The Best Thing: A Fanmix for Science & Reason
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This is my fanmix submission for startrekbigbang! I got the pleasure of working with madeyemax on her fabulous, squee-ful fic, "Science and Reason" (link to come when it's posted!!) and I hope I did it some justice. I'm very accustomed to making soundtracks for my OWN fic (I do it automatically, at this point), but I've never done it for someone else before. I picked a combination of songs: some for their lyrical content as it relates to the events of the story, some that were more tongue-in-cheek and fit the spirit of the story (a romantic action-adventure), and some that were picked for their emotional/tonal fit. PLEASE ENJOY! And go read Max's great story!!
Max, thank you for sharing this with me, and it has been a pleasure working with you. ♥
Notes: The art for this mix was made by my beautiful and talented jou, thank you darling! Base for the art was taken from Jessica Diamond's photostream on Flickr, with thanks and permission. ♥
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand // Primitive Radio Gods
If I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep?
No Surprises // Radiohead
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal
Real World // Matchbox 20
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me
Love Love, Kiss Kiss // Alkaline Trio
Well do you find you like to fall in love with people that you're never gonna meet?
It's easier than breaking up and crying in the street
Do you curse the happy couple? Do you cringe at wedding bells?
Do you drink up all the punch while you wish 'em all to hell?
Spaceman // The Killers
You know that I was hoping
That I could leave this star-crossed world behind
But when they cut me open
I guess that changed my mind
Fast Cars // U2
I'm going nowhere, where I am it is a lot of fun
There in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch you shadow box, Check the stocks, I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got: what you've got can make this stop
Pavlove // Fall Out Boy
I’m the invisible man
Who can’t stop staring at the mirror, at the mirror
I want to make you as lonely as me
So you can get, get addicted to this
Skullcrusher Mountain // Jonathan Coulton
I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Not a Robot, But a Ghost // Andrew Bird
I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes, I crack the codes to end the war
Chocolate // Snow Patrol
What have I done? It's too late for that
What have I become? Truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask this time
Little Secrets // Passion Pit
Let this be our little secret, no one needs to know we're feeling
Higher and higher and higher, higher and higher and higher
But I feel alive and I feel it in me, up and up I keep on coming
Higher and higher and higher, higher and higher and higher
Take a Picture // Filter
Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane
My skin is bare, my skin is theirs
I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane
I feel so real
Look After You // The Fray
There now, steady love, so few come and don't go
Will you, won't you be the one I always know?
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows, you slow it down
My Weakness // Moby
(instrumental)
No Sleep Tonight // The Faders
You want me, you want me all the time
And you don't need nothing else
But you seem to be a little oblivious
So I'll show you the way
If you think that you need some help
Eintstein On the Beach // Counting Crows
Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand
Cause everything he believes in is shattered
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay
We all get burned as:
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The Best Thing // Savage Garden
Walk on broken glass make my way through fire
These are the things I would do for love
Farewell peace of mind kiss goodbye to reason
Up is down the impossible occurs each day
This intoxication thrills me
I only pray it doesn't kill me
The Whole of the Moon // The Waterboys
With a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels
To get too high, too far, too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
You Are My Joy // Reindeer Section
If I could cradle you into my arms
I would cradle you tight in my arms always
So don't be scared of all the hurtful words
'Cos in the end they'll hurt themselves much more
You are my joy
DOWNLOAD HERE
This is my fanmix submission for startrekbigbang! I got the pleasure of working with madeyemax on her fabulous, squee-ful fic, "Science and Reason" (link to come when it's posted!!) and I hope I did it some justice. I'm very accustomed to making soundtracks for my OWN fic (I do it automatically, at this point), but I've never done it for someone else before. I picked a combination of songs: some for their lyrical content as it relates to the events of the story, some that were more tongue-in-cheek and fit the spirit of the story (a romantic action-adventure), and some that were picked for their emotional/tonal fit. PLEASE ENJOY! And go read Max's great story!!
Max, thank you for sharing this with me, and it has been a pleasure working with you. ♥
Notes: The art for this mix was made by my beautiful and talented jou, thank you darling! Base for the art was taken from Jessica Diamond's photostream on Flickr, with thanks and permission. ♥
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand // Primitive Radio Gods
If I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep?
No Surprises // Radiohead
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal
Real World // Matchbox 20
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me
Love Love, Kiss Kiss // Alkaline Trio
Well do you find you like to fall in love with people that you're never gonna meet?
It's easier than breaking up and crying in the street
Do you curse the happy couple? Do you cringe at wedding bells?
Do you drink up all the punch while you wish 'em all to hell?
Spaceman // The Killers
You know that I was hoping
That I could leave this star-crossed world behind
But when they cut me open
I guess that changed my mind
Fast Cars // U2
I'm going nowhere, where I am it is a lot of fun
There in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch you shadow box, Check the stocks, I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got: what you've got can make this stop
Pavlove // Fall Out Boy
I’m the invisible man
Who can’t stop staring at the mirror, at the mirror
I want to make you as lonely as me
So you can get, get addicted to this
Skullcrusher Mountain // Jonathan Coulton
I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Not a Robot, But a Ghost // Andrew Bird
I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes, I crack the codes to end the war
Chocolate // Snow Patrol
What have I done? It's too late for that
What have I become? Truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask this time
Little Secrets // Passion Pit
Let this be our little secret, no one needs to know we're feeling
Higher and higher and higher, higher and higher and higher
But I feel alive and I feel it in me, up and up I keep on coming
Higher and higher and higher, higher and higher and higher
Take a Picture // Filter
Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane
My skin is bare, my skin is theirs
I feel like a newborn
And I feel like a newborn
Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane
I feel so real
Look After You // The Fray
There now, steady love, so few come and don't go
Will you, won't you be the one I always know?
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows, you slow it down
My Weakness // Moby
(instrumental)
No Sleep Tonight // The Faders
You want me, you want me all the time
And you don't need nothing else
But you seem to be a little oblivious
So I'll show you the way
If you think that you need some help
Eintstein On the Beach // Counting Crows
Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand
Cause everything he believes in is shattered
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay
We all get burned as:
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The Best Thing // Savage Garden
Walk on broken glass make my way through fire
These are the things I would do for love
Farewell peace of mind kiss goodbye to reason
Up is down the impossible occurs each day
This intoxication thrills me
I only pray it doesn't kill me
The Whole of the Moon // The Waterboys
With a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels
To get too high, too far, too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
You Are My Joy // Reindeer Section
If I could cradle you into my arms
I would cradle you tight in my arms always
So don't be scared of all the hurtful words
'Cos in the end they'll hurt themselves much more
You are my joy
DOWNLOAD HERE