"World Spinning Round" - a fanmix for John Sheppard
I started collecting these songs and then suddenly discovered I had enough for a mini-mix. So, here I share!




World Spinning Round
A Boy Meets City Fanmix
for Major John Sheppard
compiled by Melannen
dedicated to Siegeofangels

1. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet (ascent)
2. Willie Nelson - Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (fond of each other)
3. The Weepies - Antarctica
4. Brian Wilson - Smart Girls
5. The Beatles - Fool on the Hill
6. Starsailor - Shark Food
7. The Generics - The Seventies, Then And Forever
8. William Shatner (feat. Lemon Jelly) - Together

HELICOPTER
This is the song that Rodney wrote for John, in another universe. (In this universe, the symphonies Rodney writes him take flight in other ways.) On his bad days, it's the only music John needs.

COWBOYS
The week he first heard this song*, John's CO spent a week straight ranting about how disgusting it was, so John and Dex made a point of having it on whenever he was in range. ("Oh, the US Military isn't allowed to listen to good ol' country music any more, sir?") It was even funnier because the CO had just given John another periodic lecture on how to stop being a damn cowboy and follow orders for once. (John's fairly sure Dex never saw it as anything but a joke.)
*The Pansy Division version, of course. The Willie Nelson one wasn't out yet.

ANTARCTICA
John's never actually heard this song. But he once spent a dinner in the commissary talking to a woman he didn't know was on the continent through the Artists and Writers Program. That's one reason John liked the place: nobody wondered why you were there. They were all there for the same reasons, in the end.

SMART GIRLS
John managed to be in just the right time and place that this was the first Brian Wilson song he ever learned. He wound up joining the Air Force instead of becoming the World's Greatest Surf Rapper like he'd planned, but he still likes to quote lines from it just to watch Rodney splutter. When people ask what it's like the chair, he tells them to get high and put this song on repeat. Luckily, they never believe him.

FOOL ON THE HILL
John doesn't want to be the hero of every story. But it happens anyway. So he sat on a hill over the city and flipped a coin for it.
Teyla, on the other hand, thinks late-period Beatles are an expression of Earth's profound spiritual truths. John's not entirely sure she's wrong.

SHARK FOOD
One thing about an international expedition is that here's all kinds of music. John's never really been that into it (especially the pop stuff. Unlike some people), but this album was on the iPod that was some genius's personal item, and he caught on to it despite himself. "Sunshine to the glory skies" still gets caught in his mind, sometimes, standing in the atria early mornings.

THE SEVENTIES
John learned to appreciate disco in Antarctica. And deep in his secret heart (and not so deep, really), he's the sort of person who can have an unironic love of camp: it's why he can still spend hours arguing flux capacitors with Rodney. And it's also the only reason he still had his sense of humor after that first year in Pegasus. He's still never going to confess which of them he thinks of as Lola, though.

TOGETHER
Because being Kirk's not always a bad thing.
Not when it means you've got a flying city who loves you
and a team at your back
and a whole galaxy to explore.



World Spinning Round.zip
Rightclick-save. 40 mb zip file, contains songs+album art+text+.m3u playlist
xposted to fan_mix (jf) and mixed_music (ij)