Song Meme
I'm doing the username song meme, from kikimay, beer_good_foamy and lokifan. Post one song for each letter in your username. I even spelled out the "thirty three".
Space Oddity: Starting this off with a tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
Union Maid: By Woody Guthrie, and special plaudits to the Judy Collins/Pete Seeger version. It's a song to practically cheer to! "Now there once was a union maid, she never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid."
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The EPIC song where Elphaba just commits to her terrible reputation as the Wicked Witch in Wicked. Tragic, but utterly grand as it marries the narrative power of a witch and the power of the (intended to be talented) lady singing such a difficult expository but anthem like song.
Coal Miner's Daughter: I'm a hardcore country-music fan, and Loretta Lynn is one of my favorites. Although I gotta say, I think I love Sissy Spacek's cover just as much in the movie of the same title when she sings the song all decked out as a STAH but the movie goes back over the aspects of Loretta's life that shaped the song in a old-timey credit way.
Let's Face the Music and Dance: A great Irving Berlin song- just the title is so evocative of both swing dancey coolness but also a deeper message underneath.
Ode to Billie Joe: I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone. It's like blurting out the end of a mystery classic, as far as I'm concerned. Just leave the suspense as an indication of the song's haunting magnificence in its narrative.
Under Pressure: The ascendant vocals with the persistently cool baseline make this one of my favorite Queen songs.
Desolation Row: One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs. "They're selling postcards of the hanging. They're painting the passports brown. The beauty parlor is filled with sailors. The circus is in town."
Seasons of Love: /is a Broadway cliche
Takin' Pills: If there were any justice, the Pistol Annies would be the biggest group in country music today. The music video is especially a highlight, as all three gals in the group look accusatory at each other as one wastes band money on booze, another wastes it on cigarettes, and another wastes it on painkillers.
Hello (Book of Mormon): So much fun, brilliant use of a chorus as door-to-door Morman converters go through their routine.
I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor: The sly wit of the Arctic Monkeys...
Ramblin' Man: The background of the song rambles just along with the lyrics. It's onomatopoetically sound.
Take a Bow (Rihanna version): Oh look, an actual pop song!
You Won't Succeed on Broadway (If You Don't Have Any Jews): From Spamalot- the David Hyde Pierce version. Hilarious lyrics and fun use of the entire cast for a dynamic number. "They won't care if it's witty, or everything looks pretty, They'll simply say it's shitty and refuse. Nobody will go, sir, If it's not kosher then no show, sir, Even Goyim won't be dim enough to choose!"
Take Back Your Mink: One of the underrated strengths of Guys and Dolls was the Adelaide and the Hot Box gals' songs- just the right kind of gimmick to be believable as a 1950s borderline strip club/nightclub but with an authentic independence where you can believe Adelaide and her back-up singers were expressing their deeper frustrations with their objectification even as they were prancing around in cat suits and discarding clothing...to make a point! "Take back your mink. Take back your pearls. What made you think that I was one of those girls? Take back the gown The gloves and the hat I may be down. But I'm not flat as all that."
Handlebars: Actually in terms of fandom, this Flobots song was used very well in music vids for two my favorite characters of all time. Jed Bartlet and Willow Rosenberg. Those are two of my favorite character vids of all time, even though they're a little harsh on my fave. I think I'd rebel if it was just meta- I mean, it acts like Jed meglomanically ordered military attacks, using footage of when other nations/terrorist organizations attacked the United States in-story. With Willow, I can't stand meta that leads up her every actions to the end of S6 and stops there. However, as a thoughtfully edited music vid using a song that makes a broader point, I enjoyed the character vids a lot.
Rainbow Tour: This is a key song where I disagree with conventional wisdom that the Madonna movie sucked in comparison to the plays. Let's hear it for the cinematic grand scope of Peron and his yes men watching reels on Evita's trip while Che acts as their servant but ever more powerfully critiques the trip- but against both the black and white reels of the trip that the politicians are evaluating but also the grand scenes of Evita actually dealing with an increasingly failing trip to Europe in color from her starting off successfully in a bullfighting stadium in Franco's Spain to her car rolling into Rome as its egged by the Mussolini-aware Italian population to the tragedy of her health failing in France. "Eva started well, no question, in France. Shining like a sun through the post-war haze
A beautiful reminder of the care-free days. She nearly captured the French, she sure had the chance. But she suddenly seemed to lose interest. She looked tired" would lose pathos if it didn't switch to Evita like beautiful, wilting flower in France, even after the song brilliantly critiques her as a creature of tyrannies, correctly looked at with suspicion in a just post-WWII Europe on their own hangover from fascism.
Everybody Talks: Neon Trees. So much fun!
