A Song for Honor (and others)

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I always seem to have songs I associate with characters or romantic pairings who mean a lot to me, and I was curious if anyone around here does anything similar.

For instance, the song I most associate with Javier and Eloise prior to Lovat is Sting's "Fields of Gold". (Guess what I do every time I hear it now? Got it in one - I cry.)

More embarrassingly, the song I associate with Augustus/Estelle is, of all things, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" (the Elton John version, not the song from the film). (If this makes you cringe, think about the fact that I first realised Norm Lewis would make a perfect Augustus Khumalo when I saw him singing "A Whole New World" onstage. Clearly, I need to quit it with the Disney melodies.)

I'm really curious to see if anyone else associates music with characters, and if so, who those songs are for and what they are!

Oscar St. Just: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Honor escaping from Cerberus: Cheap Trick - Gonna Raise Hell

Honor during a hang gliding session: Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

Cordelia Ransom: Aerosmith - Eat the Rich

Victor Cachat when he gets in a killing mood: Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy

Honor before pretty much every battle: Judas Priest - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll

Honor during pretty much any battle: Bachman-Turner-Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business

Honor after pretty much any battle: Chumbawumba - Tubthumping

Honor, Emily, Elizabeth, and Mike Henke all together: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

The SLN, when they hear Honor's in-system: Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Hamish, when he first realized how he felt about Honor: Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You

White Haven (the home): The B-52's - Love Shack

The RMN/GA, when they finally get around to mopping up the SLN: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Me reading the newest Honorverse book: Yes - Tempus Fugit (Time Flies, in Latin)

All the Detweiler clones: The Who - 905

Nimitz, when he's going full-bore after someone: Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

Edit: And that's just a quick glance through my playlist. I'm sure, given some time, I could come up with some more fun tunes to link up with characters.

Edit 2: I'll just add to this post when I think of any more. This is *fun*!

Javier Giscard and Eloise Pritchart: Sting - "Fields of Gold"

Augustus Khumalo and Estelle Matsuko: Elton John - "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"

Aivars and Sinead Terekhov: Journey - "Faithfully"

Honor and Paul Tankersley: Metallica - "Nothing Else Matters"

Honor and Hamish: Lifehouse - "Everything"

Estelle Matsuko: Caitlyn Smith - "Crushed and Created"

Augustus Khumalo: Tom Petty - "I Won't Back Down"

Eloise Pritchart, post-Lovat: Diamond Rio - "I Believe"/Trisha Yearwood - "I Would've Loved You Anyway"

Eloise Pritchart and Tom Theisman: Avril Lavigne - "Keep Holding On"

Honor and Andrew LaFollet: The Pretenders - "I'll Stand By You"

Michael Oversteegen and Michelle Henke: Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"

Tom Theisman, about Eloise Pritchart: Elvis Costello - "She"

Abigail Hearns: Superchick - "One Girl Revolution"/"I Belong to You"

Honor Harrington and Michelle Henke: ABBA - "The Way Old Friends Do"

The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven, forging the Grand Alliance: Trading Yesterday - "Shattered (This Love Will Conquer All)"

....okay, no more Eloise. I could have an entire Eloise playlist. oh wait i actually do have an eloise playlist

For me the best song for Honor is still the one that I started to associated with her after reading HotQ when it first came out. Stan Bush’s “The Touch.” It was used in the soundtrack of the Transformers animated movie back in the 80’s.

You got the touch
You got the power

After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner

You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool

You're at your best when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter

It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standin' your ground

And you never get hit when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're takin' it all

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You're fightin' fire with fire
You know you got the touch

You're at your best when when the road gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

You got the touch
You got the power

Actually you seem to have forgotten the most obvious Eloise Song....

Eloise and Queen Elizabeth: the Beatles.."We Can Work It Out"

What???

In the whole Honorverse, no War Pigs, Godzilla or Frankenstein?

Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell, or Immigrant Song?

Stranglehold, Barracuda?

Get the Led out, folks!

During the Oyster Bay Shark attack, The Beatles: 'We all live in a yellow submarine'

Poker

What is going on here!!!
I am away from my desk for only one single day and look what you've done Rose!

Well I never...

I exit out of the shower errr, out of the bedroom errr, out of stasis errr out of hyper...
Back into the forums and I find, I find, I find...this, this, this...

I LOVE THIS POST!!!

I simply do says I, I simply do!

Rose, My Sweet Rose, with gratitude upon mine brow,
How doth thy garden grow? How much I love you So!
How many bunches of Roses doth I owe you now?!

To all the crew aboard the light cruiser HMS Fearless...
whom had to contend with one Lieutenant Commander Dr. Lois Suchon.

Just Like A Pill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKGWaC ... ata_player
Pink

To: Earl White Haven and Emily Alexander and Honor Alexander-Harrington.

Hopelessly Devoted To You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR93L8s ... ata_player
Olivia Newton-John

When it comes to intimacy, let's face it, some people have their kinks.

One masochistic Pavel Young likes it rough and this became his favorite song after Honor pounded him when he tried to forcibly have her.

Hit Me Baby One More Time
Britney Spears.

