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Posted by: nprev Apr 26 2008, 06:09 PM

After Ustrax posted a link to the outstanding 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins over in the Pioneer thread, it seems appropriate to start a thread for our favorite tunes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-7fSiqLVs is by Sarah Bareilles, who may just be the next Roberta Flack or Carly Simon....nice sound, nice lyrics, not trivial.

Posted by: volcanopele Apr 26 2008, 07:36 PM

Mostly U2, Kaiser Chiefs, Seether, The Bravery, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Gogol Bordello and a few other myriad of junk on my iPod.

Posted by: PDP8E Apr 26 2008, 09:50 PM

...but the best 'space related' tune/video is the 60 second spot that Sony aired during the 2003 Super Bowl.

(Sony also test-aired it for one day in one market around Thanksgiving 2002 and were inundated with requests to buy the song)

Space tourism had just started with Dennis Tito. Then Lance Bass was publicly toying with the idea of plunking
down $20 million for a ride to the ISS with the Russians.

Well, judge for yourself; the singer is Alana Davis and the song is an updated version of the Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young classic.

'Carry On" (iTunes has it for a buck)

This is the only place on the web I could find the video....

http://www.slate.com/?id=2074094

cheers,

Posted by: nprev Apr 26 2008, 10:17 PM

Only place I could find it, and sorry for the anime video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB59UAYq9TQ by The The...a song many of us late Baby Boomers can relate to...listen for the muted rocket launches and fake radio transmissions.

Posted by: Juramike Apr 26 2008, 11:35 PM

Put the needle on the record,
put the needle on the record,
when the drum beats go like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPhUr-T6UM

[Quiz: how many spacecraft missions can you identify from the video?]

Posted by: Stu Apr 26 2008, 11:47 PM

Okay, you asked for it...

(The "whooshing" noise you just heard was Stu's credibility flying out of the nearest window... can't be helped, love the track, and in the vid Sheila B looks like Col Wilma Deering from 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'... oh, ok, just me then...!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TvvU8NC_fsY (and yes, those are the members of Chic in the vid...)

... and rather less, um, well, you know...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pdp364YWo3c&feature=related Genius...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw Listen to the words guys...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qm2GSVIWls4

... and current fave, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYYLE9xh6UQ&feature=related

Posted by: nprev Apr 27 2008, 09:43 AM

Well, Stu, I was gonna go ahead & shoot my credibility out of a cannon by posting something from my all-time favorite band, The Tubes c. late '70s, but can't find anything suitable for general audiences even on YouTube... (Yep; if I ever had any doubts that I need therapy, they're all gone now.)

Your stuff is good!!!

Posted by: Del Palmer Apr 27 2008, 12:49 PM

Sleeping Satellite - one of my all time favorites! I remember first hearing it on the Xmas '92 Top of the Pops TV show on my then-new NICAM digital stereo VCR (quite a novel thing back then). It's a shame YouTube doesn't support stereo sound... I don't listen to much music these days, but I do very much like the voice of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyoBuTFJXwA. No, I'm not a classical music snob; to prove it, I quite liked this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjrW8g498Y video.

Posted by: nprev Apr 27 2008, 07:29 PM

Frenetic...ubercool!!!!

Re the quiz, let's see: Both Voyagers, one of the Lunokods, Pioneer Venus, Mariner 9, three of the original Mercury flights, Pioneer 9(?), and what looked like Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) 7. I'm sure that's not even half, though; amazing video!

EDIT: Well, hell, I had to look at it again, of course. Make that five of the original Mercury flights, Buzz Aldrin suited up for Apollo 11, a traverse during Apollo 15 (Dave Worden?), and one of the Vikings approaching Mars, along with some Soviet MSF footage I can't identify.

Posted by: Stu Apr 27 2008, 08:01 PM

Just a couple more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JZh3VyE2M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCxI_oZplQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqj0rLQU1w0&feature=related

... and for all you Star Wars kids, a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWUp2MhVvwQ. If you don't smile when this tune starts, well, the Dark Side has already claimed you...

Posted by: AndyG Apr 27 2008, 08:12 PM

What - no http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5k0Lp_kcko by Kraftwerk? Surely that's a (disco) natural!

Andy

Posted by: nprev Apr 27 2008, 08:14 PM

Disco Star Wars?!?! Hate to say it, but in 1979 I would've been one of the first to jump into an Empire Tai fighter to kill it (but my tastes have matured since then.)

And, in case there's any doubt at all that I'm an old fart, here's a nice little live piece by Steely Dan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN30zTpozRw.

