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Looking Glass Wars Soundtrack!
I love LGW (the book series by Frank Beddor), so I went to the website (the series title, 'the' included, is all that comes before the dot com) and looked around. I found the section with songs based on the first novel, so I listened to what was there, plus a bit more (as in the rest of some of the songs we couldn't hear all of on the website). I liked it (and I don't even listen to much music, so actually, the fact that any of these will cause me to just sit listening and not doing anything else counts more than it would for most people), and would reccomend it to those who enjoyed the LGW series. My favorite was probably "Thru the Looking Glass," but I also really liked "Puddles" and "Who Is Alyss?"... Has anyone else heard any of it?
submitted by Ima
(July 18, 2010 - 12:18 am)
(July 18, 2010 - 12:18 am)
Squee!
Of course I am such a pushover that I bought it like three months ago. xD
And I like it too. I think what we gather from it is that Frank Beddor has a deep and passionate love for his synthesizer.
Like you, "Puddles" and "Thru the Looking Glass" were probably my favourites. I liked "Sea of Redd" too. Oh, and "Lullaby."
Were you able to listen fully to each song? I know he's only got 30-sec clips for some on the site.
(July 18, 2010 - 2:24 pm)
I looked them up on Google videos, because I just didn't feel like paying for it... I don't think I got around to listening to all of them, though, or even seeing if they were all available that way, but so far I've found each I looked for. Thru The Looking Glass even had a music video (rather than just the song playing with the LGW symbol, like the others).
I think I'm now going to look up the songs I just didn't look for...
(July 18, 2010 - 11:17 pm)
Ugh. Okay, when I said I'd listened to some of them on Google videos, what I really meant was that I'd been bored one night and kept wondering about what the rest of Thru The Looking Glass was like, so I looked that up on Google videos and heard it. I noticed that there were many results for the other LGW songs, so I listened to one (I think it was the one called Wonderland, because it was first on the online list) and,as for the others, went, "Hm. I'll have to listen to those sometime" But I didn't feel like explaining all that, so I just said I listened to some, which I hope is alright even though 2 hardly counts as 'some.' However, now that I tried listening to others, the results aren't the right results. They'll be the wrong song entirely (but similar enough that I don't realize it until I've listened to the entire boring thing) or only part of it sung by the wrong person, or have some other flaw. I give up. I'm just going to buy it.
I think after I do (and listen to everything), I'll try to listen to them while reading it. I wonder what that'll be like...
(July 19, 2010 - 12:09 am)
So. Awesome! My favourite was probably "Puddles", but I liked "Shattered" as well. And how did you manage to listen to the rest of the songs that we couldn't hear all of on the site?
(July 19, 2010 - 7:01 am)
@Ima: That's happened to me before. Irritating :P
On the topic of the actual soundtrack, some parts are just downright silly... I mean: "Someone - somewhere - find Alyss and bring her home, home, home, h-h-h-home---" *shakes head bemusedly* No. Bibwit Harte does not rap. He just doesn't. Too strange.
Some of the lyrics just tried to hard to rhyme, which I think is considerably funny, but overall the writing is pretty good. Beddor wrote all the lyrics, didn't he?
(July 19, 2010 - 10:00 am)
I agree about certain parts being so forced. I actually laughed out loud quite a few times. And the Burn The Clock thing made me blink. Several times. But I think it was someone else who wrote the lyrics. More than one person, actually, one for each song (with some doing multiple songs). Some of the writers were much better than others, it seemed...
(July 19, 2010 - 3:04 pm)
Yes. XD My reaction was exactly the same. And it would make sense that there were different writers, considering how different some of the lyrics were... I'll look it up later.
'nother question: Had anybody honestly ever heard of any of the bands that do the songs, before listening to the soundtrack?
(July 20, 2010 - 11:41 am)
I certainly haven't. Then again, I don't listen to very much music anyway, so I'm not the most likely person to know about them...
(July 20, 2010 - 5:56 pm)
Yes, the Bibwit Harte thing was ... odd.
(July 20, 2010 - 6:08 pm)
I think you're right... Although the same person who sang Puddles and Thru The Looking Glass also wrote their lyrics.
This isn't related to the soundtrack, but I was listening to an interview with Frank Beddor yesterday, and he was talking about how some Lewis Carroll societies objected to The Looking Glass Wars, and were apparantly basically saying, "Off with Frank Beddor's head; off with Frank Beddor's head." I suddenly got this strange but extremely vivid picture in my mind of Redd leading a group of Lewis Carroll supporters over to Frank Beddor's home and shouting, "Off with Frank Beddor's stinking, boring, head!" Even though she isn't a Lewis Carroll supporter, of course. It was... interesting... XD.
(July 21, 2010 - 1:29 am)
Wow, Ima, thanks for that image. XD
(July 21, 2010 - 5:31 pm)
Recently, I decided that since I knew absolutely nothing of the original Alice in Wonderland sotory, I would read some of it. I did... I feel very sorry for Alyss. I knew it was nonsensical, but I had no idea it would be this.
(July 21, 2010 - 2:42 pm)
More randomness in response to your randomnses: When Redd appeared at the party thing in book one and said "Off with their heads! Off with their stinking, boring heads!", I had this emotional moment where I sort of fell in love with that character... it too was strange. But that was when I started obsessing over every word she spoke...
Re: original AiW: Because Carroll was on drugs, y'see.
(July 21, 2010 - 9:16 pm)
The main reason I like the original is because of all the great poetry in it, like "Jabberwocky." I would forgive a great deal for that poem. (Jabberwocky is only the name of the poem, people. The creature is called a Jabberwock. I hate it when people call the Jabberwock a Jabberwocky.)
(July 22, 2010 - 5:18 pm)
And now I decided to visit the LGW Wiki. It was very... pathetic. There was a total of 14 articles (which I'd completely understand if it was brand new, or something, but I got the impression that it had been around for months at least) full of errors and bad writing, all of which should have been classified as stubs (yet strangely, the 'Stubs' page was empty). It included articles such as 'Queen Geniveve' and lines like 'Hatter Madigan gives is life for the queen, and later, his daughter (with no period)". Really? Hatter Madigan died twice? I wonder why I never noticed that happening in the books... I fixed the quote, because I just couldn't let it sit there so pitifully and disgrace LGW, so now it's gone. I couldn't change the 'Geniveve,' though, because you can't change titles without creating an account. And those were just examples. To be honest, I probably should have just left it all be to laugh at later, but I didn't. I've been making all sorts of corrections... But I couldn't fix every article. I was busy. There's probably still something left. As far as I could see, every page had something wrong with it, even if it was just a missing link.
(July 21, 2010 - 11:30 pm)