Evening fellow forum denizens, I come today with yet another music thread, not however just what you’d throw in for the fun of it.
Oh no no no no, this thread is specifically for character themes only. And I know not everyone agrees with them which is fair. But for those that do, could you perhaps link what you’d consider encapsulates your character in music? And perhaps briefly explain why, unless the song does anyway.
I’ll start. Rubs hands together
Skyclads - You lost my memory
An interesting sounding piece, I have come to love. Not only for its lyrical themes but also for the way it sounds, it’s a folky piece of music but also has a certain metal grittiness to it that I feel encapsulates Gilneas and Charles as a person.
For any of you that have seen my AA page, you’ll know I have a quote torn from the song itself I feel fits Charles character fairly well.
“We quest for a grail of illusive perfection
Each hoping we’ll find it some glorious day
Yet gaze with remorse at our jaded reflection
That looks like The Picture Of Dorian Gray”
It speaks for itself.
The song itself refers to Oscar Wildes “Picture of Dorian Grey” and “The Nightingale and the Rose”, in which a tale is depicted of a student loving a Professor’s daughter, who demands a red rose for her dress to gain her affection. Needless to say, none are in his garden. A Nightingale (bird) overhears the distraught student and offers its life to make a new blood-red rose for him to take to the Professor’s daughter. The student takes it to the Professor’s daughter to find shes’s changed her mind and refuses the affection of the student in place of something else instead.
“Sing loves lament with a thorn at your best,
impaled by her bard, cruel and unforgiving,
a million dead poets would gladly attest,
heartaches a keepsake to remind us we’re living.”
The whole idea surrounds the complexities of unrequited love, hope and the idea that surrounds the lovelorn.
I’d say give it a listen and see what you think, I’ll give everyone else’s submissions when I get home.
I don’t know why the idea of music encapsulating a persona is so interesting, but there you go.
Cheers.
Prof. Charles Magnussen
