B5 1.1: "Midnight on the Firing Line"- Bar Song?

[Sykonee]

As a fan of the movie Strange Days and its soundtrack (yay Deep Forest!), I can tell you that:

1. The song Juliette Lewis performs in the movie was originally written by PJ Harvey, though only appeared on an album full of demos. Lewis' version is obviously more beefed up.

PJ Harvey demo
Lewis cover

2. The opening riff is a pretty typical 'bar-blues' one, so variations of it have probably been used often. Whether Franke found 'inspiration' for it after hearing Hardly Wait, well, you'd just have to ask him about that. Wouldn't surprise me if it was just a coincidence though. Blues music has a looonnngggg history of recycling riffs.

 

[Thestral]

I don't think asking that you back up an accusation of plagiarism with actual facts qualifies as being "high and mighty" and claiming it's true based purely on the assertion that "they all do it" just smacks of sniping purely for the sake of it.

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Did all these people plagiarise? They definitely "nicked" the melody though.

 

[Mistral]

I can't believe you're giving a repeated internet rumor the status of a plagiarism accusation. Seriously, musicians borrow all of the time-who knows what the inspiration for the tune was?

 

[Anon O' Moose]

I remember in Season One they always played the same song over and over in the background. I always thought the lyrics were "Set me free / Let me be / Give me a bottle of / hot sweet cream" but that's probably wrong

I think the lyrics are "Set me free/ Let me be/ Find me air in a/ Bottle, please" It's now 2021, and I'm still trying to find this song. My search brought me here with no luck so far.

 

[Sid]

I think the lyrics are "Set me free/ Let me be/ Find me air in a/ Bottle, please" It's now 2021, and I'm still trying to find this song. My search brought me here with no luck so far.

Greetings from the future. Just now watching Babylon 5 for the first time. Made an account because I'm also looking for the song lol. I heard it as "Set me free/ Let me breathe/ Find me air in a bottom feed/ Set me free/ ride with me

 

[touyaforever]

Greetings from the future. Just now watching Babylon 5 for the first time. Made an account because I'm also looking for the song lol. I heard it as "Set me free/ Let me breathe/ Find me air in a bottom feed/ Set me free/ ride with me

Greetings from the dystopian hellscape that is 2025 America.........Anyways...I just recently got into Babylon and this song caught my attention almost immediately. I noticed that it is also in the bar scene at the very beginning of The Gathering pilot movie ..if that helps anyone in finding out a title/artist/any darn info on it

 

[David cgc]

I think the lyrics are "Set me free/ Let me be/ Find me air in a/ Bottle, please" It's now 2021, and I'm still trying to find this song. My search brought me here with no luck so far.

Well, as the earlier incarnation of the thread said, the "source" music played in the show was all specially composed for the show. Some of it made it on to soundtrack albums (the two songs from "Walkabout," the music heard in the bars in "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" and "The Face of the Enemy"), but others are lost (though the scratch tracks used to teach the actors the Centauri operas from "Knives" were recently found).

Personally, the one I'd like is the instrumental swing pastiche of "Don't Be That Way" that was heard in Earhart's and, most prominently, in the party scene at the beginning of "Epiphanies." This version of the actual song is close, but I'd still like the one from the show.