10 Best Aviation Songs

[cezzna]

"Flying in a blue dream" is by Joe Satriani, not Steve Vai. Way cool song though.
I'd have to vote for "eruption" by the master Eddie Van Halen, that rolls right into "runnin with the devil", always makes me think of flying, but not a 152:-0

 

[F16fixer]

Yeah, because none of his other songs would have ever clued you in!

Get to the point and smoke another joint wasn't referring to a dovetail in the side of a cedar chest cabinet

just giving ya a hard time

"

I left out Tom Petty, because while I liked that song, it was ruined for me when I found out he wrote it about doing drugs. :erm:

 

[Metro752]

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Riders on the Storm - The Doors

For when you're cruising over Iowa when it's just past sunset in a 152 allll alone doing 70-80kts over the ground.

 

[Jmmccutc]

Buck Rodger by Feeder...it's the sweet ass song they play as the F-18 shoot's off the deck in "Behind Enemy Lines"

 

[Metro752]

Buck Rodger by Feeder...it's the sweet ass song they play as the F-18 shoot's off the deck in "Behind Enemy Lines"

damn awesome, thanks for this 1...........

BTW to add to my post, you're over Iowa at about 2500 headed west, and even though the smell might not really be there, you could swear it stinks like manure

 

[English]

Hilarious. Please post the lyrics for us.

It was a bright clear day
I thought I'd get away
To an airshow outside of Paris France

All the Airbus planes
All the Francois dames
Both of them can fetch a branch

Don't wanna see it smash
Don't wanna see it crash
As it settles so nice into the trees

You think they'll still stay
You think they'll still pay
For a plane that doesn't land, it careens


(chorus)

I don't wanna die in an Airbus
Don't wanna say goodbye up there
I don't wanna die in an Airbus
Don't wanna take a missile in the rear

There's more but Murphie has been drinking too many margaritas...

 

[JediNein]

Alan Parsons Project, "On Air":
1. Apollo
2. Cloudbreak
3. Blue Blue Sky
4. Fall Free

Moody Blues: Stepping in a Slide Zone

Yanni: Aria
Lakme: Flower Duet
Adiemus : Adiemus

The always favorite: Rhapsody in Blue

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, City in the Clouds... After an impressive beginning and dull middle, there is an amazing woodwind piece, background to the Millenium Falcon's escape to Cloud City.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Rook]

Nothing from Top Gun, eh?

'One Vision' - Queen

Work's best if you graduated from Riddle!

Or if you've seen Iron Eagle one too many times.

I've always thought Bob Seger's 'Night Moves' should be a FR8 Dog's theme.

Rook

 

[viper548]

Roam-B52s
Crazy Train-Ozzy

 

[av8orboy]

162FS Ohio ANG

http://www.ruttmanfamily.com/a2asmall.wmv

 

[spudskier]

The vid is fantastic...

 

[AirMorgan]

Top of the World by Van Halen! I used it for my video and it sounds awesome.

 

[Photoflight]

Reach for the Sky - Social Distortion.

Not specifically about flying but taken out of context it could be.

 

[That Guy]

Every Dos Gringos song!

Especially "I'm A Pilot"! "Predator Eulogy" is another great one, too!

TG

 

[Stroker]

Reverend Horton Heat: Bails of Cocaine

http://www.enditpresents.com/mp3/revheatcocaine.m3u

Well, I was workin' on my farm 'bout 1982,
Pullin' up some corn and a little carrot, too
When two low-flying aeroplanes, 'bout a hundred feet high
Dropped a bunch o' bales o' somethin', some hit me in the eye...

So I cut a bale open, an' man was I surprised
Bunch o' large sized baggies, with big white rocks inside
So I took a little sample to my crazy brother Joe
He sniffed it up and kicked his heels, said, "Horton, that's some blow!"

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes

So I loaded up them bales in my pick-em-up truck,
Headed west for Dallas, where I would try my luck
I didn't have a notion if I could sell 'em there,
But, thirty minutes later, I was a millionaire...

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes

And now I am a rich man, but I'm still a farmer, too
But I sold my farm in Texas, bought a farm down in Peru
And when get so homesick, I think I'm goin' insane,
I travel back to Texas in a low-flyin' plane...

Bales of cocaine, fallin' from low-flyin' plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em, but I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine, fallin' like a foriegn rain
My life changed completely by the low-flyin' planes

 

[crash-proof]

I wish I could take up an f-16 and crank up Iron Maiden's "Tailgunner", really gets you pumped up

Iron Maiden - Tailgunner
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Trace your way back 50 years
To the glow of Dresden - blood and tears
In the black above by the cruel searchlight
Men will die and men will fight - yeah!
Who shot who and who fired first?
Dripping death to whet the bloodthirst
No radar lock on - skin and bone
The bomber boys are going home

chorus

Climb into the sky never wonder why - Tailgunner
You're a Tailgunner

(repeat)

Nail that fokker kill that son.
Gonna blow your guts out with my gun
The weather forecast's good for war
Cologne and Frankfurt? Have some more!
Tail end Charlie in the boiling sky
The Enola Gay was my last try
Now that this Tailgunner's gone
No more bombers (just one big bomb)

chorus

 

[Champ42272]

I have got to agree with lawndart, the best aviation songs are from Oscar Brand, I like the one that starts 'Don't give me a P-38...". And I really like lawndart's avatar.

Champ42272

 

[MissKittyKat]

In a spaceship over the mountain, is a a john Denver song, can't remember the title, but it may be good for Richard Branson!

How about you belong to me by Patsy Cline, or when you caught between the moon and New York city? He wrote it on a plane, or on the road again, by willie!!!!!!!

Or fly me to the moon, frankie sinitra!

or straighten up and fly right, a remake with Linda Rondstant!

 

[Borat Sagdiyev]

Just Like Heaven
by the Cure

Don't ask me why, but it's always reminded me of flying and traveling.

 

[UGAflyer]

I believe I can fly - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (they do a better version than R Kelly...and they don't pee on people)

Sweetness- Jimmy Eat World (not about aviation but good tempo)