Anchovies
Posts: 421
7/22/2017
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As per the title, let's share and discuss music which reminds us of Fallen London in some way.
First up, "Love is Mystical" by the Cold War Kids. Beyond just discussing the power of love and desire, this song uses lyrical imagery uncannily reminiscent of Fallen London: "I can't see behind the sun", "love will break the chains", "love in darkness will show you the way". It's the sort of thing which would come from a recording studio in the spires of the Echo Bazaar.
The other song which inspired me to create this thread is "Louisiana Sunrise", by Escape the Clouds. Lethal sunlight, unspeakable appetites, horrible transformation, and a love story - it's enough to give a level of Unaccountably Peckish. A particularly choice verse:
The closer I get, the more I hunger
For the strangest things.
Not beignets and cigarettes
On the side of Decatur street.
No gumbos or Étouffées
Can quench this evil need.
There's only one taste I crave
With the right seasoning
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
—Sir Arthur C Clarke
Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
7/22/2017
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Brian Eno's "Backwater".
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
7/22/2017
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"In all my dreams I drown", from Devil's Carnival. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this- I see this song on nearly every FL playlist 
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Jeremy Avalon
Posts: 345
8/10/2017
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What's that? An album literally subtitled "A Self-Banishment Ritual"? Sounds like the perfect SMEN album to me.
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How we must glow; yes, I bet we look like snow.
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
8/15/2017
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I often listen to Debussy's Clair de Lune while playing Fallen London. It puts me in the mood. If I'm listening on Youtube the autoplay then usually takes me on a trip around Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Erik Satie afterwards, which I have no objections at all to.
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"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Bitty
Posts: 234
8/15/2017
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Peace Beneath the City-Iron and Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDx6m3yh6rA
Culling of the Fold-The Decemberists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeE3443Fzo
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Chrisotoph
Posts: 18
8/15/2017
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Don't know which reminds me of which - probably both these and FL strike my heart in similar places - but here they are:
Jethro Tull - Bourée
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0
and then inevitably
The Jacques Loussier Trio - The Bach Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCuv9gSu09U
Bassa - Tango Azul (or really anything from Bassa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6j4ODrFulI
(I might be a bit partial because I frequently dance tango, but I think there is such love, desire and dark playfulness (or playful darknesss) which reminds me of Fallen London).
And then
Jean Sibelius (Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim, Chicago S.O. (CSO)) - Violin Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4
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Yours, Correspondent Chrisotoph
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
8/16/2017
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Winter Winds, Mumford and Sons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
8/16/2017
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Karl Jenkins's "Palladio" sets the mood for me quite well.
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Addis Rook
Posts: 125
8/18/2017
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You know, a while back I found the perfect music for a Brass Embassy ball...
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Unlikely
Posts: 11
11/9/2017
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I found a folk song! King Henry generously entertains a very hungry guest. It's roud 3967.
I'm listening to the Furrow Collective version, but you may know a better one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDWfU99X3k
Some texts are here.
https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span/songs/kinghenry.html
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
11/9/2017
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I am much amiss to leave off the Amelie soundtrack which is very Fin de sicle Paris and perhaps particularly good for the Feast of the Rose.
https://youtu.be/7gZmsAKQ8ZE
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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Pluta
Posts: 2
11/9/2017
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The Devil So Charming by Birdeatsbaby is a bit on the nose honestly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9G8LwNWnvk
As well as Sailor Boy by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
11/10/2017
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This entire playlist. I have no idea what this style of music is called; playfully-morbid cabaret? but it sounds Neathy.
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Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones.
Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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curtistruffle
Posts: 139
11/25/2017
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Ida Maria - Devil. Each couple strings of lyrics erupt with mentioning devils, Surface, North and so on. And a whole mystical decadent atmosphere of song fits Fallen London quite well too!
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Johnathan Priest(Nemesis), a Visionary Hunter of horrors both humane and eldritch.
I am a Dangerous patron
Jane Barlowe(Light Fingers), a Notorious Shenanigan and mediocre writer.
Cardinalli Browning(Bag a Legend), a Joyful Adventuress and a fictional character, written by Jane Barlowe.
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
11/27/2017
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I was wondering whether to post this song, called "the night guest" at all, since it's in polish, but it reminds me so much of Seeking, and is so pleasantly sedate (no, the audio is not broken, it just sounds like this), that i decided you might enjoy it despite its foreign language. providing quick translation under the spoiler;
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why do you knock at my windows
on the nights i cannot fall asleep
your slow heavy footsteps waking
waking the creaking floor
and then you sit by my side
then you stand in front of me
your eyes are so huge, so pale, so blind
your hands are cold
your hands are cold
you show to me a wet stain
this bloody smear on your shirt
telling me to touch it, telling me to bring it to my mouth
and then, again
you walk around the empty house
writing crazy red words
with your blood on the walls
with your blood on the walls
with your blood on the walls
and when you leave in the pale morning
my eyes will hurt from the lack of sleep
then i'll see the rope taken off from the curtains
and when you leave in the pale morning
my eyes will hurt from the lack of sleep
then i'll see the rope taken off from the curtains
and an open straightrazor on the table
and an open straightrazor on the table
and an open straightrazor on the table
and an open straightrazor on the table
why do you knock at my windows?
why do you knock at my windows?
i don't know why, and i don't know what for
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Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
11/28/2017
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Caroline Augusta Baroness Aubrecker wrote:
this is based on the poem by Siergieja Jesienina. - a Russian poet who committed suicide. Parts of the song are literal translations of Jesienina's own poem - the night guest.
technically, "the night guest" is władysław broniewski's poem, inspired by and written about jesienin's.... hm, suicide. credit where credit's due (; and i always say it's a shame the entirety of the poem wasn't included in the song, because it gets even more reminiscent of SMEN further on
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Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones.
Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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ChangelingChilde
Posts: 231
11/28/2017
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I agree with both 'The Culling of the Fold' and 'O Death,' and would like to add this song.
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DO you recall how the Hunger began?
I'm sorry, my darling, I don't think I can!
OUT past the High Wilderness and beyond
I fear I've gone Seeking, for of Him I'm fond.
--The Elfin Cannibal
Seven scars, seven chains, a soul too stained for Hell, and seven sainted candles burning at the well.
Gone to Grieve on the 17th day of the 7th month, 1897. Will be Vake-hunting next.
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Maxi Reigl
Posts: 12
2/18/2018
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The beginning bit of Rachmaninov's "Isle of the Dead" really sounds like it inspired the sunless-sea-soundtrack.
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curtistruffle
Posts: 139
3/5/2018
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Not exact Fallen London entry, but definetely Sunless Sea's: "Мертвые матросы не спят" by Aquarium. Hope you friends will not be offended by a song on a foreign language. In my possible defence I'll say I rarely especially praise lyrics and perceive it as a part of complex experience of listening a track.
Caption translates as "Dead sailors do not sleep" and lyrics is all about grief and sorrow of a drowned man thus parted with his beloved.
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I am a Dangerous patron
Jane Barlowe(Light Fingers), a Notorious Shenanigan and mediocre writer.
Cardinalli Browning(Bag a Legend), a Joyful Adventuress and a fictional character, written by Jane Barlowe.
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