And we will find you saying it's to be

[brilligspoons]

Alright, friends, I need help on this chilly, yucky, rainy day. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to recommend all of your favorite songs about friendship, siblings, and other platonic love relationships to me. I'm working on a ~super sekrit project~ with/for pocky_slash, and I've sort of hit a wall with my music collection. Which is very new and weird for me, seeing as I...well, I have a LOT of songs. Like. Lots and lots. :D?

If you can provide downloads, that would be awesome! But if not, just provide me with the song title(s) and the band/artist name(s) and maybe a YouTube link, and I will find some way of procuring it on my own! It may even be something I already have and just didn't think of right away. And they don't have to be EXPLICITLY about platonic relationships, just not so over-the-top with the romance and whatnot, you know?

<333

EDIT: Erm, since metonymy asked, I should clarify - not parent/child! Mostly friendships and sibling relationships! Sorry!

Comments

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

"Cornflake Girl," "Don't Make Me Come to Vegas," "Gold Dust," "Mrs. Jesus", Tori Amos
"Girls' Room," "Shitloads of Money," Liz Phair
"The Christians and the Pagans," Dar Williams (sort of?)
"Sister Kate," the Ditty Bops
"Goodbye Earl," the Dixie Chicks
"If I had a fine white horse," The Secret Garden (original broadway cast recording)
"Two Little Girls," Ani Difranco
"Mr. Jones," Counting Crows

I can provide mp3s when I get home! Also this is just going off what's on my ipod, there may be more later. <3

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

Sweeeeeet. Thanks!

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

OH HEY AND SPEAKING OF MUSICALS:

"For Good," Wicked
"Friendship" and "You're the Top", Anything Goes
"Two Lost Souls," Damn Yankees
"Big-Ass Rock," The Full Monty
"Friend Like Me," Aladdin (shut up it's a musical)
"Sisters," White Christmas
"Getting to Know You," The King and I
"Bosom Buddies," Mame
"The Jet Song," West Side Story (a gang counts, right?)
There are a bunch of songs in Side Show, because it is about conjoined twins, but they are of varying... seriousness? Since it's vaudeville-inspired.

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about it after driving you home the other night, and the first song off the mix I gave you might work.

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

"So Close to My Heart"? Kaaay!

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

That's the one! I mean, like I said, Dar has a ton of songs about friendship and other sorts of relationships, but since I know what you're looking for, I'm weeding out the ones that I don't think fit the specific criteria in your head XD

But "The Business of Things" (aka the song in the header of my LJ and one of the songs on my initial Charles/Erik mix) would also probably fit.

[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

Is it awful that my first thought is Goodbye Earl?

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

Heh, you weren't the only one, so maybe not? :D? I've never actually listened to the song, so IDK!

[paper-tzipporah.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, go listen to it right now. Also watch the music video. It's kind of amazing.

[bessiemaemucho.livejournal.com]

Seconded! It rules. And it is about an awesome friendship.

[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, it's great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7gNf_9njs The video stars Jane Krakowski and Adrian Pasdar! :D

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

I'll watch it when I get home from work! \o/

[bessiemaemucho.livejournal.com]

Here are a few that I uploaded for you!
Rachael Sage - Sistersong
Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
Melissa Ferrick - You Let Me Be
Ani DiFranco - If He Tries Anything
Mike Doughty - Your Misfortune

A couple others that I didn't upload b/c I assumed you already had them, but if you don't, LMK:
Beatles - With a little help from my friends
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
Anastasia - At the Beginning

I wish my camp playlists hadn't gotten lost b/c we were all about songs about ~friendship.~ I'll think on it & see if more come to mind.

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

EXCELLENT. Thankies! :DDD

[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

My Friends--Dar Williams
Friend Like You--Joshua Radin
Long Live--Taylor Swift
There, There Katie--Jack's Mannequin
We're Going to be Friends--The White Stripes
We Used to be Friends--The Dandy Warhols
Where We Belong--Thriving Ivory
A Lifetime--Better than Ezra
My Friends--Red Hot Chili Peppers

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I even have some of these already. YAY! Thanks!

[amymccabe.livejournal.com]

It is sad how few songs I know that fall within your criteria, and most were already listed.


...Stand by Me wasn't listed, and that's a friendship song!

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

I know, there's a sad lack of good songs just about friends and the like. And the only sibling song I could think of off the top of my head was Sister by The Nixons. :\

Thanks!

[littledust.livejournal.com]

"Friend Like Me" from Aladdin, OBVIOUSLY.

Hello Saferide, "My Best Friend"
The White Stripes, "We're Going to Be Friends"
The Charms, "My Friends"
Cyndi Lauper, "Sisters of Avalon"
Tori Amos, "Bells for Her"
Rachael Sage, "Proof" (it works as a love song, but she wrote it for her friends!)
Rachael Sage, "My Eliza"
PJ Harvey, "O Stella"
Rihanna, "Umbrella"

Then there is the classic "Viva Forever" by the Spice Girls...

[barbed-whispers.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HOW HAS NOBODY SAID QUEEN YET? "best friend" obvs.

also:
carole king - you've got a friend
weezer - my best friend
blink 182 - dammit
damion suomi & the minor prophets - city on a hill
fun. - at least i'm not as sad as i used to be
the getaway people - six packs

(i can upload any of these if you remind me later!)

do these need to be positive songs? i have a lot that are my go to "i'm having sad friendship feelings" songs.

[max-n-leo.livejournal.com]

"I Wish You Well" by Bill Withers
"Daniel" by Elton John
"Out loud" by Dispatch

I could probably think of more but I'm tired and I hate the world right now. I can upload these somewhere at some point.

[athenejen]

"Frankie and Johnny" by Garnet Rogers is about him and his late brother, Stan Rogers. It's gorgeous and heartachy and is the best song (... and possibly only song, hrm) about sibling relationships I can think of offhand. Melancholy, though.

"The Babysitter's Here" by Dar Williams might fit, and possibly "We Learned the Sea" by her as well. And I would argue that "Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River is a pretty great friendship song, but that may be more contextual than the content of the song itself (it's basically about Jonathan Meiberg amicably leaving the band to concentrate on Shearwater; there's a real feeling of camaraderie it in). Also in the contextual-friendship category, Jeff Buckley recorded "Corpus Christi Carol" for his friend Roy, who got him into classical music, though the content of the song (by Benjamin Britten) has a romantic component.

Oh, definitely "Delilah" by the Dresden Dolls. And! "I See a Darkness" by Bonnie "Prince" Billy (I like the Johnny Cash cover of it even better than the original). "Screen Door" by Uncle Tupelo, too, and "I'll Be Your Mirror" by The Velvet Underground. And there's always "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel.

And, uh, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables always struck me as a classic platonic friendship song, though extremely melancholy, of course. "The Drinking Song" by Moxy Fruvous is also an amazing in-memoriam friendship song, though again, not un-depressing.

[If there are specific ones you want to hear and are having trouble finding, let me know.]