Question The Song Links thread

Post links to songs you think others would appreciate. I am guessing YouTube is the best for this, even if there is no video to go with it, though I think you can use Spotify links as well (I don't know, and I am pretty sure those would usually have micropayments).

So: something with personal meaning to me.

Escape Key - "The Girl That's Never Been"

Well, if we're talking full albums, I have just the one with the right title to dedicate to Miss Pryce, Miss Hoffman, and (perhaps a bit more literally) Miss Farrow:

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Referring back to the anime recommendations:



Black Lagoon is kind of like that.

"Into The Woods", but perhaps not the one you're thinking:



Artist: Cilla Jane

Woodkid - "Run Boy Run"



As a pair of bonuses, this Quicksilver tribute AMV (there's also a Flash AMV which I could have posted which does use the whole song, but the original video is worth using), and the GIFs with Sound that puts part of the "Race the Tube" video to this song interspersed with several other clips.



As is always the case with GWS, there's a NSFW warning for this.

Bloodywood - "Jee Veerey" ft. Raoul Kerr

Let's go Old School!


Heilung , "Krigsgaldr"

Yes, but is the target of Spirit-chan's vengeance Nina... or Schol-R-LEA?

Julie Ecklar - "The Temper of Revenge"


(Incoming Star Trek parody posted by someone in response to this in 3.. 2... 1... KHAAAAAAN!)

I wasn't going to add another so soon, but the discussion in the "Ayla - what's next?" thread about a possible Whateley Magic Fair, and the suggestion that it be called 'Scarborough Faire' (and my specific reference to the 'Canticle for the Lost Soldier' that is sung by Art Garfunkel, counterpoint, in the background of this version of the eponymous English ballad ), got me thinking I should post this now for anyone too young to know it. It is a particularly ethereal and sorrowful rendition which I personally have always loved, though I will admit that failing to credit either the traditional sources or the person who wrote the specific version used was a dick move on their part.

Simon and Garfunkel - "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"

I don't always Garfunkel, but when I do, I Garfunkel and Oats.

Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

In honor of the tonight's story, here's some Tom Lehrer:

In memory of Table-kun

( The WA fanfic version of Table-kun, that is.)

Bill and Brenda Sutton - "Caretakers"

Break the Dawn Commander Farsight:


This is War:


Here's Kenny Loggins with 'Danger Zone':


A personal favourite, here's Acca dacca's Back In Black


And another one, Shoot to thrill:


Plus the rexon cover of 'The Heavy''s song 'Short Change Hero'


Commander Shepard by Miracle of Sound:

And:

The Crush by Miracle of Sound:


Getting the gang back together by Miracle of Sound:


A real life by Greek Fire


And one many should know:

Ayreon - Day 16 (Loser)

A depressing number of mutants have a similar father.
Actually, a depressing number of mutants have a similar reaction like 4:15 mark to their fathers (and to the world at large)

What do you get when a metal band releases a rock homage to the 80s, then it gets remixed by one of the better sythwave artists. Something awesome. Thats what.

Don McLean - "Vincent"

Mercedes Lackey - "Fundamentals"

Maurice Jarre - "Lara's Theme" (performed by the 101 Strings Orchestra)

Let's have another round of Ghost:



Another quoted song from earlier posts:

At the risk of an attack of many bloodsucking insects, I present to unto another thread a Clue. An indirect clue, perhaps, but it may make a difference.

Leslie Fish and the DeHorn Crew - "Wobblies from Space"

My God, it's full of... hints.

Leslie Fish - "Bones' Theme"

If you haven't encountered Whitney Avalon, do yourself a favor and check her out on YouTube

Malificent vs Daenyris

Archer's theme:



The BEST Star Trek intro theme of all five series (series 'No. 6' is NOT Star Trek and doesn't count in my headcanon): The orchestral theme for Star Trek Voyager:



Jump by Van Halen



To all those redshirts who died before the first ad break, here's John Coulton's song 'Redshirt':



The awesome english cover of Aldnoah.zero's Ending theme 'Aliez' by AmaLee:



Another song from my favourite band AC/DC (Or Acca Dacca here in Oz), here's 'Hell's Bells':



A song which is just plain awesome and funny, 'America Fuck Yeah' from the puppet movie 'Team America':

Here's one that Rose Bunny might appreciate.

From Vermont:



Dena'ina version of the story, brought to an Anchorage school stage:

Sooner or later, someone in the Lost&Found thread will make the connection here. Until then, warp factor 5, Mr Sulu, and keep that flower's tendrils away from my pants' leg.

