Science fiction and fancy have colonize every street corner of soda pop culture — specially the public of music . From awful movie soundtracks to science fiction - inspired stone operas , genre stories have always gone along with sonic landscape . You ca n’t really know science fabrication and fantasy without know the music these genre have inspire .
So we ’ve compiled the ultimate list of the 100 euphony albums that every self - respecting science fiction and fantasy sports fan should know about . Weasked our following on io9 ’s Facebook page , and got a banging 423 trace . And then we debated amongst ourselves , until we felt certain we ’d compiled the most rock candy - self-coloured listing of essential album we could maybe murder on . Because there was so much to choose from , each artist only gets to be on the lean once . ( So we do n’t have ten David Bowie albums on the list . )
Today , we ’ll post numbers 71 - 100 , and we ’ll do 20 a day after that . And then on Monday , we ’ll post the top 10 .
100 . Mastodon – break through the Skye ( 2009 )
The “ guck metal ” band goes prog rock candy with this album about a paraplegic kid whoexperiments with astral traveland then goes through a wormhole and meets Rasputin , after which Rasputin put down the nipper ’s body to escape assassination . These recollective , midtempo guitar - intemperate songs explore a universe of sinister subject . nominate by Tal Wallace and Andrew Keeton . – Charlie Jane Anders
99 . Alain Goraguer – The Fantastic Planet soundtrack ( 1973 )
For the trippy Franco - Czech animated classicLa Planète Sauvage , wind piano player Goraguer whip up an supernal ( albeit foul-smelling ) score that whisks you away to the Slap Bass Nebula , where you’re able to barely see the warbling chanteuses behind that nearby natural gas giant . Also , this hypnotic score was a favourite of articulatio coxae - hops producerslike J Dilla and Madlib . – Cyriaque Lamar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OOLxGjb3dY
98 . Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor ( 1979 )
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto get his start with this band of Japanese synthpop trailblazer , whose candy - colored futurism has influenced nearly every form of beep - bloop music currently out there . perdition , Solid State Survivor , the group ’s crown album , remain better than 99 % of the bleep - bloop euphony out there . Also , Yellow Magic Orchestra ’s music videoswere like a rager in an Intellivision . – CL
97 . Add N To ( X ) – Avant Hard ( 1999 )
This defunct British synthesiser rig had the electrical capacity to make songs about sexbots andBuckminster Fullersound downright grimy , like a one bar where they serve Valvoline and the bar band is a broken washing political machine . Also , the video recording for “ Metal Fingers In My Body ” ( NSFW ) is required viewing . – CL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJRpKyvq8w
96 . Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle ( 1998 )
The Dutch prog rock artist delivers one of his most ambitious construct , a 100 - mo two-fold CD about sterotypical characters from throughout history being pulled into another attribute by an alien experiment . It ’s peppered with Hammond organs and wailing guitar as we fly into space with Roman Catholic centurion and ancient tyke . name by Joe King and Espen Von Hirsch Kummeneje , among others . – CJA
95 . The Residents – The Commercial Album ( 1980 )
A staple fibre of Dr. Demento ’s radio show , this offbeat band also pioneered electronic music , and facilitate blaze the trail that every synth - heavy pop band and electronica artist follows today . Their Commercial Album consists of 40 one - minute Song , each with its own assortment of jingle-jangle synth hooks . It “ goes well with LSD , ” says Jym . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlbmevHy_-Y
94 . Front Line Assembly – Tactical Neural Implant ( 1992 )
An electro - industrial record album that samples the hell out of Robocop II — not Robocop , as most other people would . Lines from the Robocop continuation like “ Jesus had day like this ” and “ a unique combining of software and constitutive system ” are intersperse with aggressive electronic noises , for a unambiguously cyberpunk soundscape . Suggested by Matt . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqbwB4iz_k
