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Starting with me singing about Cambridge exam stress, fittingly :P

do you take requests?

That is likely to depend upon the request :P

(And I do have a backlog of songs I'd like to record, though I'm not averse to ideas if people want to throw them at me)

Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men sounds much better with male lead imo.

That was really good Jubal. You have a good voice. ;D

The guitar is a bit too loud, though.
Right now it it's muffling your singing.

Sorry, I hope you understand what I meant to say.
I'm really bad when it comes to musical terminology and to be honest my English has deteriorated a lot in the past few months. I should fix that when I get a chance...

That makes sense, Wolfie :)

I've got a proper mic now, so at some point when I start using that more the sound quality will shoot upwards, but I need a mic stand for it and it's not great for recording guitar and voice at the same time as it's got a small pickup range.

Finally recorded the Winterfell Lullaby  :)

I'm loving it! ;D

Thankyou :)

And here's a more straight-up folk song I wrote:

Thought I'd have a go at it since we were discussing it in the Playlist thread :)

Dug out an old song and finally got it recorded:

And another:

Sounds lovely :)

Thankyou :D

I've decided I should really work through my backlog of old songs and do recordings just strumming through them so the tunes are on record and I don't forget them!

(Do you have access to the Exilian Media channel, btw, for if you ever want to upload stuff?)

I think so somewhere :)

Wunderbar :)

Tabletop RPGs can come up with the most wonderfully improbable events, and one in particular from yesterday - the final session of a brilliant campaign where our characters, refugee fisherfolk, scraped their way out of poverty to build the independent city-state of Haven - seemed to deserve immortalising in song. I thus present to you one of the less likely dangers of being a poor fisherman in a fantasy universe - the time when a large band of gun-wielding halfling bandits come and steal your catch.

I recently watched and liked your most recent song video. Excellent stuff, and quite amusing. Good job. :)

I want to come across a tavern in our Pathfinder game now with a bard that sings this :P

A less silly song from the same GURPS campaign:

Parody Tolkien song

Ahaha, I love a good parody :D It's great!

Finally recorded another of my Game of Thrones ones :)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2zYAUCWvg

New one, cover of a Pete Atkin + Clive James song :)

A christmas carol! About PORCUPINES!

Just got round to listening to this, really good, most enjoyable :)  :harp:

Interesting side note / coincidence the porcupine featured on one of my xmas quiz topics! animal gestation periods (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JmQlzSVt9y1sJtg5qCVAEwdUyQQnTgOQThbgRu20V9I/edit?usp=sharing) (you can play if you like - just watch the presentation without looking at the little thumbnails first. You have to guess if the amount shown in months is higher or lower for each sequential animal)

Some folk music, a traditional tale about a courtship involving riddles:

Not one but two new songs!

Here's "Salt Horses", an original sea-shanty type song by me:


And here's one of the last of my ASoIaF pieces, the rather long "The Falcon Knight", the Arryns' ballad:

I mentioned last month in "What are you reading? (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=514.msg134634#msg134634)" That I'd read Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist - well, here's my own take on the main song from it :)



Lyrics:

And can the Physician make sick men well,
And can the magician a fortune divine,
Without lily, germander, and sops in wine?
With sweet-brier
And bonfire
And strawberry wire
And columbine

Within and out, in and out, round as a ball,
And hither and thither and straight as a line
With lily, germander, and sops in wine
With sweet briar
And bonfire
And strawberry wire
And columbine

Any lass for a Duke, a Duke who wears green
In lands where the sun and the moon do not shine
With lily, germander, and sops in wine
With sweet-brier
And bonfire
And strawberry wire
And columbine

When Aubrey did live, there lived no poor,
The lord and the beggar on roots did dine,
With lily, germander, and sops in wine
With sweet-brier
And bonfire
And strawberry wire
And columbine

There are windfalls of dreams, there's a wolf in the stars
And Life is a nymph who will never be thine
With lily, germander, and sops in wine
With sweet-brier
And bonfire
And strawberry wire
And columbine

Decided it was Dornish day! Two Dorne related songs, one entirely by me, one partly by me:

The Dornishman's Revenge:


The Dornishman's Wife:

Recorded this poem (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg135980#msg135980) of mine - about the classic WHFB character Richter Kreugar.

