SuggestiON-AIR - Stargazing Songs
Hello! Happy New Year to all you lovely people!
The BBC Stargazing campaign has kicked of a space fuelled New Year with Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain starring longingly into our solar system for the next three nights on BBC2. Much closer to home, in Armagh Planetarium to be precise, there will be a free stargazing event this Wednesday in conjunction with the campaign.
We tell you this because we think it's pretty fascinating but it also got us thinking about (see the link) songs about stars, planets, space exploration and the like... You know? Let us know your pick by shouting us here, on the ATL facebook or ATL twitter and we will give y'all a shout on the show tonight...
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The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
Rigsy (ATL Presenter)
Apart from it being one of the most euphoric songs ever put to record, this song actually sounds a bit like a star. It's spangly, shiny, full of light and out of this world. A song for the night sky and something to romanticize about. The Chems at their uplifting best.
Portishead - Wandering Star
Paul McClean (ATL Producer)
Once again, for me, it’s the Bristol massive without the attack. Off the peerless 'Dummy' from 1994, it sounds like Beth Gibbon as the sole survivor on board a space station, running out of air, the bassline as an incessant but futile alarm. Lyrically, even Portishead have rarely been so bleak.
Bats - Star Wormwood
Amy McGarrigle (ATL Content Assistant)
Star Wormwood is the most space influenced (at least not in a romantised way) that I can think of. The lyrics include lines like "We are now asking the questions, of other worlds", "use our telescopes to peer beyond our reach", "there could be more, next to our own" etc. and wondering if we could survive on another planet. Then I got some added info, thanks to producer Paul, that 'Star Wormwood' was actually the name of a star in the Book of Revelation. Anyhow, great tune and a pretty space-y video to go with it!
The Cure - Underneath The Stars
Philip Taggart - ATL Buddy
'Underneath The Stars' opens The Cure's 2008 album '4:13 Dream' in typical ethereal twinkling style. Robert Smiths vocal glitters and sparkles like the Northern Lights. Lyrics such as 'Flying here like this with you, underneath the stars, aligned for 13 billion years,' along with the added delay on vocals leads to a very psychedelic trippy sounding track.
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There will be lots of activity in the night skies in early January - eg quadrantid meteor shower (3rd Jan) and partial solar eclipse c. 9am 4th Jan
Stargazing Campaign on BBC 2: Tonight, Tuesday, Wednesday from 8pm
ARMAGH PLANETARIUM JAN 5th from 1pm- 9pm
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At 08:00 18th Apr 2011, MAHAR SHOAIB wrote:Star Wormwood is the most space influenced (at least not in a romantised way) that I can think of.
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