Later today, I'm starting a fiction ghostwriting project about an astronaut on a space station who sees the Earth get destroyed by unknown forces. He has to contemplate what happened and what happens next among other things. I'm looking to put together a list of song (instrumental and otherwise) to kind of capture the mood that this sort of isolation would evoke. Wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations for me to build a Spotify play list. - specific track titles would be great if it's from a movie soundtrack.

Stupid suggestions are also welcome, because that's what I would give if I saw this thread.

If you give me some good ones, I'll try to work your user name into the book.

Appreciate it! Porkchop

Third Eye Blind - How's It Going to Be

R.E.M - It's The End of the World As We Know It

Chris Cornell - Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dont Forget Me or Slow Cheetah
M83 - Outro
Beach House - Silver Sound

Thanks to everyone
Instrumentals also welcome

Nine Inch Nails - The Day the World Went Away

Soundtrack to the I.S.S. movie?

Some great atmospheric instrumentals. I am currently writing a space opera. I've found these to provide some great inspiration and motivation.

From the Hulu original series "The First" (unfortunately got cancelled after 1 season)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3dVOwyONEKsnsJhLAlmmR7?si=P2xJfOB6SQ-xCdKl7hwGzQ

Empire of Light original score is great as well
https://open.spotify.com/album/1vyONs5zeECX2CNwehnn0D?si=FTCVUZJsR0aZN0FK6PFcRA

Last and First Men
https://open.spotify.com/album/79x1fDyq0qs8OS75QfEoYC?si=EJPy0tMOQ0Cp--iv4fA1yw

M83 - DSVII (plus their Outro is classic)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1euK7GgNJmBprlctpGtDC5?si=X0Md7RmVTjeqRM5YaREFWA

and just because it is great...
Dune
https://open.spotify.com/album/56k8ay5oE5apR61WIeE4wQ?si=2K5gN6b9T_6t1_dSzsXLuA


Good luck and enjoy!
- if you like these and need more, let me know.

Rush
Xanadu
2112
Jacob's Ladder
Hemispheres
Natural Science

Zep - In the Evening

Children of the Sun

If you want Zeppelin I'd go with No Quarter.

Who are you ghostwriting for?

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "(I'll Love You) Till The End of the World"

Know Your Enemy said:

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If you want Zeppelin I'd go with No Quarter.

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I'm a Zep fan and I know I'm in the minority, but I don't like No Quarter. Also, and this is a can of worms I'm opening, I don't like When the Levee Breaks.

snowdog90 said:

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Rush
Xanadu
2112
Jacob's Ladder
Hemispheres
Natural Science

Zep - In the Evening

Children of the Sun

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Just to add, I think you should listen to this song first. In my mind, this is the greatest, most underrated one hit wonder ever in the hard rock arena.

The artist is an Australian dude named Billy Thorpe. I first heard this song at age 11 or so. My family was at the Pizza Inn Tuesday night buffet in Mesquite, TX when this crazy, awesome song was played on the jukebox.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Sounds like you're not a Zeppelin fan.

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Yeah, lol, probably does, but those 2 songs I just never could like. I could of course list many that I love, but...

Another story... for the young 'uns...

Way back in about '96 or so, I was working as a programmer for MCI in Colorado. My then-wife was working on her bachelors degree in nursing and had a presentation to do. It was a presentation about the ideas of some old therapist or philosopher who had some really wild, strange ideas.

My then-wife wanted me to make a tape of some "weird", spacey music. I proceeded to use my boom box to tape 45 minutes of the intros of Xanadu, In the Evening, and Children of the Sun. She and her other presenters played it in the background while they gave their presentation.

They got an A. True story.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Claude! said:

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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

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Blue Star for Claude!

snowdog90 said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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If you want Zeppelin I'd go with No Quarter.

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I'm a Zep fan and I know I'm in the minority, but I don't like No Quarter. Also, and this is a can of worms I'm opening, I don't like When the Levee Breaks.

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Yeah, you should probably stop calling yourself a "Zep fan " to be accurate. Lol.

Know Your Enemy said:

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snowdog90 said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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If you want Zeppelin I'd go with No Quarter.

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I'm a Zep fan and I know I'm in the minority, but I don't like No Quarter. Also, and this is a can of worms I'm opening, I don't like When the Levee Breaks.

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Yeah, you should probably stop calling yourself a "Zep fan " to be accurate. Lol.

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That ground has already been covered, and I know, as I stated, I'm in the minority. But there's tons of great Zep songs. So here's my top 5 fave Zep songs, which imo are light years better than No Quarter and Levee.

Rain Song
Ten Years Gone
What is and What Should Never Be
The Ocean
Dancing Days

I'll add another one: Planet Caravan. The Black Sabbath original works, though I personally prefer the Pantera cover.

For either the beginning or the end... Enya, Less Than a Pearl.

Gotta include this to a thread like this one:

This is the full soundtrack from the video game Soma….the story of this game is nothing like what you've written but without giving away spoilers (because holy crap this was one of the best stories in a video game I've ever played) it involves the end of humanity and its of the horror genre….

Some great mood setting tracks on here….the uploaded didn't differentiate between them but someone in the comments broke them up into tracks with time stamps….

The Porkchop Express said:

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Philo B 93 said:

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Who are you ghostwriting for?

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Uh, that's kind of why I sign the NDA.

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Is ghostwriting prevalent in sci-fi? I've never really thought about it or looked into it.

Levee
Over the Hills and Far Away
Kashmir
Dazed and Confused
D'yer Mak'er

The Porkchop Express said:

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Philo B 93 said:

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Who are you ghostwriting for?

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Uh, that's kind of why I sign the NDA.

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Did the NDA not include the plot?

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Levee
Over the Hills and Far Away
Kashmir
Dazed and Confused
D'yer Mak'er

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Good list. My second 5, rounding out top 10.

Ramble On
Bring it on Home
Misty Mountain Hop
Immigrant Song
In My Time of Dying

For something isolating, I think of Ennio Morricone's score for John Carpenter's The Thing.

His score for Hateful 8.