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[morbane]

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Finally, what are you planning to nominate? Let's toss some ideas around either here or at the equivalent post on LiveJournal.

Comments

[moetushie]

So many! I keep forgetting to make a list.

- Definitely something from the Smiths -- "This Charming Man", methinks, this year.
- Something from the National even though their lyrics are deliberately mostly nonsense -- maybe "Mistaken for Strangers"? T
- The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love (especially the rake and his scary ghost children.)
- "The Whipping Boy", Shearwater. Something is going on between that boy and that wolf.
- Jeff Buckley -- either "Everyone Here Wants You" or "I Know It's Over".
- "A la Claire Fountaine", especially the version sung by les Petits Minous.
- "O Death", Jen Titus.

And lots more.

[morbane]

I like deliberately nonsense lyrics - they're fun to tease things out of.

I'm not sure I personally could pull so much out of 'Everyone Here Wants You' - 'I Know It's Over', maybe, or 'Forget Her'. Or 'So Real'? I love the lyrics of 'Morning Theft' but I'm not sure there's a story there.

[merryghoul]

Huh, I was also thinking of nominating "This Charming Man!"

[moetushie]

Awesome! I plan to request it as well. :)

[merryghoul]

I also have a list:

- Rufus Wainwright's "Matinee Idol"

- The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home"

- Andrew Bird's "Skin Is, My" and "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left"

- Paul McCartney's "Pretty Little Head" (the music video, most likely)

And I just remembered to add Wings' "Girlfriend."

[morbane]

Some definites:

Fleetwood Mac, Running Through the Garden: "Until she herself/ Became just as fatal/ As was her garden... So you run towards what you know is wrong..." Probably asking for both fic and art here.

Leonard Cohen, Stranger Song: "You notice there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder." Definitely asking for art.

And -

Steely Dan, King of the World: "No marigolds in the Promised Land; there's a hole in the ground where they used to grow." If I nominate it, I'm probably asking for art.

Paul Simon, Train in the Distance: "Everybody knows the sound of a train in the distance / Everybody thinks it's true." If I nominate it, possibly asking for fic?

Crowded House, Instinct: "I lit the match, I lit the match, I saw another monster turn to ash." Probably asking for fic, maybe art too?

[moetushie]

I admit, my vision of "Everyone Here Wants You" is a coffee shop full of people in chunky sweaters (because it's the early nineties) angsting about the beautiful barista until one of the patrons finally snaps and declare they are the one! I may have thought a bit too much about it though.

I just love "I Know It's Over" to bits.

Actually, "New Year's Prayer" night have a story to it...

Or there could be a million stories about Hallelujah. ;)

[moetushie]

I love "My Skin, Is"!

[moetushie]

I also kind of want to nominate the music video for Wham!'s "Bad Boys" -- I saw it when I was drunk a few weeks ago, and it just left a impression. I think might ship the Bad Boy/Nerdy Boy, and want to know more about the Bad Boy's parents.

[shewhostaples]

Hooray!

The Green, Green Grass of Home - mainly because I like the Katherine Jenkins cover a lot more than I usually like classical singers doing pop, and she hasn't bothered changing any names, which suits me just fine. But I like Tom Jones, too. General Welshness. (ZOMG, here they both are!)

Repeats from last year:

Ramblin' Boy - Tom Paxton

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Joan Baez (well, Bob Dylan, but I like the Joan Baez version)

The Foggy, Foggy Dew - trad. arr. Britten


ETA: Moon River

Des Baches Wiegenlied (Schubert - the last movement of Die Schöne Müllerin, and the only one where the narrator isn't the miller. Translation of the whole song cycle here - PDF format)

Sylvia's Mother - Doctor Hook and the Medicine Men (I have a soft spot for this one, because I won a tenner on a pub quiz machine by knowing it once. Also, Sylvia's mother does a sterling job of fending off Sylvia's creepy ex.)

[shewhostaples]

Also, would it make sense to have a thread or a post dedicated to collecting eligible stories, to make life easier for those who were interesting in offering or requesting podfic?

[tentaclesock]

I want to nominate "The Want Ad" by Pandora's Box, but it's a spoken word piece. Is that acceptable?

[alexseanchai]

Probably nomming The CRAIC's "Shee An Gannon" again.

Arcade Fire's "Abraham's Daughter" of course.

Maybe snowflake et al's "Blessed are the Greedy".

Gotta have some Seanan McGuire up in here, and "Darkness Falls" would be cheating, so...aw, "How Much Salt" isn't on Youtube. But "Downhome Aphrodite" is! (Nomming just the song, not the fanvid, of course.)

This one I am nominating the video: Janelle Monáe's "Q.U.E.E.N."

Dartmouth Decibelles' "House of Stone and Light" isn't on Youtube either, and it's subtly different in important ways from the Martin Page version. DAMMIT. I don't want the Martin Page version. So let's finish out with Sharon Knight's "Fire in the Head".

I think that's my lineup, anyway.

[morbane]

Ooh! I like the idea of She's Leaving Home. I'll have to check out Girlfriend and Pretty Little Head as well.

[morbane]

Good question! Let me think about it. Do you happen to have a link?

[tentaclesock]

Yes, I do. Here it is. Warning: contains the word "transvestite."

[morbane]

Definitely! I was thinking I'd either put it up in a few days, or put it up during nominations. Do you have a preference?

[seekingferret]

Nomination ideas

Rincon by Dan Bern
Estelle by Dan Bern
The Singer Addresses his Audience by the Decemberists
Far Far by Yael Naim
Dark Fantasy by Kanye
Bridges and Balloons by Joanna Newsom
Light Rail Coyote by Sleater-Kinney
Sensations by Alphaville
In A Box by Pharaoh's Daughter
To Keep My Love Alive by Rodgers and Hart
The Sprawl by Sonic Youth

[deep_dark_waters]

Yay! May still change, but my current list:

* Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
* Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie
* The Traitor - Martha Wainwright
* The Day Before You Came - Abba (I know it's supposed to be a love song, but I always wanted the next day to be the most extreme ridiculous brilliant fantastical adventure of all time)
* Definitely something Tom Waits but haven't decided which song (maybe Green Grass)

[morbane]

Thanks.

After some thought: yes, sure, I will approve that if it's nominated, and similar spoken-word pieces.

I don't think I'd approve any poem that was read out loud and recorded - especially if its first/primary mode of dissemination was publication. I think it's reasonable to argue for the musicality of pieces designed to be received as spoken, and so performed.

I may have to refine my definition if the question comes up further, but for now, yeah, that one's fine.

[morbane]

*grins* D'you think it's going to be a tradition that someone writes Abraham's Daughter every Jukebox?

The song doesn't have to be on YouTube. I realise my wording of 'preferably' in the FAQ is a bit ambiguous. It does lower your chances that someone will offer or write/draw it.

But I see that the Dartmouth Decibelles have an up-to-date website and their albums are available to download from iTunes & listenable on Spotify, so that's not quite the exists-only-on-limited-edition-EP obscurity I was fearing....

[morbane]

Oh good! The Traitor again. :D

[deep_dark_waters]

Third time lucky, maybe!

[deep_dark_waters]

OOH I had a Waits one I wasn't sure about nominating because it's spoken, but maybe? Circus (and lyrics because he's not always the easiest fella to understand)

[alexseanchai]

MOAR ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER ALL THE ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER

Good point. Argh now dilemma because I want "Fire in the Head" more than I thought I did a bit ago.