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Seriously, it's insane. INSANE. Three and a half hours. Also, image heavy post. This time I'm remembering to make sure there's a cut and that it works, because yeah. I don't need to be an accidental douche again.
1) Que Sera, Sera- Pink Martini
When I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, what lies ahead?
This is the creepiest version of this song that I have ever heard. Seriously, listen to it. It just sounds unhinged. It's beautiful, and all things considered, rather tragic.
2) Golden Years- David Bowie
Nothing's gonna touch you in your golden years...
Because he promised her they'd grow old together...
3) When I Grow Too Old To Dream/Remember- Mandy Patinkin
How we kissed and how we clung, remember, darling? We were foolish, we were young, more than we knew...
Not only does Mandy sing a version of 'Remember' which has a nice feeling of building desperation at times, but he combines it with the too-too perfect 'When I Grow Too Old To Dream'.
4) Old Souls- Jessica Harper
All souls last forever, so we need never fear goodbye. A kiss when I must go... No tears... In time... We kiss hello
(written by Paul Williams for Phantom of the Paradise, in case anyone wondered) Beautiful melancholy musings on old souls in love. And, not wholly inappropriate music for urging your lover to jump off a building to.
5) I Put A Spell On You- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
I included this for the back-and-forth pull over dying together or living together, and for the notion of incepting one's wife to begin with, I suppose. And 'cause it's a good song.
6) My Death- Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
My death waits like a witch at night, as surely as our love is bright
Perhaps I should have warned you before, but I have no shortage of songs for lovers' suicides, successful or otherwise. I used only a fraction of them making this fanmix.
7) The High Price of Necromancy- Split Lip Rayfield
Okay, I'll be honest, the actual lyrics are... um, kind of about necromancy-necromancy. It's like a Necromancer's Hoedown. But the title made me think of Dom living with the shade of Mal in his head, confounding him at every turn because he can't let her die.
8) The Shadow of Your Smile- The Emperors of Swing
Instrumental. Another song for the Shade. Also, it's beautiful, and very noir-ish, if anybody's into that.
9) The Abandoned Castle of my Soul- The Gothic Archies
I was young and impressionable, my morality questionable, when I happened to fall into a howling abyss, and I haven't hit the bottom yet.
Limbo. Also, the band name is an architectural pun. But mostly, it's because it's the perfect Limbo song. Um, the dream state, not the backward-bending dance. That would be a depressing luau.
10) True- Konami Kukeiha Club
It's from 'Silent Hill 2', which is, plotwise, forever married to Inception in my brain. So... Yeah.
1) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- AC/DC
Neckties... Cyanide... TNT...
Why? Because Arthur is the king of shady BAMFs.
2) Trying to Keep the Customer Satisfied- Simon & Garfunkel
I've been on the road so long, my friend, and if you came along, I know you couldn't disagree...
And the king of shady BAMFs is kind of busy organizing jobs and trying to keep his best friend out of prison.
3) Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien- Edith Piaf
This is on here because it's, like, the law.
(I... I couldn't resist the awful THard Myspace pic... I'm only human!)
1) Gambler's Prayer- Jonathan Coulton
No lyric preview, this one really needs to be listened to.
2) I Was Meant For the Stage- The Decemberists
I was meant for applause, I was meant for derision. Nothing short fate itself has affected my decision...
I don;t have any songs about shapeshifting inside dreams, so a song about acting will have to do. It is beautiful.
3) The Rum Tum Tugger- CATS
Because I know I'm not the first one to see it. I know.
1) Anything You Can Do- Bernadette Peters
I can shoot a partridge, with a single cartridge...
Mustn't, after all, be afraid to dream a little bigger... (admittedly, this whole song works a lot better if you're genderbending one of them, but hey, not like Eames can't just forge a girlfor the purpose...)
2) Grace Kelly- Mika
I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like...
Okay, well, maybe this works as a shapeshifting song. Sort of. In a weird way. But more of an awkward flirtation.
3) Bad Romance- Lady Gaga
'Cause You're a criminal as long as you're mine...
Well, they're both criminals regardless, but you know what I mean. It felt rather de rigeur...
4) Every Day I Write the Book- Elvis Costello
All your compliments and your cutting remarks are captured here in my quotation marks...
