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    (Peter Reich's father, Wilhelm Reich, was actually a 'scientist'
    (regard the quotes) who did research in 'orgone energy'. Don't ask
    me seriously what 'orgone energy' should be, but one of it's
    abilities should have been to make it rain. The story
    behind that is not sci-fi at all, it is true life (more or less).
    Wilhelm Reich was actually arrested by the government and died in
    prison, something the nine (or so) year old Peter couldn't comprehend
    as a child. Peter later wrote 'a book of dreams' to cope with that
    experience. -- Ulrich Grepel )

See also "Hammer Horror" from "Lionheart", a throwback to the
horror films of the 60's.  "Deeper Understanding" from "The Sensual
World" is about computer addiction. "Hello Earth" from "Hounds of Love"
refers to an astronaut viewing the earth from his spaceship.
KB also covered Elton John's "Rocket Man".

Byrds, The:
"Hey Mr. Spaceman" from "The Fifth Dimension". "Space Odyssey"
from "Notorious Byrd Brothers" is a retelling of Clarke's "The Sentinel".

Byrne, David:
"In the Future", from the "Civil Wars" soundtrack is an
often-contradictory list how we will be in the future.

Camel:
Lots of fantasy stuff on various albums, notably "Mirage".
"Moonmadness" contains the instrumental "Lunar Sea", "I Can See
Your House From Here" contains the instrumental "Snow Goose".
See also "Echoes" from "Breathless".

Candlemass:
A European (Swedish?) heavy metal band - pretty much slow heavy doom metal
with fantasy themes.  LP's include "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", "Nightfall",
"Ancient Dreams" and "Tales of Creation".  This last often suggests
Michael Moorcock characters, particularly Corum.

Captain Beefheart:
"Big Eyed Beans from Venus" and "The Floppy Boot Stomp".  The latter is
that tale of a farmer who accidentally summons the devil while squaredancing.

Captain Beyond:
"Astral Lady", "Voyagers From Distant Planets", etc.

Caravan:
"Cthulhu" from "Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night".

Cassandra Complex:
Their album "Satan, Bugs Bunny and Me..." contains "E*O*D", a track
which discusses Cthulhu.  The album "Cyberpunx" contains some tracks
with cyberpunkish dark visions of the future, e.g. "Nightfall (over the EC)".

Caswell and Carnahan:
Do a song called "Borderlands" which is about a man who
goes back in time to meet a woman but must return to his own time.

Cheap Trick:
"Dream Police" (title track).

Chicago:
Last side of Chicago III is a suite named "Elegy" about ecodeath and final war.

----Some commentary on this from Ed Eastridge:

The side as a whole is named Elegy. Elegy's principal writer was trombonist
James Pankow. It is about humans killing themselves off in the name of
progress. Another song off of this album which is in a similar vein is
"Mother" describing the Raping of the Earth by Highways and other man-made
occurences. Anyway, If I can rememeber correctly Elegy consists of five
movements, the names As I can recall are:

"When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow" (a small poem)
"Canon" (Brass quartet type of feel,interesting harmonies.)
"Once Upon a Time"(Soft Jazz ballad featuring Flute and Trombone.)
"Progress?" (Dissonant and forboding. Uses taped sounds of jackhammers,
             traffic, etc. Most interesting is the use of the toilet...:))
"The Approaching Storm" (Normal Jazz type number like mid-60's "cool" sound)
"Man vs Man = The End"  (Contemporary almost 12-tonal in sound, definitely not
                         like "normal" Chicago)

All in all, this is a good piece. The songs are cohesive, transitions are
smooth and subtle. (If you couldn't tell by now, yes, I am a Chicago freak).
    --- Ed Eastridge
----

Clannad:
New-age Celtic-folk stuff; numerous songs about druids, Stonehenge,
that sort of thing.

Clash, the:
A band pretty much centered in the (then) Now, but had a couple songs
taking place in the future.  "Groovy Times" (from "Black Market Clash")
is roughly about a fascist state, apparently sparked by the sight of
chain-link fences around a soccer stadium.  "London Calling" (from the
LP of the same name) is about the apocalypse, a possibility which is
treated rather ambivalently.  "Atom Tan" (from "Combat Rock") is about
the apocalypse again, from sort of a Beat-Marxist angle.

