#steam powered giraffe - steampunk vaudeville

[traumagician]

Reblog this with some of your favorite musicians with under a million monthly listens!

Algorithms are great and all, but they're not always great for finding you more niche stuff! Bonus points if you specify genre.

[fearofgodandtolkien]

my music taste is kinda weird. because I've got my classic rock hits, my Irish pub rock songs (it's mainly the Pogues), my traditional folk music from the British Isles, my Broadway and otherwise musical theater songs, as well as some basic pop to fill it all out. And usually that's all pretty good, I gravitate towards one genre or the other as the mood takes me, and I'm quite satisfied.

But sometimes I look at my bounty of music, and it fails to fulfill my craving. And then I look to the dark corners, and there are the Others...

[1pcii]

steampunk sabo!!!

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[manga-ranga]

Fanart for Steam Powered Giraffe songs I draw a while back but want to share here too.

First one is Necrostar (using refs from album artwork) and the other is my attempt of making a Mama Sky Sharks from Sky Sharks.

If you like macabre steampunk vaudeville about robots then I totally recommend this group.

[franciscoarayapizarro]

Música Steampunk: Fusionando lo Retro con lo Futurista

La música steampunk emerge como una corriente fascinante que fusiona lo retro con lo futurista, creando un universo sonoro único que transporta a sus oyentes a una época imaginaria llena de maravillas mecánicas y estilos estéticos eclécticos. En este artículo, te invitamos a adentrarte en el encantador mundo de la música steampunk, explorando sus raíces, estilos y artistas destacados que han dado forma a este género intrigante.

¿Qué es la música steampunk?

El steampunk es un subgénero estético y literario que encuentra inspiración en la era victoriana y la Revolución Industrial, pero también agrega elementos de ciencia ficción y fantasía. La música steampunk comparte esta misma esencia, combinando sonidos retro, como instrumentos de época, con elementos futuristas, como sintetizadores y tecnología moderna. Esta fusión crea una atmósfera mágica que nos transporta a un mundo de imaginación y aventuras.

Raíces y Estilos de la Música Steampunk

Las raíces de la música steampunk se encuentran en géneros como el cabaret, el folk, el vaudeville y la música clásica, todos ellos influenciados por la estética y la moda de la era victoriana. Sin embargo, con la adición de elementos electrónicos y de ciencia ficción, la música steampunk adquiere una dimensión futurista y única.

Dentro del amplio espectro de la música steampunk, podemos encontrar diversos estilos y subgéneros. Algunos de los más destacados son:

Steampunk Cabaret: Un estilo teatral y extravagante que combina música, danza y actuación. Es frecuente encontrar instrumentos clásicos y electrónicos que se entrelazan en una sinfonía única.

Folk Steampunk: Un enfoque más íntimo que utiliza instrumentos acústicos y melodías tradicionales para crear una atmósfera nostálgica y mágica.

Steampunk Industrial: Una fusión de sonidos industriales y mecánicos con elementos retro, creando paisajes sonoros evocadores y futuristas.

Electro-Swing: Aunque no es exclusivamente steampunk, el electro-swing comparte cierta similitud con este género al combinar música electrónica con elementos de jazz y swing de la década de 1920.

Artistas Destacados

La música steampunk ha dado lugar a un grupo de artistas talentosos y visionarios que han llevado este género a nuevos horizontes. Algunos de los artistas destacados en el mundo del steampunk incluyen:

Abney Park: Una banda estadounidense pionera en la música steampunk, con un estilo único que fusiona rock, industrial y elementos victorianos (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0uIXDO?si=4db878792f1947b8).

The Cog is Dead: Esta banda combina el espíritu festivo del cabaret con la energía del rock para crear una experiencia musical emocionante y cautivadora (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO32xwdn?si=873db248af3245bf).

Steam Powered Giraffe: Un grupo conocido por sus intrigantes personajes mecánicos y una fusión de música, teatro y comedia (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0RxDpk?si=3fa97777e2454a0f).

Emilie Autumn: Conocida como la "Dama de la Violín", combina la elegancia de la música clásica con el estilo distintivo del steampunk (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0YzBKr?si=cbc054b79fb24d34).

Explora la Magia del Steampunk

En conclusión, la música steampunk es mucho más que un género musical; es una experiencia envolvente que combina la nostalgia del pasado con la imaginación del futuro. A través de sus raíces y estilos, nos adentramos en un mundo lleno de maravillas mecánicas y estética vintage, todo enmarcado en un ambiente futurista y evocador.

Te invitamos a sumergirte en la magia del steampunk y descubrir la diversidad de sonidos y artistas que han contribuido a dar forma a esta intrigante corriente musical. ¡Prepárate para una aventura musical única que te transportará a un universo lleno de maravillas y enigmas! 🔧🎩🎵

[furnass]

Taking this as my chance to offer steampunk bands! Hello! I’m Cog, and I’ve loved steampunk for like 6 years 👍 here’s a big list of bands I myself listen to and love!

