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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Jordin Kare - Star Fire [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Bug-Eyed Monster [HQ]
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Jordin Kare - Bug-Eyed Monster [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]
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Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Caretaker [HQ]
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Jordin Kare - Caretaker [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Dawson's Christian [HQ]
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Jordin Kare - Dawson's Christian [HQ]
Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]
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Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Star Pilot's Hymn [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Star Pilot's Hymn [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - What the Heck Good is Heaven (If You Don't Have Wings) [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - What the Heck Good is Heaven (If You Don't Have Wings) [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - (The Wind Is) A Game Played by Two [HQ]
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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]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Sourdough Skies [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - High Wings [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - High Wings [HQ]
Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Fire Falcon [HQ]
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Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Fire Falcon [HQ]

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @brujf
    @brujf 2 дні тому

    From TGMR, let’s give them hell!

  • @aAaa-ih3hw
    @aAaa-ih3hw 3 дні тому

    Right after 2:17 feels like the song is just starting. I wish there was more with the same melody and tempo

  • @darthcalyx8986
    @darthcalyx8986 3 дні тому

    I fell for the Alliance Navy ads and now I am stuck fighting the OSPN

  • @Lincolngunning-s4q
    @Lincolngunning-s4q 4 дні тому

    A captain of a port less vessel

  • @LinkedUs-g8p
    @LinkedUs-g8p 4 дні тому

    Love will loosen grips weapon's will sceace to stir and no ill word will be utterd

  • @seamusrichardson6011
    @seamusrichardson6011 4 дні тому

    Is it bad that I picture the manatee as bearing suspicious resemblance to a sea-ship

  • @fariondragon
    @fariondragon 5 днів тому

    Sell-Deny-Delay/Deny-Delay-Depose

  • @UnProfessionalCatto
    @UnProfessionalCatto 9 днів тому

    Does anybody know the tabs for this?

  • @UnlovedWarlock
    @UnlovedWarlock 9 днів тому

    Love this!

  • @ToujoursPurSang
    @ToujoursPurSang 9 днів тому

    Thank you for preserving this. I've never heard this version before, thank you I love finding new songs with Leslie Fish.

  • @TheBilgepumper
    @TheBilgepumper 9 днів тому

    Larry Niven books sent me here. Thanks for doing the good work.

  • @carmensparkles
    @carmensparkles 9 днів тому

    My 7 year old twins always ask me to sing "the probe song" meaning this!

  • @Arkyde
    @Arkyde 10 днів тому

    This song has been making me work on myself every day for the second year now, just for the legacy I'm going to leave behind. This genre of music awakens in me the strength to fight.

  • @Ninjanoto2
    @Ninjanoto2 10 днів тому

    space/sci fi folk songs are a underutilized/underrated genre

  • @FecesFella
    @FecesFella 11 днів тому

    Space Nam’

  • @michellejordon7277
    @michellejordon7277 11 днів тому

    Prophetic

  • @anomalyfox5186
    @anomalyfox5186 13 днів тому

    Currently doing a space race with my friends in Kerbal Space Program. I’m going to blast this in the group chat when I get to the moon. I expect a landing by 1965.

  • @Arkyde
    @Arkyde 16 днів тому

    Soundtrack for the entire school's system.. Great, no, perfect book and song.

  • @RuanPysoft
    @RuanPysoft 17 днів тому

    Deep in engineering where mortals seldom go, A manager and customer come looking for a show. They pass amused among us as they sign in on the log, They've come to see our pony and they've come to see our dog. Three things to be wary of: A new kid in his prime, A man with all the answers / and a code which runs the first time. Summoned from our cubicles to conference room we go, We bring our dog and pony for we know they'll want a show. Watching as we enter with a shifty restless sigh, The customer sits waiting in his pin-striped suit and tie. Three things never trust in: That's the vendor's final bill, The promises your boss makes / and the customer's good will. The pony kicks his heels up as the doggy does his trick, And hands a-wave with vigour as we lay it on real thick, The customer just watches as we do this song and dance, Then reaches for his briefcase only giving us a glance. Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested / and the change that comes along. From briefcase then there comes a list of things we must revise, And all but four within the room are taken by surprise, And all but four are thinking of their last job with remorse, The customer, the manager, the doggy and the horse. Three things hold no secret: Files that somehow hit the net, Your boss's secretary / and the third thing, I forget. First thirty-seven changes that somehow we must add in, Then twenty-one new features show up much to our chagrin, And this thing's just inadequate and that one's just plain wrong, And by the way your schedule is about three months too long. Three things it is better far that only you should know: How much you're payed, the schedule pad / and what is just for show. The customer proceeds to go through each change line by line, Excruciating detail which no logic can divine. When it ends there's only four not sitting there agog, The customer, the manager, the pony and the dog. Three things never anger: First the one who runs your deck, The one who runs the backup / and the one who signs the cheque. Now we are contract software types who spends our days and nights, Embedded in that system down with all the bits and bytes, And none but us can tell full well the damage done today, It's what they do not know for which they're gonna have to pay. Three things are most perilous: Connectors that corrode, Unproven algorithms / and self-modifying code. The manager and customer are quick to leave this bunch, They take the dog and pony and they all go out to lunch, Now how will we revenge ourselves on those who raise our ire? Write code that self-destructs the day the warranties expire! Three things trust above all else: Your knowledge of your craft, That someone makes a profit / and that you will get the shaft!

