Top 5 Sci-Fi Songs

There are a lot of songs about space and time travel, alien abduction or AI , more than I can count with my fingers, which was a really big surprise for me when we talked it in class. Some of them bizarre,  others poetics, and even others that will make you think if the creators were on drugs when they wrote them, but here I'm going to focus in the related sci-fi songs that I like the most, directly from my playlist. Obviously there are going to be several songs that there are not going to be in the list that you could considered inflatable, so remember, this is a top 5 of my favourites sci-fi songs, so... with this know, let's begin:

5. The Final Countdown - Europe    

Written by Joey Tempest, this could be easily the most famous sci-fi song ever. You just need to listen a few seconds of the intro and it is done. This song talks about leaving earth, looking for Venus as a final destination of a space travel.

The truth is that is not necessary a lot of interpretation to comprehend completely this song, it is pretty literal, but you can't deny the fat that it has a very sticky chorus and intro.

4. Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead

Being the third song of the album OK Computer and written by Thom York, it is based in personal experience of the singer. Aliens hover over earth looking down, and watching us, while Thom dreams he could join and explore the universe with them, but then he realizes that no one would believe him.

3. Spaceman - The Killers

 From the album Day & Age, in this song Thom's desire comes true for Brandon Flowers, who is abducted from his bed to an alien spaceship. Exited for the idea of a interstellar travel, is disappointed when he realizes he was just an alien experiment and now he is back in home, where nobody believe what happened to him.

About the music video, let's say it is quite... weird and it does not have much to do with the song, unless you use some elaborate metaphor for all the things (if you can call them things) there are in the video.

2. Soma - The Strokes

If you read Brave New World , then there is not much to say about this. This song makes a direct reference to the hallucinogenic drug developed by the World State, which is self-medicated to eliminate signs of stress and depression.

Although the first stanza talk about Soma, the meaning is getting lost as the song progresses. The chorus which appears twice in the song is apparently ambiguous, while the rest of lyrics seems to speak of the savage and his relationship with Lennina.

1. Citizen Erased - Muse

According to Matt Bellamy (lead sing of the band), this song is "an experience of what it feels to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said".

But for a lot of fans (including me) this song, regardless for Matt's interpretation, it is based in one of the most greatest works of science fiction: I'm talking about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which citizens are erased and lies control society. Other rumors said that this topic is already in at least two more song of the band. 

Despite the fact of its content, musically this song is my favorite because of the riffs and the piano outro and the use of falsettos. And all this made this song the best single that the band has ever released.