Clark, Anne:
On her "Changing Places" album, "Sleeper in Metropolis" deals
with loss of all human contact in a future (or present) world;
"Poem for a Nuclear Romance" is about what will happen to two
lovers in a nuclear war.

Clouds:
Australian pop music quartet.  Have a song "Fox's Wedding" inspired by
a Japanese fairy tale.  Their debut album "Penny Century" is named after
the character in Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez' comic book "Love and Rockets".

Colourbox:
A track from their "Colourbox" LP entitled "Just Give "em Whiskey." has
quotes from "Prisoner", "2001" and "West World" on it.

Concrete Blonde:
The album "Bloodletting" has "The Vampire Song" which sounds like it
was patterned after Anne Rice's Vampire novels.

Costello, Elvis:
"Tokyo Storm Warning" from "Blood and Chocolate"; mentions the cheap sets
found in some Japanese horror/sf movies.  "Waiting for the End of the World"
from "My Aim Is True", (self explanatory) and "Night Rally" (fascist
rally/totalitarian government) "Hurry Down Doomsday (the Bugs Are Taking Over)"
from "Mighty Like a Rose". "Satellite" from the album _Spike_ is based
on concepts from "Radio Free Albemuth" by Philip K. Dick.

Crack the Sky:
"Robots for Ronnie" off "Crack the Sky" (not about Ronnie Reagan, but
could easily be adapted!).  "Invaders from Mars" off "Animal Notes"
(the martians are coming for our hero, but he doesn't care, 'cause
it's probably better over there!).  "Nuclear Apathy" off "Safety in
Numbers" discusses how the situation looks to those on the Moon.

Cramps:
Contributed a song to the soundtrack of "Return of the Living Dead",
called "Surfin' Dead" (about zombies and the like, not
to mention numerous uses of 50's-60's era hot-rod lingo.)

Crash Test Dummies:
A Canadian group. "Superman Song" from their first album, "The Ghosts that
Haunt Me", is about the man of steel himself, comparing his lifestyle to that
of Tarzan.

Cream:
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" from "Disraeli Gears" is about the
well-known mythological character.

The Creatures:
"Pluto Drive" from "Boomerang".

Creedence Clearwater Revival:
"It Come Out of the Sky".

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
"Wooden Ships" is a resigned tale of survival in a post-nuclear world.

The Cure:
On the "Faith" LP there is a track called "The Drowning Man" based on
chapter 75 in 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake describing the death of Fuschia.

Danse Society:
On their "Heaven is Waiting" LP is cover of "2000 Light Years from home".

DeBurgh, Chris:
"The Vision", "The Leader", and "What About Me?", a three-song
series from "Into the Light" discusses the Revelation, which may or
may not be a fantasy, depending on your viewpoint.  See "A Spaceman Came
Travelling" and "The Tower" from "Spanish Train", "The Girl With April
in Her Eyes" from "Crusader", "Sight and Touch" from "Man on the Line"
(post-WW3), and "Don't Pay the Ferryman" from "The Getaway".

Dead Milkmen:
Have done a number of SF songs, including "Right Wing Pigeons" from
"Big Lizard in my Backyard".

Deep Fix:
Michael Moorcock's band of the late seventies-produced one album, "The
New Worlds Fair".  A sort of cross between rock and slow square dance.

Deep Purple:
Occasional forays into SF.  "Space Truckin'", from "Machine Head".
"The Mule", from "Fireball" (Asimov's 'Foundation'?).

Def Leppard:
Heavy Metal.  First album ("On Through The Night" has a futuristic track,
"When the Walls Came Tumblin' Down", and a fantasy "Overture".
The LP "Hysteria" includes "Gods of War".

