Ninth Doctor & Rose FST: When The World Stops Turning

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When The World Stops Turning
[a Ninth Doctor & Rose FST]

Track List

1. "Liquid Spear Waltz" - by Michael Andrews, from the Donnie Darko OST

2. "Satellite" - by The Dave Mathews Band

3. "Across the Universe" - by Fiona Apple (Beatles cover)

4. "This Modern Love" - by Bloc Party

5. "At the Stars" - by Better Than Ezra

6. "Stellar" - by Incubus

7. "Will You Dance?" - by Janis Ian

8. "Such Great Heights" - by The Postal Service

9. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - by Marvin Gaye

10. "All For You" - by Sister Hazel

11. "Two Princes" - The Spin Doctors

12. "Only Wanna Be With You" - by Hootie & The Blowfish

13. "Big Me" - by The Foo Fighters

14. "If You Leave" - by Nada Surf (OMD cover)

15. "Goodbye To You" - by Michelle Branch

16. "Long Long Time" - by Linda Rondstat

17. "Unchained Melody" - instrumental, from the Ghost OST

18. "Tender" - by Blur

19. "At The Beginning With You" - by Donna Lewis & Karl Marx



Downloading

LINK 1: [YouSendIt]
or
LINK 2: [YouSendIt]


Unfortunately, with finals this week I haven't had time to make any cover art or CD-sticker art. But if someone is interested in making some, please post it, because I'd love to use it myself!


Themes

Time Travel Lament

The disc starts out with the song Liquid Spear Waltz from the Donnie Darko OST. It's an eerie, beautiful piece of music, not very long, and is my nod to time travel and the Doctor's tragic lost past. If you've ever seen Donnie Darko you'll get why it's a time travel reference, and for those who haven't... it's a lovely song that borders on melancholy, depending on how you take it. I like it for the sense of closeness and intimacy it conveys, and the sense of sadness. Nine is one angsty fellow, more than a little dark inside, and thus he deserves a pretty piece of piano time travel music.


Stars, the Universe, and Everything

From the beginning I was drawn to songs that featured heavy star/galaxy/sky/astronomy themes. You'll see this in Satellite, Stellar, At The Stars, Across The Universe, and Such Great Heights. Dr. Who is about a lot of that anyway as a show (at least this season which I've seen), and one of the major themes is not just the Doctor running around solving the universes problem's... it's showing Rose the universe. He's literally bringing her to the stars, to the wonderous and sometimes terrible things that exist out there. And the interesting thing about that theme is that for he shows her the universe, they nonetheless often end up grounded in Rose's very small, very pedestrian and domestic life. The Doctor says he doesn't do domestic, but he seems to be doing it inadvertantly anyway. While he's showing Rose the universe, Rose is showing him the smaller and more private world of regular people.


It's You I Fell Into

Here we go. The love songs. The fun, quirky, upbeat songs that capture what makes Nine/Rose such a cute and snakry and enjoyable pairing. And devoted--for these two there Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Love comes in unexpected places and sometimes it takes a long long time to figure out, seen in All For You, Only Wanna Be With You, and Big Me. And of course, alluding back to the previous theme of the big universe v. Rose's small world-- you can't forget Mickey as competetion. There's Two Princes after Rose's heart on this journey. This Modern Love and Will You Dance are more Nine POV, with This Modern Love going into the somewhat obsessive nature of his affection for Rose, and Will You Dance touching on his social views at the same time as his need for something good to cling to to find happiness after all the badness he's seen, and the idea of taking a chance on love despite all the potential bad. Also, dancing!


That Damn Regeneration Angst

It's coming, and it's gonna hurt. Although we don't want to accept it, music will perhaps help us come to terms with it. These next songs are more Rose-centric, being that she's going to be the one left feeling the loss. If You Leave, Goodbye To You, and Long Long Time make me want to write sobbing angsty fanfic, so hopefully they have the same effect on you. Ending with the instrumental version of Unchained Melody, a nod to classic unbearably tear-jerker death scenes.


Full Circle

The last songs on the disc are about moving forward and coming together again. Tender is a wonderful song about finding yourself again after being lost, and finding love. And At The Beginning With You is probably my penultimate Rose/Doctor song. Just read the lyrics! It doesn't get any better. These two are all about the adventure, the journey, and in the end finding each other again.


Well, that's it folks! I hope you enjoy the music, and I hope you actually burn it to a CD instead of just picking it apart for various individual songs you want-- something I admit to being guilty of on occasion. ;)


cross-posted to time_and_chips

Comments

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Awesome! *downloads* I love the song selection. And you know, I will probably be making that music video in the coming weeks. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy them! Which video were we talking about again? "At The Beginning With You" or "Goodbye To You?"

