Songs that sing to the moon

...Or are about the moon.

100. "Moon, Don´t Come Up Tonight" - Patty Waters
99. "Goodnight Moon" - Shivaree
98. "Low Red Moon" - Belly
97. "Moonchild" - M83
96. "Moonshine" - Cat Power
95. "Moonshine" - Dennis Wilson

"Moonshiner" - Cat Power, even.

"Moon Song" - George (Manchester band, not Australian band)

moonlight sonata!

92. "Stop the Sun, Stop the Moon" - Boswell Sisters

91. "Shine on Harvest Moon" - Boswell Sisters

90. "god bless the moon" - spectral light & moonshine firefly snakeoil jamboree (traditional, though)

89. "I Want the Moon" - Leatherface

88. "Hunter's moon" - Thin White Rope
87. "Moon song" - My Bloody Valentine
86. "Child of the moon" - Rolling Stones

and

86. "The killing moon" - Echo & the Bunnymen

85. "Shine on moon" - Lightnin' Hopkins

84. Blue Moon - Rodgers and Hart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdH36iMt3-s

83. What's Next to the Moon-AC/DC

81. P J Harvey - "Yuri-G"
80. Stereolab - "Lo Boob Oscillator"

79. Bob Seger - "Shame On The Moon"
78. Cat Stevens - "Moon Shadow"

magnetic fields to thread

77. you and me and the moon
76. the dreaming moon
75. sad little moon
74. save a secret for the moon

...etc. pretty sure there's more.

Heh, 73. Future Bible Heroes - You Pretend To Be The Moon (maybe this one doesn't count)

72. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley
71. My Moon My Man - Feist
70. Pink Moon - Nick Drake

69. the moon is blue - colourbox

68. "I Wanna Go To The Moon" - Sun City Girls

67. Moon... River?

66.9 E.U. - Da Butt

^ nice.

66. Howlin At The Moon - Hank Williams
65. The Moonbeam Song - Harry Nilsson

64. Moonchild - Rick James
63. Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne

62. Alabama Song – The Young Gods, The Doors, Bette Midler, etc

Lyrics sites are trying to tell me that the Vengaboys also did a cover of Alabama Song, but they seem to have them mixed up with Bette Midler. If I'm wrong and anyone has a copy of the Vengaboys 'Live at Last' I would like to hear it.

61.Mayhem - The Freezing Moon
60.Mayhem - Pagan Fears ("woeful people with pale faces/staring obsessed at the moooon")
59.Morbid - December Moon
58.Moonspell - Under The Moonspell
57.Behemoth - The Return Of The Northern Moon
56.Behemoth - Moonspell Rites
55.Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
54.Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

53. Iron Maiden-Moonchild

52. "Marquee Moon" - Television

51. "Who Killed Mr. Moonlight" - Bauhaus
50. "Fly Me To The Moon" - Frank Sinatra? (I can't even remember how this goes, but it was the first thing that came to mind - oh wow wiki says Julie London recorded it, and I was just thinking of her!)

49. "Texas Moon" - The Church

48. "Harvest Moon" - Neil Young

47. "Moon at the Window" by Joni Mitchell
46. "Song About the Moon" by Paul Simon
45. "Ring Around the Moon" by Greg Brown

44. Supermarket the Moon- a beautiful ballad buried in the rubble on Guided by Voices' first Suitcase boxset
43. Colonise the Moon- Super Furry Animals' tribute to Nick Drake released as a b-side during the Lovekraft era

42. We Like the Moon

"Song About the Moon" by Paul Simon

Which is really a song about writing a song about the moon.

"Look at That Moon"- Victoria Williams

40. Nashville Moon - Magnolia Electric Co

39. "Rocket Plane (Music On The Moon)" - Komeda
38. "I Wish I Was The Moon" - Neko Case
37. "Walk To The Moon" - Persephone's Bees
36. "The Same Moon And Stars" - Windy & Carl
35. "(I Love You) To The Moon And Back" - Spectrum
34. "The Moon Inside" - Robyn Hitchcock

"The Moon Inside" oh man! That's a good one! I hope I have that on my iPod already...

Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig van Beethoven

sorry someone already said that

33. Clair de Lune - Debussy

32. Moon Rocks by Talking Heads

Talking Heads damnit!!! YEAH!

