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I found a nifty Celtic Rock song on a podcast today: My Father Was a Werewolf, by a Helsinki band called the Redhill Rats. This is exactly the Celtic Rock sound I love; the link takes you to an isound page where you can not only hear the song (it's the default one that plays when you arrive at the page), but download it for free too. Enjoy!
Audio file: Crazy Man Michael
Apr. 23rd, 2006 08:28 amI should have done this earlier! For those of you who would like to hear the ballad that inspired my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
snarry_olympics story, Crazy Man Michael, here it is, as performed by Fairport Convention. A Yousendit link, an mp3 file.
Though it sounds like an old ballad, I believe it is a modern song, written by Fairport Convention themselves (Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson are given writing credit) to sound like a traditional ballad.
And if it has occurred to any of you who know my other fics, yes, it is sort of meant to fit into the same story set (though not the same universe) as Raggle Taggle Gypsy, another ballad fic. Now I need to do another one to make it a trilogy!
snarry_olympics story, Crazy Man Michael, here it is, as performed by Fairport Convention. A Yousendit link, an mp3 file.Though it sounds like an old ballad, I believe it is a modern song, written by Fairport Convention themselves (Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson are given writing credit) to sound like a traditional ballad.
And if it has occurred to any of you who know my other fics, yes, it is sort of meant to fit into the same story set (though not the same universe) as Raggle Taggle Gypsy, another ballad fic. Now I need to do another one to make it a trilogy!
Meme with music sharing.
Sep. 3rd, 2005 09:29 pmTagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dien!
List five songs you are currently digging.
a. Confrontation With Count Dooku and Finale, John Williams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack. John Williams rules. The AotC soundtrack is the only one of the six SW films whose finale does not end with the traditional "Dum, DUM! Da-da-da-dum!" notes of triumph. Go listen. It ends with the softest slip of Princess Leia's Theme, and underneath is the deepest, you'll-miss-it-if-you-have-the-wrong-settings-on-your-sound-system bass line of those nine distinctive notes of Darth Vader's Theme. It stays in a minor key. Goosepimples EVERY time.
b. Royal Courtship, by Al Stewart, A Beach Full of Shells. Yes, "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart. He just put out this album earlier this year. It sold itself to me when I heard a snippet of Gina In the King's Road (and that's really the one you should go hear)--but this track has a word in it you rarely see outside a few texts--and I've certainly never heard it as a lyric. The song begins: "I sent my major-domo to your amanuensis/ To ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretenses..." Yes, I was totally tickled.
c. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), John Rzeznik, Treasure Planet soundtrack. A lot of people have heard me lament how underrated this film is, in the canon of Disney films. It's marvelous, and this sequence featuring Jim and Silver (and Jim's flashback to his absent father) works perfectly for this song.
d. If Only, Fiction Plane, Holes soundtrack. Those of you who read the Newberry-award-winning Holes by Louis Sachar and then saw the film may know that it's one of those book-to-film translations that works wonderfully. Helps that Sachar wrote the screenplay himself. I love this reworking of the little folk song that runs through Sachar's story.
e. The Drunken Piper, Natalie MacMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II. I never get tired of modern Celtic music. This one's the first track on the album for a reason.
dien! List five songs you are currently digging.
a. Confrontation With Count Dooku and Finale, John Williams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack. John Williams rules. The AotC soundtrack is the only one of the six SW films whose finale does not end with the traditional "Dum, DUM! Da-da-da-dum!" notes of triumph. Go listen. It ends with the softest slip of Princess Leia's Theme, and underneath is the deepest, you'll-miss-it-if-you-have-the-wrong-settings-on-your-sound-system bass line of those nine distinctive notes of Darth Vader's Theme. It stays in a minor key. Goosepimples EVERY time.
b. Royal Courtship, by Al Stewart, A Beach Full of Shells. Yes, "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart. He just put out this album earlier this year. It sold itself to me when I heard a snippet of Gina In the King's Road (and that's really the one you should go hear)--but this track has a word in it you rarely see outside a few texts--and I've certainly never heard it as a lyric. The song begins: "I sent my major-domo to your amanuensis/ To ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretenses..." Yes, I was totally tickled.
c. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), John Rzeznik, Treasure Planet soundtrack. A lot of people have heard me lament how underrated this film is, in the canon of Disney films. It's marvelous, and this sequence featuring Jim and Silver (and Jim's flashback to his absent father) works perfectly for this song.
d. If Only, Fiction Plane, Holes soundtrack. Those of you who read the Newberry-award-winning Holes by Louis Sachar and then saw the film may know that it's one of those book-to-film translations that works wonderfully. Helps that Sachar wrote the screenplay himself. I love this reworking of the little folk song that runs through Sachar's story.
e. The Drunken Piper, Natalie MacMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II. I never get tired of modern Celtic music. This one's the first track on the album for a reason.
