66. Wear the funky, funky eyepatch

66. "Space Oddity" by David Bowie

In revealing the title of number 66 on the list, I'm guessing that you're guessing what number 65 will be. The two go hand-in-hand for me. When I hear one, I think of the other. But honestly, without number 65, I probably wouldn't have ever developed an affinity for this song during my teenage years. That's because back then 1970s David Bowie was too weird for me. I much preferred 1980s David Bowie. However, when I watch the video below, I realize that I kind of like 1970s David Bowie better now.




Hey, kids! Do you like songs about astronauts that get so freaked out on protein pills that they leave their wives back on Earth to go on a never-ending suicidal space walk into to a cold, dark infinity? Me too!



I suppose part of the reason this song has become so popular is because of people in my generation grew up during the heyday of the U.S. space program. I was a little over three years old when Neal Armstrong set foot on the moon, and I have a memory of being a young boy outside looking up at the moon and thinking that everybody was telling me there was a man on it, but I couldn't see him. Not even if I squinted. Back then, I thought all astronauts did was zoom around on rockets while they drank tang.

Mmmmm.... Tang.....

Of course, now as an adult, I have a much more sophisticated view of what life would be like as an astronaut. I think it would have to look a little something like this.