Devo:
"Q: Are we not men? A: We are DEVO" and "Duty Now for the Future" are
full of SF themes; examples are "Space Junk" and "Jocko Homo". "Freedom
of Choice" and "New Traditionalists" also have some SF material.
Also "Shout" has a couple of SF tracks on it: "Are You Experienced?"
(the Hendrix song) and "4th Dimension".  "Mr DNA" from "Duty Now for the
Future" is apparently about genetic engineering.

Diamond, Neil:
"Heartlight" is based on "E.T."

Dio:
Most Dio albums are fantasy in tone, i.e. covers & liners.  "The Last
in Line" is about a quest to find a witch.  Other songs and videos
have similar themes.

Dolby, Thomas:
"Golden Age of Wireless" is mostly (if not all) songs about
science/technology and man. "The Flat Earth" also contains these themes
to a lesser extent.  The album "Aliens Ate My Buick" (an SF title if ever
I heard one) includes the track "May The Cube Be With You" (first line -
"Late one night a happy Martian with nothing to do").

Donovan (w/Paul McCartney):
"Atlantis" (Georg Danzer translated and sang a German version.)
See also "The Intergalactive Laxative" and the title track
from "Cosmic Wheels".  "Sunshine Superman" probably deserves
a mention as well.

Dorough, Bob:
"Little Twelvetoes" is about an alien with 12 toes.

Duran Duran:
(Note: The group's name comes from a character in the Jane Fonda/Roger Vadim
film "Barbarella".)

Some comments from Gabrielle de Lioncourt on Duran Duran:

    Their first album has "Planet Earth" and "Sound of Thunder" (the
    latter about waiting for the bomb to drop).  A B-side, "Faster than
    Light", was also SF.  Duran Duran have a very interesting video
    history for SF lovers.  The majority of their videos were directed
    by Russel Mulchaey, director of Highlander.  Some video plots:

    "Night Boat" - zombie horror video
    "Hungry Like The Wolf" - man chases woman who turns into panther.
    "New Moon On Monday" - near future story of peaceful revolt against
            totalitarian regime.
    "Union of the Snake" - man from Earth travels into the world
            beneath ours.
    "View to a Kill" - James Bond fantasy.

    "Wild Boys" wasn't a tribute to Barbarella.  It was taken from
    their film "Arena", a _very_ surreal story that takes place half
    in the arena where Duran Duran are holding their concert and half
    in the strange underworld below the arena (where Wild Boys takes
    place).  The videos by Arcadia, a splinter portion of the band,
    are also surreal and SF-ish.


Dylan, Bob:
"Talkin' World War III Blues"

Earth, Wind & Fire:
"Jupiter" from "All 'n All"; the singer is visited by an alien
who wants to bring love and peace to the world by means of a
flower from his plant. "Electric Nation" from the "Electric Universe" album
tells how it won't be so bad to become a country of robots, as long as
we can still dance. ;-)

Electric Light Orchestra:
"Mission (A World Record)" on "A New World Record".  The entire album
"Time" involves a man from 1981 winding up in the 21st century.  The
"10538 Overture" is a dystopia set in that year.  (Although closer
examination of the lyrics indicates that "10538" might be a person,
not a year.)

Elephant's Memory:
The track "Old Man Willow" is apparently a reference to the sentient
trees described by Tolkien.

Eloy:
(German/Swiss electronic progressive rock) See "Ocean", the atlantis
myth; "Planets","Time to Turn",  a two album story of fantasy with a
twist.  (It's about "the rise and fall of the most beautiful planet in
the universe, Salta".) Also, "Giant" from "Colours" and "Night Riders"
and "Metromania" from "Metromania", about the high tech near future.  The
LP "Power and the Passion" is based on a story involving a student who
ingests some of his father's experimental timedrug. He travels back 600
years and falls in love, gets involved in her father's fight with the
peasants and eventually finds a wizard to send him back to the future.

Emerald Web:
(small obscure west coast duo [flute & synthesizer]) New age material,
but one album is "Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales", a fantasy story set
to music.

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer:
Space battle in "Karn Evil 9" from "Brain Salad Surgery".  See also "Tarkus".

Eno, Brian:
Albums: "Apollo" and "On Land"; see also "The Fat Lady of Limbourg"
from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", a bizarre story of
SF and espionage.  See also "Nerve Net".

