highlander playlist update #1,600,042

[cimorene]

blood roses by tori amos*

also.  "father lucifer", also by tori.  and "lily of the valley" by queen, "you may be right" by billy joel.  ahahahah :cough: and "someday we'll know" by mandy moore and jonathan foreman :cough:.

(i document these little thoughts for posterity--in the interest of preserving the freakiest aspects of this little obsession.  i'm struggling with urges to make icon song-sets.  to, like, eight different songs.)

*
dinah washington - you don't know what love is
dinah washington - since i fell for you
esthero - swallow me (the lyrics don't fit, but i think it'd make a nice sex-themed vid)
esthero - breath from another
esthero - don't mean a thing
evanescence - my last breath
evanescence - everybody's fool
garbage - lick the pavement
garbage - untouchable
garbage - til the day i die
garbage - fix me now
diana krall -  a case of you
paul oakenfold (vocals grant lee phillips) - motion
emiliana torrini - telepathy
dido - i'm no angel
mandy moore - cry
paul oakenfold (vocals emiliana torrini) - hold my hand
louis armstrong - cabaret
sarah slean - i know
sarah slean - my angel (i hate the word angel: why do people have to make songs about it that i then get hooked on?!)
sarah slean - me, i'm a thief

Comments

[oneko-briar.livejournal.com]

no! no! Father Lucifer is, like, my ultimo!Lucius Malfoy song.

plus, on HL, i, like, tootally don't get it!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

speaker is methos, to duncan, angry that duncan is SLEEPING WITH WOMEN and moralistic and clueless and doesn't realise that the only possible explanation for much of methos's behaviour is lots and lots of duncan-love, and duncan doesn't understand him at all, but he's all presumptuous of methos's motives, and thinks he DOES understand him, and likes to play poor-little-me because methos is distant, when in fact, in all the ways that matter, HE'S the one who is distant.

uh. you were warned that i'm obsessed with the pairing... . :)

[morningfine]

Got that song in mp3? Could you upload it on yousendit? I've had the album, I should remember what it's like, but I don't. And now you made me obsess about it, because you make it sound so awesome.

Nothing wrong with being D/M-obsessed! Or that's what I like to tell myself. XD

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, i'm not saying the lyrics actually spell that scenario out. that's just how the vid my brain planned to go with it goes.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QP8Y7RAVE4EC1C7H0SC2RQRSK

there.

lyrics (http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/f/father_lucifer_tori_amos.html)

[morningfine]

Given that I listened to the song and read the lyrics with your interpretation playing in my head, I could see it. Not clearly, more like lurking around the corner, but that's how Tori's songs always are. And I love the moment of discovery when one line starts to make sense and then it all unfolds in a rush. Okay, yeah, I used to listen to Tori way too much.

Thanks, this is a great call. And I so won't ask about the Garbage ones, because they didn't open to me at all, and I'm not sure I want to know...

I'm now inspired to make a Highlander playlist of my own.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hey, "dumb" is a perfect horsemen-oriented methos>duncan. some of them are just the chorus or really vague or whatever. and "lick the pavement" made more sense when i misheard the lyrics, but i decided to keep it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

and in case you change your mind... untouchable doesn't really work except the "you think you're untouchable" bit which is anybody>methos, but since like 50% of the song is that one word i figured it could slide.

til the day i die (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/garbage/57889.html) is pretty straightforward. i pretty much buy the Methos's Love For Duncan Explains Everything interpretation of canon, so. (don't forget to take "in your arms" as having to do with sparring, though.)

fix me now (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/garbage/57895.html) works fine since it's a universally angsty show. in the vid in my head, it's methos's pov at the beginning of their mutual canon and then duncan's later on as he gets more angsty.

and here's dumb (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/GARBAGE/Dumb.html).

[morningfine]

Dumb is just Perfect, yes, with a capital P. Although that wasn't on your list, or have I gone blind?

But, Till The Day I Die connects with this Elrond/Legolas kick I was on and I can't help it after all these years. Although I can see how that was evil and horrible and holy fuck. I'll work on this, but I think that will always be the primary association of that song. Sad as it is.

Have to think about Fix Me Now a bit more. Might just be because I never liked it as a song. You might be onto something there, but it's also generally angsty in a way that makes it applicable to almost anything.

Sometimes it just takes a fresh pair of eyes on a song. I love fandom song calls like crazy, really.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

nope, i hadn't listened to dumb yet when i made the original list.

and fix me now--i read the lyrics BEFORE i listened, and i like the lyrics better than the sound. when i make my short playlist (cd-burning length, but that's not going to be for some time) it may not make it.