First off, here’s my own steampunk playlist! Below the cut is a list of bands I love. Feel free to recommend me any more if you know of any <3

Cool Steampunk bands you should know about

Abney Park — one of the oldest running Steampunk bands I currently know of and follow! Steampunk pirates, who still put on fantastic online concerts. Recommended for techno likers, or general pirate enthusiasts!

Steam Powered Giraffe — another very cool Steampunk band — one of the most popular I believe! Three singing musician automatons, each with their own lore. Wonderful performances, both serious and silly songs, and they did the soundtrack for the (also steampunk!) great game known as Steamworld Heist. And as of now, Steamworld heist II!

The Cog Is Dead — A great Steampunk band with very impressive storytelling songs! Also does a lot of covers, ranging from We Are Number One to Old Town Road! (I actually highly recommend watching their own cover of their own song, Another Cog in the Machine, but done in 25 different Steampunk styles!)

Frenchy and the Punk — I’ve had the pleasure of seeing them live, wonderful people, great music! More of a gothic folk blend, but with unique things such as batfrogs, they never disappoint!

The Mechanisms — Disbanded, and I sadly don’t know much about their lore. They have wonderful music however, seem to be great performers! I know they have a wonderful fan base here on tumblr

Voltaire — Gothic Dark Cabaret, with lots of fantastical guitar. Very impressive vocals as well! Another highly recognizable artist, Voltaire deals with macabre topics in a fantastic style.

Vernain Process — Steampunk with a progressive rock twist! Another early Steampunk pioneer band, they’re more slow—but very heavy. Like you’re in a mad scientist’s laboratory!

Unwoman — A fantastic cellist, she’s put out lots of original albums, all with fantastic music. Her music to me feels like I’m at a ball—dressed to impress, with her music playing.

This Way to the Egress — Steampunk, Dark Cabaret, and a bouncy style!

Caravan of thieves — Also Dark cabaret, more swing style. With songs such as 'eat you' and 'Rattlesnake' They really got a wide array of songs. More guitar focused instrumentals

Professor Elemental — silly British rap! With lore, a book, and quite the whimsy, Professor Elemental has great vibes, and knows how to have a good time.

Spiky — instrumentals, would listen to this for a dnd campaign music.

The Peculiar Pretzelmen — Do you like metal? How about metal being slammed together? They can be classified as dieselpunk, or more rock/punk, but I sincerely love them!

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed — Another rock-adjacent band, I haven’t listened to all of their songs but they’re pretty good!

Pretty Balanced — One of my favorite bands! They are a wonderful band that I wish got more recognition. They also have a precursor band, called The Alphabet

Victor and the Bully — Fantastical music and stories. Pretty bouncy, with hits like Spooky 365! Highly recommend checking out Madam Misfit as well.

Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer — Back to whimsy! Similar to Professor Elemental, Mr. B brings about a chap hop rap. Even having a collaboration with Professor Elemental, he also has a lot of whimsy.

Now, a list of some others.

Clockwork Knotwork

Humanwine

Unextraordinary Gentlemen

Marquis Of Vaudeville

Rasputina

Automaton

The Brass Knuckle Steampunk Sinfonia

Not a band, but honorable mention to The Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera by Paul Shapera!

why are people so mean to steampunk. what did steampunk do to you. are you too good for cogs? too good for goggles and a top hat? hmm??? bitch

[nonhumanhermitheadcanons]

A concept for you, steampunk robot hermits

Well you're in luck! We have the perfect fic for you.

Everybody's going to the Clockwork Vaudeville Everybody wants to see the show People clap and stop their feet and join in with the robot beat While music and song fill the air

But, not everybody makes it out, the same... There's a new show at the county fair, and Tango wants to go see it.

Steampunk, Robots, and Hermitcraft are by far a favorite of mine, so putting them together is perfect.

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And now a few headcanons separate from the fic.

Tango is the resident robot of the hermit craft server and can easily change bodies. He has a steampunk body because, why not, it looks cool and could come in handy some day.

Bdubs was made a robot after a particularly nasty respawn that could have been fatal otherwise. Doc was running low on supplies so a somewhat stylized steampunk design was the best choice for the time and situation. A hodgepodge and thrown together robot. He did get a proper android body after some time. You can see this idea more here.

Mumbo was temporarily turned into a robot due to the season 7 spookifacator. He leaned fully into the steampunk.

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A lot of inspiration for these Fics and head cannons was drawn from the band Steam Powered Giraffe. Definitely worth a listen if you got some time to spare or are looking for some music.

