It's hard to tell what exactly happened to Kate and Sam beyond them both losing their grips. My interpretation is that young Sam lost his grip first. Kate, knowing that she couldn't stay on the crew any longer with how bad her eyes had gotten, and knowing sam was going to spiral out into the endless dark, alone and afraid, decided to simply let go, and join Sam on his journey. For space is wide, and good friends are too few.
These are amazing to listen to, and a must-have for playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Nothing quite makes you feel like a debt-bound wrecker like some amazing space folk. Heroism for and from the ships you pry apart, glimpses into stories untold.
Damn now I am going to have to play again while listening to this and I don't know how I will probably vent the atmosphere while sobbing like this in my helmet
What games like Elite Dangerous are missing, is live in game radio stations playing music like this, and talk radio concerning news of the in-game universe.
Something I've just noticed: Whenever the Captain sings the line of the chorus, it's always "For space is-*a* wide..." It's a quirk of the captain's singing, I suppose. However, at 4:09, it's very deliberately not "...is-a wide..." Let's look at the surrounding lines. "...to pull that thing with a high-vee charge is a job for the engineer. For space is wide and good friends are too few." It's Kate saying that. That's something Kate says. And now, it's part of her memory.
Then out spake brave Horatius, To the captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers, and the Temples of his Gods."
@@carmenwhitaker5018 Now imagine the singer of this song got his start when he inherited his first ship, a broken down old freighter called the Antelope many years before.
Thanks for uploading this. The original helped inspire a culture in a series of science fiction tabletop RPG campaigns I've been running for over two years now.
I used this, Dawson's Christian and Guardians as inspiration for a "belter" culture in a heavily modified Starfinder campaign I was in a while back. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long because Starfinder was a bit too fantasy for what the GM really wanted. I still have the notes so if I ever do another space campaign, I can continue to use the basic ideas, though.
Hey, thanks so much for this version! Because of it, a group of friends and I were able to cover this song. We couldn't have properly done the strings or bass if there hadn't been a recording of the original where they were completely audible.
If you want folksy, the version from Finity's End is just voice and guitar without the synth strings. It's my favourite. In my view, it helps to make it feel more timeless when you stick to instruments that people have had centuries to get a sense for. (Which, for that matter, is the rationale that was used for going with orchestration when Star Trek TNG's theme was composed according to a Behind the Scenes clip I saw years ago.)
He emulated old captain Jed and took a chance on a poor kid but that day someone else was the somekind of hero. Old Antellope is a great ship but just so so old and a stage for yet another pair of space heroes final moments.
they just cannot catch a break first it's cap'n jed and molly, then it's sam jones and kate meachem. space is wide, cruel, and unfair. good friends truly are too few.
if they could please just release this physically, anybody. Id love to throw this on a record player, an 8 track, anything. Great album, im constantly coming back since 2015
Thank you for uploading the high quality version! I know it's not space songs, but I'd love to find Lesli Fish's Firestorm album in high quality. I love her stuff, but most is pretty poor quality. Any idea where I can find this, and maybe some of her newer albums too? I've tried contacting her, but no luck.
Well, I do intend to post more filk in general (Leslie Fish included) Unfortunately I don't have Firestorm, at lest not yet. as far as finding her stuff, I know of two websites that can help, www.prometheus-music.com/ and www.firebirdarts.com/ They have some of her stuff, you should also try ebay.
@@MultiplayerDungeon from the creators' brains, like all fictional characters. Some filk is about preexisting media, some (like this) isn't. Though it is set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, the characters appear nowhere else but in this song.
@@MultiplayerDungeon Downbelow Station is a great book to start with Cherryh. Then, Merchanter's Luck, to see things from the point of view of the merchanters. Then, the excellent Rimrunners. Enjoy!
It's a _little_ faster than the version from Finity's End (which you should absolutely listen to). Leslie was just singing a little faster. Probably earlier in the night :) These are both treasures, and we're lucky to have them.
![Carmen Miranda's Ghost 05 - Some Kind of Hero [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CNygmubVW3s/mqdefault.jpg)
![Carmen Miranda's Ghost 05 - Some Kind of Hero [HQ]](/img/tr.png)
![Finity's End 04 - Sam Jones [HQ]](/img/n.gif)
"But Kate herself, well her heart would stop on the day she left the crew", didn't realize that foreshadowing until now...
She never left the crew though.
@@ferdinandhlavac3842kinda did when she stepped outside the ship
Space is wide, and good friends are too few...
This applies In the real world too…
For Space Is Wide And Good Friends are Too Few..
Every time that line hits, it’s a different meaning.. good song
Oh stars, this song is not safe for work! How'm I supposed to work the replicators while I'm bawling about Sam Jones and Kate Meacham?!
This, Guardians, and Some Kind of Hero are my top three picks, and I feel like it says something about me.