Leslie Fish - "Transport 18"

I can keep this up until someone gets the answer I've been waiting for.

Leslie Fish - "The Engineers' Hymn"


And as an extra, for Mister D and the exam-frazzled CrazyMinh, one of the better-known Kipplefish pieces:

Leslie Fish and Julia Ecklar (with lyrics by Rudyard Kipling) - "Hymn of Breaking Strain"

EDIT: Woops, I appear to have posted this twice. Been playing this game way too hard...

Based on the STOS episode The Devil in the Dark" , sung from the perspective of the Horta Brood Mother. The song was written by Kathy Mar, and performed by Brenda Sutton with Mar singing the accompaniment.

Brenda Sutton and Kathy Mar - "Demon in the Dark"


This is a Bob Kanefsky parody of the above song, from the Roundworm CD, and performed by Leslie Fish.

Leslie Fish - "Mineral Rights"

I really couldn't pass up on posting this after posting this , now, could I?

Julia Ecklar - "Eternal Flame"


This is a Bob Kanefsky parody of "God Lives on Terra", sung by Ecklar for Roundworm.

Eternal Flame
I was taught Assembler in my second year of school
It's kinda like construction work --
With a toothpick for a tool
So when I made my senior year
I threw my code away
And learned the way to program
That I still prefer today

Now, some folks on the Internet
Put their faith in C++
They swear that it's so powerful
It's what God used for us
And maybe He lets mortals dredge
Their objects from the C
But I think that explains
Why only God can make a tree

For God wrote in Lisp code
When he filled the leaves with green
The fractal flowers and recursive roots:
The most lovely hack I've seen
And when I ponder snowflakes
Never finding two the same
I know God likes a language
With its own four-letter name

Now, I've used a SUN under Unix
So I've seen what C can hold
I've surfed for Perls, found what Fortran's for
Got that Java stuff down cold
Though the chance that I'd write COBOL code
Is a SNOBOL's chance in Hell
And I basically hate hieroglyphs
So I won't use APL

Now, God must know all these languages
And a few I haven't named
But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls
That its flesh will be reclaimed
And the Lord could not count grains of sand
With a 32-bit word
Who knows where we would go to
If Lisp weren't what he preferred?

And God wrote in Lisp code
Every creature great and small
Don't search the disk drive for man.c
When the listing's on the wall
And when I watch the lightning burn
Unbelievers to a crisp
I know God had six days to work
So he wrote it all in Lisp

Yes, God had a deadline
So he wrote it all in Lisp

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the award-winning theme to the Star Trek revival we'd always wanted, but wasn't actually Trek. I give you...The Orville:



Following that, I present the Clash with a old one but a good one: should I stay or should I go:



Star Trekkin, across the universe...



The most awesome battle song in history. 'Klendathu Drop' from the movie that murdered Rob Heinlein's book (but still made for a decent enough movie) Starship Troopers. WHich has only now gotten the power armour we wanted. In anime form.

Note that this Annwn was from the West Coast of the US and active from 1993 up to the accidental death of lead singer Leigh Ann Hussey in 2006, has no connection to the more recent German band of the same name.

I wonder what Kayda (or Elyzia, for that matter) would think of this...

Annwn (US) - "Black Eye, Yellow Eye"


Black Eye, Yellow Eye
By Leigh Ann Hussey, 1993

Have you seen the ghosts of trees
where the riverbank was there?
Do they shiver in the breeze,
rooted high in empty air?
Have you heard the ghosts of stone
speaking in the dust you raise,
whispering to you alone
as you thread the maze?

Black eye rises on black wing,
shrugs his shoulders, folds his coat.
Yellow eye looks up to sing
broken songs with rasping throat.
Blowing glowing rings of smoke
girdling the granite stars
as the fire he awoke
glows behind the cards.

Will you cross the bridge of silver?
Will you cross the bridge of steel?
Will you cross the bridge of bone
that cleaves the crimson flood?
Will you smash the frozen veil?
Will you dare the shaman's trail?
Will you ken the tale through omens
written in your blood?

This night on the road he dies;
there will be no corpse by dawn.
Death's an order he denies;
still, sometimes he tries it on.
As you calculate your chance,
he will give no hand to guide --
he will only bid you "dance,
or be swept aside."

Regarding the inspiration of the song, the site I got the lyrics from says,

Leigh Ann wrote this song about a trip she took through the American Southwest. She went down the Grand Canyon on muleback, and into Indian reservations in New Mexico. This song was the result.

