Have I composed something you like? Tell me.

[thatcrazycajun]

Just curious: after so many years being involved in this thing we all call "filk," I seem to have acquired quite a back catalog...and a number of songs and/or parodies that people have told me they loved, sang themselves at cons or other events where I was not present (which I mind not the least little tiny bit!) or found themselves weeping over.

So...what's your favorite song of mine, original or filk? Post the answer here, please. The results may be used to assemble something I never in a kajillion years thought I'd live to make: a "Greatest Hits" compilation.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Gotta be "Simple Country Doctor". I haven't heard *much* else of yours (hmmmmm.... I know you're a die-hard GaFilker but someday might we get you on the Left Coast? 'cause we gotta fix that.... Even better if the 'Bird can come with!)

Damn. Who else other than the Fish has come out with something like that? that's... quite an achievement.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

If the finances could be worked out, I would happily sing with y'all out on the Left Coast any weekend...and I feel reasonably certain SB would enjoy it as well.

Glad you enjoyed my award-winner...but "The Singer's Secret" is also mine, as are "Evil Is A Four-Letter Word, Too" (AKA the Evil Overlord song) and "Send Me Up!" Then there's "The Ivanova Blasphemy Song" (sodyera still gets partial credit for the idea), "The Enterprise Security Dept. Fight Song" (my earliest con-circuit hit) and "Vampire Slayer Rap" and "Star Role" and...I should probably stop now.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If the finances could be worked out

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

See me after class.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

I think the only one of yours I've heard, for me, is still Simple Country Doctor, but that's a damn good song!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for The Names Upon the Wall, and also for Everyday Hero. I like all the others people have cited too, but those are two of my favorites.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I have forgotten the title, but the Galaxy Quest one.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

That would be "Star Role, or We Are Soooo Screwed..." (TTTO "Starsoul" by Urban Tapestry). Thanks!

[janeg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I cover Starsoul and would love the words to this parody!

You know I adore and cover The Singer's Secret, with Peggi Warner-Lalonde if she is available (and once with Gary Erlich but I screwed up the timing on that one; maybe we should have practiced together once before trying it in a circle. Not his fault).

However, I think Simple Country Doctor remains the favourite.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

>>Oh, I cover Starsoul and would love the words to this parody!<<

Ask and ye shall receive... but in the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Always remember - you asked for it!" (grin)

STAR ROLE, or WE ARE SOOOOOO SCREWED...
Music: "Starsoul" by Jodi Krangle ©1997 / New Lyrics: Matt G. Leger
Inspired by the DreamWorks SKG motion picture Galaxy Quest and written from the POV of Jason Nesmith, AKA Capt. Peter Quincy Taggart

The ship is untried, and you say we can't fly;
The chances are good we'll be blown from the sky.
She was based on a model of plastic, not steel,
But some-how these aliens have made her real!

Chorus I / So show us the enemy, give us the ship,
God only knows why we're making this trip.
You say we're just actors, forgotten and old,
But our greatest adventure has yet to unfold!

Our new friends so trusting, some would say naïve,
But all those old broadcasts they really believe;
Their faith is so strong -- how can we let them down?
We're all that they've got; no one else is around!
Repeat Chorus I

It's been eighteen years, and I've gotten a gut;
Now there's no stunt double, no one to yell "Cut!"
Gwen, Tommy and Fred, even Guy -- they're all here,
And Dane is still bitching for his lost career.
Repeat Chorus I

So here we all are, set to fight for our lives
With no script to tell us who dies or survives.
Can we be true saviors? At least we can try,
With "Never surrender!" as our battle cry.
Chorus II: / And we faced the enemy, we flew the ship;
God only knows how we lived through that trip.
We left has-been actors, came back heroes bold --
And our greatest adventures have yet to unfold!

[sdelmonte]

Your best song is Simple Country Doctor. My favorite is your Evil Overlord song - Evil is Also a Four Letter Word, right?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

See my response to Techno above. And thank you.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I like everything of yours I've heard, but Simple Country Doctor, preferably performed by Kathleen Sloan (she does such a great job with it) has to be one of the top 2 or 3 Trek songs ever.

I have one song that is probably my most-requested and least favorite. Do you have a song everyone else seems to like that you're totally sick of? If the answer is yes, it isn't absolutely required to tell us which song it is.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

One of the top 2 or 3 ever? Oh, my...Thank you.

If I have any over-requested song, "ASCD" would be closest...but I stop getting tired of singing it once I start the song. Every time. (It used to be "Security Fight Song," but I don't get requests for that so much anymore.)

[gorgeousgary]

All the ones you've made me play, of course! 8-)

(Tell me 'ya didn't know I was gonna say that...)

But seriously, I've frequently covered both "Evil Is A Four-Letter Word, Too" and "Agent of the MIB" in open filk. I've also always had a soft spot for "Everyday Hero", even though I haven't seen a single minute of Early Edition. (Uh-oh...another DVD for the Netflix list...)

[patoadam]

Simple Country Doctor

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

"Simple Country Doctor" leads the pack. "Ivanova Blasphemy Song" & "Send Me Up!" (which I've filked") are high up there too. Probably a lot more if I could think of them.

"original or filk": The Doctor and I know what you mean ("filk of another song"), but there are too many non-filkers who believe that "filk" = "parody".

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

A lot of stuff you've written and performed, I like. I can't say one in particular, dey all dat good!

[otherdeb.livejournal.com]

"The Singer's Secret" which not only has my approval, but the approval of a certain singer.....

[crystalgee.livejournal.com]

Hmm I haven't heard much of your filk but was'nt "Oh Lord its hard to be Vulcan" one of yours?

I did enjoy that regardless..

Oh yeah, I also remember the one you did for Indiana Jones set to the gambler.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

"A Simple Country Doctor", hands-down.

"Send Me Up" is next.

Neither of which I do to the tune YOU composed, since I haven't heard you do either of them often enough to learn your tunes.

[filkferengi]

I have to go for A Simple Country Doctor, because a) I have always adored DeForest Kelly and b) I was there the day you made catalana cry with it. Do you still have that button?

My spouse bestows professional approval on "Evil Is A Four-Letter Word, Too" (AKA the Evil Overlord song), & "Vampire Slayer Rap" is lots of fun, too.