[123abcdrawwithme]

all spg albums poorly described by me bc i can

album one: steam man band: michael reed voice: GUYS HOLY HECK LOOKIT MY ROBOT FRIEMDS THEIR SO COOL OHMA G AD clockwork vaudeville: now when you say you bought yourself a pickle- sound of tomorrow: the jons audible lenny face as he says “in the nude” on top of the universe 2009 ver.: RABBIT FUCKED A TOASTER AND UPGRADE KILLED THE SPINE THE GIRLS ARE OFF THE SHITS on top of the universe 2011 ver.: alternate timeline where the jon and rabbit kill the spine and deny him ice cream i am not alone: poor one out for upgrades 1 (one) song, shes trying her best ice cream parade: i don’t even know where to begin with this one brass goggles: LOCAL ROBOS ARE FEELING EMO SO THEY HAVE A SING ALONG out in the rain: splish splash they was havin’ a bash electricity is in my soul: okay but whomst the hell is that electronic voice who sings the “la la’s”? serious question who tf is it???? steam man band reprise: michael reed voice: GUYS MY COOL ROBO FRIENDS ARE GETTING AN ENCORE HOLY HECKIE blind minstrel’s ballad: ominous captain albert alexander: listen,,,, he beat spider hulk in an arm wrestling match,,,, hes really cool,,,,,, the 2¢ show: steamboat shenanigans: some say they sang so hard they really did make it to the moon and across the stars ;) one-way ticket: CHU CHU I LOVE U ju ju magic: jonathan giraffe what tHE FUCK ARE YOU SINGING ABOUT HONEY? ARE YOU OKAY? me and my baby (saturday night): the spines a hopeless romantic and he loves to treat his girl and his siblings support him little birdie: jon makes friends with a bird or some shit idfk rex marksley: the spines a hopeless romantic and sings about his cowboy crush and his siblings support him automatonic electronic harmonics: they want to feel cool,, let them feel cool,, prelude to a dream: hey michael i thought you were supposed to be the human friend whats all this about not being a human being?? mike? m-mike?? make believe: FUCK SOCIETY, TRANS RIGHTS BITCHES *EPIC KAZOO SOLO* honeybee: ah yes that one song we won’t ever let them forget bc were all emo scary world: the morse code says spoopy the suspender man: rabbit voice: yeah theres this guys who sold his soul or whatever how fucked up was that, anyway i want to wear a dress :3c that’ll be the way home: THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL THAT’LL the ballad of lily: oh boi we about to have another character song on this album airheart: character song 2 electric boogaloo circuitry: y’all good? mk iii: curtain raiser: beebop voice: STEVETHY SOMEONES TRYING TO PLAY THE ALBUM   steve voice: oh fuck steam powered giraffe: HEHE NAME DROP mecto amore: this is some rabbits in love again shit but with WHAMST hatch fever: hatchy is here and the album version does not capture how feral hatchworth performed this on stage a way into your heart: spg as a whole @ their fans: we love you all so much thank you for the support over the years :) <3 me through tears: bitch,,,,, <3 ghost grinder: rabbit and the boys on their way to the graveyard at 3 am to party with rabbits dead gf please explain: i stg everytime i hear hatchy sing “gum in my gears” i think he’s saying something else and i’m sure you can fill in the blank, but the thing that gets me is thats so on brand for him to say dsfdfg she said maybe: rabbit is just young old dumb and full of love these days isn’t she? go spine go: almost 6 minutes of hatchworth and rabbit being two year olds and poking fun at spine roller skate king: everyone sleeps on how good this song is wtf i’ll rust with you: me knowing full well this song is about rabbit outliving her gfs throughout the decades bc shes a robot: oh,, so thats why theres so many love songs by rabbit on this album,,, rabbit you good?? wired wrong: the spine you good?? fancy shoes: hATCHWORTH YOU GOOD??? steam powered giraffe reprise: we interrupt your regularly scheduled robot angst hours with that good weeb shit™ turn back the clock: okay back the robot angst bleak horizon: our lovelys saying goodbye saying they’ll be back to bring smiles on our faces soon as we close out to some ominous as fuck shit teasing vice quadrant the vice quadrant: the vice does tight: okay so the vice quadrants fucked up and the robots are very concerned by this on a crescendo: ominous foreshadowing thats so ominous i had to look up what this song meant lore wise bc i just thought it was the robots just dancing and having fun steamjunk: my dear sweet honey darling is traveling through space and I’M WORRIED ABOUT HIM starburner: low-key robo angst bc their worried about their souls being damned or some shit but its cute  progress and technology: david YOUR RANGE wink the satellite: wink voice: YOU WAS MY BABY MY FUCKIN CINNAMON APPLE burning in the stratosphere: oh fire fire: this is the most haunting shit i have no joke for this sky sharks: hoo boi the sky sharks certainly won’t be killing us all today, but climate change sure will daughter of space: PREBBY SPACE GODDESS HNNNGNNGNG star valley night: honeys you know you can just wait for it to be night time right? then