Anybody get this yet? I'm on my way to the store and can't wait to hear it. :-D its got a 20 page booklet!!! I wonder if theres a short story in there. *hopes so*

NO short story in the booklet. Good songs all over the cd though. :-D

What is this CD-booklet thing? It's a reference to Tori Amos, right?

There's a new Neil tribute cd out (with one tori song). I haven't had a chance to pick up a copy yet. Sooooon. Soooooon

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Originally posted by aitapata:
There's a new Neil tribute cd out (with one tori song). I haven't had a chance to pick up a copy yet. Sooooon. Soooooon

Go get it, its pretty cool. Even though I only know tori, the other bands were cool.

Here is the track listing and what each song is based on

1. Rasputina - Coraline (based on coraline, obviously)
2. ThouShaltNot - When Everyone Forgets (based on American Gods)
3. Tapping The Vein - Trader Boy (based on The day I swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish)
4. Lunascape - Raven Star (based on stardust)
5. Deine Lakaien - A Fish Called Prince (based on The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories)
6. Thea Gilmore - Even Gods Do (based on American Gods)
7. Rose Berlin (feat. Curve) - Coraline (based on coraline, obviously)
8. Schandmaul - Magda Treadgolds Märchen (based on The Sandman - the Kindly Ones)
9. Hungry Lucy - We Won't Go (based on The Wolves In The Walls)
10. Voltaire w/The Oddz - Come Sweet Death (based on Death from the sandman series)
11. Future Bible Heroes - Mr. Punch (based on Mr. Punch, obviously)
12. Razed in Black - The Endless (based on The Endless from the Sandman Series)
13. The Cruxshadows - Wake the White Queen (based on MirrorMask)
14. Ego Likeness - You Better Leave the Stars Alone (based on Stardust)
15. Azam Ali - The Cold Black Key (based on Coraline again)
16. Joachim Witt - Vandemar (based on Mr. Vandemar from Neverwhere)
17. Tori Amos - Sister Named Desire (Remastered Version) (based on the endless from the sandman series)

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Gah! It's out! Must. Get. Soon.

http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/Future_Bible_Heroes_Mr_Punch

Review of first single released. Or track. or whatever

OK, got it and listened to it. Like most of the songs... But I must say, I LOVE "A Fish Called Prince"

my favorite is "you better leave the stars alone"

I just got my copy. I haven't even opened it yet.

wOOt! It's mine. All mine!

Mwahahahaha

This is a GREAT album. It was kind of an impulse buy as I'm not one for things like "inspired by" comps, but I'm glad I grabbed it. It's not music I usually listen to, but I haven't listened to anything else since I got it and I've yet to tire of it.

Does anybody know German, by any chance? I'd enjoy seeing the lyrics to "Magda Threadgolds Marchen" in a language I could wrap my head around, heh. I tried tossing the lyrics through the Google translator engine, but as you could imagine it only partially made sense.

As I said before, it's not music I usually listen to (though I have enjoyed a couple Rasputina songs), but I love every song on here. My favorite one was Rose Berlin's "Coraline" at first (man, I thought I was in love), but now I think my favorite's the Thea Gilmore one, with Hungry Lucy coming in close behind. Those are probably my top 3, in no particular order. "When Everyone Forgets" is good, too. Neil has Thea Gilmore and ThouShaltNot to thank for increasing his sales of American Gods by one, heh.

I've ordered mine off isotank and will be getting it soon. I was going to get the CD before I even liked Neil as I absolutely love the Cruxshadows and some of the other bands too. Now I love Neil's work i have even more reason to buy it! I've been waiting for someone to mention this for ages lol!

Okay, people asked for the translations to Magda Treadgold's Maerchen and Vandemar... these are rough versions, paying no actual attention to rhyme or meter.

Magda Treadgold's Maerchen

There was a man, whom no skirt
throughout the land was safe from
Who once in a river
Saw a pretty girl bathing
Swiftly hidden the woman's clothes
To see her nakedness
She asks, begs the man
For the garment to keep her warm

"Your body give me for your things
Only then will I depart"
The man said harshly
The woman's tears were flowing
"My body you shall have but only
If you take me for your wife.
The first priest on the way
Has to wed you to me"

The first church he passed by
This was not the right house
And with the second and the third
He excused himself from his promise

"My wife you shall be
Someday it shall be so
Or the worms shall take me
And this pain last evermore"

The woman bore him two, three daughters
Without wedding as before
He loves her and takes care of her
But he keeps getting pulled away
So he keeps whoring for many years
Spends his time with many women
And keeps owing her his vow
Comes just to take off again

The first winter was too icy
To take her out of the house
And with the second and the third
He excuses himself of his promise

Chorus

One day he returns again
But the daughters are away
The woman says that they have flown
To a nicer, better place
The man enraged strikes her kills her
And there they descend
On wings out of the sky
To cry on her grave

"You have lied" the first one says
"Now never you shall keep your vow"
And the second and the third then
Condemn the father to torture

"No more woman you shall have
Never again shall you be happy
The worms shall feast upon you
And forever be this pain"


Very straightforward, a very obvious retelling of the story from the Sandman tale.

