hmpf

I will demonstrate the rightness of the above claim to you in a moment. But first, get a pair of headphones. Because listening to Phideaux works best with headphones. This is a true surround-sound experience: Phideaux's music is in the psychedelic-operatic mode.

Oh, and another note, about LastFM: You should be able to listen to every song, fully and for free, exactly three times per month. You don't need an account there.

Okay. My Phideaux... thing... began with the end of Life on Mars, actually, at least more or less. Right about the time 2.08 aired I also came across the album 313 by Phideaux, and the first song on that album, I swear, was all about LoM 2.08. Seriously. It had a train, a rainbow reference, a dubious sense of hope and wish-fulfilment, and a handy death metaphor at the end. Which would have been enough, even without adding lines like "friends, I am falling but I feel you near" and "all that I learned was from you". How could this not be a song about Sam's suicide? SRSLY. (Sadly, one from Sam's own, twisted perspective, but never mind that for now.) Here, listen to it; pay attention to the lyrics:

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/313/Railyard

There's also a song about Frank Morgan's calls (and perhaps Sam's relationship with phones in 1973 in general):

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/Fiendish/Hellphone

And then, for Farscape, there's this perfect song for John Crichton's little sister Olivia:

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/Fiendish/Space+Brother

I swear, I would vid that if there were enough Olivia-related footage.

And, of course, there is the John-and-Aeryn Song. The title's perfect already: "You and Me Against a World of Pain"; most of the rest of the lyrics fits just as well. Go on, listen:

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/The+Great+Leap/You+And+Me+Against+A+World+Of+Pain

Not to mention the fact that now Phideaux seems to be reacting to my fanfic. As soon as I flattened London via an atomic bomb in a fic, he made an album that contained this:

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/Number+Seven/dormouse+-+an+end

I quote:
"Dormouse, dormouse: What have you seen?
You've been to London or what used to be
Dormouse, is it really not there?" (And yep, that song's about a nuclear explosion, too.)

I rest my case.

Yes, of course I know this is all just a collection of odd coincidences... I think. ;-)

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Completely unrelated to fannish obsessions, this is a supremely beautiful song about grief. Give it a listen, too. I think it's my favourite at the moment:

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phideaux/Ghost+Story/Universally