Music to enjoy during totality : Solar eclipse 2024: Follow the path of totality : NPR

If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in the path of totality on Monday, you’ll probably be tempted to focus on the visual experience, but what about the soundtrack to set the mood?

The St. Louis Public Radio team has curated an eclipse-themed playlist to accompany your viewing party or visual adventure, featuring obvious classics, puny perfection, and tailored celestial code jams to your celebration.

List of “Music for an Eclipse” tracks from St. Louis Public Radio

• “Night and Day” – Hot Chip
• “Supernova” – Liz Phair
• “Fate of the Black Moon” – King Tuff
• “Sunlight” – Meat Wave
• “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – Bonnie Tyler
• “Eclipse” – Pink Floyd
• “There Is No Sun” – Bill Withers
• “Watching the Sun” – TV on the radio
• “Looking at the Sun (feat. Sophie Hintze)” – LCAW
• “Anti-Hero” – Taylor Swift
• “Sun from the Black Hole” – Soundgarden
• “Lunar Dream” – David Bowie
• “Dancing in the Moonlight” – King Harvest
• “The Sun is Shining” – Bob Marley and the Wailers
• “Red Moon” – Whitney
• “Da-Doo” – Little Shop of Horrors Original Soundtrack
• “Darkness on the Face of the Earth” – Willie Nelson
• “Astronomy (8th Light)” – Black Star, Weldon Irvine
• “Luna Llena” – Elvis Crespo
• “I’m Gonna Shoot the Moon” – Tom Waits
• “On the Sunny Side of the Street” – Billie Holiday
• “Sun-Earth Rock” – Sun Ra
• “Here Comes the Sun” – The Beatles
• “Mr. Moonlight” – The Beatles
• “Don’t let the sun go down on me” – Elton John
• “Moonlight” – Kamasi Washington
• “Day ‘N’ Nite (Nightmare)” – Kid Cudi

As for the whole thing? You’ll only have a few minutes to enjoy the total eclipse, so choose your favorite tune or connect with all your senses and enjoy the eerie cold and sudden silence of the world in the glow of the sun’s ghostly white ring still visible. .

NPR’s Emily Alfin Johnson produced this piece.