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Music meme and story rec
Sep. 24th, 2020 10:37 pmBelatedly, the music meme One is supposed to use titles that come to mind spontanously. Here we go:
A Place: Sommer in der Stadt: aka the hilarious hymn to Munich by the Spider Murphy Gang. Non-German speakers, the pictures match the lyrics; alternatively, the other Spider Murphy song about (some parts of) Munich that immediately came to my mind was Schickeria. Look, I live in this city. Of course I thought of it.
A Food: Aber bitte mit Sahne (Udo Jürgens) (Udo Jürgens and his songs were ever present on the radio when I grew up)
A Drink: Bei einem Tee a deux (duet from Franz Lehar's Im Land des Lächelns, Siegfried Jerusalem and Helen Donath singing- this is my Aged Parent's favourite operetta)
Animal: Blackbird (you knew there would be a Beatles song sooner or later)
A Number: In the year 2525: Zager and Evans, to images from Metropolis in this particular version.
Color: The Pink Panther Theme Song (thank you, Henry Mancini)
Boy's Name: Sindbad: sue me, it was the intro song to one of my favourite cartoon series when I was a child. Runner up: Falco's Amadeus, probably due to my rewatch last year.
Girl's Name: Mrs. Robinson (Simon and Garfunkle, live version); again, I blame my Dad, who used to wear his soundtrack record from The Graduate out and worshiped the ground Simon and Garfunkle tread on for a while.
Alternatively: Maria (from West Side Story here sung by Aaron Tveit. Before I love that musical and never fail to listen whenever this sing is played.
Profession: Paperback Writer; would have been this anyway, but the recent Stephen King vid just settled it.
A Vehicle: Meine Oma fährt im Hühnerstall Motorrad ("My grandma drives a scooter in the chicken stable", was a popular nonsense song since the 1920s, was covered early this year with somewhat altered lyrics that caused a big scandal, hence fresh in my mind);
alternatively: Über den Wolken: Reinhard Mey's hymn to air planes. It's been a good while since I sat in an air plane, not just due to Covid, but this song is what I always heared in my memory when I did.
...and speaking of Stephen King, have a rec: Dark Stripes is a fantastic fanfiction based on The Talisman, in which it's a grown up Richard's turn to confront the past and save Jack. Just beautiful and intense, and full of excellent hurt/comfort to boot.
A Place: Sommer in der Stadt: aka the hilarious hymn to Munich by the Spider Murphy Gang. Non-German speakers, the pictures match the lyrics; alternatively, the other Spider Murphy song about (some parts of) Munich that immediately came to my mind was Schickeria. Look, I live in this city. Of course I thought of it.
A Food: Aber bitte mit Sahne (Udo Jürgens) (Udo Jürgens and his songs were ever present on the radio when I grew up)
A Drink: Bei einem Tee a deux (duet from Franz Lehar's Im Land des Lächelns, Siegfried Jerusalem and Helen Donath singing- this is my Aged Parent's favourite operetta)
Animal: Blackbird (you knew there would be a Beatles song sooner or later)
A Number: In the year 2525: Zager and Evans, to images from Metropolis in this particular version.
Color: The Pink Panther Theme Song (thank you, Henry Mancini)
Boy's Name: Sindbad: sue me, it was the intro song to one of my favourite cartoon series when I was a child. Runner up: Falco's Amadeus, probably due to my rewatch last year.
Girl's Name: Mrs. Robinson (Simon and Garfunkle, live version); again, I blame my Dad, who used to wear his soundtrack record from The Graduate out and worshiped the ground Simon and Garfunkle tread on for a while.
Alternatively: Maria (from West Side Story here sung by Aaron Tveit. Before I love that musical and never fail to listen whenever this sing is played.
Profession: Paperback Writer; would have been this anyway, but the recent Stephen King vid just settled it.
A Vehicle: Meine Oma fährt im Hühnerstall Motorrad ("My grandma drives a scooter in the chicken stable", was a popular nonsense song since the 1920s, was covered early this year with somewhat altered lyrics that caused a big scandal, hence fresh in my mind);
alternatively: Über den Wolken: Reinhard Mey's hymn to air planes. It's been a good while since I sat in an air plane, not just due to Covid, but this song is what I always heared in my memory when I did.
...and speaking of Stephen King, have a rec: Dark Stripes is a fantastic fanfiction based on The Talisman, in which it's a grown up Richard's turn to confront the past and save Jack. Just beautiful and intense, and full of excellent hurt/comfort to boot.
