Post a Song About The Moon/That References The Moon

[Loren]

The RAH Band, Clouds Across the Moon...Wouldn't be out of place in the "Forgotten 80s music" thread...

Thank you for sharing all of the excellent music you've posted. I had forgotten about the 80's music thread. Thanks for making mention of it.

 

[Aeolienne]

The Waterboys, The Whole of the Moon

Here's hoping it won't be too long before we can stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a muddy field again...

 

[Aeolienne]

Van Morrison, Moondance

 

[Aeolienne]

R.E.M., Man on the Moon

 

[Aeolienne]

Prince, Arms of Orion
(references the Sea of Tranquility)

 

[Aeolienne]

The Police, Walking on the Moon

 

[Prysmata]

 

[Aeolienne]

The Spacious Firmament on High (words by Joseph Addison (1672-1719), music by John Sheeles)

 

[Aeolienne]

Carl Orff, 'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
ever waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
playing with mental clarity;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.

Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.

Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!

 

[tree]

Blue Moon of Kentucky

 

[OkRad]

Wow. I have not heard this for many many years. He had such a smooth voice.

 

[Aeolienne]

Antonín Dvořák, 'Song to the Moon' from Rusalka, performed here by Angela Gheorghiu

Here are the lyrics (in Czech) and a translation:

Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém
Světlo tvé daleko vidí,
Po světě bloudíš širokém,
Díváš se v příbytky lidí.

Měsíčku, postůj chvíli
Řekni mi, kde je můj milý
Řekni mu, stříbrný měsíčku,
mé že jej objímá rámě,
aby si alespoň chviličku
vzpomenul ve snění na mě.
Zasviť mu do daleka,
řekni mu, řekni mu, kdo tu naň čeká!
O mne-li duše lidská sní,
ať se tou vzpomínkou vzbudí!
Měsíčku, nezhasni, nezhasni!

Oh dearest moon in the deep sky,
Your light shines far,
You roam the world wide,
You peek into people's houses.
Oh dearest moon, stand still for a while,
tell me, oh tell me, where is my beloved.
Tell him, silver moon, that my arm embraces him,
so he may, even for a brief moment, remember me in his dreams.
Shine bright for him far apart,
tell him, oh tell him, who awaits him here.
Shall his human soul dream of me,
may he remember me when he wakes up.
Oh dearest moon, do not fade out, do not stop shining.

 

[Aeolienne]

Siobhan Wilson, It Must Have Been the Moon

 

[smnmy]

The Chills (from New Zealand, 1982)

 

[tree]

 

[SusanLR]

 

[Aeolienne]

Duran Duran, New Moon on Monday

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

 

[Aeolienne]

Zoё, Sunshine on a Rainy Day
"Make me feel, make me feel so unreal, so unreal
Like wind in the desert, like moon on the sea.."

 

[Nick12]

i like this moon song i dont want to live on the moon sesame street song