Music to watch an eclipse by
We’ve been looking forward to the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse that is hitting parts of North America for a long time. I bought a special camera filter to take photos of the phenomenon. We bought really nice Eclipse glasses a couple of months prior. We’ll be smoking ribs and chicken while enjoying the spectacular with high school friends in from D.C. IF THE WEATHER HOLDS! It is northeast Ohio.
But, of course, I needed to create a special music mix for the occasion.
Most people think you should just play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to time the song Eclipse’s last words to end at the start of totality: “…and the sun is eclipsed by the moon.” While my playlist starts with the beginning of that classic album and brings in totality with those lyrics from that song, the list will showcase more eclipse/moon-themed songs from many different music genres. After totality, you’ll get to enjoy more sun-based music to bring you to the end of the eclipse, which will be capped by Satchmo’s What A Wonderful World.
By the way…I chose Disturbed’s version of Sound of Silence for totality.
No matter where you are along the path, if you start this 2024 Eclipse Music Mix EXACTLY 1 hour and 15 minutes before totality starts in your vicinity, the transition I just described should line up properly. You can see the playlist below the audio player.
Enjoy the show that nature is providing us backed by some great music.
Frank's 2024 Eclipse Music Mix
The 2024 Eclipse Playlist
Were there other great tunes to use? You bet. But I had time constraints and needed to back-time exactly to totality and then to the end.
2024 Eclipse Music Mix
| Song Title | Artist | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Side of the Moon's first two songs: Speak to Me/Breathe in the Air | Pink Floyd |
| 2 | Steal My Sunshine | LEN |
| 3 | New Moon on Monday | Duran Duran |
| 4 | Walking on the Moon | The Police |
| 5 | The Dark Of The Sun | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| 6 | Moondance | Van Morrison |
| 7 | Moonlight Drive | The Doors |
| 8 | Moonshadow | Cat Stevens |
| 9 | Shame on the Moon | Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band |
| 10 | Paper Moon | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 11 | Blue Moon | Frank Sinatra |
| 12 | Blue Moon | The Marcells |
| 13 | Dark Star | Crosby, Stills & Nash |
| 14 | Dancing in the Moonlight | King Harvest |
| 15 | Bad Moon Rising | Creedance Clearwater Revival |
| 16 | Man on the Moon | REM |
| 17 | Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone | Bill Withers |
| 18 | On the Dark Side | John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band |
| 19 | Slippin Into Darkness | War |
| 20 | Total Eclipse of the Heart | Bonnie Tyler |
| 21 | Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden |
| 22 | Eclipse | Pink Floyd |
| 23 | Sound of Silence (Totality should start on first note) | Disturbed |
| 24 | Blinded By the Light | Manfred Mann's Earth Band |
| 25 | Here Comes the Sun | The Beatles |
| 26 | Sunshine | Jonathan Edwards |
| 27 | Sunny | Bobby Hebb |
| 28 | House of the Rising Sun | The Animals |
| 29 | Walkin' on the Sun | Smashmouth |
| 30 | Sunshine on My Shoulder | John Denver |
| 31 | Sunshine of My Life | Stevie Wonder |
| 32 | Sunshine Superman | Donovan |
| 33 | Walking on Sunshine | Katrina and the Waves |
| 34 | Sunshine of Your Love | Cream |
| 35 | Good Day Sunshine | The Beatles |
| 36 | We'll Sing in the Sunshine | Gale Garnett |
| 37 | Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In) | The 5th Dimension |
| 38 | Sunshine | Earth, Wind and Fire |
| 39 | Shine A Little Love | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 40 | Shine | Collective Soul |
| 41 | Eclipse | Pink Floyd |
| 42 | What a Wonderful World (Should begin just as eclipse ends) | Louis Armstrong |