----Some commentary on Eno from Tim Day:

Re "Apollo": This is purely instrumental.  It was apparently written as
sountrack for a video documentary of the Apollo missions (bits were
also used in the film "Static"), but I don't think this qualifies
it for the main section of the list any more than <random Tangerine Dream track>

"On Land" is also instrumental.  #1 of a series entitled "Ambient" (sort of
intelligent background muzak). It is intended to suggest large open spaces
(and succeeds very well).  But SF ?  No way.

Eno's philosophy towards song lyrics seems to be summarized by the first
track (I forget the name) on "Another Green World":
"All the clouds turn to words;
All the words float in sequence
And no-one knows what they mean
Everyone just ignores them"
Eno's songs generally aim to invoke an atmosphere, mood or emotion.
Like the music, lyrics are just another tool to serve this purpose; this can
often be done using particular words or phrases.  However, the song they form
in combination is essentially meaningless (which is why it's so difficult
to classify any of his stuff as SF !).  "The Fat Lady of Limbourg" is
probably the closest he's come.  (Though it really seems to be just about
bumbling espionage agencies.)

    --- Tim Day
-----

Enya:
"Aldebaran" is dedicate to Ridley Scott; but does it deal with SF themes?
Another track, apparently Tolkien-derived, is "Lothlorien".
The album "Shepherd Moons" is a sort of reference to the clusters of leading
and trailing satellites around Jupiter.  They are called the Shepherd
Moons and there are two camps, named after the sides in the Trojan War.

Erickson, Roky:
"The Evil One" has a track entitled "Creature with the Atom Brain"
Also see "I Walked with a Zombie" (now you know all the lyrics :-) ).

Europe:
A heavy metal band, which did the song "The Final Countdown", about
being exiled from Earth.

Eurythmics:
Did the soundtrack to the recent version of "1984".

FM:
The album "Black Noise" is entirely SF, and deal with topics such
as suspended animation; "RocketRoll" from "Surveillance" is about SF Rock.
Also see "Phasers on Stun".

Fagan, Donald:
"True Companion", about a lonely starship pilot, appears on the
soundtrack for "Heavy Metal".  (Incidentally, some folks have
interpreted I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) to be futuristic;
but it refers to the optimistic vision held *during* the IGY, 1957.)

Fairport Convention:
A few fantasy-related songs -- most notably "Tam Lin", the classic
celtic tale of an encounter with the Queen of Faerie.

Faith No More:
The last-minute addition of new singer and lyricist
Mike Patton before they came out with "The Real Thing" necessitated
that he write all the songs in about eight days, so he went on sort
of a scavenger hunt for topics. Among the usual assortment of love
songs, and some other truely weird topics, "Surprise! You're Dead!"
is about getting turned into a Vampire. "The Morning After" is about
a ghost, and is an adaptation of the film Siesta.

The Fall:
They have a song called "Lay of the Land" which starts with the chanting of
some "Planet people" from the British TV series "Quatermass".
See also "Elves", "Bug Day".

Firm:
"Star Trekkin'".  This is not the same "Firm" who did "Radioactive".

Fink Brothers:
"Mutants in Mega City One", from 2000AD comic (origin of Judge Dredd).
America portrayed as three cities under police control.

Fishbone:
Off their self titled album, "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." stands for
"Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts" and is
about a government attempt to convince everything that Hiroshima was
actually caused by Godzilla farting. I kid you not.
"Party at Ground Zero" from the eponymous album.

Fisher Z (the Z is pronounced the Britisch way, sead with a soft s):
The title track from their album "Red Skies Over Paradise" is
about nuclear war in Britain.

The Five Blobs:
"The Blob".

The Fixx:
"Driven Out", about environmental disaster, from "Calm Animals".

Flash & the Pan:
"First and Last" is based on a combination of Olaf Stapledon's
"Last and First Men" and Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" or "2001,"
whichever you prefer. The song "California" is based on the novel
"Fail-Safe".  See also "Atlantis Calling".

