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You've acquired millions of dollars and have used it all to take a trip to space on a private plane

shuttle.  You board the shuttle, and prepare for lift off....you lift off and af

er a few seconds you look up, and where once was blue, there is now the

blackness of space with twinkling stars, and below you, your home planet.

What music or lack there of is playing as you:

1. Board the Shuttle

2. The Countdown Begins

3. You lift off

4. The moments the sky turns to space.

And optional for the daring:

BONUS: As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

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"All Systems Go" / The Launch from Apollo 13 or Leaving Drydock from Star Trek TMP.

BONUS: As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

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1. Board The Shuttle - The Visitors (Close Encounters) starting at 4:50

2. The Countdown Begins - The Visitors starting at 7:11

3. You lift off - The Visitors starting at 8:21

4. The moment the sky turns to space - The Visitors starting at 9:51

As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth - William Shatner's You'll Have Time

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1) "Prologue" - JFK

2) "Let There be Light" - Close Encounters (I had a lot of trouble with this one)

3) "Buckbeak's Flight" - Prisoner of Azkaban

4) "City Under Ice" - Artificial Intelligence

Bonus: "Hand to Hand Combat" - Jaws

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I really like this! We should do more of these!

1. Board the Shuttle - "Crucial Rendezvous" from Deep Impact

2. The Countdown Begins - "Good to Go" from Contact

3. You lift off - "Anakin Takes Off" Star Wars Episode I

4. The moments the sky turns to space. - "No Words" Contact

Space Walk: "The Reading" from Fahrenheit 451

BONUS: "Trapped Lovers" Towering Inferno (or maybe "Reaching the Country" War of the Worlds / "The Helicopter Explodes" Towering Inferno )

I've actually put this all in a playlist and listened to it... and it works really well :-p

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1. Board the Shuttle

Either Fanfare for the Common Man, or the first 53 seconds of Breaking The Sound Barrier. If I'm in a minimalist mood, then a simple drum ostinato.

2. The Countdown Begins

Nothing - the suspense would build up by itself, without musical accompaniment.

3. You lift off

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollility (up to about 2:45 in, before it gets to the 'noble' solo horn movement)

4. The moments the sky turns to space.

Space - The Right Stuff (the promo album)

Space itself would be accompanied by Also Spake Zathurasta (think Star Baby)

And optional for the daring:

BONUS: As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

Crash Landing - Planet of the Apes (the first 20 or so seconds of it, anyway)

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Board the Shuttle: Journey to the Island (Jurassic Park)

Countdown Begins: The Chess Game (Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone)

Lift Off: Call of the Champions (American Journey) OR Soarin' (Soarin' Over California) OR Buckbeak's Flight (PoA)

Sky turns to Space: The Darkside of the Moon (Apollo 13)

BONUS: Rescuing Sarah (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

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Boarding/Countdown/Lift Off - The Launch - (Apollo 13)

Sky Turns to Space - Small Moves - (Contact)

Bonus: The Intersection Scene (very low key, but I can't find exactly the right type of bigger action cue right now)

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1. Board the Shuttle

"Pre-Launch" (Star Trek - The Motion Picture)

2. The Countdown Begins

The opening part of "Dawn Raid on Fort Knox" (Goldfinger)

3. You lift off

"Stealing the Enterprise", the part starting at approx. 4:00 (Star Trek III - The Search for Spock)

4. The moments the sky turns to space.

"Flight into Space" (Moonraker)

As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

"The Demise of Mrs. Baylock" (The Omen)

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1. Board the Shuttle

Mauve Antarctica

2. The Countdown Begins

Saving Buckbeak

3. You lift off

Short Ride In A Fast Car

4. The moments the sky turns to space.

Fawkes the Phoenix

BONUS: As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

Anakin's Dark Deed

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On second thought, if I had that much money, I would hire John Williams to write a new soundtrack just for my trip.

seeing as this is not the purpose of this exercise ... i'm not sure how your response is entirely apropos.. lol

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He does bring up a good point though... if you have enough money for tickets on a shuttle, you probably have enough to hire the top film composer in the world to write 20 minutes of music for you. ROTFLMAO

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Well assuming that the said composer is dead by the time you're taking a trip to the stars. ROTFLMAO

Or will not do it because you're not Spielberg or Lucas.

Or because he's already made his big check and you can't offer him much.

Or he's senile.

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He does bring up a good point though... if you have enough money for tickets on a shuttle, you probably have enough to hire the top film composer in the world to write 20 minutes of music for you. ROTFLMAO

I wouldn't be so sure if few minutes of football music costs 15 millions...

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something from Goldsmith would be the only choice.

Hell yeah!

Hell no! Go for the original: Gustav Holst.

Or you could combine the two (Goldsmith synths, Holst stylings). But that would get you Wendy Carlos.

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I don't wanna go to space listening to the Moog stylings of a mixed up tranny!

For the lift of I'd probably go for Neodammerung, mainly because it's the only track loud enough to be heard over the sound of millions of kilo's or rocket fuel igniting.

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That's why I put Jupiter in mine. (originally had the bombastic rythym in Mars for the Bonus track, but I think Goldsmith's Crash Landing makes for better terror at the face of death.

Mixed up tranny? Way to be accepting, Steef. Both Wendy and Moog synths get a bad rep as I see it (it worked in Clockwork, didn't it?)

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Funny thread :) I filled it out without having read the other suggestions:

1. Board the Shuttle:

John Williams - Jurassic Park: Journey to the Island

2. The Countdown Begins:

Gustav Holst - The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War

John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back: The Imperial March

Richard Wagner - Die Walküre: Walküren Ritt

James McHugh/James Horner/Jerry Goldsmith/John Williams: Universal Logo Music

3. You lift off:

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction

John Williams - Superman: March

Jerry Goldsmith - Supergirl: Main Title

David Arnold - Independence Day: End Credits

John Williams - Hook: Flight to Neverland

4. The moments the sky turns to space:

John Williams - Star Wars Main Theme (the moment of the piccolo solo, of course :lol:)

BONUS: As your happy trips turns to disaster and you are crashing back to Earth.

Franz Schubert: Ave Maria

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1. Board the Shuttle:

Southampton from "Titanic" - James Horner

Main Titles from "Taxi Driver" - Bernard Herrmann

2. The Countdown Begins:

Genesis Countdown - "Star Trek II - TWOK" - James Horner

Bishop's Countdown - "Aliens" - James Horner

Theme tune from the UK's Channel 4 show "Countdown"

3. You lift off:

Short Ride in a Fast Machine - John Adams

Main Titles from "The Rocketeer" - James Horner

4. The moments the sky turns to space:

Main Titles from "Star Trek: Voyager" - Jerry Goldsmith (the 300 hour version)

Main Titles from "Out of Africa" - John Barry

While we're on the subject of morbidity, if it turns out to be tragic, then

Main Theme from "Six Feet Under" - Thomas Newman

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Anyone who wouldn't choose the opening of 2001 would have to be some sort of radical.

Selecting musical pieces for an imaginary scenario isn't quite comparable to revolutionizing nations. There's no radicalism in casual threads in music forums, and nobody cares how strong your opinions are.

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Too cliched for my chins, I'm afraid.
Anyone who wouldn't choose the opening of 2001 would have to be some sort of radical.

Selecting musical pieces for an imaginary scenario isn't quite comparable to revolutionizing nations. There's no radicalism in casual threads in music forums, and nobody cares how strong your opinions are.

I meant that with a grain of salt, but it was definitely the first piece that came to my head.

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