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Mike Oldfield, most famous for the song "Tubular Bells" as used in The Exorcist, based an entire instrumental album on Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Songs of Distant Earth.Here's the first song from the album. The summer this was released, it was my constant poolside companion.
My mostest favoritest is the soundtrack from Bladerunner by Vangelis.
Soundtracks weren't really what I was going for.
Not sure what it is about Clark Kent that inspires parentheticals...(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman by The Kinks
Superman (It's Not Easy) by Five for Fighting
Trike wrote: "Soundtracks weren't really what I was going for."You seemed to be talking to yourself, so I thought I;d add some variety ;-)
How about Queen's " '39 ", which is an SF concept song if ever there was one?
Pretty much everything The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has done is inspired by Lovecraft. My favorite song of theirs is Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore, Ramble On, and Misty Mountain Hop are all about Lord of The Rings. Pink Floyd's got a song called Childhood's End but I'm not sure if it's about the book or not.
Blind Guardian is a favorite of mine, their Nightfall in Middle Earth covers material from The Silmarillion. A Twist In The Myth has good fantasy material, as does Imaginations From The Other Side.
Anthrax: Among the Living about The Stand.Queen: Who Wants to Live Forever, one of several they did for Highlander.
Younger Brother's">my link text Last days of Gravity is totally sampled from Alice in Wonderland (Disney)
Try all Ayreon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AyreonThey are all about SF and are Metal/Progressive/Space Opera ^^
One of the musics for exemple are about the living in mars, other the primordial Chaos and other about the landing on the moon.
I recomend the album "Universal Migrator" a twin album about the journey of the last man alive, that are living in mars.
Agree with Dwarf! That Ayreon album fits perfect. Arjen's Star One projects are good as well.
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Sting's first solo album from 1985, "Dream of the Blue Turtles," features the song "Moon Over Bourbon Street", which is inspired by Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. (Has it really been that long ago?)