# Songs About The Moon – Magnetic Fields, My Bloody Valentine, Belle & Sebastian, Paul Simon, Deer Tick, Gomez

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2009/09/songs-about-the-moon-from-magnetic-fields-my-bloody-valentine-belle-sebastian-paul-simon-ccr-and-more/
- Published: 2009-09-04T21:19:00-04:00
- Author: indierocker

Tonight marks the September full moon. The last time there was a 100% full moon,
an orange full moon mind you, on Halloween night, was in 2001, and that was the 
first since 1955. The next full moon on trick or treat night won’t happen, astronomers
say, until 2020.

Last month, for the [first installment](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/its-moon-night-songs-about-moon-from1.html)
of Songs About The Moon playlist, we featured a moon mix of songs about that big,
dead rock in the sky from bands like Radiohead, Neko Case, Sunset Rubdown, Bat For
Lashes, Windmill, Grand Archives, The Walkmen, Tom Waits, The Police, Feist and 
many others.

[“In The Direction of the Moon”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/05%20In%20the%20Direction%20of%20the%20Moon.mp3)–**
Wolf Parade** from _Expo 86 _(2010)

[“Waiting For The Moon To Rise”](http://stopokaygo.typepad.com/files/belle-and-sebastian-waiting-for-the-moon-to-rise.mp3)–
Belle & Sebastian from  Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (2000)

[“Moon”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/06%20Moon.mp3) – **Here We
Go Magic** from _Pigeons_ (2010)

[“The Killing Moon”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/12_the_killing_moon.mp3)–
Echo & the Bunnymen from Ocean Rain (1984)

[“Standing On The Moon”](http://www.archive.org/download/gd91-03-24.schoeps.oconnor.12093.sbeok.shnf/gd91-03-24d3t05_vbr.mp3?PHPSESSID=950e4ab4ca85b55131f31532c22bf0bc)(
Live, 1991) – Grateful Dead from Built To Last (1989)

“The Moon Is Down” – Explosions In The Sky from Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live
Forever (2005)

[“Blood Moon” ](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/10%20Blood%20Moon.mp3)–**
Deer Tick** from_ The Black Dirt Sessions _(2010)

[“The Moon”](http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Microphones%20-%20The%20Moon%20%28Version%29.mp3)–
The Microphones from Blood (2001)

“Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon” – They Might Be Giants from Miscellaneous T (1993)

“Moon And Sun” – Gomez from Anatomy In Song (2007)

Moon Trivia: Hundreds of years ago in Europe, the moon was thought by some people
to cause insanity, thus, the Spanish word for moon, “luna,” gave us the word “lunatic.”

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[“Moon Song”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AuvQ14HT3Ok) – My Bloody Valentine from
Tremolo EP (1991)