music makes the people come together

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Okay, there's apparently 130 of you out there, and since the only thing I've done with this journal since the stone age is post Atlantis fic, y'all must be mainly Atlantis fans. Therefore, you are of use to me:

Tell me (or point me in the direction of whoever else has gone on this quest before me) what kind of music our Space Heroes listen to.

Does Rodney have a secret rock'n'roll life, or is it just all about the piano? Who's filed next to Johnny Cash on Shep's Napster account? Is Elizabeth remotely cool in any way? And don't forget Ford! Actually, don't forget anybody, I'm interested in the whole station, anyone you might be able to think of.

And, you know, I mention again that there are *130* of you reading a journal where I do nothing but post fic, so you must have some kind of vested interest in my fic. And this is for a story! So help me out and I can, you know, write the story!

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

The question of what Rodney listens to came up on minnow1212's journal a while back. I think I voted for classical music, like Bach, and nerdy Canadian pop/rock.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

hey, i was here for the cool theory paper (b/c i like smart women working on fandom :-)..you using *this* journal for SGA was a nice added benefit!

As for what they are listening to, fantasyenabler did a fun poll here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasyenabler/9099.html) that doesn't address all of your questions (it's more like what did they listen to) but may be intersting.

Personally with Rodney, I tend to think of my very geeky husband (and with sheppard of my first college frat guy boyfriend)..and yes, i more than understood merry's analogy (http://www.livejournal.com/users/merryish/137394.html) :-)

[copracat]

Dude, I'm stalking you.

[mahoy.livejournal.com]

While I'm sure that Rodney's into classical, I've always seen him as rockin' out to brainy rock types such as the Violent Femmes. I could totally see him frustrated out of his mind in the lab and cranking "Add It Up" while beating on the tables.
Uh, it's just an image in my head.

now it's an image in mine

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Add it up! PERFECT.

Re: now it's an image in mine

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I swear I am not stalking either of you, and yet for weeks--weeks, I tell you--I have been craving a Rodney icon with text from "Add it Up." It just works for him.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I can imagine Rodney being secretly fond of "She Blinded Me With Science". :)

[korestemenos.livejournal.com]

I think Sheppard would be an unashamed eighties fan. I also think that Rodney (having given up piano at a young age - is that canon or fanon?) would either completely shun music altogether, or have a closet love of off-the-wall modern composers like Arvo Part or even listen to weird sounds like variations on sine.

Ford would like whatever's in the top 40. Elizabeth would be conservative and listen to whatever's on the public stations.

:-)

Glenn Gould, stereo lab, and Warren Zevon

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

for Rodney. Ford loves DJ trance and electronica. He's secretly a club kid. Elizabeth loves Joni Mitchell. Oh, she just does. And Fleetwood Mac. Sheppard loves The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and Tears for Fears and the Psych Furs and and and any number of 80s progressive acts but also Buddy Holly and BB King and Stevie Wonder. (Rolls his eyes at The Cure but secretly digs them.) He wore a studded dog collar to clubs when he was 18. He just did. Zelenka loves 80s mainstream craprock, especially Pat Benetar, and can play the concertina and dance.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna agree with the Violent Femmes for Roday...perhaps also Barenaked Ladies (earlier, geekier stuff) and They Might Be Giants. Hmmm...*thinks of camp music* There's also a slight probability of mid-70s to early-90s dance music. He'd also have classical, but I doubt he'd listen to it much--only when he really needed to concentrate.

Sheppard, no idea, but 80s sounds bout right too. :D

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

HEY! Make that 131 people and I'm not just her for the fic. I totally see Rodney as a classical music fan - Glen Gould and Bach and other cerebral stuff. He might even like some kinds of jazz although I'm thinking that he's not that fond of the clashing, more dissonant types of jazz but the cool stuff like MJQ with maybe a secret love of the really sappy romantic songs. I'll bet Elizabeth likes Janis Ian as well as Joni Mitchell. Shep - 80's stuff (Oh yes) but also blues and early raw rock (Sun Records and other really earthy recording studios). Ford - you know, it's too bad but they just didn't show enough of the kid for me to get a sense of him but I'll bet that he's into whatever is the latest noise on the iPod download.

What about Radek? Middle European folk music? Carson - bagpipes (I can see a really neat ficlet with him playing the pipes and waking up the crew on Atlantis). What about Cauldwell....euuuu....don't like the character enough to visualize him even listening to music.