It's also why Young & Houseman became friends, they share the same taste in music.
Hit Me Baby One More Time

Honor Harrington after a weekend of kills...

Rainy Days and Mondays Always Gets Me Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxj ... ata_player
The Carpenters

Deserving no explanation...Shannon Foraker.
Oops, I Did It Again
Britney Spears.

Honor to Tourville in Battle of Manticore.
"Good," she said at last, after yet another fifteen-second delay. "Decelerate to zero relative to the system primary. You'll be boarded by prize officers once you do. In the meantime," she smiled again, that same terrifying smile, "my ships will remain here, where we can . . . keep an eye on things."

Every Breath You Take-I'll Be Watching You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaug ... ata_player
The Police

In At All Costs, during each leg of the diplomatic correspondence, when Eloise became so frustrated with the Manties--attempting to communicate with Elizabeth to negotiate a Peace Settlement and Arnold Giancola sabotaging each turn before Eloise finally gave up and just drove to Elizabeth's house!

Operator, Will You Help Me Make This Call
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPu_G-T28i ... Pu_G-T28iU
Jim Croce


To the two biggest google-eyed lovebirds Helga Boltitz & Gwen Archer when they're together...

Muskrat Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a ... ata_player
Captain and Tenille

Andrianna was right. It didn't make sense, unless Nicodème was right and they were trying to panic her. But if Third Fleet was what they'd just finished destroying, then these people had to be Eighth Fleet, which meant Honor Harrington. And Harrington didn't do things that didn't make sense. So what—?
Her eyes opened wide in horror.

"General signal all units!" she shouted, spinning towards her com section. "Hyper out immediately! Repeat, hyper out—"

Obviously too many people were screaming the same thing so Genevieve Chin's orders never got thru...

Jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB ... ata_player
Van Halen
Jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQ ... ata_player
Kriss Kross

Live music stream during every aircar disaster.
Fast Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9Qa7M ... ata_player
Tracy Chapman


When the Masadan wives finally defected, fled their overbearing jackass excuses of husbands, the entire planet was left singing...

You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me Lucille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GVr1l7 ... ata_player
Kenny Rogers

In At All Costs, the final battle of Manticore when The Salamander came out of hyper eyes leveled missile batteries, ignoring the wreckage of Home Fleet, firing full broadsides...

The bugle cry of the cavalry charge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vna4AAC ... ata_player

"Dear Lord," Dame Alice Truman murmured feelingly. "Talk about last-second reprieves."

"Did what I think happened really just happen, Ma'am?"

The entire hidden backdrop story of one...
Elaine Komandorski Alias Georgia Sakristos Lady Georgia Young.

Ode To My Family (or as my precocious little niece charges it, The doodoo song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-DJr1 ... ata_player
The Cranberries

Honor's own Ode to Paul Tankersley and what she was listening to holed up in her quarters before and after Paul's death.

Linger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3 ... ata_player
The Cranberries

Eloise Pritchart & Elizabeth Winton's Theme Song:

We've Only Just Begun
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1yy0i ... egun_music
The Carpenters

And finally my closest appropos Salamander's Hammerwell charge into Saladin...

Love's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPHmsEo ... ata_player
Barry White



I LOVE THIS POST. I simply do says I, I simply do!

Rose, My Sweet Rose, with gratitude upon mine brow,
How doth thy garden grow? How much I love you So!
How many bunches of Roses doth I owe you now?!

****** *

MaxxQ wrote:Oscar St. Just: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Honor escaping from Cerberus: Cheap Trick - Gonna Raise Hell

Honor during a hang gliding session: Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

Cordelia Ransom: Aerosmith - Eat the Rich

Victor Cachat when he gets in a killing mood: Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy

Honor before pretty much every battle: Judas Priest - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll

Honor during pretty much any battle: Bachman-Turner-Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business

Honor after pretty much any battle: Chumbawumba - Tubthumping

Honor, Emily, Elizabeth, and Mike Henke all together: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

The SLN, when they hear Honor's in-system: Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Hamish, when he first realized how he felt about Honor: Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You

White Haven (the home): The B-52's - Love Shack

The RMN/GA, when they finally get around to mopping up the SLN: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Me reading the newest Honorverse book: Yes - Tempus Fugit (Time Flies, in Latin)

All the Detweiler clones: The Who - 905

Nimitz, when he's going full-bore after someone: Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

Edit: And that's just a quick glance through my playlist. I'm sure, given some time, I could come up with some more fun tunes to link up with characters.

Edit 2: I'll just add to this post when I think of any more. This is *fun*!

Maxx, Maxx.
You are still mad man. Insane Mad Maxx of Thunderdome.

Funny stuff. Funny!

The Stilties Greatest Hits

Hits From The Bong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaqQhdt ... ata_player
Cypress Hill

I Wanna Get High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFdBjeV ... ata_player
Cypress Hill

Roll It Up, Light It Up, Smoke It Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYwyGzQ ... ata_player
Cypress Hill

I Smoke Two Joints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsv4Lb ... ata_player
Bob Marley

Bongo Bong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJMLJVh ... ata_player
Manu Chao


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