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[AstroLad]

I’m putting together a sun and moon mix CD and so far I’m having more trouble with “sun” than “moon,” though I’d definitely appreciate suggestions on both.  Here is my current track list:

Sun
Super Furry Animals, "Hello Sunshine"
Beatles/Voodoo Glow Skulls, "Here Comes the Sun"
Broken Social Scene, "Looks Just Like the Sun"
Mirah, "The Sun"

Moon
Vetiver, "Luna Sea"
Cat Power, "The Moon"
Eels, "Climbing on the Moon"
The Magnetic Fields, "Sad Little Moon"
Tom Waits, "Drunk on the Moon"
The Blow, "The Moon Is There, I Am Here"
Sun Kil Moon, "Gentle Moon"
Nick Drake, "Pink Moon"

[almost thursday]

weezer - island in the sun
feeder - seven days in the sun
aha - the sun always shines on tv
sex pistols - holiday in the sun

[Mikendher]

SUN:

emiliana torrini - sunny road

MOON:

iron & wine - no moon
elliott smith - st. ides heaven
nick drake - pink moon

BOTH:

the arcade fire - rebellion (lies)

[TrueNeutral]

Moon -

The Foo Fighters - Virginia Moon

Sun -

Rammstein - Sonne (the lyrics translate roughly to 'here comes the sun, it's the brightest star and it'll never fall from the sky')
The Foo Fighters - A Cold Day In The Sun
Modest Mouse - Sunspots/Sunspots In The House Of The Late Scapegoat
Audioslave - Shadow On The Sun
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Methinks Chris Cornell has a sun obsession.

But this isn't really indie fare.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, by... uhh.

[E. Spaceman]

Moon

The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Sail to the Moon - Radiohead
Moonwalker theme - Michael Jackson



and for Sun

Asleep on a Sunbeam - Belle and Sebastian

[almost thursday]

EDIT: Oh yeah, Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, by... uhh.

um... the vaselines?


i don't know if yr being serious or not.

good song tho.

[sketchyjoe]

The Marcels - Blue Moon

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Johnny Cash - That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)

[TrueNeutral]

EDIT: Oh yeah, Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, by... uhh.

um... the vaselines?


i don't know if yr being serious or not.

good song tho.

Really? I thought the Vaselines covered it too. I've heard like ten different versions of this song.

[almost thursday]

i think they did it first. i could be wrong, tho.

[StrikeThePostman]

I made a sunshine mix.  Here is the cream of the crop:

There Was Sun - Devendra Banhart
Kicked It in the Sun - Built to Spill
Sun Hits the Sky - Supergrass
A Sun Came - Sufjan Stevens
When the Sun Shone on Vetiver - Devendra Banhart
Here Comes the Sun Again - M. Ward
Sun in My Mouth - Bjork
Saturday Sun - Nick Drake

And some moon:

The Moon - The Microphones
Moon Rocks - Talking Heads
Moonshine Whiskey - Van Morrison

Of course there are some songs I have that don't have either "sun" or "moon" in the title, but remind me of both things anyway.  I don't know if you're looking for those though.

[AnonymousNoob]

I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want relationship!
I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to know your name.
I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to meet you mom.
I just want bang, bang, bang!
Beish, you drive me insane
when you give me that bang, bang, bang!

Ok, Annie, listen.
I don't want to make , eat chocolate, look at animals, take walk.
No.
You come home and you say, I like it when you touch me down there,
I like that.
I don't think so Annie, don't have time,
want to drink, smoke cigarette, you know.
You know what I need Annie? I'll tell you what.

I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to talk to you.
I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to know your name
I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want relationship.
I just want bang, bang, bang!
Beish, you drive me insane
when you give me that bang, bang, bang!

Oh, Hashmeer, Hashmeer, you look so good in that hat.
Why don't you give me lots of kaiss?
WROOONG!!
I don't think so Annie.
You want me to do things to you like the sun and the moon, idiot!
I don't have time. I have too many women.
All I got time for you know what is?

I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to talk to you.
I just want bang, bang, bang!
I don't want to know your name
I just want bang, bang, bang!
Beish, you drive me insane
when you give me that bang, bang, bang!
Beish, beish, beish, beish
When you give me that bang, bang, bang
Bang, bang, bang
Shiggity bang, bang, bang!
Shwat? bang, bang, bang!
I don't want relationship.
I just want bang, bang, bang!

[nescience]

The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun
Supergrass - Sun Hits the Sky
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (basically anything, since they're just shouting "NEW SUUUNNN" the whole time)

Brigitte Bardot - Le Soleil
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Microphones - Anthem for the Moon
Television - Marquee Moon
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
M83 - Moonchild

[AstroLad]

I made a sunshine mix.  Here is the cream of the crop:

There Was Sun - Devendra Banhart
Kicked It in the Sun - Built to Spill
Sun Hits the Sky - Supergrass
A Sun Came - Sufjan Stevens
When the Sun Shone on Vetiver - Devendra Banhart
Here Comes the Sun Again - M. Ward
Sun in My Mouth - Bjork
Saturday Sun - Nick Drake

And some moon:

The Moon - The Microphones
Moon Rocks - Talking Heads
Moonshine Whiskey - Van Morrison

Of course there are some songs I have that don't have either "sun" or "moon" in the title, but remind me of both things anyway.  I don't know if you're looking for those though.

