So ... I'm looking for ideas

[ericcoleman]

Radio Capricon is slowly getting off the ground for this year. So I am looking for ideas.

If anyone has an idea for a show, let me know. If anyone wants to record a show for the station, let me know. If anyone wants to be on the air at the Con, let me know. I can always use help. The station runs in hour increments.

But mostly I am looking for your opinion. What do you think is the greatest science fiction song of all time, and what do you think is the greatest fantasy song of all time? Inquiring minds want to know. They can be filk songs, they can be from other sources. But I want to know what you think.

Comments

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

i can give you a break for an hour.

preferably an hour that's running old sci-fi radio shows (like star wars epsisode 4, or hitchhiker's guide...if you play such things during your show) but it doesn't especially matter.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

I can do the 2-hour DT20 again Sat afternoon ending no later than 6

[ericcoleman]

We're running some live music in the afternoon, and I'm not sure when it's going. I have you penciled in, but there may not be time saturday afternoon

Radio Show Ideas

[sexybass.livejournal.com]

Hi Eric,
When I lived in Winnipeg I did a radio show there for many years (CKJS)Prairie Ceilidh which is still running and is streamed live, which is a celtic show but I always managed to play some filk and even did whole shows introducing mundanes to Filk Music.
You can still see my web page on my show with pictures at www.dandelionwine.net and just click on the Prairie Ceilidh page. I played a lot of Meg Davis (Captain Jack/Elf Glade and many others like Swing the Cat) and Heather Alexander (most of her stuff) along with Dandelion Wine of course and I even included taped messages and interviews and intros from Heather, Urban Tapestry and whoever I could record at cons. You know "Hi this is Heather Alexander and you are listening to Radio Capricon the best damm filk show around. I played all genres of filk music from science fiction (Hope Ayrie) to fantasy to media filk to filk rock (ookla) to filk from other countries (Kay and Yu from Germany) Phoenix and Tim and Annie from England. I found the filkers from those countries actually tuned in on line to hear the show over there which was really cool to share. I sometimes did a fantasy show or science fiction or a mix of everything.
If you are coming to FKO this year we can talk more about it. Love the idea and I would love to do a show sometime if you can fill me in on how to send it to you. I have a lot of classic filk stuff that no one else has and even some never heard Dandelion Wine stuff which if Dave approves I could send. Dave C is here in Toronto right now with me working on the new Dandelion Wine CD.

Re: Radio Show Ideas

[ericcoleman]

Hmmm ... email me at ericcoleman at gmail dot com and we'll talk ...

Re: Radio Show Ideas

[ericcoleman]

Oh, and Hope Ayrie ... it is one of the greatest songs I know (period), but it is not science fiction, it's science fact ...

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Greatest? I expect to change my mind six times between now and when I click "Post". But here are a couple of favorites from my pre-filk days:
SF: Ziggy Stardust -- David Bowie
Fantasy: Listen, Learn, Read On -- Deep Purple

(Close runners-up from T-Rex, Moody Blues, Uriah Heep, Queen....)

More practical, perhaps, are you familiar with this: http://www.textfiles.com/sf/sfmusic.txt

[ericcoleman]

I don't think that Ziggy is an SF song ... it's just a song about a rock band (albeit a great song about a rock band) ... Five Years though ...

I don't know that Deep Purple song ... but looking at the lyrics it seems pretty cool

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

"I don't think that Ziggy is an SF song"

I took it as implicit, but perhaps not.... OK, I'll switch to his "Diamond Dogs". :)

[ericcoleman]

The album has SF tendencies ... and a couple of songs that are pretty specifically SF (Starman for instance), but Ziggy really isn't an SF song (go read through the lyrics). I would argue against Diamond Dogs too, but not as fervently. Mostly it's how you would interpret the words. Ziggy though, nothing to do with SF at all really.

[ericcoleman]

My votes ... at the moment

Going with mainstream music, not filk (since it would get fairly tricky there)

Veterans Of The Psychic War - Blue Oyster Cult
Lyrics by Moorcock, the best music BOC ever came up with ... it's brilliant. This is always top of my list for the greatest SF songs of all time

White Mountain - Genesis
This could change occasionally, but this tale of wolf wars still sounds cool decades later

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I don't know about "greatest" but I'll give you some of my favorites:

Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Neil Patrick Harris: Brand New Day
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Into the Fire
The Phenomenauts: Rocket Ride
Jeff Wayne et al: Forever Autumn and Thunder Child (from the War of the Worlds album)
Kraftwerk: The Robots

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

BTW not SF&F but two bands you might want to give a listen to: Lee Press-on & the Nails (big band/swing with a maniacal edge to it) and The Mel-Tones, especially their album "Surf! Spy! Space!" (for a cool "In Like Flint" vibe).

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

GREATEST SF song, in terms of impact and influence on those that followed?

Weird Al's "Yoda."

Fantasy? I dunno, maybe Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins."

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Either that, or Bowie's "The Laughing Gnome."

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

I second Nemoy.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Can I throw The Purple People Eater in there?

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I am going to suggest the song Men of the Future by Faust & Lewis. Not the greatest song in the world, but will fit in the con's theme.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I will be at the con (not sure when yet) and I might be able to spell you for a bit.

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

Almost certainly not the greatest, but I'm very fond of "Heck, I'd Go" by Maria Muldaur

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

Lola the engineer. I think it's Frank Hays. I'll go look it up.

[twindowlicker.livejournal.com]

The Ran-dells: The Martian Hop?

I dunno- that is a very wide open question.