93 . Eon – The Void Dweller ( 1992 )
address of album from 1992 with random sample distribution — this one is full of samples from David Lynch ’s Dune , plus an Outer Limits episode . fabled rave producer Ian Loveday madea huge impact on the acid - house night club scenewith this ground - break full - length rave record album . Picture swarms of kids with glowsticks dance to “ The Spice Must Flow . ” suggest by Kathryn . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKv-3_9gHo4
92 . ) Joe Hisaishi – Princess Mononoke Soundtrack ( 1999 )
There are many beautiful science fabrication and phantasy soundtracks . Similarly , there are many phenomenal score to Studio Ghibli films by composer Joe Hisaishi — we ’re looking at youNausicaäandCastle In The Sky — but only one gives us Stendhal syndrome . – CL
91 . Space – Space ( 1990 )
This whirl - off project by Jim Cauty of the KLF — the striation gleefully responsiblefor this Time Lord trainwreck — is a psychonautical ambient theatre journeying out of our Solar System . rick off all the lights in your house , take a few mystifying breaths , and sham you ’re a NASA probe expose its sentience somewhere past Titan . – CL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69DwrXkjgw
90 . Black Sabbath – Master of Reality ( 1971 )
The ultimate album about scarper from a dark realness , and an amazing collection of guitar riffs . It terminate with “ Into the Void , ” about leaving a dystopian Earth for a new world . The Mountain Goats ’ John Darnielle spell a book about this album , and hetold us in an interview : “ Ozzy has the courage to stargaze , to talk about leave behind the globe and going somewhere where everything ’s cool , and he sneaks in “ the man is screwed ” tropes while he ’s at it . ” – CJA
https://gizmodo.com/the-mountain-goats-explain-why-ozzy-osbourne-is-a-scifi-373024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afkeBV59idI
89 . Intergalactic Touring Band – Intergalactic Touring Band ( 1977 )
This is like a joyous relic of a marvellously dorky time in dada civilization , specially in Britain . It sound like the Goodies and the Wombles and the Electric Light Orchestra and Rocky Horror and a million mirrors deserving of cocaine . And it has themost awful looking fan Thomas Nelson Page ever . Sort of an all - star concept album featuring people like Ben E. King and Meat Loaf . Sample lyric poem : “ Do n’t you think back the wars on Mars ? Well , I ’ve still got the scars … we ’ll keep our eyes on the view / If there ’s difficulty , we ’ll vaporize ’em . ” – CJA
88 . The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice – Moon Colony Bloodbath ( 2009 )
unblock only on vinyl radical as a circuit EP , this album about the guardian of an pipe organ - harvest home farm on the Moonis well worth get over down . It starts with a gorgeously melancholy birdsong with the lyric “ countenance me snuff it surrounded by machine , ” and ends with the Isaac M. Singer forget animated after the Satanic massacre on the Moon , tire out a wooing that proceed him tender but starving . Totally intense , and as raw as the Moon itself . – CJA
https://gizmodo.com/join-mountain-goats-and-vanderslice-for-a-lunar-organ-h-5394693
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3y2MUdq7U
87 . Frank Zappa and the Ensemble Modern – Yellow Shark ( 1993 )
The eldritch composer was a science fictional figure in his own right , and his final album is both his most serious and his trippiest , comprise awe-inspiring orchestral performance of his medicine . As Doctor Dementotold a rapt audience at WorldCon , this was Frank Zappa finally approaching a sound like that of his idol , Igor Stravinsky . And it ’s like the soundtrack to the weirdest skill fiction epical ever . – CJA
https://gizmodo.com/doctor-demento-pays-tribute-to-frank-zappa-his-musical-5833271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfci_gjZfc0
86 . Muse – Black Holes and Revelations ( 2006 )