Flash Fearless and the Zorg Women, parts 5&6:
Another weird IGTB type collaboration album from the
late 70's with some well-known rockers on it.
Includes "I'm Flash" by Alice Cooper.

Fleck, Bela and the Flecktones:
"Flight of the Cosmic Hippo", and "UFO Tofu" a couple of songs
with self-explanatory titles.  Incidentally, one of the Flecktones
is called "Future Man" and plays a futuristic SynthAxe Drumitar.

Fleetwood Mac:
"Green Manalishi".  (Judas Priest did an eminently forgettable version.)
"Rhiannon" is about a Welsh witch.

Flock, The:
"Dinosaur Swamps" is an early LP.

Flock of Seagulls:
British band (circa 1982) very much associated with science fiction.
Songs with titles like "Man Made", "DNA", and "Modern Love is Automatic".

Foxx, John:
Former lead singer for Ultravox -- slightly harsh electro-pop.  Futuristic
tracks include "20th Century" on the B-Side of the "Burning Car" single.
Surreal tracks include "He's a Liquid".  First solo album "Metamatic"
is futuristic and minimalistic synth music, including "No-one's Driving"
and "Underpass"

Frank Chickens:
"Mothra", based on the movie monster.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood:
Their 1984 "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" album has two tracks with SF'isch
connotations.  The title track is about the Coleridge poem ("In Xanada
did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree", if memory serves ---Rsk),
and 'Two Tribes' is about nuclear war.

Front Line Assembly:
An industrial band, their latest album is titled "Tactical Neural Implant"
and they have a single from that album called "Mindphazer". The video for
this single has footage from a japanese live-action sci-fi film
called "GUNHED".

Gabriel Bondage:
"Another Trip to Earth" (LP), religious/fantasy mixture.

Gabriel, Peter:
"Here Comes the Flood", with Robert Fripp, and "Solsbury Hill" are typical
of his work. "On the Air" from his second album is about running a pirate
radio transmitter under a totalitarian regime. Many of his other songs deal
with aspects of science and technology and progress, and their effects
on people, but many of them are metaphorical and interpretations vary.

Game Theory:
One of the tracks on the album "Lolita Nation" includes references
to Captain Jim, the Prime Directive, T'Pau, etc.

Genesis:
"Watcher of the Skies" (from "Foxtrot") and "One for the Vine" from
"Wind and Wuthering" concern time travel; perhaps "The Return of the
Giant Hogweed" (Hello Triffids, from "Nursery Cryme"), "The Lamb Lies
Down on Broadway" (surrealism), and "A Trick of the Tail" (fantasy).
Oh, and "Get 'em Out by Friday" (from "Foxtrot").  See also "Keep it Dark"
in which visiting aliens persuade the person they contact to remain silent
about the visit.  More stuff: "Am I Very Wrong", "Solitude", "The Knife"
(from "Trespass"), "The Musical Box" (horror, from "Nursery Cryme"),
"The Fountain of Salmacis" (fantasy, from "Nursery Cryme"), "Supper's Ready"
(the ultimate battle of good and evil, from "Foxtrot"), "Firth of Fifth",
and Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" (both containing heavy fantasy
elements, both from "Selling England by the Pound").  See also "Squonk" from
"A Trick of the Tail", and "The Lady Lies" from "...And Then There
Were Three...", a fantasy about a traveller captured by a demon in the form
of a young woman.  "Domino" from "Invisible Touch" is about nuclear war,
death, damnation, and other cheery topics.

Gentle Giant:
Much material, tending towards fantasy including "The Advent of Panurge",
and "Alucard" (spell it backwards).

Gong:
New Age before anyone had coined the label "new age".  Three albums about
the Planet Gong, Zero the Hero & the Pot-Head Pixies!: "Radio Gnome",
"Angel's Egg", "You".

Gowan, Larry:
See "Oceania" from "Gowan" (first LP) might refer to Oceana.
See also "Strange Animal", his second LP.

