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Character theme songs

O'Brien: "The Minstrel Boy" (what else?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJudJ9S579A



Here's another one for Luther Sloan: not suprisingly, the 24 theme--"The Longest Day Of My Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAfXqgMkPs

It truly says everything about his character: The darkness of his soul, and the dirt and grit of so much of what he has done--and yet, there is an element of sad-yet-determined heroism, full of regret over what he feels he had to do, yet firm and unyealding in the knowledge of why he feel he has to do it.

I think the scene in "Inter Arna..." where he has a sort-of heart-to-heart with Bashir in the end, effectively shares these elements.


For Jake and Nog, for times of war--John Rich's "The Good Lord And The Man". Play that with clips from "AR-558" and "Nor The Battle To The Strong", and you have the perfect representation for their service in the wars--and what they've had to give up, and why they had to give it up.

Nog has the first verse, and Jake has the second. (Of course, the subject of the song was shot in the shoulder, not the leg, but you get the idea....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NXUS8yypgA
 
BTW, Ezri already has a theme--an orchestral melody composed by James Chattaway for "Afterimage". It starts with a flute, then a clarinet, and an oboe--with strings throughout the piece.

You can here it in the opening sequence, where Ezri talks to Morn (the flute), walks down the Promenade (clarinet and strings), sees the Shrine (all strings), and enters, walking up to the Orb (oboe and strings).

You can hear elements of the melody throughout the season whenever Ezri has a big "moment". It's even made into an action piece when she and Worf try to break out of the Cardassian prison in "Strange Bedfellows".

(Also, throughout that ep, we hear the theme with a darker, slower tone, with some "Worf" elements added--particularly when they're hung upside down on the Jem'Hadar ship).
 
You made that Hero of Cardassia Damar video apenpaap? Love that one! Well done. :) Watched it several times, before I starting to watch DS9 again, sort of was one of the things that kicked me in again after so many years of DS9 abstinence! :P

Have you seen that Kira/Damar video? Thats quite nice too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yoMBjMF-9s

And the lyriks of that Russia Song, really fit Damar perfectly.

TerokNor
 
Oh and I know The Reason is a love song. I do not imagine Kira and Damar as a love couple, but still I find the song nice for that video, especially the beginning.


TerokNor
 
This isn't a CHARACTER theme so much...but it fits the feeling of what it would be like to be someone like Tekeny Ghemor, Natima Lang, or Joret Dal, and to see what was going on around me in the Cardassian Union.

The song is "Paper Tigers" by Thrice. Yes, it's loud, but it gets REALLY eerie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUSzSProPw

Lyrics: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Thrice%3APaper_Tigers

"We paid the price...we paid for their crimes with our blood!"
 
*claps hand over ears* Oww...thats a song I dont like, however the lyriks fit. Especially that bit with they never seem to learn. Must be very frustraiting to live in a world that you see come crashing down and most the rest is blind to it. Its a bit like living on todays earth actually...just we have a bit more hope left.

TerokNor
 
Don´t laugh, might be a bit stupid, but this song always striked me as Klingon. The lyriks are not all fitting, but some, like the refrain and the part near the end, when the guys with the deep voice are singing and some other lines as well. When hearing that song I always get the picture of those hairy looking, sweaty, belching, drunk Klingons in my head (ew), with that silver containers full of blood whine, singing and laughing. And the dance that comes with that song underlines it, because it so... rough and brotherly. Everyone is arm in arm in a circle, throwing the legs up and inbetween clapping the hands on the legs and with the neighbours standing right and left.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA&feature=related

Bits of the lyriks:
Cossacks, hey hey hey, lift your glasses, Natascha, ha ha ha you are georgious, Towarisch, hey hey hey, cheers to life, Cheers brother hey brother ho. Moskow, Moskow, throw the glasses against the walls, Russland is a beautiful land. Ho ho ho ho hey. Moskow Moskow, your soul is so deep, at night theres the devil dancing. Ha ha ha ha ha. Hey. Moskow Moskow, love tastes like caviar, lasses are there for kissing. Ho ho ho ho Hey. Moskow Moskow. Come lets dance on the table, till the table breaks. Ha ha ha ha ha.


Moskow, gate to the past, mirrow of the time of czars, red like blood, Mo mo mo mo mo moskow, the one who knows your soul, knows love burns inside you, hot like embers.


Moskow Moskow vodka one drinks pure and cold, then you will get a hundred years old. Ho ho ho ho ho hey! Moskow moskow, Gaffer your glass is empty, but in the cellar there´s a lot more! Ha ha ha ha ha.


TerokNor
 
I've always wondered what the lyrics to that Dschinghis Khan song actually meant! Thanks for the translation! :D

(And sorry for blasting your ears with my song. I tend to like my music loud. ;) )
 
OK...I have a theme for a character we never saw, but was only referenced in a cut line.

This is the theme of Tret Akleen, founder of the Cardassian Union. Now, when I imagine the Cardassian accent in my head, it's VERY different from the German accent in this song (the accent I hear based on the language I created sounds like an odd mix of Celtic, Slavic, and Hindi), but I could imagine Akleen speaking these words as he turns Cardassia's space program from one of exploration and colonization into one of conquest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqjnzkYPnA&feature=related

(Note: This song by Laibach, "B Mashina" is the same one that will be used in Iron Sky. However, this video is the FULL song, and does not have imagery from the movie.)
 
Well... I picked another video, just black and the lyrics for watching the song, and it does feel threatening/dark, when imagineing to that words the starving Cardassia and the arising military marching through the starving people on their ships to conquer others to solve their problems.

Can you record that accent you created? I have no idea how celtic, slavic, hindi accents sound... and even less, when mixed together. *scratches head*
Hope I don´t sound like the singer/speaker in the song...the German accent sounds so hard.

TerokNor
 
I'm not sure I could actually do the accent properly even though I can "hear" in my head how it should sound. I can sometimes get a recording of how the language itself should sound, but taking that and then trying to speak English in that accent is more difficult by far.

But yes, the words in that song are very fitting. And that last part...ohhhh, I think the Cardassian national anthem could sound much like that--something very overpowering.

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Lyrics, for anyone who has trouble understanding:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Laibach:B_Mashina
 
Found another one for Damar! The all ready more enlighted, dreaming Damar, after the crash of the rebellion, when the revolution starts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIGQp4YhuU

The song says, that everything can get better, that one does not have to endanger life anymore, when it is, and that one should not give up, even when everything seems lost. That he does not know yet what way to go, but that he will go it. (in the middle of the song is also some english songtext).

Actualy its about social segregation, the ones who are on the downside of society and dream from something better for them.
But as a dream for a whole society like Cardassia it would fit too, don´t you think?

TerokNor
 
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