John Richards

This opening track off the British band's space themed second LP uses John F. Kennedy's September 1962 speech about the effort to reach the Moon

From the liner notes for this one: "Whenever I analyze the scientific realities of what it means to be living here on Earth - in this galaxy - spinning around the sun - flying through space - a terror shock seizes me!!! I'm reminded once again of how precarious our whole existence is..."

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty Sound of their breath fades with the light I think about the loveless fascination Under the Milky Way tonight

Samples dialogue of Neil Armstrong from the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing in this one

Title of this one comes from a passage from the novel, "Sophie’s World" by Jostein Gaarder: "Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ they yell, ‘we are floating in space!’ But none of the people down there care."

I live in a town where you can't smell a thing You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement Up above aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home

Olympus Mons is a reference to a shield volcano on the planet Mars. It's about two and half times taller than Mount Everest

B-side to Julien Baker's 2017 single release, “Funeral Pyre”

Request from Eleanor! Beatles cover that is the opening song off the soundtrack for the 1998 film "Pleasantville"

Space themed request for Tom this morning. Watch the video for this one here: www.youtube.com

A song Lou Reed wrote during the space race and his The Velvet Underground days, but it didn't make the cut at the time. It showed up on his solo release, 'Transformer' in 1972

"I never thought I was going to write a song about Andy Kaufman and the Moon Landing, but it ended up being a song about faith, timelessness, spirituality, time and space, death and darkness."- Michael Stipe in an interview with Aftenposten in October 2017

From the king of space songs

Out in the same year as the first moon landing, from the Starman himself

'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on And now he's gone back up to space Where he won't have a hassle with the human race And you hip-hop, and you don't stop Just blast off, sure shot 'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars And now he only eats guitars!

While the song itself has no reference to space, it got its title for SOUNDING like a space age love song, according to A Flock of Seagulls guitarist Paul Reynolds

I light my torch and wave it for the New moon on Monday And a firedance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite

There's nothing to fear about space, space is brilliant ballboy.bandcamp.com

There is no train to Mars, but here's the video for this mid 90's "moderately successful" song: www.youtube.com

Request from Sharon for this lead single off Liz Phair's second album, 'Whip-Smart'

Off the fifth album from a band that definitely sounds like space, but they're actually from Baltimore. beachhouse.bandcamp.com

"This song was so easy. Being young was easy... I started working it out on the piano and had the whole lyric and melody finished by late afternoon. Nice. Rick Wakeman came over a couple of weeks later and embellished the piano part and guitarist Mick Ronson created one of his first and best string parts for this song which now has become something of a fixture in my live shows." - Bowie to the Daily Mail in 2008

"It was inspired by a story by Ray Bradbury, from his book of science fiction short stories called The Illustrated Man. In that book there’s a story called ‘The Rocket Man,’ which was about how astronauts in the future would become sort of an everyday job. So I kind of took that idea and ran with it." - Bernie Taupin in a 2016 YouTube video about this song he wrote for Elton John

Billy Corgan in liner notes for the 2011 reissue for this song off the Smashing Pumpkins second album: "It stands as a poem to the past that has just left us behind. We are going places fast! And we can’t get there fast enough. Don’t forget to bring your fresh nails for the crosses hidden up on the dark side of the moon."

Features a sample of astronaut Ed White's dialogue in 1965 during the first American space walk

From the debut album by the Scottish group, release in 1999

People they come together People they fall apart No one can stop us now Cause we are all made of stars

Sting in the 1981 book, "The Police" by Hugh Fielder and Phil Sutcliffe: "I was drunk in a hotel room in Munich, slumped on the bed with the whirling pit when this riff came into my head. I got up and starting walking round the room singing : ‘Walking round the room, walking round the room’. That was all. In the cool light of morning I remembered what had happened and I wrote the riff down. But ‘Walking round the room’ was a stupid title so I thought of something even more stupid which was ‘Walking on the moon.’"

Spacey request from Anne this morning: "Can you play Neko Case "I Wish I Was The Moon"? I just moved back to St. Louis and I'm having a really hard time adjusting back into my hometown - particularly during times of uncertainty and change."

This one features recordings from the first moon landing by a manned spacecraft (Apollo 11) in 1969

You're tuned in to an all space themed song day here on The Morning Show. May the 4th be with you!

References Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity". Watch the video for "Ashes to Ashes" here: www.youtube.com

Remembering Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who passed away on this day in 2012 from cancer at the age 47.

May the 4th be with you! It doesn't get more space themed than this one right here.

Watch the video for this one, featuring a "chaotic re-imagining of man’s first steps on the moon" here: www.youtube.com

Here's Deltron 3030 doing this one live for KEXP at The Triple Door in 2013: www.youtube.com

Off the soundtrack album that Queen did for the 1980 film "Flash Gordon"

Will there be another race To come along and take over for us? Maybe Martians could do Better than we've done

Space request from Christopher this morning!

Do you have one really funky sequined space suit, Bowie? Or do you have several ch-changes? Performed during the sixth episode of the HBO comedy series: www.youtube.com

See the ruins of the old world below That's what our ancestors left us But our robot masters will know How to clean this mess up And build a better world From the 2006 'A Lession in Crime' EP by the Canadian band

Off the fourth Pixies album, and the last one to feature Kim Deal

We come from a blue planet light years away Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate We're out here in the universe buying real estate Hope we haven't gotten here too late

Twitter space request from BillJinFLA: "2000 Light Years From Home... old, like me."

Happy 36th anniversary to Echo & the Bunnymen's 'Ocean Rain' album, released on this day in 1984!

This one from the British band's space concept album features recordings from the first human orbit of the Moon done by Apollo 8 in 1968

Space request from Amplifier Matt!

From the Australian band's second album, released in 1985

A couple requests for this one today! Watch the prolific Aussie band performing this song live at KEXP in 2019 here: www.youtube.com

Another one we had several requests for today in keeping with our space theme. Watch Failure doing this one live at KEXP in 2015 here: www.youtube.com This has been an all space themed Morning Show! May the 4th be with you all, and stay well out there.