Favorite Space Songs Here!

[GrandPrixChris]

I consider High Roller by The Crystal Method to be one of mine, line in song has space bit: "We see the earth now" Reply says: "We got it" and the bass just booms.
Fly me to the moon-Frank Sinatra
Champagne Super Nova-Oasis
Waiting for a Star to Fall-Boy Meets Girl
Icarus (Born on Wings of Steel)-Kansas
I have eclectic taste in music.

[Asteroid1989]

What is space songs?
Are words of those songs about space?
I don`t understand.
I have not listened to a space song yet.

[admin]

Hello Asteroid,
basically any songs that have space-associated or astronomy-associated meaning.

[interstellaryeller]

Originally Posted by cfuehrer

Thanks! I am glad I found it. I am new to astronomy but I have been a long time fan of stargazing.

Across the Universe (beatles) Children of the Sun (Billy Thorpe) Calling all Occupants(Klaatu) Telstar (The Ventures)

[TambourineMan]

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey) has much to recommend it, but the very best has got to be (especially if sung by "Noisy" Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways):



The Green Hills of Earth
Words: by Robert Heinlein and others

It can be sung to: Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, Beethoven's Ode to Joy (9th symphony, 4th movement), The House of the Rising Sun, and the Gilligan's Island theme among others

The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
All hands! Stand by! Free falling!
And the lights below us fade.

Out ride the sons of Terra.
Far drives the thundering jet.
Up leaps the race of earthmen,
Out far, and onward yet--

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool green hills of Earth.

We rot in the molds of Venus.
We retch at her tainted breath.
Foul are her flooded jungles,
Crawling with unclean death.

We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth;
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool green hills of earth.

The harsh bright soil of Luna,
Silent and dead as the grave,
Holds not the souls of Earthmen
Whose lives for Earth's they gave.

The rust-red Martian deserts,
Her lonely wandering sands,
Are naught but alien visions
To who on her surface stands.

Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me,
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
And the cool green hills of Earth.

The stars that shine around us
Are torches on the road
Ebon, extending forever,
And with great peril sowed.

But we must travel onward,
Outward, then outward again,
Exploring the uttermost reaches
Far beyond the realm of men.

My heart turns home in longing
Across the voids between,
To know beyond the spaceship
The hills of Earth are green.

Across the seas of darkness,
The good green Earth is bright;
Oh, star that was my homeland,
Shine down on me tonight.

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool green hills of Earth.

[Vinnie]

Hey Mr Tambourine Man

This is amazing (grace)

You've put Bob Dylan, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Schiller and Nietzsche, all in one bundle, coupled with Beethoven and then reminded us that you can actually sing Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Island if you can keep a straight face.

I bow to my superior

Jeff (interstellar) I am constantly amazed (pun intended) that you have actually heard of Billy Thorpe. FWIW he died suddenly of a coronary, not as the tabloids have tried at times to sensationalise. Also the only "Telstar" that I know is by "The Tornadoes" I actually have an original 45RPM 1961? and still one of my Favs

[RussL]

Since "2001: A Space Oyssey" came out in 1968 the "Blue Danube Waltze," by Johanne Brahms and "Also Sprach Zarathustra," by Richard Wagner have become space songs.

Now, who was it that did the album "War of the Worlds" in the 70s?

Either the Moody Blues or Pink Floyd, can't remember. That was good!!

[Vinnie]

Oh dear, Dawg

Johann Strauss wrote The Blue Danube, and Richard Strauss(no relation) wrote Zarathustra (pronounced ANIK)

Oh Yes Oooff

[Vinnie]

Actually I'm going to move this one to off topic

[rick rian]

Mr. Spaceman (The Byrds) ... oh yes!