Music of Fenspace?

[Cobalt Greywalker]

Amoung the many thoughts bouncing around my head, one decided to tap me on the shoulder. Whereupon I got mugged by a lot.
1) Do the Blue Blazers actually perform? Buckaroo likes his music you know...
2) Are there any bands in Fenspace?
3) Have any 'Dane-side bands toured Fenspace?
4) Should we make a soundtrack for Fenspace ala Undocumented Features? (I ask because I recently picked up the latest Darren Hayes album, and there are two songs back-to-back that to my mind exemplify different perceptions of The Professor.)

[Ebony]

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1) Do the Blue Blazers actually perform? Buckaroo likes his music you know...

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As it says in the quirks of the WW1, the Blazers are working on it. The problem is that not all of them are musically inclined. J. is a trained musician, playing lead and bass guitar, and songwriter. Blackstone is more of a deejay, specializing in mixing and cutting tracks, but he also plays keyboard and noodles a little on acoustic guitar. Other Blazers do play, but at this point, there is no official BBI band. Buckaroo is encouraging them, though. It's a matter of time.

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3) Have any 'Dane-side bands toured Fenspace?

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Referencing the comment about Brian May getting his Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Buckaroo would be glad to help Paul Rogers and Queen get up out of the Really Real World and tour for the fen. Given the influences among the fen, I bet he'd get Paul to ask his kids if they wanted to come along.
(Paul Rogers, formerly of Bad Company and Free, has been singing lead for Queen for a few years. His son and daughter are the lead vocalists for Boa, the band that composed the opening them to "Serial Experiment Lain.")Ebony the Black Dragon
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[M Fnord]

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4) Should we make a soundtrack for Fenspace ala Undocumented Features? (I ask because I recently picked up the latest Darren Hayes album, and there are two songs back-to-back that to my mind exemplify different perceptions of The Professor.)

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If the rest of y'all are interested, I'm game. Start listing tracks and we'll wing it from there.---
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[Norgarth]

Well for a start, there's Oingo Boingo's 'Weird Science'. __________________
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[Foxboy]

Satriani's "Surfing With the Alien" album [Wave Convoy for most of it, but "Hill of the Skull" puts me in mind of some Boskone installations]
Various Gilbert and Sullivan overtures, and if it only existed, a set of G&S style remixes of various Sci-Fi themes. {I'm picturing a G&S arrangement of the Star Trek TNG theme and Voyager} Obviously for Cap'n Corcoran. I fully expect him to have a moment where he ponders throwing a Boskone into the Catgirl pods while singing "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" from The Mikado
"Where My Heart Will Take Me [Star Trek: Enterprise theme]"
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[robkelk]

Space Truckin', Deep Purple. (Not my suggestion - ClassicDrogn suggested it in this thread.) The entrepenurial spirit, in space...
Asu e no Brilliant Road (a.k.a. "the Stellvia theme"), angela. Uplifting, optimistic, and fast-paced, just like Fenspace. (Not being recommended just becasue of my character's space station, really... )
Star Trekkin', The Firm. The definitive Fenspace Trekkie song.
Banned from Argo, Leslie Fish. The definitive Fenspace anti-Trekkie song. (But use one of the shorter versions, please...)

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[Kokuten]

The Abyss Theme
No, really.
It's the perfect music for the rise of Grover's Corners, IMO.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[Bob Schroeck]

Ooooh, yeah. Certainly beats my thought to use the Green Acres theme.

-- Bob
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[ECSNorway]

There are a bunch of filk-singers who've already started writing the music, actually. Look up Duane Elms, Leslie Fish, and more...
Elms' We're Going Back is possibly one of my favorite songs ever.
It was late in '69
That we landed that first time
Man I still remember how it felt to see it
And it wasn't that long then
Till we were on the moon again
And you could feel yourself beginning to believe it
Then once more, and then again
We pushed out the reach of man
Each time up another set of hero's footprints
But those short trips were all we made
Somehow our dream it got waylaid
And not a person live or dead has been up there since
For what was so hard won has been abandoned
Our journey to the stars got off its track
We've gotta make it plain
We'll no more play this waiting game
We're goin' back, I swear to God, we're goin' back

A page of space filk--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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[Ebony]

"The Banzai March" from the end credits of the movie, naturally.
"Rocket 88" by Sam Phillips. This song is cited as the "first rock 'n' roll song" and is played by Billy Vera (aka Pinky Carruthers) and the Beaters in the movie.
"Radar Rider" by Riggs. From the Heavy Metal soundtrack. Pretty much the rest of the soundtrack as well.
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[ECSNorway]

High Frontier
Columbia'
No Quarter
Outward Bound
Via Astra]
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R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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[Bob Schroeck]

Drops of Jupiter by Train.