I just like this for them. There are a couple other good A/E lines in it. Plus, Elvis Costello, <3.
1) I Get A Kick Out Of You- Dinah Washington
So tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
What, me, terrible puns?
2) A Kiss To Build A Dream On- Mandy Patinkin
Give me a kiss before you leave me, and my imagination will feed my hungry heart., leave me one thing before we part, a kiss to build a dream on...
Okay, yes. Sometimes I go for punny, cheesy songs. But at least they're sweet and lovely punny cheesy songs.
3) Marry An American- Boy Meets Boy
If you're frightfully English, frightfully proper too, marry an American, that's the modern thing to do! If stiff upper lip is you in just a phrase, marry an American, that's the fashion nowadays.
This song is unbearably cute. And it's from off-Broadway musical Boy Meets Boy, an unbearably cute tale of transatlantic gay love.
1) Carousel- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
The English version is not nearly as elegant as the French-- for this I apologize. 'We're on a carousel' is not half so poetic as 'We waltz a thousand times'. But it now reminds me of the carnival AU from the kink meme, as well as JGL's La Valse a Mille-Temps.
2) The Thoughts That Give Me the Creeps- Hellogoodbye
Oh no, what if I never knew your name, the thought's insane, What if your love is not the same, as it is inside my brain?
It's kind of sweet, and filled with a sort of longing, and it panders to my love of ukulele...
3) Nothing Matters When We're Dancing- The Magnetic Fields
Dance with me, my old friend, once before we go. Let's pretend this song won't end and we never have to go home...
Wistful and lovely, and I can imagine Arthur listening to The Magnetic Fields. If I can also imagine them waltzing, well...
(I don't actually have any 'shippy songs for them! I kind of wish I did, but I just have a couple songs for them as individuals)
1) Slumberland- Little Nemo in Slumberland
Surprises are a commonplace occurrence...
Ariadne's introduction to dreaming. I figured more people would already have Pure Imagination, which would also work really well, but I have a huge soft spot for this, and I like the dissonance of having such a relentlessly cheery song underscoring Ariadne's first meeting with Mal's Shade.
2) So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright- Simon & Garfunkel
Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view, when I run dry, I stop a while and think of you.
I don't have very many songs about famous architects. I venture to say not many exist.
3) What the World Needs Now is Science
Why are you messing around with fantasy? You know about reality...
I don't even know who this is by, and I assume I got it from my brother, but it is fun and catchy.
4) I Wanna Be Sedated- The Ramones
Well, clearly.
1) Money- Pink Floyd
I think I need me a Lear jet...
It seemed... neater.
2) The Passenger- Iggy Pop
I am the passenger, and I ride and I ride...
For our favourite Tourist...
3) Creep- Scala & Kolacny Brothers
... I don't belong here...
Although, not gonna lie, Saito-san, being a tourist in another person's brain kind of does make you a creep. Even if Fischer is pretty...
1) Pity the Child- Chess
He never asked "Did I cause your distress?", Just in case they said "Yes."
Oh, Robert. Why so woobie? It was only after putting the whole mix together that I realized I'd given a character named Robert Fischer a song from the musical 'Chess'...
2) Flowers are Red- Harry Chapin
More woobie little Robert. This is actually the version of the song not intended to rip your heart out and stomp on it. So, there's that...
3) Timid Frieda- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Timid Frieda, if you see her, on the street where the future gathers, just let her be her, let her play in the broken times of sand...
This is a really wonderful song for someone transitioning between under-the-thumb woobie-hood and becoming ones own person.
1) He's My Secret Passion- Danny Yates and His Orchestra
He doesn't know it, but someday he will, he's my secret passion...
This one comes from an album of old songs written for women but recorded by men. It's mildly stalkery.
2) You Are a Runner, and I am My Father's Son- Wolf Parade
I'll build a house inside of you, I'll go in through the mouth, I'll draw three figures on your heart
3) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End- The Beatles
Honestly, I would use this for every single pairing I have in this fandom., either in part or in whole.
4) Once Upon a Dream- King Arthur's Carousel
Yes, yes it is a tinny carousel version of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz that plays at Disneyland. Believe me, if I had the actual song, I'd use it, but... Look, we've established my relative lack of sanity, right?
