Brainstorming Post

[morbane]

Here if you'd like to share music you're keen on, or sound out whether someone else might be interesting in reading/writing the songs you want to write/read for.

Links are welcome.

Nominations will open 26 July are open now (!) and close 1 August.

(See also: http://jukebox-fest.livejournal.com/816.html for the same post on the LJ community.)

Comments

[existence]

Songs I am pondering off the top of my head:

- Aesop Rock: Coffee or No Regrets, maybe. (I always did like little Lucy.)
- Phenomenauts: I Am Robot comes to mind as the one with clearest narrative without context. But basically I want spaceship adventures, okay.
- TV on the Radio: I cannot nominate all of them. Ugh. Life, very unfair. Satellites I have a fondness for, for early stuff, but I also think that Blues From Down Here and I Was A Lover would be good too. And, well, most of Will Do and Dear Science, really.
- Black 47: Bodrahns on the Brain, or I Slept On James Joyce's Grave. Or one of the many, many songs about martyrs...they have a lot of those.
- Jason Webely: Icarus from Counterpoint, maybe? I will admit a particularness for Two Stars and Jack of Spades off of Against the Night as well tho.
- Zombina and the Skeletones: Nobody Likes You When You're Dead
- Illyaria Graziano et al: Christmas In The Silent Forest
- Iron and Wine: Woman King

Other acts who I'd consider with some more reviewing of their music probably: Gnarls Barkley, Rasputina, Janelle Monae, Tom Waits, Queen, VnV Nation, the Killers, Mathew Good, the National, something something Bowie something something maybe Mumford? LET ME INFLICT MY PROBABLY TERRIBLE TASTE IN SONGS ON YOU.

[xenoglossy]

Ooh, I'd love to see what could come out of Woman King or Nobody Likes You When You're Dead. I also love Janelle Monae, but I'm only familiar with her Metropolis suite and I feel like those songs work better together than individually?

[existence]

I've definitely nominated Woman King because I'd read that story in a hot minute, and I'm waffling over the Zombina one (mostly because I want to see if I can choose a potentially happier song or something, because a lot of the ones I've nominated already have a crazy-post-apocolypse/event/disaster vibe, oops.)

I can see that, but I think some of the songs are a little less dependent on place and setting. Still, there are so many other things to nom. I think I'm less likely to nominate Monae and also the Phenomenauts, whose stage presence is heavily tied into their musical ventures, yet is probably mostly-inexplicable to the uninitiated without some other kind of reference. (Which I'd be happy to provide if it was more in keeping with the challenge, but I don't think it is.)