The first I off this album was called “ Supermassive Black Hole , ” and that pretty much tells you what to gestate . As NMEsays , it ’s full of thundering piano chords that signal the wipeout of the world , which then reverse into the hoofprints of the horses of the apocalypse . There are lasers , explosions , sirens and battles on Cydonia , the area on Mars where all the pyramid are . It ’s all deucedly serious and kind of crank , in a good way . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF7VoVkSpY
85 . King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King ( 1969 )
The debut record album from prog rock group King Crimson , this is more proof thatprog rock-and-roll is the euphony of science fable . There ’s a magnanimousness and earnestness to this album that still come up through even as it feels dated , from the quietude of “ Mirrors ” to the thunder of “ 21st Century Schizoid Man . ” Sample lyric : “ The eat chains of prison moon / Are shattered by the Dominicus . ” – CJA
https://gizmodo.com/is-prog-rock-the-music-of-science-fiction-5326103
84 . Goblin – Suspiria Original Soundtrack ( 1977 )
Dario Argento ’s creepiest horror film , about a scary ballet schooling , gets a totally mad soundtrack by Italian rock band Goblin . It ’s some of the darkest , creepiest , most earwormiest repugnance movie music ever recorded , from the jewelbox opening to the drum and howls of “ Witch ” and the eldritch synthesizer hooking of “ Markos . ” -CJA
83 . Bo Hansson – Music instigate by Lord of the Rings ( 1970 )
Swedish multi - instrumentalist Hansson recorded a whole record album pay tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien ’s chef-d’oeuvre , long before there were proper movies to have their own soundtrack . It ’s all moody , twinkly , bubbling instrumentals , dominated by jazzy keyboards and some restive guitar work . It gets downright jumpy and nervy with the danceable “ Black Riders . ” – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys
82 . Clint Mansell – Moon Soundtrack ( 2009 )
As desolate and beautiful as Duncan Jones ’ Moon was , Mansell ’s melancholic and intense soundtrack was just as memorable andhaunting . Put it on in the background while you work , and you ’ll find like you ’re a lonely mining actor in a desolate lunar frontier settlement . – CJA
81 . X - Ray Spex – Germ - Free Adolescents ( 1978 )
Buoyed by the later , great Poly Styrene ( and some saxophone who had probably been imbibe ) this seminal punk LP was a Edward Everett Hale and hearty go - roll in the hay - yourself to the consumerism - obsessed dystopia of the late 1970s . Rife with themes of commercial-grade sapiens , vacuum - box youth , and thraldom ( ca n’t leave the bondage ) , Germ - Free Adolescents stay ridiculously striking three decades later . – centiliter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdT7GEhpM9A
80 . The Chemical Bros. – Dig Your Own Hole ( 1997 )
In the recent 1990s , this knowingness - lucubrate freakout was so populist they would play it between Pearl Jam and Chumbawamba on the radio . The scuttle soundscapes of this record album were grounds that abstruse simple machine music — which , in this vitrine , often soundedlike the interior of a space heavyweight ’s intestines — had the power to go mainstream . – CL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVcDwMkDLv4
79 . Uriah Heep – Demons & Wizards ( 1972 )
Remember when rock music was fantastical and fanciful , and layered guitar tracks were in the service of Sung dynasty about the solitariness of clip traveller and wizards ? This album is like the gross allegory of fancy rock . It starts with twangy acoustic guitar as we fit “ The Wizard , ” and then it just build into an bacchanalia of wah wah guitar and electric organ , in Sung dynasty like “ The Time Traveler . ” Dance your room into the space between worlds , with the bouncy “ Easy Livin ’ . ” – CJA
78 . aristocratic Öyster Cult – fervency of Unknown Origin ( 1981 )
Featuring lyrics by Michael Moorcock , much of this record album was intended for the soundtrack to Heavy Metal , but in the end only one song was on there ( see below . ) And the whole album still feels like the soundtrack to a great space epic , with quirky / attention-getting songs like “ Joan Crawford ( Has Risen From The Grave . ” ) Plus the hit individual “ Burnin ’ , ” which recalls “ Do n’t revere The Reaper . ” Sample lyrics : “ Riding her bird / High in the saddle / She come her chance to accomplish the pact now / As their leader / Swoops from the clouds / She sticks him with her sword / Then she discombobulate him down / The enemy shrivel and give-up the ghost / The enemy shrivel and die . ” It ’s larger-than-life in the absolute best way . – CJA
