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Scifi Music Thread - Go! (kbin.social)
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Let's get a '/m/scifi' playlist going - what are your top five songs? Bonus points for deep cuts that slap.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ll go with a list with some scifi/speculative fiction twang:

  1. Highwayman by The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Kris Kristofferson. I fly a starship across the universe divide…

  2. It Came Out of the Sky, by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Like a 50s B movie meets Dr. Strangelove.

  3. Turtles All the Way Down, Sturgill Simpson. Okay, so it’s really more of a gentle ode to psychedelics, but then again, reptile aliens made of light do cut you open and take out all your pain, so…. He also has an entire rock album about the disillusionment of musical success that he turned into a post apocalyptic “anime+”, so there’s that. And through it all he still sounds like Waylon Jennings.

  4. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, by Warren Zevon. More revenge/ghost story than scifi, but a speculative element to be sure. Also, yes, Warren is country adjacent at most, but between Roland and Werewolves of London, I wasn’t about to leave him out.

  5. The Traveling Storm, but Robert Earl Keen. History? Fantasy? Post Apocalyptic Sci-fi? I don’t know, but it’s a melodic, poetic march of a song and I love it. For a a similar feel but folding Marty Robbins into the recipe, try his earlier “The Raven and the Coyote.”