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Yes, I realize zombies are now old hat on the internet. But I saw this tonight on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
watermelontail's journal and I am a sucker for a clever music meme.
1. Take out your zPod, or your mpZ playing device. Put it on shuffle play.
2. You have to decide if each song is a positive one in terms of survival (songs like Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" or anything that directly references survival, escape or something like that counts double, even something by Survivor, but I reserve the right to laugh at you), or a negative one in terms of survival (Songs by the Zombies, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, about zombies or death or whatnot count double); if you really can't judge the song, just take it as a pass and it does nothing either way for your chances for survival—remember this is entirely up to you to judge.
3. Keep going until you get 5 songs one way or the other. 5 Surviving songs means you lived. 5 Not surviving songs means you food.
Tori Amos, "Riot Poof"
You know what you know, so you go
Break the terror of the urban spell
That sounds promising . . .
She bites through your dried lean meat
As she's going to the movie show
Never mind. One strike against.
Pearl Jam, "Daughter"
She holds the hand that holds her down
She will rise above
I call that survival.
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, "The Rocky Road to Dublin"
From there I got away, me spirits never failing
Landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing
Another narrow escape. Two for, one against.
The Mountain Goats, "This Year"
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Although in the context of zombie apocalypse, that's an ambiguous statement . . . No points either way.
The Arrogant Worms, "Johnny Came Home Headless"
I should've seen it coming—he finally lost his mind
But if his head don't turn up soon, then all his hats are mine
Well, he wasn't me. Two more songs to survival.
"The Kraken," Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Er. I think I was just zombified and then drowned. Nix that bit about survival. Three strikes and counting.
"I think it's marvelous singing," Benjamin Britten (War Requiem Rehearsal Tapes)
I think that's just too strange to count.
Tom Paxton, "All Clear in Harrisburg"
You just might glow in the dark, grow feathers just like a lark
Stand in the fountain and light up the park
Have a nice day—there's a chance that you may
Blow yourself and half of Pennsylvania away
That also sounds kind of neutral to me. But the zombies are radioactive now.
Placebo, "Centrefolds"
Come on, fallen star
I refuse to let you die
I appreciate the encouragement. Four and three . . .
The Sex Pistols, "Anarchy in the U.K."
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I want to destroy the passerby
That, I do not so much appreciate. What is this, a neck-and-neck race toward the end of the meme?
Gordon Bok, "Now I'm Easy"
My daughter married young and went her own way
My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on alone
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
. . . I have been eaten by zombies. No points to you, Gordon Bok!
That was surprisingly fun.
watermelontail's journal and I am a sucker for a clever music meme.1. Take out your zPod, or your mpZ playing device. Put it on shuffle play.
2. You have to decide if each song is a positive one in terms of survival (songs like Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" or anything that directly references survival, escape or something like that counts double, even something by Survivor, but I reserve the right to laugh at you), or a negative one in terms of survival (Songs by the Zombies, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, about zombies or death or whatnot count double); if you really can't judge the song, just take it as a pass and it does nothing either way for your chances for survival—remember this is entirely up to you to judge.
3. Keep going until you get 5 songs one way or the other. 5 Surviving songs means you lived. 5 Not surviving songs means you food.
Tori Amos, "Riot Poof"
You know what you know, so you go
Break the terror of the urban spell
That sounds promising . . .
She bites through your dried lean meat
As she's going to the movie show
Never mind. One strike against.
Pearl Jam, "Daughter"
She holds the hand that holds her down
She will rise above
I call that survival.
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, "The Rocky Road to Dublin"
From there I got away, me spirits never failing
Landed on the quay just as the ship was sailing
Another narrow escape. Two for, one against.
The Mountain Goats, "This Year"
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Although in the context of zombie apocalypse, that's an ambiguous statement . . . No points either way.
The Arrogant Worms, "Johnny Came Home Headless"
I should've seen it coming—he finally lost his mind
But if his head don't turn up soon, then all his hats are mine
Well, he wasn't me. Two more songs to survival.
"The Kraken," Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Er. I think I was just zombified and then drowned. Nix that bit about survival. Three strikes and counting.
"I think it's marvelous singing," Benjamin Britten (War Requiem Rehearsal Tapes)
I think that's just too strange to count.
