"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

[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.