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Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F First Movement
Nasa Voyager Golden Record Lyrics

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Carlos Fernandez

9y↑197

What's really mind-blowing is that Bach wasn't even that famous while he was alive. His sons were more famous than he was. He was severely underestimated and it wasn't until much later that people started recognizing him. I bet he would have never imagined that the first attempt to contact extraterrestrial life would contain his music. Not to mention, the golden record contains more Bach songs than anyone else.

The Pharabut

8y↑1

+Carlos Fernandez true

David Villani

7y↑9

fake news he was v famous just not for his compositions. for the most part just his playing

JF RV

yes, absolutely mind-boggling.

JF RV

6y↑2

It should have contained more Bach!

Jaikee

5y↑12

All true but Bach wasn't underestimated! Mozart, Beethoven and all the others studied Bach's techniques from childhood onwards. They all had tremendous respect for him. His sons were quite famous. CPE became Mozart's father figure and JC made a big career in England where is buried. Only "insiders" knew JS Bach back then until Mendelssohn kicked off the Bach renaissance which lasts to the present day. Today we know that daddy Bach was by far the greatest musical genius of all time.

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Sally MJ

6y↑18

This work exudes joy and hope. Gorgeous and quite fitting to be the first piece of music on the Voyager Golden Record.

master of procrastination

11y↑8

Amazing. This piece will still be playing even after millions of years.

Alexander Bruyns

7y↑125

Four and a half billion years from now, when the sun exhausts its fuel and swells to engulf the earth, this expression will still be out there, traveling four and a half billion years. That is, if it’s not intercepted first. Imagine, Fox. If another civilization out there were to hear this, they would think "what a wonderful place the earth must be."

-Richard Matheson, X-Files (S2E1)

Dave Jono

4y↑4

but if they came here in 2020 and asked to hear today's music, they would probably annihilate us, and would be right to do it

Nonehere

3y↑4

Watching that as I’m listening 😄 .. WELL, BACK TO THE SERIES😉

Marina Kreuzpointner

2y↑1

I'm here because of the X-Files too! Also this music is my phone ringtone now

Jackie Johnson

@Dave Jono There is plenty of beautiful music that has been created recently. It's unfortunate that you haven't heard it.

William Ashley

well probably not that long it is bound to be torn apart by spatial debris long before then unless of course someone picks it out of space into proper confinement.

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sibsbubbles

6y↑2

In a way, Voyager is kind of encapsulated with this. Such a fleeting, yet fast moving object just hurdling through space in time and equally as sound waves hurdling through the air waiting for a listener to pick it up. Guess that applies to everything on that record but, this one seems to do that really well for me for some reason.

Samila Rodrigues

6y↑3

Amado e eterno Bach...

Kronos

1y↑1

Absolutely beautiful!

Boyi Sun

7y↑4

Since Bach's music is so mathematics in terms of his way of using motifs, the aliens might think that's some kind of code instead of something for entertainment .

Travis Wells

8y↑108

It's great that we included this. In my mind this is that thing that makes them say "Let's not blow up their planet".

Alejandro Corona

5y↑2

But... will it help us not blowing it up ourselves

Alexander Acosta Osorio

4y↑3

Maybe aliens will play it on while they do it.

MosukaDreamer

2y↑1

Lol! "Too nosy! Must destroy!" "No, this is weird, I like it."

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Admiral8Q

8y↑243

I think we need to send out Voyager 3 and 4, with updated records of our recent progression and regression in music.

mootboy4

7y↑66

Aliens will come to Earth to annihilate all of humanity when they hear Skrillex jk jk

Admiral8Q

7y↑4

mootboy4
Lol!

Arnout Van Impe

7y↑39

you shoudn't insult those aliens by sending Bieber and Lady Gaga music

Dylan O'Connor

7y↑15

Fuckin ay play slayer and metallica

Admiral8Q

7y↑4

Dr. Frog
And Weird Al

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WelcometoReality98

14y↑4

It really amazes me how much this one little spacecraft could do to the entire human race.

sidney4747

13y↑4

i dont know any better way to achieve immortality. the sun and the earth will be long gone but this masterpiece will be flying around the heavens forever

toda miwu

I hope u are still alive and listening this crazy golden track.... Cheers

RoundenBrown

13y↑4

Long after the sun exhausts its energy and swallows up the Earth, this record will still be out there.

