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“One More Astronaut” by I Mother Earth
From the album Scenery and Fish (1996)
“One More Astronaut” by I Mother Earth appears on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2012. It was first released in 1996 on the album Scenery and Fish. Its best result is #29 on the CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,972 alternative song of all time.
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"One More Astronaut" launched I Mother Earth's second album, Scenery and Fish, in the summer of 1996, and it's the song the Canadian band still gets remembered by. The funk metal tag always sold these guys a little short: the groove here has plenty of bump, but the guitars drift and hover like something slipping out of orbit before the chorus hauls everything back down to earth.
At home it went all the way to the top of Canada's alternative chart, took the CASBY for favourite new song in 1996 and opened the very first Big Shiny Tunes compilation on MuchMusic. It crossed the border too, climbing to 19 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, the highest any of their songs got in the States.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 29 | CRNC 90.1 | CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of the '90s | 91 |
| 1999 | 156 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2009 | 47 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge | 200 |
| 2009 | 150 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 125 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010) | 200 |
| 2012 | 91 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of All-Time | 102 |
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