Filk favorites

[EmpressMaia]

You know that awesome music that plays when you enter TGMC? Carmen mirandas ghost? Yeah that's filk

Share some of your favorite tracks!
I've been listening to leslie fishes 'firestorm' and it hasn't aged a day, along with finitys end

[DrAmazing343]

Found this shit a few days ago and it's only on youtube, that's how you know it's heat.

https://youtu.be/sjmnq44H6Wo?si=zinXMXpHRp5Gl1mr

[vect0r]

Found this shit a few days ago and it's only on youtube, that's how you know it's heat.

https://youtu.be/sjmnq44H6Wo?si=zinXMXpHRp5Gl1mr

Bomber is fire but Signy's Mallory I feel just has better ss13 vibes to it
https://youtu.be/uuizyjLPmBA

[DrAmazing343]

I see it. I see the vision, and I respect it.

[ekaterina]

I really like Dawson's Christian.

[Jackraxxus]

Computer, play Banned from Argo

[Omega_DarkPotato]

I don't like most filk but I have an extremely soft spot for Bomber. It fucks ungodly, Douglas MacArthur was right.

[vect0r]

I really like Dawson's Christian.

Which version?

[ekaterina]

I really like Dawson's Christian.

Which version?

The one without noise?

[Reziro]

The Pilot's Eyes by Bill Sutton

Man was useless to the world because of something out of his control and still rises above to save the station that left him broke and depressed.

For a not downer one, Never Set the Cat on Fire - Frank Hayes

[mrmelbert]

Everyone's heard Carmen Miranda's Ghost, so here's some others

St. Elmo's Fire is slept on.

Late Night at the Draco Tavern for Bartender Vibes. "No one knows what will come in next, things like turtles, things like insects..."

Don't Push That Button if you're frustrated with Engineering delamming 10 minutes in.

And my personal favorite cover of Spacer's Home.

The other songs from Where No Man get overshadowed by Banned from Argo IMO, they're also sweet.

Security Strike gives perfect Seccie vibes. "We can hear the captain's Security call..."

Tell the Captain if you like playing captain. "Someone tell the captain he's wanted on the bridge, we've got another message from a planet out in space..."

Bones for medbay - "I wake each morning to the intercomms warning and I wonder why I ever went to space! Oh, there's aches and pains, and wounds and sprains, and a space bourne plague or two..."

Space Hero and Other Fools has some cool ones too.

Ballad to a Spaceman - "He lived as a Spaceman from the day he was born, and as a spaceman he will die..."

Honorable mention to Minus Ten and Counting, it doesn't give off SS13 vibes but I still love it.

Witnesses Waltz might be one of my all time favorite filk songs for the vibes.

[EmpressMaia]

i request lots of good filk music through the request music verb but admins never play it. we should de-admin admins that dont play requested music..

[oranges]

https://www.oranges.net.nz/~oranges/ss13music/

[warbluke]

I was about to spew forth two dozen recommendations before I realized that I don't consider half of them as "real filk." But then I got confused about what "real filk" even meant. Everyone agrees Carmen Miranda is Filk, but what about Fish's other, less space-themed work? Is Polaris Filk?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CVG2f ... 80XgsaWmyA
And if it counts, what about other Lovecraft themed songs? Does Dreams in the Witch House count?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=M4zd4 ... quSSEu09v6
Or The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNvU ... VK1jnhsRnO
I think I eventually decided that something with fantastical theming need not be Filk, and that typical Filk is more exemplified by a simpler feel. Most of Carmen Miranda feels ironically down to earth musically, A lot of the songs just have one instrument and vocals. Vixy and Tony, Bedlam Bards, and Ken Theriot all fit the bill nice enough on that end.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CKDR6 ... BCN4IJzg0M
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E3NM0 ... AulgiluKPs
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=poV5z ... CSD6geiaiS
Filk to me is something that you would actually hear one or more people jamming out with in a convention or ren faire, so it's simpler and sometimes a little more goofy than a lot of other music. The dividing line between Filk and Pirate music of course is surprisingly small. You could make me a convincing argument that The Jolly Rogers or the Musical Blades were Filk bands:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TDflb ... P7jh0OZm0V
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4QAGH ... f0AF7ieeKE
Then there lies the greatest difficulty, The Dread Crew of Oddwood. They formed at a convention, but now they have very good production values and complicated songs. They play at ren faires but also at concerts with Tyr. They're metal without any electric instruments and I love them dearly.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7NN ... o6ukggSeKX
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE3y ... 8JxVc_rz6o
And then because I don't know where else to put them, have these three too:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=53D2u ... VZgeGxf9fp
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHsq ... OfCPsPUHG_
https://judgesmith1.bandcamp.com/track/ ... vvy-street
Jeff Wayne gets an honorable mention too but his production value is way too high for me to consider him filk.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have no taste in music and no idea what I'm talking about, but I like it when they make the noises and say the word "spaceship."

[dendydoom]

always loved this one, when the original was huge and overplayed and i had a social life i used to sneak this onto the playlist at parties

revealing something very cringe: i never knew this had a name i always just used to be like "oh the type of riffy shit they do on something like mystery science theatre" walkin around thinking i was mst3kcore

[Medic]

Doing my due diligence and dropping the 1000+ filk playlist someone on bagil gave me a while back
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUaW ... ATaPZh7QJH
It has a lot of the "not quite true filk" songs warbluke was talking about too.
One of my personal favorites is "The day it fell apart" especially when medbay was just bombed
https://youtu.be/4aYVbt5ZwTc?si=D1t7p6_EPoDCzMOz

[Striders13]

Rare players club W
Vic Tyler remade Dawson's Christian in 2023 if you weren't aware (goes hard as fuck)
https://youtu.be/GS0NUtRpyPA?si=IEoA53U4terqJ7uG

As for the older favourites of mine, Starline Gambling Man by Bill Sutton
https://youtu.be/XwhHDW9pOQE?si=CaIsoIAZ_1dXKOrS
And Absent Hosts by Cecilia Eng
https://youtu.be/WxyvQhC9raE?si=MWh8FeDgpXe8BoOW

meow

A treasure playlist and an excellent song, firestorm is one of my favourite albums