# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/21 "2004-05-27T14:25:11Z")
When I did my jump, I used the music they had available, so we started with Aerosmith’s _Walk This Way_ (from the prep and the ascent to the point I step out) and then that song _Fly_ by…? “All around the world, statues crumble for me.” Best bachelor party (my own) I’ve been to. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/22 "2004-05-27T14:25:12Z")
> [@lainaf](#): > > _Jump_ by the Pointer Sisters Man, if I heard that, I’d run out of the plane _without_ a parachute. 😃 Choose carefully, **Quasi**. The first time I bungee jumped, I climbed hundreds of steps to the top of the platform. The attendant up there had a radio which happened to be playing _Stairway To Heaven_ when I arrived. How 'bout the Pulp Fiction theme? ---
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/23 "2004-05-27T14:29:28Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > 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 ELP is the only version I know 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/24 "2004-05-27T14:32:12Z")
How about [Blood on the risers](http://home.nc.rr.com/strick/blood.html) ? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/25 "2004-05-27T14:33:13Z")
Dude. _Ride of the Valkyries._ Dude. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/26 "2004-05-27T14:33:42Z")
I’ve got two for you. Secret Agent Man or the theme to Mission: Impossible ---
**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, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/27 "2004-05-27T14:49:06Z")
From some of those choices, I bet some of y’all would gleefully _push_ my sorry German ass out the door of the plane if I balked, huh? :eek: That’s okay, though. I _appreciate_ gallows humor! 😃 I’m riding out to the airport again Friday morning to check out one of their already-produced videos and see how it will be “programmed”. I don’t know if the guy plans to film me on the ground getting “jump-schooled” or if it’s just me when I leave the plane and free-fall. Good thing I been doin’ my “Kegels”! 🆒 Q ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/28 "2004-05-27T15:04:23Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > That’s okay, though. I _appreciate_ gallows humor! 😃 Glad you liked it, so, here is its [companion song](http://www.327gir.com/GliderRiderSong.html) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/29 "2004-05-27T15:09:27Z")
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/30 "2004-05-27T15:14:54Z")
**Wagner’s** _Flight of the Valkyrie_. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/31 "2004-05-27T15:15:18Z")
_Kickstart my Heart_ **Motley Crue** \*Summer Song \* or any of a dozen other **Joe Satriani** songs _Miserlou_ **Dick Dale and the Del-tones** ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/32 "2004-05-27T15:21:17Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > 10:33 > Dude. Ride of the Valkyries. Dude. _5 posts later_ > [@WinstonSmith](#): > > 11:14 > **Wagner’s** _Flight of the Valkyrie_. More evidence that my posts are, in fact, invisible. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/33 "2004-05-27T15:33:17Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > That’s okay, though. I appreciate gallows humor! So how about _It’s raining men?_ How long is the video? Can you have more than one song? I was gonna say _Pipeline_ too, but the SRV version. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/34 "2004-05-27T15:36:02Z")
**Etherman** , I so hate you. You beat me by 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/35 "2004-05-27T15:45:07Z")
I don’t know about music, but if you could track down and watch the old classic WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey episode it’d be perfect. Ah! Les Nesman’s lyric and poetic descriptions of the event! Perfect to get you in the mood for getting in and subsequently jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. ---
**Author:** ![BonoVox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@BonoVox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BonoVox)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/36 "2004-05-27T17:29:02Z")
Jump, M_therF_cker, Jump. No idea who made the song. ---
**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, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/37 "2004-05-27T18:03:22Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I don’t know about music, but if you could track down and watch the old classic WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey episode it’d be perfect. Ah! Les Nesman’s lyric and poetic descriptions of the event! Perfect to get you in the mood for getting in and subsequently jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. “They’re hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!!!” and the classic “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!” Right? 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/38 "2004-05-27T18:22:44Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > **Quasi** is grateful that none of you have suggested The Surfaris’ _Wipe Out_! That’s right **Quasi** , spoil all my fun! 😛 That was the first thing I thought of. The second thing I thought of was _Ride of the Valkyries_. If it was me, however, I’d probably elect _A Whiter Shade of Pale_, (The David Lanz instrumental version), 'cause that’s what _I’d_ look like if I ever jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/39 "2004-05-27T18:46:29Z")
> [@BonoVox](#): > > Jump, M_therF_cker, Jump. No idea who made the song. Are you thinking Jump by Van Halen? (with David Lee Roth) I though it was Jump, might as well Jump and Jump Maxwell Jump. He may have said Mother%@#@er Jump in concert. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319/40 "2004-05-27T18:51:24Z")
When they video’d my dive, they gave me the option of several songs and artists. I chose Nirvana’s _Come As You Are_ for the preflight scenes and Hendrix’s _Purple Haze_ for the jump and descent. Now, and this was purely by accident, the absolute best part about it was that right as the freefall was over and my chute deploys hanging me in space, the song got to the point in the lyrics where Jimi says _“Excuse me while I kiss the sky…”_. Waycool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-theme-music-for-my-upcoming-skydive/247319.md?page=3)