For space is wide and good friends are too few.
Heart like an axle, bounded by your wheels
Rolling down the endless blacktop road
Stripping gears and losing, with every mile that falls
How long can you keep dragging that load
Firestorm is basically a concept album about the apocalypse, but this song in particular is almost certainly about Mad Max. “Heart Like an Axle,” by Leslie Fish.
I apologize to @axonsandsynapses for doing their work absolutely nothing anywhere near justice, but this is my attempt at covering their brilliant adaptation of Sam Hall about everyone’s favourite ex-dead ex-Robin.
check out the lyrics on their blog!
all sounds in this recording were made using a ukulele and/or my mouth, and all (highly amateur) sound editing was done using GarageBand. hope you enjoy!
And you’ve left behind you the world of men
With no way in space to go home again
When you’re pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while, I’ve been really busy. This is one of my all-time favorite space songs; I’m not sure why I haven’t posted it before.
“Pushing the Speed of Light,” by Julia Ecklar and Anne Prather
Doin’ what they do, shepherding her through
Space will slow her stride, time will turn her tide
It’s far too much to take, but my girl don’t know when to break
So she’ll make she’ll make a way; she’s a good old girl, she’ll fly true
“Good Old Girl,” by Marian Call
Gotta love a song about spaceships. I think this was specifically inspired by Firefly, but it’s pretty general in a way I really like.
Recommended to me by @khittyhawk, this group seems to do mini-musicals. I’m not sure how to classify them, but they’re really neat.
There’s a review on their website that says “Ostensibly folk, but folk run over with a steam-powered bus driven by Homer” and…if that’s not an endorsement, I don’t know what is.
I’m attempting to ruin @dog-of-ulthar‘s life with the revelation that I like folk music. Especially nerdy folk music. I don’t think I sing that well, but making @dog-of-ulthar freak out is worth it.
So this is the Lament for Boromir taken from Tolkien’s The Two Towers. It’s probably my favorite poem in Tolkien’s works. I feel like a lot of his poems and songs are overlooked because they don’t have melodies we can easily put to them so they’re not instantly appealing. This melody is borrowed from Colin Rudd’s version of the song but decided not to put any accompaniment with it since there wouldn’t have been an accompaniment with the song in the book. So I really can’t claim any part of this song aside from very poorly singing it.yeah anyway now I’m crying about folk music and dead fictional kings, so that’s great
Good. I consider this a success then.
Fair Lady Atlantia, she rides upon the wind
The bravest of warriors, and the poet’s friend
Though I’ve traveled for many days
She never seems so far away
Fair Lady Atlantia, my lady by the sea
A song about North Carolina…or the SCA version of North Carolina. “Fair Lady Atlantia,” by Efenwealt Wystle.
“So much of life in the SCA is centered around interactions between teachers and students. We all have so much to learn from each other, and none of us has all the answers. Though we all walk different paths on our quests, they all point to the same place. That place is made up of the very best qualities and talents within each of us. Learning to find that and forgive each other’s imperfections is what brings us all closer to our Dream.”
“Valdemar’s Song (The Baron and the Minstrel of the Hall),” by Efenwealt Wystle. Valdemar, in this case, is an SCA persona, not the Lackey novels.
This song…it’s beautiful, and inspiring, and oddly sad.
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.
“Always Be Here,” by The Doubleclicks
this is…a very relateable breakup song.