Every TV show needs a montage of people processing their emotion every now and then . ( We ’re calculate at you , Stargate Universe . ) But why not boast actual songs about blank ? Here are seven large blank - themed Sung dynasty to companion your emotional moment .
“ Satellite of Love , ” Lou Reed
If your stars are unlucky in love life , there ’s no good agency to convey the depths of their wretchedness than a mopey montage accompany by this song . The lyrics do n’t have much of a story – “ Satellite ’s go bad / mode up to Mars / soon it will be filled / with parking cars”-but as soon as the first few notes hit , it ’s obvious someone ’s doing some serious thinking about their wild-eyed aliveness selection .
“ Citizens of Tomorrow , ” Tokyo Police Club
The burnt - out ruins of Earth below ; the watchful eyes of our AI overlords above . The worst part ? “ Our robot captain will screw / How to pick this mess up . ” Our ascendant destroyed the planet , and now the machines get their nip . It ’s a tragical image , one that makes “ Citizens of Tomorrow ” unadulterated for when your your protagonist is sulking around the starship , kicking himself for some kind of larger-than-life screw - up . It ’s just a bit louder and pissed - off , thoroughgoing for self - recrimination .
“ The Sun and the Moon , ” The Pogues
If you need to strike a more fatalist tone , you could do spoiled than this strong drink - soaked revelatory imagination from the Pogues . Despite images of stars falling from the sky and shades rising from the grave , Shane MacGowan sings of a tomorrow that ’s “ just another day after . ” It ’s a pessimistic musical shrug from a radical that get the Dropkick Murphys look like choirboys .
“ tapis From an Astroid , ” Sun Ra and his Arkestra .
This identification number sounds like its beaming in from the Rainbow Room . Only it ’s not the one in Rockefeller Center circa 1939 , but the rebuilt version in 3039 on Alpha Centauri Prime . It ’s a little drippy , but also just a snatch sombre , in a way that suggests Brobdingnagian , empty stretches of mysterious space .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AntrELq19X0
“ Subterranean Homesick Alien , ” Radiohead
Radiohead ’s music has always been contributing to morbid self - interrogatory , believably because of how good Thom Yorke plays the weirdo . In “ Subterranean Homesick Alien , ” he wishes the aliens would “ Take me on control board their beautiful ship / Show me the mankind as I ’d lie with to see it . ” Are they even there ? Is anybody ? This Sung dynasty absolutely suits the retentive , non-white , mayhap insanity - inducing nighttime of the soul .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgWsE2k4eA
“ Wandering Star , ” Lucero
Your characters have lost their means , maybe deep in space , mayhap in a bottle . Make it clear just how far astray they ’ve gone : “ It ’s a rambling star that lights my way tonight / I follow it ’ till I am gone . ” And while it ’s occasionally impossible to understand Isaac Bashevis Singer Ben Nichols ’s growling , the loneliness and yearning hail through flash and decipherable . Plus , if this one does n’t show up on Stargate : Universe sooner or later , I ’ll exhaust my hat .
“ Space Oddity , ” David Bowie
You did n’t really think we ’d get through this lean without including Bowie , did you ? From the tallness of his Ziggy Stardust period , “ Space Oddity ” feature Bowie at his glam space alien fine . Sure , it ’s an obvious option , but it ’s also famous for a reason .
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