(Hell, you gotta dig the doo-wop girls anyhow...rrrooowwww!)

Posted by: nprev Apr 27 2008, 08:24 PM

Great!!!

Wow, had no idea Kraftwerk was still happening...love their stuff in the late '70s!

Posted by: Stu Apr 27 2008, 08:33 PM

Awwwwww..... MECO... Star Wars... 1977... I was 12 and devouring everything even remotely related to SW. Remember listening to that theme on Radio Luxembourg, over a radio hidden under my pillow when I should have been sleeping, and wondering when I'd actually get to see the film itself...

(cue Hovis theme...)

Posted by: nprev Apr 27 2008, 09:13 PM

My favorite band around then was the Dead Kennedys (leavened by The Tubes), so my head was in a very different place. Guess I'm proud to say that I was the first kid in my high school to be suspended for wearing a 'Disco Sucks' T-shirt...

Hell of it is, now I actually like disco. Suppose I'd've liked it in my teens if I had the faintest conception of how to dance & meet women... ...pretty hard to find a girl that wants to dance tohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcjzoydyQIY&feature=related (turn up the volume!)

Posted by: imipak Apr 27 2008, 10:39 PM

There's far more than anyone ever wanted to know about my music taste on http://www.last.fm/user/imipak. Live statistics galore, straight from my audio player - it uploads track data as they're played. Last.fm's a music obsessive's heaven! (and you can click through to even more detailed stats; e.g., http://www.last.fm/user/imipak/charts/?charttype=12month&subtype=artist .) I like to think I have something musical in common with almost everyone... but also that there's at least one album in my collection that any random person would find unlistenable. (There are some that nearly everyone finds unlistenable )

There's not much space-related in there, apart from [*embarrassed cough!*] er... mumblemumblehawkwind. There are some space and astronomical themes in Biosphere - SETI, aurorae, startoucher, Skylab,.. highly recommended to anyone who likes electronic ambient, with lots of found sounds, samples from shortwave radio and the like.) Not much else really... hmm, Spiritualized "Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space"? Hitch-Hiker's Guide, of course... oh, and Joanna Newsom has the best musical setting of a mnemonic for remembering the http://www.lyricstime.com/joanna-newsom-emily-lyrics.html that I've heard.

(No, "Science Fiction film themes compilation" doesn't count... too easy!)

Posted by: ustrax Apr 28 2008, 09:12 AM

Hard to pick...here are some fine tunes...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5LeLAELIxKY, http://youtube.com/watch?v=aX1PwkgwsG0 and http://youtube.com/watch?v=-cme2q0N7nM...
...and http://youtube.com/watch?v=Slc2tujjjrQ&feature=related...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FfzQLZtCZSY&feature=related
maybe http://youtube.com/watch?v=YXfnZ7HYD_k&feature=related one too...
and God! http://youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s&feature=related...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H_9Rz85N8mA&feature=related...

Posted by: ngunn Apr 28 2008, 09:17 AM

The music's not space related, but there is an album title that I will always associate with the Huygens landing - Coldplay Parachutes.

Posted by: ustrax Apr 28 2008, 12:38 PM

Coldplay and Huygens hey?
I associate http://youtube.com/watch?v=_N9rH2x5KUw with MER times... :-)

EDITED: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yG7334OWRkg...a pity you guys don't understand Portuguese...

Posted by: PhilCo126 Apr 28 2008, 05:40 PM

Talking about Music...

Open the large version of this photo and spot the iPod in the orbiter cockpit window

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-123/html/iss016e032313.html

Posted by: Gladstoner Apr 28 2008, 06:02 PM

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Posted by: climber Apr 28 2008, 06:39 PM

Beattles not bad : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-4t9drUlM&feature=related

Posted by: DEChengst Apr 28 2008, 06:57 PM

Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-UtlpvBWk

"Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten."

Posted by: nprev Apr 28 2008, 07:35 PM

Okay, finally found a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlpBa6euxYs&feature=related to share; the bass player in the Shriner's hat is a nice touch...

Posted by: Gladstoner May 23 2008, 09:01 AM

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Posted by: edstrick May 23 2008, 09:31 AM

"The Space Movie" is available on DVD. Recommended. Has much better Saturn 5 footage than the slightly later <and otherwise damfine> documentary "For All Mankind"

Posted by: jrdahlman May 24 2008, 04:21 AM

On the subject of The Tubes and space music, I wouldn't say the following is a favorite song, but it's certainly appropriate:

Bill Spooner, formerly of the Tubes, did a song (and album) some years ago that may be the only sure-fire way to get the great unwashed masses excited about the planets:

Have them travel on the "Mall to Mars"!

