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shadowkatAs a kid, I used music to relax. Would go up to my room and study for hours with the radio playing, often made mixed tapes of the songs. We didn't have DVDs, CDs or MP3 players back then. I played records, 8 track tapes, and cassettes - which had a nasty habit of degrading over time. Remember reading American History to the Rolling Stones or the Beatles or...*cough*Air Supply*cough*. My taste has always been incredibly eclectic. I loved Rush - favorite song in Junior High was "Tom Sawyer".
TV shows and films are often more memorable if they have a really good musical score. Songs that hit home, nail the feeling or plot arc. Not music videos - although we became a video world a long time ago. Back in the age of MTV - remember that? Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, Chips for Free...I Want My MTV - a defining moment of the 1980s and the beginning of the "video revolution". It was so long ago, and yet it sometimes feels like yesterday. Odd that. Where did the time go? I wonder if that's why people have kids - to track time - you see it as they grow and age...no most likely not.
No...a good song, a good band can make a show that is okay amazing. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is amongst the few shows that had an excellent soundtrack. I'm not sure I can give you a favorite song. But I own both compilations. And there are songs on that show that I still can't find. One is from Crush - the initial scene, in the Bronze, I can't remember the title and I can't find it anywhere.
My favorite? It changes. Right now it's a four way tie between Ballade for Dead Friends, Pavlov's Bell, Key, and Lucky. All ballads. Although I love Pain and the Teenage FBI. God, whoever decided on the score - was a genius. But we also had a musical fanatic behind the show-running duties - who turned one episode into a self-mocking, fourth wall breaking musical - which was by the way the episode that got the Momster's attention and was when she understood, finally, my insane obsession with the series. I showed her The Body, but you just can't get that episode unless you've watched all the episodes that came before. The other series that had a marvelous soundtrack was The Wire - which I also own the soundtrack too. It's songs furthered plot and resonated. It hammered the themes of that series home. TV shows with good soundtracks - I tend to get fannish about, I remember them long after they've left the air. This was true of Battle Star Galatica who turned "All Along the Watchtower" into a plot point, and True Blood - who has the best credits song on the planet..."Bad Things" and oh god, the great Nick Cave cover She's Not There! There's
also Farscape's soundtrack, although they didn't have many songs, unfortunately. But a good soundtrack.
Anyhow...I need new songs. So I've a favor to ask to anyone who comes upon this post...and you can link to it, if you want:
Please provide...
1) Your favorite song for this year - the one that you listened to the most, that made you the most happy, that made you dance at your desk
2.) Your favorite tv show song - whether it be from Buffy or some other show.
See easy. Just two things. If I get five responders? I get five new songs...or maybe two, in case they pick ones I already own.
Oh and if you wish..the song you wish was nominated for a Grammy or already was...since they are coming up.
As someone told me a few weeks ago...music is like a lifeline to the soul. When people sing, you hear their soul. When they play the same. I can't sing, tone death, but the woman who told me this believes everyone can...they just need to learn how. I wish that were true. Sometimes I think it is.
TV shows and films are often more memorable if they have a really good musical score. Songs that hit home, nail the feeling or plot arc. Not music videos - although we became a video world a long time ago. Back in the age of MTV - remember that? Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, Chips for Free...I Want My MTV - a defining moment of the 1980s and the beginning of the "video revolution". It was so long ago, and yet it sometimes feels like yesterday. Odd that. Where did the time go? I wonder if that's why people have kids - to track time - you see it as they grow and age...no most likely not.
No...a good song, a good band can make a show that is okay amazing. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is amongst the few shows that had an excellent soundtrack. I'm not sure I can give you a favorite song. But I own both compilations. And there are songs on that show that I still can't find. One is from Crush - the initial scene, in the Bronze, I can't remember the title and I can't find it anywhere.
My favorite? It changes. Right now it's a four way tie between Ballade for Dead Friends, Pavlov's Bell, Key, and Lucky. All ballads. Although I love Pain and the Teenage FBI. God, whoever decided on the score - was a genius. But we also had a musical fanatic behind the show-running duties - who turned one episode into a self-mocking, fourth wall breaking musical - which was by the way the episode that got the Momster's attention and was when she understood, finally, my insane obsession with the series. I showed her The Body, but you just can't get that episode unless you've watched all the episodes that came before. The other series that had a marvelous soundtrack was The Wire - which I also own the soundtrack too. It's songs furthered plot and resonated. It hammered the themes of that series home. TV shows with good soundtracks - I tend to get fannish about, I remember them long after they've left the air. This was true of Battle Star Galatica who turned "All Along the Watchtower" into a plot point, and True Blood - who has the best credits song on the planet..."Bad Things" and oh god, the great Nick Cave cover She's Not There! There's
also Farscape's soundtrack, although they didn't have many songs, unfortunately. But a good soundtrack.
Anyhow...I need new songs. So I've a favor to ask to anyone who comes upon this post...and you can link to it, if you want:
Please provide...
1) Your favorite song for this year - the one that you listened to the most, that made you the most happy, that made you dance at your desk
2.) Your favorite tv show song - whether it be from Buffy or some other show.
See easy. Just two things. If I get five responders? I get five new songs...or maybe two, in case they pick ones I already own.
Oh and if you wish..the song you wish was nominated for a Grammy or already was...since they are coming up.
As someone told me a few weeks ago...music is like a lifeline to the soul. When people sing, you hear their soul. When they play the same. I can't sing, tone death, but the woman who told me this believes everyone can...they just need to learn how. I wish that were true. Sometimes I think it is.
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Date: 2012-01-25 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-25 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-25 02:15 pm (UTC)2. Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 20 in A Major, Rondo : Allegretto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNtso6dqLGI). The theme from the NBC series Wings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(NBC_TV_series)).
And I'll throw in a bonus item, my favorite piece of theatre music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQBOOSdMUU).
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Date: 2012-01-25 10:47 pm (UTC)More than two is more
Date: 2012-01-26 02:23 am (UTC)The one that helped me write all year long Alexandre Dusplat's "New Moon" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1arK8v4grI&feature=player_embedded)
This song is in almost every television show at some point, but never stops being one of my favorites: Placebo's "Running up that Hill" (http://youtu.be/XTvgj2LWjMk)
And this is just ... so fun! Fighting Trousers (http://youtu.be/0iRTB-FTMdk)
OOOH! And this entire album of wonderful: "The Hazards of Love" (http://grooveshark.com/album/The+Hazards+Of+Love/3068562) a rock-opera about a shapeshifter? There's not much better.
Re: More than two is more
Date: 2012-01-26 05:34 pm (UTC)