
A musical guilty pleasure... Brobdingnagian Bards, "Do Virgins Taste Better Medley" - from A Faire To Remember (2001) What am I saying? Didn't we just go through this with The Jedi Path - feeling guilty about my fannish enthusiasms? So fine - not a guilty pleasure, just a pleasure. I'll own it. Hi - my name is Nick and I'm a geek. I learned to read reading The [...]

The Brobdingnagian Bards: If I Had 1,000,000 Ducats [ purchase ] John Anealio: Angels & Vampires [ purchase ] Filk Music is an eclectic genre based on that section of the bookstore which seems to think that fantasy and Sci-Fi are a single type of literature, and on those who ground their identity within the bookworlds which spring from those aisles. Its songs are not always parody songs by strict definition, and not always [...]

I wish i could take credit for this. The Brobdingnagian Bards: "The Unicorn Song" Superfurry Animals "Hometown Unicorn" Unicorn Dream Attack - "Jamie" Related: No Related Post

Favorite Folk Songs and Sleepytime Songs , the first two installments in the Peter Yarrow Songbook series, recently arrived in my house, and my children enjoyed them so much we've switched over to an all-folk format - at bedtime, at playtime, all day everyday by listener demand. It's validating to be asked to sing Golden Vanity to my child as she falls asleep, and a relief to put aside the Disney tunes and the circus polkas which generally fill the house. But Yarrow and his collaborators get [...]

Our ninth band in our Dragon*Con 2008 music feature is a duo from Texas by the name of the Brobdingnagian Bards . The Brobdingnagian Bards , pronounced "brob-din-NAHG-ee-en", have become regulars at Dragon*Con. Though not listed on the guest page (as of yet), Marc Gunn announced on LiveJournal that they are confirmed. So keep an eye out for them, I'm sure you'll run into them walking around entertaining random folks at some point. Their music is deeply rooted in traditional Celtic sounds with a pinch of filking. I've included their [...]

Monty Python: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (original) [ purchase ] Harry Nilsson: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life [out of print] Bruce Cockburn: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life [ purchase ] Brobdingnagian Bards : Always Look on the Bright Side of Life [ purchase ] And now for [...]

Hope no one minds two Covered in Folk features in the same week; in my other life I've got student grades to process and a new term starting up Thursday, so I needed something quick. Upcoming features include the coversong repertoires of some stellar voices from across the folk spectrum; in the meantime, here's a post I've been sitting on for a few weeks, ever since our feature on the solosongs of Paul Simon . You need me to say [...]