Because I figured we all needed a break from songs about hating your job, quitting your job and arguing with the Job Centre... here's something completely different.
10. Kim Wilde - Blade Runner
(From 'Teases & Dares'.)
Yes, Kim Wilde wrote a song about Blade Runner, along with her dad Marty. Marty Wilde, not Marty McFly. I bet she's seen things you people just wouldn't believe.
9. Weird Al Yankovich - Yoda
(From 'The Essential Weird Al Yankovic'.)
Song about powerful Jedi master, Weird Al does, hmm? To the tune of Lola by the Kinks, he sings. Lyrics about how he met this wise muppet in a swamp on Dagobah, he writes. Mention awful sequels, he does not. Smart man, yes?
8. Julian Cope - Mad Max
(From 'Autogeddon'.)
Julian doesn't mean to hold a gun up to your head. I guess he leaves that sort of thing to Max Rockatansky.
7. Suede - Metal Mickey
(From 'Suede'.)
OK, he's hardly the world's greatest sci fi hero... but he was better than ALF. The song isn't really about him anyway.
6. Bellatrix - Jediwannabe
(From 'It's All True'.)
Icelandic indie chicks give great geek-rock - complete with retro-80s "boop boop!" laser beam vocals. And I just discovered their album also contains a track called Daredevil... where were they when I did my Top Marvel Comics Songs?
Whatever gets you off, love.The nerds of a new ageAre coming up to take the stage...They're coming round...They're crawling into my bed.
5. The Timelords (KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis
(From 'The History Of Jams a.k.a. The Timelords'.)
This track already made it onto my Top Ten Doctor Songs, but Who's counting?
4. Catatonia - Mulder & Scully
(From 'International Velvet'.)
I still have a great fondness for Mulder and Scully, and for the way Cerys Matthews sings their names in her razor-blade-throated Welsh. "This could be a case for Murrlder and Scccurlee!"
Special mention goes to Millennium, the X-Files spin-off, starring Lance Henriksen as Frank Black from the Pixies.
3. Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk?
(From 'Where's Captain Kirk: the Very Best of Spizz Energi'.)
Spizz gets beamed aboard the Enterprise, meets all the crew, goes Warp Factor 2, but can't find Captain Kirk. But wait - there's a twist coming that would make Shatner proud. And just to balance things out, they also recorded a song called Spock's Missing.
REM have also covered this. Sadly....... theShathasn't. Yet.
Oh, and lest we forget... there's Klingons off the starboard bow, Jim.
2. Feeder - Buck Rogers
(From 'Echo Park'.)
This is what happens if you get a house in Devon and drink cider from a lemon. Could be worse, you could end up in the 25th Century wearing a white spandex jump suit, with only Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes and the universe's most annoying robot for company. ("Bidee-bidee-bidee... right, Buck!") Still, it wasn't all bad. Let's not forget Wilma Deering.
1. Queen - Flash
(From 'Flash Gordon Soundtrack'.)
Because, come on, let's face it - he saved every one of us. And he only had fourteen hours to do it.
Altogether now... "GORDON'S ALIVE!!!"
So who got lost in the black hole? "Brown Eyed Han Solo Man"? "Things (From Another World) Can Only Get Better"? "I'm ET Like Sunday Morning?" Boldly go into the comments section now...
