"FK Vids" song playlist titles

[brightknightie]

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While musing over prompts, I revisited my "Forever Knight Vids" songs playlist, which I hadn't listened to in a very, very long time. It began as a list of all the songs used in all the FK fanvids I'd ever seen and liked. (Gifted by a friend, and then added to from others, back in VHS days, I had one tape with several assorted fanvids dubbed onto it; I will always associate these songs with those vids, and those FK interpretations.) Later, other songs (not related to vids) with specific FK-character associations for me got tacked onto the end of the list, until they made up fully half the total. It's currently on its third music platform since downloads and streaming began.

If you're interested:

• "Self Control" -- Laura Branigan
• "When I Look at You" -- Christine Andreas, Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack
• "If There Hadn't Been You" -- Billy Dean
• "Badlands" -- Bruce Springsteen
• "Only the Good Die Young" -- Billy Joel
• "You Love the Thunder" -- Jackson Browne
• "She's Like the Wind" -- Patrick Swayze
• "Devil with the Green Eyes" -- Matthew Sweet
• "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side" -- Morissey
• "Livin' on the Edge of the Night" -- Iggy Pop
• "Better Days" -- Bruce Springsteen
• "Terminus Est" -- Julia Ecklar
• "That Ain't Love" -- REO Speedwagon
• "Holding Out for a Hero" -- Bonnie Tyler
• "Making Love out of Nothing at All" -- Air Supply
• "Rebel Son" -- Survivor
• "Desperado" -- Eagles
• "Can't Fight This Feeling" -- REO Speedwagon
• "Just as I Am" -- Air Supply
• "Tears From the Moon" -- Sinead O'Connor

If you happen to know these songs, which FK character(s) would you associate them with? (Which would you guess that I would associate them with, if different?)

Comments

[thefruitbat]

Oh, that's cool, thanks for sharing! :)

Will have to look some songs, since I don't know all of them, but quite a few of them sound like they could be about Nick (Self Control, Rebel Son, Holding out for a Hero, Rebel Son,) or Nick and Janette (When I Look at You, Making Love out of Nothing at All, Can't Fight This Feeling).
"She's Like the Wind" sounds very Janette-ish to me. The others... hmmm, will have to think about it.

[brightknightie]

Many of these are exceedingly good songs, regardless of FK associations, so I recommend listening to them. I hope you find a few that you enjoy!

Yes, "Self Control" and "Rebel Son" are definitely very, very strong Nick associations, and "When I Look at You" is indeed Janette's perspective on Nick today being troublingly both like and unlike the man she used to know long ago.

The "She's Like the Wind" fanvid that I knew was a Nick/Natalie interpretation, about Nick loving Natalie and her not knowing, and him not wanting her to know, because he felt she was much too good for him. "Can't Fight This Feeling" is also a Nick/Nat romantic interpretation, as I know it. And if I remember correctly, "Holding Out For a Hero" is also Nick/Nat, but from Natalie's view -- or perhaps from the perspectives of Natalie, Schanke, and Stonetree, all three.

"Making Love out of Nothing at All" is one of those that didn't belong to a fanvid, but is my own, personal FK association. FK-wise, I hear the song as Lacroix's perspective. Lacroix/Nick, in fact, solely from Lacroix's view. For me, that song is Lacroix winding himself up, speaking about himself, and then, after a long, rising preamble, subsiding to privately marvel, in awe and frustration and confusion, at how Nick does it, recovering from being deeply hurt by each loss to love others again and again, Nick opening himself and putting his heart on the line to care, from nothing to everything, over and over, as Lacroix never does and never would and never could, and has told and tried to force Nick not to do... yet Nick does. Most of the song is the singer bragging about his own power, but the refrain is the singer humbled.

[brightknightie]

Come to think of it, I actually wrote a song-challenge story for "Making Love Out of Nothing at all," with that specific Lacroix interpretation, back in 2006:
"How He Loves" (Teen, gen, ~1.5K words)

[thefruitbat]

Just read it and damn, at some point I could hear Lacroix' voice speaking the words. It is so in character, that it could have been part of the show. And it fits the song so well.

[brightknightie]

Thank you very much for reading it, and for the kind words about it!

