https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSLdNos7q8
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
None of the songs begin with rocket sounds, but every song on Public Service Broadcasting's The Race for Space album is built on historical spaceflight samples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 October 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! Which reminds me: if only ilx could bring to bear the same resources it used to locate Wayne to solve this unsolved mystery
― Madame Bob George (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 October 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
faust - t-electronique (residents remix)
― mystery local boy (rushomancy), Monday, 24 October 2016 07:40 (seven years ago) link
Seems like there must be a bunch of Man or Astroman tracks that do this, but I'm blanking at the moment.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Monday, 24 October 2016 07:56 (seven years ago) link
The The - I've Been Waiting for Tomorrow (All of My Life).
― MatthewK, Monday, 24 October 2016 10:35 (seven years ago) link
Just Like Nothing On Earth by the Stranglers starts with the sound of a spaceship landing
― - SOLO - Pink Dolphin, Bubbling Cassina (frog), Indris, Monkeys, Tiger (soref), Monday, 24 October 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
The space-age Rockabilly novelty: Skip Stanley - Satellite Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAO77QLxRVw
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 24 October 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
I also immediately thought of Man Or Astro-Man, and this song especially (although the actual sound of take-off is not featured here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptEwQN4KcHo
― sonderpop, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Sirius", has spaceships landing at the start, taking off at the end.
― Millions of species Faye Dunaway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
... electronic representations of, that is.
― Millions of species Faye Dunaway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
How'd we miss Sweet, "Fox on the Run"
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Perfume - Night Flight, kinda
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wroIBKLZOQ
― Snorting and all (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUpTyr1i9BQ
― salthigh, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Eleven minute plus album version of "Float On" has some space age sounds to accompany you on your voyage to the stars, mixed with "Ring Around the Rosie" for good measure.
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
The B-52s "Planet Claire" begins with what I'd call satellite sounds.
The intro to ELO's "Tightrope" has a spaceship feel.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 July 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
Takako Minekawa's "Rainy Song" has background bleeps and theremin sweeps throughout which gradually intensify until they become spaceship takeoff sounds.
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 July 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
Prince Rama - We Will Fall In Love Again
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Monday, 17 July 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPS46BDuWo
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 July 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
Not the start, more like right before the three minute mark buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VypImOlnj7M
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
I believe that some kind of craft is taking off here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV72YrB1454
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 April 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
The Apemen - space race
― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 April 2020 01:05 (four years ago) link
hansson & karlsson, “lift-off”
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 April 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
> hansson & karlsson, “lift-off”
discovery of the day, thank you.
― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:16 (four years ago) link