5) Soft Rocked- Jonathan Coulton
You've never been soft rocked, until you've been soft rocked by me.
Just relax, baby, and let the smooth seduction of Saito wash over you.
Have you ever been in love with a man who's sensitive? Have you ever spent the night with a man who cries? Well that's me, I'm sensitive, and I cry, I'm crying right now.
Or you could try to resist the woobie charms of Robert.
6) Wrapped Around Your Finger- The Police
Has a great reversal of power-balance, and also, it's pretty.
7) Hate Me- Blue October
If you're sleeping, are you dreaming, if you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me?
There's one verse that really doesn't work, but two verses that do. The 'I screwed up your life' song.
8) Baby Beautiful- Aiha Higurashi
It's cute and domestic with an edge of 'you might leave me', and I wind up listening to it quite a bit, actually.
1) Smut- Tom Lehrer
More, more, I'm still not satisfied...
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the songs of the kink meme.
2) Strangelove- Depeche Mode
I give in to sin, because I like to practice what I preach
That's right, kinky, kinky sexytiems. Depeche Mode is my go-to music for that, just in general.
3) Master and Servant- Nouvelle Vague
Let's play Master and servant
And a cover of a Depeche Mode song... Man, those guys wrote the score for D/s...
4) Bedroom Toys- Duran Duran
I saw the bedroom toys, now I'm crawling. I learn to improvise...
I'm not sure anything else needs to be said...
5) We Are What We Are- La Cage Aux Folles
Thank you, kink meme, for bringing us the joy that is Arthur in lacy underthings. And, you know, full drag AUs. It's all good, I just like my boys in frilly pretties.
6) A Little More Mascara- La Cage Aux Folles
NEVER ENOUGH DRAG.
7) Fever- Michael Buble
I used it for a drag AU minifill once, but I believe it's also been referenced in an aphrodisiac fill.
8) My Strongest Suit- Aida
Yes, for the drag fics I love so much, but also for the suit!porn. Or for any kink requiring uniforms or costumes.
9) I Want You Now- Depeche Mode
I want you now, tomorrow won't do. There's a yearning inside, and it's showing through...
Unf. It all comes back to Depeche Mode. This song sounds like sex.
1) Que Sera, Sera- Pink Martini
When I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, what lies ahead?
This is the creepiest version of this song that I have ever heard. Seriously, listen to it. It just sounds unhinged. It's beautiful, and all things considered, rather tragic.
2) Golden Years- David Bowie
Nothing's gonna touch you in your golden years...
Because he promised her they'd grow old together...
3) When I Grow Too Old To Dream/Remember- Mandy Patinkin
How we kissed and how we clung, remember, darling? We were foolish, we were young, more than we knew...
Not only does Mandy sing a version of 'Remember' which has a nice feeling of building desperation at times, but he combines it with the too-too perfect 'When I Grow Too Old To Dream'.
4) Old Souls- Jessica Harper
All souls last forever, so we need never fear goodbye. A kiss when I must go... No tears... In time... We kiss hello
(written by Paul Williams for Phantom of the Paradise, in case anyone wondered) Beautiful melancholy musings on old souls in love. And, not wholly inappropriate music for urging your lover to jump off a building to.
5) I Put A Spell On You- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
I included this for the back-and-forth pull over dying together or living together, and for the notion of incepting one's wife to begin with, I suppose. And 'cause it's a good song.
6) My Death- Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
My death waits like a witch at night, as surely as our love is bright
Perhaps I should have warned you before, but I have no shortage of songs for lovers' suicides, successful or otherwise. I used only a fraction of them making this fanmix.
7) The High Price of Necromancy- Split Lip Rayfield
Okay, I'll be honest, the actual lyrics are... um, kind of about necromancy-necromancy. It's like a Necromancer's Hoedown. But the title made me think of Dom living with the shade of Mal in his head, confounding him at every turn because he can't let her die.
8) The Shadow of Your Smile- The Emperors of Swing
Instrumental. Another song for the Shade. Also, it's beautiful, and very noir-ish, if anybody's into that.
9) The Abandoned Castle of my Soul- The Gothic Archies
I was young and impressionable, my morality questionable, when I happened to fall into a howling abyss, and I haven't hit the bottom yet.
