Songs from the Stars
Songs from the Stars
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Jordin Kare - Heart of the Apple Lisa [HQ]
Parody Violation track 21. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation
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Lyrics (TTTO "Heart of the Appaloosa," Fred Small):
In the land of high-tech ventures, by the waters of Frisco Bay,
Hewlett Packard up by Stanford, IBM in San Jose
The Hackers of the Apple wrote their code and schemed their schemes
In the valley known as Silicon, where fortunes grow from dreams
And they built some fine computers, if you skip the Apple III
But they vowed to build a new machine that would the market please
They would ease the users' burden; the command line they'd replace
With the magic known as GUI, Graphic User Interface
Chorus: Windows-Scrolling-in-the-Valley,
Lead the Hackers off on a GUI tide
There's blood on the chips down at HP, DEC, and MIPS
But the heart of the Apple Lisa never died!
Then from Xerox came the Alto, never marketed nor sold
Bringing mice and multitasking, and menus that unfold
Desktops sprouted metal rodents, bitmaps glowed upon the screen,
And printers put on WYSIWYGs to print just what was seen
Nearly lost in Big Blue's shadow, incompatible with DOS,
The Lisa, slow and costly, seemed sure to be a loss,
But then came Macs and Fat Macs, LaserWriters, II's, and more
And word would come from Microsoft: "You realize this means war!"
(Chorus)
The Chief said to the Hackers, in his anger and his pain,
"I am no more John Sculley; Scrolling Windows is my name!
They condemn us to niche markets, call our products vaporware.
We will sue them if we must, but we'll retain our market share!"
They climbed on board that SCSI bus, with Postscript in their hearts
They won in desktop publishing, they won in graphic arts,
Till Bill Gates, he saw his strategy, and sent the e-mail down
To copy those GUI features, wherever they be found
(Chorus)
Three Windows versions later, past the Pentium divide
The strangest of bedfellows, IBM now on their side
Three thousand applications on the PowerPC run,
But the buyers and the users still are leaving one by one
Windows-Scrolling-in-the-Valley said, "My heart is sick and sad.
The future now looks RISCy, the old chips are dead.
The lawyers take our spirit, but I've stock options galore.
From where Scott McNealy stands, I will fight no more!"
(Chorus)
They were sent to Intel platforms, Michelangelo [virus] ran rife
But more hackers quit from boredom, and went off to get a life
And the man once known as Sculley with great glee is heard to state,
"They'll get Windows '95 debugged in 19 zero 8! (Goddamn Y2K bug...)"
But sometimes, without warning, in some dull commercial app,
A hack of wondrous cleverness emerges from the crap
A metaphor that's graceful; a real need that it can fill
Double click upon that icon-the Apple Lisa's living still!
(Chorus)
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Jordin Kare - Key Minors [HQ]
มุมมอง 2893 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 20. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Moon Miners," Diana Gallagher): Fannish twilight, con's last day Panels linger on as authors slowly fade Banquets eaten and costumes gone But to hell with parties, now the filk is on! A filker wakens fully in his ...
Jordin Kare - Take Two, Asprin [HQ]
มุมมอง 1973 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 19. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Paid Soldiers of Dorsai" by Robert Asprin, which itself is TTTO "Song of the Men's Side," Leslie Fish): Well you can talk about the Swiss, how their pressmen rose to fame, And count all the sheets they run Or the ...
Jordin Kare - The Press [HQ]
มุมมอง 3303 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 18. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "The Quest," Leslie Fish): Now the fans came home from the press, blackened and sore they came, Inky of hair and dress, deafened, blunt-fingered, and lame In printing we take no shame, we'll say it in black and whi...
Jordin Kare - Car Fire [HQ]
มุมมอง 2983 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 17. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Star Fire," Cynthia McQuillin): I sit here knowing credit's overdrawn Surrounded by the ghastly stench that says my engine's gone Charring plastic, burning oil, End result of all my toil In these endless, dismal h...
Jordin Kare - Ladyhog [HQ]
มุมมอง 1943 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 16. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Ladyhawke," Julia Ecklar): I'm a frog among men, with no guts but big dreams Just two ping-pong ball eyes in a sock But a magical pig far less real than she seems Has convinced the whole world we can talk It's not...
Jordin Kare - Fool to Feed the Drive [HQ]
มุมมอง 3483 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 15. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Fuel to Feed the Drive," Cynthia McQuillin): A hundred parsecs out, on a ship quite second-rate, The engineer McQuillin sent the word up to the mate "Our engine’s out of steam," he said, "and soon our ship will di...
Jordin Kare - Cashtaker [HQ]
มุมมอง 3583 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 14. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Caretakers," Bill Sutton): In a time of rising budgets, in an age of cost-plus fee The dollar was ruler of life on Earth, as it flowed out of Washington DC But inflation shrank the dollar, and recession tore the l...
Jordin Kare - Dawson's Concom [HQ]
มุมมอง 6763 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 13. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Dawson's Christian," Duane Elms): Jayme Dawson was the chairman of the concom [convention committee] and the crew, When they won the bid for Worldcon back in fall of '82 And that concom was the finest bunch from N...
Jordin Kare - Melodies So Deep [HQ]
มุมมอง 1773 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Dragons in the Deep," Cynthia McQuillin): Melodies so deep, A bass's life is cheap And even songs in key of C May hide a deadly enemy We pray the gods protect our throats If we should try to hit those notes
Jordin Kare - Psi-Nought [HQ]
มุมมอง 4833 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 11. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "The Rattlin' Bog"): Chorus: Psi-nought, the vacuum state, the state of minimum energy Psi-nought, the vacuum state, the state of minimum energy And in that state there is a field, a Higgs field, a vector field Fie...
Jordin Kare - Heart of the Appaloosa [HQ]
มุมมอง 4113 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 10. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (Fred Small): From the land of shooting waters to the peaks of the Coeur d'Alene Thimbleberries in the forest, elk grazing on the plain The people of the coyote made their camp along the streams Of the green Wallowa Vall...
Jordin Kare - Moon Miners [HQ]
มุมมอง 5793 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 9. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (Diana Gallagher): Lunar twilight, dying day. Shadows linger on as sunlight slowly fades. Darkness deepens as night is drawn, And it's so very long until another dawn. A lunar miner stirs in his converted canister, Rubs h...
Jordin Kare - Freudian [HQ]
มุมมอง 2223 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 8. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (TTTO "Highwayman," Cynthia McQuillin): Freudian, Freudian, what do you dream? Are you neurotic, does sex make you scream? Are you a schizo? Don't take it too far, Sometimes a stogie is just a cigar.
Jordin Kare - The Quest [HQ]
มุมมอง 5543 หลายเดือนก่อน
Parody Violation track 7. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_parody_violation Lyrics (Rudyard Kipling): The knight came home from the quest, muddied and sore he came Battered of shield and crest, bannerless, bruised and lame In fighting we take no shame, better is man for a fall Merrily borne, the bugle-h...
Jordin Kare - Star Fire [HQ]
มุมมอง 4603 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Star Fire [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Bug-Eyed Monster [HQ]
มุมมอง 2794 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Bug-Eyed Monster [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]
มุมมอง 6944 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Caretaker [HQ]
มุมมอง 5134 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Caretaker [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Dawson's Christian [HQ]
มุมมอง 1K4 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Dawson's Christian [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]
มุมมอง 4804 หลายเดือนก่อน
Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Star Pilot's Hymn [HQ]
มุมมอง 1.8K4 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Star Pilot's Hymn [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]
มุมมอง 5144 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - What the Heck Good is Heaven (If You Don't Have Wings) [HQ]
มุมมอง 6664 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - What the Heck Good is Heaven (If You Don't Have Wings) [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]
มุมมอง 4204 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - (The Wind Is) A Game Played by Two [HQ]
มุมมอง 4194 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - (The Wind Is) A Game Played by Two [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Skybound [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Skybound [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Sourdough Skies [HQ]
มุมมอง 7874 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Sourdough Skies [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - High Wings [HQ]
มุมมอง 6124 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - High Wings [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Fire Falcon [HQ]
มุมมอง 6154 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Fire Falcon [HQ]

