36 N: Sci-Fi References in Music List
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This article is from the SF references in music List FAQ, by Rich Kulawiec rsk@gsp.org with numerous contributions by others.
36 N: Sci-Fi References in Music List
NRBQ:
"Rocket 9".
National Health:
"Tenemos Roads", from their eponymous debut album, is about a war on Mercury.
Nektar:
"Remember the Future", "Recycle" and "Journey to the Centre of the Eye"
are all LP's with SF-ish themes. "Remember the Future" is highly
recommended on vinyl; the CD mix, at least the pressing I've heard,
overemphasizes the keyboards at the expense of some terrific guitar work.
Nelson, Bill/Red Noise:
"Sound on Sound" has a number of songs with SF themes, including
"Atom Man Loves Radium Girl". He's also done a lot of (mainly instrumental)
tracks with SF/magic themes.
Nena:
"99 Luftballons" (WW3 & aftermath); the English version is
"99 Red Balloons".
The Neon Judgement:
"Billy Tcherno and Pretty Petrouchka" from "Horny as Hell" is about
Russian mutants after a nuclear accident.
New England:
"L-5".
New Model Army:
"White Coats" talks about genetic engineering and its problems.
New Musik:
"On Islands" asks the question whether there might be other beings
in the universe, and "Living by Numbers" rehashes the old numbers
instead of names theme; both are found on the "Straight Lines" EP,
and on the "From A To B" LP.
Nilsson, Harry:
See "Spaceman" from "Son of Schmilsson"; and "Son of Dracula",
the soundtrack for a very silly movie he made with Ringo Starr.
Nine Inch Nails:
"The Becoming", with vague references to unwilling/uncontrolled cybernetic
transformation ["The me that you know/is now made up of wires/
the blood has stopped pumping he's left to decay..."]
Nirvana:
Covered Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" on the "Unplugged in New York" CD.
Normaali, Eppu:
"Science Fiction", which is mostly derogatory things about people reading SF.
The Normals:
"Warm Leatherette" was based on the J.G. Ballard novel "Crash".
Nova:
A Dutch synth band, with the track "Aurora", which might refer to
the novel by Isaac Asimov.
Nugent, Ted:
"Hibernation" is an instrumental about being frozen inside a space ship?
Numan, Gary:
"Cars", of course, and an LP done with a band called "Tubeway Army",
"Are Friends Electric", containing the title track and "Praying to
the Aliens"; it's apparently about alien androids taking over the earth.
See also "Down in the Park", "We Are Engineers", and "I Dream of Wires"
(also covered by Robert Palmer on "Addictions II").
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