Modern Myths – 50 years since Man first walked on another world. Let’s not make it the last.
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Happy Moon Landing Anniversary!
“Hope Eyrie” by Leslie Fish, performed by Julia Ecklar. Originally about the moon landing, but I think it suits current events as well. It is a GOOD DAY to be HAPPY about SPACE.
Lyrics, chords, and a 4-part choral arrangement can be found here
Happy 50th anniversary of the moon landing, everyone!
Note: unfortunately the link above no longer works 🙁
Lyrics (without music) can now be found here.
Anonymous asked:
May i bring to your attention a modern filk song to get some consideration: LITTLE ROVER | Song for Opportunity by Stupendium.
oh you absolutely may!
for anyone who wants to cry about space robots ALL OVER AGAIN
Free Spirit – Ben Newman
She called out to the Sky Eye as she gripped the ancient stone
Tell my sister when you see her: As of now, we’re on our own
@animatedamerican says: I got to hear Ben sing this in open circle at Boskone 2019, the weekend after Opportunity was declared dead. We needed it.
Written for Opportunity’s sister rover Spirit, and as relevant now as it was then. Full lyrics and chords can be found here.
Shadow Moon – Cheshire Moon
So Cheshire Moon has had a fourth album out for a little while now. “Shadow Moon” is one of the new songs. It’s about the recent solar eclipse, and it has a chorus I just can’t get out of my head. Isn’t the album cover cute?
Shadow Moon, shadow moon
Cast your dark light upon me
Take the sunlight from my sight
Show me what I need to see
O Christmas Tree Cluster – Sophus
I wrote an ode to the Christmas Tree Cluster, and all the other awesome astronomical objects in it’s region. This is my present to you, Internet.
Have an awesome holiday– and may the stars shine bright tonight!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How brightly shines
your majesty!Called NGC
two-two-six-four,But you are also so
much more.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,How brightly shines
your majesty!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,So many stars adorn
thee!Your stellar furnace
casts it’s glow,And bathes us in
it’s light below.O Christmas tree, o
Christmas tree,So many stars adorn
thee!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,Twinkling for our
jubilee!So far to fly for
Santa’s sleigh:Twenty-six-thousand
light years ‘way.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,Twinkling for our
jubilee!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,We greet you at our
apogee!We lift our eyes up
to the sky;Your light inspires
man to fly.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,We
greet you at our apogee!
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
O Christmas Tree Cluster – Sophus
If submitting our own songs is kosher, I wrote and posted an ode to the Christmas Tree Nebula, which might count as astronomy and/or holiday filk.
it is ABSOLUTELY accepted and ENCOURAGED, thank you and Merry Christmas from one of the mods who’s not Jewish!
Flashing Blue – Adolphson & Falk
In the early 80s, one of the big bands on the Swedish music scene was Adolphson & Falk. A lot of their early stuff covered space, technology, radios, and astronomy (they met during their military service at the Swedish agency for signals intelligence). This is their breakthrough song “Blinkar blå” in English translation.
As far as I know they have never been a part of or encountered sf fandom, but this is true found filk.
Omega 13 – The Faithful Sidekicks
“Omega 13,” a dance number by The Faithful Sidekicks (Eric and Jen Distad), who are made of win. This one is for those who love Galaxy Quest. Which should be everyone. Yes, that was a judgment.
Come on, do it again
Let’s rewind the scene
Put your coat on the hanger
And grab your doppelganger
Let’s do the Omega 13
The Ballad of Apollo XIII – Julia Ecklar
Yes, always recall that in spite of them all,
the truth was much greater than fiction!Full lyrics under the cut.
Here’s a link to the full lyrics, since the original link no longer works.