Space Music Countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY Launch. 1 day out...

Eeep! Tomorrow is launch day! What more appropriate way to celebrate than with a mansion full of dancing

aliens?

Click here to watch "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.


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Space Music Countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY Launch. 2 days out...

The moon was huge last night. (I give the late, great Bea Arthur credit for that; see yesterday's launch countdown song.) Today we'll see whether we can influence some other celestial bodies.

Let's go for something requiring a bit more hair dye.  Click here for Siouxsie and the Banshees playing "Stargazer."

Space Music Countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY Launch. 3 days out...

Three days until launch, and I'm thinking that the Cantina band from Star Wars yesterday was much too serious. Let's get silly. Here's a little astronomical
number by Jerry Herman from his musical Mame.



This is and always will be Bea Arthur's song. So here she is, singing "The Man in the Moon," from the original Broadway cast recording. (The other voice speaking at the start is that of Angela Lansbury.)

Space Music Countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY LAUNCH. 4 days out...

The Webrid Chronicles is packed full of a wacky combination of species who squabble and tease each other, but will also lay down their lives for each other. A primary inspiration for this as I write is Star Wars. Specifically, in terms of the flavor of interspecies humor and creature design, I often have the Cantina scene in mind.

So, to pay tribute, today our Countdown Space Music is that earworm created by the brilliant John Williams, and played by the Cantina Band in the original Star Wars movie. 

Space Music Countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY launch. 5 days out...

Five more days until launch! Here's an interesting alien visitation song for our countdown. A great and powerful all-knowing unknown comes to
Earth from the sky to save humanity. Sound like any familiar religious archetypes?

Chris DeBurgh made that analogy in his haunting story-song, "A Spaceman Came Travelling."

Space music countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY launch! 6 days out...

Here's our second celebratory space song, leading up to launch day.

It's Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien," a fantasy about aliens circling Earth and watching us, baffled, as they take "home movies for the folks back home." 

If aliens are out there, you can bet they're watching Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of
Radiohead as some of our most fascinating humans.

Space music countdown to BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY launch! 7 days out...

Welcome to the BLUE DIAMOND DELIVERY countdown to launch!

Every day leading up to the launch on June 25, we'll feature a song relating to space, space travel, robots, or other sci-fi stuff.


#7. Let's start classy. You know things will devolve into silliness eventually, but we'll put on a high-toned front for now.

Here's Ella Fitzgerald singing Irving Berlin's "Reaching for the Moon." Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

Final Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown!!

Tomorrow is launch day, so this is the end of the countdown! I thought we should finish with an actual alien. Klaus Nomi truly believed he was from Mars. (His mom thought he was from Austria.) Here's a nice little apocalyptic ditty to close things out.

Video #1. Klaus Nomi. Total Eclipse (1981)

New Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown. 2 Days to Go!

Going back a bit (ooh, time travel!) for our penultimate video. Julie London transports us to our favorite satellite. Webrid would like this.

Video #2. Julie London. Fly Me to the Moon. (TV appearance, 1964)

New Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown. 3 Days to Go!

Three more days until launch. Let's get some classical music into the countdown mix.

When I was a kid, Jupiter was my favorite planet. I was mesmerized by its swirling pinks and oranges. Gustav Holst, in his orchestral suite The Planets, calls Jupiter "The Bringer of Jollity."

Video #3. Holst. Jupiter from The Planets. (Sir Charles Mackarras conducting the BBC Philharmonic)

New Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown. 4 Days to Go!

Feel like traveling from star to star? Let Rufus Wainwright take you there on a John Lennon interstellar vessel.

Video #4. Rufus Wainwright. Across the Universe (by John Lennon)

New Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown. 5 Days to Go!

Here's today's space-related countdown video. Remember, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

Video #5. Elton John. Rocket Man (live, 2005)

New Video for Green Light Delivery Launch Countdown: 6 Days to Go!

Counting down to launch day with space-related music. Here's today's video, a song about the theory of relativity and how it affects time during a space voyage:

Video #6: Brian May (of Queen). 39. Live, acoustic, 2006.

Video Countdown to GREEN LIGHT DELIVERY Launch!

Seven days to go until Launch Day! I'll be adding a space-related music video each day to count down to launch, so please check back tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

Video #7: David Bowie. Space Oddity original video, 1969.