Limbo. Also, the band name is an architectural pun. But mostly, it's because it's the perfect Limbo song. Um, the dream state, not the backward-bending dance. That would be a depressing luau.
10) True- Konami Kukeiha Club
It's from 'Silent Hill 2', which is, plotwise, forever married to Inception in my brain. So... Yeah.
1) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- AC/DC
Neckties... Cyanide... TNT...
Why? Because Arthur is the king of shady BAMFs.
2) Trying to Keep the Customer Satisfied- Simon & Garfunkel
I've been on the road so long, my friend, and if you came along, I know you couldn't disagree...
And the king of shady BAMFs is kind of busy organizing jobs and trying to keep his best friend out of prison.
3) Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien- Edith Piaf
This is on here because it's, like, the law.
(I... I couldn't resist the awful THard Myspace pic... I'm only human!)
1) Gambler's Prayer- Jonathan Coulton
No lyric preview, this one really needs to be listened to.
2) I Was Meant For the Stage- The Decemberists
I was meant for applause, I was meant for derision. Nothing short fate itself has affected my decision...
I don;t have any songs about shapeshifting inside dreams, so a song about acting will have to do. It is beautiful.
3) The Rum Tum Tugger- CATS
Because I know I'm not the first one to see it. I know.
1) Anything You Can Do- Bernadette Peters
I can shoot a partridge, with a single cartridge...
Mustn't, after all, be afraid to dream a little bigger... (admittedly, this whole song works a lot better if you're genderbending one of them, but hey, not like Eames can't just forge a girlfor the purpose...)
2) Grace Kelly- Mika
I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like...
Okay, well, maybe this works as a shapeshifting song. Sort of. In a weird way. But more of an awkward flirtation.
3) Bad Romance- Lady Gaga
'Cause You're a criminal as long as you're mine...
Well, they're both criminals regardless, but you know what I mean. It felt rather de rigeur...
4) Every Day I Write the Book- Elvis Costello
All your compliments and your cutting remarks are captured here in my quotation marks...
I just like this for them. There are a couple other good A/E lines in it. Plus, Elvis Costello, <3.
1) I Get A Kick Out Of You- Dinah Washington
So tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
What, me, terrible puns?
2) A Kiss To Build A Dream On- Mandy Patinkin
Give me a kiss before you leave me, and my imagination will feed my hungry heart., leave me one thing before we part, a kiss to build a dream on...
Okay, yes. Sometimes I go for punny, cheesy songs. But at least they're sweet and lovely punny cheesy songs.
3) Marry An American- Boy Meets Boy
If you're frightfully English, frightfully proper too, marry an American, that's the modern thing to do! If stiff upper lip is you in just a phrase, marry an American, that's the fashion nowadays.
This song is unbearably cute. And it's from off-Broadway musical Boy Meets Boy, an unbearably cute tale of transatlantic gay love.
1) Carousel- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
The English version is not nearly as elegant as the French-- for this I apologize. 'We're on a carousel' is not half so poetic as 'We waltz a thousand times'. But it now reminds me of the carnival AU from the kink meme, as well as JGL's La Valse a Mille-Temps.
2) The Thoughts That Give Me the Creeps- Hellogoodbye
Oh no, what if I never knew your name, the thought's insane, What if your love is not the same, as it is inside my brain?
It's kind of sweet, and filled with a sort of longing, and it panders to my love of ukulele...
3) Nothing Matters When We're Dancing- The Magnetic Fields
Dance with me, my old friend, once before we go. Let's pretend this song won't end and we never have to go home...
Wistful and lovely, and I can imagine Arthur listening to The Magnetic Fields. If I can also imagine them waltzing, well...
(I don't actually have any 'shippy songs for them! I kind of wish I did, but I just have a couple songs for them as individuals)
1) Slumberland- Little Nemo in Slumberland
Surprises are a commonplace occurrence...
Ariadne's introduction to dreaming. I figured more people would already have Pure Imagination, which would also work really well, but I have a huge soft spot for this, and I like the dissonance of having such a relentlessly cheery song underscoring Ariadne's first meeting with Mal's Shade.
2) So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright- Simon & Garfunkel
Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view, when I run dry, I stop a while and think of you.
