out (1987) it has been used in star shows
	at several planetariums, including the Calgary (Alberta) Planetarium
	and the MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver, BC.  Amin's work tends
	to feature lush, orchestral sounds, all created by synthesizer, and
	he masters all of the 'instruments' himself. He did not use any
	digital samplings of any instruments in Int. Suite. You can hear
	more of Amin's work in movies such as Iron Eagle 2, Cafe Romeo,
	and John Woo's Once a Thief; as well as television shows like
	Ray Bradbury Theatre, Free Willy and Tales of the Cryptkeeper.
	Thankfully, after a decade wait, another album is in production;
	hopefully it won't be more than a couple of years away.

Amon Duul II:
Some sf-oriented material; German band from the mid-seventies.
Two of their albums are "Made in Germany" and "Vive La Trance".

Amos, Tori:
"Tear in Your Hand" contains the line "If you need me,
me and Neil are hanging out with the Dream King."  Neil Gaiman is the
creator of "Sandman", and is apparently a good friend of Tori's.
(Side note: The "Sandman" issue "Brief Lives" includes
some of the lyrics from that song.  Tori also wrote the introduction
to the "Death: High Cost of Living" trade paperback.)  And the song
"Happy Phantom" is about traipsing around the world after one is dead.
Also see "Space Dog".

Anderson, Ian:
Vocalist from Jethro Tull.  His 1983 LP, "Walk Into Light" contains a
notable SF-related track, "User Friendly".

Anderson, Jon:
Vocalist from Yes.  Solo album, "Olias of Sunhillow", from 1976.
"Olympia" from "Animation" seems to discuss a futuristic world;
"Boundaries" from the same album may be about the aftermath of a future war.

Anderson, Laurie:
Surrealism & sf-type music.  Try "O Superman" and "Language is a
Virus From Outer Space", which I seem to recall is derived from
Burroughs (William S., that is).   Anderson has released several
works in collaboration/cooperation with Burroughs:

	"You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With" 
	(This one is not very easy to find) (Laurie, William, and one other
	artist all contribute sections of this, but there is no tie between
	the sections; more like an anthology than a collaboration in effect.)

	"Home Of The Brave" (soundtrack from her movie "Home Of The Brave",
	which included Burroughs in person);

	"Sharkey's Night" (the album companion to "Home Of The Brave" movie;
	the movie's -artistic- companion, rather than its soundtrack)
	(Burroughs speaks once or twice)

Her '94 album "Bright Red" featured "Same Time Tomorrow", about machines
and recorded experience, and the VR sendup "The Puppet Motel".

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe:
(With bassist Chris Squire, these are the five core musicians of Yes.)
The eponymous album includes "Fist of Fire", a song about some sort
of acension after death, and "Birthright", about British atomic testing
carried out at Maralinga during the 50's and early 60's, which has
left many Aboriginal sacred sites and traditional lands uninhabitable.

Android Sisters, The:
"Songs of Electronic Despair".

Androids of MU:
A punk band that never got anywhere; their album "Blood Robots"
includes a track called "Lost in Space".

Ange:
(French progressive group) "Au-dela du delire" is a time-travel story.

Angel Witch:
New wave of British heavy metal band.  Their first LP "AngelWitch" contains the
song "Atlantis" (about... you guessed it...) - There are also other songs
like "White Witch", "Sorcerers" and "Gorgon".

Ant, Adam:
"Apollo 9" is about a trip to the moon.

Anthrax:
The album "Among the Living" contains "I Am the Law" (about Judge Dredd,
the 2000 AD hero) and "Among the Living" (about the antihero of Stephen
King's "The Stand").

Anvil:
"Mothra", about the monster from the "Godzilla" movies.

Aphrodite's Child:
The album "666" is the veritable armageddon waltz; it is a musical
retelling of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelations).  Vangelis was
in this band back then.

Apocrypha:
"West World" is presumably about the film.

