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Songs that remind you of the Animorphs

I was re-organizing my iTunes today and ended up discovering (or rediscovering) a few songs in the process, some of which really reminded me of the relationships in this series. At first I was thinking of making a fanmix, but idk, I guess my laziness took over so I'm here instead posting about songs!

Amy Cook - Feathers To A Crown
feather falls
bird is caught
inside of these four walls
hey my love
why don't we
tear the house down

sleep with the sky
the moontower reflected in your eyes
take those bad dreams
and burn them to the ground

these are
hard times for dreamers
we are just
pennies in a wishing well
but we ain't gonna bite
we ain't gonna sell

baby don't you worry
cause the cannonballs will fly
but we've got a cavalry of birds
to pluck them from the sky

she's the sight to see
the patron saint of mediocrity
and there are many
who follow her ways

but i will not let them get you down
there are still those who would choose
feathers to a crown
and may her fire guide you
all of your days

I couldn't find these anywhere online, so I had to transcribe them myself. I got a real shock listening to this song because it seriously reminded me of the Rachel/Tobias dynamic - bird metaphors and all! If you guys give the song a listen (or heck, even skim over these lyrics), I think y'all may see/hear what I do - every line seems to fit in perfectly, and that's pretty rare IMO. "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls also reminds me of T/R (I think they dance to it in one book or something), but the song is famous enough that I doubt I have to upload it for you guys :p

OTOH, Alanis Morisette's Simple Together reminded me of Jake/Cassie. Click for lyrics. I guess it'd be a Cassie-to-Jake song, but the whole thing made of think of how right for each other they seemed in the beginning (and how everybody assumed they would just fall in love and have a no-drama relationship), and how they fell apart in the end. It's a really sad and pretty song, too.

And "Discovery Channel" by The Bloodhound Gang ("baby you and me we ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel" - yes, *that* song) has always made me think of Marco and his "womanizing", haha :p I'm probably not giving much credit to the depth and wit of his character, but I think this works in a hilarious, ironic kinda way. I don't have the song (otherwise I'd upload it for you) but you can find it easily on Youtube.

There are more songs, but I think I'll let somebody else take up the discussion now.

So what do you guys think? Do the songs above make sense? Are there any songs that have always reminded you of a character/pairing/group/whatever in this series?

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Haha, I feel like a dork... but, the song "Crash & Burn" by Savage Garden always makes me think of Tobias. When I read the books as a kid he was my favourite character (read: I had a crush on him) and when that song played on the radio then... I'd just think of him! And it's actually the first time I heard a song and thought about a character so it's sort of weird... yeah. But a lot of Savage Garden's music--well, from the first two albums, since those were out when I read the books as a kid and it's actually the only ones I've heard of--make me think of the books a lot. I guess I heard their music a lot as a kid while I was reading them. It's sort of weird.

And then, somehow, when I read the books again last summer, Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" made me think of Rachel/Tobias, which is crazy. Crazy, crazy. I think there's another song but nothing's coming to me right now.

Lol. Hey, I started this topic. *even dorkier* I figure I'll embrace my nerdhood ;)

Interesting choice! I flooove "Crash & Burn" (I was obsessed with it as a kid), but never associated it with any particular couple because I think it works for a lot of different characters/pairings. I can definitely see why it reminds you of Tobias, though - he has this tragic!hero feel to him (well, they all do, but he's the extra emo one). And I totally had a crush on him as a kid, too.

"Uptown Girl"? Haha. Now I'm trying to imagine Tobias as a member of the BSB (a "back-street guy"). I guess he did turn into some sort of tough street kid in the end... ;)

True. :B Okay, we're all dorks here.

"Crash & Burn" really can work with anyone, but it'll always be about Tobias to me~! I think it has a line about flying somewhere. That's totally why. Or maybe not...IDK anymore.

Okay, I knew there was another song that I really connected Animorphs too so I had to look it up. It's another Savage Garden song: "A Thousand Words" made me think of what they had to go, relationship wise, as they went through the books. Like, sometimes people in the group fought, and after a while some changed like Jake and Marco's (they were best friends EVER before, and after... it seemed like that seemed to weaken a bit, even if they still loved each other to death). The song always seemed interesting to me when I thought about Animorphs with it.

...My brain is weird. Tobias in the "Uptown Girl" video would be really insane, and yet... it fits. *face palms*

LOL. That's the beauty of fandom, I guess!

The song I posted above ("Feathers To A Crown" makes me think of Tobias for the same reason (flying, birds, etc). I guess both songs have sort of an epic aerial feel to them... and Savage Garden is so perfectly 90's, too :)

I'll have to listen to "A Thousand Words" somehow, because I totally feel you about Jake and Marco and their rapidly crumbling friendship :( That was one of the saddest parts of the book to me (um, among other very very sad parts) because it felt like the group's experiences in the war tore them apart rather than brought them closer together. Because *nobody* became better friends despite fighting in the war together (despite possibly Tobias/Rachel/Ax, but look at how that worked out) - they just kind of broke apart instead. *sigh*

And ROFL. That is one awesome mental image!

You can listen to "A Thousand Words" on YouTube here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qMn1cKPI9ps&feature=related) if you can (actually, I think that user posted their whole first album, lol). It doesn't really fit like OMG but uh whatever. