Thought of this idea recently when I was listening to music. Post a link to (almost) any random song!
A few rules:
- IMPORTANT RULE: songs must be from official sources on YouTube or other official sites. If no official source exists, do not post the song. And under no circumstances should any piracy link be used.
- Post one song per poster, in any one twenty-four hour period. This is so the thread doesn't fill up too rapidly.
- Please state the name and artist of the song in your post, in the event that the video is taken down.
- If a song contains explicit lyrics, please put a NSFW lyrics warning on it.
- Nothing racist/white supremacist/etc. or pornographic.
Other than that, go right ahead!
EDIT: Slight rule clarification
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on May 12th 2025 at 1:08:54 PM
Exploring where classical music themes have been repurposed into more popular song. It must have an attraction, especially when your "co-writer" is long out of copyright and you don't have to split the royalties.
Rainbow, performing the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: soloist, Mr Richard Blackmore.
Edited by AgProv on Aug 9th 2025 at 6:25:07 PM
Elderly curmudgeon and awkward person. Professional old fart.Everything Needs Love (RE-NEW) - Mondo Grosso ft. BoA
Seeing an ELO song above. Remembering this which might be Early Instalment Weirdness.
They started out with this great edge of unsettling post-1960s weirdness, then after Roy Wood left, got boringly mainstream. capable and professional, but not really grabbing the attention in the way this did.
"Business Man" - Tom Cardy (contains explicit lyrics)
I was reminded of this, when I thought it would make a great example on a Trope Launch Pad proposal ("Mermaid Modesty"). It's also a damn good bit of folk rock stuff with a really atmospheric video.
Otava Yo and "Что за песни/What Songs!" (plot; boy almost meets an almost-girl. In a series of bad-dream-images, he is continually thwarted from getting close to her. Then at the very end of the video at the edge of a gloomy Russian lake in Dawn's twilight, he realises the girl is not quite human...)
Edited by AgProv on Aug 15th 2025 at 2:29:36 PM
Elderly curmudgeon and awkward person. Professional old fart."Who's Gonna Stop Me" - Portugal. The Man featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic

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