[fun and games] songsharing the voidmoth way

[yhlee]

It's been a while since we've had one of these!

Feel free to post theme songs/playlists for your characters here. I'll start us off in the comments.

Comments

childhood music

[zuhrovet]

I grew up on opera and odd bits and pieces of reggae and West African pop, but I didn't actually start forming a musical taste of my own until I got my driver's license and could listen to music without the rest of the family having opinions about its artistic merit. One of the downsides of a very Andan background!

Re: childhood music

[yhlee]

Heh, I was raised on classical (including ballet) and...country. Because we were in Texas. XD I still like both. My daughter, on the other hand, is horrified by classical, because I managed to raise her on, um, Linkin Park and Evanescence.

My dad memorably originally (ss a high? schooler) thought classical music was "for sissies" (his exact phrase) until the music teacher played von Suppé's Light Cavalry Overture, and then he went all in! Oh, Dad. XD

Re: childhood music

[kese_seyli]

I love stories about what kind of music people were raised on. My mom fed me a steady diet of Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, and similar classic rock musicians and then late 80s/early 90s country like Garth Brooks.

Re: childhood music

[hoardingpearls]

Nice xD ...or at least I think so?

I have an aunt who loves Simon & Garfunkel. We listened to their entire discography on a road trip once.

Re: childhood music

[hoardingpearls]

Hee! My niece was listening to something the other day and when I inquired, said I probably wouldn't like it because it was Linkin Park. We promptly had a nice tour of some of their other stuff, which she'd never heard, and we both enjoyed.

That's a great story! I went and listened to Light Cavalry Overture, and can see how that would be a surprise.

I've come to enjoy some outlaw country as an adult, but it took quite a while to get interested in it.

Re: childhood music

[hoardingpearls]

West African pop! That's something I can honestly say I've never tried. Got any recommendations?

My family tried hard for exposure to the arts, but living in The Middle of Nowhere made that somewhat difficult.

It's definitely nice to be able to explore on one's own.

Re: childhood music

[zuhrovet]

This isn't something I've revisited as an adult (though I really ought to!) but after a bit of digging I have found a song of my childhood: here's Youssou N'Dour singing Old Tucson, a song about what an intense experience it was to visit a legendary place from the movies.

And I suppose recently I've been listening to HK & les Saltimbanks, which is upbeat angry leftist French music with accordions, founded by the hip-hop artist & writer Kaddour Hadadi. Here's Citoyen du Monde.

Re: childhood music

[zuhrovet]

And while we're at it, here's HK & les Saltimbanks' Niquons la Planète; I can imagine twenty-two-year-old Sasha going out with people from work and getting absolutely smashed and trying to see how quickly she can sing this song.