Seven Songs Meme

[hobgoblinn]

Music Meme - tagged by beatrice_otter:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66 (Yeah, the whole thing. Particularly the Dies Irae)
Aaron Copland "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Claire Pelletier - "Kabir Kouba"
Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror (Album) - particularly "Bonny Swans"
Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Semisonic - "Closing Time" (I almost never listen to the radio, but recently I did and heard this and really liked it, so I bought it from iTunes)
Harry Gregson-Williams - Chronicles of Narnia Sountrack (Particularly"Only the Beginning of the Adventure")

All of these are on my "In Loco Parentis" Playlist. I also have an albums playlist, where the tracks play in album order, not the order I set for the other playlist. Good writing/ programming/ not killing annoying co-workers music, all.

I've never been tagged specifically for a meme, and it was kinda cool. So, I'll tag back, but I won't be offended if you decide to blow me off. I tag clavally, liz_marcs, sniggs, esmestrella, sahiya, gillo, whitestar_alpha

(Woulda tagged antennapedia, but beatrice_otter got her first.)

And now, I better get to work on "In Loco," since I will be attending the Spring Camporee with my Wee Hob this weekend. There was a waitlist for it, and we hadn't signed up during the Grounding, but I just found out we got bumped up. They'll be earning the Railroading Merit Badge. I, however, will not be able to take my laptop. Guess I'll have to rough it and use a fountain pen. Shame I can't read my handwriting anymore....

Comments

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

My writing partner and I almost always have a soundtrack for a story. It is really funny when we are writing separate but related stories and chose the same songs. I think I'd like the War Requiem...I now have a celtic Requiem stuck in my head. I'm also a huge fan of Loreena McKennitt but my two favs off that album are Mystics Dream and Marrakesh Night Market. I have to say, she really did capture the market with that song. You have also succeeded in scaring me because I haven't heard Closing Time in forever (don't listen to the radio) and on the very day you mentioned it, I heard it when walking into Murrin's lab. I also can't wait for the next installment! wOOt!

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Ever heard the missa Celtica by John Cameron? It's also nice writing music. Britten's an acquired taste, though, and very intense if you actually start listening to what's going on, especially looking at how the Wilfred Owen poems and the requiem text interact.

I owe theblackmare for my introduction to Loreena McKinnett, and Claire Pelletier, who seems a French equivalent. That's why both are well represented on my playlist.

I think I like the keyboard ostinato on Closing Time-- it would be fun to play.