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    Posted: October 01 2023 at 17:38
What do you got? Songs or albums that tackle extraterrestrial life. Serious or parody. Prog or not.

Here's a few i can think of

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Damn they didn't all go through

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Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack.
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This is a bit obvious to most of us:




And this one not so much but same band:






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And one of my personal all time favorites:



I'm pretty sure this one qualifies too:
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Julie Brown - Earth Girls Are Easy



Styx - Come Sail Away



Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
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I think this new wave classic is about am alien abduction.

Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
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A lot of tracks here i didn't even know were about ETs!

@ mathman - don't think Come Sail Away is about ETs.





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^I took the following lines from the song as literal instead of metaphoric unless the starship is owned by humans.

"I thought that they were angels
But to my surprise
We climbed aboard their starship
We headed for the skies"

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Klaatu - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
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And the cover version by The Carpenters.
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Yes - Arriving UFO


Brownsville Station - The Martian Boogie



Deep Purple - Space Truckin'



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Elton John - I've Seen the Saucers
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