songs that remind you of 'Firefly'

POSTED BY: jedinerd7
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 19:32
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I've made a list of some of the songs to check out, thanks for the suggestions everyone.

And now for one of my own:

"Wires" by Athlete.


My pick was inspired by a fanvid that I stumbled upon at YouTube. I don't know if it's been linked here before, but I think it's one of the best I've ever seen. The clips are stellar and fit in well with the music. It deals with Simon and River's relationship. The lyrics of the song seem to tell their story quite well in my opinion, plus it's just plain pretty. I cannot listen to the song now without thinking of them and Firefly. The fanvid brought a whole new meaning to the song, and I literally get chills everytime I watch it. The promise the lyrics at the end hold: "I see it in your eyes... you'll be alright" fits perfectly with the hope that Joss gave us for River at the end of Serenity.

(Pausing for a moment of quiet weeping.)

I'm not sure how to provide a link, so I'll give it a shot in case you're so inclined to check the vid out yourself. I'd love to hear what someone else thinks of it.

I am really hating FOX tonight.

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Listening to my music on random, I just heard a Bon Jovi song called "Stick to Your Guns" that totally made me think Firefly. Especially the line "And when you pray for independence, hey boy, you better stand your ground".

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how about tubthumping by chumbawamba

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Well, I'll expand my suggestions from the last time this came up - although I seem to keep coming back to Leonard Cohen. For Mal, "Everybody Knows":

Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
And everybody knows

And for River, there's a particular bit of "Teachers" that seems alarmingly appropriate:

I walked into a hospital
Where none was sick and none was well
When at night the nurses left
I could not walk at all

Morning came and then came noon
Dinner time a scalpel blade
Lay beside my silver spoon

Some girls wander by mistake
Into the mess that scalpels make...

Warren Zevon's "Frank and Jesse James" reflects Mal and Zoe's situation somewhat, but it seems to have a few apt words for the whole crew as well:

They rode against the railroads
And they rode against the banks
And they rode against the Governor
Never did they ask for a word of thanks

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Quote:

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Originally posted by CHOLLETT:
"Kingdom Come", if i'm not mistaken, by Coldplay.

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I read somewhere that they wrote this for Johnny Cash.

I know Joss is a Beatles man, but the Stones, 'You Can't Always Get What You Want...'?
V. M/I.

David Gray is good, too - early stuff, before he got big'n'famous.

SpaceAnJL

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How 'bout Runaway- Del Shannon

Jayne: I was gonna get me an ear too.

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I've got a handful of songs that make me think of Firefly and Serenity. I burned 'em onto a CD so I can listen at work, in the car, wherever...

"A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes" by Leonard Cohen (Good call on "Everybody Knows", DixieFlatline. Nice avatar, too!) It just makes me think of our BDHs, because they ARE a bunch of lonesome heroes. Big. Damn. Heroes. Ain't they just?

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A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes
were smoking out along the open road;
the night was very dark and thick between them,
each man beneath his ordinary load.
"I'd like to tell my story,"
said one of them so young and bold,
"I'd like to tell my story,
before I turn into gold."

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"Brothers In Arms" by Dire Straits. I can't think of a better song to link to Mal and Serenity Valley:

Quote:

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These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

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"Orange Sky" by Alexei Murdoch. Makes me think of Simon and River:

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And I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my sister standing by
With my sister standing by
I said Sister, here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

But sister you know I’m so weary
And you know sister
My hearts been broken
Sometimes, sometimes
My mind is too strong to carry on
Too strong to carry on

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"Under The Milky Way" by The Church. Well, where else would they be?
"Big Sky Country" by Chris Whitley. If you've not heard his "Living With the Law" album, it's simply amazing. Great slide/dobro player, but it's not country. Nor quite rock. But it DOES rock! Too bad he died too young.
"Windfall" by Son Volt. Folksy alt-country-rock. Fiddles, mandolins, banjos, slide guitars, and wonderful lyrics, like:

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Now and then it keeps you running
It never seems to die
The trail's spent with fear
Not enough living on the outside

Never seem to get far enough
Staying in between the lines
Hold on to what you can
Waiting for the end
Not knowing when

May the wind take your troubles away
May the wind take your troubles away
Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,
May the wind take your troubles away

Trying to make it far enough, to the next time zone
Few and far between past the midnight hour
Never feel alone, you're really not alone...

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"Heroes" by David & David. Again, the lyrics just FIT:

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We can say I,
I just want to walk with you
As we do the things we know we have to do,
Always faithful and ever blue.
We do the things that we know we have to do.
And though we all know deep down in our hearts
That someday this will all fall apart, oh, for right now,
Yeah, let's just be heroes.

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"Friend Of The Devil" by Lyle Lovett. It's a cover of a Grateful Dead song, but Lovett brings a certain western-ness to it.
"Southbound Again" by Dire Straits.
"The Devil's Right Hand" by Steve Earle.
"Living With The Law" by Chris Whitley. This is Mal, pure and simple. "In the hours/After washing/I do my dreaming with a gun."
"I Am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel. 'Cause Mal really does think he's a rock and needs no one else.
"Tear Stained Eye" by Son Volt.

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Walking down Main Street
Getting to know the concrete
Looking for a pu

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