Aviation in music

Thanx, I think I have to go there some time in the future. 😉

Aerospace Museum at Cosford has a Lincoln Bomber.

Several people have reported the spectral image of a long dead crew member as having been seen in it.

As far as I know there were no Lincolns ever lost in action so one can only presume he’s the baffled shade of a Lancaster bod looking for where the hell they put the exit.

Moggy

Hmm… Could someone please enlighten me what is going on here… :confused:

Seems like I skipped my “ghost” class. 😉

Indeed, that was the one.

And no, miraculously, I got an A 😉

Steve,

Failed Geography at school by any chance? 😉

You missed by about 85 miles

“Ghost Of The Navigator is indeed a metallic sea shanty, but with a little imagination you could be in the cockpit of that haunted Halifax at Cosford”

Lincoln dear boy, Lincoln.

Moggy

:rolleyes:

Not surprising Iron Maiden have a lot of aviation influence as Bruce D1ckinson is a type rated pilot on both the 737 and 757.

And to add another famous one…Steve Faltermayer – The Top Gun Theme.

Airplanes in Music

Jimmy Buffett has tons of songs including airplanes….

(You know, that guy who wrote Wasting away again in Margaritaville….) He not only sings (OK, some of you don’t call what he does singing…. I can live with that… )

He has a Grumman Albatross, a Stearman, Falcon 50 corp jet, and a large Cessan turboprop float plane…

http://www.margaritaville.com/adventures/dancer.htm

http://www.geocities.com/pittmantlh/JBPlanes/jbplanes.html

http://www.lpba.org/jb2000.html

He has flown for years, and had numerous experiences while flying… He actually survived his crash on takeoff in his Grumman Widgeon near Boston’s Cape Cod. Got shot at by Jamaican police thinking he was a drug runner, etc.

I can’t think of a musician who has not only written so many songs about airplanes, but actually lived his songs…

Jamaica Mistaka

http://www.margaritaville.com/discography/BananaWind.htm#Jamaica%20Mistaica

Strange Bird

http://www.margaritaville.com/discography/OffToSeeTheLizard.htm#STRANGE%20BIRD

Tree Top Flyer (hidden track at end of Banana Wind album)

Somewhere over China

http://www.margaritaville.com/discography/SomewhereOverChina.htm#SOMEWHERE%20OVER%20CHINA

Desdamona’s building a rocket ship (Cosmic Muffin, a Boeing Stratoliner now a boat)

http://www.margaritaville.com/discography/BananaWind.htm#Desdemona‘s%20Building%20a%20Rocket%20Ship

But I know he did not write Itazuki Tower! I have the old LP with those flying songs on em…

Ghost Of The Navigator is indeed a metallic sea shanty, but with a little imagination you could be in the cockpit of that haunted Halifax at Cosford 🙂

Steve Beebee, thanks for refreshing my memory… how could I forget Tailgunner… As it goes for Ghost of navigator, I have srong feeling that it is about ship navigator (…as they SAIL into the sunset…/…skeletons accusing emerge from the SEA… etc)

And I alsos forgot…
hmmm….

Kenny (Loggins?)- Highway to the Danger Zone

And I found this one on net yesterday:

Landser – Bomber über Dresden

Once again, thanks for all your help. (I’m shure I’m not the only one who finds this thread usefull ;))

Presumably I can’t write **** Turpin or **** Cheney or **** Whittington either 😉

The song by Filter is called ‘Take My Picture’ and does indeed contain numerous airplane references, specifically “awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane” – always good advice to pilots.

There’s also ‘Aeroplane’ by the Chili Peppers, and numerous Iron Maiden tracks:

Aces High
Ghost Of The Navigator
Flight Of Icarus
Tailgunner
Silver Wings (Bruce ****inson solo)
Back From The Edge (ditto)
Re-Entry (ditto, and most of Bruce’s ‘Skunkworks’ album for that matter)

Plus there is:
Bomber – Motorhead

747 (Strangers In The Night) – Saxon

Forever Free – WASP

Thousand Yard Stare – Big Country

Wings Of Fire – Dare (ouch!)

Ride Into The Sun – Def Leppard

Fly To The Angels – Slaughter

Jet Pilot – System Of A Down

Fly High Michelle – Enuff Z’Nuff

Jets – Space Age Playboys

Jet City Woman – Queensryche

Auto Pilot – Queens Of The Stone Age

Murder In The Sky – Gary Moore

Watch Them Fly Sundays – Stereophonics

Rocket Engines – Warrior Soul

Ah…..METAAAL !!!!!

EDIT – why on earth has this message board edited the word ****inson!!??? That’s the man’s name for Gawd’s sake 😀 :rolleyes:

OMD

Enola Gay

Shame on me! Forgetting Motörhead… and not just them…

Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
Mark Knopfler – Flying Home (not shure about the song name)

Anyway, thanks for all this songs, keep ’em comming. 😉

Thanks guys, you leave me all the stupid ones except for Bach’s Air…. The least i can hope for is that you’ll be humming one of the following songs for the next few days:

“Jet airliner” – Modern Talking

“Ca plane pour mois”- Plastique Bertrand (hey, it’s got plane in the title right?)

“Leaving on a jetplane” – John Denver

“Love missile F1-11” – Sigue Sigue Sputnik

“(I don’t wanna die in an) Air disaster” – Albert Hammond

“Fly away” – Lenny Kravitz

“99 Luftballons” – Nena (please not the English version).

“Enola gay” – OMD[ (this one beats Motorhead’s Bomber for sure!)

“Learn to fly” – Foo Fighters

“Learning to fly” – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

“Flight 643” – DJ Tiësto

“Flight of Icarus” – Iron Maiden

“Ritt der Walküren” – Richard Wagner (well, the valkyries are actually riding but nobody told FF Coppola when he used it as a soundtrack for Hueys, Loaches and a few F-5s to blow up a village in Apocalypse Now).

“Alec Eiffel” – Pixies

If the sky is not yet the limit, you might also add:

“Ashes to ashes” – David Bowie

“Völlig losgelöst” – Peter Schilling (no, again not the English version)

This is just a first handfull, there literally are hundreds if not thousands of songs which have something to do with flight, sky, air – and if you want to add space as well, it gets even worse.

EDIT: Only see now it should have been metal… well, a few of those mentioned are on the rougher edge of musicland…

ahhh yes yes!!!!

Anyway till now the man in the pic is the best ambassador fr the LP! 😀

“Overkill” was (as far as I remember) on Motorhead’s first LP.

Overkill

now why didnt i get that? 🙂

Overkill 🙂

Hell ya Motorhead rox!

Guess whos also a big fan of Motorhead!:D 😀 :p