#Leslie Fish

[fanlore-wiki]

Featured Article: Banned From Argo

This week’s Featured Article is Banned from Argo, a classic and much riffed-on Star Trek: TOS filk by Leslie Fish.

“Banned from Argo” was a last minute addition to Folk Songs For Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet, released in 1976. This collection was the first commercially available filk recording. The song won a Pegasus Award in 2003 for Best Classic Filk Song. The author also eventually turned it into a novel and posted it to Archive of Our Own in 2021 under the same name: Banned from Argo.

Learn more about this iconic song on Fanlore!

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

There's a hyperspecific genre of song that always makes me cry; sci-fi "filk" music about spacemen who sacrifice themselves for their crew.

Ballad of a Spaceman

Some Kind of Hero

Sam Jones

Dawson's Christian

"I'm as good as dead, but there's still something I can do to save everyone else, so that has to be enough."

[theoutcastrogue]

Leslie Fish & The DeHorn Crew - Thoughts on Strange Visitors

What manner of men are these who fly so free? Not bound to any planet's rules, Not tied to flocks and herding tools, Not serving country-minded fools— Not chained to dust, like me!

What manner of men are these, well-known to stars? Not limited to one tribe's lands, Not fed by any one tribe's hands. The mountains where my border stands Confine like prison bars!

What manner of men are these who stand alone? In all they do or say to me, The echo of the stars they see Confirms that one could be that free— It gnaws me to the bone!

What manner of men are these? I need to know! They fill my dreams with wondrous things, They give my soul impatient wings, They show me where their freedom springs— And I am called to go!

First released in the album Solar Sailors, 1977

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

I’ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Fall Out Boy)

Joke me something awful just like kisses on the necks of "best friends"/we're the kids that feel like dead ends/and I want to be known for my hits not just my misses/took a shot and didn't even come close/and trust and love and hope/and the poets are just kids who didn't make it/and never had it at all.

"It encapsulates a feeling of being stuck as a teenager or 20something. its a song about dead ends, about the memory of when all your friends were a phone call away instead of a plane ticket apart."

Some Kind Of Hero (Leslie Fish)

I saw she had left on the screen/“If any old shipmates should ask after Moll/Just tell them she finally died clean.”

"Old sci-fi ballad about some folks in a space station emergency, and the three people that were able to save everyone. Two of them died in the process, and the song is from the perspective of the surviving hero, insisting that they're not the real hero here - everyone should remember and respect the other two more, and why. It also has one of the most heartbreaking (but bittersweet) depictions of someone struggling with addiction that I've heard in a song."

Poll Runner: One of the first songs in this tournament I truly got attached to. This whole album slays. It's got so much worldbuilding in one song!

Some Kind of Hero submitted by @shadybug

[andmaybegayer]

I downloaded a bunch of filk and I always forget just HOW obvious Leslie Fish's politics are in her music.

[aurelianpen]

Happy moon landing day!! Have some Leslie Fish singing about the moon landing and then go listen to more of her music

[maybe-not-a-chicken]

Bad news everyone Leslie fish is super transphobic

Like thinks the trans suicide rates are a bluff tactic transphobic

And for an anarchist she seems kinda down on people protesting without a permit, which seems hypocritical.

She also thinks that transphobia doesn’t exist and actually trans people are the last sexists in the western world

So yeah, sorry about that folks

[fansong-tournament]

Round 1B.28

Don't Listen

Fandom: Amanda The Adventurer

Artist: Jakeneutron

Propaganda: "Makes me dance so much. The most head bamger ever. Gives me so much energy. I don't know how much about Amanda the adventurer but it's so good"-submitter 1

"This goes hard and @/toastymarshmellow_ is a very good Amanda" -submitter 2

Eternal Loser

Fandom: Star Trek

Artist: Leslie Fish, Various Others (i think)

[quotesnquestions]

Always be kind to travellers, wandering near or far. Always be kind to travellers; you don’t know who they are.

[insertfandomrefhere]

"but your honor i'm a silly little guy!"

[adara-of-the-flame]

Carmen Miranda's Ghost is haunting Space Station 3...

[gunpowderdtim]

Carmen Miranda's Ghost - Leslie Fish & Vic Tyler

If you are looking for a whoops all bangers filk album, I'd love to introduce you to Carmen Miranda's Ghost. By Leslie Fish and Vic Tyler, we have my favorite filk album of all time - if you enjoy songs about a ghost haunting a starship, space shanties, the horrors of war, and tragic fates of young spacers, this album is for you!

please listen to it. I'm obsessed with this album.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Everyone, do yourselves a favor and listen to Leslie Fish's 1989 anarchist filk album Firestorm: Songs of the Third World War.

Listen from start to finish.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[homosexualhooligan]

whenever i reread the iconic Leslie Fish's K/S fics, im always so struck by the illustrations, i cant help but think that they'd make killer relief prints

from her fic 'Poses'

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Some Kind of Hero (Leslie Fish)

Heir of Grief (Homestuck)

[epic-song-lyrics-showdown]

Epic Song Lyrics Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 8

“I remember the view / street lights in the dark blue / the moment I knew / I’d no choice but to love you”

-Abstract (Psychopomp), Hozier

“Those cries and screams - they’re not just dreams, imagination’s lies / ‘God damn the whore, the bitch that bore you killers from the skies!’”

-The Bomber, Vic Tyler and Leslie Fish

Abstract (Psychopomp)-Hozier

Time Stamp: 1:57-2:08

Propaganda:

i recently went through a breakup and this album came out a few weeks after. the first time i heard these lyrics i almost fucking bawled. its so raw to me, and so so tender and vulnerable. it has a sort of resignation to it, reluctant acceptance of the love the lyrics talk about

The Bomber-Vic Tyler and Leslie Fish

Propaganda:

Even in their own mind the pilot is not the hero

Check out the other polls in this wave here.