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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] jukebox_fest2016-03-19 09:57 am

Nominations are open

2016's nominations are open! The tag set is here.

Nominations will close at 23:59 (i.e., the last minute of) 26 March 2016 in EDT. That link should give you the corresponding time in your own time zone.

Nominations have two stages:
  1. Go to the tag set and nominate.

  2. Come back to this post (or the LiveJournal equivalent) and comment with links to sources of the music and lyrics.


Step 2 isn't mandatory, but it's really helpful when I make a large table of where to find all of this year's canons. And that table is helpful for getting other people interested in the pieces YOU want to receive or create a gift in.

And of course, step 0.5 - if you're not quite sure what to nominate, see the brainstorming posts on Dreamwidth and on LiveJournal - and past posts tagged with "brainstorming" - to get and give ideas.


To nominate, go to http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1117 and click the "Nominate" button at the top right. You will need to be signed in with your AO3 account. If you don't have one, request one now at AO3, or ask me.

You will see eight blank spaces for your nominations. You don't have to fill them all in at once.

Very few songs are already listed on the AO3, so you may be creating new fandoms. This means they won't auto-complete or appear in a drop-down menu when you're typing them. That's okay.

The preferred AO3 format for songs and videos is:

Song Name - Artist (Medium)

If you have a specific cover artist in mind, use them.

For example,
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes (Music Video)
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes (Song)
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (Song)
Lilac Wine - Nina Simone (Song)

For some types of music, a different (Medium), such as (Ballad), (Spoken Word Piece), etc, may seem more appropriate. Go with what seems sensible to you. (Song) is an okay catch-all.

Please check the spelling carefully when you enter your nominations.

Once you have submitted nominations, you can edit each one until I've approved it. You can do this by going back to the tag set, clicking "My Nominations", then "Edit". You don't have to choose all eight of your nominations at once - you can enter some nominations, submit them, then come back and fill in the rest a little later, again by using "Edit Nominations".

When I've approved a nomination, it may not show up instantly in the tag set, but should show up within a couple of days. Meanwhile, I'll keep the LJ and DW communities up to date.


When you comment with sources for the music you've nominated, here is what is useful:

-the name of the piece & artist
-a link to some online source (YouTube etc)
-a link to lyrics.

The genre of the song, if you know it, is also helpful.

If you'd rather email me (jukebox.mod@gmail.com) than comment on LJ or DW, that is fine.

This post is also on LiveJournal.

(Anonymous) 2016-03-24 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sirens - Soren Bryce (Song)
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRkki5ztE_4
Lyrics: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Soren-Bryce/Sirens

Poor Eliza - Chris Bathgate (Song)
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoZnyG7-UI
Lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/chris-bathgate/poor-eliza-lyrics/

Spectacular Rival - George Ezra (Song)
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFfODAbht7o
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/georgeezra/spectacularrival.html

Talk Me Down - Troye Sivan (Music Video)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo3lxS-6joY
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/troyesivan/talkmedown.html

Magnets - Disclosure feat. Lorde (Music Video)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_KfnGBtVeA
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/disclosure/magnets.html

Cool - Gwen Stefani (Music Video)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwZ7MNtBFU
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gwenstefani/cool.html

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis (Music Video)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_weSk0BonM
Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonalewis/bleedinglove.html
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[personal profile] ernads 2016-03-24 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi. Is it possible to nominate songs in Hebrew as long as the fic I write will be English?
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[personal profile] katherine 2016-03-25 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Life's Flame - Heather Alexander (Song)

Music and lyrics: https://heatheralexander.bandcamp.com/track/lifes-flame-2
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[personal profile] el_staplador 2016-03-25 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
There Lived A King (from The Gondoliers) - Youtube - Lyrics - operetta

Vilja (from Die Lustige Witwe/The Merry Widow - Franz Lehár/Victor León/Leo Stein) - Youtube or Gloria.tv video in English - alternative English lyrics/lyrics in German with literal English translation - operetta

Green, Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones) - Youtube - Lyrics - country

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Youtube - Lyrics - folk rock

The Foggy, Foggy Dew (Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears) - Youtube - Lyrics (I can't find the lyrics that exactly match this version. This is the closest, but verse two goes 'She sighed, she cried, she damn near died/She said, what shall I do?/ So I hauled her into bed and I covered up her head/Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.' - folk/art song

Nominating the songs themselves in all cases. The top two are from shows, but they are both self-contained stories.
Edited 2016-03-25 19:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] raspberryhunter 2016-03-26 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, I only have time for two right now; I may or may not come back later with more.

