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Stephen Tonkin typed
DT wrote: what's that Don MacClean song about starry nights? Vincent (it's about the van Gogh painting) I thought it was about his suicide... ....and when no hope was left isght on that starry, starry night, You took your life as lovers often do... -- Helen D. Vecht: Edgware. |
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Rich Kulawiec's list of SF references in music may give you some ideas. It
can be found at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/sci-fi-refs/. -- Chris Moore "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 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. |
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M Holmes typed: 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 Greetings from another Hawkwind fan here :-) I already mentioned three of the Hawkwind tracks in this thread but you are obviously Born to Go ! Jo |
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here's a few you may have missed :-)
Race Through Space, Jungles of Jupiter, Good morning Universe and Moon Migration by Toyah Satellite Kid and Planetary piped piper by the Dog's D'amour Bark at the moon - Ozzy Osbourne |
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Soundtracks from the musical Hair:
Aquarius Walking in Space Good Morning Starshine Let The Sun Shine In ...and how about Telstar by The Tornados? -- Andy Lawson |
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You're So Vain - Carly Simon?
Extract lyric: "Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia To see the total eclipse of the sun" If only..... if only....sigh -- Andy Lawson |
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Hi
I do not think Pluto by Colin Mathews to complete the missing planet from Holst's 'The planets' has been mentioned yet and was premiered at one the proms a year or two back http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67270.asp Paul "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. |
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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Stephen Tonkin typed DT wrote: what's that Don MacClean song about starry nights? Vincent (it's about the van Gogh painting) I thought it was about his suicide... http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artis..._gogh_starry_n ight.jpg Best, Stephen Remove footfrommouth to reply -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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Rodney Blackall wrote: "I was born under a wandering star" sung by someone with a VERY deep gravelly voice. In 'Oklahoma' there is a song about the wind called "Maria that blows the stars around". Does Mussorgsky's "Night on a bare mountain" count? A couple mo 2000 light years from home - Rolling Stones I'm in love with a Starship trooper - Sarah Brightman Robin |
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Andy G said the following on 4/19/2006 10:24 PM:
Fantastic, keep them coming! I don't recall seeing "Orion" nor "Astronomy" by Jethro Tull listed anywhere, but I could've overlooked then in my rush... I'm busy: Getting ready for the Texas Star Party (and yes, I know this is u.s.a., but Texas is in the U.S.A. :-) P.S. - What about the whole "Canon of the Three Stars" album by Isao Tomita? -- ---- Len Philpot -------- ------- ------------- http://members.cox.net/lenphilpot/ |
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