Space Cadet

^Four more to go and you'll have a list. :p Why not check out what some of the other people have on their lists? You might like what you find. Time is your own business, but as for legal music access, Grooveshark is your friend.

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I`ll see what I can do. I came up with it in a rocking chair, so that back-and-forth rhythm is built in.. that usually helps. Based on what I remember of my toddler days, I never really cared what my mom sang about, I just loved hearing her voice singing. It always made me feel all safe and special. :blush:

^Ironic that the granddaughter of a 6-foot-something amazon of an elven lady would be organizing the short army. Also ironic that no one who is actually in the tall army is speaking up at all. *snerk* Finally, no I like very tall chairs but clearly the tall army doesn't want me, so I'm not joining anyone. :snobby: Have fun on the battlefield. :hat2:

Hmm... I ended up coming up with a tune more or less by accident, but I'm struggling with the words. It needs to be 4 lines per verse, alternating 6 and 7 syllables. It wound up with a bit of a celtic-y sound to it, but that's what happens when you get a Nova Scotian to write a folk-style song. What I need is a theme. What do you want the song to be about? Stereotypical go-to-sleep stuff? A story? Something you want to say?

Eh, the tall army is better off without your feather-brained incompetence. I don't trust you, you spy, and neither should your army. Serves you right if both sides turn on you.

Yeah, well I declare you a traitor and unfit for duty. :P And I quote: Soldiers, tie him up and throw him back to his beloved short army. Someone else should be in charge.

A tall man and no woman have no children at all. You sorry lot of males will have to pair off Spartan style. *snickers*

In the US and UK the average height of a guy is 5' 9" to 5' 9 1/2", while a girl is 5' 3 1/2" to 5' 4". That makes your cutoff 5 inches above average for girls who are shorter to begin with and a mere 2 1/2 inches above average for guys. Your tall army is full of short people. :P Pathetic breeding program then. The whole (short) lot of you will never get laid again. Because there won't be any girls left. :evil:

If the cutoff height for girls is 5'9", then it should be at least 6'3" for guys. Then it's proportionally tall.

I'm 5'8". :angry::snobby: No, I can't join the average height group, I'm still freakishly tall for a girl. :P

I used to like to sing this one when I was babysitting. It has this nice calming rise and fall to the cadence of it, and fantastic imagery, The normally cranky kid would always be completely transfixed by the tune. Loreena McKennit - Courtyard Lullaby [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxDWF3s9lSw]YouTube - Loreena McKennitt- Courtyard Lullaby[/ame] There are some beautiful Gaelic ones I know of, but I only know them phonetically and I couldn't spell Gaelic words if my life depended on it, so I'm not sure how to look them up. I can understand the violence thing- many western English nursery rhymes were actually adult political satires that seeped into popular consciousness. Because they rhymed, later generations assumed they were meant for kids. Sort of like how the original versions of the stories that made their ways into Grimm's Fairy Tales were never meant for kids at all. Pick a tune and I'll try something to it. But I think the best old lullabys always said something about the person who sung them first- the time they lived in, their hopes, their fears, the ideas that they wanted to pass on- so really the best one for you would be one you came up with.

Yeah, so Texas boy loved Houston so much that he ran off to Canada- another country, to Montreal- which is French, married a French Canadian girl from Hati, started an art rock band with a bunch of Canadian kids, and made a career writing songs about how much he wanted to get out of Houston and everything that's wrong with it and how he's glad he's gone and how it still haunts him. Texas boy may be from Texas, but he sure isn't the sort your tourism people would want anything to do with. I have no desire to go anywhere near Houston any time soon. Actually, he fits in perfectly up here- he's like a second generation draft dodger.

From a lookalike blog: No fan of either of them would get them mixed up, but the features that someone who wasn't familiar with their faces would remember are the same. Same face shape, similar eyes, same hair colour, identical stubble... :shrug: I had crushes on both of them in my late teens/early 20s. They're definitely the same 'type'.

Blondie - Parallel Lines (on vinyl :D)

Well board rules prohibit multiple accounts period, so hopefully our lovely wonderful mods would take care of that end of things anyway. I don't think it would be fair to set a minimum post count because many people who follow the news on the front page or the website's twitter would not have a post count, but might be interested in submitting a list.