I don't have very many songs about famous architects. I venture to say not many exist.
3) What the World Needs Now is Science
Why are you messing around with fantasy? You know about reality...
I don't even know who this is by, and I assume I got it from my brother, but it is fun and catchy.
4) I Wanna Be Sedated- The Ramones
Well, clearly.
1) Money- Pink Floyd
I think I need me a Lear jet...
It seemed... neater.
2) The Passenger- Iggy Pop
I am the passenger, and I ride and I ride...
For our favourite Tourist...
3) Creep- Scala & Kolacny Brothers
... I don't belong here...
Although, not gonna lie, Saito-san, being a tourist in another person's brain kind of does make you a creep. Even if Fischer is pretty...
1) Pity the Child- Chess
He never asked "Did I cause your distress?", Just in case they said "Yes."
Oh, Robert. Why so woobie? It was only after putting the whole mix together that I realized I'd given a character named Robert Fischer a song from the musical 'Chess'...
2) Flowers are Red- Harry Chapin
More woobie little Robert. This is actually the version of the song not intended to rip your heart out and stomp on it. So, there's that...
3) Timid Frieda- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Timid Frieda, if you see her, on the street where the future gathers, just let her be her, let her play in the broken times of sand...
This is a really wonderful song for someone transitioning between under-the-thumb woobie-hood and becoming ones own person.
1) He's My Secret Passion- Danny Yates and His Orchestra
He doesn't know it, but someday he will, he's my secret passion...
This one comes from an album of old songs written for women but recorded by men. It's mildly stalkery.
2) You Are a Runner, and I am My Father's Son- Wolf Parade
I'll build a house inside of you, I'll go in through the mouth, I'll draw three figures on your heart
3) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End- The Beatles
Honestly, I would use this for every single pairing I have in this fandom., either in part or in whole.
4) Once Upon a Dream- King Arthur's Carousel
Yes, yes it is a tinny carousel version of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz that plays at Disneyland. Believe me, if I had the actual song, I'd use it, but... Look, we've established my relative lack of sanity, right?
5) Soft Rocked- Jonathan Coulton
You've never been soft rocked, until you've been soft rocked by me.
Just relax, baby, and let the smooth seduction of Saito wash over you.
Have you ever been in love with a man who's sensitive? Have you ever spent the night with a man who cries? Well that's me, I'm sensitive, and I cry, I'm crying right now.
Or you could try to resist the woobie charms of Robert.
6) Wrapped Around Your Finger- The Police
Has a great reversal of power-balance, and also, it's pretty.
7) Hate Me- Blue October
If you're sleeping, are you dreaming, if you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me?
There's one verse that really doesn't work, but two verses that do. The 'I screwed up your life' song.
8) Baby Beautiful- Aiha Higurashi
It's cute and domestic with an edge of 'you might leave me', and I wind up listening to it quite a bit, actually.
1) Smut- Tom Lehrer
More, more, I'm still not satisfied...
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the songs of the kink meme.
2) Strangelove- Depeche Mode
I give in to sin, because I like to practice what I preach
That's right, kinky, kinky sexytiems. Depeche Mode is my go-to music for that, just in general.
3) Master and Servant- Nouvelle Vague
Let's play Master and servant
And a cover of a Depeche Mode song... Man, those guys wrote the score for D/s...
4) Bedroom Toys- Duran Duran
I saw the bedroom toys, now I'm crawling. I learn to improvise...
I'm not sure anything else needs to be said...
5) We Are What We Are- La Cage Aux Folles
Thank you, kink meme, for bringing us the joy that is Arthur in lacy underthings. And, you know, full drag AUs. It's all good, I just like my boys in frilly pretties.
6) A Little More Mascara- La Cage Aux Folles
NEVER ENOUGH DRAG.
7) Fever- Michael Buble
I used it for a drag AU minifill once, but I believe it's also been referenced in an aphrodisiac fill.
8) My Strongest Suit- Aida
Yes, for the drag fics I love so much, but also for the suit!porn. Or for any kink requiring uniforms or costumes.
9) I Want You Now- Depeche Mode
I want you now, tomorrow won't do. There's a yearning inside, and it's showing through...
Unf. It all comes back to Depeche Mode. This song sounds like sex.