# Please Help Me Choose Theme Music For My Upcoming Skydive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319 "2004-05-27T12:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/1 "2004-05-27T12:13:07Z")
I am having a video made and the guy that’s putting it together for me (he’s diving too), says I can bring my own music. I had tentatively chosen The Ramone’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”, but I wanted to see what y’all could come up with that might be better. Here are some parameters: 1. Vocals aren’t necessarily important 2. I am partial to Surf Guitar with drum solos (if you’ve seen [Hotwire.com](http://Hotwire.com)’s “Cheap Commercial”, that’s what I’m after) 3. It’s gotta **ROCK**! (and it’s gotta _make_ me wanna leave the plane as I’m “playing it in my head”.) 4. I’m 54. If I choose your suggestion, I will immortalize you in the thread after my successful landing, link you to my photo page with caption of song title and your nickname, and next time I head to Germany, I’ll bring you back a beer and send it to you. 🆒 Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Starguard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Starguard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starguard)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/2 "2004-05-27T12:18:32Z")
How about “Heaven here I come” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/3 "2004-05-27T12:24:04Z")
_Helter Skelter_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/4 "2004-05-27T12:29:08Z")
The _Theme From “Shaft”._ The _Theme From S.W.A.T._. The _Theme From Superman: The Movie_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/5 "2004-05-27T12:37:33Z")
\*Mockingbird Girl \*- Magnificent Bastards, from the _Tank Girl_ soundtrack. _Hey, hey, Rocket Boy! Got a lot of life behind you…_ ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/6 "2004-05-27T12:39:00Z")
How about ‘Beautiful Day’ or ‘Elevation’ by U2? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/7 "2004-05-27T12:41:47Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > 1. I’m 54. WOW, I would have never guessed. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/8 "2004-05-27T12:42:04Z")
or Lenny Kravitz’s song - not sure of name - could be ‘Fly Away’ you know the one ‘I wish that I could fly into the sky so very high just like a dragon fly’ etc… ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/9 "2004-05-27T12:43:16Z")
or is it Lenny Kravitz - oh I don’t know. I’ll stop posting now :o ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/10 "2004-05-27T12:43:33Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > 1. I’m 54. “I can’t drive 55…” Or the James Bond theme. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/11 "2004-05-27T12:43:54Z")
Tom Petty, “Free Falling”. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/12 "2004-05-27T13:15:45Z")
Hmmmm. Some interesting choices. I’m gonna make a list and take it with me to Barnes and Noble or one of the other stores where I can listen to the cd’s that have your tracks on them. **Quasi** is grateful that none of you have suggested The Surfaris’ _Wipe Out_! (I thought about that after writing that first post!) :smack: Keep 'em coming! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/13 "2004-05-27T13:30:07Z")
_Fanfare for the Common Man_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/14 "2004-05-27T13:35:23Z")
> [@](#): > > **Quasi** is grateful that none of you have suggested The Surfaris’ _Wipe Out!_ Okay. How about _Pipeline_ by Dick Dale? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/15 "2004-05-27T13:44:32Z")
[hijack] What’s the difference between a bad golfer and an unlucky skydiver? - A bad golfer goes “Whack. Damn!”. An unlucky skydiver goes, “Damn! Whack.” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/16 "2004-05-27T14:08:00Z")
[ul][li]_Jump_ by Van Halen[/li][li]_Jump_ by the Pointer Sisters[/li][li]_Learning’ to Fly_ by Tom Petty[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/17 "2004-05-27T14:15:59Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > _Fanfare for the Common Man_ Dude! Reading your post just gave me goose pimples all over my body! I know that tune by _Emerson Lake and Palmer_! I don’t know if I’d choose their version or Copeland’s. What do you think? I think I have Pipeline too, **John** , thanks! Everytime I think of making that jump, I get an adrenaline rush already and it’s still over two weeks away. Man, I’m gonna be a gibbering idiot the day of the flight! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/18 "2004-05-27T14:19:48Z")
You know, the Canadian Brass does a really fun version of _Flight of the Bumblebee_ – on a tuba! In a classic rock vein, you could always go with _Never Been Any Reason_ by Head East ("…Save my life I’m going down for the last time"). It doesn’t exactly rock, but _Waffle Stomp_ by Joe Walsh has a rather fitting verse: > [@](#): > > Well you can jump off a roof, > Pretend you can fly, > Maybe you’ll bounce, > Maybe you’ll die, > Maybe you’ll splat, > Keep flapping until you do. Or how about James Brown’s _Gravity_? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/19 "2004-05-27T14:19:52Z")
“High Speed Dirt” by Megadeath ‘See the earth below/Soon to make a crater/Blue sky, black death, I’m off to meet my maker’ (Thank you, Skippy!) Or is that _not_ what you are looking for? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/20 "2004-05-27T14:22:05Z")
One of the James Bond Soundtracks _must_ have _something_… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319.md?page=2)