The April 8 total solar eclipse is a rare event that brings just about everyone together. Sometime around 1:30 p.m., friends, neighbors and co-workers will head outside to gaze at the vanishing sun — hopefully wearing eclipse glasses — and wait for darkness to descend. There won’t be much talk of anything else. Not everyone will get to experience total darkness.
Here's when the eclipse will hit San Antonio-area towns But everyone can join in the spirit of the eclipse, an hour of togetherness and celebration at the start of the work week. And every party can use a good play list. Here’s a list of songs, from country to classic rock, that will set the mood before the light dims. “Eclipse,” Pink Floyd: The finale of Pink Floyd’s classic album “Dark Side of the Moon” is kind of a bummer for a weekend party, but it undeniably fits the theme.