SONG OF THE DAY: "Bowie's in Space" by Flight of the Conchords (2007)

We conclude our Bowie-inspired SF featurette with this durprisingly on-target style parody by New Zealand's fourth-most popular comedy folk rock duo.

SONG OF THE DAY: "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling (1982)

This is actually a pretty great song that was unfairly decried back in the day of being a 'rip off' of Bowie when in fact it's more like an hommage. I assume all of you are sick to death of it, though, so I'll split the difference with you and put a live performance in German from 1983.

SONG OF THE DAY: "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie (1980)

In narative terms, this song isn't a sequel to "Major Tom," so much as it is merely set in the same universe as the earlier song, since it mentions him.

SPECIAL BONUS SONG OF THE (HOLI)DAY: "4th of July" by Aimee Mann (1993)

No, it's not at all SF-related, but it's haunting and callendricly relevant:

SONG OF THE DAY: "Space Oddity" by David Bowie (1969)

I don't really wanna' do it because I don't like this song, but we all know eventually I'll end up doing it out of desparation anyway, so let's just get it out of the way early, shall we?

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