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Skroderiders are one of several iconic alien races in Vernor Vinge's classic A Fire Upon the Deep— cyborgs consisting of a sessile, frond-like intertidal animal and a wheeled cart with computing faculties. Behind this marriage of organic and machine components lies a long-forgotten legend and ultimately a deep tragedy (but spoilers!). "41 Thunderer" by Dave Carter also tells a tragic story of a person whose soul becomes entangled with a machine.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "41 Thunderer" by Dave Carter

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326-3827, the number of the trash compactor unit in Star Wars: A New Hope, may not have anything in common with 236-6132 besides being someone's telephone number, but something about the tone of the song seemed to fit the scene, setting it up to join a long list of Dave Carter/Star Wars parodies — once I figured out the extremely tangled rhyme scheme.

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ttto: "236-6132" by Dave Carter

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Rain World is a very strange video game, combining exploration, survival, the ruins of a lost technological civilization, and a richly simulated ecosystem — full both of things to eat and things to be eaten by, and inundated every so often by torrential rains that wash away everything that doesn't take shelter. It's inscrutable and mysterious, poorly (or just un-) explained, punishingly difficult if the player isn't prepared to take each death as a learning opportunity, and yet somehow endearingly charming — I guess the slugcat is just that cute.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "The River, Where She Sleeps" by Dave Carter

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A scion of a proud house, living in exile and disappointment, takes the advice of a friend and stirs up the courage to return. Of course in Thorin's case he is the rightful heir, the exile is on account of a dragon, the advice to return is good (does Gandalf give bad advice?), and the expedition is ultimately successful — but it still ends with his death.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Preston Miller" by Dave Carter

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I've been meaning to write this song for a long time — not only the title, but the mood, seemed fitting. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a deeply sad and troubling story, all the more sad and troubling for the mirror it holds up to the real world, and any song about it needs to reflect that.

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ttto: "Walkin' Away From Caroline" by Dave Carter

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This song is part four of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.

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ttto: "Preston Miller" by Dave Carter

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According to Tracy Grammer, Dave Carter was on the verge of coming out as transgender at the time of his* untimely death. You can catch fleeting glimpses of trans self-awareness in some of Dave's songs, especially the haunting "Phantom Doll". Of course, what I latched onto is that "Doll" rhymes with "Maul" and Darth Maul is "the phantom menace". But I did give Darth Maul a gender swap for this song.

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ttto: "Phantom Doll" by Dave Carter

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ttto: "When I Go" by Dave Carter

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ttto: "Tillman Co." by Dave Carter

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Among the Explorators, sentient, self-reproducing machines with a mission of exploration whose universe follows the known laws of physics (so, no FTL), a "stargazer" is a sessile Explorator installation that reproduces by firing "seeds" (nanotech bootstrap packages) to nearby solar systems. Each seed will seek out a metal-rich asteroid and build an observatory.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Tanglewood Tree" by Dave Carter

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The source song, with its image of a prodigy who doesn't fit in anywhere, seemed fitting for Anakin Skywalker.

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ttto: "Ordinary Town" by Dave Carter

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Besides just the phrase "shadow of", Shadow of the Colossus and "Shadows of Evangeline" share a sense of forbidden ritual and forgotten secrets. The instrumental break features one of the musical themes from the game.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Shadows of Evangeline" by Dave Carter, with "The Opened Way" from Shadow of the Colossus by Koh Ohtani

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ttto: "The Mountain" by Dave Carter

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A song for Mr. Morden — like the symbol of the raven in "I Go Like the Raven", the Shadows (or their ships) screaming across the "dark and dervish sky" herald a wily trickster with a mysterious past and unknown powers.

Dave & Tracy's original song is as notable for its virtuosic instrumental breaks as for its haunting lyrics, and this new recording of my parody finally features a most appropriate theme in that role.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "I Go Like the Raven" by Dave Carter

and featuring the main title theme from Babylon 5 by Christopher Franke

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Based on The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Dissapearing Man" by Dave Carter

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A song based on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones — like the song it parodies, this is about war as a manufactured lie, but it was the idea of Anakin as the "dread and darlin' boy", and the way the second verse fits with barely a tweak, that really sealed it.

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ttto: "Hey Ho" by Dave Carter

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