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2020-06-14 03:19 pm
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All You Bullyrooks With Your Buskin' Boots

I have recently fallen down a very specific youtube hole: medieval/'medieval' covers of modern songs. There's a whole ecosystem of them! I'm a particular fan of the ones done by Hildegard von Blingin', but there are many very good ones.

You've got some sedate numbers like this cover of 'What is Love?':

You've got some peppy instrumental ones like this medley of meme tunes:

And then you have my absolute favourite, a beautiful melange of (faux?) medieval lyrics and performance with a song that you wouldn't expect to work with that, in the form of Pumped Up Kicks:

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2018-12-24 04:48 pm
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♫ Babooshka Babooshka Babooshka yaya♫


[tumblr.com profile] earlgraytay made an interesting post about romanticisation, through the lens of Pina Coladas and Babooshka. It's rather interesting. Plus, I think it's good to point out that romanticisation is often less about portraying something as good, and more about portraying it as exciting. (Though I obviously have to point out that it is a pattern that bad idea romance stories seem to be accused of romaticising things way more than 'gritty protagonist sets on life on fire' ones do, even though they both romanticise things. Though this may be due to 'romance' and 'romanticising' being ~false friends.)

Though that post reminded my of Babooshka. And Wuthering Heights. Which are both excellent songs. (Other things that are good for reminding you of Kate Bush songs: walking across a heath in -11 C windchill.)
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2018-12-18 08:21 pm
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Song of the Day - Hymn of Breaking Strain



I too, wish sometimes wish I was an inanimate object  /rimshot.

But really, I like the lyrics to this. I think it's because I like oddball symbolism and comparisons, and 'gee, railways have it better than us, because we can predict when they break, and they don't know they break' definitely counts.