^In some book that was compiled from the opinions of hundreds of music journalists, the Guess Who's "American Woman" was just declared the greatest Canadian single ever. http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100930/canada-top-music-100930/20100930/?hub=TorontoNewHome How's that for irony for you?

I'm studying electronics. Electrical stuff takes a lot of math which I'm not very good at. And now instead of being in a lab with a screwdriver and some pliers like we're meant to be, we're stuck at computers all the time learning how to program because we've finished all the physical stuff. Which is all to say I feel your pain. When science learning stuff starts to go a bit wrong, it can be really stressful and annoying.

You know, some day- in the distant future- when you've listened to Coldplay's discography for the fifty billionth time and are really wishing they would finally put a new album out because you really want something new to listen to, you really ought to try out a bit of Radiohead. You might just find that they hit the spot really well. Where and what is the Council of Elrond you're referring to? :thinking: A new-ish message board? I usually just lurk on TORn nowadays. But I did go to the Gathering of the Fellowship when RotK came out... dressed like an elf... to watch all 3 movies in a big marathon... wearing my cloak... :blank:

Well I'm sure Coldplay's detractors would think that "mostly harmless" is a perfectly complete and accurate description of their music. :wacko: But I refuse to believe that Chris could be best friends with a scifi geek like Simon Pegg and not know a thing or two about Hitchhikers. Also, I was always under the (likely inaccurate) impression that Don't Panic (formerly Panic, I know) was an indirect Radiohead reference. Radiohead name a song after something Hitchhikers, so so do Coldplay.

Welcome. :D I added your list. ....but I'd better not find out you're some regular making a second account to post a second list. :thinking:;) Why not hang around and chat so we know you're a person?

I finally got plastic record sleeves for my LPs, so I got the courage up to take the plastic wrap off my new vinyl copy of Parachutes. Oh my goodness that's such a good album. :nice:

The Blur/Muse/Mew fangirls should have a big group fistfight to see who wins. :P More seriously though the Apparatchicks are close to my heart, I voted for the Metric fanboys, because seeing them act like silly fangirls is funny.:P:lol: Yes and no. There have always been big pockets of specific fangirls like there are now, but most of them moved on when the VLV newbs flooded the board. (No offense meant, it's just part of the natural lifecycle around here.) For instance, we used to have a massive group of Libertines/Babyshambles/Dirty Pretty things fangirls, but they got so big and persecuted that they started their own board. I still miss some of them. Other groups get bigger and smaller with that band's album cycle. At the same time, the fangroups I've seen have been getting bigger lately. I'm glad, the board always seems healthier when there's a lot of genuine fandom going on all over the place. Yep, it's the second time I've seen this part of the Coldplay album cycle- most of us older current music die-hards went through it after X&Y. And it's a particularly healthy one I think- a chance for everyone to expand their horizons a little. It's why I'm so big on the albums of the year thing- it's the best way I know to discover new music that a Coldplay fan might like. No. not unless you're his fangirl because you like Metric. The latter is a scary annoying fangirl. A regular fangirl or fanboy is just a fan who is exceptionally enthusiastic in comparison with normal people. (AKA a music or band geek.) They get annoying when they're loud or agressive to non-fans outside of their own threads due to fandom. It's too big to really count. There isn't really a core to the Radiohead fan community on the board like for Blur or Mew.

Love live music, but don't see enough. :( Love physical copies of music and buy lots of it when budget allows. I love sorting through album cases and flipping through the books. I love carefully selecting a stack of options for the car or living room. The limited number I can take makes me appreciate the individual albums more. It's fun to think of a range of moods and pick one cd for each, and think of how the different sounds will go together. I especially like how much richer lossless music, especially vinyl albums sounds than compressed files. The music I would pass on to kids or whoever is the music I invest in good vinyl copies of. Albums from the 30s and 40s are still perfectly playable now if they've been taken care of, and the plastic in CDs is supposed to start to degrade after about 50 years, so it's not the greatest for archiving, even if it's the perfect physical medium now.

Scary toxic spill is scary. :stunned: Eek.