May 15, 2012
Eyes open~ Taylor Swift
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Eyes open~ Taylor Swift
Blue Foundation - "Eyes on Fire"
[The Hunger Games, 74th Games, Clove's unflinching determination to take out Katniss at the Feast and show Panem who the real Girl on Fire is]
I'll seek you out, flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared, of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
- from How Low Can You Go: A Clove fanmix by theplaidpen@LJ
[credit: submitted by annieundresta]
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"Rue's Lullaby" [arr by adrisaurus]
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[cover credit: come morning light by wishfulwednesday]
REVIEW: Another new arrangement just posted this past week, adrisaurus (first mentioned HERE for her Hanging Tree arrangement) delivers fandom another inspired interpretation of Collins' lyrics. I love that this just feels old, as old as the Scottish hills it sounds like it first came from. She keeps the traditional lullaby tempo for accompaniment, but with the purely folk-derived melody and her vocal choices, adds this truly haunting quality on top of it. Overall, it makes creates one of the most unique arrangements yet. Thanks to onceinspired for submitting it!
"Rue's Lullaby" [arranged and sung by ApatheticOnion]
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[cover credit: come morning light by wishfulwednesday]
REVIEW: I fell instantly in love this with this melody. She takes Katniss's description of the song ("it is old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air") and really stays true to it by creating a Gaelic-like folk melody for it. She also has a pitch perfect voice for the tune, and though her recording is accapella, it's flawless. On top of that, it's delivered in a rich tone that I can easily imagine as Katniss's voice ("that made the birds stop and listen"). If I had one quibble, I wish she'd have slowed it down just slightly (so it can be "one we sing fretful, hungry babies to sleep with"). It has a great propulsion for the melody like it is here, but it lacks the tempo of a lullaby and doesn't allow the emotional component to build to it's full potential. It makes me want to campaign for one of the fan composers to team up with her to create an accompaniment and rerecord it in a slower version, because with some very slight changes in approach, it could easily be the most canonically true Rue's Lullaby we have.
COMPARED TO THE OFFICIAL VERSION: The melody takes on a completely different approach than Burnett's version which stuck to a more simple, anesthetic sounding lullaby. I was very surprised after the soundtrack stayed so true to bluegrass and Appalachia folk sound, none of that felt injected into the song that canonically was written as an old "hill song". Taking on a Gaelic folk ballad bend not only gives it that quality, it makes the tune more melodically complex. The official version's only real win over this version is its lullaby meter/tempo and professional recording quality. Give this girl a couple folk musicians, a slight tempo change, and a recording studio, and she'd have the official version topped in all respects.
All this week, we're highlighting the different fanmade arrangements of Katniss's song to Rue. Have a favorite version of Rue's Lullaby? Submit it to thg-music.
Song playing when Katniss and Peets are being crowned Victors by Pres. Snow? Pretty please? gracias
It's "Returning Home" part of the "Tenuous Winners/Returning Home" track on the Howard score compilation, and starts at 1:21 in. I'll be uploading a clip of this momentarily, but quick question for the HG masses, has anyone found where "Tenuous Winners" the first part of that track, is played in the movie? I have a hunch it was score made in an earlier cut of the film, before the Marissa's Flashback was put in its place, and isn't actually in the film at all. But it's just a hunch, so anyone that thinks they've heard it somewhere else, feel free to message me.
My apologies to those who have sent in submissions in the last week, we've taken a hiatus with all the movie score questions, but hope to get back to them at some point this week.
And, WELCOME new followers! Special thanks to pattycakezo who was our first 100th follower! We're so glad you've all liked what we're doing here. If you have any suggestions on how to make this HG music archive better, or wish to help out in any way, feel free to message us! We're still in the beginning stages of creating this space and welcome any constructive comments. :)
"Horn of Plenty" - Win Butler and Régine Chassagne - The Hunger Games Original Motion Picture Score
Heard throughout the chariots scene, leading up to President Snow officiating the opening of the 74th Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games [2012] - "At The Cornucopia" [theater-recorded audio] (includes compositions by Chas Smith and Steve Reich, presumably mixed by Howard and Burnett)
As we said about this moment earlier today:
You really got to stop and appreciate the creative genius of Gary Ross with this. To choose [this] sound for such a key moment, the biggest bloodbath in the whole film...[is] a remarkable show of restraint few directors would want or allow. Just one of the many stylistic choices made for this film that made it so memorable.
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What are your post-movie songs?
Finally saw The Hunger Games last night. We are STUNNED. There is really no other word for it. It was nothing we expected and everything it should have been. That's a hard thing to process. Gary Ross made a remarkable film (yes FILM, it earned that distinction), while staying absolutely true to the core of the story and his commitment to "not become the Capitol" in the process of telling it. But he did so in a very stylized and risky way, with something that is gearing to blockbuster, record-breaking levels of popularity. And THAT...well, its gonna take to time to wrap my head around.
Turned straight to my HG playlist driving home. This particular set has been on repeat ever since:
- "Resurrection" - The Temper Trap
- "Girl In The War" - Josh Ritter [via borealis]
- "Reset" - Lucie Silvas [via thewinchestergospel's fantastic THG vid]
- "This Will Destroy You" - Threads [via faberryonthecontrary]
- "Elephants" - Warpaint [first submitted by thewandering-mind]
- "No Distance Left To Run" - Blur [first submitted by dishonouryourcow]
- "Run for your Life" - The Fray
What songs have you been playing on repeat since seeing the movie?
