Here's a song I got from my Dad while he was recording all of his old records onto mp3 format. This was part ease of use and part crumudgeony act of defiance to the RIAA. This song reminds me of Doug in a lot of ways, though I don't think he's very mercenary at all. Plus the spegetti western sound of it appeals to me.
Ballad of Paladin by Johnny Western. Theme song to the television show Have Gun Will Travel (1957).
Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire head's the calling wind.
A soldier of fotune is the man called Paladin.
Paladin, Paladin where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin, far, far from home.
He travels on to wherever he must;
A chess knight of silver is his badge of trust.
There are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
Of the man with the gun,
of the man called Paladin
Paladin, Paladin where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin, far, far from home.
Far from home.
Far from home.
Next up is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. It's got smirking glee written all over it and could be a nasty ranged attack.
Bottlerocket War by Pain
Never enough celebrating Independence Day.
It was never enough to celebrate the eve of New Years Day.
What about my friends and me, can we have our say?
Cuz all our many enemies need to be blown away.
Aint no sting like a bottlerocket burrowing
Deep into the side of your face.
And have you ever felt the big welt
That a Roman candle leaves in its place?
The woods in the neighborhood are worth getting put in jail.
Well fight em in the tunnels and well fight em in the swamps
And theyll never get past never gonna go!
Four Bics get flicked and the punks get lit.
We never asked if we should
Its a game, its a chore, its a bottlerocket war
And life never got so good.
Build a pile, everything we bought from Crazy Bill.
Crazy Bob, and Crazy Ken,
Theyd sober up if they knew about The Plan.
We got enough pyrotechnics to fill up a wagon
Like a Chinese party in the year of the dragon.
Im standing next to Poe and this is what he said:
Chuck can lift a manhole cover with his head!
(Here we go!)
Four Bics get flicked and the punks get lit.
We never asked if we should
Its a game, its a chore, its a bottlerocket war
And life never got so good.
Were just trying to have some fun.
Were not hurting anyone.
The lights burst like magic spells
And make a sweet sound like bells.
Four Bics get flicked and the punks get lit.
We never asked if we should.
Its a game, its a chore, its a bottlerocket war
And life never got so good.
Never got so GOOD.
And just because its silly, Unseen Tears of the Albacore by The Vandals. I'll put up the lyrics later maybe, but its a goofy song lamenting the fact that everybody loves dolphins but nobody cries for the tuna.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"
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Ballad of Paladin by Johnny Western. Theme song to the television show Have Gun Will Travel (1957).
Oh, you can't believe how hard I laughed when I saw this... you see, before I settled on
Drunkard's Walk, I deliberated over several other possible titles, one of which was "Have Helmet, Will Travel". (Of course, I was playing less off "Have Gun" and more off Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", but even so...)
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Next up is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. It's got smirking glee written all over it and could be a nasty ranged attack.
Yes, it could, at that -- probably nonlethal, but in no way ignorable... I like.
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And just because its silly, Unseen Tears of the Albacore by The Vandals. I'll put up the lyrics later maybe, but its a goofy song lamenting the fact that everybody loves dolphins but nobody cries for the tuna.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
This thread has spurred me into motion. Unfortunately, I've spent a lot of my 'new music' energy lately hunting down different cuts of "Because the Night" - so far I've found Patti Smith, 10,000 Maniacs, Bruce Springsteen, a surprisingly entertaining cover by a heavy-metalish band called Keel, and various rather indifferent techno versions.
Anyway, on to powers.
Bad Religion - You've Got A Chance (Power - GM Fiat, whatever brings Doug even with the opposition and/or teleporting Doug to the nearest conflict that would be... hmmm... his concern)
A rhapsody! Contestants in disguise
A nation of desire
But who will win the prize?
The people stand united,
Reluctantly aligned
Copying and lying
Are the favorite past-time
You've got a chance
To confront the world today
Desperate romance
Is the curse of castaways
What good is skill
If you don't make it to the dance?
Despite circumstance
You've got a chance
Common life depicted on afternoon tv,
Is spiked to give the miserable a vogue identity
Hate your neighbors,
Cheat your friends,
They don't discriminate
Popularity and fame don't care
If you're a reprobate
You've got a chance
To confront the world today
Desperate romance
Is the curse of castaways
What good is skill
If you don't make it to the dance?
Despite circumstance
You've got a chance
I'm tired of all this
Shakespearean misinformation
I want to win the game
You've got the right intentions
But who's got time to think?
You've got a noon appointment,
You've got to hit the links
You're talking in the stratosphere,
You're curled up on the floor
With such a wealth of information,
Why are you so poor?
You've got a chance
To be relevant today
Desperate romance
Is the curse of castaways
What good is skill
If you don't make it to the dance?
