2018 Nominations Are Open

[morbane]

Nominations are open!

2018 tag set for nominations is here

Nominations will close at the end of 30 March EDT.

Please glance over the guide below before you nominate, and then come back to this post or its LiveJournal equivalent to comment. And if you're still thinking about what you want, try the brainstorming posts on LJ and on DW.

How to nominate
Songs or music videos shorter than 20 minutes can be nominated on AO3. Read more information on what can be nominated here. If you don't have an AO3 account to nominate with, please email jukebox.mod@gmail.com for an invite.

Please nominate in the style:
Song Name - Artist Name (Format).

That is -
Golden Years - David Bowie (Song)
Beautiful Stranger - Madonna (Music Video)
- etc. If nominating a cover, use the name of the cover artist.

When you have made your nomination choices, it is very much appreciated if you can comment on this post with the following information for each song:

<strong>Song:</strong> <strong>Link (YouTube, etc):</strong> <strong>Lyrics link:</strong>

This information is optional, but it makes it easier for me to put together the table of all canons, and it also might make it easier for someone else to get interested in the music you care about. You're welcome to give more than one link - for example, a YouTube link is useful for creating playlists, but you might choose to include Bandcamp as well as it leads more directly to supporting the artist. You do not have to give extra links.

You can also choose to include information about the genre of each song (even more optional, but it can help people decide which songs to try out). Use this form:

<strong>Song:</strong> <strong>Link (YouTube, etc):</strong> <strong>Lyrics link:</strong> <strong>Genre:</strong>


N.B. I've noticed some people including warnings for videos in the brainstorming post. I don't have a system for including warning notes in the tables of canons, and so was not planning to include them. I can see advantages, but also disadvantages. But I'm open to ideas if you have them.

This post on LJ

Comments

[ghostwings]

Song: Feral Hearts – Kerli (Music Video)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

Song: Rose Red – Emilie Autumn (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

Song: Wolf – First Aid Kit (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

Song: The Old Ways – Loreena McKennitt (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

Song: The Lioness – Xandria (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

Song: Which Witch – Florence + the Machine (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): Youtube link
Lyrics link: Link

[morbane]

Thank you for trying, though! Effort appreciated.

[morbane]

Did you find any lyrics?

[sirvalkyrie]

Haven't looked since I posted to be honest.

[sirvalkyrie]

Despacito
https://genius.com/Malinda-kathleen-reese-google-translate-sings-despacito-parody-luis-fonsi-and-daddy-yankee-ft-justin-bieber-lyrics

Circle of Life
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/malinda-kathleen-reese-google-translate-sings-circle-life-lyrics.html

Thriller
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/malinda-kathleen-reese-google-translate-sings-thriller-lyrics.html

[morbane]

Okay. Thank you. I'm not going to transcribe the others myself, but if you transcribe them, feel free to post the transcriptions and I'll link them in the tables.

[morbane]

This is OK as is, but may I suggest copying out the lyrics in the version you hear as a reply to this thread, so that I can link to one source?

Part 2

[extrapenguin]

Song: Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfDhviwpak
Lyrics link: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nightwish/endlessformsmostbeautiful.html
Genre: Symphonic metal

[morbane]

Hi! I take it these lyrics for Huitzil supersede the ones you DM'ed me? Thanks.

[luckybarton]

No, these are the Spanish lyrics to Huitzil. The ones I DM'd you were an English translation. So they should both be linked to in the table.

Hope that clarifies things :)

Translation of Huitzil lyrics

[morbane]

I don’t know if you come from here or if you come from there
I don’t know if the road you have chosen will take you to the truth
Or maybe you didn’t learn and now to give costs you more
Or maybe you didn’t learn and now to give costs you more

Maybe it’s the bird on the left
Blue Huitzil, give me more strength
Colibri, awaken

And now
I spend all my days and nights searching
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
And the nightmares are barely beginning
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
For years the television has programmed me
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
And now I spend all my days and nights searching for you
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)


Every time, whatever I think
The universe breathes and goes in reverse
You think I don’t perceive your energy and with a verse
You offer me the solution

And since I keep my thoughts to myself
Before you’ve decided what comes in the beginning
I would like to paint it like smudges on a canvas
Who has the solution?

