Currently I am in possession of A Mythological Prospect of the Citie of Londinium (2006),
Good god, even I don't have a copy of that yet.
Andrew King, however, seriously annoys me.
I've got one song of his (he's on the Sol Lucet Omnibus tribute, which is, as all tributes, half great and half garbage), and I had the same reaction. I'm quite pleased that, in his day job, he's one of the non-vocal members of SI. Very, very pleased.
If you can confirm you heard it on the radio,
That would require me listening to the radio, which I avoid at all costs. On the other hand, if it ever does come to me, it'll limit my options a great deal, since I only listen to (a) college radio and (b) a horrible commercial station my wife likes. (If it was on there, she'd know about it, and she doesn't.) But it may have been at a family function, or even at the grocery store or summat...
(Alternately, I could ask you to write it?)
You could, though whether I'd acquiesce is another story. It's been far longer since I wrote a song than it has been since I wrote a poem... probably twenty years, give or take.
I could tie it in to George R. R. Martin, though...
(There does seem to be a band called Maxim who wrote a song called "Hadrian's Wall", but according to all the lyrics sites, it's an instrumental.)
nineweaving very patiently listened to me complaining last night that no one, outside of Norwegians performing death metal as Vikings (and maybe some anime), ever seemed to write songs about Loki. It is possible I'm being unfair, or at least confusing my musical subcultures.
Ja, confusion, but easy to do if you're not snuggled down in the subculture. The general rule of thumb is that black metal bands have high, screechy vocals, and death metal bands just kinda shout. (There are, of course, any number of exceptions, but at least you won't embarrass yourself with anyone who wears corpse paint to dinner, unless he's a real otaku.) Then there's doom metal, about which all I can say is that I have fallen hopelessly head over heels for a Scots outfit called Man Must Die, who are the best thing to come from Scotland since Del Amitri. (And there's a pairing you won't hear every day...)
And good god, I'd entirely forgotten about In Gowan Ring! I haven't heard the name in at least a decade, and I only ever heard one of their songs (from the Terra Serpentes comp, which probably went out of print when World Serpent went out of business, but my god, is it a must-own... Lemon Kittens/Shock Headed Peters/Karl Blake [and about five other Blake bands, I think], Sol Invictus, Death in June, IGR, Strength Through Joy, Tiny Tim, Current93, Coil, and fifteen or twenty other bands I'm not remembering right off the top of me head), but I did quite enjoy it. A more rustic Strength Through Joy, IIRC.
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Good god, even I don't have a copy of that yet.
Andrew King, however, seriously annoys me.
I've got one song of his (he's on the Sol Lucet Omnibus tribute, which is, as all tributes, half great and half garbage), and I had the same reaction. I'm quite pleased that, in his day job, he's one of the non-vocal members of SI. Very, very pleased.
If you can confirm you heard it on the radio,
That would require me listening to the radio, which I avoid at all costs. On the other hand, if it ever does come to me, it'll limit my options a great deal, since I only listen to (a) college radio and (b) a horrible commercial station my wife likes. (If it was on there, she'd know about it, and she doesn't.) But it may have been at a family function, or even at the grocery store or summat...
(Alternately, I could ask you to write it?)
You could, though whether I'd acquiesce is another story. It's been far longer since I wrote a song than it has been since I wrote a poem... probably twenty years, give or take.
I could tie it in to George R. R. Martin, though...
(There does seem to be a band called Maxim who wrote a song called "Hadrian's Wall", but according to all the lyrics sites, it's an instrumental.)
nineweaving very patiently listened to me complaining last night that no one, outside of Norwegians performing death metal as Vikings (and maybe some anime), ever seemed to write songs about Loki. It is possible I'm being unfair, or at least confusing my musical subcultures.
Ja, confusion, but easy to do if you're not snuggled down in the subculture. The general rule of thumb is that black metal bands have high, screechy vocals, and death metal bands just kinda shout. (There are, of course, any number of exceptions, but at least you won't embarrass yourself with anyone who wears corpse paint to dinner, unless he's a real otaku.) Then there's doom metal, about which all I can say is that I have fallen hopelessly head over heels for a Scots outfit called Man Must Die, who are the best thing to come from Scotland since Del Amitri. (And there's a pairing you won't hear every day...)
And good god, I'd entirely forgotten about In Gowan Ring! I haven't heard the name in at least a decade, and I only ever heard one of their songs (from the Terra Serpentes comp, which probably went out of print when World Serpent went out of business, but my god, is it a must-own... Lemon Kittens/Shock Headed Peters/Karl Blake [and about five other Blake bands, I think], Sol Invictus, Death in June, IGR, Strength Through Joy, Tiny Tim, Current93, Coil, and fifteen or twenty other bands I'm not remembering right off the top of me head), but I did quite enjoy it. A more rustic Strength Through Joy, IIRC.