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We don't seem to have a music thread. I seek to remedy this.
For talking about, um, music! Songs! Artists! Whatever. Perhaps snippets of lyrics or something.
Three points:
1. Just bought the 5th anniversary Wicked soundtrack, mostly for the German+unidentified language (I think Japanese...?) bonus songs. Gutes tun/No Good Deed in German is ammmaaaaaaazing.
2. Recently downloaded a full show video thing of the pre-Broadway LM trials. Ursula's deleted four-line song=teh current obsession. "Now at last my plan is on its way to its delectable conclusion/Only one more sunset and then finally I'll own the little beast/Soon I'll have my brother just exactly where I want him/And I'll be unstoppable as long as I have this!" <3.
Interestingly enough it's the same tune as Prince Eric's "I can hear her laughter in the ripple of the waves against the shoreline/I can see her smiling in the moonlight as it settles on the sand/I can feel her waiting just beyond the pale horizon/Singing out her melody too lovely to withstand..."
Which makes the current obsession a reprise of Her Voice, oddly. Wish it hadn't been axed.
3. Singing in German must be really hard. Those were some impressive consonants in Gutes tun and Solang ich dich han.
submitted by TNÖ, age 16, Deep Space
(September 30, 2009 - 10:11 pm)
(September 30, 2009 - 10:11 pm)
Yes, they stay buried alive. Yes, it's slightly morbid, but in their case there's a semi-happy/happy ending (depending on your POV), because they find each other in another life (in a museum) in modern times.
TL5Y... no. It does not have a happy ending. At all. You know Still Hurting? That's how Cathy/SRS ends up. Even though it's the first song, it's the end of the story, so... Yeah, probably it's the most depressing music I own- Les Mis, Aida, Wicked, and Rent all at least have happy endings, and Sweeney Todd has too much comedy in it for it to really be depressing. The only thing that comes close is Dr. Horrible, but, again, too much of a comedic element of comedy to be as raw as TL5Y.
Of course, TL5Y is also arguably one of the best albums in my entire library- bare-bones orchestra comprised mainly of a piano, a violin, and a cello (with a handful of backup instruments), the unique rhythm and cadence of the lyrics, Sherie Rene Scott's and Norbert Leo Butz's amazing vocals...
It's 5 instead of five mostly for aesthetic purposes, I think.
(November 12, 2009 - 6:12 pm)
Of course, I'd technically imagine that they don't stay buried *alive* for terribly long, but...
Ohh. And, out of curiosity, are there any happy songs in TL5Y?
Although the sad lyrics that I looked up are, as I said above, very pretty.
Wait, I thought Les Mis ended with mainly everyone either dying or having their hearts broken? Or the book, anyway. Which I haven't read (yet) but I think you summarized it somewhere.
(November 13, 2009 - 4:06 pm)
Well yes, except Marius and Cosette, they get happy endings. And Valjean dies peacefully after reconciling with his adopted daughter (Cosette), and then goes to heaven. It's happy even though he dies.
Whereas TL5Y is a downer ending no matter which way you spin it. There are happy songs- all the songs near the beginning of their relationship are happy. Let's see... Shiksa Goddess, Moving Too Fast, The Schmuel Song, The Next Ten Minutes, I Can Do Better Than That, and Goodbye Until Tomorrow (well, GUT until Jamie starts in with I Could Never Rescue You. Ach.)
(November 13, 2009 - 6:07 pm)
@ Falmiriel: Oh yes, Leaving On A Jetplane. Right. Thanks. :)
@ TNO (umlaut): Is Les Mis different in the musical, or do they keep it more or less the same as the book?
And TL5Y is set in... flashback or something, like the ending is the first song?
(November 14, 2009 - 1:38 pm)
Pretty much, the play stuck decently close to the book.
The Last 5 Years is... it's sort of hard to explain. Cathy's story gets told from end to beginning. Jamie's story gets told from beginning to end. It's not really flashback so much as telling in reverse chronological order, if that makes any sense. Almost like Cathy's sitting there, her life in ruins around her, and thinking back over the last five years. And Jamie's story runs like a normal story, start to finish.
(November 14, 2009 - 11:46 pm)
Ah. I see. That's pretty clever.
I looked up some of the "happy songs' in TL5Y... you're right. Very nice.
And I also looked up the lyrics to A Little Priest (while I was supposed to be drawing a scale model of my bedroom for math class but was desperate for something else to do...). *coughs* Well. Okay. Very interesting... yes... mm.
Also on the topic of ST, yesterday someone in Drama mentioned it and the teacher just got this utterly horrified look on her face. :)
(November 18, 2009 - 1:18 pm)