Excellent recommendations everyone.  Yes I am looking for songs about the sun or moon, not necessarily with "sun" or "moon" in the title (e.g., "Luna Sea" which is a great song about the moon).

[KharBevNor]

Serious suggestions:

Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise
Bruce Dickinson - Navigate the Seas of the Sun
Carnival of Dreams - Dimension Behind the Sun
Covenant - Rising Sun
Dead Can Dance - Black Sun
Edge of Sanity - Invisible Sun
Ewigkeit - Square Sunrise
Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown
Pink Floyd - Set Your Controls For the Heart of the Sun
Porcupine Tree - And The Swallows Dance Above the Sun
Sol Invictus - A Window to the Sun
Tiamat - Brighter Than the Sun
Waylander - Sunrise

Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
Amoprhis - Rusty Moon
Bauhaus - Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?
Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon
Current 93 - Jesus Wants Me for a Moonbeam
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Iron Maiden - Moonchild
Nekromantix - Dead Moon Walkin'
Orange Goblin - You'll Never Get to the Moon in That
Pagans Mind - Moonlight Pact
Skyclad - Moongleam and Meadowsweet
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Holy Water Moonlight
Star One - High Moon
Tiger Army - The Power of Moonlite

Current 93 - Black Sun Bloody Moon

And, non seriously judging by the ones you chose:

Amorphis - Forgotten Sunrise
Arch Enemy - Dark of the Sun
At The Gates - Blood of the Sunsets
Bal-Sagoth - In The Raven-Haunted Forests of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign and the Hues of Sunlight Never Dance
Cathedral - Beneath a Funeral Sun
Dark Tranquillity - Cathode Ray Sunshine
Darkthrone - Sunrise Over Locus Mortis
Demilich - When the Sun Drank the Weight of the Water
Cryptic Wintermoon - When Daylight Dies
Edge of Sanity - Burn the Sun
Fall of the Bastards - The Day the Sun Went Cold
Green Carnation - In the Realm of the Midnight Sun
Leviathan - The Idiot Sun
My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun

Bal-Sagoth - Spellcraft and Moonfire
Behemoth - Moonspell Rites
Celtic Frost - In The Chapel In the Moonlight
Edge of Sanity - Moonshine
Endura - The Frozen Moon
Emperor - Moon Over Kara-Shehr
Immortal - Call of the Wintermoon
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio
Mayhem - Freezing Moon
Moonblood - In a Bloody Night of Fullmoon
Moonspell - Full Moon Madness
Ulver - Hymn V: Of Wolf and the Moon
Vargshelske - Hollow Moon
Vlad Tepes - War Funeral March In The Grey Mist of a Full Moon Night

[AstroLad]

Serious suggestions:
...

Thanks, impressive lists! I'm amazed you could think of that many like that.

[Tago Mago]

Yea, Sun worship! As "Vision Creation Newsun" has already been mentioned, I'll name-drop the second most hilarious anthem of this wonderful genre:

Ash Ra Tempel, man! - "LIGHT: Look at your sun."

In the morning
when I get up
I look out of my window
and see the blue sky
and I know: He is my own

In the morning, when I get up
I stand in your garden
you can see me
you can hear me
and I say: We are all one
We are all one

[Kai]

Sun:
Bathory - The Wheel of Sun
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (essential), or Sun King, or Good Day Sunshine
Black Sabbath - Laguna Sun, Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes (Not necessarily ABOUT the sun, but it has it in the title! close enough).
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Hairline Sunline (It's an instrumental, but there were lyrics written for it and included with the liner notes).
Bruce Dickinson - Navigate the Seas of the Sun, Power of the Sun
Cathedral - Requiem for the Sun
Coil - Sun Ascension
Dio - Sunset Superman
Dragonforce - Sunrise in the Akronis Sky
Edge of Sanity - Burn the Sun
Faith No More - Land of Sunshine
Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Village of the Sun
Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown
Immortal - The Sun No Longer Rises
Iron Butterfly - Look for the Sun
Iron Maiden - Sun and Steel
Jethro Tull - Look into the Sun, Someday the Sun won't Shine for You
Laibach - Hymn to the Black Sun
Nokturnal Mortum - On the Wings of the Scarlet Sunset
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Spock's Beard - The Distance to the Sun
The Velvet Underground - Ride into the Sun

Moon:
Dan Swano - Sun of the Night
Bal Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria
Black Sabbath - Black Moon
Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon
Bob Dylan - Moonlight
Buckethead - Big Sur Moon (Instrumental)
Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont
Celtic Frost - In The Chapel, In the Moonlight
Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
The Doors - Moonlight Drive
Dragonforce - Above the Winter Moonlight
Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Concentration Moon
GWAR - Tune from the Moon
Impaled Northern Moonforest - Gazing at the Blasphameous Moon While Perched Atop a Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Forsaken Crest on the Northern Mountain
Ozzy - Bark at the Moon

Dream Theatre - Under a Glass Moon

Both:
Captain Beefheart - Full Moon Hot Sun (Maybe a transition song between day and night?)
Rush - Between the Sun and Moon

[Storm Rider]

It's official, Khar and Kai are the best people on this board, bar none.

