My Heroes Have Always Been Crazy [a Sherlock Holmes fanmix]
Full album art, tracklisting, and download links under the cut.
Welcome to day two of my fanmix extravaganza in honor of mad_teagirl's birthday!
This mix started out as a general Granada Sherlock Holmes mix that focused on Holmes himself, but somewhere down the line ended up being more about the dynamic between him and Watson (Which I shouldn't even be surprised about, this is me we're talking about here.) I tried to pick out music that fit the atmosphere of the program. Hopefully I succeeded? Haha. And if not, well, the most important thing is that mad_teagirl likes it. (So I really hope she likes it! It'd be a lame birthday present if she didn't.)
Also, I feel like I have broken some kind of unspoken fanmix rule by having one track on here be from the actual show's score, but I was having such a hard time choosing the opening track mix because it's Granada Sherlock Holmes and the actual opening is just perfect and nothing felt right so I broke down and went with a variation of the theme from the soundtrack.
Happy Birthday, Wifey-poo! (Holmes loved drugs!) <3
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My Heroes Have Always Been Crazy
a Sherlock Holmes fanmix
1. Patrick Gowers - Baker Street Reunion
[Instrumental]
2. Bibio - Abrasion
I like to see
The stone steps rounded
And bowed by a billion scuffing soles
And dirt paths cutting corners
The evidence of abrasion
On a wall behind a chair
That has recorded every end of working day
The fumble-marks around a keyhole
And wedding ring scratches on a rail
3. Noah Georgeson - Hand Me, Please, A City
When I speak of places
I speak of them as people
And question them at length
4. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
You're my friend
My only friend
5. Christopher O’Riley - Bulletproof
[Instrumental]
6. The Divine Comedy - Moon River
Moon river, wider than a mile
I’m crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you’re going, I’m going your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There’s such a lot of world to see
7. Abel Koreniowski - Going Somewhere
[Instrumental]
8. Andrew Bird - Anonanimal
I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to the music halls
9. Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
He was so kind, such a gentleman tied to the oceanside
Lighting a match on the suitcase's latch in the fading of night
Ruffle the fur of the collie 'neath the table
Ran out the door through the dark
Carved out his initials in the bark
Then the Earth shook
That was all that it took for the dream to break
All the loose ends would surround me again
In the shape of your face
10. Yann Tiersen - Letters
[Instrumental]
11. Lost in the Trees - Lost in the Snow
And at the bottom of the lake
They can't afford to find you
You learn how to live alone
12. Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion [Daytrotter Version]
Dear companion, am I on your mind?
You've never left mine
13. Adrian Johnston - To Be Apart
[Instrumental]
14. Clogs - Lantern
Light me a lantern
In your lighthouse, my keeper
15. Alexandre Desplat - Meeting Again
[Instrumental]
16. Beirut - A Sunday Smile [KEXP version]
All I want is the best for our lives, my dear
And you know my wishes are sincere
17. Owen Pallett - Export 6
[Instrumental]
18. The Mountain Goats - Have To Explode
The stage is set
Someone's going to do something someone else will regret
I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code
The fuse will have to run out sometime
Something here will eventually have to explode
19. City and Colour - Little Hell
What if I can't be all that you need me to be
We've got a good thing going, we have some promises to keep
But my addiction it can be such a detriment
Please believe in this my dear, I am more than penitent
What if everything’s just the way that it will be
Could it be that I am meant to cause you all this grief
My war ships are lying off the coast of your delicate heart
And my aim is steady and true as it's been right from the start
There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me
20. Ian Cooke - Darkening
Shadow is darker when
What is casting it is closer to
What shadow is being cast onto
21. Beirut - Forks and Knives (La Fete)
He means well, saying,
I've got stories of wine, superb
And of course my childhood, forks and knives
And a hospital bed, where I turned my life over and over again
22. Clogs - Fiddlegree
[Instrumental]
23. Alec Ounsworth - Me and You, Watson
Now I can't forget to put the pipe in my mouth
For the smell will tell the neighbors
That I'm on the beat again
24. Fleet Foxes - Someone You’d Admire
I walk with others in me, yearning to get out
Claw at my skin and gnash their teeth and shout
One of them wants only to be someone you'd admire
One would as soon just throw you on the fire
After all is said and after all is done
God only knows which of them I'll become
25. Great Lake Swimmers - I Could Be Nothing
You would be nothing without me
I could be nothing
Said the waves to the sand
I could be nothing without you
26. Bowerbirds - Crooked Lust
I know it's careless
But, darling, you seem like you're fearless
And maybe you're my perfect fix
27. A-Sides - My Heroes Have Always Been Crazy
When sunday sets in the city
There’s something in the air
If I get lost, lost, lost lost lost
You’ll find me there
My heroes have always been crazy
They’ve murdered, stabbed, or drowned
28. Abel Koreniowski - Sunset
[Instrumental]
29. Lost in the Trees - Time Taunts Me
And today it's time for you to rest
I know you've done your best
So rest your aching mind
30. Adrian Johnston - Gravely Injured
[Instrumental]
31. Rufus Wainwright - In A Graveyard
Wandering properties of death
Arresting moons within our eyes and smiles
We did rest
Amongst the granite tombs to catch our breath
Worldly sounds of endless warring
Were for just a moment silent stars
Worldly boundaries of dying
Were for just a moment never ours
All was new
Just as the black horizons blue
Then along the bending path away
I smiled in knowing we'd be back one day
32. Clogs - Tides [Piano]
[Instrumental]
33. Dog & Panther - Laugh, Look, Cry, Think
I wish I had your joy
I'd even take your pain
The sensory that greets your every day
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This fanmix for Sherlock Holmes was created for you (But mostly for you, mad_teagirl, Happy Birthday!) with love by suchaprince.