It would also be fun to imagine Teyla's music -- maybe something like the Deep Forest CD with a techno beat overlaid over the more traditional music.

Off to imagine Shep shaking his booty...

namaste sf nancy

[volaremn.livejournal.com]

Sheppard loves Springsteen, whose let's-ride-out-of-this-crappy-town message resonated deeply with him as a kid. Then he matured into the later stuff about honest but flawed human beings trying to make their way in a hard world.

Ford loved music he could dance to: techno and hip-hop and rap and pop.

Weir listens to sexy soulful singers like Eva Cassidy and Beth Orton when she's alone, unwinding from stress. It's also easy for me to imagine her loving show-tunes, though I can't say why.

McKay's tastes are the most eclectic, running across genres from classical to punk. I could totally buy him listening to angry white boy music.

Teyla and Ronon...um. Well, it'd be hilarious if they were to like the unexpected from what they sampled of earth music. Like if Ronon loved Celine Dion ballads or something.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Oooo...Weir listening to Nina Simone and Billie Holiday in a darkened room...I like.

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, actually, I came because I wanted to see who was using one of my icons; I stayed for the hot man-on-man action. :)

Um, Kavannaugh has a hidden stash of Muzak. The real stuff, not just bland radio mixes. He likes to hang out in the transporters listening to it on his iPod and pretend that he's between floors at some huge shopping mall and he relaxes in the knowledge that he's smarter than all those crass consumers put together.

Rodney and Radek are trying to figure out why the transporter in Section 12 keeps stalling....

[gryfalcon.livejournal.com]

See, I'm still having problems with Sheppard liking Cash so much. I can totally see him appreciating it, but to the point of actually having that poster be one of the few personal things he brings to Atlantis? Throws me off entirely. Because otherwise, I'd be pegging him for an 80's rock guy, with some new random groups, like the Bravery and Franz Ferdinand. But with the Cash influence, I'm leaning more towards classic country - George Strait, Alan Jackson, David Ball...

Rodney totally listens to the Magnetic Fields.

Lorne, oddly enough, really likes bluegrass, because it reminds him of home, though the rest of the time he's straight-up rock'n'roll.

Weir always used to listen to jazz because Simon loved it, but now she's more in the angry chick music realm, with Ani Difranco and Melissa Ferrick. But I'm also agreeing with volaremn on the sexy soulful singers- I'm adding Alicia Keys to that set.

Ronon likes anything with a really good beat. And he likes it loud. His neighbors hate him.

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Rodney totally listens to the Magnetic Fields.

Word. I definitely think Rodney is into the clever nerd rock - They Might Be Giants, for sure, and maybe also Presidents of the United States of America (if he's heard them, he likes them), and some Belle and Sebastian (although he also hates a lot of their songs), and this Canadian alt/geek rock band that no one else in Atlantis has ever heard of.

He prefers the Cake version of I Will Survive to the Gloria Gaynor original, and he knows a lot of those funny-but-weird songs; Whatever by Liam Lynch, Your Horoscope For Today by Weird Al, Sadie Hawkins Dance by Relient K. He knows all the words to Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang, for reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, and wishes he didn't. College expanded Rodney's musical horizons.

He thinks The Postal Service is for posers. Toxic by Britney Spears is one of the catchiest songs Rodney will never admit to liking.

Sheppard likes Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson and Ben Folds and Ben Harper and James Taylor. In the eighties, he went through a Lynyrd Skynyrd phase; now he prefers Simon and Garfunkel. The coolest band on his iPod is probably R.E.M. or Cake, but he has a frighteningly large collection of country music to balance it out.

John thinks The Postal Service is too edgy.

Weir has recently rediscovered an interest in angry lesbian rock, which she had stopped listening to in her twenties. Right now, she's really into Dar Williams and the Indigo Girls, but her favorite song is I Touch Myself by the Divinyls. She didn't realize what the song was about for a while after it came out, and when she finally got it, she stopped humming the tune in public. In Atlantis, though, she sings it loudly in the soundproof shower and feels impossibly badass.

Elizabeth has no idea that there is a band named The Postal Service, and probably never will.

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Um, hi. Yes, here for the fic. But Zelenka? still totally into the bands that were censored in his Czech youth -- Beatles and Stones and psychedelia. And of course the great Czech banned band Plastic People of the Universe. (I did not make that up.)