VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

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VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs) 

When I finished VA - Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination 1950–1964, I thought I’d closed the book on the first great chapter of our musical fascination with the future. Those four discs captured the optimism, the novelty, the atomic jitters, and the wide‑eyed wonder of the early Space Age, a time when rockets were new, satellites were miracles, and the idea of life beyond Earth still lived mostly in pulp magazines and B‑movies.

But the story didn’t end there. If anything, the questions only got bigger.

Hence Visions of Tomorrow, The Space‑Age Imagination (1965-1979) now exists

By the mid‑1960s, space had stopped being a fantasy and started becoming a reality. We’d orbited the Earth, walked in space, and were preparing to land on the Moon. And as the world changed, the music changed with it. The future wasn’t just a theme anymore, it was a pressure, a fear, a promise, and a challenge. Rock musicians, electronic pioneers, prog visionaries, and cosmic outsiders all began to treat space not as decoration, but as a lens for thinking about who we are and where we’re going.

This new set, spanning 1965 to 1979, follows naturally from the first anthology, but the tone is different. The innocence is gone. The imagination is sharper. The questions are heavier. \

Across these 4 CDs, you can hear how space infiltrates the rock genre from every angle:

Spaceflight becomes a metaphor for transcendence, escape, and the search for meaning.

UFOs shift from novelty sightings to genuine encounters, paranoia, and cosmic curiosity.

Aliens evolve from little green caricatures into symbols of higher consciousness, alternate societies, and the unknown intelligence we might one day meet.

Robots move from mechanical toys to reflections of ourselves — our fears of automation, our fascination with artificial life, our anxieties about what we’re building.

Space Disco and Cosmic Futurism turn the dancefloor into a launchpad, where synthesizers mimic the pulse of machinery and the shimmer of distant galaxies.

And the Nuclear Age sits underneath it all, the shadow that shaped the era, the reminder that our reach for the stars was always matched by the possibility of ending everything here on Earth.

What I love about this period is how naturally these ideas seep into the music.

You can hear it in the electronics, the rhythms, the lyrics, the production choices. Space stops being a gimmick and becomes a worldview.

These tracks aren’t just about rockets or aliens or robots, they’re about the questions we still ask today. What’s out there? What’s coming next? What does progress cost? Are we alone? And what happens if we’re not?

From psychedelic wanderings to krautrock propulsion, from cosmic funk to early synthpop, from dystopian warnings to utopian dreams, this set captures the moment when musicians stopped imagining the future as a cartoon and started treating it as a real, looming horizon.

If the first anthology was about the birth of the Space Age, this one is about growing up inside it. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Unknown Preacher - Flying Saucer Sermon 0:35 1965

02 Byrds - Mr. Spaceman 2:10 1966

03 Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of The Sky 2:57 1969

04 UFO - Unidentified Flying Object 2:18 1970

05 Jimmy Ford & the Luzers - Mr. Flying Saucer Man 2:12 1965

06 Paul St. John - Flying Saucers Have Landed 3:17 1972

07 Jefferson Airplane - Have You Seen the Saucers? 3:36 1970

08 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Waiting for The UFO's 3:05 1979

09 Guru Guru - Spaceship (Edit) 4:59 1971

10 Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I Took A Trip on A Gemini Spaceship 2:32 1968

11 Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. 2:49 1969

12 Aaron Neville - Space Man 2:40 1966

13 Nicholas Hammond - Please Don't Switch Off The Moon Mr. Spaceman 2:21 1966

14 Roy Lee Johnson & The Villagers - Robot 2:28 1970

15 Valves - Robot Love 3:06 1977

16 Crack The Sky - Robots for Ronnie 4:35 1975

17 Incredible String Band - Robot Blues 4:10 1970

18 Robert Starks and the Geniuses - Space Traveling 3:00 1973

19 Zolar X - Space Age Love 3:20 1974

20 Jobriath - Space Clown 2:38 1973

21 Bonzo Dog Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman 2:25 1968

22 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Here Come the Martian Martians 3:13 1976

