Steel Prophet, ‘Dark Hallucinations’ album ‘We are on a mission right now to save rock and roll!,’ screams lead singer John West during this above live version of the title track to Royal Hunt’s 1999 release, ‘The Mission,’ a concept album based on ‘The Martian Chronicles.’ The release’s 13 tracks follow the narrative, with the Danish metal band pounding out fast guitar rock and West belting ridiculous lyrics like, ‘We gave this pain to the world which we can’t understand/Blood disappears like the raindrops when hitting the sand.’ (Hey, nobody ever said all inspiration is quality inspiration.)Ĭanadian power trio Rush draw on Bradbury’s collection of short stories from 1969, ‘I Sing the Body Electric,’ itself inspired by a Walt Whitman poem, during their song ‘The Body Electric.’ Taken from the band’s 1984 album ‘Grace Under Pressure,’ the song, written by avowed Bradbury fan/drummer Neil Peart, features androids, humanoids, system breakdowns, data overloads, lots of random sci-fi terms and ‘the mother of all machines,’ a reference to the plot line of the Bradbury story. Songwriter Tom Rapp introduces the mother and son early in the lyrics, and over wistful cello and keyboard, he sings of his father, who ‘loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond the sky.’ Composed by the psychedelic folk band on its 1970 album ‘The Use of Ashes,’ this earlier version mirrors much more closely Bradbury’s narrative.
John’s writing partner Taupin acknowledged the influence of the Pearls Before Swine song, also called ‘The Rocket Man,’ on their better-known composition.
It was planned in my mind that way.’ Best known for her work with Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls, Rose on ‘Interstellar’ channels the cosmos. It’s definitely tracked in a certain order. ‘A lot of the songs are inspired by old Ray Bradbury sci-fi stories,’ Rose told in April. New York singer Frankie Rose’s recent album, ‘Interstellar,’ was inspired by Bradbury, whose work not only defined science fiction but also the futuristic ideals of Los Angeles. ‘Look what they made/They made it for me, happy technology/Outside the lions roam feeding on remains/We’ll never leave look at us now/So in love with the way we are.’ The song’s chorus co-opts Bradbury’s original title of the story when first published in 1961, ‘The World the Children Made.’ A bouncing, four-on-the-floor electro-house ditty, the track describes a world in which technology has so consumed culture that the world outside has virtually vanished. Canadian mouse-helmeted beatmaker Deadmau5 named his recent single ‘The Veldt’ after Bradbury’s short story.
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