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

[morbane]

Isn't that how we're supposed to be doing it when we nominate single songs from musicals?

I think that's how it'll work best, because most musical songs won't have a single discrete video clip - you could take care to nominate a specific, say, Youtube clip of a specific performance, but if that particular (visual as well as vocal) acting performance isn't key to your understanding of the song, it's probably easier just to nominate the song.

I should probably do some thinking around the best way to differentiate different performance versions, though, in case that turns up later as an issue.

[alexseanchai]

"Star of the County Down - Celtic Woman" vs "Star of the County Down - Celtic Thunder"?

Though I don't think either group has actually done a rendition of Star of the County Down.

[morbane]

Though I don't think either group has actually done a rendition of Star of the County Down. - I'm puzzled. Could you elaborate? How come you're listing the song like that if Celtic Woman/ Celtic Thunder haven't performed it?

[alexseanchai]

...as examples to distinguish the hypothetical version of Star by CW from the hypothetical version of Star by CT, since you wanted a way to distinguish one performer's version from another?

[morbane]

Oh, I see! I was talking about songs specifically from musicals, where someone might care about a particular stage run over another, though both have been recorded and distributed.

[alexseanchai]

Oh. Okay. I...did not realize they did that.