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For calikali's Frankenstein mix challenge:
1. A song that wakes you up in the morning. For a long time, El Tango de Roxanne - Ewan McGregor, et al. (from Moulin Rouge) was the song my alarm clock woke me up with. Starts slow and then builds.
2. A song that you loved in high school. I was in band in high school and The Golden Bear was a march that we played for concert season one year and then marched with the following football season. I loved it in concert season because my part had more than just the "bump bumps," as I so eloquently called the upbeat notes that French horns get stuck with in most marches. I loved it in marching season because I got to play the low brass part that's really fun. My high school band marched in the old military style (6-to-5 with no floating or marking time vs. the corps style [8-to-5] most bands march - see Texas Aggie band) and we didn't march with French horns or their usual field substitute, mellophones, either, so I played the baritone during marching season.
3. A song that mentions a dead celebrity. American Pie - Don McLean. Implicitly, but still.
4. A song you'd be embarrassed to listen to with your grandmother. Sex Bomb - Tom Jones & Mousse T
5. A song that MTV will never play in a million, billion years. The Highwayman - Loreena McKennitt. (.m4a) A musical arrangement of the Alfred Noyes poem.
6. A song with a title that ends in y. Movement 1: Mercy - composed by Jonathan Elias, from The Prayer Cycle (includes vocals from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Alanis Morissette). I was led to purchase this album because of the use of the third movement, Hope, in the trailers for Kingdom of Heaven. The whole album is beautiful, but the first and third movements are my favorites.
7. A song that makes you crave something. Fruity Oaty Bar. *whistling innocently*
8. A cover song that you think is better than the original. I Will - Allison Krauss. I know some people will think this sacreligious (because the original is by The Beatles), but I like this version better for several reasons. It's longer than the original. I love the instrumentation and arrangement. It still has the nice harmonies of the original, only with female vocals this time 'round. So there.
9. The original of #8. I Will - The Beatles
10. A song that reminds you of a fandom OTP. Love Will Come Through - Travis. I've used this one for Veronica/Logan of Veronica Mars as well as McKay/Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis.
11. You have been caught mouthing the lyrics to this song. Money Makes the World Go 'Round - Alan Cumming & the Kit Kat Girls (from the 1998 Broadway Cabaret OCR). (.m4a) I got to see this musical on Broadway, just after Jennifer Jason Leigh replaced Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles - but Alan was still playing the Emcee!
12. A song that will always remind you of a movie. Tenderness - General Public, from Clueless.
13. A song that should totally have fic written about it. (Please)Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda (short version - .mp3) or (Please)Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda (long version - .m4a). And I'm not talking just the lyrics.
14. A song you wish they'd play in elevators. Pachelbel's Canon in D, on Japanese koto
15. You'll stop listening to this song when they pry your mp3 player out of your cold, dead hands. Neighborhood #1: Tunnels - The Arcade Fire
1. A song that wakes you up in the morning. For a long time, El Tango de Roxanne - Ewan McGregor, et al. (from Moulin Rouge) was the song my alarm clock woke me up with. Starts slow and then builds.
2. A song that you loved in high school. I was in band in high school and The Golden Bear was a march that we played for concert season one year and then marched with the following football season. I loved it in concert season because my part had more than just the "bump bumps," as I so eloquently called the upbeat notes that French horns get stuck with in most marches. I loved it in marching season because I got to play the low brass part that's really fun. My high school band marched in the old military style (6-to-5 with no floating or marking time vs. the corps style [8-to-5] most bands march - see Texas Aggie band) and we didn't march with French horns or their usual field substitute, mellophones, either, so I played the baritone during marching season.
3. A song that mentions a dead celebrity. American Pie - Don McLean. Implicitly, but still.
4. A song you'd be embarrassed to listen to with your grandmother. Sex Bomb - Tom Jones & Mousse T
5. A song that MTV will never play in a million, billion years. The Highwayman - Loreena McKennitt. (.m4a) A musical arrangement of the Alfred Noyes poem.
6. A song with a title that ends in y. Movement 1: Mercy - composed by Jonathan Elias, from The Prayer Cycle (includes vocals from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Alanis Morissette). I was led to purchase this album because of the use of the third movement, Hope, in the trailers for Kingdom of Heaven. The whole album is beautiful, but the first and third movements are my favorites.
7. A song that makes you crave something. Fruity Oaty Bar. *whistling innocently*
8. A cover song that you think is better than the original. I Will - Allison Krauss. I know some people will think this sacreligious (because the original is by The Beatles), but I like this version better for several reasons. It's longer than the original. I love the instrumentation and arrangement. It still has the nice harmonies of the original, only with female vocals this time 'round. So there.
9. The original of #8. I Will - The Beatles
10. A song that reminds you of a fandom OTP. Love Will Come Through - Travis. I've used this one for Veronica/Logan of Veronica Mars as well as McKay/Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis.
11. You have been caught mouthing the lyrics to this song. Money Makes the World Go 'Round - Alan Cumming & the Kit Kat Girls (from the 1998 Broadway Cabaret OCR). (.m4a) I got to see this musical on Broadway, just after Jennifer Jason Leigh replaced Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles - but Alan was still playing the Emcee!
12. A song that will always remind you of a movie. Tenderness - General Public, from Clueless.
13. A song that should totally have fic written about it. (Please)Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda (short version - .mp3) or (Please)Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda (long version - .m4a). And I'm not talking just the lyrics.
14. A song you wish they'd play in elevators. Pachelbel's Canon in D, on Japanese koto
15. You'll stop listening to this song when they pry your mp3 player out of your cold, dead hands. Neighborhood #1: Tunnels - The Arcade Fire