Recent Songs About The Sky

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This was a request from a regular reader a few weeks ago. Problem is, the topic of "sky" appears a lot, so it took me a while to go through my music collection, and, as such, here's songs about the vault of air that sits above us all (except astronauts – it sits below them).

This is the second of two columns (the first can be found here ), with these songs because there were so many of them. "Sky" does not have a definite metaphorical meaning for song-writers, so you will see a lot of different interpretations of the term here.

So, this is Recent Songs About The Sky! (Recent here is 1990s to now.)



So, the rules. One song per artist and one version of each song across the two columns. The word "Sky", "Skies" or variations thereof must appear in the title, and I need to like the song.

With that out the way, here are 15 recent songs about The Sky!


'Blue Sky Mine' by Midnight Oil (1990)

Okay, I know the 'Sky' is in the name of a mine, but it is named for the sky above… and the stuff they mined which affected so many. One of the Oils' better-known protest songs.


'Fracture In The Sky' by The Fauves (1992)

I know nothing about this band, just that I have their album and really like it. This is one of the songs from that and, to me, it is really good. Sorry, it's all I've got.


'Touch The Sky' by Roger Taylor (1994)

After Freddie Mercury's death, Roger Taylor started to release some really good solo stuff, and this track comes from his underrated Happiness? album.


'Paint The Sky With Stars' by Enya (1997)

Title track of one of Enya's greatest hits albums, and a song that should have done better, but coming out in the shadows of Europop and post-Grunge, it didn't really stand a chance. Shame; it is beautiful.


'You Always Saw The Blue Skies' by Bonnie Tyler (1998)

I am never going to apologise for including later Bonnie Tyler songs in these lists as she has continued to release good music. The Celtic undertones of this add a nice sense of joy.


'The Cathedral Of The Sky' by Rick Wakeman (2003)

The keyboard work here is off the charts, as you'd expect, and this is an example of Wakeman continuing to produce some of the best rock/classical cross-over music ever.


'Burning In The Skies' by Linkin Park (2010)

I was not a huge fan of A Thousand Suns, but this is one of two songs on that collection that stand with Linkin Park's best tracks.


'Skyfall' by Adele (2012)

The theme song from the James Bond film, and one of the better recent Bond theme songs released. Adele's voice is so glorious.


'Reach For The Sky' by Spiderbait (2013)

I have seen Spiderbait live a few times, and find them just a great act, on stage or record. Not sure if this was released as a single, but it has a great driving beat and some strong fuzz-tone guitar.


'A Sky Full Of Stars' by Coldplay (2014)

Coldplay meets Avicii, and one of the band's songs I quite enjoy. This is a song that has some personal meaning to me, so I am never going to hear a thing against it.


'In A Skyforged Dream' by Dragonforce (2019)

Speed metal, this album cut is just another example of the music Dragonforce do better than anyone else on the planet.


'Midnight Sky' by Miley Cyrus (2020)

Plastic Hearts is still my favourite Miley album, and songs like this are why. I think she would be able to produce an awesome rock album. I wish she would.


'The Sky Is Melting' by Alex Lahey (2023)

A song about taking drugs from one of my favourite female singer-songwriters, not just from Australia, but ever.


'Dreamy Skies' by The Rolling Stones (2023)

Hackney Diamonds, the latest Stones album, was almost ignored by the public, but it was probably their strongest album in decades. It is truly good, and tracks like this – one of the slower ones – show why.


'Giants In The Sky' by Judas Priest (2024)

And we finish with another band that everyone thought had left their best days in the past, but released a recent album that was just fantastic. How Rob Halford can still sing like that, I will never know!


There we are, the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s, and a heap of great songs about the sky. Following the previous column's 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, we've covered a lot of years! I hope over the two columns you find something to enjoy!


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