The band They Might Be Giants has recorded cover versions of two Space Songs, " Why Does The Sun Shine?", and "What Is A Shooting Star? (A Shooting Star Is Not A Star)", as well as a reply to the former called "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" which corrects scientific errors in the original. On Septemepisode of Rocketboom featured the songs "Why Do Stars Twinkle?" and "Beep,Beep". The song "Zoom a Little Zoom" has notably been used in the popular online vlog Rocketboom as its theme song. Japanese electronic music producer and DJ Yoshinori Sunahara sampled "Zoom a Little Zoom" in his song "Journey Beyond the Stars", which featured on his 1998 album Take Off and Landing.
(And in the essay, gives reasons as why mankind should "go up there.") He liked the music so much, especially the song "Why Go Up There," that he appropriated the album for his own record collection. He tells an anecdote about his children receiving this album as a present. Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "Catskills in the Sky" which appeared in the August 1960 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. ( October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. One of the odder but more enjoyable tracks, "The Rush Is Loud," explicitly talks about the songwriting and recording process against a rough electro/industrial arrangement, Reilly's hushed singing an interesting contrast to the music.This section needs additional citations for verification. Reilly's singing is much less forced than before (and it should be noted he's never tried to simply ape David Gahan, likely due to his higher register), while more explicit hip-hop approaches (scratching, not just breakbeats and loops) add further to the overall flavor.
Many other songs similarly let the electronics take the fore, while more than once the band fully drop the guitars entirely in favor of melancholy soundscapes and melodies, though nearly often with the band's own brand of full-bodied rock/funk rhythms. "Alone Again," possibly a thematic sequel to the debut EP's "Lonely Again," though it doesn't immediately sound like it, plays down the guitars in favors of the beats and wiry, edgy keyboard lines, a balance repeated to even more haunting effect on "Happy?," with its acoustic guitar-touched intro and distanced, echoed feeling. None of this is to belittle the album if anything, rather than simply cloning Depeche's own style in the fashion of bands like Camouflage, the integration of that approach with God Lives Underwater's own murky rock is even better than before.
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Unsurprisingly the record itself had that connection in the music as well - "Rearrange," the first full track after a brief introduction, has a synth line that's just as obviously in debt to Depeche as the closing synth break on Nine Inch Nails' "Closer," say. Besides covering "Fly on the Windscreen" for the Music for the Masses tribute album, the group named its full new album after the slogan found in Black Celebration's artwork. If it wasn't clear enough before, God Lives Underwater fully nailed their colors to the Depeche Mode fan mast in 1998 with not one but two nods to that band's astonishing Black Celebration album.
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