Songs of the Moon

    In the previous post we featured songs inspired by the Sun.  Now it's the Moon's turn.  

First up is a 90's band covering an 80's song.  Pavement's interpretation of Echo and the Bunnymen's ' The Killing Moon'.

   In 1985  British band XTC, under the pseudonym Dukes of Stratosphear, released the EP '25  O'Clock'.  It is a collection of songs written with a nod to 60's bands: Beatles; Byrds; Kinks; Pink Floyd; Jefferson Airplane among others.  Song 2 on side A of the vinyl record is 'Bike Ride to the Moon',  an original song in the style of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd  It may or may not have been inspired by Dr. Albert Hofman's experience after he became the first person to ingest the chemical compound he had synthesized.  On April 19, 1943 he took 250 micrograms of LSD and in the obvious next step hopped on his bike and rode home.

  Wrapping this post up is the Magnetic Fields 1995 song 'Save a Secret for the Moon'.