Y’all are MONSTERS. MONSTERS. I was standing on the corner, minding my own business (probably reading my Heinlein) when suddenly some baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad commenter (You are a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad thing. Baaaaaaaaaaaaad.) mentioned the words “sound track for books.” And that I really should do a sound track for No Man’s Land.
It’s not like y’all don’t know I’m slightly on the spectrum (like people are slightly pregnant while screaming into the delivery room) and likely to become obsessed with stuff involving writing poetry and playing with clankers for music and–
Well! Now there are three tracks (though the chapter with Skip hiding in beds made me profoundly uncomfortable, it makes a fun song. The “He came to me in a dream” Probably called “Prodigal Son” but not written YET (unless I’m sitting down tonight and hit hits me) links up with his training for the Interplanetary Diplomatic Service. It will be the refrain.
I hope y’all are happy with yourselves. And yes, chapters WILL get written, today hopefully. The reason they’re late is more that I’ve been helping the Littler Pickle (younger DIL) fix up a space for storage for her stuff.
Dan says I’m actually writing a Rock Opera and wants me to do a screen play. If I kill him I was playing poker with y’all all night, right.
He also wants me to do videos with the lyrics, and that I CAN do it’s just going to take learning how. Chapters for Witch’s Daughter first, because it’s “this” close.
So, from the Top, what I have Right NOW on the No Man’s Land Playlist:
Track 1:
Track 2: (And if you haven’t read the book, read the description, otherwise you’ll be MIGHTY confused.)
Track 3:
THAT’s it. For now.
Until our next episode of “Pointing the writer at clankers and not even saying we’re sorry!”
According To Hoyt 
Oh God. I think that might’ve been me in Hunville when I mentioned that you were creating the first book with its own OST. I’m…kind of sorry? A little? Partially? Maybe not really?
And now I’m scared you’re going to throw the Portugese version of a chancla at me, or more likely get my wife to do it for you.
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There have been a couple of book soundtracks before. And I definitely am the one who gave her the idea, because I’ve had a soundtrack for a book that’s still not published yet for several years.
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For example, Bruce Craven’s Fast Sofa came with a novelty bendy record bound in the book. And L. Ron Hubbard released an album of “space jazz” as a soundtrack for Battlefield Earth (it was really by Chick Corea, which means it’s probably quite good, but I’ve not heard it).
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[shifty eyes]
I admit to listening to March of Cambreadth purely because it was mentioned in a John Ringo book. And discovered that I liked Heather Alexander’s OTHER music.
On the other hand, I also looked up Cruxshadows for the same reason. And no, I don’t care for their sound. (The lyrics to “Winter Born” are powerful, the execution could be better.)
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You of course have the good taste to have already known and loved the work of Warren Zevon before reading Ringo referencing him.
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For the record, “New London, New London” is insanely catchy.
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TRUE!!
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I know. It’s actually a sad song, but heck!
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Also, if you say I have to write a script for the rock opera, you’re going on the list Dan is on. (I don’t know. Feed him till he shuts up list?)
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The Hoyt’s Elly. :P
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No. I’m not writing a script for ALL of them.
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Very good.
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I LOVE when books have their own soundtracks. I was the one who suggested that some of the Star Wars books needed their own, and while only Shadows of the Empire got one, I was pleased as punch that they had taken my suggestion. I was fortunate enough to have a talented young composer do a score for my first novel and novella (the second of which includes a cue with lyrics by yours truly, and was a complete surprise–they’re both on Spotify and YouTube and a number of other sites). I will have to listen to these when the boys are in bed. So cool!
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at the risk of being drummed out of the Corps, all this talk about clankers makes me wonder about which detective stories to take home…
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The “Clankers” term has been wandering through the back corners* of my mind, and I finally found the connection. (Well, one of them…) Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat (or one of the sequels) had a scene on a planet where cybernetics was standard, but the power source for the robots (including butlers) was coal. A coal-fired robot seems to be Peak Clanker.
And after the AI essays (here and at Frank Hood’s stack), coal-fired AI seems to be appropriate. :)
(*) It’s dusty there…
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I e mailed you about how I keep rewriting lyrics to fit your story, er, I mean epic work, and now I am about to do some late weights and having watched and listened to all these I am sure I won’t be able to stop- maybe I should just listen to Chopin and Beethoven piano, but I might start singing to them…. …or worse yet, I have a lot of bluegrass instrumental on a playlist…
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I didn’t get the email!
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c4c
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I always liked Ringo’s publishing a play list for his books, this seems the logical next step. <Insert Simpson’s “I’m Helping! meme here>
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Hmm. Have you considered a side gig as a songwriter? If ‘Seventeen’ popped up on my Pandora feed I would likely give it a Thumbs Up. There’s seriously good money in residuals.
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