Antonio Banderas

2y↑1

if it doesnt get sucked into a black hole, star, supernova, comet etc

ceciibnhm

9y↑28

Either we are alone in this cosmos or we´re not, both are terrifying.

Basetornado

***** theres that many stars and planets etc, the chances of us not being alone are pretty slim, although what life there is on other planets will likely not resemble anything we know.

Mathieu Xavier Luigi Servant

8y↑1

+ceciibnhm why terrifying ? both options are fantastic, imo

ceciibnhm

8y↑1

If you see it in a general way, it is terrifying, but at the same time it's fantastic, it's awesome, it would be beautiful to know that there is other type of life different from ours.

MrPacMan36

9y↑86

This is cool... lol. I can just imagine this satellite just floating out in space with this music playing for thousands and thousands of years

Natheniel Becken

9y↑36

Erm... Technically it is not playing. There are instructions on the record for any, if any, recipients to play it.

DearBear

9y↑16

Natheniel Becken Yep it's not playing but i really wish that it was. It really would be really cool to witness a spaceship floating around in space while this song's playing.

葉梅

TomVinz How could it break itself with time in space if there is no friction up there to alterate it?

Infinite Jester

9y↑7

+Brian Lonjak Actually, Au-197 (naturally occurring gold) is stable and does not decay. They put a small coating of uranium (which does decay) on part of the record, so that any being who might find it would be able to measure the proportion of uranium to its daughter isotopes and know how long it had been since the record was launched.

Jozie88

+Brian Lonjak You should learn the basics of chemistry :) It's amazing. You'd understand why gold (natural) does not decay, does not have half life like you claimed. It is something we are taught in upper secondary school and primary school. :)

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Erwin Salas

es demasiado hermoso

Luis Calderari

7y↑4

Carl Sagan was a total genius, he composed this album.

GeneralGeorge

10y↑35

It is intended to be found in the loosest sense, the chances are basically zero. But that's fine, it is a great piece of history.

Angrod Z

basically 0, in our galaxy, not in the whole universe

விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக்

gzac95
Hey at least something of our species will survive after the earth will be completely incinerated by the red giant!

GeneralGeorge

*****
Exactly, hopefully before then we can colonize another planet. We have time, it just depends if it is feasible, and that we don't go extinct from something else.

Darkcore

In centuries to come, we'll still be listening to J.S Bach, in space ships and anywhere else we may be

España - tierra de conquistadores

Es épico 👌

T.C.B.⚡️

47w

First time I heard this was on x-files ,after that I always loved it , out of this world 👍✌️🤔😜

George Orwell

That song is billions of miles away good.

Ghost_Trainer

12y↑1

I love when they played this song in x-files, thats the first time i heard this lovely tune :)

Stephen Davis

7y↑1

Thank you for composing this playlist.

lokhtar

11y↑3

Unfortunately the playback lifetime of this record is 'only' expected to be a billion years. So the sounds wont be playable but the images on top of the record itself should still be there.

Verse Squared

Wonderful, lets all take a moment to pat ourselves on the back. Bravo

Eve Lynn

6y↑1

How far we've come since Bach!

Brandon F

4y↑1

To think, after human civilization is long gone and our solar system is reduced back to cosmic dust, this golden record will stand as a testament to human achievement, travelling the cosmos waiting for someone to listen... it’s sad to think that this is our first contact message, and humanity might be long gone before anyone has a chance to answer

miguelbnz

11y↑3

I read somewhere that each of the voyagers carries 2 golden discs one on the outside and one on the inside to protect it from micrometeorite damage

Teldrassil Guardian

I was watching a documentary about Voyager 1 and was curious as to all the songs that are on this record 12 billion miles from home!

BULGARIA

Nails the High-A's - BRAVO

Colby Davey

If I ever get invited to speak to a business school classroom I’m going to play this song as I enter the classroom.

Chase Sanity

9y↑246

"I live for bach" -agent Mulder

sibsbubbles

6y↑14

"Let's listen again."

james lyddall

5y↑7

Chase Sanity ha Im rewatching the x files right now and literally just came here because of that episode. God I miss these old school x files dont get them anymore.

zeranzeran

5y↑3

X-files first brought me here... and now watching Evangelion has brought me back :). What a fucking cool connection.