31. Shakespear's Sister - Moonchild
30. Juliette Greco - La Valse brune ("c'est la valse brune, des chevaliers de la lune")
29. Marc Almond - Madame de la Luna

28. The Microphones - The Moon
27. Arthur Russell - This is how we walk on the moon
26. Sally Shapiro - Skating in the Moonshine
25. Swell Maps - Full Moon in my pocket
24. Radiohead - Sail to the Moon

23. The Sad Milkman -- The Handsome Family

22. Pharoah Sanders - Moon Child
21. Pharoah Sanders - Moon Rays
20. Luna - Moon Palace

The man in the moon is my man
He never says nothin, so I know he understands
He's the brother I never had - the husband I'd never want
He's everything to everyone, he's famous, he's the man in the moon
He's the man in the moon

The man in the moon is my man
The man in the moon is my love caravan
He'll never break my heart, I know he's here to stay
Tell all the other boys to go away, I'll take the man in the moon
I'll take the man in the moon

He's always dressed properly
He's always where I can see him
He's always there when I need him

The man in the moon's got the stylin' flat
His dinner guests include the Sun and Saturn
The cow jumps over, he knows all the astronauts
I would be a space case if it were not for the man in the moon
The man in the moon

He's always dressed properly
He's always where I can see him
He's always there when I need him

The man in the moon's my cosmic high
The man in the moon's a pearl of a guy
I trust him on Venus, he's not the cheatin' type
He don't talk, so we don't fight

i'll take the man in the moon

Pretty much the entirety of Into Outer Space With... Lucia Pamela, but probably the best one is 'Walking on the Moon'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCLXVh9zirA

PRINCE - Slow Love

Pink Floyd - Brain Damage

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream

the White Stripes - White Moon

The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon

Ken Stringfellow - "Any Love (Cassandra et Lune)"

10. Schoenberg - "Pierrot Lunaire"

And it doesn't really count but Wozzeck's death is amazing. "The moon will betray me: the moon is bloodstained. Is the whole world going to incriminate me? The knife is too near the edge: they’ll find it when they’re swimming or diving for snails. (Wades into the pond.) I can’t find it. But I must wash myself. There’s blood on me. There’s a spot here—and another. Oh, God! I am washing myself in blood—the water is blood... blood..."

I was all, "you know who probably have a song let alone a whole album about the moon? FUCKIN' NIGHTWISH."

9. Nightwish - "Moondance"

Which bears no resemblance to

8. Van Morrison - "Moondance"

7. supertramp "sister moonshine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZNEXrElw

Bollocks someone's already done it.

6. Lunedelica - The Yellow Moon Band
5. I have the Moon, you have the internet - The Field

4. synergy - "full moon flyer"

3. Henry Cow, Beautiful As the Moon, Terrible As an Army With Banners

"The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" -- Jimmy Webb
"There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)" -- the B52s
"That Old Christmas Moon" -- Leon Redbone
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" -- Nina Simone

Debussy's Cello Sonata, which he originally toyed with calling 'Pierrot Fache Avec La Lune' (Pierrot Rages At The Moon).

George Crumb's song cycle Night Of The Four Moons, written the year of the NASA landing in protest against the idea of people setting foot there.

Can, Come Sta, La Luna
Can, Full Moon on the Highway

Dark Moon!
Loretta Lynn does the best version but here's a nice Elvis off-the-cuff version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJwwEX9yDAs&feature=related

almost none of these songs are actually addressed to the moon.

They don't have to be, the thread header said they could be about the moon as well.

Cowboy Junkies, "Blue Moon Revisited"
Fairport Convention, "Rising for the Moon"
Jenny Lewis, "Barking at the Moon"

Yeah, I no. But that's easy, and songs sung to the moon are hard. Wanted more of those, cuz I'm in love w/ the idea and don't know many.

Yellow Moon - Neville Bros.

Just hit me: "Mr. Moonlight" sings to the moon:

Mr. Moonlight
You came to me one summer night
And from your beam you made my dream
And from the world you sent my girl
And from above you sent us love
And now she is mine
I think you're fine
Cos we love you, Mr. Moonlight

dark moon is addressed to the moon!

Laurie Berkner's "Moon Moon Moon" is part about & part addressed to the moon, as is Jason Mraz's "Bella Luna." Caveat: they're written and performed by Laurie Berkner and Jason Mraz, respectively, so drive at your own risk.

Wasn't responding directly to Dark Moon post. And yr right.