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SciFi SongFest, Songs 125-128.

Four Star-Wars-related songs:

125. Bill Murray, “The Star Wars Theme,” “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” and other classic tunes (1978):

126. Weird Al Yankovic, “Yoda” (1985):

The original song (“Lola” by the Kinks, 1970):

Weird Al’s Star-Wars-ified version:

127. Weird Al Yankovic, “The Saga Begins” (1999):

The original song (“American Pie” by Don McLean, 1971):

Weird Al’s Star-Wars-ified version:

128. Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver, “Please Mr. Kennedy,” from Inside Llewyn Davis (2013):

The original songs – a bunch of ’em:

And their culmination is an inadvertently, retroactively Star-Wars-ified song, as Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren sing about space travel – two years before The Force Awakens:


SciFi SongFest, Songs 123-124

Electronica robotica, Kraft and Daft:

123. Kraftwerk, “Robots” (1978):

124. Daft Punk, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (2001):


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