Author Topic: Best Space (Flight) music (Read 62300 times)

TFGQ · « **Reply #80 on:** 10/08/2011 03:55 pm »

how about the hustle from the 80's(feedback welcomed) though i might get ousted off this board!

Andy USA · « **Reply #81 on:** 10/08/2011 05:19 pm »

I've fixed the link to this one.

Great song. I've heard nothing other than angry rappers on the radio this morning. Really prefer British bands.

TFGQ · « **Reply #82 on:** 10/08/2011 05:27 pm »

styx time for me to fly

Andrewwski · « **Reply #83 on:** 10/12/2011 05:25 am »

Quote from: TFGQ on 10/08/2011 05:27 pm

styx time for me to fly

I think you mean REO Speedwagon.

ugordan · « **Reply #84 on:** 10/12/2011 08:16 am »

Not necessarily the best space flight music, but inspired by your favorite rocket:

go4mars · « **Reply #85 on:** 10/28/2011 08:34 pm »

Cosmos Outer Space T.A.T.U.

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John Santos · « **Reply #86 on:** 10/29/2011 10:31 pm »

Marian Call wrote this as a "wakeup song" for the astronauts on the ~~ISS~~ STS-135. Don't know if NASA ever used it.

(Disclaimer: I'm in this, for about 1/2 a second at 4:10, way in the back.)

rushdrums · « **Reply #87 on:** 10/30/2011 12:25 am »

"Countdown" by Rush will always hold a special place in my heart for a few reasons. The original audio between Houston and Columbia on that first ride among them:

-RD-

Quote from: PahTo on 02/03/2011 08:43 pm

Have to reach in the past, some distant, some not so distant:

My personal favorite:
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" Pink Floyd

Others that must be on the list:

"The Planets" Holst

"Cygnus X-1" Rush

"Countdown" Rush

"High Rollers" Crystal Method
...

Greg906 · « **Reply #88 on:** 10/30/2011 10:32 am »

Quote from: TimL on 09/13/2011 05:47 pm

David Lange - Return Of The Comet with Mars Rising (1985)

Was and is still my favorite space music...still available as mp3 download

Wow! That takes me back! I had that tape and must have played it hundreds of times in the late 80s! I'm tickled to see it available for download on Amazon.

Thank you for reminding me! I treasured that tape for many years!

elmarko · « **Reply #89 on:** 11/14/2011 01:26 pm »

I just realised, on page 3 somebody posted both Telstar by The Tornados and Muse.

Well, did you know that Matt Bellamy from Muse's dad was in The Tornados?

Moe Grills · « **Reply #90 on:** 11/17/2011 01:12 am »

I'm no heavy metal fan, but
ACDC's "Thunder Struck", pumped out at 120db
...and you can almost see turbopumps spinning
inside the Space Shuttle, and the sparkling pyros
beneath the motors prior to ignition.

Hey! You'd be THUNDERSTRUCK too if you stood a kilometer from the Space Shuttle as it comes alive and LO..

MarkZero · « **Reply #91 on:** 11/25/2011 10:18 am »

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite

http://open.spotify.com/track/3WSyYBhLZRLbQo2tJgFvSR

A great song about wondering why manned BLEO exploration stopped at Apollo and even being somewhat mad about it. Or at least that's how I interpret the lyrics.

Would also be _the_ best ISS wakeup call song if ever used as such. "Don't blame this sleeping satellite"

I blame you for the moonlit sky
and the dream that died
with the eagles' flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
when I wonder why
are the seas still dry?
don't blame this sleeping satellite

TexasRED · « **Reply #92 on:** 02/25/2012 04:37 pm »

Fun thread!

Glad to see The Phenomenauts get a mention...who else writes songs about an X-38?

I came across these - not really my style of stuff at all*, but I'm not going to knock it since its directly tied to MCC and ISS. In fact I may donate.

http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ (has MCC audio snippets in the mix etc)

http://somafm.com/spacestation/ (spacey stuff haha)

_{*More like The Clash, Social Distortion, Reverend Horton Heat, Johnny Cash, etc.}

TexasRED · « **Reply #93 on:** 02/25/2012 04:44 pm »

And take note about this on the MCC page:

Quote

And when a space shuttle mission is happening, we mix it in live from launch to landing.

Wish I known earlier...I would have tuned in for sure.

Mark Dave · « **Reply #94 on:** 02/25/2012 08:14 pm »

Jan Hammer's Space Scapes

veblen · « **Reply #95 on:** 02/25/2012 10:28 pm »

Best space music for here on earth: From the "For All Mankind" soundtrack:

Brian Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)", also found on Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks

and also from the film: Daniel Lanois' "Tension Block".

btw nobody mentioned The Rolling Stones "2000 Light Years from Earth" - 60's psychedelia.

If I was an astronaut in space I would listen to classical (Respigi, Pacelbel for eg) and rock, something like Colin James and the Little Big Band or I, Robot by Alan Parsons Project. I wouldn't listen to Eno's soundtrack because I find it very moving, and I don't want to be blubbering up there.

I also like Vangelis "Cosmos" soundtrack, Holst's The Planets, also the music somebody does for ULA's vids of its launches.

RedSky · « **Reply #96 on:** 02/26/2012 01:31 am »

Quote from: elmarko on 11/14/2011 01:26 pm

I just realised, on page 3 somebody posted both Telstar by The Tornados and Muse.

Well, did you know that Matt Bellamy from Muse's dad was in The Tornados?

I found that out a few months ago. I read somewhere that Matt wrote "Knights of Cydonia" to be an homage to the song Telstar & his father, George. If you look at the album covers shown on this Tornadoes/Telstar video, you can really pick out his father; especially at 0:30 (on the left, the shortest one).

And here's Matt with Knights of Cydonia (HD available)

vanad · « **Reply #97 on:** 06/06/2012 06:22 pm »

Fields of the Nephilim - "Straight to the light":

IRobot · « **Reply #98 on:** 06/06/2012 10:13 pm »

Space Queen - 10 Speed

"Usa la forca Luke"

FinalFrontier · « **Reply #99 on:** 06/06/2012 10:20 pm »

Listened to this while watching the live ISS stream during STS 135 after atlantis docked. Muted the stream and let this play while watching the ISS/Shuttle combo circle the earth for the last time (for shuttle ofc not ISS to clarify).

Really worked with the first half, the second half not so much but the first half made it really neat, seeing the station and shuttle floating in the infinite and hearing this:

My contribution this thread, besides the obvious I would otherwise post (also sprach zarathustra, fanfare for the common man, ect.)