Now, the 'Yellow Eye' in the song could be Wolf rather than Coyote, as at least one review of the album suggested, and the one in the cover art seems more lupine rather than latranine (I hope I have that right) to me. However, the juxtaposition with Raven seems to make Coyote a better fit. Also, if memory serves, the original CD liner notes did say that she'd specifically seen coyotes on the trip, including a dead one on the side of a road which had vanished by the next day, hence those lines in the final stanza.

Again, this is from memory, but I am pretty sure that on the old Elf Hill Recording Studio website, she'd said that while it was almost certainly something mundane like scavengers or road cleanup crews, the there-then-gone aspect made her think of the trickster legends - that Coyote had let himself die (or seem to) to teach someone a lesson, then simply woke back up and walked away when the time came to move along.

Just gonna put this here.

Welp, it's about time I put this one to rest. I'm a little surprised no one made the connection before, but not overly so. I will give one of you folks time to post the answer in the L&F thread, rather than giving it myself, though.

So without further ado, I give you the most infamous - and overplayed - filk song of all time: "Banned From Argo" .

Leslie Fish - "Banned From Argo"


The recording quality of this version is somewhat better:



And just to drive this one completely into the ground (hardly a new thing with this song, admittedly), here are the lyrics.
Banned From Argo
by Leslie Fish
When we pulled into Argo Port in need of R & R
The crew set out investigating every joint and bar
We had high expectations of their hospitality
But found too late it wasn't geared for spacers such as we

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our captain's tastes were simple but his methods were complex
We found him with five partners each of a different world and sex
The shore police were on the way -- we had no second chance
We beamed him up in the nick of time in the remnants of his pants

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our engineer would yield to none in putting down the brew
He outdrank seven space marines and a demolition crew
The navigator didn't win but he outdrank almost all
And now they've got a shuttlecraft on the roof of city hall

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our proper cool first officer was drugged with something green
And hauled into an alley where he suffered things obscene
He sobered up in sickbay and he's none the worse for wear
Except he somehow taught the bridge computer how to swear

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

The head nurse disappeared a while in the major dope bazaar
Buying an odd green potion guaranteed to cause pon farr
She came home with no uniform and an oddly cheerful heart
And a painful way of walking with her feet a yard apart

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our lady of communications won a ship-wide bet
By getting into the planet's main communications net
Now every time someone calls up on an Argo telescreen
The flesh is there, but the clothes they wear are nowhere to be seen

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our Doctor loves Humanity; his private life is quiet
The Shore Police arrested him for inciting whores to riot
We found him in the city jail, locked on and beamed him free-
Intact except for hickeys and six kinds of VD

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our Helmsman loves exotic plants; the plants all love him too
He took some down on leave with him and we wondered what they'd do
'Til the planetary governor called and swore upon his life
That a gang of plants entwined his house and then seduced his wife!

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

A gang of pirates landed, and nobody seemed to care
They stamped into the nearest bar to announce that they were there
Half our crew was busy there, and invited them to play
But the pirates only looked at us, and turned and ran away

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

Our crew is Starfleet's finest, and our record is our pride
And when we play we tend to leave a trail a mile wide
We're sorry about the wreckage and the riots and the fuss;
At least we're sure that planet won't be quick forgetting us!

And we're banned from Argo, every one
Banned from Argo just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Argo doesn't want us anymore

...Wonder why?

These are just for you, CrazyMinh. Hopefully, now that exams are done for now, you'll find some... relief.

Ookla the Mok - "Number One"


Bob Kanefsky (performed by Ookla the Mok) - "Comforts of Home"

Alex Vacher - "Lux Aeterna"

Voices - Akino Arai

Sub-category: Things I Didn't Know I Needed

So the other day I found several cute little brown bugs camping out inside my USB ports. I'd killed a few others like them elsewhere over the last couple weeks, so by this point I was getting suspicious of a larger problem -- and as adorable as it was, colonizing my USB hub is crossing a line I simply will not tolerate. I wasn't sure what they were, though, and skimming through a hundred or so bugs on an insect identification site didn't help. So today I spent a couple hours looking through way too goddamned many pictures of bugs trying to figure out just what the hell they are. My heebies are now thoroughly jeebied after that visual overload, but I finally found the little buggers. They're nymphs of the German Cockroach.

Tonight, I rest and recover.

Tomorrow, the war begins.

