🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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MindYaBitness
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Day 9: A song with a choir
I will admit that when I was a kid, and this song came out, I did not get what the big deal was. I mean, she's on her knees, praying, she's being a good girl!
Like a Prayer-Madonna
I will admit that when I was a kid, and this song came out, I did not get what the big deal was. I mean, she's on her knees, praying, she's being a good girl!
Like a Prayer-Madonna
vagrantx
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Day 9: A song with a choir
Who's the biggest nerd in Sweden, you ask? Why, that'd be Orvar Säfström, of course!
When I was a kid, still in Stockholm, we had a soccer field at our school. We'd spend our afternoons there, playing ball, chatting about everything and nothing. Those are the places where friends are made. It just so happened that this field was on the path home of Orvar, a decade-and-some our senior and a budding journalist at the time with his own show on Z-TV (the cool channel on TV) where he reviewed nerdy stuff. Comics, games, movies, that sort of stuff. We loved his show.
Every day we'd see him walk by. Every day we'd shout hello. "Tjena Orvar! / Tjena ungar!" He never ignored us kids, some times he stopped to play ball with us, some times he chatted with us about the stuff on his show. He always took the time for his tiny fans. He's just a really awesome dude.
Fast forward quite a bit, and he started making one of his dreams come true; he wanted to put on a symphonic live show featuring his favorite music from nerd culture. It took a metric fuckload of work and stringpulling, and some not insignificant personal cash investment, but he did it. And it was a huge success. SCORE/SAGAS was born, and it's been going strong for 10 years now.
Featuring soprano Sabina Zweiacker, the Royal Swedish Philharmonics and their choir, Orvar Säfström presents game music, fantasy music, nerd music. I've caught a few of these concerts, and they are always epic!
Orvar Säfström presents
The Rains of Castamere
Unfortunately, licensing this music is a bit iffy, so not all shows have official recordings.
Thankfully, amateur footage is very high quality these days!
Who's the biggest nerd in Sweden, you ask? Why, that'd be Orvar Säfström, of course!
When I was a kid, still in Stockholm, we had a soccer field at our school. We'd spend our afternoons there, playing ball, chatting about everything and nothing. Those are the places where friends are made. It just so happened that this field was on the path home of Orvar, a decade-and-some our senior and a budding journalist at the time with his own show on Z-TV (the cool channel on TV) where he reviewed nerdy stuff. Comics, games, movies, that sort of stuff. We loved his show.
Every day we'd see him walk by. Every day we'd shout hello. "Tjena Orvar! / Tjena ungar!" He never ignored us kids, some times he stopped to play ball with us, some times he chatted with us about the stuff on his show. He always took the time for his tiny fans. He's just a really awesome dude.
Fast forward quite a bit, and he started making one of his dreams come true; he wanted to put on a symphonic live show featuring his favorite music from nerd culture. It took a metric fuckload of work and stringpulling, and some not insignificant personal cash investment, but he did it. And it was a huge success. SCORE/SAGAS was born, and it's been going strong for 10 years now.
Featuring soprano Sabina Zweiacker, the Royal Swedish Philharmonics and their choir, Orvar Säfström presents game music, fantasy music, nerd music. I've caught a few of these concerts, and they are always epic!
Orvar Säfström presents
The Rains of Castamere
Unfortunately, licensing this music is a bit iffy, so not all shows have official recordings.
Thankfully, amateur footage is very high quality these days!
Wand3rlust
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ShockTreatment
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Day 9: A song with a choir
Hello. Thought I'd join in, there's some great metal here. Here's some bagpipe metal with a choir.
Hello. Thought I'd join in, there's some great metal here. Here's some bagpipe metal with a choir.
onanismaddict
Virgin
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Day 9: A song with a choir
Madonna - God Control
Madonna - God Control
Whiskeyjack
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Day 9: A song with a choir
The Anvil Chorus from "Il Trovatore." This is one of the songs that convinced my kids that maybe opera isn't so boring after all.
The Anvil Chorus from "Il Trovatore." This is one of the songs that convinced my kids that maybe opera isn't so boring after all.
Justabaldguy70
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Day 9: A song with a choir.
UnquietDreams
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Day 9: A song with a choir
"O Fortuna," The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
"O Fortuna," The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
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Shady_nz
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Mr Shady wants this at his funeral...
morelikeasong
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You can buy your own tshirt now!Well, I've been good for sooooo long*
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__Nathan1968
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Too good for him. Looks like someone’s vying for the new last place human centipede award.
Azuldrgon
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Day 9: A song with a choir
I am not going to make the same mistake I made last month.
There is a song by someone I posted that had a choir and I was torn apart all day because of my choice.
There were two other songs already chosen by the time I woke up. (Living Years and Like a Prayer) that were excellent choices.
And being a choir boy myself, I had to go back into my high school years to think of what we did.
But there was a video I saw on the Youtube of a humorous song that I had to share.
I hope you laugh because I saw this and it made me laugh hard the first time I saw it and brought back memories of the silly things we did during those years.
I am not going to make the same mistake I made last month.
There is a song by someone I posted that had a choir and I was torn apart all day because of my choice.
There were two other songs already chosen by the time I woke up. (Living Years and Like a Prayer) that were excellent choices.
And being a choir boy myself, I had to go back into my high school years to think of what we did.
But there was a video I saw on the Youtube of a humorous song that I had to share.
I hope you laugh because I saw this and it made me laugh hard the first time I saw it and brought back memories of the silly things we did during those years.
morelikeasong
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Lol. You’re missing a little context here. You were scolded because the prompt was for a duet and you posted a song with a choir asking if that counted, if I remember correctly.
I’m glad you got to relive some choir memories, now, at the appropriate time
Edit- I might be thinking of the wrong person or instance
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PassionatePanther
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Day 9: A song with a choir
Soldier Girl by The Polyphonic Spree
Soldier Girl by The Polyphonic Spree
Whiskeyjack
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Holy fuck - I forgot all about the Polyphonic Spree! I went to one of their concerts once in college. It was trippy.
UnquietDreams
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Me as well. Fun show.
SalaciousMonkey22
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Goddammit! I’ve been waiting and waiting to use this greatest of all self-indulgent, petty, eff you, songs from Andrew. And on the perfect day I don’t get to. Great choice
SalaciousMonkey22
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Goddammit! This was my second choice!
lavendersilk
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This was my first choice.
UnquietDreams
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I was going to go with a different version --there is a techno variant that is dear to my heart from my old DJ days-- but I really love the original.
