Personal Canon: Bandom and Greek

[elucreh]

Okay, so I did the "personal canon" meme, and wanted to round up my responses. Since apparently I am never going to actually FINISH any of the ten million fics I am writing. Ever. Here is pseudo-fic to tide you over

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[elucreh]

Well, speaking strictly lyrically, I will cling to Folkin' Around as my emo song for the rest of my natural-born days; I don't actually like the album version much because of the damn fiddles but I have three different live versions in my collection and when he performed it on HCT I was dripping tears. The LDS references are so obvious to me and it's such a brave song about finding your self and your own faith and just...seriously, every time my bigoted oldest brother makes a crack about gay people or my father reminds me that God loves me and as proof of that I will someday find a nice man and have lots of children, I go lock myself up and play the Glastonbury version over and over and over again until I can breathe, despite the fact that I am 24 and really too old for that kind of thing.

Of Ryan's songs, I think quality-wise Gentleman, She Had the World, Rabbits, and Pas de Cheval were the best; I actually really love Downpour although I think it's more fractured and my personal favorite is Day Met the Night but a big part of that actually is the sound of it separate from the lyrics.

[allegedlykyle]

I don't think you're ever too old for that ♥

Folkin' Around (and Northern Downpour and She Had The World!) all make me stop whatever I'm doing at the moment to catch my breath a bit and just listen, but before you mentioned it (and your primer on LDS), I've never actually seen all the references to that part of his life, so thank you again for bringing that to my notice, since it's pretty significant, considering it's one of the first few (?) songs Brendon wrote in Panic.

I am now off to watch your fic journal! \0/ Would friend, but not sure what your policy on that is, so.

[elucreh]

I would be delighted to have you! Might I be permitted to friend you back?

[allegedlykyle]

I will be enthused \0/ Hi, friend!