Re: Top 20 Filksongs

Re the original list:

"what we're having here is a filksing"- actual title: "What's going on?" was, to the best of my knowledge written by Tom Payne- as I recall from interviewing him for a term paper on filk I did for an anthro class on oral traditions. Somewhere I even have the lyrics to all the options for the variable verse written down...

Jeanette

"John C. Bunnell" wrote:

> Hmmm. Narrowing down to 20 is d*mned hard -- I assembled thirty or so
> between thinking out loud and glancing over the previously supplied list.
> After culling, I came up with the list that follows, although I should note
> that I tilted the "slant" of my list in a somewhat different direction than
> its predecessor. I deliberately did not include "found" filk from the
> broader folk world; it's not that the songs aren't good, but IMO if I'm
> going to call it a list of filksongs I prefer to keep the focus on those
> written by and for the filk community. I also did my cutting with an eye
> toward maintaining diversity, both of artists and of subject matter.
>
> Anyhow, here's mine:
>
> --
> = John C. Bunnell
> = JCBunnell at sff.net
> = http://www.sff.net/people/jcbunnell/
>
> "The essence of kittens is in the motion."
> -- Karawynn Long
>
> Alexander
> Dance in the Circle
> March of Cambreadth
>
> Eng
> Helva's Song
> Red as Blood
>
> Fish
> Banned from Argo
> Witnesses' Waltz
>
> Hayes
> Never Set the Cat on Fire
> "There's a Hole" (Cosmos)
>
> Kare
> Fire in the Sky
> The Designer/The Engineer
>
> Dr. Jane
> Moving the Bones
> Nessie Come Up
>
> Other
> 307 Ale (Smith)
> Acts of Creation (Faber/Hills)
> Calm Down (Mar)
> Captain Jack & the Mermaid (Davis)
> Do It Yourself (Sutton)
> Monsters in the Night (Gallagher)
> Rocket Riders' Prayer (Savitsky)
> You Bash the Balrog (Lee Gold)
Received on 07/05/01