Antonio Banderas

2y↑1

@james lyddall Same. X Files brought me here, now one of my favorite songs

Mark

2y↑1

One of my favourite scenes in x files. I wish all the episodes had been that good

Massimo Campanelli

... ottima scelta ✌️🎻

cmsahe

11y↑1

impressive, thanks for the answer, it explains why the record it is represented in the drawings on the surface of the record, cheers!

joe d

9y↑103

What if alien life form are insensitive to this range of frequency Bach is playing? Like they can hear just radio waves, or microwaves, but not JS Bach.

Agustín Federico Osuna Hdez

8y↑23

+Josh Dursi (morningale) Then it's their misfortune. But if they're not sensitive to these frequencies they're not likely an ethologically intelligent species, since we have only reacted to the kind of stimuli more important to the species around us. It's our evolution that has led hominids to be operative in this sort of environment, to process sound, visible light and temperature among other things.

Kitzy kat

8y↑34

+Josh Dursi (morningale) they can translate the frequencies into an audible range for their senses if they're smart
it's kind of similar to the way nasa recorded wavelengths throughout space and translated them into audible sound... the video is called "space sounds" and is very cool

joe d

8y↑2

Kitzy kat The AFOH thanks! :)

Nizzio Zaphaux

8y↑13

+The AFOH not being able to hear the same frequencies as humans in no way implies an alien wouldn't be intelligent

Agustín Federico Osuna Hdez

8y↑5

It could be intelligent, just not on our ethological level, since sound is such a part of our development as an intelligent species. Even our organs have evolved by responding to outer stimuli, which includes sound, and thus our ears were developed to hear the most important frequencies to us as a species. Now, some other life forms can hear other frequencies, like bats or perhaps microscopical forms, but they are nowhere near ethologically intelligent as we are, because sound is an important part of our intelectual development.

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Anon

11y↑1

eventually, another civilization will find this and maybe hear this. makes me feel good.

Herblin

10y↑120

This was never meant as a realistic attempt to contact an alien race. It was more set to inspire people and open their mind to the possibilities. The chances of this being found are so low it's hard to even entertain the idea properly. And it was never intended to be picked up. It's beautiful to know that this music is being preserved for the next several thousand years in a vacuum though. Maybe someday our own space exploration will be great enough and futuristic historians / treasure hunters will try to map this thing down and bring it back?

Zeppelin ♫

10y↑11

Yup that's true, I'd say leave it though, it's like a time capsule or a famous painting.

It's a piece of history and I think it's cool to think about how it's still gliding out there.

Also if you've seen the "Pale Blue Dot", that's really neat too. It was a photograph the Voyager took of Earth from 3.7 Billion miles out.

It shows the way you'd see Earth if looking at it from a far away star.

MrPepsicola123

9y↑2

Actually it was sent to another star system, by the time its even half-way there, we would have invented space ships that could get to its destination in a split second.
or we destroy ourselves.

Arnout Van Impe

7y↑2

I hope the first, i fear the second

L-GUN

7y↑7

Imagine how much it would be worth by then. I can actually imagine a movie based in the future about recovering it with space pirates, treasure hunters and the government

Justin Robinson

7y↑4

Herblin this is just false. It is low probability, yes, but the golden record was created with the intent of another intelligent race EVENTUALLY finding it, whether it be now or thousands of years in the future.

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Genesis Custom

13y↑2

the best song of the universe

Chi

12y

Imagine if Voyager Golden Record landed on an alien planet and the aliens couldn't tolerate the frequencies. Then most of them would die and the survivors would send a ship to Earth to destroy it.

Rafael Rabinovich

8y↑156

- So, ET, how did you like our gold record from Earth?
- Yammm, it was delicious!

Limelight Raver

6y↑1

A galactic symphony

luciddeception

11y↑1

We should send more of these out into space. There is a very good probability that humanity will be gone before either of these two records are played, these may just be the only trace that humans ever existed one day.

Obsolete

9y↑2

I'd love to have one of these, I just wouldn't be able to properly play them. These records are made to be played back at 16 2/3 rpm as opposed to the standard LP speed of 33 1/3 rpm.

Diego Moncada

11y

I wonder what would they end up coming with. And music is a language. Maybe it only has the concept of emotions, but that's what it's good for.

JharTar

12y

Carl Seagen himself said, when asked if they should put this on the Voyager Cafts, "No, we dont need to show off."

