Friday night is "The Night Sky" music night

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have always liked this purely because it sounds so odd, and yet, seems to work perfectly.

Here it is with footage from 2001 A Space Odysey:

View: http://youtu.be/O16_iELbQsU

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Jupiter is really good. I could have picked any really I like the entire suite. Mars is rather imposing as well

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

Yes yes, but to me, my favourite is Neptune. You will find it difficult to find a piece of music that conveys the aching beauty and majesty and yet deadly inhospitibility of space more that this does, a piece that communicates the sheer mindbending distances and timeframes involved, a piece that seems to be as old as the universe itself and on a journey to match, a piece that makes you feel alone, travelling through something bigger than you could even even begin to comprehend, a piece that even sounds like parts of it could be out of an Alien film or similar, a piece that.... Well, to me it has all that you really need to say 'DANGER! Outer Space!' in music form.
I'm pretty sure the etheral singing at the end doesn't stop and start like that in the recording I have, but, anyway.

Also, you might need to turn the volume up.

View: http://youtu.be/rErPKeZmn5w

 

[RWright]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Saturn is a piece that has a very boring and tedious beginning, being as it is, 'The Bringer Of Old Age', but after about 1.33, it picks up (if you can even call it that). My favourite part though is from 6 minutes onwards.
Yes, like all of these things, there are other recordings where it is played a little bit quicker, others slower, but I've chosen this one as it has great sound compared to some of the others:

View: http://youtu.be/nHX6VXQUJM4

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And because Pluto hadn't been discovered at the, here is a later addition to 'The Planet Suite'.
It sounds almost like a mishmash of 'Neptune' 'The Rite Of Spring' to me.

View: http://youtu.be/N_v8G0fo4Ws

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

With the thread title being what it is, I can't beleive nobody has posted this yet!

Ad Astra Patrick!:

View: http://youtu.be/l8EgD7LoVXs

 

[ufkacbln]

FOr those of a certain age...

The Radio Gnome Trilogy by Gong

Tells the story of Zero (the Hero) and his adventures including travelling around in flying teapots driven by Pot Head Pixies

An excerpt from "Angel's Egg" where Zero is flying through space

 

[ufkacbln]

Hawkwind's entire "Space Ritual"

Perhaps the band at it's peak and wih Calvert / Brock / Moorcock and TUrner all contributing

Far too many tracks to list, but a sample here:

 

[User169]

Portsmouth Sinfonia giving Also Sprach Zarathustra a bit of a going over...

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6piDRKOwh88&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Flying_Monkey]

A bit late, but this is some Scandanavian summer night madness:

And some London cool...

 

[MontyVeda]

...
Hawkwind - Space Is Deep

Thanks to the OP. Coz, like, Space is Ace.

surprised it took so long for the Hawks to come out of the bag.

I'm just listening to Hawkwind "Space Ritual - Recorded Live At Liverpool Stadium And Brixton Sundown".

You are in space!

 

[Deleted member 23692]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Tkx6BgRFE