Tom Paxton, "All Clear in Harrisburg"
You just might glow in the dark, grow feathers just like a lark
Stand in the fountain and light up the park
Have a nice day—there's a chance that you may
Blow yourself and half of Pennsylvania away
That also sounds kind of neutral to me. But the zombies are radioactive now.
Placebo, "Centrefolds"
Come on, fallen star
I refuse to let you die
I appreciate the encouragement. Four and three . . .
The Sex Pistols, "Anarchy in the U.K."
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I want to destroy the passerby
That, I do not so much appreciate. What is this, a neck-and-neck race toward the end of the meme?
Gordon Bok, "Now I'm Easy"
My daughter married young and went her own way
My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on alone
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
. . . I have been eaten by zombies. No points to you, Gordon Bok!
That was surprisingly fun.
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Let's try it!
(I have a lot of June Tabor in my collection. I am SO doomed.)
Bruce Springsteen, "We Shall Overcome"
Okay, this has got to be one of the ultimate survival songs. One point for me not being eaten!
Miranda Sex Garden, "Ah, Look Upon These Eyes"
Ah cruel cruel love
Thus to forsake me
Then welcome death and take me
In my unhappy state
I ask no other fate
And one point for the rampaging zombie hordes. Damn.
Steeleye Span, "The Wife of the Soldier"
What did the wife of the soldier get
From Russia's distant steppes?
From Russia she got the widow's veil
And the end of the tale is the widow's veil
She got from the distant steppes.
Okay, the soldier is not me, but there's enough death and destruction that it's another point for the zombies.
Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
With your mercury mouth in the missionary times,
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes,
And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes,
Oh, who among them do they think could bury you?
...
Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole
With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold,
And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul,
Oh, who among them do you think could destroy you?
But I may escape them yet! Two points for me not being eaten!
Tom "Baby Gramps" Waits, "Cape Cod Girls"
Well, nobody gets eaten in this but fish, and I am not a fish. On the other hand, in this recording, Waits sounds like a zombie. I think I'll call it a draw.
Thomas Moran, "Strawberry Lane (The Elfin Knight)"
One of the not-having-to-marry-an-elfin-knight riddle songs. Avoidance of attachment to supernatural beings = three points for me not being eaten.
Hillel & Aviva, "Ha-Na-Ava-Ba-Ba-Not"
I don't understand Hebrew, so I cannot tell what this song is about. Pass.
Fairport Convention, "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman"
Run to me mother of anyone's child
And tell me the revelry planned
Judges and barristers, clerks at the law
His show is the best in the land
Here's a toast to the Jolly Hangman
He'll hang you the best that he can
And that is clearly another point for the zombies. The score right now: three points for me, three for them! This is suspenseful, huh?
The Beatles, "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Um, okay.
Pentangle, "Reynardine"
Has an ambiguous ending:
Through sun and dark she followed him
His teeth so bright did shine,
And he led her over the mountain,
Did that sly bold Reynardine.
I appreciate ambiguity. No points on either side.
Britten, War Requiem, "After the blast of lightning"
And when I hearken to the Earth she saith
"My fiery heart sinks aching. It is death.
Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified
Nor my titanic tears the seas be dried."
Okay, that is pretty much the definition of DOOM. Four points for the stupid zombies and three for me.
This one could be it!
Le Vent du Nord, "C'est une Jeune Mariée"
And it's a happy song ("Gai, gai, je suis en ménage, / Gai, gai, je suis mariée!"). So the zombies don't get me. Four to four!
And the next one will decide whether I survive the apocalypse or am zombie chow!
Oxford Camerata, Credo from Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame.
As this is an affirmation of the essential Christian beliefs and expresses the hope of salvation, it looks like for meme purposes I've been granted divine deliverance from being eaten by zombies. Praised be God and not our strength for it.
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That's awesome. I clearly don't have enough songs about salvation in reserve.
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Mmm. Braaaaaaains. You don't need yours right now, do you?
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Okay, so there's armed conflict going on, but I can't interpret the results either way.
Schubert, Impromptu in E-flat Major
No points either way.
Serene Ecstasy: The Light and Sorrow of Orthodox Russia.
Pavel Chesnokov: "O praise our Lord"
In Russian. I'll pass.
Mozart, Don Giovanni. "Batti, batti"
"Peace, peace, my love; we will pass nights and days in contentment and joy."
