William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

1332 Kristoph Klover - Fire in the Sky From: To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration, Year: 2004; Genre: Folk/Space Rock Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, which was the first time in history that a human ventured into space. I figured I should choose something apropos for my pick today, so here's one off of the To Touch the Stars album that seemed quite fitting. This is a Folk/Rock song written by Kristoph Klover written about the drive to "reach the stars" and the sojourns man has made into space. Hear Fire in the Sky on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: David Bowie - The Supermen My song pick two years ago today: The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home   My song pick three years ago today: Garbage - Push It +

860 ( Gunnar Madsen - Surprise! ) Some time ago I found this album, which is compilation of music celebrating The Space Race and space exploration and decided on picking one of my favourite tracks off of it today. This song is about Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, which touched off the Space Race; a very cute and entertaining way of imparting history. The music is written in the style of Russian Cossack Music, those who are not familiar with that definition think of the music in the video game: Tetris . Here is a fan video with the song on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Charles Mingus - Tonight At Noon My song pick two years ago today: Megadeth - Architecture of Aggression +