And now this one (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg115889#msg115889), about my complicate feelings about the works of CS Lewis:

New original song by me (actually moderately old original song but I've finally recorded it):

And another original one :)



Words and chords in my poem thread: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg139343#msg139343

The Ballad of Gam si Gam duly YouTubed:

It took moving from the lyrics on Mastodon to the music video to figure out that death roll probably has the crocodilian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator#Behavior) sense rather than the Jacksonian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_%28US_game_designer%29) sense.

Ha, indeed :)

The same module (Zedeck Siew's Lorn Song of the Bachelor) plus my brain has produced another song, quite different to the first but more an imagining of the titular "Lorn Song":

The Vlandian song, first of my Bannerlord set :)

Very good! *applauds*

And another :)

Love both of these so much. Especially the Khuzait one, feels so fitting to their culture and feel ingame.

Thank you! More to come :)

The Western Empire's song, "What do the hills say?", about the Battle of Pendraic:

The Ballad of the Butterlord has been YouTubed:

And here's the Sturgian song:

And Moonlight Silks:

Huh, I never posted the harvest season song here:


And today the Aserai song:

Another music:

We're nearly at the end of my Bannerlord song spree!

And here's the last of them:

Dedicated to a friend's cute baby, here is a song about growing and the turning of the world :)

A modern take on Caucasus folklore in this song:

Some pirate music :) I wrote this poem back in 2012!

Jubal, your Richter Kreugar song has hit the top five DuckDuckGo results!  Of your earlier releases I give the most points to the Calradian songs.

Quote from: Jubal on November 22, 2020, 10:30:52 PM
Some pirate music :) I wrote this poem back in 2012!

Like it!

Thanks Tusky!

dubs: Ooh! What search term did you use?
And thank you - I guess the Calradian ones have some consistency as a project which helps a bit.

Quote from: Jubal on November 25, 2020, 10:02:21 PM
dubs: Ooh! What search term did you use?

I think it was "Richter Kreugar."  I was more a High Elf (+ Imperial Guard and Tzeench Chaos Space Marines) guy than an Imperial / Vampire Count person myself so I don't know that story.  The Warhammer World is a cool setting, because 15th/16th century Central Europe is cool, even if Games Workshop is run by people with the ethics of a Genoese in the Crimea

The Cursed Company was really a Dogs of War thing (part of the Regiments of Renown supplement, which was great and one of the most characterful bits of Warhammer rules that were current in the years I played the game). And yeah, I quite like Warhammer's aesthetic and use of the pathetic in building a fantasy world.

A new one, first of what will be s et of bard songs for Exile Princes:

And a second, this is the song for the House of the Wolf:

Another of the "generic" ones, a bouncy little tavern song about courtship:

The House of Scholars' song, Jubal feat. guest lyricist Edward Fitzgerald, translator of medieval Persian poems attributed dubiously to Omar Khayyam:

Wonderful song! Really! i like it too much.
Jubal, is it your voice?

Yes :) I've always quite enjoyed singing, I used to go to folk music festivals quite a lot but not so much since I moved out of the UK.

I don't often do covers but decided to do "what if Hades sang the most key song in the game Hades" as a take:

And another game song, this one just inspired by a game - specifically, the Red Jennies of Dragon Age:

And another!

An announcement rather than a song: tomorrow evening I'll be on my friend Jasper's twitch stream to play some Dragon Age Inqusition songs:

https://www.twitch.tv/elkieselkie

It's been a while, but music's back on the menu :) A fan song for Baelin's Route, a short comedy film I very much enjoy.

Finally recorded Harding's Waltz (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg143842#msg143842).

Finished and recorded the Mugging Song (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg148350#msg148350)!

Recorded Where Is My Capo? (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg149157#msg149157)

I can dubiously proudly present the first proper song I've done in months.

Meet the Barbie/Star Wars crossover parody you didn't ask for and probably didn't want: it's entitled I'm Just Ben :)

Quote from: Jubal on December 04, 2021, 02:23:18 PM

Finally recorded Harding's Waltz (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg143842#msg143842).

What does this allude to?

