What with the voiceover contests for episodes 1 & 2, there's been lots of discussion of music to use in A*. I heard a few songs in recent weeks that struck me as being prime stuff for A*, if I could actually afford to license whatever music I liked for it! I mean I suppose they might not be quite right, but they make me think of some of the scenes in the episodes.

For episode 2:

Freezepop - "Fancy Ultra-Fresh": Outer Space

It starts:



For episode 3:

De-Phazz - "Natural Fake": Astrud Astronette

This one has some surprisingly "hard" science lyrics.



I particularly like the use of historic space explorer names in this verse:



I'll have to add more songs to this list as I come across them. :)

Cool stuff. The second one's lyrics kinda reminds me of Bowie's classic, Space Oddity.

I'd try fit those in to my custom soundtracks, but with my luck, the audio will be deleted faster than you can say "Warner Music Group".

Ohh, I've heard the "Major Tom" riff before but I don't think I knew what it was from. :)

Ah, a song popped up today that reminded me of episode 3!

Hooverphonic - 2 Wicky

It has lyrics like this:


And episode 3 has a couple lines with a space ship's ID number! Like this one. Perfect!

Hm... I don't have an episode for this one yet, but it's a nice song, and the video has spacemen!

Bent - Swollen

This one would have to get in somewhere too!

Well this should be in there somewhere... Maybe episode 9!

This one would be good to have at some point; and yes, I did just see "Gentlemen Broncos." ;)

This song anywhere, on anything, ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs

You know you want it.

(And yes, I haven't yet worked out how to put the actual video on stuff, sue me! (actually don't, I do not have the required know how to defeat you))

Actually I noticed starschwar found the really simple way to do it, without even looking at the "embed code" for it on YouTube: just take the "v=" value at the end of the video URL stick it between the "embed" tags, like
You don't get to specify control bar colors or options like displaying related videos when you do it quick and dirty like that, but it works!



And holy cow, I cranked up the volume and could not make out a single word in that song! Me fail English.