Are There Echoes in Space? YES!

Echo & the Bunnymen’s classic 1984 album, Ocean Rain will be blasting off to the International Space Station on June 13.

Seems Colonel Timothy L. Korpa, longtime fan and current astronaut, e-mailed the band asking if they wouldn’t mind if he took their album to space, and they obliged. 

Where ya gonna get a gig like that?

Said Ian McCulloch: “What an honour. Now it’s official. We are the coolest band in the universe. I cannot wait to hear from Tim what it is like to listen to ‘The Killing Moon‘ in the actual glow of the moon.”

I bet it will be pretty amazing. But, I wonder: Since space itself sounds pretty strange, does music sound different in space? And, suppose you were heading to space for months. What music would bring?

Here’s my space shortlist:



1. The Pearl, Brian Eno & Harold Budd



2. Lamentate, Arvo Part



3. Ta Det Lugnt, Dungen



4. Neu!



5. Pocket Symphony, Air



6. Electr-o-pura, Yo La Tengo



7. Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth



8. A Sectioned Beam, Lansing Dreiden





SPACE!