(don't you believe what the wise men have to say)
Despite circumstance
You've got a chance
Bad Religion - Raise Your Voice (Amplifies Doug's voice, of course. And oblitherates his sense of tact...)
fa fa fafa fa fa fafa raise your voice!
don't be played like someone else's board game
don't be classed out like some desperate redoubt
don't be misled you've got a lot on your head
and nobody's gonna pay attention when you are dead
so... fa fa fafa fa fa fafa raise your voice!
it's the primary rule, you gotta wanna be fooled
it's our daunted restraint that keeps us silent in shame
it's our nature to be adversarial and free
our evolution didn't hinge on passivity
fa fa fafa fa fa fafa raise your voice!
Fleetwood Mac - Caroline (A rewind key for the universe! Fortunately or un, it also suffers from the same limitation as what's-his-face... O'shae? Transfictional-traveler-type-person. Him. Doug has to Change Something, preferably fatally.)
she's so crazy
she's so lazy
keeps on coming
keeps you running
caroline
caroline
time recedes
with a fatal drop
dusty fury
on the mountain top
cut the cord if you can
caroline
caroline
she's so cagey
she's so stagey
so attractive
so reactive
caroline
caroline
time recedes
with a fatal drop
dusty fury
on the mountain top
cut the cord if you can
caroline
caroline
caroline
caroline
time recedes
with a fatal drop
dusty fury
on the mountain top
cut the cord if you can
caroline
caroline
caroline
caroline
Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight (Doug turns into Bishie Ed! Only for him, it actually -works-.)
so cool, calm and collected
you had a style, a rakish style
well my poor heart
never connected
you'd stay so long on my mind
well isn't it midnight
on the other side of the world
do you remember
the face of a pretty girl
the face of a pretty girl
looking back so long ago
you had a knack, a knack of
making women know
ooh there wasn't the time
and i knew you'd never be mine
well isn't it midnight
on the other side of the world
do you remember
the face of a pretty girl
the face of a pretty girl
the face of a pretty girl
well isn't it midnight
on the other side of the world
do you remember
the face of a pretty girl
the face of a pretty girl
the face of a pretty girl
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun (Grants super-speed and acts like a sledgehammer dose of Prozium. Fear, rage, love, sympathy, discouragement... no more emotions, nothing but Purpose. At least, until the song ends.)
Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway
Dodging bullets while you're trying to find your way
Everyone's around, but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I won't let them
If I seem bleak
Well you'd be correct
And if I don't speak
It's cause I get disconnected
But I won't be burned by the reflection
Of the fire in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
When I ran I didn't feel like a runaway
When I escaped I didn't feel like I got away
There's more to living than only surviving
Maybe I'm not there, but I'm still trying
Though you hear me
I don't think that you relate
My will is something
That you can't confiscate
So forgive me, but I won't be frustrated
By destruction in your eyes
As you're staring at the sun
Blessed be.
-n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
And here's the vaguely alluded to response to myself!
Unseen Tears of the Albacore, The Vandals
When Humanity creates a hierchy
Placing blowholes above anemones
When sovereign nations have made it policy
Slaughter anything that goes with wasabe
In the food chain, there is a third rail
Winking at mass murder of the yellow tail
Let 'em suffocate, there's no intelligence
They don't jump through hoops for an audience
Say a prayer for the Earth as you make a wish
Who will shed one tear for the tunafish,
or the thousand other species on the ocean floor?
Does a spot on prime time TV Land justify the ruination of a fisherman
That could've been me cries the albacore
With the carnage sealed hermetically
In the killing fields of local canneries
It's a Dolphin Safe atrocity (Flippery frippery)
Say a prayer for the Earth as you make a wish
Who will shed one tear for the tunafish,
or the thousand other species on the ocean floor?
Does a spot on prime time TV Land justify the ruination of a fisherman
That could've been me cries the albacore
Metal gafs are flying
As the innocent keep dying
But are we only crying
For God's creatures not worth frying?
Say a prayer for the Earth as you make a wish
Who will shed one tear for the tunafish,
or the thousand other species on the ocean floor?
Does a spot on prime time TV Land justify the ruination of a fisherman
That could've been me cries the albacore
I have no idea what kind of power this would give. Super efficient packing plant powers? More likely something useless, like only being able to hear fish complaints.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"
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I have no idea what kind of power this would give. Super efficient packing plant powers? More likely something useless, like only being able to hear fish complaints.
I like that. You know, I ought to start a thread on songs that might give him useless goofball powers.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Like Dire Straits Tunnel of Love or Dancing by the Pool?"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
Quote: I like that. You know, I ought to start a thread on songs that might give him useless goofball powers.
Heh, couldn't help myself. I had this mental image of Doug staring at his helmet in horror and saying. "God no, I've become Aqua Man."
Sure, he wouldn't know who Aqua Man is, but the image persisted.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"
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Ballad of Paladin by Johnny Western. Theme song to the television show Have Gun Will Travel (1957).
Hey, I've been looking for these. HGWT is an old favorite of mine (reruns only; it's not that much of an old favorite). Thanks.
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