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  • @dusanradin5868
    @dusanradin5868 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Sound of sadness....

  • @visceralevie
    @visceralevie 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    :< where's my sat

  • @Raziroth
    @Raziroth 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!

  • @michellejordon7277
    @michellejordon7277 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Yes it's almost a distantly fermilier concept to be thought of as past tense

  • @stoneybrotherbass
    @stoneybrotherbass 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    If Ween covered this . . . . . . . . it would be awesome! and Leslie would get some nice royalties.

  • @Miko28323
    @Miko28323 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1:38 is my favorite part, I listen to this song just to hear it.

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers886 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have the short story collection it inspired. 😊😊😊😊

  • @mumflurfumperdink2507
    @mumflurfumperdink2507 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Kantrowitz is such a beautiful name

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    FLY COLUMBIAAAA

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP 🔥🔥🔥

  • @SilverKappa
    @SilverKappa 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I just bought the short story collection that this is based on. Can't recommend it highly enough. If you aren't hooked by punday night, I don't know what to tell you.

  • @michelletrudyholtz465
    @michelletrudyholtz465 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Leslie Fish is the purest talent I know

  • @peteralexandergraae2830
    @peteralexandergraae2830 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    OI. ANIMATIC CREATORS... where you at?

  • @abstracttechnician2750
    @abstracttechnician2750 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This sounds like someone describing PTSD without really knowing how to describe people and emotions.

  • @Siriussky22
    @Siriussky22 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been reading merchanters luck, saw this title "no way ia this a song about Pell?" Yes it was, I'm very happy

  • @connormclernon26
    @connormclernon26 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It blows my freaking mind that anyone thought that Trump could relate to the bottom 99% of Americans, let alone actually do something that would help them. At this point, they’re getting exactly what they voted for.

