what kind of music does the crew listen to?

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PENGUIN

Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Mal has a soft spot for Willie Nelson, too.

"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"

I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy,
and Lovin' the cowboy ways.
Pursuin' the life of my high-ridin' heroes,
I burned up my childhood days.
I learned of all the rules of the modern-day drifter,
Don't you hold on to nothin' too long.
Just take what you need from the ladies, then leave them,
With the words of a sad country song.
My heroes have always been cowboys.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery,
From being alone too long.
You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightman,
Knowin' well that your best days are gone.
Pickin' up hookers instead of my pen,
I let the words of my years fade away.
Old worn-out saddles, and 'old worn-out memories,
With no one and no place to stay.

My heroes have always been cowboys.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

FLORALBUNNY

Sunday, June 11, 2006 1:35 AM

*snif*
*sob*
gorramit.

bun
~6/23~Serenity/Firefly Summer~9/30~
----- why's the rum gone? 7706 -----

SPACEANJL

Sunday, June 11, 2006 8:31 PM

The Bohemian Rhapsody thing?

That was my post originally - and exactly the image I was trying to poison your minds with...

SpaceAnJL

SHINYYUKARI

Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
Mal: Country, mostly. I'm thinking the classics, like Hank Williams (Sr., not Jr.), and Johnny Cash. I'm also thinking classic punk, especially The Clash.

Yes on The Clash. Especially during the War.

Quote:
Kaylee: Even though pop queens and boy bands would be the obvious choice, I'm thinking maybe bands like Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects, or Simple Plan.

I also agree to that. The riffs fit her personality.

I think River would have a secret love for Depeche Mode. No idea why I think that...their sound just makes me think of her.

"Well next time you be the bait!"~Andy Hurley
"Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere."~Wash
Browncoats are the coolest fans I've ever seen.

TWILIGHTJACK

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 1:04 AM

In order to surmise the crew's musical preferences, you must first work out what music means to them. Each character is certain to have a different relationship to music itself, and therefore to their "favorite" genres and artists.

Mal: Mal dances to remember, and most of what he has to reflect upon is a big old scar-knot of hurt and disappointment. He's almost assuredly a fan of blues and old country-western (note: NOT country music as we understand it). I see his collection including a bunch Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, perhaps some Billie Holliday, etc. Also, I see some Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, the Dirty Three, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds thrown in there. He's also got every album that Elvis ever recorded (and if you tell anyone you'll wish you'd been fed to Reavers a piece at a time, dong ma?)

Simon: Simon listens to music to relax and tune out, to take a break from the constant stress and anxiety that forms the core of his being. Here, I predict a touch of New Age Electro-Jazz, cutting in on the Romantic era symphonies. Mahler and Beethoven make an appearance, since he does harbor an occasional burst of grandeur, but his special love is for groups like Shadowfax and Hiroshima, as well as Renaissance-era chamber music. Ethereal and calming seems Simon's main need here.

Wash: Wash loves music cause he's got a song in his heart. It ain't music if he can't sing along (usually loudly, off-key, and screwing up half the lyrics). He prefers a catchy tune, high energy, and a fun refrain. Put him down for Queen, They Might Be Giants, Lynard Skynard, the Eagles, the Beatles, and Roth-era Van Halen.

Kaylee: Our resident daydreamer/Romantic, Kaylee loves to feel a song in her bones. Give her melody and passion and something to stir up little pieces of wrapping-paper in her belly. That means that her tastes run pretty eclectic. She can fall in love with anything, it just has to strike that right chord. Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell are in an eternal tie for her official top spot, though; don't ask me why.

Okay, four down, five to go. I'll do the rest tomorrow.

ROJBLAKE

Friday, March 30, 2007 8:48 PM

Well I can't say as I rightly know myself, but there are songs/music that for me evoke certain aspects of the characters.

Mal: I'm a good old rebel comes to mind (I have an album of classic western music & this song really fits), as does Willie Nelsons "Midnight Rider".

Wash: Music that moves...he's at peace when he's in Zen-piloting mode. "Eastbound & Down", "Ballad of Thunder Road" "Life is a Highway" makes me think of Wash as does "Mighty Wings" from Top Gun.

Zoe: Another nod to Top Gun, "Danger Zone", "I'm Holding out for a Hero", & in reference to Wash.."Let's Hear it for the Boy"

Simon: Classical Japanese & Chinese (I'd do songs but I'm not in the mood to go through my CD's right now.)

Jayne: "Mountian Music" comes to mind as does "Bubba Shot the Jukebox", "If the House is a Rockin".

Book: is tough "Unforgettable" & "One Tin Soldier", maybe "Burning Bridges" (Theme from Kelly's Heroes), Styx's "Show me the way"

Kaylee: I'm not sure why but "Under the Boardwalk", "Love willl Turn you Around", & of all things "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog (Also I think she is a Jimmy Buffet fan)

River: "It's a Lie", "I will find you-Clannad", actually Clannad & the Chieftans music evokes alot of the feeling of River.

Inarra: I really don't know any music that evokes her, at least for me. She's probably the most difficult character to understand in the whole series.

CRUITHNE3753

Friday, March 30, 2007 8:57 PM

I'd imagine Kaylee being partial to a bit of Bob Marley and the Wailers. http://www.lyricsondemand.com/b/bobmarleylyrics/threelittlebirdslyrics
.html

ARTISOXYGEN

Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BadgersHat:
Personally, I think Simon lets loose once in a while in private, and rocks out to Van Halen, Aerosmith, and a touch of Slayer.
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River goes back and forth between Wagner/Beethoven/Mozart, and insane techno house music.

Hehehehe Perfect!

I like to imagine Inara listening to this beautiful & sad song by Katie Melua while thinking of Mal:

'The Closest Thing To Crazy'

How can I think I'm standing strong,
Yet feel the air beneath my feet?
How can happiness feel so wrong?
How can misery feel so sweet?
How can you let me watch you sleep,
Then break my dreams the way you do?
How can I have got in so deep?
Why did I fall in love with you?

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
I was never crazy on my own…
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
Being close to craziness and being close to you.

How can you make me fall apart
Then break my fall with loving lies?
It's so easy to break a heart;
It's so easy to close your eyes.
How can you treat me like a child
Yet like a child I yearn for you?
How can anyone feel so wild?
How can anyone feel so blue?

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
I was never crazy on my own…
And now I know that there's a link between the two,
Being close to craziness and being close to you.

...and being close to you
...and being close to you.

Art.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and Art reminds you that you have one. -Stella Adler

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:33 PM

"You, put that Type O Negative CD on, now!"

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, April 1, 2007 12:44 AM

Starhand, way up at the top of the Thread , is right about Wash. He would definitely be listening to surfer music, in his Hawaiian shirts, especially the Beach Boys. He's never done it, never been there, his home planet may not even have an ocean, but that was one of his dreams.

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