leave me your stardust to remember me by.

[quigonejinn]

My personal Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan FST. Even if you don't buy the interpretations, check out the music because I love each of these songs independent of any Q/O association that I have with them.

In particular, holy God. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds. I hadn't heard of them either until yesterday, and now, I can't stop listening to it. My God.

And if anybody wants more from these artists, just drop me a line, and I will shower you with enthusiasm and tracks. Seriously. Talking to people about how much I love music is one of the great joys of my life.

ETA: Since it seems that people are still DL'ing this -- now with actually functioning links! *_*

Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan FST (63MB)
l/p: scally/wag

l/p: scally/wag

1. Cat Power - Cross Bones Style:

   Post-Xanatos Qui-Gon who is so obsessed with his old student that he returns to addressing Xanatos in between refrains. Young baby Obi-Wan is, of course, the child that he addresses in the refrains : oh come child, come and rescue me.

   
   
2. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds

   Obi-Wan is the speaker,and Qui-Gon is the addressed -- or is it the other way around? The lines about live to let you shine and live to make you free are, to me, really, really powerfully about Qui-Gon sticking around all those years for Obi-Wan.

   
   
3. Moby - Down Slow

   Sort of an all-purpose distance and worry track. To me, it's pretty much Obi-Wan doubting Qui-Gon. Doubts about his master, disagreements that won't go away, and then there's that hushed chorale where you can feel Obi-Wan's grief and guilt at having doubted his Master. The higher purpose speaks. It covers the doubts for a while, but oh, in the end, those doubts don't go away.

   
   
4. Menomena - Strongest Man in the World

   Qui-Gon comes on strong, and so does this song. To me, it's all about the grief we feel when we're cold to someone that we care about and then think that we can't be any different. It's a very Qui-Gon emotion to me, and I listen to this track when I want to write about Qui-Gon doing some terrible thing that he thinks is for the best. I am, I am fused out of iron.

   
   
5. Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You

   Ahhh, hello, post-TPM Obi-Wan, grieving and so pressured by Anakin, by the Council, by his new responsibilities, that he's starting to get desperate. Ignore the first-line reference to Lake Michigan, enjoy how stunningly beautiful Sufjan Stevens's voice is, and enjoy, too, how the song shifts. The first verse is post-TPM Obi-Wan, but the second is Tattooine-Ben, who is at a fuller realization of himself and his past. <3
   
   And yes, shut up, it's technically a song about Jesus. I'm a born-and-raised fourth-generation atheist, and this song still makes me cry.

   
   
6. Calexico - Crystal Frontier

   Obi-Wan, trying to find his way free of Qui-Gon. Soft, contemplative, with all kinds of spikes of pain hidden inside.

   
   
7. Ada - Maps

   Hello, my name is Obi-Wan Kenobi, and I love my master so much more than that damn tow-headed freak with the nasty haircut or his bitchass Virgin Mary of a mother who is apparently trying to get my Mastuh to hit it. >:O

   
   
8. Cat Power - Red Apples

   Cat Power has the ability to make me cry, cry, and cry some more with the simplest of songs, and this song is, for me, crazyBen in the desert, grieving for the people that he's lost. The widow is Padme, sitting by a Naboo river with the apples of bitter knowledge in her lap; Qui-Gon is the ghost husband. Hushed and beautiful and pretty much aching with grief so powerful that it has to be expressed in terms of a story.

   
   
9. Jim White - Bluebird

   So I have this obsession with seeing Obi-Wan as various supercute animals, all right? Rabbits, sparrows, and now, in this, a bluebird. There are a few words that you're going to have to skim over here and there, but what speaks to me in this is tone and the mood of this song: it's the epilogue to Cross Bones Style where you get to see that, indeed, the child has saved him, but that there's still a great deal of sadness there. It's just a holding pattern until the true saving happens.

   
   
10. Craig Armstrong - Miracle

    Qui-Gon in three minutes and twenty-one seconds. A basic string core, the constant tension of finding your path as dictated by the Force and being a good Jedi, and the powerful loneliness that results. A guiding voice that becomes more insistent and less human as time progresses.

    
    
11. The Notwist - One With the Freaks

    The deeply buried, tiny emo voice in Qui-Gon the day that he realizes that they're dumping Obi-Wan on him as a Padawan. It's so utterly Qui-Gon -- you long for intuition and no longer be kissed and kind. Obi-Wan has to say the password twice in order to get Qui-Gon to trust him; he has to convince Qui-Gon that he's honest and not going to turn bad, and man. Qui-Gon's awareness of how he stands outside even the Jedimainstream. This song moves me far more than it should.

    
    

Comments

Re: did you notice that it mentions a "galaxy far from here"?

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I giggled like a silly girl when I heard that, but didn't make any further connections until your post. Textual accuracies be screwed. XD

I too only heard OF Gregory and Hawk yesterday. I suspect it's from the same source. XXXXD I fell in love with the song, but the one that won't leave my mp3 player is Death Cab's "Soul Meets Sky." ("I do believe it’s true, That there are roads left in both of our shoes, If the silence takes you, Then I hope it takes me too, So brown eyes I hold you near, Cause you’re the only song I want to hear, A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere~").