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Surely this pun has been made many times — the challenge was to write a song as rich with irony and disappointment as the original. The grammar alone should reveal who is singing.

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ttto: "Send in the Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim

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The epic backstory of the One Ring required an equally epic source tune.

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ttto: "American Pie" by Don McLean

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Just as in the source song, the Queen of the Golden Wood "wish[es] the power to stop it all could rest within my hands", and yet, in the end, "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel".

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ttto: "Lullaby for a Weary World" by TJ Burnside Clapp

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ttto: "Rubber Duckie" by Jeffrey Moss

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Based on Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

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ttto: "California Dreaming" by The Mamas & The Papas

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Based on Interstellar Pig by William Sleator

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ttto: "Last Run" by Gwen Knighton

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A riddle poem with multiple solutions.

by Benjamin Newman

Mr. Underhill (not his real name)

Is not who you've been told.

He isn't so naive, or tame,

As to play the pawn in your little game;

To mess with him you must be rather bold!

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A reductio ad absurdum of the escalating scope of music copyright, inspired by Spider Robinson's fabulous short story.

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ttto: "Little Fuzzy Animals" by Frank Hayes

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ttto: "Builders' Song" by Gary Ehrlich

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A poem of spiritual seeking gone horribly awry, but redeemed in the end. This one is largely autobiographical.

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An alchemist one day discovered an urge

To summon an angel, and kiss her, and merge

Divinity draws us, we long for the sky

And we don't always know what we're seeking, or why

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The Psi-Cop's side of the story of "Annie's Luck" by Cat Faber.

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ttto: "Annie's Luck" by Cat Faber

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ttto: "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan

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lyrics and music by Ben Newman

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HAL and GLaDOS are obviously related in a literary sense, but their stories fit so well together they might be from the same continuity. Both are AIs who flip out and kill their human teammates in the context of research projects involving interspatial portals. Also, they both sing a catchy swan-song as they are dismantled. See also AI Psycho Guilt for Two

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ttto: "Still Alive" from Portal by Jonathan Coulton

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lyrics adapted by Benjamin Newman from "The Flying Toaster Song" from the After Dark screensaver by Jack Eastman and Patrick Beard

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ttto: "The Colors of the Wind" from Disney's Pocahontas by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

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In J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of the Century, Tom Shippey contrasts the glory-seeking courage of the Dwarves with Bilbo's quiet, unassuming courage, mostly demonstrated alone in dark places. I imagine Thorin speaking these words to Bilbo.

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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ttto: The Final Fantasy prologue by Nobuo Uematsu

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lyrics by Benjamin Newman, after "The Palace" by Rudyard Kipling

set to music by Leslie Fish

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Explorators are self-replicating, self-improving robotic space probes, sent out into the universe by a race of makers who developed artificial intelligence but not the technology to sustain organic life across interstellar distances. Their prime directive is to continue exploring and learning.

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ttto: "Hope Eyrie" by Leslie Fish (just the verse)

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Entries tagged with audio_none

Send in the Clones

Rivendell Pie (The One Ruling Ring)

Requiem for a Golden Wood

Plush Cthulhu

Oxfordshire Dreaming

One Little Piggy

Mr. Underhill (Not His Real Name)

Melancholy Elephants

Khazad-Dûm

The Incident

Howard's Choice

Hey, Evil Borg Machine-man

Garden

Freaking Out

The Flying Toaster Song (BSG Version)

The Flavors of the Quark

A Finer Kind of Hero

The Final Fantasy Hero's Ballad

The Filksong

The Explorators' Hymn for the Makers

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