To Touch the Stars: a 10 year retrospective on taking filk mainstream

[egoldberg]

This is the full copy of a retrospective on To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration, which will be excerpted in Gary McGath's upcoming ebook on filk history.In 1997, I formed Prometheus Music. My goal was to take filk to a professional level, at a time in which filk albums were rarely as professionally produced as today. I

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[keross]

To Touch the Stars in one of my favorite albums. Note that I did not say Filk albums. It sits right next to my Benny Goodman and Carpenters collections on my shelf. It probably would have been worn out if it wasn't for putting my it on my ipod.

I find that I prefer the uncomplicated melodies, the lyrics that I can understand, and level voices of Filk over most of the mainstream music. I like to sing along with my music, something that has become harder to do with today's music. If I can understand the lyrics past the screaming, off-key, toneless voices, I often find them offensive. The melodies are all over the place, and frequently hurt my ears. Thanks, but I'll stick to filk. [but then I prefer the older style of Western music to a lot of what I hear today. You know, folks like Roy Rogers and Marty Robbins.]

Those people who gave those reviews have simply had their tastes warped. [sg]

One of the things I love about TTTS is the message of "We" and "Us", not "Me". It is going to take "Us" to get to the stars, which means we have to stop thinking about "me first".