Quote from: dubsartur on September 01, 2023, 09:14:48 PM

Quote from: Jubal on December 04, 2021, 02:23:18 PM

Finally recorded Harding's Waltz (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg143842#msg143842).

What does this allude to?

Scout Harding is one of the characters in Dragon Age: Inquisition - she's a sort of functionary character who introduces the player character to new areas of the game world. They notably half wrote a romance plotline for her, such that you get occasional flirtatious dialogues but it's not a properly fleshed out plotline. Which is a pity, and continues a long history of BioWare avoiding romanceable dwarf characters, hence my producing a romance song about her. :)

"Nobody hits on the dwarf!"

Not if we don't get given the dialogue options to, certainly!

(Although I'd probably fail there anyway: it's a running joke among friends who I game with the extent to which I fail at game romances because my reactions and instincts for how to interact with people are often simply not those of the developers).

A song inspired by Vicorva's tombtown novels :)

Which reminds me Jubal, do you know Poul Anderson's Ballad of the Three Kings?  It seems in the neighbourhood of your filks.

I don't, I shall look it up. Thank you for the recommendation! :)

New original song, not really part of or referencing anything, just a pile of imagery. Lyrics/chords in the usual place (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg152420#msg152420).

It was a public holiday here today! This is what I spent all day on, for better or worse:

A small vaguely shantyish offering, I recorded Raise The Tide (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg153478#msg153478):

Not sure how pleased I am with this one (or more accurately I'm rather dissatisfied with how it came out), but anyway here's a cover of Coral Crown from Hades II.

New song!

This one has sheep in it.

A Discworld one this time :)

(Bonus points if you can get where the background image comes from: it's a portmanteau image, but the base images are all from the same source.)

Well, here's what I spent all day on: I present to you the Dread Wolf's song (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=536.msg157894#msg157894).

*applause*  :bard:

(Why don't we have an applause emoji?)

Thank you!

And yes, that's actually a good point and probably something I do actually have the capacity to fix. Will have a think!

Wrote a song! Not a good song, but it's A Thing.

Not bad at all! *tosses some aspers to the bard* :)

A Blue Prince fan-song :)

Blue Prince!! :) I like the use of polyphonics (is that the correct word?) in this one.

(Btw have you solved all the game puzzles or are you still exploring?)

Quote from: The Seamstress on June 08, 2025, 06:26:17 AMI like the use of polyphonics (is that the correct word?) in this one.

Thank you! I guess I'd probably just refer to it as a harmony line, but it probably also counts as polyphony (the bar for polyphony, approximately, being that the two lines need to potentially stand independently. That said, not a music theory person (I do have a qualification in the subject but it's like mid-grade from a long time ago), I'd need to ask Clio or someone to be sure.

Quote from: The Seamstress on June 08, 2025, 06:26:17 AM(Btw have you solved all the game puzzles or are you still exploring?)

Neither, I have hit my giving up point, the whole thing just got more grinding and the logic leaps more abstracted than even I, someone who is actually usually really stubborn about finishing games, was willing to put up with. I'm sure I could've solved the rest of my puzzles if I resigned from my job to focus on them, but probably fortunately I think not letting the game take over my life any more was the right call!

Quote from: Jubal on June 08, 2025, 09:53:05 AMNeither, I have hit my giving up point, the whole thing just got more grinding and the logic leaps more abstracted than even I, someone who is actually usually really stubborn about finishing games, was willing to put up with. I'm sure I could've solved the rest of my puzzles if I resigned from my job to focus on them, but probably fortunately I think not letting the game take over my life any more was the right call!

Oh! Fair. I'm glad to "play" in a group setting with V and the chat, some of the puzzles were really tricky and I think on my own I wouldn't have managed to solve them at all. It's fun watching though and I hope I get to see some exciting stuff in the upcoming streams.

Yeah, I think V is still in the viable bit of the game (spoiler for the rest of this)

Spoiler

But around getting the microchips and solving the ladder writing puzzle and getting the Throne Room room card it starts asking increasingly wild implementation leaps with no guidance. I would probably have gotten a touch further playing in a group, but I think it does kind of peter out and stop being fun, and the lore drops slow down a lot and IMHO A New Clue is made to be way too much of a game-blocker.

I might go back and do the challenge modes sometime, but I think I need a break to play something else for now.