Recycled In Space / Music

• 2112 is Anthem WITH ELECTRIC GUITARS!
• AC/DC are Slade DOWN UNDER!
• Afroman is "Weird Al" Yankovic AS A RAPPER!
• By the 21st century, a-ha have turned into Coldplay FROM NORWAY!
• Alabama is The Eagles WITH COUNTRY INSTRUMENTATION! (The same could also be said of almost any 1980s country band, such as Restless Heart or Exile.)
• Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown Concept Album/Folk Opera is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice SET IN A GREAT DEPRESSION-LIKE POST-APOCALYPSE!
• ApologetiX are A CHRISTIAN EQUIVALENT TO "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC!
• The video to A1's cover of a-ha's "Take on Me" is set IN CYBERSPACE!
• Bardcore in general is modern day pop songs REWRITTEN AS IF THEY EXISTED IN THE MIDDLE AGES OR CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY!
• Barenaked Ladies are Phish FROM CANADA!
• Bell Biv DeVoe is New Edition MINUS RALPH TRESVANT, BOBBY BROWN AND JOHNNY GILL!
• Camouflage are Depeche Mode FROM GERMANY! They've actually always tried not to, but whenever they took a stylistic turn for their next album, Depeche Mode released a new album in just that same sound.
• Carman is "Weird Al" Yankovic AS A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC SINGER!
• Cledus T. Judd is "Weird Al" Yankovic AS A COUNTRY MUSICIAN!
• Chromeo's When The Night Falls video is Thriller WITH PREGNANT WOMEN!
• The Chronicle of the Black Sword is The Elric Saga AS A ROCK OPERA!
• Joe Cocker was literally Ray Charles BUT WHITE because he was cast as such.
• Demons & Wizards is Iced Earth WITH HANSI KÜRSCH ON VOCALS!
• Devin Townsend's concept album, Ziltoid The Omniscient can be described as Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds...AS AN INDUSTRIAL PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL COMEDY!
• Devo is Kraftwerk IN AMERICA! Oh, and WITH GUITARS!
• Editors are Interpol WITH SYNTHESIZERS!
• Billie Eilish is Lorde BUT DARKER AND EDGIER!
• Ghost are TISM AS A SWEDISH HEAVY METAL BAND!
• Giulietta is Nicki Minaj AS AN ITALIAN-AUSTRALIAN!
• Greta Van Fleet are Led Zeppelin FIVE DECADES LATER!
• !Hero: The Rock Opera is the story of Jesus IN MODERN-DAY AMERICA 20 Minutes in the Future IN AN ALTERNATE HISTORY!
• Kaizers Orchestra are Tom Waits AS NORWEGIAN ALTERNATIVE ROCK!
• Klemen Slakonja is "Weird Al" Yankovic FROM SLOVENIA!
• If Memetic Mutation is to be believed, Kraftwerk are The Wiggles FOR GERMAN ART STUDENTS! In reality, they are more like Perrey and Kingsley FROM GERMANY AND WITH A SINGER!
• Laserdance (and the spacesynth Sub-Genre in general) is Italo Disco IN SPACE!
• Little Big Town is Fleetwood Mac WITH COUNTRY INSTRUMENTATION!
• The Lords were The Beatles FROM WEST BERLIN! This even extended to Best Of Album cover design.
• Every album by The Mechanisms can be boiled down to classic folk tales and myths IN SPACE!
• Muse really is Queen IN SPACE!
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark wanted to be Kraftwerk FROM LIVERPOOL!
• Pixie Lott is Britney Spears FROM THE UK!
• Psychedelic Rock: Rock music ON DRUGS!
• The music video for Amerika by Rammstein has the band playing... ON THE MOON.
• Romeo Void was Blondie WITH A FULL-FIGURED BRUNETTE VOCALIST!
• Klaus Schulze's Timewind album is Richard Wagner IN SPACE!
• Take a guess what Space Rock is about. Hawkwind can be described as Blue Cheer IN SPACE!
  • There's also a pop equivalent, even older: Space Age Pop is Lounge music and Surf Rock IN SPACE!
• Ivana Spagna is Taylor Dayne FROM ITALY!
• Sparks literally has an album titled "In Outer Space". The album cover title reads as "Sparks In Outer Space".
• Spiritual Jazz is Jazz IN SPACE!
  • Pharoah Sanders even described his own brand of Spiritual Jazz as Nubian space jazz.
• Star One is an Arjen Anthony Lucassen Rock Opera project IN SPACE!
• Tanz Der Vampire is The Fearless Vampire Killers AS A ROCK OPERA!
  • Dance of the Vampire is Tanz Der Vampire IN ENGLISH AND PLAYED FOR CAMP!
• They Might Be Giants' "The Ballad of Davy Crockett (in Outer Space)", for obvious reasons.
  • Also, there's "She Was a Hotel Detective (In the Future)", also for obvious reasons.
• The Threepenny Opera is The Beggar's Opera IN GERMAN AND Darker and Edgier!
• Mini Pop Kids is Kidz Bop FROM CANADA!
• Tocotronic are Dinosaur Jr. IN GERMAN!
• Unknown P is a drill rapper BUT POSH!
• Whispered is Children of Bodom IN FEUDAL JAPAN!
• The cover of Barón Rojo's (Spain's Heavy Metal pioneers) third album, En Un Lugar De La Marcha◊, depicts Don Quixote IN SPACE!
• After The Wiggles became successful - hoardes of bands tried to piggyback off their success:
  • Hi-5 WITH ARTS & CRAFTS!
  • The Hooley Dooleys WITH ONLY THREE MEMBERS!
  • The Doodlebops FROM CANADA!
  • Imagination Movers FROM NEW ORLEANS!
• Dutch disco duo, Videokids created a song titled Woodpeckers from Space! HAHA HAHAHA! ^note Not to be confused with Woodpecker from Mars, which isn't even this trope.
• Yellow Magic Orchestra is Kraftwerk FROM JAPAN!
• Frank Zander is "Weird Al" Yankovic FROM GERMANY!
• Rucka Rucka Ali is "Weird Al" Yankovic BUT DARKER & EDGIER!