Cactus.

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I'm in the process of sorting out music for our public display, trying to find different tracks for different slots, also crash music
so far i have....
trainers: robbie williams - straighten up and fly right
manic manoeuvres ( funflys ) james bond??
aerobatics: ??????
helis: westlife - flying without wings
funfighters: 633 squardon, battle of britain, dam busters, ect
gliders:??????
electric: human league - electric dreams
scale:????????
quickies: Prodigy - break and enter??
large aircraft:??????
multis:?????
control line: vic and bob - dizzy
crashes: queen - another one bites the dust, chumbawamba - tubthumping

any other suggestions?

GrnBrt

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Long , long ago I flew aerobatics to '2001, A space odyssey', worked out good. Also look into the BeeGees and staying alive!

Lightfoot

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gliders: Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler

scottrc

Heres a couple We have used.

GP F-14s flying a pair demo - Had to be "Danger Zone"
"Free Bird" Lynard Skynard - Pattern
"Sailing" Cristopher Cross - Sailplanes
"Living on a prayer" Bon Jovi - 3D
Any tune by Glenn Miller works well with Warbirds, it sets a mood.
"Snoopy and the Red Baron" - Combat
"Wipeout" - Limbo contests

Jim_McIntyre

Alan Parsons "On Air" album.

A concept album encompassing the history of aviation... complete with typical Parson's sound effects...

Cactus.

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just saw the show organiser, asked exactly what he wanted, seams he was only really looking for background music for the whole display, not set to the slots ect, apart from the warbirds and crash stuff.
asked for a tape that could be played.
now... we have two days, and the slots are repeted twice a day, i dont want to listen to elevator music in the background, and i dont want the same stuff twice a day, i'd rather work out about 8 mins of songs ( length of slot ) and put it on a cd, then link the cd player into the PA. if slots are running late or early, you hit the next track. want the special effects ( crash ) have it on a seperate player.
so. still gonna try to make a cd and kinda time it so it runs right.

great suggestions so far, keep them comming

Deadeye

I always play these songs in my mind when I'm flying:

Boston: Cool the Engines (Third Stage album)

Rush: Red Barchetta (a song about a car, but the tempo is awesome to fly to.)

Rush: Xanadu (long song, I've always wanted to do a perfectly timed routine to this tune)

Nitro Blast

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If you guys like modern stuff...

Joe Satriani's "Surfing with the Alien" is wonderful. A complete collection of non-vocalized tunes that I think many are great to fly to. One of the best tunes to fly to is "I just cant slow down".. ahh... gotta go put the CD in now.


He is one of the greatest gutiar legends of our time and virtually unheard of outside the heavy metal world as he teaches to the stars such as Eddie Van Halen and many more.

SDCrashmaster

Yeah,
Satriani, or Steve Vai. "Fire in the house" from Vai's "Firegarden" CD is a good jet piece.

The PIPE

Dear Fellow RCU'ers:

The PIPE here again-and NO ONE has mentioned in this thread what I like to call "the Song of RHINEBECK"...a song that would be PERFECTLY suited to aerobatic maneuvers with a Bücker Jungmeister that looks like THIS...



...the one and only ABBABIPE Jungmeister-ABBA's own song "Eagle"!

With lyrics like this, from a song written by BENNY ANDERSSON and BJÖRN ULVAEUS [the "guys" of the group]-one might imagine a young person watching the amazing sights of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome weekend airshows for the VERY FIRST TIME in their lives...and getting absolutely HOOKED on antique aviation as a result, both fullsize AND in RC Scale model form...

"They came flying from far away, now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell
They've seen places beyond my land and they've found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand
And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings

Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

As all good friends we talk all night, and we fly wing to wing
I have questions and they know everything
There's no limit to what I feel, we climb higher and higher
Am I dreaming or is it all real?
Is it true I'm an eagle?
Is it true I can spread my wings?

Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high, what a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings" (and so on)...

The entirely TRUE story of how my ABBABIPE came to be can be read at http://www.biplanes.de/bp_forum/view...t=7&highlight= ...and EVERY PART of that story is most CERTAINLY true!

There are all SORTS of music that ABBA did during the 1970s that would be appropriate for RC aerobatic flying...and since I DO have a set of Dave Platt plans for his Giant Scale Jungmeister (to be built as a Big ABBABIPE with Saito 150 power in its nose) I could really create a VERY NICE "Sky-Dancing Queen"!

Then there's that set of truly ENORMOUS plans that Model Airplane News has for a ONE THIRD scale sized Jungmeister at http://www.rcstore.com/rs/general/de...300a&catego=PL ...been daydreamin' about that one with a ROBART R780 radial in its nose as a "someday" thing, as an unbelievably GRAND version of the ABBABIPE Jungmeister concept!

The song "Eagle" by ABBA DOES have a previous use in aviation history--the Double Eagle II baloon's pioneering crossing of the Atlantic...which DID occur in the late 1970s, during ABBA's most popular period of active recording...had that very song "Eagle", that I've mentioned here as the "background" music on its TV coverage, and that was the very FIRST time I had ever heard it.

So, that "Swedish Fab Four" from three decades ago that HAS become only the most popular "mixed gender" music act of ALL TIME, has just about ALL the aerobatic music I'll ever need...but there's also "Dance with Me" by Orleans, and a goodly number of others from the 60s and 70s I could think of if I had the time...!

Yours Sincerely,

The PIPE!

