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From: stuart@webstr.DEC
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Subject: sci-fi in music/music in sci-fi
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:48:09 EDT
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all this talk of sci fi in music prompted me to do a scan of my album 
collection for things of like nature, and here's what i came up with ... some 
of the examples may be stretching it a bit, but isn't sci fi all about using 
your imagination? 

rush: 'red barchetta', on _moving_pictures_. based on the story 'a nice 
    morning drive' by richard s. foster. all about getting in a motorcar
    (forbidden in this postulated future), and getting chased by large
    what-seem-to-resemble-hovercraft for enjoying the ride. if anyone can 
    point me to foster's story. i'd really appreciate the tip.

tubes: 'attack of the fifty foot woman', on _completion_backward_principle_.
    weren't there a few fifties movies on this topic? 

blue oytser cult: 'black blade', on _extraterrestrial_live_. seems to me to
    be based on the elric series by michael moorcock.

bowie: _space_oddity_, the whole album. just about everyone's heard of major 
    tom, no? and let's not forget bowie's film, _the_man_who_fell_to_earth_.

elo: 'mission (a world record', on _a_new_world_record_. watching the days go 
    by on an insognificant street corner of an insignificant city on an 
    inconsequential continent on a planet revolving around a sun in the 
    backwaters of the western spiral arm of a rinky-dink galaxy about as far 
    away from the action as one can get, and not being able to do a whole lot 
    about it.

utopia: 'winston smith takes it on the jaw', on _oblivion_. a rendition of the 
    classic _1984_. in addition, the album _adventures_in_utopia_ is rumored 
    to actually be the soundtrack to a video production of todd rundgren and 
    his cohorts on a voyage through space in search of utopia. if anyone can 
    point me toward *that*, i'll give my eye teeth.


going the other way ... there are lots of stories where music palys an 
important role, but there are the only ones i could find on-hand with the 
central theme being music.

heinlein: 'searchlight', in _the_past_through_tomorrow_. a blind girl lost on 
    the moon is found due to her perfect pitch.

saberhagen: 'starsong', in _the_berserker_wars_. a man attempts to retrieve 
    his wife from a berserker, and almost succeeds bacause his music softens 
    the human elements the berserker had built into itself.


steve stuart
internet: webstr%stuart.dec@decwrl