It's hard to tell what exactly happened to Kate and Sam beyond them both losing their grips. My interpretation is that young Sam lost his grip first. Kate, knowing that she couldn't stay on the crew any longer with how bad her eyes had gotten, and knowing sam was going to spiral out into the endless dark, alone and afraid, decided to simply let go, and join Sam on his journey. For space is wide, and good friends are too few.
These are amazing to listen to, and a must-have for playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Nothing quite makes you feel like a debt-bound wrecker like some amazing space folk. Heroism for and from the ships you pry apart, glimpses into stories untold.
Hear hear! Keep busting those locking joints, Breaker!
Well met, Cutter. May your salvage be great and your debts few!
Mind the fuel lines, breaker! They've power in them yet!
Damn now I am going to have to play again while listening to this and I don't know how I will probably vent the atmosphere while sobbing like this in my helmet
What games like Elite Dangerous are missing, is live in game radio stations playing music like this, and talk radio concerning news of the in-game universe.
Hmmmmm
I think star trucker has a radio
@roberine7241 Yes, but it needs to be live. It gives a shared communal experience with other players and adds depth to the universe.
Something I've just noticed: Whenever the Captain sings the line of the chorus, it's always "For space is-*a* wide..." It's a quirk of the captain's singing, I suppose.
However, at 4:09, it's very deliberately not "...is-a wide..." Let's look at the surrounding lines.
"...to pull that thing with a high-vee charge is a job for the engineer.
For space is wide and good friends are too few."
It's Kate saying that. That's something Kate says. And now, it's part of her memory.
'For space is wide and good friends too few' Get's truer with every year going by.
I was entirely unprepared for this song.
What the hell man. Amazing.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
- John 15:13
Space is wide and good friends are too few
Then out spake brave Horatius,
To the captain of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers,
and the Temples of his Gods."
Damn did this song leave me bawling the first time I heard it. Thank you, truly, for an HQ version.
I wept for Captain Jeb and Molly, and I wept again for Kate and the kid. Valor is ephemeral, and eternal, and personal, and shared.
Same, I have to psych myself up before listening to it. I go months between listens lol
@@carmenwhitaker5018 Now imagine the singer of this song got his start when he inherited his first ship, a broken down old freighter called the Antelope many years before.
Thanks for uploading this. The original helped inspire a culture in a series of science fiction tabletop RPG campaigns I've been running for over two years now.
I used this, Dawson's Christian and Guardians as inspiration for a "belter" culture in a heavily modified Starfinder campaign I was in a while back. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long because Starfinder was a bit too fantasy for what the GM really wanted.
I still have the notes so if I ever do another space campaign, I can continue to use the basic ideas, though.
Dawson’s Christian and the Manatee will definitely show up in my Stars Without Number campaign
Internal evidence suggests this is set in Cherryh's Merchanter universe. i.e. the same one as Signny Mallory.
Hey, thanks so much for this version! Because of it, a group of friends and I were able to cover this song. We couldn't have properly done the strings or bass if there hadn't been a recording of the original where they were completely audible.
Have you uploaded it anywhere? Love the song and would love to hear other versions
WOW. I didn't know I was going to listen to a GOOD song today!
I sort of prefer the old version; the static gave it a folksy tone. Can't help but love this though; a beautiful song.
If you want folksy, the version from Finity's End is just voice and guitar without the synth strings.
It's my favourite. In my view, it helps to make it feel more timeless when you stick to instruments that people have had centuries to get a sense for. (Which, for that matter, is the rationale that was used for going with orchestration when Star Trek TNG's theme was composed according to a Behind the Scenes clip I saw years ago.)
God I love this. One Last Battle is my fav, but this is a very close second.
I think this is 3rd for me. “One Last Battle” and “Some Kind of Hero” edge it out
in the second week of 2021 I discovered Filk and I am Hooked
It is the YEAR OF THE SPACE SHANTY!
Did you also get here from the tumblr post?
A song from tex talks battletech lead me here
Great game to pair it with is Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Give it a try if you find it cheap, its a lot of fun.
@@stoneybrotherbass Same here Brother. May Van Zandt welcome you from across the stars!
Thanks for the upload,
my whole filk adventure started with this song, feels so good to hear it anew.
better story in 8min than most hollywood movies
This story is sadder when you listen to it like its the new captain of the Antelope
He emulated old captain Jed and took a chance on a poor kid but that day someone else was the somekind of hero. Old Antellope is a great ship but just so so old and a stage for yet another pair of space heroes final moments.
they just cannot catch a break
first it's cap'n jed and molly, then it's sam jones and kate meachem.
space is wide, cruel, and unfair.
good friends truly are too few.
if they could please just release this physically, anybody. Id love to throw this on a record player, an 8 track, anything. Great album, im constantly coming back since 2015
These songs are on Cassette Tapes,
A Niche market, inside an already niche market.
@@CatArmyGeneral itd just be cool if there were more availability for everyone
@@MrSporeaddict123 indeed.
