We love space...
I was going through my notes from the Lily Allen concert last Wednesday (a review of which is forthcoming), and I had scrawled at the top of one page: "Major Tom." Not, in fact, a reference to Bowie's "Space Oddity," but to Peter Schilling's 1983 masterpiece "Major Tom (Coming Home)."
I loved this song when I was younger, and always thought it was interesting that there were so many songs about astronauts ("Rocket Man," "Space Oddity") released at the same time — that time being before I was born/aware of pop music. It wasn't until much later that I realized that there was an approximate 20-year gap between Bowie/Elton John and Peter Schilling.
-eh, www.amNY.com
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my favorite space songs are "astronaut" by luna, and "so you'll aim towards the sky" by grandaddy (which might actually not be a song about space...but it sounds like a space song).