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

At the Beginning with You. Although, Goodbye to You would also make a great regeneration angst video.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

I'm in the mood to create some cover art. Do you have any suggestions for a theme or specific images?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Can you make CD sticker art? That's what I use the most. But either way, thank you!

Since the title of the mix is "When The World Stops Turning" (taken from "At The Beginning With You" lyrics), it'd be cool to have one of the images be a shot of the Doctor and Rose looking down on Earth. And of course at least image moment of gratuitos hand porn. Maybe something of them staring at each other longingly (like your icon), or dancing... anything really. I'll probably love it no matter what. As long as it's shippy, I'm easy to please. :) Just go with whatever you think will look cool, in whatever size or order you like.

oooh! But no overwhelming pink, please. Bits of pink in Rose's clothes or something or in brushes are okay but too much pink makes me cringe.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

My first attempt - they aren't real fancy. Let me know if you'd like something changed or tweaked or completely redone.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I particularly love the pic with them walking holding hands, with just silhouettes.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you like it. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Okay, I feel really nitpicky for asking this, but could you make the track listing font a little bigger? I'm worried it won't be visible when I print it. Or have you printed that font at that size before? Now that I think about it you probably have or why else would you use it... ::pondering::

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Done! Just refresh your browser and the new versions should come up. I upped both the back and front resolutions and then made the tracklist larger. And to be completely candid, I have never made and then printed out my own cover art, but I've done plenty of brochures and posters for work. The font should look fine.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Huh. The sticker-one is much larger now, but the track list looks like the same font size. Maybe because of the resolution it'll print differently but is showing up the same on my screen?

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the image is still in your cache. To see the updated pictures, go to the urls:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/bailunrui/livejournal/fstfront.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/bailunrui/livejournal/fstback.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/bailunrui/livejournal/fstcd.jpg

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I saved the new one you linked and compared it to the old one directly from the saved files on my hard drive, not the cache, and they look exactly the same to me. On my image-browser it changes from one to the other and there's no difference. ::puzzled:: Do they look physically different to you? Perhaps you accidentally didn't upload the new track list one?

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

They are quite different. The one you uploaded to your own space:



The new one:



I made the tracklisting resized proportionally. If you look at the right side of the back, the words are now closer to the edge than before because they are enlarged.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

See, now it looks different to me. Definitely bigger. And now I'm totally confused. Maybe the internet is screwing with my head.

But anyway, yay! Thank you. ::huggle:: They're lovely.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

I mean, look at the left side. *headdesk* Ooookay. Time for me to go to bed. Good night. :)

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Now the sticker art... give me 10 minutes. :)

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! ::hurries to link on time_and_chips:: You are awesome! I love it! And it's such a pretty blue-greeny range of colors. I love green.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Green is my favorite color, so it was fun to use it. I listened to this mix and it is SO AWESOME. The first song, from the Donnie Darko OST, is so haunting and gorgeous. Thank you for taking the time to put all of these together.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that I had space for the Donnie Darko song, Liquid Spear Waltz, because it's just the right kind of pretty and eerie. And spacey. If that's a wordy in that context... It also kind of reminded me of the music that came on during the Bad Wolf scene in Boom Town.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Green is my favorite color too, btw.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Do you have a larger CD-sized version of this? It appears smaller to me than the others.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

How's this?



I changed the resolution to a higher number. Hopefully it should still print out CD size.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Cool, thank you. :D This is gonna kill my black ink reserves... BUT IT'S WORTH IT.

I linked the images temporarily from your space onto the post at time_and_chips, but I'll upload them to my own space soon.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

No problem - they're only on Photobucket. Link there as long as you'd like.

[mswyrr]

Nice work. Thanks for doing these. Now there's something pretty to put in my jewel case cover!

[mswyrr]

*sigh* *melts*

Thanks for putting this together -- I can tell you gave it some thought, and it really works, imo. A nice tribute to the OTP, but also to Nine. I imagine I shall listen to this after watching Parting of the Ways, and cry like a little fangirl.

Again, thank you. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I do hope you enjoy it. I've already burned my own version. I ended up with songs that go for Nine, Rose and Nine/Rose, so it sort of doubles as a character FST in the guise of a shipper OST.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

One of the songs you might not have heard before here is "This Modern Love", because I think Bloc Party is still a pretty new band. But I want you to listen to the lyrics on that one (well, on the others too of course!), because it really REALLY makes me think of Nine. And not just because it's sung with a clearly discernable British accent. ;)

It was the first song I thought of for this FST, although "At The Beginning With You" is my ultimate OTP song. Still, "This Modern Love" has lyrics that stick in my mind like "You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness."

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Check out the cover art by bailunrui that I just linked.

[mswyrr]

Thanks for the heads up.