The Ash Grove (Britten and Oliphant) - Youtube with Ian Bostridge - Lyrics (the Oliphant version in particular)

The Hymn of Acxiom (Vienna Teng) - Youtube - Lyrics
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[personal profile] ernads 2016-03-26 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hi.

my niminations are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFomOCT71L4 for help me make it throught the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcEPikUpHI(Hebrew song - be quite. extremly hard to transletre. That the song I wish to request for someone to write a fic for me.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJblMmTWqlY (Hebrew as well - Shira. second choise on my part)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2vMrDzoXM I'll be there. friendship song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haSFFii7vj8 (Hebrew. In short - it's about how the war in 1973 had fucked us up...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM1YVnmIQ7U (Hebrew. Memories of childhood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRf66CgyCrg (Hebrew. "Dance". It's a romentic songs between those two girsl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk "starty stary night.

I will add a seprate comment with translation or explanation for the songs in Hebrew.

my thanks
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[personal profile] deep_dark_waters 2016-03-26 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
No idea how to genre-categorise some of these so I went with whatever Wikipedia said:

Book Smart, Street Stupid - Sarah Slean (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Pop)

Cassandra - ABBA (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Pop)

Circus - Tom Waits (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Spoken Word)

Evil Angel - Rufus Wainwright (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Baroque Pop)

Hallo Spaceboy - David Bowie (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Dance)

Small Town Dracula - Hawksley Workman (Music Video) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Rock)

The Traitor - Martha Wainwright (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Folk)

When the End of the World Came - The Jane Austen Argument (Song) [YouTube | Lyrics] (Cabaret)
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[personal profile] ernads 2016-03-26 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, translation and explanation for the first Hebrew song, including link:

“Be quite” by Riki Gal, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcEPikUpHI

Be still , now everything is fine
Even the suffocation will be easier to bear
We are not in hell , and definitely not in heaven
This is home, and we have none to spare

Be quite now, as if you are perfect
As if you are protected by the very air
As if all your woes have been crystallize into beauty
Like roses growing from a dusty land .

Be quite now, how much longer can you reveal yourself
exposing your vulnerability without fear of humiliation
As vulnerability itself is a form of power
As it tranquility itself is a panic-stricken beach.

This is my attempt at a verbal translation of this song. I do not think it’s sufficient so I’m adding an explanation:

This s song about a woman who is attempting to comfort her friend, by telling her that there is no choice but to accept the reality ; And that even if our reality is far from perfect, it is not always so terrible as well. We are not in paradise , however – we are also not in hell.

She goes on an absolve her friend from blame: “you can be quiet, because even if you have a fault, it does not matter. You can already forget it. You are safe and protected, even by the very air.

Than she attempts to give her friends suffering some meaning:” Look, your troubles are already beginning to take shape and beauty. That is - what has caused you pain slowly becomes something else, a work of art that can touch others.

This song is for anyone once felt different , unusual , unnecessary , unneeded. It’s for whoever full of pain and rage. It’s for anyone who was hurt, humiliated and terrified. It’s telling us: In your pain and vulnerability there is strength – you are not weak, you are strong. You are not ugly – you are beautiful. Do not loose hope.
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[personal profile] hagar_972 2016-03-26 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Here Comes the Rain Again - Dikla Cover (Music Video): youtube, lyrics
I'll take song-alone on this, too, but come on: women, magic, longing. Is that the same woman, at different times in her life - perhaps different lives? And if they're not the same woman - are the relatives, friends, lovers (<-please)?

