h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmmm, I'll have to raid my filk collection then

"Lunar Lullaby" just came on the randomiser

Shocking Blue/Bananarama - I'm Your Venus
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
David Bowie - Life On Mars
Ash - Girl From Mars
Frank Black - The Marsist
Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5

Stranglers- Always the Sun
The Only Ones/ Replacements- Another Girl, Another Planet
Meat Puppets- Aurora Borealis
Jesus & Mary Chain- Between Planets
Syd Barrett- Dark Globe
Deep Purple- Highway Star
Nick Kershaw- I Won't Let the Sun Go Down On Me
Yello- Moon On Ice
Duran Duran- New Moon on Monday
Figures on a Beach- No Stars
Single Gun Theory- Open the Skies (?)
Jesus and Mary Chain- April Skies (?)
B-52s- Planet Claire
Echo & the Bunnymen- The Killing Moon
Hoodoo Gurus- Wait for the Sun
March Violets- Walk Into the Sun


Planet P Project- Why Me (artist name)

Ok, to up the factor...

Lullaby for a Weary World - Julia Ecklar
Fire in the Sky - Kristoph Klover
Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars - Weird Al Yankovic
Galaxy Song - Monty Python

And a few of the better ones by the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra (Space Patrol Orion soundtrack):

Bolero on the Moon Rocks
Song and Sound the Stars Around
Jupiter's Pop Music
Mars Minuet

Will have a proper look through the collection later.

If the word "world" counts, I can add

Men Without Hats- Pop Goes the World
Agent Orange- A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad
Husker Du- Real World
China Crisis- Worlds Apart


And a few more:

Wire- Comet
Psychic TV- Godstar

Pink Floyd

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Astronomy Domine (loads of planets/moons mentioned)
Dark Side Of The Album / Eclipse

Since there were so few in my Zen, I'm going to have to go through the collection when I get home this evening.

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody's a Star
Alice Cooper - My Stars
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Smashmouth - Walking On The Sun
3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun
U2 - Staring At The Sun
The Police - Walking On The Moon
REM - Man In The Moon

*empties mp3 bucket*

Aphex Twin - Melodies From Mars
Barry Adamson - Saturn In The Summertime
Beck - Sweet Sunshine / Sunday Sun / Dark Star
Belly - Low Red Moon / Full Moon, Empty Heart / Star / Spaceman / Venus
Breeders - Climbing The Sun / Rockets
Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth (album) / How Many Worlds / Another Green World / Under Stars / Under Stars II / Stars / Evening Star / Final Sunset / Juju Space Jazz / Space Diary I
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth
Calexico - Lo Fi Moon
Catherine Wheel - Ursa Major Space Station / Judy Staring At The Sun / Satellite
Cinematic Orchestra - As The Stars Fall / Time And Space
Deee-Lite - World Clique
Frank Black - Places Named After Numbers (Messier Catalogue) / Big Red (Mars) / Space Is Gonna Do Me Good / Bad, Wicked World / The Marsist / Sad Old World
Global Communication - La Soleil Et La Mer / Event Horizon
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls
Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone From The Sun / Moon, Turn The Tides, Gently, Gently
Lawnmower Deth - Flying Killer Cobs From The Planet Bob
Lush - Light From A Dead Star / Starlust / I Have The Moon / Astronaut
Mudhoney - Blinding Sun
My Bloody Valentine - Moonlight / Kiss The Eclipse
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Moon Is In The Gutter
Pale Saints - Way The World Is / Fell From The Sun / A Thousand Stars Burst Open / Reflections From A Watery World
Pixies - All Over The World / Trompe Le Monde / Planet Of Sound / Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons / Space (I Believe In)
PJ Harvey - Yuri G / Lying In The Sun / City Of No Sun / Cercle Autour Du Soleil
Portishead - Mysterons / Wandering Star / If You Find The Earth Boring (UNKLE)
Red Snapper - Moonbuggy / Space Sickness / Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (His Name Is Alive) / Space Chase (Nav)
Ride - Moonlight Medicine / At The End Of The Universe / Sunshine Nowhere To Run
Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station / When The Sun Hits / Good Day Sunshine
Tom Waits - Earth Dies Screaming / Good Old World
Twin Peaks OST (Badalamenti) - Questions In A World Of Blue
Verve - Star Sail / The Sun, The Sea / Space And Time / A Man Called Sun / Gravity Grave
Wedding Present - Dan Dare

Van Morrison - Moon Dance
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock around the world (Triple? Haley, Comet, World?)
Sting - Moon over Bourbon Street

Ooh, rockets count? So I could've come up with Rocket From the Crypt, Love and Rockets, Rocket From the Tombs, Big Dipper and Rockets Redglare for artists, too. And would Sigue Sigue Sputnik count?

OK, back to the collection... just went through the CDs that K left in the crate after deejaying Monday. I haven't got the gusto to go through every album in the house. Apologies in advance if I've duplicated any previously mentioned by anyone else...

