The one that springs immediately to mind is "Flame" by Bell X1, mostly because of this lyric, the second part of which I always intended to use on a Jack/Nadia icon:
A photograph of this love Hangs on my wall I would dare to speak its name If I knew what it was called
And generally it's just very lyrically appropriate for that whole vibe of the reserved older man being drawn to someone who's very vibrant and alive.
When your hand brushed against mine I thought I'd collapse I'm no rolling stone I gather too much moss Maybe it's 'cause I'm getting A little bit older But oh how your neck Flows to your shoulder It draws me, it draws me to your flame
Hey, well, if you time it right, I'll have finished the third part by then and you'll save yourself a cliffhanger! Always a useful advantage of getting round to things slowly.
I have many songs that make me think of Sloane, although they all seem to be tangled up with the Bristows as well. Which is probably appropriate, really.
One of them is "How to Save a Life" by The Fray [Youtube video], which I'm sure is a horrible cliché vid song - and certainly got used in the trailers for just about every hospital drama ever - but it tends to get used in a very literal sense when it's actually a song about being unable to save a friend from himself. Which makes me think of Jack and Sloane. (As, admittedly, just about everything does since I got Alias obsessed.)Step one you say we need to talk He walks you say sit down it's just a talk He smiles politely back at you You stare politely right on through Some sort of window to your right As he goes left and you stay right Between the lines of fear and blame You begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life Then there's "Orchids" by
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Hmm... Still remember the songs you used on CoS? That's still my fav epic, multi-part Nomad fic.
(And I have notes on your notes, just real life-y things keep blocking my sending them. Thank you so much for them: they're just what I needed.) (See how the T in they're isn't capitalized this time? Proof I can be trained after all. ;-)
I don't think I ever had any sort of soundtrack for CoS; I don't really write to music, I just have it on in the background and it doesn't particularly matter if the mood matches what I'm working on. I tend to build the soundtracks for listening to while I'm out walking - and CoS predates my ownership of an mp3 player by two years. (I still had a minidisc player then - anyone remember those?) So, yeah, I can't say I have any musical associations with CoS Snape. I can give you a few for canon Snape, though.
There's Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" [Youtube video], which is a fairly obvious choice for any character who's embittered by the past and taking it out on other people, but I particularly like it for this line:You know you only hurt yourself out of spite I guess you'd rather be a martyr tonight
And for teenage Snape, there's "Mis-Shapes" by Pulp [Youtube video], which is very much the song of angry intelligent teenage misfits seeking revenge: Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
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A photograph of this love
Hangs on my wall
I would dare to speak its name
If I knew what it was called
And generally it's just very lyrically appropriate for that whole vibe of the reserved older man being drawn to someone who's very vibrant and alive.
When your hand brushed against mine
I thought I'd collapse
I'm no rolling stone
I gather too much moss
Maybe it's 'cause I'm getting
A little bit older
But oh how your neck
Flows to your shoulder
It draws me, it draws me to your flame
This appears to be the official video on Youtube, although I haven't got far loading it on my dial-up.
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And I am FINALLY going to catch up on the Twist of Faith stories once I'm all moved and settled in.
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One of them is "How to Save a Life" by The Fray [Youtube video], which I'm sure is a horrible cliché vid song - and certainly got used in the trailers for just about every hospital drama ever - but it tends to get used in a very literal sense when it's actually a song about being unable to save a friend from himself. Which makes me think of Jack and Sloane. (As, admittedly, just about everything does since I got Alias obsessed.)Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Then there's "Orchids" by ( ... )
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(And I have notes on your notes, just real life-y things keep blocking my sending them. Thank you so much for them: they're just what I needed.) (See how the T in they're isn't capitalized this time? Proof I can be trained after all. ;-)
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There's Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" [Youtube video], which is a fairly obvious choice for any character who's embittered by the past and taking it out on other people, but I particularly like it for this line:You know you only hurt yourself out of spite
I guess you'd rather be a martyr tonight
And for teenage Snape, there's "Mis-Shapes" by Pulp [Youtube video], which is very much the song of angry intelligent teenage misfits seeking revenge:
Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits ( ... )
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