Artist	Song
Langley Schools Music Project	"Space Oddity"
Pink Floyd	"Astronomy Domine"
Spiritualized	"Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space"
Babylon Zoo	"Spaceman"
William Shatner	"Rocket Man"
Seksu Roba	"Telstar"
David Bowie	"I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship"
The Pixies	"Planet Of Sound"
They Might Be Giants	"Destination Moon"
Weezer	"Blast Off"
I Mother Earth	"One More Astronaut"
The Police	"Walking On The Moon"
Cracker	"I'm A Little Rocket Ship"
Modest Mouse	"Space Travel Is Boring"
Failure	"Another Space Song"
Air	"Surfing On A Rocket"
XTC	"Another Satellite"
Moxy Fruvous	"Laika"
The Flaming Lips	"They Punctured My Yolk"
B.C. Sterrett with Janae Olson	"Somewhere In Space"

Comment:

I've had the idea for a space-travel themed mix cd for a while now, and I just finally came up with enough songs for that purpose. As for the title: In the interest of not wasting a perfectly good cd-r I ended up using a blank cd which my sister had accidentally labeled as "Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography" (to her credit she usually exhibits better musical taste than this, she seems to have a guilty pleasure for Ashlee's reality show, and at least she didn't actually buy the thing). So that was the first thing I thought of. I specifically used the Langley Schools' version of "Space Oddity" so I could get both that and Bowie's surreal Legendary Stardust Cowboy cover in there, but it really is a great eerie take on the song. And I have no idea why that Babylon Zoo song made the cut when I took ages to find it on soulseek only to find out sometimes songs you thought were cool when you were 15 turn out to seem kind of tuneless and gimmicky 7 years after the fact. Chalk it up to a perverse sense of nostalgia I guess. And finally I'd like to note that the Seksu Roba and B.C. Sterrett tracks come from Comfort Stand's excellent (and completely free) 2 disc Interplanetary Materials compilation, so check that out.

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