Graham, Mark:
The album "Natural Selections" contains several humorous songs on
various scientific topics, including "Big Bang Theory" (the story of
the universe in six minutes), "Working on the Food Chain", "I Can
See Your Aura and It's Ugly" and "Their Brains Were Small and They Died".
Great harmonica playing, too.

Grand Funk Railroad:
See "Time Machine" and "Into the Sun" from "On Time", and
"Life in Outer Space" from "What's Funk?"

Grateful Dead:
"Standing on the Moon" is a reflection by a singer who is standing on
the moon watching petty wars on earth; possibly SF-ish although it
seems to be more of a love song.

Greenslade, David:
"The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", a double album of electronic music.
A derelict alien spaceship enters our solar system.  Their language is
decoded (details in the accompanying illustrated book); the music is
the story of their race.

H.P. Lovecraft:
Couple of albums...one contains "At the Mountains of Madness".  Estimates
place them in the late 60's.  Another track is "The White Ship",
directly referencing an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Hackett, Steve:
"Narnia" on "Please Don't Touch" (one of his solo albums;he was with Genesis).
His album "Voyage of the Acolyte" isbased on the Tarot, and includes
"Star of Sirius", "The Hands of the Princess", "A Tower Struck Down",
"The Lovers", "The Hermit", "The Shadow of the Hierophant", and "Ace of Wands".

Hagar, Sammy:
"There's a Crack in the Earth".

Hamm, Stuart:
"Radio Free Albemuth" is based on the novels of Phillip K. Dick.
"Count Zero" is based on William Gibson's material.

Happy the Man:
"Time Considered as a Helix of Precious Laughs" is based on Samuel R.
Delany's story "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones".
Great story, lousy song...from the album "Happy the Man".

Hardcastle, Paul:
The "No Winner" album is filled with songs about nuclear attacks and SDI.

Hatfield and the North
"Son of There's No Place Like Homerton" from their eponymous album.
It's a lengthy song which has sparse lyrics and seems to be
about an orchestra from Mars.

Hawkwind:
The all-time consensus champion for sf-oriented rock.  *Some* of their
albums are: "Hall of the Mountain Grill", "In Search of Space",
"Quark, Strangeness, and Charm", "Space Ritual--Alive in Liverpool &
London", "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "In Search of Space", "Doremi
Fasol Latido", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music","25 Years On",
"Levitation", "Sonic Attack", "Church of the Hackwind", and "Choose
Your Masks".  Michael Moorcock, long associated with the group, has
in fact written some fantasy-sf,including "Time of the Hawklords", a
fantasy about the band saving the world.  He co-wrote "Veteran of the
Psychic Wars", from the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal".  He also released a
solo album late in the 70's.  Many of their tracks are explicitly linked
to SF books,e.g. "Lord of Light", "Jack of Shadows", "Damnation Alley"
(Zelazny), "Steppenwolf" (Hesse), "High Rise" (Ballard).  The lyrics of
"Warriors" are taken from Moorcock's "The Eternal Champion"; the lyrics
to another spoken track on "Space Ritual" from his book "The Black Corridor"
The lyrics of "The Awakening", "Spirit of the Age" and "The 10 Seconds
of Forever", are SF poems from Robert Calvert's collection of poems,
"Centigrade 232".  Robert Calvert was lead singer of Hawkwind from
1976-1978 (or thereabouts) and produced a solo album, "Lucky Leif
in the Longships" in the late 70's, and two more in the mid-80's.
"Lucky Leif" is based on the premise "What if the Vikings had
succeeded and colonizing America?", and features several Hawkwind
regulars as guest musicians.  The 1985 Hawkwind LP "The Chronicle of
the Black Sword" is based loosely on Moorcock's Elric character.

Hazel O'Connor:
"Eighth Day" track. This is about how, as man advances, the world we know is
destroyed - part of lyrics - "Nobody laughs, nobody cries".  Very similar
to Zager & Evan's "2525".

Heaven 17:
This band took their name from a band mentioned in "Clockwork Orange".
"Let"s All make a Bomb" from their "Penthouse and Pavement" LP is about The
Bomb and nuclear war, but is apparently not too SF-ish.  See also
"Five Minutes to Midnight", on the same theme.

