Paranoia and Peace

Our thrilling anthology of over-the-shoulder looking contains cover art scanned from a 1967 paperback by Allen Louis Erskine of the same title. Shown below:

Here is the line-up:

1 -   Prologue    Earth vs the Flying Saucers      1956       (0:51)

2 -  Sputnik II   Al Barkle & the Tri-Tones      1957       (2:01)

3 -  Rocket Baby  Jack Martin   1958    (1:59)

4 -  Satellite Beep Bop    Billy Mitchell & The Basie-ites   1958    (1:52)

5 -  Moon Baby       Bo Diddley 1961    (2:24)

6 - Rock Out of This World Joe Norris 1961    (2:11)

7 - Countdown Dave Brubeck 1961 (2:23)

8 - The Rocket Man The Spotnicks 1962    2:31)

9 - Astronaut's The Busters 1963 (2:02)

10 - 2000 Light Years from Home The Rolling Stones 1967     (4:47)

11 - We're on Our Way Chris Hodge 1969 (2:58)

12 - Space Captain Joe Cocker 1970 (4:58)

13 - Atom Satillite Del Byzanteens 1979 (1:52)

14 - Lunar Camel Siouxsie and the Banshees 1980 (3:00)

15 - Nuclear Drive Hawkwind     1982 (3:34)

16 - From Way Up Here Pete Seeger 1982 (2:41)

17 - Space Girls Toni Basil      1982   (2:55)

18 - Surprise! To Touch the Stars 1983 (3:04)

19 - Blast Off Stray Cats 1989     (2:42)

20 - Third Rock from the Sun Joe Diffie 1994 (3:04)

21 - Martian Trip The Vibro Champs 1994 (2:20)

22 - Crazy Alien Chick (Alt Version) King Memphis     1996 (2:33)

23 - Spaceman Bif Naked   1998 (4:21)

24 - Hallucinating Pluto The B-52's 1998    (4:19)

25 - Fireball XL-5 The Dead Elvi 2006 (1:59)

26 - Boppin' in Roswell   The Barnshakers 2009 (3:06)

27 - Moving to Mars Coldplay 2011 (4:03)

28 - Epilogue Earth vs the Flying Saucers 1956 (1:09)

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By the way, isn't it a lovely day?

To prove it, here's a more positive (and reality-based) viewpoint:

1 -     Sugar Rush     Joy Electric

2 -    Stay the Same     Daniel's Window

3 -    God-shaped Hole  Plumb

4 -    They All Fall Down     Grits

5 -    All Fall Down     Sarah  Masen

6 - Shackles - Praise You MaryMary

7 - Enchanted Chasing Furies

8 - In the Midst of the Rain BeBe Winans

9 - Are You the Walrus Furthermore

10 - If You Want Me To (live) Ginny Owens

11 - New and Improved Mayfair Laundry

12 - Underdog Audio Adrenaline

13 - The Devil Is Bad The W's

14 - Godspot Anointed

15 - Something More (Augustine's Confession) Switchfoot

16 - God-Man (Jesus Is My Superhero) Cadet

17 - Operator (Outro) KJ-52

18 - High Five   Calibretto 13

19 - Thank You, Goodnight All Star United

20 - Different Is Beautiful Riley Armstrong

21 - I'm So Happy   Sparklepop

It's hard to find a clump of songs that makes me more likely to sing and pray and do the Repressed-Guy Bop.

On consideration I can still recite the rap in the middle of the last track.

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I hope you are happy too!

See you Monday.