[switchbladeeyes]

Gosh, that takes me back. I had a VHS tape with fan vids (not this many) back in the day but couldn't remember all the songs. This is definitely ringing some bells though and I know some of these were on there. (”She's Like the Wind" distinctly pinging in my brain as about Nat.) I also vaguely feel like there was one about Nick set to "Hero" by Mariah Carey. Kinda wish I still had that tape, not that I'd have a way to play it.

Whew, that was a good shot of nostalgia.

[brightknightie]

Yes, the "She's Like the Wind" fanvid that I knew was definitely about Nat from Nick's perspective!

I never saw one set to Mariah Carey's "Hero." I'll go listen to the song and find out what I can imagine for it. :-)

I was very, very lucky to have gotten to see as many VHS-era fanvids as I did. Most of those I saw were made with first-season episode footage only, probably first made during the long hiatus between first and second season. Most of them would be totally unacceptable quality by today's standards, but I enjoyed them hugely and found them very thoughtfully conveying their themes.

[switchbladeeyes]

I absolutely loved them. Did you ever see the one that was the theme/intro song to "Cheers," but it was about the Raven?

It was very amusing to see a sitcom theme used with FK. Funny enough, if I could ever see one of those old VHS fan vids again, it would be that one.

[brightknightie]

No, I never saw a humorous FK fanvid, that I recall. How fun!

I think the one I would most enjoy seeing again, if I could see only one, is "You Love the Thunder," but a close second is "When I Look at You," which was perhaps not as well edited with as good footage as the vidder would have liked, but was brilliantly interpreted. Both, coincidentally, were Immortal Beloved vids, one Nick about Janette, and the other Janette about Nick.

[brightknightie]

The only reason I have this playlist is because I had a piece of notebook paper on which I wrote down the title (and the FK characters) for each fanvid I saw -- whether copies given to me, or when visiting friends.

As a child, before I had any other way to "own" or even revisit a show, I had a spiral notebook in which I wrote down the title of each episode of whatever my favorite show was at the time as it aired (starting with Robotech, iirc). Happily, I deployed the approach to the fanvids, too. :-)

[switchbladeeyes]

Glad you did! I'm sitting hear digging around in my memory (not entirely reliable) because the tape is long gone and I never wrote anything like that down.

From your list, the songs that are pinging for me (other than the ones I already mentioned) are:
- "Self Control"
- "Badlands"
- "Only the Good Die Young" (and I am recalling many flashes to the Joan of Arc episode, may have been Nick getting the bite on a lot of people over the years?)
- "You Love the Thunder"
- "Livin' on the Edge of the Night"

My recall is super hazy though on what they were about and there may have been more. Most about Nick? One might have been about all three vamps? It was just so long ago. Wish I'd written something down!

[switchbladeeyes]

The last one actually, I'm not 100% on. The other ones though, I am sure were on the tape I had.

[brightknightie]

Yes, the "Only the Good Die Young" fanvid I remember has lots of "For I Have Sinned" footage with St. Joan.

"If There Hadn't Been You" is a friendship vid -- Nick, Schanke, Natalie.

I never saw a VHS fanvid, that I can recall, that focused on the vampire characters (other than Nick and Nick/Janette). Surely they were out there, but either my friends didn't have them, or they didn't share them with me, knowing that I'm so good-guy-centric. :-)

Correction: The "Terminus Est" vid is a Lacroix vid. Oh, yes, very much! Brrr.

[switchbladeeyes]

I'd have loved that friendship vid!

I'd never heard "Terminus Est" and just gave it a listen. Damn, that is fitting.

[annavere]

While I am sadly not familiar with Forever Knight, I love this idea for a themed playlist and you inspired me to immediately construct one for an obscure fandom of mine, using your criteria of fanvid songs plus songs I personally associate with the show's themes and characters. I listened to the result all evening at work and was completely delighted. Thank you for sharing the concept!

[brightknightie]

You're very welcome! Yay! Thank you for letting me know.

FWIW, Forever Knight, like Highlander, is a genre drama TV series filmed in Canada that premiered in 1992. It's a police procedural; the twist is that the homicide detective lead is also a 400-year-old vampire who wants to regain his humanity.

[annavere]

I will keep an eye out for it! That's funny that two Canadian shows about immortal crime fighters started the same year. :)

[brightknightie]

Just for the record, I mis-typed above: The title character in Forever Knight is 800 years old (he was a literal "knight"), whereas that in Highlander is 400 years old. :-)