Music geekery

[elaby]

Self, I said today, you haven't posted Holmes squee in far too long. Baffles squee is all well and good, but my heart belongs to the boys from Baker Street. I listened to "Shoscombe Old Place," "The Mazarin Stone," and "The Three Gables" BBC radio plays today (can you tell that I'm getting to the end of the ones I haven't heard yet?). SHOS was the best of the three (shock!), especially because we got Watson teaching Holmes how to fish ("No, no, no no no! Lightly, Holmes, lightly! You're going to scare away all the fish within a mile radius!" *insert Holmes grumbling*), Holmes pretending to be part of the Society for Psychical Research, and Holmes switching accents in mid-sentence.

And because I am unrepentantly soppy, there's this Hem song from the album caitirin got me for our anniversary that is now firmly lodged in my brain as a Holmes-and-Watson song. Like most of my thingies-I-like, it can be interpreted as romantic or not (though I tend toward the romantic). Lyrics and a link to where you can hear the song under the cut!


Substitute April for July and you're all set :3

He came to meet me
On some July morning
He said he missed me
He came without warning
We walked for half a day
Got lost in my neighborhood
Came back another way
Just like I knew we would
And he came to meet me

He had some stories
He knew a few of mine
I had not heard his voice
For such a long time
My mind would race a bit
Come back to where we stood
I could not keep hold of it
Although I knew I should
And he came to meet me

I'd seen this whole day
Like it was drawing near
Sometimes I'd pray for it
Sometimes I'd shake with fear
Sometimes the only thought
That kept me in the night
Was one that I'd forgot
In summer's blinding light
And he came to meet me

I wrote myself a song
I could not speak what I'd done
He could've been here all along
He could've been anyone
But there is no one who
Could wake my heart like this
Could break my world in two
I felt a suddenness
I felt a suddenness
The day fell completely still
The dream was a lot like this
But I never knew until
He came to meet me

If you click on this link to Hem's website, the second album down (Funnel Cloud) has "He Came to Meet Me" as the second song. It downloads as a .ram file, which I was able to play with VLC, for those of you who don't use RealPlayer. It's so pretty. And makes me wibble with H/Wness.

Comments

[kcscribbler]

SHOS was indeed the best of the three (why the heck they didn't allow Bert Coules to script all of them is beyond me, but oh well), though I have to admit my favorite moment in the three was Watson asking Holmes if you could get Gilbert and Sullivan on the gramaphone in MAZA. Hee.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! Oh yeah! They manage to put good parts in ALL of them XD I really wish they'd have had Bert Coules script them all too. Maybe he was really busy?

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

I listened to the whole BBC run in one enormous gulp in...under two weeks, I think. My memory is therefore very, very faulty, but I do remember that the fishing was delicious!

That is a thoroughly beautiful hiatus song. Or EMPT song, I suppose, more accurately. Where songs are concerned, 'it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.' My brain turns almost EVERY song with words into something Holmesian. The one I absolutely can't dissociate from Holmes, though, or at least from holmesslash, is Devil's Calling by Elizabeth and the Catapult. It can work for almost any Victorian slash, but I think of it particularly as a H/L song, onnacounna the person the lyrics are directed at being referred to as an "ordinary blue." It's all about succumbing to forbidden temptations, and there's a delicious bit that would make a perfect bit of Holmes/Lestrade bicker/banter/foreplay: "You were so foolish from the start/ A paper doll without a heart." Someday, I have very little doubt that I'll write a fic based on it. Here, have a listen: http://drop.io/devilscalling/asset/10-devil-s-calling-mp3

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thank you! I do that too, so I totally understand. The Killers are kind of earmarked for Holmes/Watson in my head, because I got into them at the same time that I started getting all Holmes-crazy, but I found one today that works really well for Bunny and Raffles XD

*downloads* I'll totally listen once the TV isn't on :D

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

"No, no, no no no! Lightly, Holmes, lightly! You're going to scare away all the fish within a mile radius!" *insert Holmes grumbling*

That's just one of many moments in BBC radio Holmes that makes me squee more than anything else in the world. I love Bert Coules and his shippy agenda!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

OMG, I know! *leaps on your icon* I was even more utterly floored by Clive Merrison today, listening to "Valley of Fear".