Music Monday Meme

[extrapenguin]

Time to resurrect this!

26. A song that makes you want to fall in love
...except that since a lot of us have had rough weeks, RL or fandom or both, it's playlist time!

Chris Hadfield & Barenaked Ladies - I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)

So sing your song, I’m listening
Out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon
If you could see our nation
From the international space station
You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

Kristoph Klover - Fire in the Sky

Gagarin was the first, back in 1961
When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the Sun
And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard to die-
But he lifted off the pad, and rode a fire in the sky!

Julia Ecklar - Star Fire

Ten thousand hands to build the shining shell
It took a dozen years and love to build it well
Everyone who touched its birth,
Though they be bound to Earth,
Will be with the astronauts that in her dwell

Julia Ecklar - Hope Eyrie

And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know

Nightwish - Sagan

Entering the unknown
Sending all the poets to the stars
Daring to see beyond the manmade
Woe to you who evade the horizon

Astronautalis - Dimitri Mendeleev

Woke from a dream, hands heavy in cold sweat
Jumped from the bed, snatched the charcoal quick
Sketching frantically upon the bedroom brick
It came together and it fit like this:
"Give me a lever and a place to stand, I'll move the world"

Comments

[teaotter]

I have a very old cassette tape with Leslie Fish singing Hope Eyrie. That song always brings tears to my eyes (in a good way).

On a similar topic: A Glorious Dawn, by SymphonyofScience

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

[extrapenguin]

Ooh, thank you for the link! I'm not generally one for autotune remixes of speech, but that one's at the better end.

[lannamichaels]

Oooh, thanks for these. Love them, especially Fire In The Sky.

[extrapenguin]

There's more where it comes from – it and the Julia Ecklar songs are from a compilation album about spaceflight produced for the Apollo mission's 50th anniversary.

[tinny]

The video of Chris Hadfield singing with the Barenaked Ladies always, always, makes me tear up. I love them both, and together, and through so much space. <3

I don't think I know any of the other ones, except my browser thinks it knows one, so I guess you linked to one of them before. :) I'll go listen to them all again.

[extrapenguin]

I did make a post on the album Hope Eyrie and Fire in the Sky come from in the summer, so you might've listened to one of them then! In any case, I support re-listening.