you can go play in the star valley at night- commander cosmo: BITCH YOU GOOD? where is everyone?: THERE SHE IS MY BABY gg the giraffe: MY DARLIIIIINNGGG SING IT HONEY  the pulls: wink my darling y’all ok? soliton: corpse man and space goddess sing a really nerdy analogy about love and its gorgeous where i left you: wink seriously are you okay? over the moon: rabbits just done but shes gotta sing it and go all out with how done she is bc shes extra it’s cosmic: is the “alright!” rav?? also is this love song supposed to represent them causing more fuckshit and destroying the universe and just not realizing it bc their in love?? idfk man it bops hold me: whether from the perspective of holly or rabbit i weep openly at this song the speed of light: david: this is where the astronaut turns evil won’t tell you why tho ;) literally every lore buff: *listens to this song and tries to theorize wtf happened* rav to the rescue: local green space twink rescues his space bf more at 11 starlight starshine: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the space giant: three steampunk robots fight a giant starbaby in guitar hero to save a satellites crush; a planet thats a huge apple i have zero jokes for this is already too absurd  oh no: oh OH OH? O H. OOOH OH??????????? o  h... oh no.... necrostar: evil pissrock possessed evil dead guy and is ready to cause fuckshit while the robots sing about how scared they are at the end super space blaster centi-asteroid invaderpedes 2: cute interactions with the robots! i hate this title tho whale song: wholesome shit to distract you from all the lore and foreshadowing at the end Music from steamworld heist:  automatonic electronic harmonics, on top of the universe, electricity is is my soul, honeybee, and brass goggles: me minding my own business playing steamworld heist: *walks into a bar where spine rabbit and hatchworth are performing one of these songs* me: HOOOOOGH heist ho!: yeah thats piper for ya starscrap: hi i’m in love for rabbit? prepare for boarding: GET IN BITCHES WE’RE GONNA OVER THROW THE PATRIARCHY  the red queen: capitalism? demolished. what we need are some heros: the spine projecting his love for cowboys onto the player characters the vast frontier: hatchworth: I’M A BAD BITCH YOU CAN’T KILL ME the stars: they made it lads they made it over the moon and across the stars.... also how’d they keep singing for that long aren’t they tired? quintessential: malfunction: wow i can’t believe spg ended transphobia i don’t have a name for it: love? i guess??gd fgdsghfdg blue portals: the idea of hatchworth going through the blue portals when i know they’re made out of blue matter is terrifying  overdrive: they want to seem cool please play along and pretend their green screen work is cool the ballad of delilah morreo: this came right the fuck out of nowhere but fuck its here now and its fantastic love world of love: wonder what other balboa park songs they’ll bring back, like never gonna give you up :) only human: i’d die for you hatchy salgexicon: they deadass wrote a song about their dnd campaign  sleep evil sleep: i guess we’re all evil BC WE KEEPING SLEEPING ON HOW GOOD THIS SONG IS TOO photographic memories: walter worker chelsea? come get ur mans- leopold expeditus: hatchworth: hey guys checkout my fursona dream machine: this song keeps me up at night with the endING I JUST WANT RABBIT TO BE HAPPY AND ARTSY BUT THE WAY IT ENDED WITH THE VICE QUADRANT RELATED TEASER MAKES ME THINK RABBIT PICKED UP A SATELLITE FREQUENCY FROM WINK ABOUT HOW NECROSTAR WILL KILL RAV IN THE FUTURE DEADASS I’M NERVOUS WHAT HAPPENED

[indielightuk]

Single Review: Steam Powered Giraffe – Various Tracks

So first off, I have been a fan of this group since about 2011/2012 and it is one of my biggest regrets in life that I didn’t get a chance to go along with Tori B Bearly to see them when they came to the UK in August 2016 to perform at The Asylum Steampunk Festival in Lincoln.

Anyway, @officialsteampoweredgiraffe​ are an American steampunk musical group from San Diego, who formed in 2008. They describe themselves as “a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry, ballet, comedy, projections, and music”. It would be easy to say that part of their appeal is the novelty of their act, and it certainly helps to get people interested, and much like The Lonely Island, Flight of the Conchords and Ninja Sex Party they also have to balance the comedy element of their act with the musical element which is a lot harder than you would think.

But honestly Steam Powered Giraffe not only succeed but flourish, they produce a rich, amazing performance that incorporates elements of folk rock, Vaudeville, comedy and as mentioned before steampunk. On top of all that they have their own narrative and mythology when performing, roles and backstory that build to create something that’s truly interesting. This backstory is expounded upon further in a comic book series which you can check out here.

click here to read more

[humongousfanhologram]

Steam Powered Giraffe - Honeybee

Steampunk, folk rock, vaudeville