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Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
10-04-2002, 07:03 AM
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
Aquarius!
-- Aquarius, from the musical "Hair"
Music by McDermot, lyrics by Rado and Ragni
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Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part II
10-04-2002, 07:06 AM
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
Eight dead in Ohio.
-- Ohio,
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
(Warriors' World version)
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Hmmm
10-04-2002, 05:14 PM
I take it Things are beginning to happen in Mega-Tokyo...
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Re: Hmmm
10-04-2002, 07:05 PM
And Things go better with Coke...
Yes, things are happening. Probably not the things you're expecting, though.
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Re: One Tin Soldier
10-04-2002, 07:08 PM
Actually, "One Tin Soldier" would be exactly wrong. These songs don't quite mean what you might think.
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Re: One Tin Soldier
10-04-2002, 08:39 PM
Well, One Tin Soldier doesn't mean exactly what most people thinks it means anyway.
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Re: One Tin Soldier
10-05-2002, 01:10 AM
This is true... not many people realize that the literal meaning of the chorus is not the message that the song is delivering.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
12-12-2002, 05:02 PM
I guess I should mention, although it probably goes without saying, that these two songs actually apply to the part of chapter 12 that became chapter 13... At the start of October, I still had hopes that the whole of the original chapter 12 would be done quickly.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
12-15-2002, 12:31 PM
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I guess I should mention, although it probably goes without saying, that these two songs actually apply to the part of chapter 12 that became chapter 13... At the start of October, I still had hopes that the whole of the original chapter 12 would be done quickly.
That's Ok... I always did figure that these two songs referred to the incepent buma revolutia that the Three set Doug to ferment. I mean, why else give him a vision that he's supposed to make like Moses, so to speak?"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.
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That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
12-15-2002, 07:29 PM
Yes... and no.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
12-16-2002, 06:34 AM
Quote:
Yes... and no.
Heh. You're definatly getting better at Gryph's Junior Vorlon act, Bob.
I should point out to anyone else that SOTD's, as imported from Eyrie, tend to be songs that were listened to while particular scenes were being written, or in some way reflect certain feelings that (Gryph at least) manifested during the writing. Personally, given that we KNOW what task the Three have given Doug before he can leave, and that these were two rather well known protest songs from the last great fredom movement..."I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
12-16-2002, 07:52 AM
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Heh. You're definatly getting better at Gryph's Junior Vorlon act, Bob.
Up in the air, Junior Vorlons!
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I should point out to anyone else that SOTD's, as imported from Eyrie, tend to be songs that were listened to while particular scenes were being written, or in some way reflect certain feelings that (Gryph at least) manifested during the writing.
True -- for EPU. Here, well, even as influenced by the spiritual fathers of epic fanfiction as I am, I'm not echoing Gryph's style quite that slavishly. The songs I post as "SOTDs" are a mixed bag: Some are, as with Gryphon, things I was listening to -- but less during the writing than during the germination. Some are "power music" Doug uses in a coming chapter. Some are "soundtrack" -- not in the "while writing, for the writer" sense above, but in the "while reading, for the reader" sense. And some are just pieces of music that are intrinsic to the plot without having any metanormal adjuncts.
In regards to the two songs in this thread, I'll say this: Doug plays one. The other is a plot point that a different character has to puzzle out.
The Sixties/revolution metaphor is a good one, and in fact appropriate to the chapter -- but not really done consciously. These two songs were selected at two widely varying times for widely varying reasons -- that they dovetail so well to each other and a perceived theme is a fortunate coincidence.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
08-06-2003, 06:50 PM
Just bumping the thread. I wrote the scene that ties into "Ohio" yesterday.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
10-10-2003, 01:57 PM
Just bumping the thread again. I wrote the "Aquarius" section two nights ago.
Also, with the latest amoebic division of the chapter, "Ohio" is now part of Chapter 13, and "Aquarius" is in 14.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
10-13-2003, 10:28 AM
What the frack do those two songs mean, if not the literal wording? Picking up on hinted subtexts and subtle inferences has always been something I fail at, to the point of including "Just say what you mean instead of hinting around it, and we'll get on fine - don't worry about offending me" in the longer sort of introduction, where you swap a few details as well as names.
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Re: Song of the Day, 10/4/02, Part I
10-13-2003, 01:35 PM
I'm sorry, CD -- both are plot points to a degree, and I don't want to actually give them away right now.
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