  • @terrancehood5292
    @terrancehood5292 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is The Illusive Man's ringtone.

  • @jakobofcincy
    @jakobofcincy 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    so basically a space karen?

  • @Braxgar
    @Braxgar 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    just saw the trailer for 28 years later and it made me go Oh damn!

    • @shubomihtyjanny8832
      @shubomihtyjanny8832 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      need the original sound on Spotify or Apple Music

  • @mr.RoccaIT
    @mr.RoccaIT 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The trailer for 28 Years Later brought me here...

    • @shubomihtyjanny8832
      @shubomihtyjanny8832 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I need the original sound on Spotify or Apple Music

  • @SikesFox
    @SikesFox 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    o7

  • @Skultra007
    @Skultra007 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lovely song

  • @WellReadRedneck
    @WellReadRedneck 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    WTF is this? 😂

  • @Flopp04ka
    @Flopp04ka 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Легенда колониалов

  • @Finsirith
    @Finsirith 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think of this song every time I step out into my front yard to watch a SaceX Falcon 9 launch. Which I do EVERY TIME that I am home and the skies are clear. I feel like I can't just sit inside and ignore it, when there's going to be A VISIBLE SPACE LAUNCH!!! It would be like knowing the Beatles are going to drive down my street, and not bothering to go out and look.

  • @spacecorpse3212
    @spacecorpse3212 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Houston there seems to be some precipitation on my visor

  • @spacecorpse3212
    @spacecorpse3212 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    that's a lot of booze and fuel

  • @spacecorpse3212
    @spacecorpse3212 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    as funny as this siatuion is this is going to be a genuine problem if we want to become a type 2 civilization but right now we should focus on becoming a type 1

  • @eastcoasters1387
    @eastcoasters1387 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why the fuck is this such a good song. I love how the human just loses to the devil in this story. I really love it.❤

  • @perryplayzzz
    @perryplayzzz 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ad astra, Vic, ya bloody legend

  • @RobinMiller-v6c
    @RobinMiller-v6c 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for posting this incredible album. I lost my original cassette to a rat bastard who broke into my car, stole the radio and my cassette organizer and got away scot-free.

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hell yea

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hell yea

  • @Hallszman
    @Hallszman 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ...nice

  • @NoFlu
    @NoFlu 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nooooo, Stalker Child. Its you, who will go to neither heaven nor hell. Enjoy being return to earthly prison, stalker! ~Tomlinson

  • @barragethree5047
    @barragethree5047 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Had to do a little research and found the original song and artist: "Gladstone Pier" - Redgum/Mitchell Burnside Clapp. Absolute banger of a ballad "I Was Only 19" is another amazing one

  • @dragonheart.316
    @dragonheart.316 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this is such a mood

  • @clippedwings225
    @clippedwings225 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just be poly dude

  • @Paul-A01
    @Paul-A01 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The song implies that shields are not some transparent energy barrier but a bright glowing ball of fury that envelops a ship. Very powerful imagery

  • @MrBiochronic
    @MrBiochronic หลายเดือนก่อน

    The english is a litle hard to understand (im not a native speaker) what does this song say? I mean, what the story here exactly?

    • @Kyuschi
      @Kyuschi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      it is very old language, but the general story seems to be about the son of a rich family who loses all of his money and is forced to stay with poor farmers. But the farmers welcome him much more, and his old family despises him for losing the money, so he decides to abandon the family and it's wealth, to stay with the farmers hope this helps some

    • @MrBiochronic
      @MrBiochronic 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Kyuschi now i get it. thank you :D

  • @thefailingfishermenfishing2556
    @thefailingfishermenfishing2556 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Vary few songs make me sad...

  • @Stellar_Hearth1701
    @Stellar_Hearth1701 หลายเดือนก่อน

    See I’d feel bad for Lola but we don’t get told if she payed for the dry cleaning after throwing up on his shirt. Fr. Feel bad for him.

  • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
    @RobotsEverywhereVideos หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had the great privilege of getting to do a tiny bit of work for NASA. Got me a green card. I get to sing this.

  • @Yarkoonian
    @Yarkoonian หลายเดือนก่อน

    My grandparents. Great grandparents are buried in an obscure part of Texas. In the future men will feel the same pride at being given to the stars

  • @DemienC.
    @DemienC. หลายเดือนก่อน

    Go for Yoshibelle, clearly.

  • @Lee-nd4yf
    @Lee-nd4yf หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope the fires in everyone's dreams can keep them warm until their souls can fly far away to a place that knows far away

  • @Nathaniel-r8l
    @Nathaniel-r8l หลายเดือนก่อน

    Big Sister Leslie giving us tough love.

  • @waynehutchins3431
    @waynehutchins3431 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What story is this from?

  • @sg21231
    @sg21231 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Out of the billions here we are to savor this masterpiece. I guess we've been through our fair share to appreciate it.

  • @thesealsharkproductions9780
    @thesealsharkproductions9780 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Came Here From MARE IGNIS.