If your space program was a song, what would it be?

[mangekyou-sama]

Title says it all folks

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

I like to draw your attention to one single beautiful composition with accidental very applicable Kerbal lyrics (Originally from the movie "The Snowman, 1982") . From a musicians standpoint (I play classical piano and guitar), this is one of the best arrangements in music I've heard yet. Just marvelous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDzMnPvyUis

If any of you play the guitar and are interested, I am happy to share how to do it. Here is the basic in TABS. (so simple, but yet so elegant): (I like the piano, I love the guitar)

Tuning: Standard

e|-------5-5-------------5-5-------||--------1-1--------------1-1------------|
B|-------6-6-------------6-6-------||------3-----3----------3-----3----------|
G|-----7-----7---------7-----7-----||*---2---------2------2---------2--------|
D|---7---------7-----7---------7---||*-0-------------0--0-------------0------|
A|-5-------------5-5-------------5-||----------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------||----------------------------------------|
                             1. We're walking in the air            We're
                             2. I'm holding very tight              I'm
                             3.       Far across the world          The

e|-------1-1--------------0-0---------------0-0--------------3-3-------------|
B|-----3-----3----------1-----1-----------1-----1----------3-----3-----------|
G|---2---------2------0---------0-------0---------0------3---------3---------|
D|-0-------------0-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------3-------------3---3-------------3------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------3-------------3-------|
   floating in the moonlit sky                     The people far below are
   riding in the midnight blue                     I'm finding I can fly so
   villages go by like trees                       The rivers and the hills the

e|-------6-6--------------5-5--------------5-5--------------------||
B|-----6-----6------------6-6--------------6-6--------------------||
G|---7---------7--------7-----7----------7-----7-----------------*||
D|--------------------7---------7------7---------7---------------*||
A|------------------5-------------5--5-------------5--------------||
E|-6-------------6------------------------------------------------||
   sleeping as we fly
   high above with you
   forests and the streams

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B|-----2---2---2--------3---3---3--------0---0---0----------8---8------------|
G|---0---0---0---0----2---2---2---2------0---0---0--------9-------9----------|
D|------------------0------------------0---0---0---0----10----------10-------|
A|-0-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------3----------------8----------------------|
   Children gaze    open-mouthed     taken   by    surprise

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B|-----4---4---4--------1---1---1--------6--------0-----------0-2-5----------|
G|---5---5---5---5----2---2---2---2----7---7----1---1-------2----------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------2------------------|
A|-3----------------------------------------------------0--------------------|
E|------------------1----------------6--------0------------------------------|
   Nobody           down    below   believes    their   eyes 

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B|--------3-----3------------3-----3----------|
G|------2---------2--------2---------2--------|
D|----0-------------0----0-------------0------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
We're surfing in the air            We're

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B|-----3-----3----------1-----1-----------1-----1----------3-----3-----------|
G|---2---------2------0---------0-------0---------0------3---------3---------|
D|-0-------------0-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------3-------------3---3-------------3------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------3-------------3-------|
   swimming in the frozen sky                    We're drifting over ic - y 

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B|-----6-----6------------6-6--------------6-6--------------------|
G|---7---------7--------7-----7----------7-----7------------------|
D|--------------------7---------7------7---------7----------------|
A|------------------5-------------5--5-------------5--------------|
E|-6-------------6------------------------------------------------|
   mountains floating by

e|--8-6-8-6-5-------5-3-5-3---------1-0-1-0----------------------------------|
B|----------------8---------6---------------3--------3-1-3-1-----------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------3----0----------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--8-----------8---5-----------5---1-----------1----------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------3----------3------------|

e|---1-1-1---1-1-1---1-1-1---1-1-1-----------|
B|---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3-----------|
G|-----------------2-------------------------|
D|-0-------3---------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

e|-----0---0---0--------1---1---1-----------------------------8--------------|
B|-----2---2---2--------3---3---3--------0---0---0----------8---8------------|
G|---0---0---0---0----2---2---2---2------0---0---0--------9-------9----------|
D|------------------0------------------0---0---0---0----10----------10-------|
A|-0-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------3----------------8----------------------|
   Suddenly        swooping low      on an o - cean   deep