Deadeye

It's pretty obvious that you are a Metallica, err I mean Abba fan. My wife is too, although she was still a young kid when Abba had their hayday.

Perhaps I should build a Bee Gee's Gee Bee to get her interested in my flying machines.

Deadeye

And now something to honor 'The PIPE', in the form of a lymric.

An RCU member named PIPE,
Loved the Abba Bipe.
While searching his head,
To post on this thread,
Forgot to mention 'Heart' as a mixed gender type!

MikeL

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Sammy Hagar's "Eagles Fly"
Van Halen's "Dreams"

BigSkyRCFlyer

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Iron Maiden-Aces High

Metallica-Fuel,For Whom The Bell Tolls

Foo Fighters-Learning To Fly

also can't forget....


Ozzy-Flying High Again,Crazy Train

Just some of my favs I like to listen to or think of when I fly.

Great Topic BTW , I love "music" in General!

deckerv

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aerobatics: ??????


How about Van Halen's "Dreams" ... If I'm not mistaken, it's on the 5150 album.. but not 100% sure.

The PIPE

Dear Deadeye:

The PIPE here yet again-and I'm not quite sure about how many recordings "Heart" has sold, but I'd bet it probably isn't CLOSE to the 345 MILLION recordings that AGNETHA, BJÖRN, BENNY and ANNI-FRID have sold over the years...those four people are the foursome that made up ABBA!

My "small" ABBABIPE was the very FIRST aerobatic RC model aircraft I had ever built, way back in the 1980s-and judging from HOW many other RCers seem to think VERY kindly about the Bücker Jungmeister design, especially about its generally "forgiving" nature in maneuvers (the Jungmann MUST be quite similarly "kind" to the newbie aerobatic RCer as well)...and Gordon Whitehead's small Bü 133 is no different!

The old HB 25 two stroke engine in it, back in the 1980s, just did NOT seem to quite have the "oomph" that I had hoped it would have in flying my small Jungmeister, but at least NOW, with a Saito FA-30 FOUR stroke engine ready to replace the long-gone HB two stroke, that "first" ABBABIPE of mine will FINALLY have an appropriate "mill" to spin a nice, BIG "for it" 11 x 4 prop at some 9500 rpm (check at http://www.rcuniverse.com/showthread...81&forumid=209 about my thread on the RPM figures for my Saito 30 engine)...and an 11 inch prop will be able to get a WHOLE LOT more prop area OUTSIDE the radial cowl's rear diameter than the HB 25's NINE inch prop could have ever had-something like 75% MORE area!

But back to the Singin' Swedes for a moment...I've got ALL of ABBA's vinyl LP releases that were sold in the USA, and I'm starting to get a collection of all the CDs as well...add to that the "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" performance of ABBA's music by Björn Again (at http://www.bjornagain.com/ ), the ONLY ABBA tribute band "semi-officially" approved of by the original band's male members (and even their MANAGER, the late Stikkan Anderson)...AND planned purchases of the Spanish language "ABBA Oro" CD, and even perhaps the A-Teens CD featuring ABBA's music-and OF COURSE, the performance album of ABBA's music by the cast of the muscial MAMMA MIA (which I saw LIVE in its very FIRST USA performance, in BOSTON, on 8/17/2001) and it's very hard to deny the likely fact that ABBA's popularity should see the total number of recordings sold of their songs go over the HALF BILLION mark by sometime around 2010!

That Dave Platt plans-based, Saito 150 four stroke powered Giant Scale ABBABIPE would look GREAT doin' snaps, spins, Lomcevaks, etc. with "switchable" airshow SMOKE pouring from its exhaust to the lyrics:

"You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen!

Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come in to look for a King
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen!

It all started back in July 1976, like it said in that
"Biplanes.de" forum thread I've mentioned-and ABBA's music and RC flyin' are together, FOREVER, in my mind!

Yours Sincerely,

The PIPE! )

Cactus.

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thanks for all these susgestions guys, some really good stuff here, i've currently got about 3.45 hours of music, but i've been asked for more background stuff, the comentry will be over the top of it and you'll hardly hear it. kinda like in a shop. so any more ideas for this??
i had a look at my chillout dance albums, but i dont think everyone would consider that relaxed and background lol

Jim_McIntyre

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly"

M Gill

wow, what a sneaky way to slip music into an "all r/c forum".

I love Iron Maiden's "ace's high"

a couple of appropriate WWII tunes:

"coming in on a wing and a prayer" (good for a twin with an engine out)

"american patrol"

Mace Gill
The Aeroplane Works

Cactus.

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Jim, my girlfriend already suggested that and got it for me
Mace, will get those
thanks

Gordon Mc

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For trainers, or anyone who's having a hard time landing, there's always Tom Petty, "Learning to Fly"

Jim_McIntyre

Hi Gordon!

I guess you could interpret the song that way but, I don't think it's the same kinda flying he's singing about.

hattend

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Gliders: Santana "Caravanserai" (sp)

Also, any Pink Floyd or Supertramp instrumental

Gordon Mc

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Aww man - you went & ruined my innocence on that one !!! I figured the "I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings" it meant he was still on the buddy-box

Later,
Gordon

Jim_McIntyre

Sorry Gordon but, I think your innocence was ruined a long time ago.
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Van Halen: Respect the Wind from the Twister soundtrack.

I remember getting up at the end of the movie when I heard some awesome moody guitar work. Just about everyone stopped in their tracks, turned around and stayed until the end of the song. I think I'll use this one for my next freestyle.