Heldon:
French band that took it's name from Norman Spinrad's "The Iron
Dream" and takes some song titles from the novel as well.  A later LP called
"Interface" has a beautiful female alien face on the cover and the titles
seem suggestive of leading up to sex with green women.

Helloween:
Two loosely-related albums, "Keeper of the Seven Keys" Parts 1 & 2.  The
first has songs about a future world, including "Twilight of the Gods"
which is about a planet that makes their own computerized gods, and the
new and old fight, and the whole planet gets trashed.  In the credits, it
says thanks to Herman Frank for INSANIA 2016, which is mentioned in the
song, that's possibly what it's based on. Also, on "Pt. 1" there is a
song called "Halloween" (with an 'a' not an 'e') that is like a part one
to the song "Keeper of the 7 Keys" which is on "Pt. 2".  The second LP
also contains "Dr. Stein", a comic Frankenstein, and the song of the
title, which is some sort of fantasy adventure.

Hendrix, Jimi:
Delta blues, except that the delta is on Mars.  See "1983...A Merman
I Should Turn to Be","Hey Baby", and "Third Stone from the Sun",
"UFO", and lots of other stuff.

Hillage, Steve:
His album "Green" includes an instrumental called "UFO over Paris".

Hitchcock, Robyn:
See "The Fly", "Man with the Light Bulb Head".

Holdsworth, Allan:
Fusion guitar, for the most part. "Atavachron" is the instrumental title
track about the Atavachron, a time machine from a "Star Trek" episode
which an entire race used to escape from their sun which was about to
go supernova. "The UnMerry Go-Round" from "Metal Fatigue" is a conceptual
"soundtrack" to a story about a space traveler who must leave for a
distant star, never to see his beloved ones again because his ten-year
voyage, by Einstein's laws, will last several hundred earth years.
The succeeding track, "In the Mystery" is about some sort of quest.

Holy Modal Rounders:
"Mister Spaceman", complete with yodeling.

Hoodoo Gurus:
Do a song called "Another World" which is about an alien.

Huey Lewis & the News:
"Back in Time" from the "Back to the Future" soundtrack.

Human League:
"I Am the Law", also from Judge Dredd (futuristic cop) comic.  Process
of apprehension, trial, conviction, and sentencing telescoped into a
very short time period.  (This reminds me of the short story, "10:01 AM"
by Alexandar Malec; it appears in a hard-to-find collection called
"Extrapolasis" ---Rsk.)  Also "Black Hit of Space" from the "Travelogue"
album.  Top 40 hit songs arrives from space and takes over the charts.
"Circus of Death" from "Reproduction" (and misc EPs) mentions that the
last verse is spoken by "the last man on earth"...it is actually a drug song.
(And, to top it of, it mentions Steve McGarret from Hawaii 5-0.)
Also "Seconds" from "Dare!", possibly about a scientist blinding the dictator
of an African country with a laser. (The lyrics don't make direct reference
to it, but the tour slide show does...on the other hand, some folks report
that the tour slide show contained stills from the Zapruder film of the JFK
assassination.  Much dispute and confusion on this point.) See also
"Tom Baker", on the CD of "Reproduction", which might be about Dr. Who.

Icehouse:
"Icehouse" contains "Icehouse" which seems to be a gothic tale of some
sort (haven't heard the album in a while) and "Sister" which is about
a computer/android (not sure which off-hand for same reason above).

IGTB:
Stands for Inter-Galactic Touring Band; Mish-mash album put out in 1977
with all sorts of people on it, purporting to be a group on galactic tour.

IQ:
Several possibilities here; "Last Human Gateway" from "Tales From a Lush
Attic"; "Outer Limits" from "The Wake"; "Human Nature" (about evolution)
and "Screaming is About Dying" from "Nomazmo"; "Falling Apart at the
Seams" from "Are You Sitting Comfortably?".

Incredible String Band:
"I Was a Young Man (back in the 1960's)", a future retrospective.  See
also "Swift as the Wind", wherein a child's fantasy-hero turns out to be
more substantial.