Alexplorer's Halloween page: Sci-fi songs

Sci-fi songs

Our 2010 Halloween was more sci-fi oriented than usual. There was a giant UFO crashed in the front yard and we were the Conehead family. For our Halloween party, the living room was a planetarium and there was a mad scientist lab in the kitchen. I wanted to do a playlist that focused on science fiction themes (whether there was a horror angle to them or not), but that was never completed in time. Maybe some party in future, no pun intended. Here is the beginning of the list of possibilities I assembled, and I am open to suggestions for additional tracks.

The year is listed next to some songs simply because I (or the original sources from which I compiled this list over the years) made note of them. As I state on the playlist page, arranging songs chronologically actually makes for an intuitive mix since stylistically-similar tracks will almost automatically be grouped together). Of course, I haven't gotten around to noting the year in most cases simply because that's so time-consuming to track down.

AC/DC - Who Made Who
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Alan Parsons Project - I, Robot
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius
Art of Noise - Paranoimia (features Max Headroom)
B-52s - Cosmic Thing
Billy Idol - Neuromancer
Billy Thorp - Children of the Sun
Björk - Earth Intruders
Blondie - Rapture
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla (1977)
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie - Life on Mars
David Bowie - Space Oddity
David Bowie - Starman
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstien
Electric Light Orchestra - Mission (A World Record)
Electric Light Orchestra - Time (the entire album)
Elton John - Rocketman
Enigma - Out From The Deep
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
Gary Numan - Cars
Gary Numan - Down in the Park
Huey Lewis & the News - Back in Time
Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land
Iron Maiden - To Tame a Land (based on Dune)
Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone from the Sun
Kraftwerk - Computerworld
Lou Reed - Satellite of Love (or cover version by U2)
MGMT - Electric Feel
Nena - 99 Luftballons (1984)
Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (1985)
Pat Benatar - My Clone Sleeps Alone
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (see also the trane remix)
Police - Walking on the Moon
Queen - Flash
Rezillos - Flying Saucer Attack
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction/Double Feature (1975)
Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp (1975)
Roger Waters - Radio Waves
Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
Rush - 2112
Rush - Manhattan Project
Rush - Red Barchetta
Rush - Red Sector A
Sara Hickman w/ Brave Combo - Radiation Man
Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper
Sheb Wooley - Flying Purple People Eater (1958)
Star Wars - Disco
Steely Dan - True Companion (from the Heavy Metal sndtrk)
Stray Cats - Blast Off
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (1982)
Timelords/KLF - Doctorin' the Tardis
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
U2 - Zooropa (1993)
Weird Al Yankovic - I Think I'm a Clone Now
Weird Al Yankovic - Yoda (to the tune of "Lola")
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
X Files theme (Dj Dado remix)
X-Files theme (1993)
Note-worthy soundtrack: Blade Runner by Vangelis

Note that techno/electronica almost always sounds futuristic and makes for good sci-fi playlist. I could throw together a playlist like that in less time than it would take to play it, but I'm consciously going for kitch (e.g., Mr. Roboto) as much as the sound itself.

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