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Fanmix: The Once & Future Captain (Kirk, Kirk/McCoy for STBB)
When I saw the summaries of the STBB fics, I crossed my fingers in the hopes of getting ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
turtle_goose's The Once & Future Captain because I've had thoughts about mixing a Tarsus fic (mostly centered around track 12). Lucky me, I got the chance to create a mix for this story! :D I really enjoyed the clear thought that went into the world-building in this story, and if you're a sucker for Tarsus fics (like me), you shouldn't pass this one up.
Masterpost for the fic & gorgeous art here!
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Tracklist:
01| Circuital - My Morning Jacket
02| Find It In Me - William Fitzsimmons
03| Add My Effort - The Weepies
04| Northern Skies - I Am Kloot
05| Lights (Shook Remix) - Ellie Goulding
07| Lippy Kids - Elbow
08| Easy - Real Estate
turtle_goose's The Once & Future Captain because I've had thoughts about mixing a Tarsus fic (mostly centered around track 12). Lucky me, I got the chance to create a mix for this story! :D I really enjoyed the clear thought that went into the world-building in this story, and if you're a sucker for Tarsus fics (like me), you shouldn't pass this one up.Masterpost for the fic & gorgeous art here!
Download Options: Mediafire or Sendspace
Tracklist:
01| Circuital - My Morning Jacket
Well anyway you cut it
We're just spinning around
Out on the circuits
Over the hollow grounds
Out on the circuits
Over the hollow grounds
Heading right back in the same place
That we started out
02| Find It In Me - William Fitzsimmons
My conduct should be suspect and my
Intentions should be checked but I'm too
Involved in making plans for my soul
03| Add My Effort - The Weepies
When it's dark you say it is
Because there's no light
And though it's not I'll say it is
I'll say it's all right
04| Northern Skies - I Am Kloot
Where did you go on a big black night?
Did you take the coast road back through your life?
See the sand, the moon, the stars that shine the light
And say, well, they’ll do all right for me?
05| Lights (Shook Remix) - Ellie Goulding
'Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home.
Calling, calling, calling home
You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine it when I'm alone
06| Night Squall - Balmorhea
[Instrumental]
06| Night Squall - Balmorhea
[Instrumental]
07| Lippy Kids - Elbow
Do they know those days are golden?
Build a rocket boys
Build a rocket boys!
08| Easy - Real Estate
Around in the fields we grow
With love for everyone
Dreams we saw with eyes of hope
Until that dream was done
09| Fear - OneRepublic
10| I Believe In Outer Space - The Lovers
09| Fear - OneRepublic
When we were children we’d play
Out in the streets just dipped in fate
When we were children we’d say
That we don’t the meaning of
10| I Believe In Outer Space - The Lovers
They believe in an outer space
That's what they believe in
And right now and it's instant
And it's far away and it's distant
11| Running For Home - Matthew Good Band
11| Running For Home - Matthew Good Band
When we were wired the world was like a secret
I close my eyes now and I scream
I turn the light on and there's nothing left redeeming
I saw your face before it changed
12| Dustbowl Dance - Mumford & Sons
12| Dustbowl Dance - Mumford & Sons
I've been kicked off my land at the age of sixteen
And I have no idea where else my heart could have been
I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
And now I am sure my heart can never be still
13| Pride Is A Lonely Blanket (When We Speak) - Red Wanting Blue
When we speak
14| Drifting - Andy McKee
[Instrumental]
15| The Problem Of Pain - William Fitzsimmons
13| Pride Is A Lonely Blanket (When We Speak) - Red Wanting Blue
When we speak
But our words won't let us say so
And we wished we let it all show
We started falling apart
At the heart
We'll be broken 'til the end
14| Drifting - Andy McKee
[Instrumental]
15| The Problem Of Pain - William Fitzsimmons
Icarus they caught you where you tumbled on
Encourage you to dive now the sun is gone
I just don't know
I just don't know
16| Book Of Revelation - The Drums
16| Book Of Revelation - The Drums
And it's over now
You can pick yourself off the ground
Cause you're cool now
And you're nothing like him
17| Sea of Teeth - Sparklehorse
17| Sea of Teeth - Sparklehorse
Stars will always hand in summer’s bleeding veils
But seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil
18| I'm With You - The Stills
19| All Or Nothing - Au Revoir Simone
20| Welcome Home - Radical Face
18| I'm With You - The Stills
The timing's right
And the light is soft
We've come from far
And we came here lost
19| All Or Nothing - Au Revoir Simone
You're a sight to see this early morning
Getting lost in my own neighborhood
The same freedom you feel
Is what's been blowing in my sail
Since I arrived here
20| Welcome Home - Radical Face
I've come home, home, home, home.
All my nightmares escaped my head.
Bar the door, please don't let them in.
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And the cover is just stunning. LOVE.
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First and foremost, this is absolute perfection! Like, this IS the soundtrack to this fic! During every song that played, I could see the fic as if it were a movie and it was incredible!
I found everything so fitting and this is definitely how I see it, which of course may be different from what you intended.
