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    Posted: August 10 2014 at 22:09
Sometimes, while listening to music, I chance upon an amazing cosmic track. Most often, this kind of track is not a hard rocker like you'd find in a Hawkwind or Chrome album, or a pop song with lyrics that are about space, but a track that simply blows your mind and has lyrics that are cosmic without being too wordy or cryptic. Usually, these kinds of tracks have instrumentation that is spacey but without being ambient, overly new agey, or riffy and flashy.

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The Verve - Star Sail (An overlooked shoegaze classic about a solar sail spaceship that comes to earth to explore, or perhaps give humans a judgment by fire?)

Radiohead - Bloom (A song that is slightly cryptic, but appears to be exploring some cosmic eastern philosophies - without being new age elevator music. Radiohead perfectly mixes electronica, rock and classical and tops it off with an incredible bass melody.)

The Flaming Lips - In the Morning of the Magicians (A song that has a bit of psychedelia, electronica and maybe some krautrock? Through the lyrics, the Lips discuss the fragility of life in an infinite universe.)

M83 - Outro (Leaning more on the post-rock side for this one, the dream pop band has a memorable piano opening and some crescendocore, topped off with lyrics starring a desert god marshalling dream-like creatures up out of the ground to dance with him for eternity. Epic.

Pink Floyd - One of These Days (This one's a bit more on the hard rock side, but whenever I listen to it, I like to imagine two powerful warlord aliens in their spaceships, battling each other in an asteroid field or something, and one of them says over the comm "one of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces!")

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan (While mostly known for being the chief founders of heavy metal, Black Sabbath also wrote many psychedelic songs, like The Wizard, Changes and, of course, Planet Caravan. Here, we hear Ozzy singing about a journey through space, accompanied by a jazzy guitar solo by Tony Iommi.


Honorable Mentions:

Yes - Starship Trooper (Not space rock exactly, this prog classic by Yes features excellent philosophical lyrics, soaring instrumental melodies and some tight guitar solos.

Gojira - Born in Winter (The heaviest track here, Born in Winter combines some scintillating spacey keyboard lines overlaying the almost whispered vocals, which explode into a crescendo at the end of the song. The lyrics explore our birth from the burst of a star and the strength to stand upright in a bitter cold world.)

What's your best, biggest, beautiful, mind-blowing cosmic music? Try to post tracks that don't get as much recognition as they should.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2014 at 22:31

Toby's unsurpassed lyrics, dynamic explosions, stormy guitars and strings, dark intro. 
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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It sounds like Slint-influenced post-metal with traces of King Crimson in the symphonic arrangements. I think I'll listen to the whole album.
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Points: 2111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2014 at 12:59
Here's one:
“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov
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Seventies space rock at its best...
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...and two spacey tracks from '10s Cool
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I always imagine I'm soaring through the sky when I hear this song.
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      Check out my FREE album: A one-man project   The Distant Dynasty

https://distantdynasty.bandcamp.com/
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2014 at 20:05
Originally posted by Raccoon Raccoon wrote:


Great track indeed Clap
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Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

...and two spacey tracks from '10s Cool




Edited by Wheelspawn - August 11 2014 at 20:10
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Oh and Mr Rory Cargill & his The Invisible Band ought to be mentioned in this thread!
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There are so many by the great classic prog bands but you asked for lessor known ones so here's one of my old favorites from an obscure band and a newer one that I really like from a popular neo prog band.
 
 
Fantasy- Alanderie
 
 
 
IQ- Ryker Skies
 
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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I also came across some spacey proto-industrial music from a band named Chrome:
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Originally posted by Wheelspawn Wheelspawn wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

...and two spacey tracks from '10s Cool



It's nice, thank you for posting.

I'd like to recommend you this track & video:
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Points: 1281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2014 at 23:35

Very dream like with the chimes and swirling voices.
He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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A band from my hometown. This track is from their s/t debut LP released in 1979 on PGP RTB Records.
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The aptly named Far Out should do the trick.
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Points: 13489 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2014 at 05:50


Though I prefer the original Hungarian version but I couldn't find it now.
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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And one more from Omega:
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski
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