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B|-----4---4---4--------1---1---1--------6--------0-----------0-2-5----------|
G|---5---5---5---5----2---2---2---2----7---7----1---1-------2----------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------2------------------|
A|-3----------------------------------------------------0--------------------|
E|------------------1----------------6--------0------------------------------|
 Arousing of a      mighty monster   from        its    sleep

e|----------1-1----------------1-1------------|
B|--------3-----3------------3-----3----------|
G|------2---------2--------2---------2--------|
D|----0-------------0----0-------------0------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
We're walking in the air              We're

e|-------1-1--------------0-0---------------0-0--------------3-3-------------|
B|-----3-----3----------1-----1-----------1-----1----------3-----3-----------|
G|---2---------2------0---------0-------0---------0------3---------3---------|
D|-0-------------0-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------3-------------3---3-------------3------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------3-------------3-------|
   floating in the moonlit sky                     And everyone who sees us

e|-------6-6--------------5-5--------------5-5--------------------|
B|-----6-----6------------6-6--------------6-6--------------------|
G|---7---------7--------7-----7----------7-----7------------------|
D|--------------------7---------7------7---------7----------------|
A|------------------5-------------5--5-------------5--------------|
E|-6-------------6------------------------------------------------|
   greets us as we fly

e|------------------3---3---3---3----3---3---3---3-----3--------------|
B|-8---8---8---8------4---4---4---4----3---3---3---3---0--------------|
G|---8---8---8-----------------------------------------0--------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------0--------------|
A|-6-------------6--3----------------------------------2--------------|
E|-----------------------------------3-----------------3--------------|

This is more or less a cross post, but never intended to be. You just happened to post your question while I was answering another thread at the very same time

Edited December 28, 2013 by Galileo Kerbonaut

[Superfluous J]

I think Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" is really the only applicable song for the space program. Though for every launch, Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" always plays in my mind.

Danger zone!

[Sgt. Cookie]

What? Someone had to do it.


It's also sadly appropriate, as most of my stuff ends up broken and destroyed. But, I carry on.

[GROOV3ST3R]

My first and immediate thought:

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[Arsonik]

The first track in my Kerbal list. Plays well with launches.

Crystal Method - High Roller

I'm going to butcher the username.... Kata something or other... Anyways they have an awesome Mission to Duna video with great Kerbalesque music the whole way through. Link below

Edited December 28, 2013 by Arsonik

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

The first track in my Kerbal list. Plays well with launches.

Crystal Method - High Roller

Cool song! I like this kind of music!

[Zaryulenko]

Endless Struggle from Megaman 10

Why? the title of the song matches whit my program campaigns, they are always an endless struggle and i always finish cancelling them or having much more problems!

[Kerbart]

It's the theme song of this 1996 movie. I forgot the title. It was with Tom Cruise playing a secret agent "Ethan Hunt" trying to figure out who killed his time. If only I can think of the title...

[Jug head]

what about space odessy by chris hadfield

[razark]

John Cage's 4'33"

[Ferratus]

Fires at Midnight - Blackmore's Night

[Sapphire Snow Leopard]

AWOLNATION's Some Kind of Joke. Most of my space program is me breaking out in sadistic laughter as a spacecraft fails horribly so... yeah.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

What ever on earth this is:

[Stargate525]

Every time I launch with the main three.

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[Amram]

its easy for me:

I have hundreds of tracks like it, and thats pretty much the sort of stuff I play KSP to, the stock music is muted.

Another good one is

[Tuareg]

it would be blues. one of the most sad ones

[Corw]

[Skyler4856]

Living on a prayer

[HammerD265]

It would obviously be Uncharted Worlds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoqyXSDpr14

[Commissioner Tadpole]

[Saberus]

Black Sabbath - Crazy Train

Either that or THIS

[nmd]

[Nightstar]

Hi!

What else... "Let It Go" from Frozen....

[capi3101]

Jars of Clay - Safe to Land