Music

[petronia]

starlighter: those of the "hymns" I have on this computer or could download at a pinch, I've uploaded here. Will put up more as time and space allow.

Some of them are for Vash, some for the children. Yes, I picture Wolfwood teaching sixties spiritual anthems to the wee orphans, probably on a dinky upright piano that hasn't been tuned for a decade and with half a dozen dead keys due to sand getting in. It's the context, see - on a desert planet, Leonard Cohen's merciful rivers and Cat Stevens' dew-drenched water-Eden become loaded symbolism.

...The above would have gone in personal email, but the next bit, here, is too good not to share out: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", in three versions.

Leonard Cohen
Jeff Buckley
Rufus Wainwright

Like... Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. What are the chances? (The lyrics are completely different. It appears Boushi Cohen wrote something like ten verses to the song, recorded only half of them, and performs the other half depending on what he had for breakfast that morning. Jeff and Rufus went for the obscure ones.)

...Gawd, listening to this is making me descend rapidly into emo-ness again.

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah...

Comments

;_; <- This seemed appropriate. Weird but appropriate.

[squidlet.livejournal.com]

Gah. The emo must be catching. I feel myself sinking into a pit full of it. And after listening to only one song.

See, this was the EXACT reason why I didn't have the guts to ask you for a list of song titles. The...gah. To call it angst makes it so sound so insulting.

Makes me want to go and watch eps 20-26 again. Sigh, bad idea with a migraine already, prior to viewing.

All the same, I love you muchly for the wonderful music you're so generously putting up and letting us leech off.

Wolfwood's hymms. Man.

[starlighter.livejournal.com]

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Glad you guys like it. Or at least that it's having the proper effect. :P

Music seems to be a key component of Wolfwood in my head - actually, of Trigun in general. The series dovetails in mood and metaphor with the kind of singer-songwriter folk / alt.country I like, and it's not as if I have any other fandoms that thrive on these artists. Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen would sound out of place on my Schwarzfic soundtrack, say, alongside all the electronica and industrial rock - despite the fact that the series draws half its atmosphere from songs like "Famous Blue Raincoat" or "Amsterdam". [/ramble]

(Must point out that a lot of these are covers. "Let It Be" is originally Beatles, "Forever Young" is Bob Dylan. I just picked the versions I felt were most appropriate.)

If you're really going to blub, you may as well get Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven" as well. Then you do it in style. ^^;