And now
I spend all my days and nights searching
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
And the nightmares are barely beginning
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
For years the television has programmed me
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)
And now I spend all my days and nights searching for you
(oh – oh – oh – oh – oooh)

credit: luckybarton

[(Anonymous)]

I'll Be Back Again - Nite (Music Video)
Link: https://vimeo.com/258130463

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, misfire

[(Anonymous)]

I'll Be Back Again - Nite (Music Video)
Link: https://vimeo.com/258130463

Translator's Note

[luckybarton]

Spanish is my second language, but I'm reasonably certain this is accurate. In any case, it's significantly better than other translations I was able to find online.

The song references the mesoamerican deity Huitzilopochtli, whose name is commonly translated to 'hummingbird on/of the left' or 'hummingbird on/of the south'--sometimes 'left-handed hummingbird'.

'Huitzilin' is the Nahuatl word for 'hummingbird', but is commonly written in Spanish sources as 'huitzil'; I don't speak Nahuatl, so I can't comment further. Since it's intentionally in Nahuatl in the song, I left it intact.

'Colibri' is the name for a genus of hummingbirds, found in South America. They're known as violetears in English but as colibri is their scientific name as well as the common name used in Spanish, I left it intact. The ones endemic to Mexico are usually blue.

[(Anonymous)]

Song: Rude - Kina Grannis (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYxgFeCvzQ
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Magic-rude-lyrics

Song: Take Me To Church - Neon Jungle (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya46q6ALt9Q
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Neon-jungle-take-me-to-church-hozier-cover-lyrics

Song: Blurred Lines - Postmodern Jukebox (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz-OMn1o22Y
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Scott-bradlees-postmodern-jukebox-blurred-lines-lyrics

Song: Wiggle - Postmodern Jukebox (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDl9SDd1FJY
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Scott-bradlees-postmodern-jukebox-wiggle-lyrics

Song: Sleepover - Hayley Kiyoko (Music Video)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jxPFtIAnw
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Hayley-kiyoko-sleepover-lyrics

Song: She Keeps Me Warm - Mary Lambert (Music Video)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhqH-r7Xj0E
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Mary-lambert-she-keeps-me-warm-lyrics

Song: Fernando - ABBA (Song)
Link (YouTube, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4
Lyrics link: https://genius.com/Abba-fernando-lyrics

I'll be back again - Nite (lyrics transcribed by ear)

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday I called your name out loud in an empty room
It froze me deep inside the pain that you put me through
I can say that “I can change anytime I but not in the sight of you”
Stars have passed me by but tomorrow’s sky looks blue
I’m alright
We’re all alright
We’re all alright right now

I’ll be back
I’ll be back
I’ll be back again
Just like the sun comes up
I can be myself again
I’ll be back
I’ll be back
I’ll be back again
Just like the sun comes up
I can be myself
I can be myself

Yesterday I was so cold I threw you out of reach
Today I realize all this rage was a waste of time
Maybe everything I said was just a figure of speech
I’m only heard as of now but tomorrow I’ll be fine

I’m alright
We’re all alright
We’re all alright right now

I’ll be back
I’ll be back
I’ll be back again
Just like the sun comes up
I can be myself
I can be myself again

I’ll be back again

As of now I’ve lost myself but I’ll be back again
Well my future holds you at the end I will never see you again
Again

I’ll be back
I’ll be back
I’ll be back again
Just like the sun comes up
I can be myself
I can be myself again

[el_staplador]

... good point.


When I was a bachelor, I lived all alone,
and worked at the weaver's trade,
and the only, only thing I ever did wrong
was to woo a fair young maid
I wooed her in the wintertime,
and in the summer too,
And the only, only thing I ever did wrong
Was to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

One night she came to my bedside
when I lay fast asleep.
She laid her head upon my bed
and she began to weep.
She sighed, she cried, she damn near died,
she said, 'What shall I do?'
So I hauled into bed and I covered up her head
just to save her from the foggy, foggy dew.

O, I am a bachelor, I live with my son
and we work at the weaver's trade.
And every single time I look into his eyes
he reminds me of that fair young maid.
He reminds me of the wintertime
and of the summer too,
and of the many, many times that I held her in my arms
just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

[morbane]

Awesome, thank you!