Empire State of Mind: Yes, it's a cliche by now. Still a terrific anthem to NY. CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF!
Space Oddity: Starting this off with a tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
Union Maid: By Woody Guthrie, and special plaudits to the Judy Collins/Pete Seeger version. It's a song to practically cheer to! "Now there once was a union maid, she never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid."
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The EPIC song where Elphaba just commits to her terrible reputation as the Wicked Witch in Wicked. Tragic, but utterly grand as it marries the narrative power of a witch and the power of the (intended to be talented) lady singing such a difficult expository but anthem like song.
Coal Miner's Daughter: I'm a hardcore country-music fan, and Loretta Lynn is one of my favorites. Although I gotta say, I think I love Sissy Spacek's cover just as much in the movie of the same title when she sings the song all decked out as a STAH but the movie goes back over the aspects of Loretta's life that shaped the song in a old-timey credit way.
Let's Face the Music and Dance: A great Irving Berlin song- just the title is so evocative of both swing dancey coolness but also a deeper message underneath.
Ode to Billie Joe: I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone. It's like blurting out the end of a mystery classic, as far as I'm concerned. Just leave the suspense as an indication of the song's haunting magnificence in its narrative.
Under Pressure: The ascendant vocals with the persistently cool baseline make this one of my favorite Queen songs.
Desolation Row: One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs. "They're selling postcards of the hanging. They're painting the passports brown. The beauty parlor is filled with sailors. The circus is in town."
Seasons of Love: /is a Broadway cliche
Takin' Pills: If there were any justice, the Pistol Annies would be the biggest group in country music today. The music video is especially a highlight, as all three gals in the group look accusatory at each other as one wastes band money on booze, another wastes it on cigarettes, and another wastes it on painkillers.
Hello (Book of Mormon): So much fun, brilliant use of a chorus as door-to-door Morman converters go through their routine.
I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor: The sly wit of the Arctic Monkeys...
Ramblin' Man: The background of the song rambles just along with the lyrics. It's onomatopoetically sound.
Take a Bow (Rihanna version): Oh look, an actual pop song!
You Won't Succeed on Broadway (If You Don't Have Any Jews): From Spamalot- the David Hyde Pierce version. Hilarious lyrics and fun use of the entire cast for a dynamic number. "They won't care if it's witty, or everything looks pretty, They'll simply say it's shitty and refuse. Nobody will go, sir, If it's not kosher then no show, sir, Even Goyim won't be dim enough to choose!"
Take Back Your Mink: One of the underrated strengths of Guys and Dolls was the Adelaide and the Hot Box gals' songs- just the right kind of gimmick to be believable as a 1950s borderline strip club/nightclub but with an authentic independence where you can believe Adelaide and her back-up singers were expressing their deeper frustrations with their objectification even as they were prancing around in cat suits and discarding clothing...to make a point! "Take back your mink. Take back your pearls. What made you think that I was one of those girls? Take back the gown The gloves and the hat I may be down. But I'm not flat as all that."
Handlebars: Actually in terms of fandom, this Flobots song was used very well in music vids for two my favorite characters of all time. Jed Bartlet and Willow Rosenberg. Those are two of my favorite character vids of all time, even though they're a little harsh on my fave. I think I'd rebel if it was just meta- I mean, it acts like Jed meglomanically ordered military attacks, using footage of when other nations/terrorist organizations attacked the United States in-story. With Willow, I can't stand meta that leads up her every actions to the end of S6 and stops there. However, as a thoughtfully edited music vid using a song that makes a broader point, I enjoyed the character vids a lot.
Rainbow Tour: This is a key song where I disagree with conventional wisdom that the Madonna movie sucked in comparison to the plays. Let's hear it for the cinematic grand scope of Peron and his yes men watching reels on Evita's trip while Che acts as their servant but ever more powerfully critiques the trip- but against both the black and white reels of the trip that the politicians are evaluating but also the grand scenes of Evita actually dealing with an increasingly failing trip to Europe in color from her starting off successfully in a bullfighting stadium in Franco's Spain to her car rolling into Rome as its egged by the Mussolini-aware Italian population to the tragedy of her health failing in France. "Eva started well, no question, in France. Shining like a sun through the post-war haze
A beautiful reminder of the care-free days. She nearly captured the French, she sure had the chance. But she suddenly seemed to lose interest. She looked tired" would lose pathos if it didn't switch to Evita like beautiful, wilting flower in France, even after the song brilliantly critiques her as a creature of tyrannies, correctly looked at with suspicion in a just post-WWII Europe on their own hangover from fascism.
Everybody Talks: Neon Trees. So much fun!
Empire State of Mind: Yes, it's a cliche by now. Still a terrific anthem to NY. CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF!