Brainstorming for Jukebox 2014

[morbane]

Welcome to Jukebox 2014!

Nominations for this exchange will open on the 18th of April, depending on your timezone.

If you're interested in participating, here is a post to talk about songs you want stories for, and gauge or drum up others' interest in those canons.

From the FAQ, here's what I'm defining as a song.


What counts as a song?

A piece of recorded music that includes lyrics* (in any language) and is shorter than 20 minutes. This may include a video.

Songs nominated for this exchange must be widely available. Preferably, there will be a YouTube link or a link on the artist's website or another publicly accessible link. I will create a table of links and lyrics for use in the exchange.

The song must be able to stand on its own without reference to a longer work. I don’t object to people nominating songs from musicals or operettas – but if it would be necessary to understand the whole musical, or the whole operetta, or to read a contextual explanation in order to appreciate the piece, then that piece of music is not appropriate for this exchange.

Songs must also be able to stand on their own without reference to the artist - unless the song is autobiographical, or self-referential in some other way. This exchange is not the place to request musician RPF. In general, actors who appear in music videos are to be treated as characters, not as their real-life selves.

Covers by specific artists can be nominated separately.

You can either nominate a song on its own, or a song with an associated music video. It's possible to differentiate these when nominating on AO3.

Songs that don’t quite fit these requirements, but that fit the goals of the exchange, can be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.


*By request, I am willing to include programmatic music - music that does not have lyrics, but where the composer, performer, and audience can agree upon a strong narrative theme. Yes, that's a broad definition - if you have a piece you think suits that criteria, and suggest it to me, I am likely to agree. I will ask you to provide contextual links (a wikipedia page would do). When you sign up, please include in your requests at least one song that does have lyrics, for ease of matching.

See the AO3 collection page for more information about this exchange.

Here is the same post on the LiveJournal community: http://jukebox-fest.livejournal.com/7559.html

Comments

[alexseanchai]

WOOOOOT JUKEBOX HERE HAVE THE LIST I HAVE BEEN CURATING ALL YEAR HELP ME NARROW MY NOMINEES LIST

Abraham's Daughter, Arcade Fire
Crossroads, Bekah Kelso
Viva La Vida, Coldplay
House of Stone and Light, Dartmouth Decibelles
Title of the Song, Da Vinci's Notebook
Of Wolf And Man, Metallica
This Tornado Loves You, Neko Case
Cartography, Seanan McGuire
Downhome Aphrodite, Seanan McGuire
How Much Salt?, Seanan McGuire
My Story Is Not Done, Seanan McGuire
Still Catch the Tide, Seanan McGuire
Writing Again, Seanan McGuire
Queen of Argyll, Silly Wizard
Poem of War, SJ Tucker
Shee An Gannon, The CRAIC
Star of the County Down, traditional

and you don't know how tempted I am to add Seanan McGuire's "Darkness Falls" but realistically what I'd get out of that is a Supernatural fanfic ("Darkness Falls" being, y'know, a Supernatural fansong) and that's rather not the point of jukebox

[morbane]

Your enthusiasm is music to my [ears]/screen! :D I remember quite a few of these from last time.

Also, "Cartography" has gorgeous lyrics - I shall have to investigate the music for that.

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[morbane]

Also, I must nominate Leonard Cohen's "Stranger Song", because it seems very relevant that my favourite line from that song has always been: Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter.

[alexseanchai]

you hadda go say Leonard Cohen. "Everybody Knows". Granted that and "Hallelujah" is the extent of my knowledge of Leonard Cohen (I shall look up "Stranger Song", though), but one could get some good fic out of "Everybody Knows".

[morbane]

Yeah, I did have to go say Leonard Cohen - and while I'm saying Leonard Cohen, I think you might like "Winter Lady", (lyrics: here) especially as covered by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Martha Wainwright. The Traitor is also a lovely song.

[alexseanchai]

I'll listen to them! ...later. Homework now.

[kaesa]

AHAHAH I actually considered "Title of the Song," but decided no one would go for it.

GO FOR IT.

[thinkatory]

Seconding "Title of the Song" because that could and would be totally amazing.

[zdenka]

I don't know most of these songs, but I'm happy to see stuff by Seanan McGuire and SJ Tucker!

[alexseanchai]

McGuire and Tucker are the AWESOMEST.

...Know what I should do? I should add Tucker's "D&D" to my list. And "Mary Mary". And Tricky Pixie's "Tam Lin", featuring iirc Tucker on Janet's vocals and Alexander James Adams on Tam Lin's.

...THIS IS NOT NARROWING THINGS DOWN ANY

[zdenka]

They are! And I love their "Tam Lin"! I got to see SJ Tucker and some other people perform it at a con once and it was AWESOME. I was also tempted to nominate "Taglio" except that apparently it's a song about an actual book (which I haven't read, but I feel like I should because it sounds very cool). And "The Dryad's Promise," and and and . . .

My original list was much longer, but I have been narrowing it down with great difficulty.

[alexseanchai]

Dryad's Promise is so creepy when you think about it.

[zdenka]

I don't find it creepy so much as sad. She's basically committed to staying with the corpse of her beloved . . . (Okay, putting it that way, it does sound kind of creepy.)

[alexseanchai]

Oh it's incredibly sad too, no argument here.