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jukebox_fest2014-04-09 02:53 pm
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Brainstorming for Jukebox 2014
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
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
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Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
Stockholm Syndrome - Muse
Five Years - David Bowie
Doghouse - No Doubt (I don't mean this to be about a pet kink, really! It's more an interesting relationship and perspective I think)
The Noose - A Perfect Circle
Pet - A Perfect Circle
Commissioning a Symphony in C - Cake
The Distance - Cake
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Layla (live acoustic) - Eric Clapton (these two are so different I'd consider nominating them separately, maybe, but one could nominate the first and consider the second, which has a very different take on the song :D)
The Dark of the Matinee - Franz Ferdinand (...this song is basically a hilariously hipster tale written long before hipsters were a solid cultural construct, but I like the story in it!)
Two Sisters - Andrew Bird (I'd love to see someone really dig into this mythos and creep everyone out)
Not a Robot, But a Ghost - Andrew Bird
Sleep - My Chemical Romance (This makes sense in the context of the album, generally, but I'd like to hear more about this guy's psychological state and suffering, because I'm awful like that)
You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison - My Chemical Romance (again: the narrator here is clearly in too deep and losing his shit, and I'd love to see someone tackle that)
Hang 'Em High - My Chemical Romance (WESTERNS)
Karma Police - Radiohead (could be awesome for a dystopia)_
No Surprises - Radiohead (another "what the hell is up with this cryptic person anyway" song)
And that's all I have for now. I don't recall if albums are an option, and this would be even weirder if it was, but I'd be interested to see what people could make of the pairing of Radiohead's albums OK Computer and In Rainbows, as explained here and listenable here.
But that's totally insane, and it's late here and I should probably post this comment before I come up with something even weirder and more convoluted. :P
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I'm discouraging people from nominating albums - I feel that if the prompt is a single piece of music, it's easy for both writer and casual reader to pick up the threads of the story - but it's perfectly fine to prompt a song and give a sentence or two to say, "I feel that the song fits into the album in X way," as long as you're not making the writer listen to the rest.
(Maybe you could nominate them for Night on Fic Mountain, here?)
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