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Space Oddity
Rare Earth · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2013–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 170 other music videos tagged Music performance & songs, the mean is 1.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.4× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 9 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 5 minutes 31 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-05-12.
- Channel / speaker
- Rare Earth
- Verified runtime
- 5m 31s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-05-12
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other music videos in Music performance & songs. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space OddityCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 33% | — | 5m 31s | 2013-05-12 |
| Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusolmusic · Le Pietre Rotolanti | 6 | 6 | 35% | No recorded overlap | 3m 40s | 2012-12-09 |
| William Shatner - Common Peoplemusic · dsjkhd | 6 | 5 | 86% | No recorded overlap | 4m 43s | 2009-06-07 |
| The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)music · vvmtest | 5 | 5 | 83% | No recorded overlap | 390m 32s | 2019-03-14 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model”. Its short rationale: Bowie covered in space.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “‘Bowie said my Space Oddity was the most poignant version ever'”. Its short rationale: Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018)”. Its short rationale: Hadfield performed Space Oddity on the ISS in 2013.