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

[deep_dark_waters]

Such a great theme for a fic exchange!

Anything and everything by Tom Waits. Creepy, tragic, romantic, funny, it's all there.

Also Hawksley Workman's album Treeful of Starling (Spotify link) - I nominated this one for Yuletide last year but it's not that well known. It's an epic, beautiful concept album spanning the entire stretch of human existence from pre-civilisation to post-apocalypse. I would love to read fic about these songs, there's so much possibility.

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[morbane]

Thanks, I'm glad you're interested!

Would the songs from Treeful of Starling work on their own, instead of only as a whole? I'm aiming to keep canons as simple and discrete as possible. (Which I guess is a nice problem to have if one of the album's strengths is its complexity.)

[deep_dark_waters]

I think so! I mean obviously they're linked but each one covers a different aspect of life/evolution/community/love/whatever so there's plenty to run with. I'll nominate some of the songs separately when it's time.

[seekingferret]

"The Piano Has Been Drinking" might be superfun to fic. If you took it literally.

[deep_dark_waters]

I was thinking of it from a more depressing angle, The Earth Died Screaming or I'm Still Here, but now I'm trying to figure out how to make that work...