    • @RuanPysoft
      @RuanPysoft 17 днів тому

      *NOTES* I'm not 100% sure about this transcription of the lyrics, and I'll update it if anyone has a better suggestion for some of the parts I'm unsure about. Honestly, this song went better than most, the biggest uncertainty I have is whether the first refrain goes "and _the_ code" or "and _a_ code", which is relatively insignificant. I'm also not quite sure if the second-to-last verse should go "Embedded in _that_ system" or "Embedded in _the_ system".

  • @lordcancer642
    @lordcancer642 18 днів тому

    FULL lyrics The night of fire is yet to come The tyrant's shadow down the years demands we kneel, or take the gun And go shed blood instead of our tears So, rejoince, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But lend your heart and hands and voice To Jefferson and liberty! "Every twenty years," he said "The times are ripe and over-past To raise rebellion's fiery head And cast off tyranny's shel at last!" So, rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But lend your heart and hands and voice To Jefferson and liberty! No man is good nor wise enough To rule another, or disown The rights of every woman and man To live and let live and be left alone So, rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But lend your heart and hands and voice To Jefferson and liberty! The starry banner that did fly O'er freedom's bloodied barricades Now flaps and fades in foreign skies O'er palaces that empire made So, arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that ye might yet be free! Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and liberty! The world that once did turn and watch The struggle for democracy cries, "Have Columbia's sons forgotten Jefferson and liberty?" So, arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that ye might yet be free! Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and liberty! But we, the heirs of Jefferson Like ancient Sons of Liberty Will bear indeed the rebel's gun And never bow to tyranny! So, arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that ye might yet be free! Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and liberty!

  • @normanmendez636
    @normanmendez636 20 днів тому

    This is by far one of Leslie Fish's best

  • @sofiatarasova7517
    @sofiatarasova7517 20 днів тому

    there's a blog that is making a sci-fi tragedy comic about a deep space mining colony inspired by the 1980s-90s Poland and they listed this song as one of their inspirations. this feels so real I forgot for a minute there isn't really a crew of poor working souls somewhere on the surface of the moon, dreaming of a lunch break while just a few millimeters of cloth glass and plastic stands between them and the cold dark breathless ether

    • @anomalyfox5186
      @anomalyfox5186 20 днів тому

      Who says we’re not? I don’t work my ass up here mining helium-3 to be forgotten. 😂

  • @Siriussky22
    @Siriussky22 23 дні тому

    02:48 kitten starts here

  • @buttsauceable
    @buttsauceable 23 дні тому

    topical

  • @dusanradin5868
    @dusanradin5868 24 дні тому

    Sound of sadness....

  • @visceralevie
    @visceralevie 24 дні тому

    :< where's my sat

  • @Raziroth
    @Raziroth 24 дні тому

    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 24 дні тому

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

  • @stoneybrotherbass
    @stoneybrotherbass 24 дні тому

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

  • @Miko28323
    @Miko28323 25 днів тому

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

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers886 25 днів тому

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

  • @mumflurfumperdink2507
    @mumflurfumperdink2507 26 днів тому

    Kantrowitz is such a beautiful name

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 27 днів тому

    FLY COLUMBIAAAA

  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight 27 днів тому

    BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP 🔥🔥🔥

  • @SilverKappa
    @SilverKappa 29 днів тому

    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 29 днів тому

    Leslie Fish is the purest talent I know

  • @peteralexandergraae2830
    @peteralexandergraae2830 29 днів тому

    OI. ANIMATIC CREATORS... where you at?

  • @abstracttechnician2750
    @abstracttechnician2750 Місяць тому

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

  • @Siriussky22
    @Siriussky22 Місяць тому

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

  • @connormclernon26
    @connormclernon26 Місяць тому

    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 Місяць тому

    This is The Illusive Man's ringtone.

  • @jakobofcincy
    @jakobofcincy Місяць тому

    so basically a space karen?

  • @Braxgar
    @Braxgar Місяць тому

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

  • @mr.RoccaIT
    @mr.RoccaIT Місяць тому

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

  • @SikesFox
    @SikesFox Місяць тому

    o7

  • @Skultra007
    @Skultra007 Місяць тому

    Lovely song

  • @WellReadRedneck
    @WellReadRedneck Місяць тому

    WTF is this? 😂

  • @Flopp04ka
    @Flopp04ka Місяць тому

    Легенда колониалов

  • @Finsirith
    @Finsirith Місяць тому

    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 Місяць тому

    Houston there seems to be some precipitation on my visor