50 Best Rock Songs About Outer Space
Best Rock Tracks That Drift Into Outer Space
There’s something strange about space songs. They never stay neatly in one mood. There’s awe, loneliness, distortion, and that pull to look up even when nothing’s looking back. The guitars stretch out, the drums fade into static, and everything starts to feel a little unanchored. These tracks live in that floating zone where sound turns into atmosphere. They make late-night drives feel infinite, the kind where you’re half-thinking, half-drifting. Some aren’t literally about galaxies or rockets or astronauts, but they still land in that orbit of distance and wonder that feels close to space anyway.
You can almost picture the glow of city lights shrinking below while something cosmic hums in your headphones. The lyrics blur between dream and science fiction, fuzzed out by feedback and longing. There’s Bowie’s glimmering isolation, Muse chasing apocalypse-sized euphoria, and Pink Floyd spinning through the void like it’s a memory. These aren’t the songs that keep your feet on the ground. They tilt the world sideways until you forget which way is up. Somewhere in the mix, space stops feeling far away and turns into a headspace.
It’s the same pull that runs through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs when they drift toward the unknown, that instinct to float a little outside the noise of everything familiar. Some tracks go full cosmic, others stay grounded but catch that same pulse. The fuzz, the echo, the slow fade to silence. Here are the best rock songs that reach into outer space.
Top 10 Outer Space Rock Songs
1. 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie
2. 'Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)' by Elton John
3. 'Interstellar Overdrive' by Pink Floyd
4. 'Drops of Jupiter' by Train
5. 'Starlight' by Muse
6. 'Space Truckin'' by Deep Purple
7. 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath
8. 'Starman' by David Bowie
9. 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' by Klaatu
10. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
Popular Space-Themed Rock Music #11 to 20
11. 'Another Girl Another Planet' by The Only Ones
12. 'Walking on the Moon' by The Police
13. 'The Final Countdown' by Europe
14. 'Intergalactic' by Beastie Boys
15. 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' by Radiohead
16. 'Astronomy Domine' by Pink Floyd
17. 'Mr. Spaceman' by The Byrds
18. '2000 Light Years From Home' by The Rolling Stones
19. 'Across the Universe' by The Beatles
20. 'Stellar' by Incubus
Essential Rock Music About The Cosmos #21 to 30
21. 'Man on the Moon' by R.E.M.
22. 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' by Peter Schilling
23. 'Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage' by Rush
24. 'Life on Mars?' by David Bowie
25. 'Under the Milky Way' by The Church
26. 'Space Station #5' by Montrose
27. 'Rocket' by Def Leppard
28. 'Moondance' by Van Morrison
29. 'Supersonic Rocket Ship' by The Kinks
30. 'The Whole of the Moon' by The Waterboys
Famous Rock Music About Planets And Stars #31 to 40
31. 'Supermassive Black Hole' by Muse
32. 'Space Age Love Song' by A Flock of Seagulls
33. 'Star Roving' by Slowdive
34. 'Telstar' by The Tornados
35. 'Orion' by Metallica
36. 'Space is Deep' by Hawkwind
37. 'Ticket to the Moon' by Electric Light Orchestra
38. 'Planet Queen' by T. Rex
39. 'Space Cadet' by beabadoobee
40. 'Venus and Mars/Rock Show' by Paul McCartney and Wings
Rock Music Inspired by Space Exploration #41 to 50
41. 'Satellite of Love' by Lou Reed
42. 'Third Stone From The Sun' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
43. 'Lunar Sea' by Camel
44. 'Astronomy' by Blue Öyster Cult
45. 'Star Me Kitten' by R.E.M.
46. 'Space Junk' by Devo
47. 'Cosmic' by Avenged Sevenfold
48. 'The Planets Bend Between Us' by Snow Patrol
49. 'Spaceman' by The Killers
50. 'I've Seen the Saucers' by Elton John
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