23 Brownsville Station - The Martian Boogie 4:18 1977

24 Liverpool Scene - We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die 5:52 1969

25 Yes - Arriving UFO 6:02 1978

CD2

27 Elton John - Rocket Man 4:42 1972

26 David Bowie - Space Oddity 3:47 1969

28 Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man 3:06 1970

29 Rockets - Rocket Man 2:39 1979

30 Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy 4:59 1969

31 Queen - '39 3:32 1975

32 Rolling Stones - 2000 Man 3:07 1967

33 Foreigner - Starrider 4:01 1977

34 Montrose - Space Station # 5 5:18 1973

35 Deep Purple - Space Truckin' 4:34 1972

36 Wishbone Ash - Ships in The Sky 3:00 1978

37 Sammy Hagar - Silver Lights 5:36 1976

38 Good Rats - Victory in Space 3:11 1978

39 Paul St John - Spaceship Lover 2:55 1972

40 Spontaneous Combustion - Spaceship 3:32 1972

41 Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Spaceship Orion 3:12 1973

42 Sugarloaf - Spaceship Earth 4:28 1971

43 Prism - Spaceship Superstar 4:09 1977

44 War - Galaxy (Original 1977 7" Single Edit) 4:45 1977

45 Galaxis - Space Rangers 4:32 1978

47 Mick Greenwood - Space Captain 3:45 1972

46 Harry Nilsson - The Flying Saucer Song 6:45 1976

48 Ren e Geyer - Space Captain 4:43 1973

49 Billy Preston - Outa-Space (Original 1971 7" Single Version) 4:10 1971

50 Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 5:42 1968

CD3

51 Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine 4:15 1967

52 Spirit - Space Child 3:25 1970

53 US69 - 2069 A Spaced Oddity 10:22 1969

54 Emtidi - Space Age 4:18 1970

55 Cat Stevens - Longer Boats 3:12 1970

56 Pink Floyd - Let There Be More Light 5:28 1968

57 Khan - Space Shanty 8:59 1972

58 Nektar - Astronaut's Nightmare 6:27 1971

59 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Third Stone From The Sun 6:39 1967

60 Ramases - Quasar One 6:46 1971

61 Beatles - Across The Universe 3:49 1969

62 Gong - To The Other Side of Sky 7:44 1973

63 Pink Floyd - Welcome to The Machine 7:31 1975

64 Alice Cooper - B.B. on Mars 1:17 1969

65 Moody Blues - Higher and Higher 4:05 1969

66 Steve Hillage - Solar Musick Suite 16:51 1975

67 Space Project - Conquest of The Stars 8:06 1978

68 Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri 3:22 1971

69 Grobschnitt - Solar Music Part 1 17:40 1974

70 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part II 8:08 1977

71 Eloy - Astral Entrance 3:04 1979

72 Jim Keays - Space Brothers 9:07 1974

73 Steve Hillage - U.F.O. Over Paris 3:10 1978

74 Lothar & The Hand People - Space Hymn 7:12 1969

75 Kraftwerk - The Robots 6:13 1978

CD4

76 Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Are ''Friends'' Electric? 5:25 1979

77 Alan Parsons Project - I Robot 6:02 1977

78 King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man 7:23 1969

79 Kraftwerk - Spacelab 5:58 1978

80 Blue  yster Cult - E.T.I. (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (Remastered) 5:14 1976

81 David Bowie - Starman 4:14 1972

82 David Bowie - Life on Mars (B-Side to Space Oddity) Italy 3:50 1971

83 Elton John - I've Seen The Saucers 4:47 1974

84 Lou Reed - Satellite of Love 3:42 1973

85 Fox - Strange Ships 5:01 1975

86 Stackridge - Purple Spaceships Over Yatton 6:39 1976

87 Eela Craig - A Spaceman Came Travelling 4:48 1978

88 Byrds - C.T.A. - 102 2:32 1966

89 Hawkwind - Silver Machine (A) (Original Single Mix) 4:39 1972

90 Hawkwind - Space is Deep 6:20 1972

91 Kim Fowley - Inner Space Discovery 4:04 1968

92 Klaatu - Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft) 6:16 1976

93 Bruce Haack - Super Nova 5:24 1970

94 Yes - Starship Trooper 3:26 1971

95 Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) 6:12 1975

96 Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Space Lady 6:45 1976

97 Byrds - Space Odyssey 3:46 1968

98 Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun 6:44 1979

99 B-52's - Planet Claire 4:37 1979

100 Jefferson Airplane - The House at Pooneil Corners 5:52 1968

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