For space is wide and good friends are too few.
I HAVE NEGLECTED THIS BLOG FOR TOO LONG
as an apology, here’s a DRAGON CON 2015 EXCLUSIVE VIDEO (that’s how I make it sound good despite it being a low-quality recording taken from the back of the room), of a song that had literally been written earlier that day
Mikey Mason and Kirsten Vaughan (one of the Blibbering Humdingers) sing a song about the essential convention experience, “Waiting to Stand in Line”
Hey there!
I wanted to reach out to you because my band, The Library Bards are babies in the filking community, but would love to get more involved! We do nerdy parody songs, and you can hear one of them (about our favorite wizard) here: https://youtu.be/R7i-Cg5DiWo
We have other songs as well, and more music videos to come!
Thanks,
Xander
(A Library Bard :D)
Submitted by xanderiffic! The video is definitely worth watching, if only to see Gandalf dance. I mean, there are other reasons, but that should be sufficient.
I heard this at Minicon last April and thought it was hilarious. Some good wordplay, and a bit close to home. This is on my list of “I should figure out the chords to this because I want to sing it myself, but I am just so bad at that I guess I’ll put it off indefinitely.”
“A Member of the Rabble,” by Kevin Brixius, performed by Rockthrow
This came up on the Pegasus Awards brainstorming poll for “Best Time-Related Song,” and I’d say it deserves a shot. Ben Newman is wry and clever as always.
Lyrics and chords available here
This song came up on the Pegasus Awards brainstorming poll for Best Filk Song this year, which I say first to encourage you to listen to it, and second because the singer is a self-described Wrocker, and I’m always interested in exactly where the overlap between filk and Wrock sits.
Anyway, she makes a fair point. You can’t bring your iPod to Hogwarts.
Unsurprisingly, I guess, the legendary (at least, I think she should be legendary) songwriter of “Everybody Hates Elves,” has another one about dwarves.
With all the zombies and doomsayers out there, how can a girl get a decent cup of coffee?
“Post-Apocalyptic Blues,” by Doctor Mary Crowell
No One Does It Better (than the Birds of Prey)
good evening all you gentlemen
mobsters, creeps, and crooks
men in tights come after you
and still you’re off the hook
for those who scare and terrorize
it’s the dawn of a brand new day;
you scum can simply call us
the one and only birds of prey
I heard this at Minicon last weekend and will forever regret I didn’t take a video of the performance, but this will give you an idea.
“Vodka In The Jar,” a Russian version of the Irish standard, written by Lojo Russo and performed by Lojo Russo and Adam Stemple
A grazing mace, how sweet the sound, that felled my foe for me
I bashed his head, he struck the ground, and thus came victory
My mace has taught my foes to fear, that mace my fear relieved
How precious did my mace appear, when I my mace received
Through many tourneys wars and fairs, I have already come
My mace has brought me safe thus far, my mace will bring me home
The King has promised good to me, his word my hope secures
I will his shield and weapon be, when he gives me my spurs
And when my mace my foeman nails, that mortal strife shall cease
And we’ll possess within our pale, a life of joy and peace
A grazing mace, how sweet the sound that flattened a wretch like thee!
whose head is flat, that once was round done in by my mace….and me!