Fabián Díaz

12y↑1

When the aliens hear this, they will think: "What a beautiful place must be The Earth."

Jimmy

11y↑1

The record has a stylus with it in the correct starting position on the record. (Voyager Golden Record wiki page)

Jovan Jovanović

13y↑5

This song is too good for Earth........

Charlotte Rawstorn

this album is lit

GoodNewsJim

12y

This is Zur, we've come to Earth seeking the man known as Bach. Um, all we have anymore is Beck.

Chris Lareau

Straight from the edge of the solar system!

JharTar

12y

I suddenly have hope for the world.

Luiz Eduardo

11y↑2

We could adopt this record as our Planetary Anthem on the I. Galactic Games on Khitomer on 2312. Too bad there isn't an Earth Olympic Committee.

TBM Avenger

9y↑4

Much better than the last disc.

Ashes To Ashes

This is a perfect soundtrack for aliens to appear, and annihilate us all. 💜👽

Chi

11y↑1

Or alternatively, it could have flown into a star.

Anon

11y

when it becomes dead, it will still be moving you know. its moving at something like 70 km/s so its got enough energy to keep on moving for quite some time.

19180605

13y↑1

Behold all. The beauty of humanity personified.

Happywarrior

9y↑13

"These lectures are part of the Great..."

Cred points if you get it.

Ryan Matticola

9y↑1

sit down fox

Happywarrior

9y↑1

The teaching Company sells these amazing college lectures and at the beginning of each lecture (on the earlier volumes) they had the beginning of this piece and the quote above as an introduction.

jack benson

9y↑1

philosopher2king dude, exactly.. prof. wolfson's relativity and quantum mathematics for the non mathematician is my favourite so far.

Burak Erkin

philosopher2king TTC TMS ☺

David Avalse

8y↑3

The Little Green Man will love this piece if they have good taste

RoundenBrown

11y↑1

Sure is! Great show.

♫♪Ludwig van Beethoven♪♫

6y↑1

They could send tocatta and fuge instead to blow their mind

SNip3D

12y

Thankgod this record was made years and years ago.. Just imagine things like the hampster dance or rack rack city bitch and all the other horrible 'songs'

WXKFA

12y

Actually I kinda read the article about the record and watched few pics and for me it felt like it told the humans had already perished. You know, kinda like a memento.

zeranzeran

Evangelion. X-files... beautiful. This song actually frightens me now though.

Mark Pellicciotti

what if aliens find this is this voyager still in our solar system?!

Steven Lamphear

6y↑1

Funny thing...nobody mentions that you need a atmosphere to listen to music....

Think Then Send

6y↑1

How disappointed the aliens shall be, when in travel to find the delightful home of this exquisite concerto, they find earth?

ROYALoid

10y↑21

thank god we didn't send it now/nowadays or else it would include music that accurately represents the things we as a culture enjoy

MrPacMan36

9y↑10

Thank God not... Todays music sucks.

Pinecone Studio

9y↑9

Lime Voyager 2 was sent out in 1977. You are aware that Bach wasn't alive or current in the 70s, right?

ROYALoid

Scoldpedia it's been so long since i made that comment i don't even remember how long ago it was, imagine being so boring you felt the need to bring it up again

Pinecone Studio

9y↑12

Lime You think I was sitting here waiting a year to respond? I saw your comment and felt like answering. I dont see how boredom factor into that

FlamingPhoenix

+MrPacMan36 If you actually look for good music today you will find some

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Laurentz Duba

43w

Hope the other extra-terrestrial biological beings who discovers this also gets the contained message on how to build a phono pre-amp with the proper RIAA playback curve.

Eira

7y↑1

what if aliens discover this but their musicians have also created this exact same piece?

François Chauvelin

The questioning of entire specie. - Omg, omg, mon dieu, thank you so much, I solved something, really thank you.

Wildm0use

Yeah! Just the right speed!

berty

10y↑11

Lets send them some Heavy Metal :p

Nyclposter

10y↑5

May I suggest early Black Sabbath.....

WhoooLovesOrangeSoda

10y↑5

They would never talk to us

berty

10y↑5

Now they talk? :D

Horst Schuller

so exciting, if any extra-terrestrians ever will find this.... i'm not sure, but maybe this could be one of the last traces of mankind after the end of our human race. maybe thoudsands of years in the future....

Tiago José Azevedo Álvares

I like to think this would be the aliens' favourite track of the album.