April Wine:
A heavy metal band who indulge in fantasy imagery; note "The Whole
World's Goin' Crazy" and its references to Lewis Caroll.  Along
with Nektar and Pavlov's Dog, cult heroes in the St. Louis area
thanks to twenty years of airplay on KSHE-FM.

Archer, Tasmin:
Her first hit, "Sleeping Satellite" (from her album "Great
Expectations") is a lament for the end of the Apollo programme.
[ Damn...I thought it was about the end of a love affair! ---Rsk ]

Art of Noise:
"Paranoimia" features Max Headroom.

Asia:
"After the War", from "Astra" refers to post-WW III era.
"Wildest Dreams", from the first album, might also be about a war that
is yet to happen.  "Sole Survivor", also from the first album, seems
to be in a similar vein.

Atlantics:
An Australian instrumental band from the early 1960s, had popular singles
entitled "Moon Man" and "War of the Worlds."  The latter is 
amazing for its evocative sound effects.

Atomic Rooster:
(one of the early heavy metal bands) "Lost in Space".  Organ player Vincent Crane
also was with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

Automatic Man:
Two albums of SF-ish mystic stuff; notable track "I.T.D."
(Interstellar Tracking Device).

Avatar:
Savatage (already in this list) released a 7" EP under the name Avatar before
they became Savatage.  Two of the three tracks were "City beneath the surface"
and "Sirens".

B-52's:
"Planet Claire", and "53 Miles West of Venus" from "Wild Planet".
The title track from "Cosmic Thing" has aliens shaking their, uh, cosmic thing.
The song "Topaz" is a depiction of a future Utopian earth.
Also see the soundtrack to "Earth Girls Are Easy".

B.A.L.L:
"Little Tex in Trouble" and "Little Tex's Prelude" from "Trouble Doll"
are about a cowboy who sees his cattle being taken by aliens.

The Bags:
"September", from the album "Night of the Corn People", is about
a love affair between astronauts.  "L. Frank Baum" is a tribute to the
Wizard of Oz books.

Ball, Edward:
Releases under many names, including Teenage Film Stars, The Times and
The Missing Scientists.  Has done several songs with references to "The
Prisoner" including "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape".

Banks, Tony:
See "Man of Spells" from "Fugitive".

Barbarella:
Their album "The Art of Dance" consists only of songs about
Barbarella and containing samples from the film Barbarella.

Barenaked Ladies:
Another Canadian Band, with a song called "This is me in Grade 9", with the lines:
     "Some of my friends are crazy and the others are depressed,
      None of them can help me study for my math test.
      I got into the classroom and my knowledge was gone;
      I guess I should have studied 'stead of watching Wrath of Khan."

Batt, Mike:
His album "Zero Zero" (released 1982, also a music video) features an
Orwell-like state where a man accidentally falls in love despite the
fact that emotions are wiped out in that society.  Some brain surgery
takes care of the problem.  The story concludes with a female neuro
surgeon being 'infected' with the emotion of love as well.  The album
"The Hunting of the Snark" (1987) features Batt's interpretation of
Lewis Carroll's work. 

Bauhaus:
Did a cover of "Ziggy Stardust", and the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead",
which opens the film "The Hunger" (they perform in it, too).  Their lyrics
are obscure enough so that most of their songs can be taken for SF - or
anything else, for that matter.  They broke up in '83. 3 members became
Love and Rockets, the other, Peter Murphy, got a solo career.
The song "Silent Hedges", which appears on the LP "The Sky's Gone Out"
doesn't seem to make a lot of sense at first -- until you realize that
the lyrics are a pastiche of phrases from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World",
at which point it becomes much clearer.

Be Bop Deluxe:
Tracks include "Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus" (vague reminiscences
about '50s British SF-comics, also thought to be poking a little fun
at Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) and "Life In The Air Age" (a time
traveller stranded in a Gernsbackian future).  Also see
"The Dangerous Stranger from the Highway to the End of Time" on "Modern Music".

