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Hi Slightly different :ok: What aviation music do you like? Do you play music while flying and is it aviation specific or a nice piece of classics?
Look at GO by public services broadcasting /all space aviation related tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarIMaybe not everyone s taste but I like them ))
and Spitfire by same group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkIa8F1gEp0
Any other pointers to aviation music ? Bit off topic but different ))
Pace
flyinkiwi
11th Jun 2015, 21:53
Normally I listen to the Lycoming cylinder quartet concerto with McCauley or Sensenich playing solo.
skyhighfallguy
11th Jun 2015, 22:22
during the apollo moon missions, MUZAK was piped in to keep things nice.
There are some great aviation related songs. I love getting on the plane whistling "the theme from the high and the mighty". Passengers don't get it now, but when one does it is funny.
"come josephine in my flying machine" is a great old one.
the USAF song is a great tune too.
Pilot DAR
11th Jun 2015, 23:13
I like: John Denver, Eagle and the Hawk
Al Stewart, Flying Sorcery,
And Spandau Ballet, I'll Fly for You
JOE-FBS
12th Jun 2015, 06:46
A great song with an aviation theme is Chris Wood's Spitfires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvkK-8LBjLk there must be a better quality version somewhere on the internet but I need to get to work.
Obviously Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly.
Iron Maiden's Tail Gunner and Aces High.
Saxon's Strangers in the Night
mary meagher
12th Jun 2015, 07:05
When the dance band begins to play the Dambusters march at the end of comp party, that gets them all out of their seats and flying round the room!
But the standard of awful pop music people paste onto their U-tube ego displays are truly cringemaking.
running dog
12th Jun 2015, 07:57
If you are into military heavy metal and don't mind the strong language then Dos Gringos are fun to listen to.
Several of their songs on U Tube!
The Dog
Pete O'Tewbe
12th Jun 2015, 08:34
How about the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0XBD4o4XRU) by William Walton.
TwoFiftyBelowTen
12th Jun 2015, 09:06
Alan Parsons (post "The Project" but with many of the Project musicians) has a whole album which is aviation-themed, released in 1996. Great album. Tracks cover aspects like gliding, hot-air ballooning, fear of flying, space travel, dreaming of learning to fly, even the musings of Leonardo da Vinci. Guest vocalists include Christopher Cross and Alec Stewart (10CC)
dont overfil
12th Jun 2015, 09:23
I agree with Pace about PSB. I had been unsuccessfully trying to identify it until it was posted on F***r a while ago.
How about The Zepher Song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
"Narcotic" by Liquido is featured on a superb FPV video by Black Sheep.https://vimeo.com/14541093
D.O.
Cusco
12th Jun 2015, 09:45
Nah:
I'm with flyinkiwi:
Dulcet tones of strolling IO360 and c/s Macaulay prop interspersed with a few brief bars of ATC only for me....
Cusco
Rabbs
12th Jun 2015, 13:00
Did no one watch Top Gun?? Its the only music ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzQ3eBerHfM
Fionn101
12th Jun 2015, 14:54
a bit of fun for Friday ....
some more flying related tunes:
Mike Oldfield : Five miles out
Megadeth : High speed dirt
Frank Sinatra : come fly with me
Top Gun music of course , and surely many people enjoy Wagner while ascending.
I'm also off to look at this Alan Parson's album , never knew it existed , thanks 250below10.
Jan Olieslagers
12th Jun 2015, 15:03
Half the German pilots hum "Über den Wolken, muß die Freiheit wohl grenzenlos sein" after Rainhard May. This chap offered us many fine songs, several about the feelings of an aviator.
For myself, what little bit of Belgianness I have prefers the "Marche des Parachutistes"
And may I be allowed to also remember the "Roll over the barrell" popular with RAF pilots while their Luftwaffe counterparts sang "Rosamunde" to the exact same notes?
DirtyProp
12th Jun 2015, 15:21
http://www.chickenwingscomics.com/comics/2014-04-01-cw0711.jpg
Cenus_
13th Jun 2015, 11:32
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqx4o6QyywU
was stuck in my head all the way around my first solo circuit :ok:
RedsBluesGreens
15th Jun 2015, 09:00
Surely Vaughan Williams - A Vision of Aeroplanes.
ChickenHouse
18th Jun 2015, 15:30
Perfect for sunny VFR days to hear in cockpit - Brand New Girlfriend from Right Said Fred ... ;-).
Phororhacos
18th Jun 2015, 16:24
more Al Stewart Aviation related stuff..
Fields of France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3JJH_G4fs
Immelman Turn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6a6WPr0Bp8
When Lindy comes to town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odi-Et5XoAM
shortstripper
18th Jun 2015, 19:27
was stuck in my head all the way around my first solo circuit
I sang "Lilly the pink" all around my first solo circuit .... However. it was in a glider and everybody heard me!!! :\
SS
Lucky Man by the Verve. For those moments when you're within a few minutes of home after one of those long cross countries to somewhere you'd never visit if it wasn't for the fact that you'd learnt to fly in the first place.
Rhino25782
22nd Jun 2015, 14:31
Half the German pilots hum "Über den Wolken, muß die Freiheit wohl grenzenlos sein" after Rainhard May. This chap offered us many fine songs, several about the feelings of an aviator. I'm sorry to disillusion you here, Jan, but that's definitely not the case.
All of us are of course listening to the latest album by Ramstein...
On a more serious note, here's my suggestions for inflight entertainment:
Angus - Paper Aeroplane
Paul Kalkbrenner - Cloud Rider
Fritz Kalkbrenner - Wingman
Tove Lo, Hippie sabotage - Stay High (Habits Remix)
Röyksopp - Röyksopp Forever
Cheers,
Patrick
barit1
23rd Jun 2015, 12:20
Sad news from California: James Horner Dead: 'Titanic' Composer Killed in Plane Crash - Hollywood Reporter - The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365)
Horner's music for "The Horsemen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmBE_4KFps