I think that counts as a win.
Rose of Versailles opening
"Roses, roses, they bloom in dignity;
roses, roses, they scatter in beauty."
And that's one for the zombies. But at least it's an utsukushi (exquisite) death?
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon No. 1, for five parts
Can we have something with words, please?
Mozart, The Abduction from the Seraglio: "Hier soll ich dich denn sehen"
"I have suffered so many sorrows, o Love;
now grant me joys in their stead and bring me to my goal."
I think that counts as a win.
Mozart, The Abduction from the Seraglio: "Welche Wonne, welche Lust"
" . . . prophesying comfort and rescue."
Another point for me!
Handel, Sonata for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo: 2. Gigue
No point either way. I think I'll start skipping the orchestral music unless it can be obviously interpreted.
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: "Fear no danger to ensue"
Oh sure, that's a win. (As long as we ignore what happens to Dido afterwards.)
Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola, "Cingari siamo venit'a giocare."
The zombies have become gypsies?
Schubert, "Der Strom" (Sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
I can't find the text right now, so I'm skipping it.
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, "Il dolce suono" (Mad Scene)
*snerk* Definitely one for the zombies.
Orff, Carmina Burana: "Tempus est iocundum"
One for me, I think. And the final score is L'Ignota 5, zombies 2!
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They do that sometimes. It's when they start up with the Anvil Chorus that you have to watch out.
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This looks fun. Here's me giving it a try...
Eric Clapton
Malted Milk
My doorknob keeps on turning, there must be spooks around my bed
And I have a funny, funny feeling and the hair's rising on my head
If the zombies are stalking me this early in the game, survival is looking chancy.
Zombies 1, Survival 0
Bob Seger
Against the Wind
And the years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
Post-zombie-apocalypse, it's just me left, raiding ruined stores for canned food and shotgun shells. But hey, I survive.
Zombies 1, Survival 1
Psalm 121
Herbert Howells
The Lord Himself is thy keeper
He is thy defense upon thy right hand
God's a good fellow to have on your side when the zombies are out in force. But this particular setting is from a requiem, so it's only worth one point.
Zombies 1, Survival 2
The Beach Boys
Hang On To Your Ego
Hang on to your ego Hang on, but I know that you're gonna lose the fight
There is no escaping zombification! Brian Wilson knows...
Zombies 2, Survival 2
When the Red Robin Comes Bobbin' Along
Al Jolson/Harry Woods
I heard a robin this morning
I'm feeling happy today
Gonna pack my cares in a whistle
And blow them all away
This makes me think I've got an Ash Williams thing going on, whistling away and blasting zombies with my boomstick. It's a winner.
Zombies 2, Survival 3
Overs
Paul Simon
Why don't we stop fooling ourselves?
The game is over, over, over.
Aw, man. Never going to survive with this kind of defeastism intruding into the soundtrack.
Zombies 3, Survival 3
Bob Seger
Fire Lake
Oh they smile so shy
And they flirt so well
And they lay you down so fast
Till you look straight up and say
Oh lord
In the context of zombies, getting layed down is definitely a Bad Thing. But they do it by smiling and flirting? Those aren't any zombies I know. So this one's a wash.
Zombies 3, Survival 3
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff: "Una, due, tre, quattro, cinque"
L'amore metamorfosa
un uom in una bestia.
What changes a man into a beast? Love? Well, at least it's not zombie bites. Call this one even.
Zombies 3, Survival 3
Monty Python
Never Be Rude to an Arab
Never be rude to an Irishman,
No matter what you do.
This song ends with the sound of a high-powered rifle blowing the odious singer away. Only the still-human can remember how to use ordnance, so I'm claiming this one for me.
Zombies 3, Survival 4
Kitty McLeod
'S fliuch an oidhche
Luchd nan seol ard
'S nan long luatha,
'S nan brataichean
Dearg is uaine.
(The men of the high sails and the swift ships and the banners red and green.)
Zombies can't sail. I think this means I escape. Take that, zombies!
Zombies 3, Survival 5
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Now I want to see a zombie film with that soundtrack . . .
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Man, I could come to your house and listen to your CD collection for a month and never hear a song I recognized (maybe once a day if I didn't intentionally look for one). That's curious.
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Hee. Yeah.