Beatles:
The "Yellow Submarine" movie and accompanying soundtrack probably deserve
a mention as an example of an interesting animated fantasy experiment.
It's also been pointed out that there are a few science fiction
allusions in the film: during the "When I'm Sixty-Four" sequence,
they seemed to be getting involved in time-space continuum warps,
and they talk about "holes", especially the one Ringo kept in his pocket.

Bedford, David:
Albums include "Star's End"; could this be a reference to Asimov's
Foundation series ("Star's End", "Tazenda")?
He also wrote a sort of Rock Opera, "Rigel 9", to text by
Ursula le Guin. And "The Dark Nebula" to words by Arthur C Clark.
Another album: "The Odyssey".

The Bee Gees:
"Edge of the Universe" is a space travel/love song
which first appeared as a track on the "Main Course" LP in 1975.
Two years latter was included as part of the "Here at Last .. Live"
album.  The live version was released as a single and was the last
Top 40 hit for the Bee Gees before their "Saturday Night Fever"
releases and disco fame.

Beggars Opera:
"Time Machine" (from the album "Waters Of Change", 1971).   A song about
escaping from nowadays life in a time machine and finding a better place/time.

Belew, Adrian:
"Phone Call from the Moon", as well as "Looking For a UFO" from "Young
Lions" - a message of hope that aliens will come and save us
from destroying ourselves. The song "The Momur" from "Lone Rhinoceros"
tells the story of a man who's wife turns into a "momur" (a critic);
probably not really science fiction.

The Beloved:
British conglomeration group, dreamy synth music. Released album "Conscience":
"Sweet Harmony", optimistically Utopian; "Outerspace Girl", love separated by
space (well done, albeit using tired sf metaphors); "Dream On", another of the
many songs about, well, dreams.

Benatar, Pat:
"My Clone Sleeps Alone".

The Bevis Frond:
Lots of SF and fantasy imagery, eg. "The Miskatonic Variations" from
"The Auntie Winnie Album".

Big Country:
Some songs have a magical theme, but the most outstanding is "The
Seer" from the album by the same name, about a woman who foretells the Roman
invasion of Scotland.

Bjork:
Former singer for the Sugarcubes.  Her '95 album "Post" includes "The
Modern Things", which suggests that all of today's modern inventions have
simply been waiting for us, inside a mountain...

Black, Frank:
Frank Black is Black Francis from the Pixies.   Two solo albums, "Frank
Black" and "Teenager of the Year" with lots of SF references.  On the
first, "Parry the Wind High, Low" which is about a UFO/Trekkies
convention and alien implants; "Places Named After Numbers" references
black holes; "Old Black Dawning" talks about space colonization..  On the
second, "Whatever Happened to Pong?" is about the classic video game and talks
about delivering it to H.G. Wells; "Space is Gonna do me Good" is about
colonization; "Pie in the Sky" is about travelling to the sun.
"Two Spaces" and "Place Named After Numbers" are about spacewalking
and teleporting.  Also, "Ole Mullholand" may contain Bradbury references,
and "Calistan" may be about a post-apocalyptic LA (talks about LA becoming
a tar pit again).

Black Sabbath:
Sort of.  Tends to black magic et. al.  See "Paranoid" for
"Iron Man" (mechanical golem?), "Plant Caravan" and "Electric Funeral"
(nuclear war?);"Black Sabbath" (1st LP) for demented ravings like
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Lovecraft).  "Heaven and Hell" is all fantasy.
Some speculation that "Iron Man" refers to the comic book hero (paraplegic
w/special iron alloy suit and powers far beyond...) The song "Computer God",
from "Dehumanizer" concerns a sinister cyberpunk-like virtual reality.
"Tyr" (released 1990) features a lot of Norse mythology.

Blake, Tim:
Electronic New Age.  Albums "Crystal Machine", "Blake's New Jerusalem",
both SF.  Was in Hawkwind 1979-80, and Gong 1972-1975.