Who By Fire - Maureen Nehedar & Rona Keinan Cover (Song): youtube, lyrics
Leonard Cohen wrote this song off a Day of Atonement piyut (pietous poetry incorporated into prayer, but not in itself an article of prayer). In this version, Persian-Jewish paytanit (that is, musician who specializes in this genre) Maureen Nehedar and (lesbian, depression-survivor) rock singer/songwriter Rona Keinan perform it as a duet, with Maureen adding in verses from Atonement Day prayer Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King; this would be the Hebrew verses, and the title should be google-able).

Journey - Mark Eliyahu (Instrumental): youtube
Mark Eliyahu's music is, simultaneously, Jewish-variant devotional/mystical and West-to-Central Asian; both are his heritage. This particular piece has a cinematic quality, to me - there's a story happening here. The title tells us something about what kind of a story that is, but the rest is open to imagination.

Habib Galbi - A-WA Cover (Music Video): youtube, lyrics + translation
Habib Galbi is a folk song, and the video reads - to me - like a folk tale. Who is the old woman watching? What are the three dancing men? How did the three sisters came to be in that predicament, and how goes their journey to what seems like a happy supernatural ending?

Dancing on Needles - Charlotte Martin (Song): youtube (fanvid; cuts before the actual end, but doesn't lose lyrics and more than suffices; live versions also exist on youtube, but they're all piano-solo acoustic and veeeeeery different), lyrics
This song makes some obvious references to The Little Mermaid, but reads as if it's between two women - and then there's mentions of wars and other things that aren't in Andersen's tale.
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[personal profile] ernads 2016-03-26 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
And another one:

Shira by Miri Masika Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJblMmTWqlY

You who know not to distinguish between right and wrong
Every day you’re crashing, never knowing were it came from
Every story you create is a maze with now way out
You hunger to grow up, but you will always be a child.

You how strive to touch the starlight in your hand
Never sleep at night, working all hour of the day
Going from one doomed affair to the next
Burred down from inside our, like a cigarette

Shira, your life will await you
The day will die with the coming dawn
And you will remember no longer
The things I’ve forgotten to talk with you about

Perhaps one day you will get of the roller coaster
Perhaps one day you’ll stop filling your lungs with smoke
Just stand quietly before a mirror for a moment
Let it – let yourself – see how beautiful you are

This song is talking about a young woman who is trying to find herself and is failing, who is trying to grow up and is does not quite managed that. She is burned down from inside, and sees no beauty in herself or her
surrounding.

However, the singer here is telling her that her life is waiting for her, and there is hope yet, and that everything will be all right. It’s a song of hope
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2016-03-26 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Peacemaker - The Mechanisms (Song) Song + Lyrics
Holder of the GRAIL - The Mechanisms (Song) Song + Lyrics
Tourner dans le vide - Indila (Music Video) Music Video + Lyrics (with translation)
Juste pour me souvenir - Nolwenn Leroy (Song) Song + Lyrics (with translation)
Tu vas me manquer - Maitre Gims (Music Video)Music Video + Lyrics (with translation)
Underwater - Mika (Music Video) Music Video + Lyrics
Boum Boum Boum - Mika (Music Video) Music Video + Lyrics (with translation)
Tous les Mêmes - Stromae (Music Video) Music Video + Lyrics (with translation)
Edited (html bork) 2016-03-26 23:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] xenoglossy 2016-03-28 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
The Poisoner - Fern Knight (Song) - song, lyrics (the only place I could find them, sorry)
The Lady Came from Baltimore - Joan Baez (Song) - song, lyrics
Beekeeper - Dessa (Song) - song, lyrics
Skeleton Song - Kate Nash (Song) - song, lyrics
Jenny - Studio Killers (Music Video) - video, lyrics
Pick Up the Phone - Dragonette (Song) - song, lyrics
Winter Fields - Bat for Lashes (Song) - song, lyrics
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[personal profile] fleurlb 2016-03-28 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Graceless" - The National (video) - Video ! Song

"Just Another Lover" - Betty Soo (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" - Arcade Fire (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Shattered & Hollow"- First Aid Kit (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Slow Show" - The National (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Terrible Love" - The National (song) - Video ! Lyrics

"Waitress Song" - First Aid Kit (song) - Video ! Lyrics

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