I laughed at first when I saw "My Morning Jacket," because there was an episode of American Dad that featured them. But Circuital was a perfect starter and it just got me into a ~mood and when I revisited the prologue, I was just in love with how it fit. Same goes for Find it in Me, which I can TOTALLY picture as Jim trying to explain things to Bones, but being so blocked by his own doubts and emotions. Add My Effort was a perfect complement to Bones and his curiosity and feelings towards Jim.
Northern Skies is lovely, and I definitely see it playing as Jim gets the call from Starfleet. And of course Lights is one of the songs I listened to OVER AND OVER again whilst writing this story and this remix was great! Lights just sums up Jim's feelings about this mission so well. Night Squall was a gorgeous bit of instrumental that was bittersweet and haunting and just added so much to the atmosphere of the story.
Lippy Kids is now officially one of my favorite songs. It's such a great song for Jim and Riley as they're trying to deal with all the emotions this mission is bringing up. Easy definitely fits for me as a song to play while Jim and Riley start out laughing and reminiscing about their childhood together on Tarsus IV and then transitions beautifully into the other song I consider as defining this fic, which is Fear and is all about Jim and Riley and how their time started out so innocent yet ended up so heartbreaking and life-changing.
I Believe in Outer Space for me really fits as young Jimmy Kirk full of excitement as he records his video logs. And also, I feel, for the crew as they're discovering this side to Jim that they would have never guessed existed. Running For Home I can also see for both Jim and the crew as the truth about Kodos and Jim's relationship with him comes out. And OMG Dustbowl Dance is an incredibly powerful and haunting song for Jim and his anger at the mission, the crew, his past on Tarsus IV, and the betrayal he experienced from Kodos.
(To Be Continued)
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The jumping off point for this mix was, of course, the two songs that you mentioned as key when you were writing - Lights and Fear. I admit, I also went through the mixes *you've* created in the past to try to get a better bead on what sort of music you enjoy, and once I saw that you'd put the Lucksmiths's cover of a Smiths song on one, well, I just grinned. Clearly we have similar tastes in music!
I've always wanted to put Dustbowl Dance into a Tarsus mix, and - while I wouldn't have shoehorned it in here if it didn't fit your fic - I thought that the anger that Jim (rightly) has about everything Tarsus, including his crew's actions let the song fit into the narrative. And then, after reading your story I immediately thought of Lippy Kids as the song for Jim & Riley looking back on their time on Tarsus IV. So those were the four songs I immediately had as tentpoles to build the rest of the mix around, and the rest came in bits and pieces to fill in the cracks and keep the mood of the mix cohesive.
Circuital was one of the last pieces put in. By that time I had a lot of songs with the theme of home/returning/circling back and stars/sun/sky, so I was looking for a piece that would pull all of that together, as well as set the tone in a manner similar to what your prologue does. Plus, as much as I enjoy Fitzsimmons, I just can't open up a mix with his music.
You pinged Find it in Me and Add My Effort perfectly - they're songs for Jim & Bones, showing their uneasy but caring relationship, and both are there to show that things are *not* okay, but maybe they could be eventually.
Northern Skies continues pulling the tempo up in anticipation of Lights and, like Lights pulls in the theme of thinking about heading back & past mistakes & going on anyway. And then Night Squall is a transition piece for the look back at Jimmy's life on Tarsus.
Lippy Kids just fit perfectly, and then Easy pulls the tempo up a bit and is a reminder of all of the dreams that the Tarsus colony would never end up fulfilling. Fear I almost certainly would have put into the mix whether you'd mentioned it or not, because, as you said, it's all about Jim and Riley and how life took a dramatic change for the worse. It works so well!
I Believe in Outer Space was meant to bring in, hmmm, the faith that children have that things will turn out okay? I guess I imagined that that children on a colony like Tarsus would expect that Starfleet will make things better, when things start to turn worse. But Starfleet isn't there - and then we have the Enterprise crew going through the same emotions, finding out that the colonists were abandoned and betrayed in some very real sense. Even if Starfleet didn't know about the problem, they should've known, you know? Running For Home brings that betrayal into focus, with Jim's home gone and Kodos to blame. And I loved the chorus, which I think again spoke to the high ideals of the colony and how much those have been trod into the dirt. And, yeah, Dustbowl Dance is all of Jim's anger at what's occurred, and also some of his (misplaced) guilt at not being able to make things magically better.
I'll go through the rest of the songs if you like, but I'd also love to hear your (uninfluenced) opinion on them!
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I love that cover, tbh. Whenever I make a mix, the songs all have to *fit*, like, there can't be a slow, introspective sound followed by a pop song or something like that. I need the music to flow together, if that makes any sense. (My control issues, let me show them to you.) The biggest chance I took was in my Ninth Doctor/Rose fanmix where it went from Barrett Johnson's beautiful "Small Hands" into No Doubt's "Running." But overall, I think it was quirky enough to work, considering how heavy The Frame's "Rise" is. (And if you've never listened to "Rise," you need to asap because OMG it's an amazing powerful song.