Blenner, Serge:
Lotsa instrumental stuff, e.g.  "Musique Esthetique", "Equateur",
"Cosmos", "Liberation".  (Maybe he should be listed with the other
instrumental artists, though for example the titles of the album
"Cosmos" include for example "Espace", "Dans l'universe", "Les
Centaures", "La voie celeste"... )

Blind Guardian:
A German heavy metal band with at least one album containing lots of SF&F
stuff: "Tales of the Twilight World", released 1990.  Tracks include:
"Traveller in Time" (about Dune), "Lord of the Rings",
"Tommyknockers", "Altair 4", etc.

Blitzkrieg:
The song "Blitzkrieg" talks about aliens arriving and some sort of war.
Song was covered by Metallica.

Blondie:
SF themes in some songs: e.g. the "Man from Mars" in "Rapture";
also "Dragonfly" from "The Hunter", which is a half-spoken half-sung
description of a race between spaceships that uses a collage of
sf buzzwords.  See also "The Attack of the Giant Ants".
Debbie Harry (lead singer) and Chris Stein (lead guitar) sing in the
animated SF/fantasy movie _Rock and Rule_ (along with Lou Reed and Iggy Pop).

Blue Oyster Cult:
Many tracks on many albums with SF themes; "Veteran of the Psychic
Wars" (which also was on the "Heavy Metal" soundtrack; the narrator
is Corum, of Moorcock's "Chronicles of Corum") from "Fire of
Unknown Origin", "E.T.I.", "The Subhuman", "Flaming Telepaths" and most
of the rest of the LP's "Tyranny and Mutation" and "Secret Treaties".
Later work includes "Godzilla" (from "Spectres" and "Some Enchanted
Evening"), which about our favorite Tokyo-bashing reptile; "Monsters"
(from "Cultosaurus Erectus"), which is about a small group of people
who escape a ravaged Earth but wind up battling each other over one of
the women; "Black Blade" (from "Cultosaurus Erectus" and "E.T. Live",
a song done with Michael Moorcock; the nararator is Elric, from
his Elric saga) "Nosferatu" (from "Spectres"), which is a
retelling of the Dracula story; "Vengeance (The Pact)" (from "Fire
of Unknown Origin), which retells the "Taarna" segment from the movie
"Heavy Metal"; and "Sole Survivor" (also from "Fire..."), tells the
story of the last man alive on earth, who runs away when aliens come to
rescue him.  The LP "Imaginos" tells the story of a sorcerer attempting
to release the demonic other-worldly beings called "Les Invisibles".
"The Great Sun Jester" from "Mirrors" is based on the novel
"The Fireclown" by Michael Moorcock (also released as "The Winds
of Limbo"). "Joan Crawford" from "Fire..." might be SF depending
on how you feel about wire hangers.  Incidentally, a couple of
Karl Edward Wagner's "Kane" series contain direct references to
the BOC song "Astronomy" (from "Secret Treaties"); in particular,
there's a chapter entitled "On the Origin of Storms".  "Take Me Away"
(from "The Revolution by Night") is about a guy who wants to go visit aliens.

Boiled in Lead:
Minneapolis-based folk-rock-world outfit.  They record some
folk/fantasy-sounding numbers.  Their latest album, Antler Dance,
includes some songs co-written by SF author Steven Brust (or is it Stephen?).
There's also a "soundtrack" that they've released which is for
the Steven Brust/Megan Lindholm novel "The Gypsy".

Boney M.:
"Night Flight to Venus" (title track of LP), and "Steppenwolf",
a werewolf story, on the same LP.

Bone, Richard:
Early 80's synth-pop musician, has an LP called "Brave Tales" which 
contains songs like "Prelude to Mothra", "Alien Girl" and "Mutant Wisdom".

Bonzo Dog DooDah Band:
"Urban Spaceman" from "Tadpoles" and "There's a Monster Coming" from "Gorilla".

Boom Crash Opera:
Australian band whose song "The Best Thing" from "Look! Listen!"
describes an astronaut's experiences in flight.

Bored Games:
Song "Joe 90".  Classic Kiwi underground pop.
This schoolboy band was one of the early proponents of the "Dunedin Sound"
associated with the Flying Nun label, and band members went on to play
in virtually every important Dunedin band, including the Chills,
the Verlaines, the Clean, Straightjacket Fits etc.

