Brainstorming Post
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jukebox_festHere 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.
Nominationswill 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.)
Links are welcome.
Nominations
(See also: http://jukebox-fest.livejournal.com/816.html for the same post on the LJ community.)
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Date: 2013-07-14 10:28 pm (UTC)Florence + the Machine, too.
Has anyone else heard of Three of Hearts?
Any Celtic folk song with a narrative. "Rocky Road to Dublin", "Black Velvet Band", "Follow Me Up To Carlow", "Star of the County Down"--ooooo now I really want "Star of the County Down" ficced, using as the canon one of the versions that has a female singer and the verse where the singer watches Rosie sing and dance.
Actually any folk song with a narrative. I just know the Irish music best.
"Easy as Life" from Aida, "For Good" from Wicked, "Shadowlands" from The Lion King.
"Shee An Gannon" by The CRAIC--
I'll get that on Youtube later so I know it's widely available--hah!Has anyone else heard of the movie Ember Days starring Bekah Kelso? Because there's two songs off its soundtrack, "Crossroads" by Bekah Kelso and "We Were Angels Once (Wake the Fallen)" by SJ Tucker...actually, speaking of SJ Tucker, "Mary Mary". Probably some other good stuff in the rest of her work (and Kelso's, for that matter) but I haven't scraped together the money for it yet.
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Date: 2013-07-14 10:47 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2013-07-14 10:58 pm (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2013-07-14 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 12:24 am (UTC)We Owned the Night - Lady Antebellum
I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule
Monroe Suede - Ashley Monroe
To A Hammer - Erin McKeown
Follow Your Arrow - Kacey Musgraves
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:18 am (UTC)Oh, all right, I'll narrow it down.
Oh Valencia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXQSBWO5Qc
The Soldiering Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pd_nzOvgis
Red Right Ankle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwkmPKsctQ
The Rake's Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1NuFhXhgA
I also adore Josh Ritter's The Curse. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XfFGIwXT8) That has a lot of potential for ficwriting, I think. MUMMIES, Y'ALL.
And I've always wanted fic for Johnny Cash's (+ a bunch of other people) Highwayman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHuQFN7L70
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:22 am (UTC)The Curse (Mummy romance/angst)
The Last Temptation of Adam (post-apocalyptic love)
Hotel Song ( unrequited yearning from a hotel clerk)
Girl in the War- (honestly not sure what it's about, but would love theories)
Harrisburg -the classic railroad ballad of our time
Also would enjoy seeing someone try to convert the Jefferson Starship's "Blows Against the Empire" back into prose. Especially "A Child is Coming".
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 01:32 am (UTC)I really like Kacey Musgraves' voice.
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:43 am (UTC)I am tempted to nominate songs from "Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra", myself. TL;DR: my father gave me that album when I was a young teenager, and it seemed so obviously a narrative to me that... I used it to sketch out a rather ambitious Pokemon sci-fi AU. It was delightful, years later, to discover that PERRO was meant to offer an overarching narrative.
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 02:06 am (UTC)And holy shit, I would adore something for "High School Confidential" by Rough Trade.
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:54 am (UTC)Some songs that could potentially be interesting fanfic-wise:
"Sultans of Swing" - Dire Straits
"Eleanor Put Your Boots On" & "Fade Together" - Franz Ferdinand
"I Woke Up In a Strange Place" & "Mojo Pin" - Jeff Buckley
"Hung My Head" - Johnny Cash
"Bedshaped" - Keane
"Dead Man's Party" - Oingo Boingo
"Tempted" & "Goodbye Girl" - Squeeze
"Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads
Might be hard to narrow it down, hehe.
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Date: 2013-07-15 09:01 am (UTC)I See You, You See Me -- The Magic Numbers
Any of a whole slew of Carbon Leaf songs, but I'm especially thinking of
Life Less Ordinary
or
The War Was In Color
or
On Any Given Day
Curve of the Earth -- Matt Nathanson
A Beautiful Lie -- 30 Seconds to Mars
Skywriting -- Artificial Joy Club - I don't actually think this live version is that great, but I can't seem to find a studio recording on youtube.
Amazed -- Poe
Ever After Happily -- Jay Brannan - or anything else of his really
And pretty much any song by Live
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:20 pm (UTC)I've always wanted fic for Scarborough Fair (either Simon and Garfunkel or not).
Mandoline by Faure, lyrics here
Le Secret (Faure), lyrics here
Schumann's setting is gorgeous and moving, and at the same time the text sets off all my creeper vibes: Du bist wie eine Blume, lyrics here
I'm sure I have a bunch more, I will probably be back...
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:22 pm (UTC)I also love "For Good" -- were you thinking something relating to the musical, or something more general taking off from the lyrics of the song?
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:25 pm (UTC)Scarborough Fair! \o/
There are a great many Child ballads I'd like to nominate, actually, Tam Lin, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Riddles Wisely Expounded, but I'm planning on writing those myself for other reasons so I'm not sure I'm actually going to nominate any of them. Though it is not as though there is only one way to interpret any of the ballads...lemme go edit my initial brainstorming comment.
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:26 pm (UTC)Something going off the lyrics. Isn't that how we're supposed to be doing it when we nominate single songs from musicals?
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Date: 2013-07-15 02:35 pm (UTC)And "Poem of War" from the Ember Days soundtrack, if it qualifies--it's setup for the film and it's rather Eurocentric but damn is it beautiful. The reason I think it might not qualify is the words are spoken, not sung.
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 03:20 pm (UTC)Woot!
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 03:23 pm (UTC)It's gonna be so hard to narrow down noms, isn't it?
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:28 pm (UTC)The Plough Boy(arranged by Britten). Somewhere I have an awesome recording of this by Christopher Maltman which used to be available on amazon as a single mp3 and no longer is (wah), but which if I can figure out where I put my mp3s maybe I will try to put up somewhere.
Greensleeves (arranged by Britten); this particular recording is by my favorite tenor of all time, Ian Bostridge
Loch Lomond (arranged by the Harvard Kroks; this was the first arrangement I ever heard, and still my favorite)
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:34 pm (UTC)Loch Lomond!