I'm still gathering my thoughts (LOL real life intruding) about the rest of the mix, so I haven't forgotten you! ;)
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I'll go and download your mixes as soon as I get out of the office, because no, I have not listened to Rise. :D
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Pride is a Lonely Blanket (When We Speak) fits for me so well with Jim's breakdown at Kodos's statue and his following heart-to-heart with Bones. It also seems fitting for Bones taking care of Jim back on ship that night. They want to get there, but just can't.
Drifting is a nifty little piece that put a smile on my face because it reminded me so much of the music from Firefly. And there's mischievous lean to it that I can totally hear playing while Jim is delighting in his friends' unsettled-ness because they have no idea what to expect from him. And it's great as the Enterprise makes its way back to Admiral Pike.
The Problem of Pain is interesting to me because I keep going back and forth in my head of where to place it. It fits but it's not necessary obvious to me like the rest of them are. I guess I just sort of keep it as Jim and Bones's understanding private accord with each other. And, I think, of Jim's thoughts and feelings after Pike unintentionally insults him. (And lyrically, it's GORGEOUS!) The Book of Revelation I LOVE. I can hear it beginning as Jim comes back to the Enterprise after his briefing and his friends are freaking the hell out because nothing is working out after Jim's defiance of protocol leads in nicely to Jim and Bone's come-to ('and I believe that when we die we die so let me love you tonight') wherein Bones is the one holding back for the good of them both. In addition, ('Cause you're cool now and you're nothing like him') strikes me as Jim's attitude towards Bones re: "I've forgiven you." Sea of Teeth which is such an introspective, contemplative number, I think would fit Jim's mood perfectly after Bones leaves.
I'm With You, for all that it can be interpreted romantically, really sort of works for me as the the crew coming stand by Jim and help him and Riley achieve the closure they need as they bury the dead on Tarsus. All Jim asked for was one day and his friends really came through, so I can play this song as a back and forth between them.
All or Nothing strikes me as a theme for Jim rediscovering his old neighborhood and really trying to see past all the horrors he faced as he reclaims bits and pieces of his old life and makes his final video detailing his time there and comes to realize that if he wants peace with his past, he has to accept it and not run from it. And as he comes to peace with it, he realizes his strength.
And finally, Welcome Home as Jim prepares to leave Tarsus IV and return to the Enterprise, casting away his fears and doubts, much like he did the first time he arrived on the planet as a boy. After everything he's gone through with the mission and the betrayal from his friends and starting to heal, he's "alive" again as he goes home.
LOL I may be completely off base here and maybe I was thinking to hard for some of these but seriously I adore this mix. I couldn't have asked for anything more perfect that this. I actually spilt it into 2 CDs of 10 songs and listen to them in my car. ♥
The work and thought you put into this is incredible and I love this mix so much. Thank you.
BTW, have you considered posting it to
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So, I put Pride is a Lonely Blanket in there just because it seemed so perfectly broken for what's happening in most of Part 5 of your fic - there's both Jim's difficulties and there's also the crew's feelings of uncertainty and not knowing how to handle or what to say about the things they've learned on Tarsus. And from a musical/instrumental perspective, it kept up the vaguely country/Americana sound that Mumford & Sons (yeah, I know, English band, but still, banjos) & Drifting have, so things hang together.
Drifting - I never thought of it in relation to Firefly, but you're right that it does have that vibe. :) I put it in there to signal the shift to After-Tarsus and because it has a sort of jaunty introspective feel to it - it's not trumpets blazing, but it does have more positive notes than the earlier songs.
Problem of Pain was the song I waffled on the most, actually - I knew I wanted something between Drifting and The Book of Revelation, but I couldn't quite find the right song for the longest time. I eventually went with this song because I think it carries on the uncertainty/uneasy feel that comes from Pride is a Lonely Blanket, but is musically a little more upbeat with the background vocals and light strumming. And the line "Icarus they caught you where you tumbled on/Encourage you to dive now the sun is gone" really feels like an encapsulation of Starfleet/Pike's perspective on Jim.
For me, The Book of Revelation is completely Jim & Bone's song, although the verses trade-off between the two. I guess it's just that "I love you" that Bones finally admits; it feels like, with that - and Tarsus - out in the open, their relationship really has a chance to go somewhere. And then Sea of Teeth is there to slow things down just a little bit as the Enterprise heads back to Tarsus - things still aren't completely out of the woods.
I'm With You is all about Jim & his crew - I think you got it perfectly. :D And with that final jump that everyone makes in trusting and helping Jim, I feel like the story moves into a happier place, so the final three songs reflect that, mood-wise. All or Nothing continues that mood, and, as you said, is about Jim finally at peace with his history on Tarsus... well, that and Welcome Home. Welcome Home was probably my best serendipitous find for this mix; I'd listened to the song a few times before, but only knew the general feel & lyrics to the chorus. Then I listened to it again when it came up randomly after I'd read you story and it was just perfect for the mood I wanted to leave the mix off on, both from a sound perspective & lyrical.
As I said before, I am so, so glad that this mix worked for you and that you like it so much. I'm rather inordinately fond of it as well. :D
I've thought about it, but I wasn't sure what their policy was regarding mixes linked to fics... But I suppose I might as well try posting it there!
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