Boston:
The LP "Third Stage" has a track emulating a spaceship take-off.
(All three of their album covers tell the story of the Guitar Spaceship
and its quest for a new home.)

Bow Wow Wow:
Punk.  "I want my baby on Mars", "Giant sized baby thing!".

Bowie, David:
"Space Oddity" (most emphatically NOT "Major Tom") discusses eerie
experiences in orbit.  Also has a film, "The Man who Fell to Earth".
See also "Diamond Dogs" (mutated life on earth after the bomb)
and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", about a rock band on
an earth with five years left; this LP also contains "Five Years"
and "Starman".  From "Hunky Dory", see "Life on Mars", and from "Station
to Station", see "TVC15".  See also "Ashes to Ashes", "Memory of a
Free Festival", and "1984".  Also, "Cat People (Putting out the Fire)"
from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie.  His collaboration
with the Sales Brothers (Tin Machine), released an album with some
SF-oriented tracks, such as "Tin Machine", "Video Crime", and "I Can't Read".

--- Some commentary on Bowie...

Bowie, David:
A lot of his albums contain at least a few sf songs.  The major ones are:
"Space Oddity", the title track (often mistakenly referred to as "Major Tom")
was apparently played on the BBC broadcast of Neil Armstrong's moon walk;
"The Man Who Sold the World"; "Hunky Dory" which contains 'Life on Mars';
"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", the first
side has sf songs, the second is about a rock band whose lead singer self-
destructs (presumably the band which sang the first side); "AladdinSane";
"Diamond Dogs", a sort of Orwellian '1984' album which contains the song
'1984' and other songs about big brother; "Heroes", "Scary Monsters (and
super creeps)" which contains the title track and 'Ashes to Ashes', a
followup to 'Space Oddity'. Also, 'Cat People (Putting out the Fire)'
(tenuosly sf) from "Let's Dance", the title song to the movie of the same
name.  "Tonight" contains a song, 'Loving the Alien" and his latest
album, "Never Let Me Down", has another.  (But "Loving the Alien" is
apparently addressed to the Christians and Moslems meeting each other
at the time of the Crusades, and is a plea for understanding.)
"Station to Station" was originally written, but not used, as the soundtrack to one
of his films, "The Man who Fell to Earth", a classic about an alien stranded on earth.
Bowie has done a couple of other sf films, "The Hunger", about vampires, and
"Labyrinth", where he plays the goblin king who has kidnapped a young girl's baby
brother after she brattishly announces, "I wish the goblins would take him away!"

	-- Scott Butler
---

Note that "Diamond Dogs" started as a "1984" project, but the Orwell Estate
denied permission, so the project mutated into "...Dogs".

Bragg, Billy:
His song "New England" (covered by Kirsty MacCol) talks about wishing
on falling stars...except they're satellites.

Breeders:
"Metal Man" about a guy living at 2000 degrees.

Brickell, Edie and the New Bohemians:
The title track from "Ghost of a Dog" is, uh, well, about the ghost of a dog.

Brightman, Sarah
"I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper", "Love In A U.F.O.", and
"The Love Crusader" (not quite sf, but has many snips of supposed
intergalactic radio conversations, etc.) and "Lost in Space"
are all from a 1979 album.

Broderna Brothers:
Swedish band, with an song "Karlek i rymden" ("Love in Space") about
the boyfriend of a female astronaut.

Brown, Arthur:
In the late sixties, "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" had a big hit
with "Fire".  In the early 70's (1970-72), Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come
released three albums, all on Voiceprint: "Galactic Zoo Dossier",
"Kingdom Come", and "Journey".  There's also a double LP entitled "The Lost Ears"
which is a "best of" compilation.  The track "Time Captives" is from
"Journey" (a shorter version appears on "The Lost Ears"); it's
about a group of people who have crashed their timeship.
In 1993, he recorded a live CD "Order From Chaos (Live 1993)" where the
medley "Time Captains" contains parts of tracks for all three of these albums.
Another album "Strangelands" (CD on Reckless Records) contains sessions that
fill the 1969-1970 gap in A. B.'s recorded career. It does contain a few SF refs.