"The Earth people had a big contest,
And the prize was a shopping trip.
We'll fly to the angry red planet
On a first-class fully-automated Shopping Ship.

(Chorus)
...So off we go on the Mall to Mars!"

Posted by: nprev May 24 2008, 04:53 AM

...was not aware of this song, thanks!

Well, The Tubes did do one song sorta related to our common interest: "Space Baby". All I remember is one verse:

Space baby you got no planet
Space baby you got no planet
Got no home to give a name
No air to breathe, but just the same
I dig my atmosphere machine...

EDIT: Crap. When am I gonna learn to look on YouTube first? Here's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Os0M_XFDWU. Not one of my favs at all, either, but here it is FWIW.

Posted by: Gladstoner May 24 2008, 05:46 AM

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Posted by: imipak May 24 2008, 10:58 AM

How could I have forgotten to mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo:_Atmospheres_and_Soundtracks. "An Ending (Ascent)" is transcendent really; perhaps it's because I associate it with that sequence from the film. http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Eno/_/An+Ending+(Ascent) if you don't know it...

I'm playing the new Spiritualized album to death at the moment - it's not everyone's cup of tea, being pretty intense and obsessed with a single metaphor for the human condition (substance abuse and recovery from same)... however! There's a space link. Jason Pierce was in an earlier band called "Spacemen 3", and carried over the habit of crediting himself as "J. Spaceman". The theme (a less cheddary development of the cheesy 70s "hey man, like, outer space... inner space... dig it?" notion) crops up throughout their work, from the Apollo end-of-transmission tones on "Ladies and Gentlemen..." to a prop spacesuit in earlier videos and artwork. http://www.spiritualized.com/admissions/videography/out-of-sight/ was filmed on Mt Etna during an eruption, so that's a thermal protection suit rather than a spacesuit, but the lines are apposite - "the planet spins and it keeps me in my place / where I stand is only three miles from space* / standing space is all the space I can stand / gravity just keeps on keeping me down" - and there's a satellite image showing the smoke plume from Etna blowing across the Med.

*Yes, yes, I know... sounds good though, right? and it's the right order of magnitude. Look, it's art, ok?

NPrev - A fine accompaniment to a my morning commute, with the early summer sun filtering through the trees, birds singing, a balmy breeze playing through the sunroof of my beloved Celica, new-born lambs frolicking on the road verges (they roam free around here, it's a Forest of Dean thing) is... "punk ain't no religious cult! / punk means thinking for yourself!" Hmmm... the missing link between Johnny Rotten and the scientific method?

Re: Martian shopping malls - http://www.mp3lyrics.org/h/hawkwind/uncle/ I'm afraid!

OK, enough with the lecture, I'd better stop now before I start looking for space lyrics in New Order or the Manics :>

Posted by: climber May 25 2008, 06:31 AM

I discover today "My tired feet" from Alela Diane
The begining could be ok for Phoenix : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IySVZx1Dao

My tired feet
My tired, tired feet
My tired feet
Oh my tired feet
My tired feet brought me to that red boat
So still and foreign waters

And although I've never been here
Although I've never been here
I know that here I've swam before
Here I've swam before

Posted by: ustrax Oct 12 2010, 10:45 AM

Not exactly the right thread but...HEEELP!!!
I remember a UMSF member posting some inspiring musical work of his own some years ago...now...who was it?
Give a step forward...we need to talk

Posted by: Pertinax Oct 12 2010, 01:09 PM

Hi USTRAX,

My immediate thought was Lyford's post from late in 2006 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3446&st=30&p=75326&#entry75326. While searching for that post however I also ran across a post http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=4382&st=0&p=94452&#entry94452from Brellis that may also be what you were looking for.

Hope these help!


Ultreya!


-- Pertinax

Posted by: ustrax Oct 12 2010, 01:50 PM

Pertinax, you saved the day! It was indeed Lyford's pieces I was looking for...thank you a zillion!

Posted by: Pertinax Oct 12 2010, 01:57 PM

Glad to be able to help. The piece Lyford did for Spirit has always stuck with me.


-- Pertinax

Posted by: RedSky Oct 12 2010, 06:03 PM

MUSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cioE81Md6k&feature=player_embedded

Exogenesis Symphony. ... about astronauts leaving earth for another planet to preserve humanity and their civilization. (its sort of an expanded version of that Absolution video story).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXKbvzprio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpxRVGYomI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsi_Cy119kg

And just about everything else Muse has done!