For space is wide and good friends are too few.
Fire in the Glen by Andy M. Stewart
R.I.P Andy M. Stewart, 8th September 1952 – 27th December 2015
You will never be forgotten
Considering I found out this singer had passed on from a filk group on facebook, this seems appropriate to post. Anthony M. Stewart (best known as the singer from Silly Wizard) will always be one of my favorite folksingers.
mix: there’s a starwind rising
because space is REALLY COOL, YOU GUYS
…I’ve been sitting on this one awhile, and kind of forgot about it, but I figured right now would be a thematically appropriate time to post it. so have a really eclectic assortment of space music, I guess.
- Star Trek Original Theme (Alexander Courage)
- Space Girl (Peggy Seeger)
- Original Doctor Who Theme (Ron Graineramp & Delia Derbyshire)
- Starwind Rising (Leslie Fish & The Dehorn Crew)
- Starman (David Bowie)
- Rocket Man (Elton John)
- Hope Eyrie (Julia Ecklar; originally by Leslie Fish)
- Battlestar Galactica Original Theme (Stu Phillips)
- Medley: Main Title / Rebel Blockade Runner (John Williams)
- Flash (Queen)
- Babylon 5 Season 1 Theme (Christopher Franke)
- Farscape Theme (SubVision)
- Space (M.I.A.)
- Battlestar Galactica Main Title (UK Version) (Bear McCreary)
- The Doctor’s Themes (Aeroferal; original themes by Murray Gold)
- Fire in the Sky (Kristoph Klover; orignally by Jordin Kare)
- Gravity (Steven Price)
- Star Trek Voyager Main Title (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Paper Moon (Seanan McGuire)
- Somebody Will (Sassafrass)
It’s not all filk, but there’s quite a bit of filk so consider this your BONUS POST for STAR WARS DAY
A little fairy comes at night,
her eyes are blue and her hair is brown
With silver spots upon her wings
And from the moon she flutters down.
This isn’t quite the Fairy Queen interpretation I’m used to (by which I mean, she doesn’t threaten to take anybody’s eyes out or steal any children), but it’s pretty.
Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf comes stepping along
He don’t even break the branches where he’s been gone
Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf comes travelin along
He don’t even crush the leaves where he’s been gone
Sometimes you’re listening to folk music on Pandora and you come across something you very much never expected.
“The Werewolf,” by Michael Hurley, performed by Barry Dransfield
Wolves are sleeping ‘midst the trees,
Bats all are swaying in the breeze,
But one soul lies anxious wide awake,
Fearing all manner of ghouls, hags and wraiths.
Birds are silent for the night,
Cows turn in as daylight dies,
But one soul lies anxious wide awake,
For the witcher, brave and bold, paid in coin of gold,
He’ll chop and slice you, gut and dice you, eat you up whole,
Eat you whole.
The young man sat above the town in the glow of a setting sun
With his head held cradled in his hands, his back against a stone
Saying “Why have I so little time in this wretched place to stand?
“When I can’t take the girl I love back home to the Borderland”
“The Borderlands,” by Danny Carnahan and Chris Casswell
If I didn’t deeply trust the guy who first played this for me and told me it wasn’t originally a filk song, I wouldn’t have believed him. It’s incredibly beautiful and about…time travel? Parallel universes? Fairies? Unclear. Judge for yourself.
A song from Victor Lundin, about his movie Robinson Crusoe on Mars. It’s a terrible movie, but the song’s… something, at least.
(submitted by squirrelsinmyhair)
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
I’ve had this song going through my head all day. I thought I ought to share.