Mad props to nescience for helping me with those links, though.

[IronOxide]

It's the Sun by the Polyphonic Spree

Come on people.

[nescience]

Wait what'd I do?

[eternie]

The Beatles - The Sun King.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

i didn't read any of the other replies.  forgive me if there are repeats.

SUN:
Bleach- "太陽 (Sun)"
Fifteen- "Sun Song"
Madness- "Sun & The Rain" (i prefer the live version off the Universal Madness CD)
Elton John- "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (alt: Me First & the Gimme Gimmes version)
Modest Mouse- "Night on the Sun"
Monkey- "Summertime Sun"
Peelander-Z- "Sunny"
the pillows- "Heavy Sun (With Baby Son)"
They Might Be Giants- "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)" (duh.)
Weezer- "Longtime Sunshine"
Let's Go Bowling- "Solar Shock"
Jawbreaker- "Shield Your Eyes" ("there was a sun once.  it lit the whole damn sky, it kept everything alive.")

MOON:
A Radio With Guts- "Math and the Mocking Moon"
the pillows- "The Moon is Mine"
The Aggrolites- "Lunar Eclipse"
The Pedal-Tones- "Lunar Grave"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "月面舞踏 (Lunar Surface Dance)"

BOTH:
Bleach- "Sun Dance (Moon Dance)"

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Bonnie 'prince' Billy - The Sun Shines Down on Me(it's a cover but I can't remember who did it first)
Neko Case - I Wish I Was The Moon
TV on The Radio - Staring at the Sun
M.I.A - Sunshowers
plenty of Tom Waits songs
Modest Mouse - Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset

and the ones that are a bit of a stretch:

Low - Sunflower
Sonic Youth - Plastic Sun
The Pogues - Sunny Side of the Street
The The - December Sunlight

[AdamIsConceited]

I remember hearing this techno song that went "The sun, the moon, the stars...."  or something a few years back.

[monkeyangst]

Sun:
The Magnetic Fields, "I Don't Believe in the Sun"
Donovan, "Sunshine Superman"
and the one I can't believe no one's mentioned yet...
Bill Withers, "Ain't No Sunshine"

Moon:
David Bowie, "Moonage Daydream"
Frank Sinatra, "Fly Me to the Moon"
R.E.M., "Man on the Moon"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "The Moon is in the Gutter"
Billie Holiday, "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"

[jcknbl]

The Prodigy-Fire (Sunrise Version)
The Beatles- Here Comes the Sun
The Flaming Lips- Sunship Balloons



Yo La Tengo- Moonrock Mambo
Explosions in the Sky- The Moon is Down

Hopefully there are no repeats. Also, these are only the songs that have the words in the titles and also actually sound like their subject matter.

[Thrillho]

Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes?

[zutonna]

Don't forget...

Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining

nor

Eddy Grant - Walking On Sunshine

[sandocho]

Sun Ra - Children of the Sun

[almost thursday]

the thrills - don't steal our sun

[Felix]

CCR - Bad Moon Rising
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon
Tiny Tim - Livin' in the sunlight. Lovin' in the moonlight


The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Smashmouth - Walking on the sun

And Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam is from the Vaselines, covered by Nirvana, who also covered Seasons in the Sun, from Jacques Brel. All Apologies talks about the sun too.

[TheFoolOnTheHill]

The Beatles-Here Comes The Sun
The Rolling Stones-Moonlit Mile

[Kai]

Sun Ra - Children of the Sun

Oh, how in the hell did I miss that one!?

[Snail of Doom]

David Byrne - Burnt By The Sun
Flogging Molly - The Sun Never Shines (On Closed Doors)
Oasis - Turn Up The Sun

Stellastarr* - Moongirl
The White Stripes - White Moon

[Kid Modernist]

Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

[redbeardjim]

"Earthshine" by Rush is actually about both the sun and the moon.

[Micolithe]

"Earthshine" by Rush is actually about both the sun and the moon.

So is "Between the Sun and the Moon" also by Rush.

[Kai]

Which "Between" is cooler than "Earthshine" anyways.

[redbeardjim]

Which "Between" is cooler than "Earthshine" anyways.

To each their own. /grin

[M3gaBigh]

Sun:
Polyphonic Spree - It's The Sun
The Strokes - Evening Sun
The Vines - Sunshinin
A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV (there's a remix of this released more recently too, not sure who by though)
Powderfinger - Waiting For The Sun
The Subways - She Sun

Moon:
The White Stripes - White Moon

[IronOxide]

Some That I ignored on my last post.

Sun
The Pillows - "Crazy Sunshine"
They Might Be Giants - "Why Does the Sun Shine?"

Moon
The Police - "Walking On the Moon"