Astro Related Music - Please Add your favourites

DT wrote:
what's that Don MacClean song about starry nights?

Vincent (it's about the van Gogh painting)

Adding:
Gustav Holst: The Planets Suite
Jimmy Clanton: Venus in Blue Jeans
Tori Amos: To Venus and back
Wings: Venus and Mars
Mozart: Symphony #41 (aka Jupiter)
Anything by The Mars Volta
Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta
Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Landscape: From the Tea-Rooms of Mars to the Hell Holes of Uranus
Klingonz: Up Uranus
Hawkwind: On Sundown (tracks include Space and Masters of the Universe)
Matt Monro: Fly me to the Moon
The Marcels (and just about every one else from Billie Holliday through
Sinatra to Duke Ellington): Blue Moon
Walker Brothers: The Sun aint gonna shine anymore
John Coltrane: Sun Ship
Credence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising

and lastly, my second favourite album (after Dimanche a Bamako) of last
year:
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In the Heart of the Moon


Best,
Stephen

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In article , astronomer1
@ntlworld.com says...
Fantastic, keep them coming!


Candle to the Sky - Mostly Autumn
--
Craig Oldfield

Andy G wrote:
Hi everyone,

A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks had
some mention of Space/astronomy.

I am going through my music collection and started to compile a list of
space/astronomy related tunes.

If you have any favourites can you please add them to the list here, or mail
me off list, here area few to get going with

Elton john - Rocket Man
Julie London - Fly Me To The moon,
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Savage Garden - I would fly you to the moon and back

thanks for your time and help, I appreciate it.

Clear Skies

Andy

From David Glimour's new album On an Island.

Red Sky at Night
This Heaven.

Or from his previous Pink Floyd existence.

Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun.



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Regards

Nick

"Andy G" wrote in message
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| Hi everyone,
|
| A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
| observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks
had
| some mention of Space/astronomy.
|
| I am going through my music collection and started to compile a list
of
| space/astronomy related tunes.
|
| If you have any favourites can you please add them to the list here,
or mail
| me off list, here area few to get going with

Boney M "Night Flight To Venus."
--
Laury

John Coltrane: Sun Ship

and Coltrane's album "Interstellar space" with tracks
1.Mars
2.Venus
3.Jupiter
4.Saturn
5.Leo

More Venuses:

Velvet Undergound- Venus in Furs
Be Bop Deluxe- Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus
The Rezillos- Destination Venus
Bananarama/Shocking Blue -Venus
Jimmy Clanton - Venus in Blue Jeans

sad i know, but i like the verse from Billy Bragg / Kirsy McColl's New
England:

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

C.

"Andy G" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone,

A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks had
some mention of Space/astronomy.

I am going through my music collection and started to compile a list of
space/astronomy related tunes.

If you have any favourites can you please add them to the list here, or
mail me off list, here area few to get going with

Elton john - Rocket Man
Julie London - Fly Me To The moon,
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Savage Garden - I would fly you to the moon and back

thanks for your time and help, I appreciate it.

Clear Skies

Andy
--
Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS.



Metallica - Orion

Andy G wrote:
Hi everyone,

A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks
had some mention of Space/astronomy.

I am going through my music collection and started to compile a list
of space/astronomy related tunes.

If you have any favourites can you please add them to the list here,
or mail me off list, here area few to get going with

Elton john - Rocket Man
Julie London - Fly Me To The moon,
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Savage Garden - I would fly you to the moon and back

thanks for your time and help, I appreciate it.

Clear Skies

Andy

Peter Hammill

From "In Camera"
The Comet, the Course, the Tail
http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/iclyrics.htm#6

From "The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage"
Red Shift
http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/sclyrics.htm#5


Clear Skies
Carsten A. Arnholm
http://arnholm.org/
N59.776 E10.457

Andy G wrote:
Hi everyone,

A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks had
some mention of Space/astronomy.

I am going through my music collection and started to compile a list of
space/astronomy related tunes.

Elton john - Rocket Man
Julie London - Fly Me To The moon,
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Savage Garden - I would fly you to the moon and back

Well, there's the world premier spacerock band Hawkwind who mention such
things in a song or two:

5/4 : My mind is going sequence from 2001
The 7th Star : bunch of star names mentioned
Abducted : alien abduction
Alien (I am) : self-explanatory
Altair : song title only
25 Years on : "They said there's life up there in the galaxy"
Angels of Death : "We were born to blaze a nuclear way through space"
Angel Voices : takeoff check for passenger spacecraft
Astronauts : poetry track concerning same
The Awakening : astronauts awaken from cryosleep at end of journey
Beam Me Up : obvious
The Black Corridor : Moorcock's description of space
Born To Go : About leaving Earth for space
Dream Worker : "Orbital status now maintained"
D-Rider : "Our constellations changing side"
Free Fall : title - song concerns freefall jump
Gaga : countdown
In Your Area : "Satellites watching the aliens beam you up"
Hippie : mentions all solar planet names
Kings of Speed : "on Frank and Beasley's rocket ship"
Lighthouse : about a lighthouse in space
Love in Space : what it sayss on the tin
The Nazca : intelligent life in the universe
Nuclear Drive : spacecraft with such
The Only Ones : "With radioscopes, electronic eyes"
Out of the Shadows : "Out of the stone age and onto The Moon"
PXR5 : about the spacecraft "PXR5"
Rambo in Space : What it says on the ammo box
Seven By Seven : "Seven signs rode on seven stars"
Silver Machine : "To your Zodiac Sign" (alt. lyrics have alien visitor)
Space is Deep : based on "The Black Corridor"
Space Travellers : another one about astronauts in cryosleep
Spirit of the Age : astronaut laments that relativity means his GF is dead
Sputnik Stan : spaceways garbage collector man
Star Cannibal : space zombies?
Uncle Sam's on Mars : excellent satire of US colonial ambitions in space
Upside Down : about working in space
The Watcher : based on Sixties comic about ET doomed to watch Earth

The Welcoming Hands of Space : paen to space travel
Where are They Now? : "Lonely starships hover in my empty dreams"
You'd Better Believe It : "Orion's stars are hard tonight"
Technicians of Spaceship Earth : "Your captain is dead"
Ten Seconds of Forever : reverie in countdown to blastoff
Time We Left This World Today : title
Transdimensional Man : about travelling near lightspeed?
Note From a Cold Planet : about Earth in a new ice age
Coleridge on The Enterprise : obvious
5th Second of Forever : "High a planet in the sky"
First landing on Medusa : Astronauts arrive at new planet
The Joker of the Universe : Moorcock's Fireclown - much mention of astronmy
Master of the Universe : still what it says on the tin
The Phenomenon of Luminosity : sample from Shepard on Friendship Seven
Quark, Strangeness and Charm : Galileo, telescopes, black holes, astronomers

"Andy G" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone,

A friend of mine had a party when he opened and finished his new
observatory. Playing in the background was music that all the tracks had
some mention of Space/astronomy.

How about Astronomy Domine from Pink Floyds first album ("Neptune, Titan;
stars can frighten!"); follow further down the hippy trail with Gong's
"Fohat Digs Holes In Space" from Camembert Electric (and while you're at it
you might as well include the album's previous track, the 10 second
masterpiece "Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads").

For novelty you could try sounds of Jupiter:

http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/16sep99/sounds4.html

But the daddy of them all has to be Brian Eno's Apollo soundtrack, including
the famous and endlessly replayed "an ending(ascent)", which you will
recognise once you hear it (eg the clip at

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...g=UTF8&s=music )