Contest winner's playlist will be sent to space aboard iPod
posted Apr 25th 2007 3:38PM
As if there weren't enough reasons to want to be a kid again, the European Space Agency is holding a contest for children 18-and-under that requires crafting the perfect playlist for astronauts floating around the International Space Station -- and the lucky winner scores a trip to South America to watch an iPod loaded with his/her tunes launched aboard the agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle. In a twist on the old "What would you bring to a desert island" question, the contest -- which is only open to residents of EU countries participating in the ATV program -- asks entrants to envision what ten songs they'd want to listen to (guess they're only sending up a shuffle) as they orbited 400 kilometers above the Earth, and although the rules don't specifically prohibit it, we imagine that entries which include "Major Tom," "Free Fallin'," or "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (not to mention anything by the Beatles) will be immediately disqualified. Now when the 20-tonne vehicle heads off towards the ISS later this year, it certainly won't be carrying the first iPod into orbit -- Anousheh Ansari famously brought hers up last year, among others -- and with the "Gates in Space" story now definitively debunked (tourist Charles Simonyi attributed the rumor to a Russian press "notorious for their fabrications") it looks as though space -- much like many places on Earth -- will remain a decidedly Zune-free zone for the foreseeable future.
DUH! Simple! The only thing you would need would be DSOTM!!!.....but then again, no under-18 kiddies would know that. A second choice would be the 1976 hit album Oxygene, or the 1978 album Equinoxe... if you don't know the artist, then you are once again, TOO YOUNG.
-he who stacks pork
One song I hope doesn't make the cut is "Its The End Of The World As We Know It(And I Feel Fine)" by REM.
Hate to burst your bubble, but "End of the World" is done by Great Big Sea.
Um REM IS the correct band, and its an amazing song!!
Easy: Track 1 - Ballboy "A Day In Space"
sweet dreams and flying machines....flying safely through the air.
track 1 has got to be Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Track two - "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling... if any kid under 18 knew who that was. Seriously tho, I wouldn't want to hear any song that describes how the shuttle Columbia re-entered the atmosphere.
I think you'll wanna add Elton John's "Rocket Man" to the list.
Well to burst yours back, REM did write the song. Covering the song, As Great Big Sea did, does not make it yours. Here's the Wiki on the song: http://tinyurl.com/2l8jqw
While I absolutely love GBS's version, it was in fact an REM song first.
if only it weren't an ipod...
Ahh - my frickin' comment double posted.
...well, crap - looks like I'm corrected.
WTF, player-hating on the Beatles?!
Well, I do guess 'Space Oddity' wont be there, but Bowie also has 'Life on Mars'. :)
First song I thought of was Armor For Sleeps "Slip Like Space".
"Neighborhood Spaceman" by Peeping Tom... anyone?
How come I can see the winner getting slapped with a lawsuit by the RIAA?
Something from taylor hicks...ROFLMAO
The Planets - Gustav Holst
one of the best compositions ever.
BT - Satellite :P
Hmmm... I must be old because I don't have a clue who Great Big Sea is. I guess I'm down with the "old school" REM version.
Oh and as for songs, I guess anything by Man or Astroman? would be good.
Obviously David Bowie - Space Oddity.
Guster - Satellite
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Elton John - Rocket Man
*Nsync - Space Cowboy
Cobra Starship - Snakes on a Plane
Don't lie, you love them.
The Intergalactic Laxative, by Donovan.
Don't Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra)
Vertigo (U2)
Back in Black (AC/DC or Hayseed Dixie)
Fly Me to the Moon (Astrud Gilberto)
Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra)
I Get Around (Beach Boys)
If I Fell (Beatles) (sorry)
Here Comes the Sun (Beatles) (sorry again)
Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) (via film 2001 A Space Odyssey)
Lucky Star (Madonna)
Love Really Hurts Without You (Billy Ocean)
Yeah, kids, why not send a playlist of nursery rhymes? XD
The Blue Danube Waltz by Johan Strauss II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkq0OnabR6E