Vandemar

You nerve, you nervegrinder
Eating grass beneath the grasses
Seeing dust upon the glasses
Throwing the cross into the universe

Yearning for human rot
Under the burden of the pillar of fate
You pull every string for the sake of meaning
You can never quench your thirst for pain
You bow down before the lie
So that somebody yield to you
You poison every watering hole
Even if it smelled bad before

Slowly night falls around you
One who does not know you fears you
You restlessly pace along the canal
Where never a bird did sing
Where never a tree did spring
Where you can see no more fish
Where you do not cry any tears
When the river becomes one with you

Tightly entwined
With the young
Aphrodites you fall into the mountain
In the swamps
They quietly say
That evil was done to you

This song is a lot less straightforward. It loses a lot in the translation. Witt is a person who is very interesting to me as an artist, because he is very lyrical, very artistic in his expression, but it takes a bit of effort to get into what he is actually trying to say in some of his songs. This is one of those

Thanks for the translations!

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Originally posted by SideshowCris:
This is a GREAT album. It was kind of an impulse buy as I'm not one for things like "inspired by" comps, but I'm glad I grabbed it.

Hey, welcome to the board by the way!

Your post made me wonder, are there any other inspired by compilations out there (specifically for sci-fi and fantasy-ish authors)? I suppose there probably are, but how would I go about finding them?

As far as I know Where's Neil is the first project of its kind, at least in the US. There is something called the Edgar Allen Poe Project in Germany, which has released a double CD called 'Visionen'. It has a bunch of actors and artists reciting EAP poetry (in German, except for Christopher Lee, who does one thing in German, and then recites The Raven in English), and a second CD with a whole bunch of German artists performing songs inspired by EAP (including Christopher Lee singing). You can get it at www.isotank.com, but it runs at about 26 bucks plus shipping.

A little cheaper, and the only other similar thing I can think of, is a CD called Music from the Succubus Club, which was released by Dancing Ferret Discs (yes, the same people that did Where's Neil) a few years ago. It's a soundtrack to Vampire: the Masquerade, with each track being dedicated to one particular clan. But you don't need to be a vampire-gamer in order to enjoy this disc. It is very different than Where's Neil though, so caveat emptor. It has a sound to it that is more gothic, more electronic, than Where's Neil. It's a great disc, and got me back into the scene after a few years I took off. But you might want to listen to a few sample tracks first, if you are not familiar with the bands.

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Originally posted by The Scoundrel:
Hey, welcome to the board by the way!

Your post made me wonder, are there any other inspired by compilations out there (specifically for sci-fi and fantasy-ish authors)? I suppose there probably are, but how would I go about finding them?

Thanks! Glad to be here.

Many "inspired by" comps that come out are usually inspired by movies and released in conjunction with the movie's theatrical release. For example, Chronicles of Narnia released an "inspired by" comp with the movie. I think Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? came out with one too, but I'm not sure. And Superman Returns had one, but I hated every band on there and thus didn't pick it up. They range in quality from decent to out-and-out horrible, which is why I don't usually pick them up. However, Neil Gaiman rules and I can only not waste money on so many things with his stamp of approval on it.

It's been camping my cd player for a few days. Overall I find it enjoyable, some songs I like a lot - Raven Star might be my favorite - and a couple sort of annoy me. Just because they sound like songs for which the lyrics were written first, and then the music was patched on, and it didn't quite fit. Like the first one, Coraline. It's just my impression, being the sort of person for which the lyrics are never as important as the music.

I just got the CD today. Sat down and listened to each song while reading the lyrics. The translations were a LOT of help, I am SO grateful they were here or I would have been very upset at the lyrics booklet for not printing them. This way I can forgive it, since I know what the words mean now. I promise to return the favor if there's ever a Russian song about Neil Gaiman's works.

I agree with chimeer, with a lot of the songs I had a weird feeling like they just came up with words and then tried to sing them, the way people do when improvising. Anyway, there was enough songs I liked for me to feel good about buying the disk. I have to add that even though the Vandemar song was in German and I only read the translation, it was SO creepy that I felt fear. I guess there's no language barrier for terror.
And after all that, what am I singing to myself? "Come sweet Deeeath sing me a seerenaaaade!" That song is SO campy that I'll have to wash my brain out with soap before it gets out of there. It's cute though...Death really is the sweetest character out of them all. It's sad that out of all the Endless, Death is the only one I would like to meet in person, but you know...she's Death, so actually I'd rather save meeting her for the very last.