Julia Ecklar - "Daddy's Little Girl (Firestarter)"

Wait a minute, I haven't posted anything from the Faerie Tale Minstrel yet? In a Whateley thread, of all places? Yes, I know I've posted some of these in other threads, but still... I need to rectify this oversight at once.

Alexander James Adams - "He of the Sidhe"


"March of Cambreadth", old and new:



"Animals all the Same"


And just for Halloween (and a certain well-known author I'd once known who is famously obsessed with this ballad):
Tricky Pixie - "Tam Lin"

Because a certain famous Cuban song from 1933 was brought up in the J,J&E thread:

Michael Lucarelli - "Malagueña"


According to Wikipedia, the name is from the generic term for the traditional Flamenco musical accompaniment, and as I understand it. means roughly, "The Woman from Malagua"; the song itself is technically a specific part of the composer's "Suite Andalucía" but he later usually performed it separately, with added lyrics.

As opposed to a similarly named and equally famous, but completely unrelated, Mexican song from about fifteen years later, "Malagueña Salerosa" , and which it is sometimes confused (they are nothing alike except in the name, and the number of times they've been covered by later artists).

Miguel Aceves Mejía - "Malagueña Salerosa"


As for Rumba as a style, it is also from Cuba, and the dance form (which according to Wicked-Pedo was later incorporated into the wider Flamenco framework by Spanish performers) is something like this:


(the music used in this demonstration is a much lower tempo than would usual for the style, obviously)

Example of the music would be:

Sleater-Kinney - "Ballad of A Ladyman"

Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" (warning, NSFW)

Julia Ecklar (lyrics by Leslie Fish) - "The Horsetamer's Daughter"

I love these guys so much.

I'm posting this in honour of Stan Lee, creator of so many of the greatest comic book characters of all time, Cosmic Entity in the MCU, and Geek Idol. Born 28th December 1922, died 12th November 2018, age 95. Rest in peace.

From the "Big In Japan" category:



More scat:

This 'hint' thing didn't work out too well last time, but let me try again, this time a lot less subtly...

Tom Smith - "The Great Moonwolf Trap"

I can't help but think of Tansy's parents with this one.

I know I did a different version of this a while back, but once again, it is a hint for the Lost&Found thread.

Fairport Convention - "Tam Lin"

This song carried me through some rough times as a child. There's also a faster, more energetic version that I enjoy, but it has abridged lyrics.


I didn't get to hear the JP/EU soundtrack until I was a teen, so these two were fun but didn't get the opportunity to fuse irrevocably into the very fiber of my being the way Sonic Boom did.

This song has long been a favorite of mine; I recall this playing on a tinny AM radio in our kitchen growing up, while my mother made bread (At least I think so; AM radio wasn't really known for folk music - or anything even remotely controversial - in the early 1970s, but I'd swear that was how I first heard it). Oddly enough, though, my Dad didn't drink much, so I didn't make the connection to beer and whiskey until much later.

Traffic - "John Barleycorn"


But then, it is a traditional piece, and this is probably closer to the older versions:

Steeleye Span - "John Barleycorn"

Schol-R-LEA wrote: This song has long been a favorite of mine; I recall this playing on a tinny AM radio in our kitchen growing up, while my mother made bread (At least I think so; AM radio wasn't really known for folk music - or anything even remotely controversial - in the early 1970s, but I'd swear that was how I first heard it). Oddly enough, though, my Dad didn't drink much, so I didn't make the connection to beer and whiskey until much later.

AM radio was still carrying Top 40 formats into the mid-70s, so songs like "Lola" got played. The rigid programming formats took over more in the 1980s

John Barleycorn was released in 1970, bracketed by Jethro Tull's albums Stand Up and Aqualung, so this is a time period when folk rock (or at least Americana) was still viable and prog rock was gathering steam. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys came out in 1971. Even the Grateful Dead got some airplay with "Friend of the Devil" and "Truckin"

Sometimes, a song cover can be amazing:



Nothing wrong with the new:

A friend of mine just passed this to me, and told me a little of her tragic life. A sad song and a sad story...

Judee Sill - "There's a Rugged Road"

Bach-n-roll

2Cellos - "Seven Nation Army"

Because Hurdy-Gurdy.

Guilhem Desq - "Break Your Crank"


Patty Gurdy - "The Longing"

Because Aqua takes a whole new level of creepy this way.

Scala Girls Choir - "Barbie Girl"

(Yes, those are the actual voice actors!)

Dedicated to the work of Leonides Diabliku and his colleagues

Julie Ecklar, Catherine Cook, and Joey Shoji - "The Light-Ship"

I would have posted the other video, but that's just a never ending story...

Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star"

And, for a bookend:

Because you never know where a wiki-walk will take you (thanks, Null0trooper).

traditional (performed by the The Hilliard Ensemble) - "Sumer is Icomen In"


Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (performed by Ian Pittaway) - "Kalenda maya"


traditional (performed by Ensemble Belladonna) - "Miri it is while sumer ilast"

A mega-music for Marcus:

Rush - "Tom Sawyer"

Not sure why I am putting two very different songs back-to-back, but...
Mason Williams - "Classical Gas"


The acoustic version of this, from the soundtrack for the film The Story of Us, is often mistakenly attributed to Eric Clapton, who had been the one who arranged the soundtrack and performed some of the other songs on it. Neither Clapton nor Williams is very happy about people making this mistake.

Not Eric Clapton - "Classical Gas"

Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermints"

Folk, Bluegrass, good either way as long as everyone stays in their lane.

I've always enjoyed this song, but then MageOhki kept mentioning Hikaru's cooking, and now it's even better. (Music starts at 20s.)

Story time! Can anyone figure this one out? (It shouldn't be difficult, this is seriously anvilicious stuff - as is the hint for the Lost&Found thread buried in here.)

Tom Smith - "And They say I've got Talent"


Pink Floyd - "Have a Cigar"


Hit Co. (covering the Eagles) - "Life in the Fast Lane"


Iggy Pop and the Stooges - "Lust for Life"


Tool - "Aenema"


Sarah McLachlan - "Angel"


Bad Company - "Shooting Star"

Talis Kimberly - "Archetype Cafe"

This thread keeps reminding me of one at the old forums... the karaoke thread. Main difference being that instead of just posting songs people happen to like, the karaoke thread consisted in finding a "thematically appropriate" song for a Whateley character to sing (or, conversely, finding an appropriate character to sing a song). I remember I had Mezzo singing Raul Seixas' "Metamorfose Ambulante" (translation: "Walking Metamorphosis")
The below video was an ad for Brazilian telecom Vivo and Samsung:


(The last few seconds are a snippet of another Raul Seixas song, named "Eu Nasci Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás", meaning "I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago")

Not NSFW, which may make it unique in this band's repertoire, but I'd still be careful about playing this out loud in some places.

The Fugs - "Ramses II is Dead, My Love"

Discovered Gooseworx recently. Good stuff.

The Roches - "Hammond Song"

Discovered Ska Tune Network today. Pickitup pickitup pickitup!

Something upbeat and positive for a Monday.

The Moody Blues - "Higher and Higher"


The Moody Blues - "Eternity Road"

I discovered Pomplamoose today. Been listening to their stuff for the last... ten hours? Maybe more? They are wonderful.

The latest chapter of The Nefarious Three has given me a strong hankering for some Joe Diffie.

Because I'm in a creepy mood.

Assassins OST (Stephen Sondheim) - "Unworthy of Your Love"

The name is Whiplash. Mood Whiplash.

Weird Al Yankovic - "Spy Hard" Opening Theme

Arr, matey!

Tom Smith - "Talk Like a Pirate Day"

Not a song link per se, but:
The free, ad-free Soma FM Internet radio has three seasonal streaming channels with Christmas music. "Christmas Lounge" is pretty much what you might expect (albeit perhaps a bit better quality than your average shopping mall Christmas soundtrack), but "Christmas Rocks" and "Xmas in Frisko" have more... unusual mixes.

And of course there are about three dozen other streaming channels in a variety of styles.

somafm.com

Weird Al Yankovic - "Christmas at Ground Zero"

The Rocky Road to Dublin, the introduction to Scald-Crow 1: The Rocky Road to Whateley, by The High Kings.

Because there is always room for another interpretation of this ballad, as I am certain Seanan would agree (though to the best of my knowledge, she's never publicly performed it herself... hmmn).

Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - "Tam Lin (Child 39)"


Drake Oranwood - "Tam Lin of the Elves"


Speaking of whom:
Seanan McGuire w/ Vixy and Tony - "Wicked Girls"

The Rocky Road to Dublin, The Dubliners with lyrics!

Dedicated to one of Razorback's past lives:

Erianaiel wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Well, stranger things have happened involving pancakes in this thread.

Nothing is as strange as 'It's pancake day'

Challenge accepted.

Because there is always room for another interpretation of this ballad.

Weird Al Yankovic - "Classical Gas" (accordion cover)