77 . Alan Parsons Project – I Robot ( 1977 )
After a debut base on Edgar Allan Poe ’s story , Alan Parsons and acquaintance move on to Isaac Asimov ’s robot story , with a roar album full of song about the ascent of artificial intelligence and the inevitable fall of human race to the automaton threat . It ’s like 1970s Pink Floyd doing an album about robot , only with more synth and more heavy dramatic play . Just check out this euphony video jell to Maizinger , Gundam and other anime golem series . – CJA
76 . Praxis – Transmutation ( Mutatis Mutandis ) ( 1993 )
In the seventies , Parliament - Funkadelic get outer space opera to novel heights — and then in the nineties , alumni Bernie Worrell and Bootsy Collins became part of a cyberpunk , hard - edged “ supergroup , ” the ambient - industrial Praxis , also sport Buckethead , Brain and beginner Bill Laswell . The songs veer from hip hop to knight to heavy metallic element , but what unites them is Collins ’ pop freshwater bass , Worrell ’s trademark softheaded synth and Buckethead ’s jarring guitar sound . This is the music you ’ll be allow for listening to after the world is reduced to a junkyard populated by baneful cyborgs and chaos magicians . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U52sP25ynE
75 . Electric Light Orchestra – Time ( 1981 )
The trippiest , twinkliest , synth - enceinte band convey you a conception album about a man who travel forward in time more than 100 years and has to set to the bizarreness of the futurity . If Xanadu was n’t mystical enough for you , this is the ticket . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geT2bYzvLcw
74 . Fela Kuti – Zombie ( 1977 )
The legendary Nigerian musician in all probability reaches his greatest originative height with this hypnotic James Brown - influenced jam , full of repetitious hooks and call - and - response vocals . hoi polloi who are used to think of zombi as post - apocalyptic berserkers will be jump by Fela ’s use of them as metaphor for soldier and their blind obedience to the Nigerian armed forces . “ Zombie wo n’t move unless you tell him to move . Zombie wo n’t think unless you tell him to think . ” It ’s the most danceable dystopian protestation you ’ll ever hear , and completely addictive . – CJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZQYZZtAHk
73 . GWAR – lustfulness in Space ( 2009 )
The only active heavy metal band who are really from outer infinite spillage their 11th record album , with slews of fast and freaky songs and whine guitar Riff . Lead vocalist Oderus is at his most evil and forbidding singing “ We do n’t have to hide out our genocide , ” and the Scumdogs transmit a mother wit of thundering insanity — the perfect soundtrack for a Dragon*con bondage debauch at three in the good morning . – CJA
72 . The Heavy Metal Soundtrack ( 1981 )
“ Who wants to go on a pterodactyl ride ? You want to go on a pterodactyl ride , mon frere . I ’ll grab the key to my dada ’s van , we ’ll hit the hard drink store , and find out that pterodactyl down by the quarry . I hear Fiona will be there . Yeah ! Girl ’s got eye like a goddamn sorceress . ” – CL
71 . Voivod – The Outer Limits ( 1993 )
Canadian metallic element stria Voivod goesslightly more glossy and accessiblewith this discharge , ditching the DIY speech sound and frequent tempo changes for a more digestible aggregation of riffs . But that does n’t keep the explorations of science fiction themes from being intense — include the 17 - minute of arc “ Jack Luminous , ” about a friendly alien who comes to Earth to forestall a putsch by the evil alien dicatator , President X - D. It ’s a guitar - heavy epic that sustain throwing out new melodious ideas as it teaches us how to save the world , metal - style . – CJA
FURTHER READING
– Albums # 51 - 70
https://gizmodo.com/100-albums-every-science-fiction-and-fantasy-fan-should-5905151
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