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Subject: Science Fiction in music
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 14:45:20 EDT
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From: lionel%orphan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Steve Lionel)

Alan Grieg restarted a discussion on Science Fiction in Music a few
issues ago.  Those of us who have been reading SFL for several years may
recall this coming up before, but I'm sure there's a large turnover in the
readership, so why not discuss it again.

Anyway, Alan started a list of example songs, and included "David Bowie:
Major Tom".  Frequent and natural mistake - the Bowie tune that nearly
everyone calls "Major Tom" is actually titled "Space Oddity".

Still, I'd like to dredge up a point from the earlier discussion - please
try to distinguish those songs which truly have a science fiction theme (of
which "Space Oddity" is certainly an example) from those with "spacey"
sounding titles.
				Steve Lionel

P.S.  Could we save a few megabytes of disk space by cutting down on the
>>>>>>>>>> quotes in this digest?  Don't be lazy - learn how to paraphrase!
It really gets ridiculous to see FOUR levels of > in a message!