The world would be a better place if everyone had a little Remus on the brain. :) That is altogether too true. :D
I'm guessing that a stripped-down approach is also good? Yes, most definitely. Which for some reason is weirdly difficult to find. I thought I'd got a diverser collection than this, drat it! I'm looking through my more traditional-themed folk music, and am really frustrated at my utter inability to find things that don't refer to very specific things. Um. There wouldn't be any situation which I have completely forgotten despite countless re-readings in which Dean referred to a particular bit of folklore or a ballad? :p Guh, and Richard Shindell also sounds perfect, but I haven't found any actual songs that could apply, except with a very, very great deal of loose interpretation.
Ooh, have you looked at Vienna Teng? I know you've got a lot of her music, and of the few songs I've got/heard on her MySpace/heard on last.fm radio, her sound seems relatively compliant with what we're aiming for.
I've got some tentative song ideas here, thanks to Mum being at a doctor's appointment all afternoon and me trying to accomplish far too many things at once and listening to iTunes at the same time:
- Rowing Song (http://www.uppercutmusic.com/artist_p/patty_griffin_lyrics/rowing_song_lyrics.html) by Patty Griffin, which is an acoustic guitar song with some pretty horns. Patty's got a nice stripped-down sort of sound, but most of her songs are too--Americana, I suppose--for Dean. Lots of bluesy or alt. country sorts of things, mainly, which are wonderful and brilliant, but not suitable to this. This one doesn't sound out of place, though, and it goes with the travelling theme, too. - Puedo Escribir (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Puedo-Escribir-lyrics-Sixpence-None-The-Richer/9B7C03B471A848434825692A00231475), Sixpence None The Richer. Okay, breaking my own conditions here, because there is a prominent electric guitar, but...it's a Beatles-esque sixties sort of one, right? Anyway, it consists of fragments of a Pablo Neruda poem, and Dean would have totally read Neruda if...Neruda weren't a little too late in the century for him. The song has an excellent Spanish beat to it--not Latin-Spanish, but, you know, actual Spanish-Spanish. Awesome. - Too Late (http://www.lyricsdownload.com/fisher-too-late-lyrics.html), Fisher. Piano and smoky female vocals. ♥ A bit unsure on the lyrics, but they have got the travelling and unrequited love, although it sounds a little too much as though it was Dean's choice to seperate from Emily.
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Date: 2006-12-01 06:16 am (UTC)That is altogether too true. :D
I'm guessing that a stripped-down approach is also good?
Yes, most definitely. Which for some reason is weirdly difficult to find. I thought I'd got a diverser collection than this, drat it! I'm looking through my more traditional-themed folk music, and am really frustrated at my utter inability to find things that don't refer to very specific things. Um. There wouldn't be any situation which I have completely forgotten despite countless re-readings in which Dean referred to a particular bit of folklore or a ballad? :p Guh, and Richard Shindell also sounds perfect, but I haven't found any actual songs that could apply, except with a very, very great deal of loose interpretation.
Ooh, have you looked at Vienna Teng? I know you've got a lot of her music, and of the few songs I've got/heard on her MySpace/heard on last.fm radio, her sound seems relatively compliant with what we're aiming for.
I've got some tentative song ideas here, thanks to Mum being at a doctor's appointment all afternoon and me trying to accomplish far too many things at once and listening to iTunes at the same time:
- Rowing Song (http://www.uppercutmusic.com/artist_p/patty_griffin_lyrics/rowing_song_lyrics.html) by Patty Griffin, which is an acoustic guitar song with some pretty horns. Patty's got a nice stripped-down sort of sound, but most of her songs are too--Americana, I suppose--for Dean. Lots of bluesy or alt. country sorts of things, mainly, which are wonderful and brilliant, but not suitable to this. This one doesn't sound out of place, though, and it goes with the travelling theme, too.
- Puedo Escribir (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Puedo-Escribir-lyrics-Sixpence-None-The-Richer/9B7C03B471A848434825692A00231475), Sixpence None The Richer. Okay, breaking my own conditions here, because there is a prominent electric guitar, but...it's a Beatles-esque sixties sort of one, right? Anyway, it consists of fragments of a Pablo Neruda poem, and Dean would have totally read Neruda if...Neruda weren't a little too late in the century for him. The song has an excellent Spanish beat to it--not Latin-Spanish, but, you know, actual Spanish-Spanish. Awesome.
- Too Late (http://www.lyricsdownload.com/fisher-too-late-lyrics.html), Fisher. Piano and smoky female vocals. ♥ A bit unsure on the lyrics, but they have got the travelling and unrequited love, although it sounds a little too much as though it was Dean's choice to seperate from Emily.
If you want the mp3s, just ask. :)