Talk:Space rock
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is it just me or does Creedence's "Green River" really not belong as an example of this type of music.. Floorsheim 18:46, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) Please, what is the difference between space rock and psychedelic rock? And waht makes a Bob Dylan folk-cover-band like The Byrds to a space rock band? Four songs?--212.80.224.243 20:28, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to put this, and I don't want to muck up the article without proper forethought, but I ran across a quote the other day that probably belongs here to balance out the Pink Floyd references.
"All that stuff about Syd starting the space-rock thing is just so much fucking nonsense. He was completely into Hillaire Belloc, and all his stuff was kind of whimsical, all fairly heavy rooted in English literature. I think Syd had one song that had anything to do with space, 'Astronomy Domine', that's all. That's the sum total of all Syd's writing about space and yet there's this whole fucking mystique about how he was the father of it all. It's just a load of old bollocks, it all happened afterwards. There's an instrumental track which we came up with together on the first album, 'Interstellar Overdrive', that's just the title, you see, it's actually an abstract piece with an interstellar attachment in terms of its name." -R. Waters Caterpillar 36 23:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Can't help feeling that the problem with this article is that it confuses music with lyrics about space with space rock itself. Space rock is a definite musical genre - basically free jazz inflected rock played by hippies on acid. Hawkwind, Spacemen 3 etc count, but I'm not sure you can really squeeze the purple people eaters in. Also, how can you have an article on Space Rock that doesn't mention Sun Ra or the MC5 doing Starship? Hmmm? My suggestion is that this gets split into a musicological page called Space Rock which tries to link the common themes (long songs, drones, atonality, hair, acid) into a musical movement and another which is one of thos pointless (but amusing) Wikipedia list pages (suggest: songs about space travel)
I have to agree with that last comment by unsigned - this is mixing two different things rock/pop with a science fiction theme and the Hawkwind et al --- Beardo 09:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] is this really alternative?
i'm pretty sure that alternative rock is defined as basically the whole musical generation that followed punk, when space rock appeared far too early for that. 67.172.61.222 21:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pink Floyd
The article says that "astronomy domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive" are examples of Pink Floyd's space rock.But,in fact,they are the ONLY space rock tracks of that band
Err...this page really could use a second look. Cave In? Mars Volta? These are not space rock, friends...
