Alien Prog
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Topic: Alien Prog
Posted By: FunkFingers
Subject: Alien Prog
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:30
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I am trying to compile a list of prog songs that follow some sort of Alien story line. Anyone know of any? ------------- http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=131474 - Join Progressive Universe on Seti@Home! |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:31
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A Trick Of The Tail? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:32
Squonk? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:35
Illegal Alien?  ------------- sig |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:46
Arriving UFO! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:50
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War of the Worlds
the song 'Faded' by Psychotic Waltz ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 12:52
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Alien Afternoon by Genesis
EDIT: I almost forgot.. Watcher Of The Skies!
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 13:02
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Um, there's this band called Magma. Keep up people. seriously genesis lol ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 13:06
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-Little Green Men - Steve Vai debut album FlexAble
(well, many Vai songs contians alien references)
-Porcupine Tree - Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth... (?)
-One of the most beautiful albums that I heard: RIGEL 9. Music by David Bedford based on a sci-fi story writen by the amazing Ursula K. Le Guin... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: epictetus1
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 13:21
| The Martian Chronicles by Solaris. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 13:22
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UFO Over Paris - Steve Hillage
..and most things by Hawkwind... ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: jc schlist
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 14:32
| Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)/Rosetta Stoned by Tool |
Posted By: CaptainWafflos
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 14:47
| The entirety of Into the Electric Castle by Ayreon. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 14:49
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BACAMARTE - UFO ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 17:34
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A lot of GonG's stuff takes place on Planet GonG. I think.... Regarding Magma, there's no actual aliens involved, only humans that travel to other planets. -------------   |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 17:36
Star One - Space Metal. Each song is about a different Sci-Fi movie ... 
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 17:56
Similar thing with 'Watcher of the Skies'. This is just a song about some guys who are... er... watching the skies (from the Earth). 
Peter G. certainly knew his classics: "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken" (John Keats) |
rileydog22 wrote:Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 18:00
Indeed. "Lots and lots of pothead pixies flying around in teapot taxis!" Which also brings to mind Steve Hillage's immortal lines, sung ever so charmingly by his partner Miquette: "Oh me oh my there's a LIGHT in the sky!" (What was the song's title again?) |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 18:05
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i'm just saying that, you know, when you travel to another planet you're an alien there. not to put too fine a point on it =P if you were lookin' for little green men then perhaps Magma makes lots less sense ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 18:08
| AFAIK, Nektar's wonderful 'Remember The Future' is based around a blind boy's communication with an alien. It's one of my all time favourite prog albums. |
Posted By: The Letter M
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 20:48
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Someone already mentioned Into The Electric Castle by Ayreon, but also look into The Universal Migrator, which is really in two parts - The Dream Sequencer and The Flight Of The Migrator. The second part is more Alien-related as it involves a journey through the distant-past cosmos. Rush has some stories that could be considered alien in some fashion - 2112, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres to name a few... -Marc. ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know. I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose free will. If I die tomorrow, I`d be alright because I believe that after we`re gone, the spirit carries on. |
Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: March 18 2007 at 21:53
| Hey what about "Black Noise" by FM? One of my all time favorites, lots of space lyrics - "Aldebaran" "Phasors on stun" & others. (Now if only I could find the next 2 albums on disc... sigh) |
Posted By: mickstafa
Date Posted: March 19 2007 at 14:54
| Chronomotree by Glass Hammer is an album about a dude named Tom who listens to too much prog and begins to think the lyrics of prog are from aliens. No joke! Excellent album! |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 19 2007 at 15:07
| Though they are not considered prog (no matter how much I'd like to get them in here), Blue Oyster Cult have quite a few songs that are alien-based: for instance, "ETI", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "Take Me Away", just to name a few. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: March 19 2007 at 16:04
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The whole Gong's trilogy Not really prog, but check soundtrack of Heavy Metal  cartoonGenesis' Return Of The Giant Hogwedd is about alien species, but not necessary from another planet...(very similar plot to the Wyndham's novel Day of the Triffids). ------------- |
Posted By: pianoman
Date Posted: March 21 2007 at 17:51
| Porcupine Tree "Smart Kid" I guess |