Well get a cd burner and a copy of what you want to listen to and make it your self
You could do the same with cassette tapes
@@nickfulton8173 I've put this whole album on cassette myself, it's quite fun listening to it that way
Damm listening to clear Lyrics, I didn't realize Kate and Kid both died? Damm
Makes putting the glasses down for them appropriate. Always honor those who died
Excellent song. I haven't heard most of Leslie Fish's songs, and I'm finding them all good storytelling and poignant or fun.
It's absolutely wonderful to hear this album in higher quality. Thank you!
Thank youtube algorithm for bringing me here!
Thank you very much! I like to hear them when Iwork. Nothing like a touch of daydreeming to take the edge off :)
Truly thank you and rocketman too.
Can't believe I never found this Genre till now
Makes me cry every time man
Thank you for uploading the high quality version!
I know it's not space songs, but I'd love to find Lesli Fish's Firestorm album in high quality. I love her stuff, but most is pretty poor quality. Any idea where I can find this, and maybe some of her newer albums too? I've tried contacting her, but no luck.
Well, I do intend to post more filk in general (Leslie Fish included) Unfortunately I don't have Firestorm, at lest not yet.
as far as finding her stuff, I know of two websites that can help,
www.prometheus-music.com/ and www.firebirdarts.com/
They have some of her stuff, you should also try ebay.
You've probably noticed, but they have uploaded the album ^^
Nostalgic for a future that will never be :/ good ass music anyway
Songs like this are why I've binged Leslie Fish songs.
Wow, these sound great! Thank you for uploading them!
Woah,thank you very much for this.This is a treasure
Every time I cry.
A glass of blue milk to Kate and the Kid.
space is wide and good freinds are too few...
I just found the soundtrack for my first Starfield playthrough in a couple of weeks.
lol
Dammit, who put onions in my spacesuit?
So.. What is the inspiration for this? Why are there folk songs about these fictional characters? Did it come from a Traveller game? A book? Why?
Lots of folk songs are about fictional characters. This one was written by C. J. Cherryh, who as a published author must have plenty of ideas.
@@SongsfromtheStars OK, but why -these-fictional characters? Where do they come from?
@@MultiplayerDungeon from the creators' brains, like all fictional characters. Some filk is about preexisting media, some (like this) isn't. Though it is set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, the characters appear nowhere else but in this song.
@@SongsfromtheStars Cherryh, eh? Thanks!
@@MultiplayerDungeon Downbelow Station is a great book to start with Cherryh. Then, Merchanter's Luck, to see things from the point of view of the merchanters. Then, the excellent Rimrunners. Enjoy!
No one ever talks about how and why Sam Jones was in a viking bar.
Viking is a star system in the books written by C. J. Cherryh (who also wrote the song). Named after the space probes.
the viking kittens were playing
Leslie Fish also likes including the idea of pagan revivalism in a lot of her tunes.
@@thewolfPrince Because launching longboats into space is *always* a great idea!
@@thewolfPrince Shes a strange woman, But I like it
Amazing
Ima start screaming
OI. ANIMATIC CREATORS... where you at?
Houston there seems to be some precipitation on my visor
Viking Bar suggests Space Viking.
Viking, named for the space probe, is a star system in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union books.
Is it on spotify? Can't find it :(
Not for the foreseeable future, sorry.
who writes all these songs?
If you go to the download links in the description, the scanned liner notes have credits. This particular song is by SF author C. J. Cherryh.
damn my faceplate is fogging up again.
i like thinking they made it and are just passed out in the airlock
Please help, I know Cherryh wrote this song along with her books. Is this song FROM one of her books? If so, I'd love to read it.
Not as such. Downbelow Station, Finity's End, and Merchanter's Luck will fill in the relevant background
Press F for Sam and Kate :'(
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Like... this sounds... one beat to fast compared to original? o_O
Is there anywhere I can download this. Willing to pay.
Download link is in the description, it’s free!
holy shit
Deserves- no, *_demands_* to be made in video!
I love this song but can't help being a little concerned that medical advances have not kept up with faster than light travel.
Orbital Thunder…
Sign me up m8.
Me @ all my friends
Listening to this on the Neutron Highway
did you speed up the worn out tape?
the pitch is too high
On the contrary, the other versions are too low.
It's a _little_ faster than the version from Finity's End (which you should absolutely listen to). Leslie was just singing a little faster. Probably earlier in the night :) These are both treasures, and we're lucky to have them.
Artie Dolittle... you'll do good lad...
sci-fi is just objectively better than fantasy
Amen
Science Fantasy also exists!
@@lemonhoarder3054 Science Fantasy is just fancy fantasy it's not the same.. 40k or starwars is not true sci fi
@@Madsvda Just because you haven't met a good science-fantasy doesn't mean it's not out there.
@@Madsvda it takes place in the future with space ships.
It's sci fi
And then the machines made me free
Meow I want to be free like t1yw others