Mercury - Kathleen Edwards
Mercury - Throwing Muses
Mercury - Counting Crows
Venus As A Boy - Bjork
Venus In Furs - Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground
Venus Man Trap - Veruca Salt
I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Hello Earth - Kate Bush
Mother Earth - Holly Golightly
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Linda Goes to Mars - John Prine
Teenagers from Mars - The Misfits
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Jupiter Winter - Sufjan Stevens
Saturn 5 - Inspiral Carpets
Saturn - Stevie Wonder
Rings of Saturn - False Sacrament
Nightflight to Uranus - Datarock
Pigs of Uranus - Pink Fairies
Uranus - Scared Weird Little Guys
Neptune City - Nicole Atkins
Kidnapped by Neptune - Scout Niblett
Mercury is Clearly Opposing Neptune - Paper Moon
Pluto - Clare and The Reasons
Hallucinating Pluto - The B-52s
One-Way Ticket to Pluto - Dead Kennedys
When I was a kid (and all this was fields!), Pluto was still a planet, therefore it gets an honourable inclusion here.
What a fun compilatation. What do you think of Space by Prince?
ReplyDeleteVery clever... now let's see one about all the moons! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I don't know Space Zen :o$ Why, you think I should cover the whole cosmos??
ReplyDeleteAs for you Griz...good to see you back! Where on earth have you been? For the moons, I think perhaps I would have to start writing songs...and a rhyming dictionary would probably come in useful too!
OK - here area few from The Fat Man (you can't fool him!):
ReplyDeleteThis Bitter Earth - Dinah Washington
Earth Blues - Jimi Hendrix
Earth Angel - The Penguins
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
Hole In The Earth - The Deftones
You Promised Me The Moon But I Prefer Uranus - Red Peters (!!!!)
Mercury Blues - David Lindley and El Rayo X
The Martian Boogie - Brownsville Station
The Martian Hop - The Ran - Dells
South Saturn Delta - Jimi Hendrix
Saturn Return - R.E.M.
Subway to Venus - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton
I'm Your Venus - Shocking Blue
Venus - Frankie Avalon
One Way Ticket to Pluto - Dead Kennedies
Hallucinating Pluto - B 52's
Sorry, I duplicated a couple of yours there.
ReplyDeleteI agree moons starts to open up a huge (often banal) area but how about an honourable mention for St Judy's Comet - Paul Simon?
The Fat Man
Hi Anonymous...I mean Dad! Ha ha...you should use 'The Fat Man' as a proper nickname on here, rather than just being anonymous!
ReplyDeleteI must admit, I didn't have Dinah's This Bitter Earth, but did have A Stranger On Earth by her... of course, Earth was one of the ones where the difficulty of the task was in whittling it down, rather than looking for sufficient songs that were at least partially decent (as was the problem with 'Uranus'!). I didn't know or have The Deftones' track either, but I'm guessing the boys helped along with that one?
But since when was 'martian' a planet??
Oh, and I decided not to duplicate on artists too...otherwise Pluto by Bjork would have been another great song. And Hendrix seems to have covered the majority of them somewhere in his catalogue!
Congrats on losing your commenting virginity!
Great theme idea.
ReplyDeleteA few more...
Mercury Poisoning - Graham Parker
Venus Stop The Train - Wilco
We'll Inherit The Earth - Replacements
Mars Needs Guitars! - Hoodoo Gurus
Planet Queen - T. Rex
The farther out the planet, the tougher it gets.
Hi Paul...and welcome, welcome etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteThe only one of those I've even heard of is the Hoodoo Gurus track, so you're several up on me there! T-Rex...how about 'Ballrooms of Mars'?
I struggled a little to find songs I actually like for Saturn and Uranus! There weren't a great many for Neptune, but those that there were were good songs, I think. As for Pluto...quite a lot to choose from. People must feel sorry for it and its relegation!
Mercury - Bloc party
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