Brown, Julie:
"Earth Girls are Easy". :-)

Brownsville Station:
"The Martian Boogie" was a 1977 single about an alien who learns to
rock n' roll.  The song was sort of a minor cult classic for this 
band in the midwest as they tried to follow-up on their "Smokin' in
the Boy's Room" success.  The single was issued on the Private Stock label.
(Your editor would like to mention that he saw Brownsville Station and
Styx on a double bill in a converted skating rink outside St. Louis around
1975 or so...it was an interesting pairing, to say the least. ---Rsk )

Bruford:
"One of a Kind" includes "Fainting in Coils", with words taken
from "Alice in Wonderland".

Buckner and Garcia:
"Hyperspace", "Defender".  (These *are* the guys that did
that awful Pacman song.)

Buffett, Jimmy:
Yes, parrotheads, he occasionally references SF: "Could you beam me
somewhere Mr. Scott" from "Boat Drinks", "Phasers on stun" from "When
Salome Plays the Drums", "Stanley Kubrick, and his buddy HAL,
now don't look that abstract" and "Captain's log, stardate, 2000 and somethin"
from "Fruitcakes".

Buggles, The:
The LP "Age of Plastic" contains many SF themes;for instance, the title
song has the lines "They send the Heart Police to put you under
cardiac arrest" (1984 meets Harlan Ellison's Ticktockman?) Also "I Love
You, Miss Robot".  See also "Johnny on the Monorail".  See also
"Adventures in Modern Recording", with SF tracks such as "Vermillion Sands",
"Inner City", "Rainbow Warrior", and maybe "On TV".
For trivia fans: "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video shown
on MTV.

Bunnydrums:
"PKD", for Phillip K. Dick.

Burnett, T-Bone:
"We Are Humans From Earth" from the soundtrack of "Until the End of
the World".

William S. Burroughs:
In addition to the spoken-word album "Dead City Radio", he collaborated
with the Disposable Heroes Of Hip-Hoprisy on "Spare Ass Annie" and wrote
the libretto to Robert Wilson & Tom Waits' opera "The Black Rider".  The
"Black Rider" CD consists of songs based on the opera; Burroughs sings on
"'Tain't No Sin".  Did a version of "Words Of Advice" with Material on
their "Hallucination Engine" CD.  See also Laurie Anderson.

Bush, Kate:
"Breathing", about breathing the fallout following a nuclear blast, (supposed
to be sung by an unborn child) is from "Never For Ever", and "Experiment IV"
from "The Whole Story" about designing a sound that can kill.
"Cloudbusting" is about a boy (played by Kate in the video) whose father
builds a rain-making machine and is kidnapped by the government.

	(This song was inspired by Peter Reich's "The Book of Dreams".
	The lines "I hid my Yo-yo/In the garden/
		what made it special/made it dangerous"
	is a reference to the fact that the rainmaking energy was inhibited
	by radiation, so Peter's father made him throw away his yo-yo.
	Peter buried it in the garden instead.  -- Theo O'Neal)

	(Peter Reich's father, Wilhelm Reich, was actually a 'scientist'
	(regard the quotes) who did research in 'orgone energy'. Don't ask
	me seriously what 'orgone energy' should be, but one of it's
	abilities should have been to make it rain. The story
	behind that is not sci-fi at all, it is true life (more or less).
	Wilhelm Reich was actually arrested by the government and died in
	prison, something the nine (or so) year old Peter couldn't comprehend
	as a child. Peter later wrote 'a book of dreams' to cope with that
	experience. -- Ulrich Grepel )

See also "Hammer Horror" from "Lionheart", a throwback to the
horror films of the 60's.  "Deeper Understanding" from "The Sensual
World" is about computer addiction. "Hello Earth" from "Hounds of Love"
refers to an astronaut viewing the earth from his spaceship.
KB also covered Elton John's "Rocket Man".

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