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[Kokuten]

Journey - Higher Place
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (AKA that damn song with the damn title)
Brownsville Station - The Martian Boogie (Dr. Demento's 25th Anniversary Collection Disc 1)
Bonzo Dog Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman (this track rocks SO FREAKING HARD)(Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection, Disc 2)
MP3 Here
Tom Petty - Won't Back Down
Thievery Corporation - The Karminsky Experience Inc - Exploration
BT - Satellite
Nina Simone - Fly Me To The Moon
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon
Sonic The Hedgehog Theme - Stardust
Ren & Stimpy - I'm gonna be a monkey.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[M Fnord]

Most of this is orchestral - blame my love for soundtracks.
James Horner - "All Systems Go"/The Launch (Apollo 13)
John Williams - The Shuttle (Space Camp)
(Did you know John Williams wrote the score for Space Camp? And that it's pretty damn good? I sure as hell didn't until I found the disc.)
Edward Shearmur - The World of Tomorrow (Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow)
Mason Daring - Spider (From the Earth to the Moon)
(Hours of great music from that series, and what does HBO release? A 45 minute CD of golden oldies. Hulk not happy camper.)
The Great Gonzo - I'm Going to Go Back There Someday (The Muppet Movie)
Rush - Countdown
John Williams - Main Title (Amazing Stories)
Vangelis - Heaven & Hell Part I (Cosmos)
(The science documentary intro music.)
Yoko Kanno - Voices (Macross Plus)
Peter Gabriel - Downside-Up (OVO)
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[Bob Schroeck]

Space Lord by Monster Magnet
Teenagers from Outer Space by Stephan Monahan and the Terminators of Endearment (the official Fenkinder theme song)
Earth Girls Are Easy by Julie Brown
Soldier of Love by Donny Osmond (Senshi theme, actually predates Sailor Moon by a couple years)
Spaceman by Bif Naked
Space Oddity by David Bowie
Major Tom Coming Home by Peter Schilling (its unofficial sequel)
Doctorin' the Tardis by The Timelords
Walking in Space from the Cast Album (or Original Soundtrack, your pick) of Hair
Suspension (Theme to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) by Kipp Lennon

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[Valles]

Mentioned this a loooong time ago, but people seem to have forgotten what I suggested as being and still feel is the ideal theme song for, if not all of Fenspace, then at least Operation Great Justice.
So Insane by Smash Mouth
Have you looked at the stop watch lately?
When was the last time you clocked-in?
There is a race to be run and a song to be sung
There is a fine line wearin' thin
So don't look back the past has past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear
We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plan to make it go down
We got the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go boom
Get up get out get on that train
It's becoming so insane
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away
Have ya checked out the temperature lately?
There's a fever that's about to break
There is a game to be won and a song to be sung
This is our battle cry, make no mistake
So don't look back the past has past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear
We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plan to make it go down
We got the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go boom
Get up get out get on that train
It's becoming so insane
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away
So don't look back the past has past
The future is comin' fast
You better make room, we're comin' through
Loud and clear
We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plan to make it go down
We got the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go boom
Get up get out get on that train
It's becoming so insane
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away
We got the hands to turn this around
We got the plan to make it go down
We got the voice fillin' this room
We got the minds, the minds that go boom
Get up get out get on that train
It's becoming so insane
This tiny blue marble is rollin' away

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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

[ECSNorway]

I found this one on the Firebird Arts album "Carmen Miranda's Ghost", now long out of print, and unfortunately my copy is secondhand so I don't have a proper title or artist for it... Still:

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He wasn't quite sure what went wrong, just that the engines blew
And flung him hard against the wall, and him the only crew
He felt like he'd been broke in half, he passed out twice from pain
And when he heard the voices, he was sure he'd gone insane
Just two of them at first, it was, and then a dozen more
He blinked to see two women kneel beside him on the floor
He thought they might be angels - but they weren't like angels much
No wings, no robes, just plain grey spacer coveralls and such
"You're not dead yet, my friend, and it's not quite your time to go,"
The first one said, "Now look, your rescue beacon's down below.
Ed says that there's another ship, not far away at all!
You still got two good arms, my friend - So grit your teeth and crawl!"
They winked out then, the pain clamped down, he thought he'd move no more
Another one appeared, and sat beside him on the floor
"Come on, Tovarisch," this one urged, "You'll make it, I don't doubt -
Show me some of this 'yankee guts' I've heard so much about!"
It seemed to take eternity, to crawl from here to there
The pain, at least a hundred times, was more than he could bear
But every time he'd start to quit - Lie down, give up, and die,
Another would appear beside him, urging him to try
He reached the beacon in a daze Of fever mist and pain
He hit the activator, and he saw them once again
"Remember, friend," the woman said, "When death is closing fast,
It's then you try your hardest, for the darkness will not last."
He passed out then, the rescue came, they brought him safely home
And he forgot it all, until he got to Luna dome
He passed beneath the hologram, that stands above the door
And recognized the faces there, he'd seen them all before
Gus, and Ed, and Roger, made him hold to hope and try
The Russians, Ronald, Christa too, they wouldn't let him die
He knew whose words had saved him, and he knew that in the end
He'd go to join their company, and greet them as a friend.

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R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Lord Aries Greymon]

Space-theme eh?
Unless they were previously mentioned:
The Urge : It's My Time To Fly. For obvious reasons if you've heard it..
Electrasy : Cosmic Castaway. Equally obvious reasons.
Queen : Princes of the Universe. Again, fairly obvious reasons.
Probably one of the soundtracks to one of the various space-based Gundam Series.
Possibly this one : www.lyricsondemand.com/a/...yrics.html
Ones my dad Suggested:
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon album [I assume it's vaguely appropriate]
Elton John: Rocketman
www.lyricsondemand.com/a/armyofloversly ... yrics.html

[Kokuten]

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The Urge : It's My Time To Fly. For obvious reasons if you've heard it..

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DOH!
I don't believe I didn't catch that one.
Minor nit - It's My Turn To Fly
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