My song's at an end, my marshmallow friend,

That Song Meme
This is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.

I asked forodwaith, and an unlucky typo sicced me with "H". I say unlucky because few songs in my recent listening seem to start with that one, and those that do aren't the ones I'd be first inclined to talk about.

So:
Hero - Heather Dale. Just to contradict myself off the top, I could have also picked "Hunter", or "Holly, Ivy and Yew" off the same album - but then, I was only listening to it today out of an awareness that i hadn't in a while.. But this one speaks to me, as it's one of the semi-theme songs of Raising the Storm. The song is set up as being about Robin Hood, but in the liner notes she also mentions Gandhi, and anyone willing to risk death or jail or worse to say, "No."

Heja Bandet - Karen and Helene. Danish music. The title is the rallying call one of their bandmates used to give to keep their spirits up (Literally pretty much "Hey, band!" but they translate it more accurately as "come on, band!"), so they wrote a tune for him.

Hind Horn - Maddy Prior. One of two ballads I know how to sing end to end that actually wind up happily with nobody dead, undesirably pregnant, or a doleful ghost (or any/all of the above). Oops, wait, I'm up to three. Still, this was the first one (As it is, the bridegroom in Hind Horn might well be highly annoyed, though it ends before we find out. Which is one trick I've seen folksingers use to make songs with otherwise dour outcomes end happily. But neither "Elfin" nor "Lark" start with H, si I'll cease to digress.)

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen, and multiple others. The most noteable thing about this song besides its sheer beauty is this: I have two versions by Leonard and one by Jeff Buckley, I've heard one by Bono, one by Rufus Wainwright, and part of one by John Cale. So far, no two versions include all the same verses. And yes, the two most disparate are the two Cohen versions.

The Herring Song - The Flash Girls. I once used the closing verse of this to end a story. (Before, obviously, I took copyright into consideration, never mind that it's a trunked project right now.) It's the most fun nonsensical song out there. (Go on, just try to guess which song the post's title comes from. Really.

Honourable mention:
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley Because I have nothing to say, but I really was listening to it earlier today.

And you'd think after all the times he's cropped up of late -- but none of Richard Thompson's songs about which I have anything cool to say start with H.

My song's at an end, my marshmallow friend,

That Song Meme
This is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.

I asked forodwaith, and an unlucky typo sicced me with "H". I say unlucky because few songs in my recent listening seem to start with that one, and those that do aren't the ones I'd be first inclined to talk about.

So:
Hero - Heather Dale. Just to contradict myself off the top, I could have also picked "Hunter", or "Holly, Ivy and Yew" off the same album - but then, I was only listening to it today out of an awareness that i hadn't in a while.. But this one speaks to me, as it's one of the semi-theme songs of Raising the Storm. The song is set up as being about Robin Hood, but in the liner notes she also mentions Gandhi, and anyone willing to risk death or jail or worse to say, "No."

Heja Bandet - Karen and Helene. Danish music. The title is the rallying call one of their bandmates used to give to keep their spirits up (Literally pretty much "Hey, band!" but they translate it more accurately as "come on, band!"), so they wrote a tune for him.

Hind Horn - Maddy Prior. One of two ballads I know how to sing end to end that actually wind up happily with nobody dead, undesirably pregnant, or a doleful ghost (or any/all of the above). Oops, wait, I'm up to three. Still, this was the first one (As it is, the bridegroom in Hind Horn might well be highly annoyed, though it ends before we find out. Which is one trick I've seen folksingers use to make songs with otherwise dour outcomes end happily. But neither "Elfin" nor "Lark" start with H, si I'll cease to digress.)

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen, and multiple others. The most noteable thing about this song besides its sheer beauty is this: I have two versions by Leonard and one by Jeff Buckley, I've heard one by Bono, one by Rufus Wainwright, and part of one by John Cale. So far, no two versions include all the same verses. And yes, the two most disparate are the two Cohen versions.

The Herring Song - The Flash Girls. I once used the closing verse of this to end a story. (Before, obviously, I took copyright into consideration, never mind that it's a trunked project right now.) It's the most fun nonsensical song out there. (Go on, just try to guess which song the post's title comes from. Really.

Honourable mention:
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley Because I have nothing to say, but I really was listening to it earlier today.

And you'd think after all the times he's cropped up of late -- but none of Richard Thompson's songs about which I have anything cool to say start with H.