Was cleaning out computer when found an mp3 of a wonderful bluegrass song, Song of the Traveling Daughter, by Abigail Washburn. The lyrics given on her music website are not exactly the same as the recording I have - though there is a highly entertaining Youtube fanvid using the mp3:

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( Song of the Traveling Daughter (游女吟) - lyrics as heard, my literal translation )

Drs Adam Kay and Suman Biswas, aka Amateur Transplants, will have you in stitches:

The Drugs Song (parody of Tom Lehrer's The Elements I Am The Very Model of A Modern Major-General):

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Very inventive take on James Blunt's You're Beautiful which had the family wondering what the gasping and fits of helpless laughter were about:

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Inspired by the previous post (Chumbawamba referencing Danny Boy)to dig up Harry Connick's version, the original of which was composed by an Englishman on the eve of World War I but has since been co-opted by Irish the world over.

On listening, was reminded that You Raise Me Up also references the above song and certain themes from Titanic (no I ( Read more... )

taken with modifications from ambientlight:

If someone says "is this okay?" you say? Freiheit - Keeping the Dream Alive (Say Anything OST)
sometimes the hopes we had/were much too high/way out of reach/but we had to try

What would best describe your personality? Vivaldi - Four Seasons: Summer (presto impetuoso d'estate)Some aspects in certain circumstances. ( Read more... )

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And with un-original soundtrack:

Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)

Recuerdos de Alhambra (Francisco Tarrega)

I Wanna Grow Old With You (Adam Sandler)

Money (Barrett Strong)

Food, Glorious Food (Vulture Chorus from Ice Age 2, pace Oliver!)

Dream A Little Dream (The Beautiful South)

This post might make a vague claim to be about love, or its absence. It features songs with the names of instruments in them, said instruments being readily discernible in each song (though the brass band only appears at intervals in the second one). Apologies in advance to anyone who is irritated by popular music.

Piano Man (Billy Joel)This ( Read more... )

Singapore Dreaming may not be the mythical "definitive Singapore film" (whatever that means), not as easily classifiable as Jack Neo's oeuvre nor as potentially internationally-marketable as some other Singaporean directors' work, but it has a sincerity and familiarity which has been notably missing from recent local offerings.

Its leitmotif is ( Read more... )

Another National Day Parade, more terrorist plots to down planes, echoes of a bygone yet familiar era on stage and screen. Why can't we all learn to get along? [/irony]

Anyway, in the spirit of things, some anti-war songs. apologies for my old-fogey, middle-of-the-road tastes

The Band Played Waltzing MatildaI've heard the original by Eric Bogle, ( Read more... )

Inspired by jan's response to photo-meme, a selection of marches with a UK-connection (though the Scots might beg to differ):

Men of Harlech (Wales)

Scotland the Brave

March from "Bridge over the River Kwai"

Dear f-list and the 923746 people other than me who have gotten into it

please to enlighten my poor benighted self of the merits and otherwise of the above series.

in return, some movie OST mp3s:

Impromptu for 12 fingers (Gattaca, adapted from Schubert's Impromptu in G flat op.90)

Seasons of Love (Rent)

Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)thank you ( Read more... )