Bad religion- The World Won't Stop (?)
The Quick- Heaven on Earth
Heatmiser- Bottle Rocket
Bastro- Noise/Star
Eater- Jeep Star
The Go- Summer Sun Blues
Helium- Comet #9
Trixie's Star
Love- The Daily Planet
Chrome- 3rd From the Sun
Blood On the Moon
Scientists- Pissed On Another Planet
Mayo Thompson- Venus in the Morning
Lou Reed- Satellite of Love
Sugar- Man on the Moon
Guided By Voices- Gold Star for Robot Boy
Kaleidoscope- Beacon From Mars
New Christs- No Way on Earth
The Litter- Morning Sun
Rezillos- Destination Venus
The Chills- Rolling Moon
Undertones- Mars Bars
Gun Club- Give Up the Sun
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Life On Mars
Star
Lady Stardust
Starman
Screaming Trees- I See Stars
Nervous Eaters- Planet Fever
Sonic Youth- Silver Rocket
Star Power
XTC- Rocket From a Bottle
Bad Seeds- Bad Side of the Moon
Zolar X- Rocket Roll
Jet Star 19
Moonbeams
Parallel Galaxy
Plutonian Elf Story
False Prophets- Scorched Earth
Helmet- Bad Moon
Essential Logic- Moontown
Martian Man
Squirrel Bait- Sun God

Dammit, I tabbed over for those artists with multiple titles and they didn't show up in my post. I apologize for the bad formatting- should've previewed my post.

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

"If you wanna battle you're in denial, coming from Uranus to check my style"

OK, I was out and about yesterday but it looks like we've about tapped the last one, so let's do animals.

Of course I'm on my way out the door for work in a sec, and have to run a report when I get in, but I'll be along later this morning with my .

I can probably still find a few planetary ones, too lazy to check so far

Right, here goes:

The Boy With A Moon & Star On His Head - Cat Stevens
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum ("Sky" did count, right?)
Love Rocket - Red Elvises
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
We Like Da Moon - 7 Seconds Of Love
The Rising Moon Reel - The Battlefield Band
Sun King - The Beatles
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
I'm The Urban Spaceman - The Bonzo Dog Band (not sure that counts)
World in a Jug - Canned Heat
Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
Roter Mond (Red Moon) - die Irrlichter
The Midnight Sun - Golden Bough
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Sunday Morning Sunrise - Kevin Coyne
Luna - Omnia
Light The Sun - Seeed (though I'm not sure what they're doing on my computer )
Pale Moon - Shannon McNally

I didn't know if "sky" counted or not, so I didn't use any "sky" ones. But it counts if you want it to- this is a joint project.

OK, kds. Today we start with animals. All animals count, even imaginary ones, and insects/fish, etc are OK, too.

For now, just the one I found on my Zen:

77s- Pearls Before Swine
Alex Chilton- Alligator Man
George Clinton/ Wreck- Atomic Dog
Dickies- Attack of the Mole Men / You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
Burning Sensations- Belly of the Whale
Icicle Works- Birds Fly (Whisper to A Scream)
Beastie Boys- Brass Monkey
Bob Marley- Buffalo Soldier / Three Little Birds
Machines of Loving Grace- Butterfly Wings
Echo & the Bunnymen- Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Wide Boy Awake- Chicken Outlaw
Geezers- Chickens Have Rights
Shriekback- Coelocanth / Hammerheads
Squeeze- Cool For Cats / Pulling Mussels from the Shell
David Bowie- Diamond Dogs / Teenage Wildlife
Laibach- Dogs of War
Strike Under- Elephant's Graveyard
Flesh For Lulu- Sleeping Dogs
Flesheaters- Pony Dress
Bauhaus- Hair of the Dog
Le Fleur des Lys- Hammerhead
The Cramps- Human Fly / Surfin' Bird
Iggy & the Stooges- I Wanna Be Your Dog
Killing Joke- Inside the Termite Mound
Fang- Land Shark
Motorhead- Love Me Like a Reptile
Comsat Angels- Monkey Pilot
Clan of Xymox- Mocoviet Mosquito
Jawbreaker- Oyster
Plasmatics- Pig is a Pig
Naked Raygun- Rat Patrol
U.K. Subs- Rat Race
Johnathan Richman & the Modern Lovers- Roadrunner
B-52s- Rock Lobster
Split Enz- Shark Attack
March Violets- Snake Dance
Spark Plugs- Chicken
Kid Creole & the Coconuts- Stool Pigeon
Stiff Little Fingers- Straw Dogs
Syd Barrett- Terrapin
The Cure- All Cats Are Grey
Volcano Suns- White Elephant
Jefferson Airplane/ The Damned- White Rabbit
Rolling Stones- Wild Horses
Wire- Ex Lion Tamer

Then, of course, you have the entire Pink Floyd album, "Animals".

And if we include names of bands in my Zen (who didn't have songs that applied), there's Rhino 39, Groundhogs, Hawkwind, Vipers, Flying Lizards, Voice of the Beehive, Leopards, Bunnydrums, Pigbag, Radio Birdman, Wombats, Swamprats, Chameleons.

Might I also add "Rubber Duckie" by Ernie of Sesame Street and "Macho Macho Duck" from Mickey Mouse Disco. How'd those get in there?

The Cure - Lovecats
NIN - March Of The Pigs
Fathers Ted & Dougal - My Lovely Horse
http://deagostini.co.uk/ilovehorses

Anything but "My Lovely Horse"