the stars go waltzing out in blue and red

[faeriemaiden]

There's a particular sort of music that I like a lot and can't seem ever to find enough of: music with fantasy landscapes. I get very visual with my music, and I love scenic music, something that through a combination of lyrics, melody, and instrumentation paints a whole world in my head, particularly a world that extends outside of my mostly-

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[psychicnagger]

Oooh, an Imogen song I don't have! How did that happen? I took it, thanks.

Also, I lovelovelove Blue Caravan :)

[faeriemaiden]

You're welcome! 'S an excellent song. And I adore the entire Dreaming Through the Noise album -- it's one of my favourites of all time. :D

[last_archangel]

Oh, all those songs are so lovely. I may have to think about my own list.

[last_archangel]

Euridyce, Sleepthief
Dreamcathcer, Blue Stone
New Day, Kate Havnevik
Edge of the Ocean, Ivy
Cathedrals, Jump Little Children
You & I, Delerium
Center of the Sun (Solarstone Remix), Conjure One

[faeriemaiden]

Like I said on your entry, FANTASTIC. I've had this little makeshift EP on repeat all evening. ♥ And I need to look into some of these bands more deeply. (Sleepthief's album cover for The Dawnseeker -- it came up on my last.fm player -- is beautiful. I love album art that matches the heart of the music and so enhances it.)

[last_archangel]

I only bought The Dawnseeker about two weeks ago, and it is already one of my favorite albums. I really think you'd love Blue Stone, too.

I actually made a mix for a friend of mine a few months ago (link), and the art for it was heavily inspired by Sleepthief's.

[faeriemaiden]

Yeah, sometimes I get into these moods where I want to explore a certain kind of world, so I reflect that in my clothing and music and reading material that particular day or week. I'm funny that way -- can't listen to certain kinds of music while reading certain books because it interrupts the mood.

I tend to be a mash of genres though -- alt/pop rock, symphonic metal, girl-with-a-piano, basically anything that touches on whatever book/character I'm musing on at the moment.Hee, me too. I love putting iTunes on shuffle because I get the maddest mixture of songs. I have movie scories and all kinds of folk music -- traditional and semi-traditional and modern and singer-songwriter and rockish and just eclectic and a little bit of world, and I have pretty ethereal music and some pop and noisy stuff with lots of electric guitars and even a liiiittle bit of screamo + cellos

[lady_moriel]

Yeah, about that...I actually have been thinking about it a bit, which translates to wavering between obsessively hunting down songs and then forgetting about it entirely and back. ;p So...yes. I found a few Imogen Heap songs that might work okay ("Headlock," "Embers of Love," and "Missing You," I think) and then there's this group called Metric that a friend of mine likes--heard it some on the D.C. trip, and it's definitely sort of...techno/electronica, I guess. Whatever the case, I think I got a couple that might work: "Love Is Place," "Ending Start," and possibly "Empty" (I have it, and I don't remember if I got it for the mix or if I just have it randomly, and I'm too lazy at the moment to check lyrics). I can upload any of those for you that you don't have, although you might still be able to get most of them off my teh_music requestAnd then there has to be some Explosions in the Sky, because they're essential to every fanmix I make, or something, and um...drat, there was another electronica group I was thinking of that would be good, and

[faeriemaiden]

Heh, well, that's the attitude I essentially adopt towards all of my mixes. :p Which is likely the reason I've got, erm, possibly around ten or more mixes in various stages of production, none of said stages being the stage 'finished'. (Especially because I have several playlists with one or two or no songs on them because I suddenly thought, 'hey, I know what would make for a fantastic mix!' or 'hmm, this song sounds an awful lot like [insert character, couple, or situation here

[safebox]

Oooh, how fabulous! Taking them all for my listening pleasure today, and I shall think about my own songs like that. Interesting concept!

[safebox]

as;dlkjj those songs are incredible!!! Thank you thank you thank you, I love them all!

My otherworldly music is predominately instrumental - other songs can evoke a strong sense of place, but not much that I'd put under the 'fantasty' label. So yes, it's all about the post-rock, really, for example:

Explosions In The Sky - Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean, which I love beyond all measure and is just beautiful and soaring and sounds like the sea.

Sigur Rós - Glósóli, sure, there are lyrics, but as they're in Icelandic it doesn't exactly count! The video for this is a wonderful mix of childish imaginings and fantasy, which suits the song perfectly.

Anything by both of those bands tends to work similarly for me.

[faeriemaiden]

Yay, I'm glad you like!

And yours are beautiful -- I love cinematic instrumentals. They give you time to think and breathe, and they're not verse-chorus-verse; they have lots of room to wander about and create scenery.

I will have to go watch that video; I love music videos, especially when they -- cough -- actually suit the song. (I used to watch the country music channel when our cable got it just for the music videos, sometimes with the sound practically off. Lots of good music videos wasted on mediocre songs, but there were a few absolute winners. :D)

[meow_octopus]

The Hard-To-Pinpoint songs I like are my Songs to Change the World By. (Because I don't know what makes them that way.) The sort of songs that would be in the background of a movie, while the characters were organizing a protest, or running for Congress, or writing a book that could help change peoples lives. Like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2, or "Ignoreland" by REM, and "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty. Seems to follow along the lines of 80's, 90's rock (and a bit from now, too