Brainstorming post: 2016

[morbane]

As nominations will begin in approximately 4 days, this post is a place to bounce ideas around, gauge interest for your preferred songs & music videos & other pieces, and decide what to nominate.

You have 8 nominations this year. This and other rule updates are on AO3.

This post is also on LiveJournal - check the comments there as well.

Comments

[pameluke]

I've managed to cull my long list some, but I still haven't made my final decisions.
I've also noticed I've got a bunch of songs where I'd love something with a supernatural element to it, so I hope that's okay.
I think I would like to go for one song per artist, so I shall have to make some tough decisions with some of these. Oh, and I'm into all of these for the songs, the video's are optional.
The list so far:

Rolling Stones
You've Got The Silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchROOM25ao
Possibly a dwarven love-story?

Natalie Merchant
Ophelia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GryxQEhYRr4
There's so much in this song, either fleshing out one of the characters, or going for some kind of reincarnation, phoenix type of story where all Ophelias are the same Ophelia. The video interpretation where Ophelia is mad could also be interesting.

Motherland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIJ1ZPW5_L4
So many immigration stories that can be told to this song, either focusing on the former homeland or the new homeland.

My Skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgYKvTWssM
This is such a complicated relationship, I always want to know what went wrong, or maybe it never was good.

Bob Dylan
Sweetheart Like You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpRKstHl7Y0
Favorite Dylan song, and I've always wanted to know what happened to the woman, and if she got herself out of that dump.

Shelter From the Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uJJSuWt_M8
This is just a hopeful warm song that always fills me with hope, and there's so much story in it.

Bruce Springsteen
State Trooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5MyNuBdhg
or the version by Deana Carter because female narrator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR5JiAqCHjE
Who did she murder and why?

Human Touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A
Just played straight, or with a non-human narrator and a doomed inter-species romance.

Soulsavers
You Will Miss Me When I Burn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZHyNpQCLI
This is devastatingly lonely, and I always thought it was sung by someone accused of witchcraft sentenced to be burned alive. Cue post-mortem revenge spree.

Leonard Cohen
First We Take Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
I know it's all supposed to be metaphors, but honestly, I've always seen it as a sci-fi possibly post-apocalyptic dystopian revolution story.

[morbane]

Shelter from the Storm is an old favourite of mine too.

You certainly won't be alone in asking for supernatural takes on songs.

[deep_dark_waters]

Natalie Merchant! I had Ophelia in my requests last round too :-)

[morbane]

... I might put First We Take Manhattan in mine.

[pameluke]

Wooohoo. It's such a good revolutionary anthem :)

[coneyislandbaby]

It was pointed out to me that just because it's a singer of one gender, that doesn't mean they're the actual narrator of the song. Which, with some, makes sense. RE: State Trooper, that is. But I know it can be hard to adjust that (and sometimes it can queer things very satisfyingly as well of course).

[ardyforshort]

Some favourites of mine on this list too, woo!