This classic 80s song is simple yet memorable, and if you listen closely it is a story of the final ship leaving Earth for Venus because Earth is nearly dead. Besides the spaceships and possibility of living on Venus, this song made me wonder if the apocalyptic genre is necessarily a genre stem of SF, and I will explore that in my searches for the week.
I have been a “sorta-fan” of the Chili Peps for some time, and recently got a CD as gift of one of their newer albums. This song “Go Robot” seemed to have sexual energy between the lead singer (Anthony Keidis) and robots. But then after watching this music video it seems that Keidis is a robot, or is a man pretending to be a robot (cheap budget)? People seem disgusted by his romantic advances, and he ends up with either a female robot or a female pretending t be a robot, thus undoing the inter-species(?) romance hinted at without the music video. I am probably over thinking this song they wrote while probably (definitely) on drugs.
Time to dip my toe into the realm of music inspired by science fiction. Blue Oyster Cult has a vast library of SF themed songs; the above “Sole Survivor” describes the last human of a catastrophe in the distant future. It is featured because it is my favorite sounding song of their SF inclinated songs, others include but are not limited to: “Veteran of the Psychic Wars,” “Astrology,” “E.T.I. (Extraterrestrial Intelligence).”
They also have a lot of songs inspired by fantasy genres, such as “Godzilla” and “Joan Crawford.”