iPod iChing - to infinity and beyond

Oh Good, Friday it is then.

By special request, here in the urban area in which the true scientific miracle of the oracular omniscience of the iPod was first revealed, we ask a burning question:

which of the Beyond Einstein missions will fly first?

Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.

• The Covering: I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs Last Night - Billy Bragg
• The Crossing: Sigga Gamla - Edda
• The Crown: Recitativo
• The Root: Lagið sem hefði átt að vera leikið - Spilverk Þjóðanna
• The Past: Young Lust - Pink Floyd
• The Future: Wishing the Days Away - Billy Bragg
• The Questioner: Life During Wartime (live) - Talking Heads
• The House: Taktu til við að tvista - Stuðmenn
• The Inside: Kookaburra
• The Outcome:Billy Boy

The Covering is the classic song of struggle and perseverance for a principle.
The Crossing is the song about the little old lady who sells balloons who accidentally went to space and was rescued by the Moon? Hmm.
The Root is a very short instrumental piece (and a very good one) - "The Tune that should have been played"...
The Past is classic - a young man in search of a partner; the voice over at the end has him calling his wife in Europe, collect, but a man answers and cuts off the operator.
The Future is classic, and scary, the ode of the traveling worker - the work is important but he longs for home.
The Questioner is disturbed.
The House - which is unusually important in this instance - is a classic "start twisting" - an upbeat dance song calling on everybody to get out there and start twisting on the floor, don't be shy, get out and shake your booty!
The Inside is ditty about an arrogant bird that sits on a nail.

and, the much Dreaded Outcome is a US variant on an old folk song, a charming young man courts a girl, but she is too young and there is only promise.

Oh dear. The simple interpretation is that we will work hard and persevere and try a mission with foreign partners, but arrogance leads to delays, and the outcome is inconclusive but filled with promise.
In the original english version (Lord Rendal) the singer is poisoned and the wife is hanged.
The more modern english version (Willie Boy) ends in a riddle.

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

Says he "But they could never kill
What they could not compromise
I never compromised"