Nilofar Pathan

Awesome! The one finding this will be lucky

cmsahe

11y

Do the Voyagers carry a record player too?

Zachary Burnett

12y

It's a good thing these records weren't made today...that way no aliens will come and destroy Earth solely because of Rebecca Black and her song Friday. Then again...I can see a bunch of aliens on the dance floor...EVERYDAY I'M SHUFFLIN

MegaThefuture

8y↑3

They should've sent Bolero by Maurice Ravel, or at least Toccata and Fugue. This is a nice piece but it's too hysteric for my taste :D

arjenbij

Bolero really? You want that to represent humanity? One of the most boring classical pieces imo.

MegaThefuture

hmm we have different taste in music apparently. I would never play this compositions when i am at home and want to enjoy some music, but that's only according to me, i cannot say that i do not respect them tho :)) What would you put?

arjenbij

MegaThefuture Brandenburg concerto No.5, French suite no.5, goldberg variations, matthaus passion, mass in B minor, christmas oratorio, motets (bwv 227 specifically), kantate 35, 147, 140, 106. These would be what I would choose from. On a side note, I don't find this piece hysterical at all. But it's bach, you have to get used to his contrapunctal style and really concentrate to understand how all the melodic lines come together.

alltoohuman01

10y↑20

from one of my favourite x files episodes ^.^

Steven Bunch

9y↑3

Yess! That episode sent me here too

John P

9y↑4

alltoohuman01 "didn't you enjoy that Fox? Let's hear it again..."

TheGamesWin

11y↑2

We are still in contact with the Voyager spacecrafts, and no, neither of the two has been picked up by aliens yet. Sadly.

Directed By Dave

7y↑2

It's nice to know that if the Earth is destroyed, we have some of the best parts of our culture and are history preserved and flying through the cosmos :).

juan francisco torres conejero

10y↑32

I remenber X-files Season two chapter one....Little Green Men....thanks for upload, thanks for sharing ..

Brandon F

4y↑2

“Greetings from Earth”

Mauricio Glosser

3y↑2

Top X file - I remember to

myroseaccount

13y↑2

All of the Brandenburgs should have been sent into space. Who knows an advanced civilisation might be so intrigued that they travel to earth in search of the rest.

IamAnthonological

11y↑1

Well Voyager 2 is already broken, we're lucky we can still get Signals from it. What's to say that they won't get completely smashed up before that. Still I try to be optimistic about this sort of thing. Especially since there are two of them.

Thomas Lovse

1y↑2

Who’s the solo violinist?

Sara Ceelo

Honestly Bohemian Rhapsody should be on this record

Stealthafied

11y↑1

awesome

Greg_0

11y↑1

Space is really fucking huge, the chance of that are like one in a gazillion. There is a greater chance of later human generations finding it after venturing outside the Sol system. And probably putting it in a museum.

needle

and what if - these sounds have detrimental, paralyzing, killing effects on the beings that encounter it?
- they will simply follow the map back to the bastards that sent out this interstellar death machine and destroy them.

Ludwig van Beethoven

3y↑1

Imagine the aliens find this and use the record as a Wheel Cap for their Garbage Truck

Stephanie Frias

11y↑1

All people saying "Thank the lord this was made so long ago because at least there was good music" do you really think that the scientists who composed this record were just going to put any song on the it? No, the music was meant to portray emotion and unless irresponsibility has become an emotion and the scientists have gone mad I don't think "Rack City Bitch" would've made the cut to stand by "Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground" or any other classic piece. Okay rant over.

FRTNX Research Centre

6y↑1

I love Bach and all but I sincerely wish they sent out Verdi.

thedealer777

10y↑4

I think this probe ... these recordings, that seek out other life and try to communicate with other "possible" intelligent life, is part of what God created us for! To know his work, and his creation more fully, and expand our own intelligence!

FantisyLand

12y

Probably not, the sun is suppose to last billions of years from now. I believe it is more likely that the voyagers will hit a distant object, or be drawn into a gravitational field.

ZiplineShazam

Im surprised they didn't include Pink Floyd .

Claudio Enrique Rossi

If you revert the audio and then you hear it at a speed of 1:0.333. You will find a beautiful subliminal message addressed to Claudio Rossi and with a lot of affection for an artificial intelligence that knew of my existence three centuries before I was born. #SubliminalMessages <3