Personal - Nobilis Music List, like no one asked about

[demiurgent]

I've spent some time using the magical powers of iTunes 3 to build custom playlists for writing. Since I'm working on Nobilis right now, that means songs that evoke the look and feel of Nobilis to me while I'm working. This can be because of lyrics, because of the tone and sound of the song, because of attitude... any reason, really. I tend to focus on music bemoaning the mundane, quietly exalting that which was humble, or recognizing the slow end of things. After going through my music collection on one pass, I have a few hours worth of stuff, which I'll now let you in on.

The problem is... I'm a tremendous geek. I'm not even a cool music geek like many role players. So, I don't want you to look at this as anything more than my own sad little mind in action. Please don't mock me.

Name	Artist
(I Never Wanted) To Be A Star	Cat Stevens
A Hazy Shade Of Winter	Simon & Garfunkel
America	Simon & Garfunkel
Book Of Dreams	Suzanne Vega
Busload Of Faith	Lou Reed
Calypso	Suzanne Vega
Carry On Dancing	Savage Garden
Courage Knows No Bounds	Heather Alexander
Creature of the Wood	Heather Alexander
Curse of a Fallen Soul	Dropkick Murphys
Dead Man's Party	Oingo Boingo
Defender of the Child	Heather Alexander
Devil's Brigade	Dropkick Murphys
Eleanor Rigby	Beatles, The
Eli's Coming	Three Dog Night
Englishmen In New York	Sting
Freezing	Philip Glass
Ghost Riders in the Sky	Blues Brothers 2000
Ghost Train	Counting Crows
Harvester of Sorrow	Apocalyptica
Hasten Down the Wind	Warren Zevon
Heaven Can Wait	Meat Loaf
Heroes From Our Past	Dropkick Murphys
Insanity	Oingo Boingo
Is Nothing Sacred	Meat Loaf
Its My Life	Bon Jovi
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds	The Hooters
Man On The Moon	R.E.M.
Master of Puppets	Apocalyptica
No One Lives Forever	Oingo Boingo
On the Road to Find Out	Cat Stevens
Original Sin	Meat Loaf
Pussy Willow	Jethro Tull
Searching for a Heart	Warren Zevon
Severed Dreams	Christopher Franke
She's Got a Way	billy joel
Slow Marching Band	Jethro Tull
Smells Like Teen Spirit	Tori Amos
Somebody's Crying	Chris Isaak
Something Dark	Heather Alexander
Splendid Isolation	Warren Zevon
Storyteller	Heather Alexander
Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank	Barenaked Ladies
Suit Of Lights	Elvis Costello
Summer Wine (Featuring Bono)	The Corrs
The Indifference of Heaven	Warren Zevon
The King Must Die	Elton John
The Old Apartment	Barenaked Ladies
The Wanderer	U2/Johnny Cash
Tomorrow I Leave for Battle	Heather Alexander
Watching Me Watching You	Jethro Tull
Which Side Are You On?	Dropkick Murphys

Comments

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

A couple of late entries from a second pass. "Solitude Standing" and "Language" by Suzanne Vega (the former was always meant to be there, and the latter was suggested by Bruce Baugh and he's right. Also, "Salsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel, just because.

Note that the Elton John contribution ("The King Must Die") is specifically the Live in Australia version with full orchestral accompaniment, and most of the Zevon comes from his live, mostly-one-man album "Learning to Flinch," which has a tremendously wistful, Nobilis kind of feel.

So

[(Anonymous)]

other than the unforgiveable sin of including a Bon Jovi song ;) It's quite the list.

Cheers,
Mr Bankert

Re: So

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

It's not a standard Bon Jovi song. I mean, I'm usually with you on our friends from New Jersey, but... I dunno. Something about "It's My Life" just appeals. And it has a Nobilis resonance, in a cheap pop kind of way.