DPP: Play On.........

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Sorry I'm late with today's DPP, guys - cramps and a weird-acting LJ embed function did mk. I of this post in, but now I'm back, with yet another question about pilots set to music - what are your favourite pieces of music that remind you of pilots, which you haven't yet seen as the soundtrack to a fanvid or inspiration for a songfic?

This post also serves as an open invite to anyone who wants to make vids using the music we mention here - please, if you feel the beginnings of a vid coming on, make it and leave us the link! If any get done before the end of the week, they'll be the subject of my final DPP post. And even if you're not in a vidding mood, tell us about your personal soundtrack for pilots, any and all suggestions are welcome!

Anyway, here's my selection: 

1. Kissing In The Rain, by Patrick Doyle feat. Tori Amos (from the soundtrack of the 1998 Great Expectations)

This has always been one of my favourite pieces of music of all time, but I think it's particularly perfect for pilots because of the way it captures them - the romance, wistfulness, tension, yearning and forever EPICNESS that is them, so beautifully, and  (very appropriately for pilots) there are no words.
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2. The Last of the Mohicans theme, by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (in this vid, it's soundtracking a fan-made trailer for Serenity - sorry about that, it was the only vid I could find that had the shorter version of the song I wanted). Another epic romantic theme, which I think speaks quite a bit to the warrior side of pilots. 

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3. Wishful Thinking, by Duncan Sheik (again, from the Great Expectations OST). With lyrics this time, but still pilots-appropriate. 

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Enough about me, now. Tell me all about the songs that you think fit pilots and haven't actually been their background music yet!

PS: The pic at the top is there because I don't want to do a DPP with no pics of pilots, and they look so cute in their protective glasses (of course they can't wear real glasses for bad eyesight and still fly planes, but it's nice to have the image).

Comments

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

I'm permanently stuck on the 80's Brit rock/pop so...


I think it's the line about how "We'll stay friendly like sister and brother, though I think I still love you."


I think of this song for the field flashback in Unfinished Business. I always think it's all Lee's fault because he just pushed her too hard in a way she wasn't able to go. Typical Lee, typical Lee, typical Lee.
"There was nothing, no one, nothing around for miles
I doused our friendly venture
With a hard-faced, three-word gesture
I started something
I forced you to a zone and you were clearly
Never meant to go"

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I love Britpop (and the Smiths, they were like a soundtrack to my own angsty adolescence), so this is right up my street! Lovely lyrics too, though I refuse to blame either one of our pilots for the UB devastation, it hurts to think about it.

There's a lovely fanvid by latteaddict out there that's set to the Placebo cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAE07k-lbZA (embedding is disabled), do check it out if you like that song.

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

Am currently obsessed with Adele, so I'll say "Set Fire to the Rain" and "Someone Like You". *happysigh* I'm quite out of it, so, no idea if these have been turned into vids!

(and, oddly, Amistad/You Found Me by The Fray makes me think of pilots...)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I love Adele too - lovely voice! I don't think anyone has turned those songs into vids, though.

[requialexa.livejournal.com]

As a new Pilots shipper, newly smitten, blushing with the obsession of new love, every song I hear seems to remind me of them (within reason lol) but I can picture a perfect vid using Matt Nathanson's new song, Run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5UjQy87XA) which is actually a duet with a Sugarland chick I guess. eta: Ugh, I can't get the embedding to work. *doh*

[winegums.livejournal.com]

oh hey, new shipper - welcome aboard! It's so nice to have more people to share pilots love with, and the song is lovely - I love that it's a duet.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

It's the goggles - they might be handling guns, but they look utterly adorkable with the protective eyegear and silly grins (and Lee's jawline!).

[gubeldood208.livejournal.com]

Late! But here are just a few of the songs currently beating me over the head with Piloty feelings.

Himerus and Eros by the Spill Canvas


And I fight the urge to explore
The vastness of your curves I adore
You know I, I hate you
No, I hate you more
You know I, I love you
No, I love you more

Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky


Acoustic and still heart-wrenchingly Lee and Kara. Also the song-title/band-name combo couldn't be more Pilots if it tried.

This Unavoidable Thing Between Us by Evermore


When we walk away, we only grow more near
When we turn away, it all becomes so clear
This unavoidable thing, joining us

Poison and Wine by the Civil Wars


Oh your hands can heal, your hands can bruise
I don't have a choice but I still choose you
Oh I don't love you
But I always will

[winegums.livejournal.com]

oooooooooh, I LOVE Your Hand In Mine! You're right, its lovely and it does sound very pilot-y - good choice!