Astronomy music

[Lee]

Hi guys....

Thought of this the other night when I was listening to some music - what "astronomy related" music do you know of??
two examples from my collection:

Norah Jones - Shoot The Moon
Jewel - Jupiter

:P

10 sleeps to go to oz!

[yagon]

'the planets' - holst

one of the greatest ever works of classical music IMHO

[yagon]

pink floyd - 'dark side of the moon'

and lots of other pink floyd songs

[Roger Davis]

Blue Moon
Starry Starry Night
and a lot lot more, but none can surpass Eric Idle singing "The Galaxy Song".
The last verse kinda summarises the whole concept:
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's b****r all down here on Earth!

[Librarian64]

Brian Eno's "Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks" is superb and recently remastered.

9Beetstretch is a good one too. It is Beethoven's 9th symphony slowed down as to stretch over a twenty four hour period. It has been picth corrected so the notes are all correct. It is the sound of eternity and can be downloaded in chunks from here.
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/9beetstretch/mp3/?fl=

[GrampianStars]

I had the "War of theWorlds" 80's sound-track playing the other night out in the dark 3.00am kept looking over my shoulder ;)

[Yuzza]

yeah great music, i love looking at Mars or Jupiter while listening to Holst

[yagon]

I've just been listening to 9 beet stretch as suggested by Librarian64.

It's very interesting. I can understand why it would suit an observing session - you'd pretty much call it the definition of 'atmospheric' music. It's unique.

I suspect it was an existing recording that was slowed down. I only listened through my laptop's speakers, so I couldn't really assess the quality of the sound.

I think I might download the entire collection, although I'm not sure when I'd listen to it. I think it would be difficult to listen to for extended periods of time because of the perceived lack of melody: it is pure atmosphere.

For background music, I like to listen to the following:

kind of blue - miles davis (a definitive jazz album)
only - tommy emmanuel (modern instrumental guitar)
noctures - chopin (classical piano)
suite espanola - albeniz (classical guitar)

then again, i might just put on some jj cale or listen to the cricket commentary!

[NeilW]

I always reckon that slow movement from Gayane ballet suite that they played in 2001 A Space Odyssey (the music that was played when we were first shown Discovery, and Polle & Bowman going about their daily routine) is effective. Kinda gives you a frrling of the lonliness of space. http://bestsmileys.com/aliens/2.gif

[NeilW]

Typo..Poole*

[xstream]

Another good one to observe by is Edvard Griegs "Peer Gynt Suites"

[venus]

cold play - yellow

[ving]

music is crap, custard... sorry its got an alien reference :P

i actually much prefer the sounds of nature (crickets, frogs, glass breaking, tires screeching) aka silence...

[sheeny]

yeesss...

"Set the controls for the heart of the sun"...

"Astronomy domine"...

but don't forget the bain of astronomers everywhere!...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! Even bad seeing rates a song!:D

Al.

[norm]

Carpenters: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
David Bowie - Ground Control to Major Tom, Starman
Bach - AIR

[Mikezoom]

venus I am hooked on Cold Play (all the albums) atm while im observing, spesh 'Gravity" although not all the songs are "Astro" related.

Mike.B.

[Volans]

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's ****** all down here on Earth!

Brilliant song..:D :D :P

Fly me to the Moon...let me dance among the stars...let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars...

Also Michael Buble's rendition of Moondance.

[rogerg]

One of my favourites: REM Man On The Moon

Roger.

[venus]

"Yellow" was the first one by cold play that I noticed while watching video hits
a while back now and thought it was a winner.
now my daughter has their albums too and I listen to them quite a lot:-)

[mickoking]

As for astro related songs, well all the one's I know have already been mentioned but Dark side of the moon is one of my favorite LP's

Rock on :D

[fringe_dweller]

all grand stuff mentioned so far - :-))
was thinking there is two trains of thought here - one is music to listen too while enjoying astronomy, and the other one is songs that have an astronomical theme or motif to them.
I have two for selection tonight, although i could do a pretty long list if i had to, one recent, great mainstream songs that fit the second bill, and they are
Train with 'drops of jupiter'
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/train/140408.html
and my all time favourite pick is from aussie band 'the church' (i think one or two were from adelaide even?)
'under the milky way' which should be the aussie amateurs theme song i think :P
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/church,-the/31267.html

[Sonia]

The hall of the mountain king...

[cahullian]

Depeche Mode The darkest star is one of my favourite songs

[jjjnettie]

"Time" by the Allan Parsons Project. A beautiful piece of prose with a haunting melody, you can imagine in the last verse, the feelings you would have, leaving your loved ones to venture out to space. The analogy with the old days of exploring the new world by ship works very well.
The album "I Robot" is also outstanding.

Time
Flowing like a river
Time
Beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

Goodbye my love
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my love
The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Goodbye my friends (goodbye my love)
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my friends (who knows when we shall meet again)
The stars wait for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Forevermore
Forevermore

[jjjnettie]

How about this for a new title to a Floyd song.
"Several Species of Small Bespeckled Mammals Sitting Together in a Field and Viewing With a Scope" :rofl:

[RapidEye]

Tim Conrardy over in California does a lot of original compositions - MOST with an astronomy theme:
http://tconrardy.wusik.com/

Great to listen to on the MP3 player while at the EP!!!

Cheers!

[h0ughy]

anything on the radio, as long as its not rap or heavy metal. something to keep you awake and sing with it.

Nothing comes close to that Monty Python classic Volans!!!

[Hitchhiker]

I second "I Robot" by the Allan Parsons Project.

Also "Oxygene" by Jean Michel Jarre.

[venus]

"The otherside of the Sun" just heard this on the radio and remembered how nice the song was....

http://www.alberthammond.net/music-song.page?ah.id=210

[iceman]

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

:D

[OICURMT]

Was pulling up some old tunes and Enigma's song "The Gate" came up... jogging my memory about the album, "The Screen Behind The Mirror" (Album that contains "Gravity of Love")

Lyrics from the 1st two song, most people, if not all should be able to guess what they are talking...

[Suzy]

Mike Oldfield!!!
"The Songs of Distant Earth" album. The song, "Let There be Light"is beyond awesome, and so is the presentation in this clip put to the music of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFGB9HJaVXA&feature=related

[Zaps]

Silence is golden.

[OICURMT]

Took me a while to figure out where I've seen this name before and then "BAM!" ... oooohhhhh of course... "Tubular Bells", one of the greatest songs of all times.


BTW: Your link is malformed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFGB9HJaVXA&feature=related

[Suzy]

Fixed, thanks OIC. :thumbsup:

[gman]

Deep Purple - Space Truckin

[Draconis]

I've got an astro themed playlist set up on the ipod :)


Ian Brown - My Star
Crowded House - Distant Sun
Van Morrison - Moondance
OMD - Walking on the Milky Way
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Train - Drops of Jupiter
The Beatles - Across the Universe
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
David Bowie - Space Oddity
U2 - Staring at the Sun
CCR - Bad Moon Rising
The Stranglers - Always the Sun
Queen -Flash