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Filking - No it's not a strange fetish. - 3/21/2014 10:58:53 PM

MalcolmNathaniel

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Filking is singing songs at a Sci-Fi convention. It usually takes the form of well known songs with changed lyrics. A little like Weird Al, but usually with a Sci-Fi or Fantasy bent.

I started thinking about it due to the 10,000 Daleks thread.

Some of my favorites:

Jonathan Couton: RE: Your Brains With ASL no less.

Mikey Mason: She Don't Like Firefly. I literally have the T-Shirt. It's better when he's unplugged.

Tom Smith: Five Years. I saw him perform this. Best song about Babylon 5 ever.

MC Frontalot: It is Pitch Dark. Nerdcore rap about a text-adventure game no one under thirty has ever even heard of.

Anyone else have some recommendations?

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RE: Filking - No it's not a strange fetish. - 3/22/2014 6:56:50 AM

MercTech

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Being an owner for the "Black Book of Locksley" I understand filking very well and can do at least 60 verses of the 200+ of "Olde Tyme Religion" from memory.

I'm convinced the most filked melody is "Ash Grove". I have a fondness for Joe Bethancort's filk to that tune, "Who needs a crown when I have a knife".

Joe Bethancort and Leslie Fish did a lovely CD of SCA filk, "Serious Steel". It contains that lovely song about when the FBI investigated the SCA.

http://www.whitetreeaz.com/cd/serious.htm

Do you know if the song "A Man Called Jane" really started as a filk as is rumored?

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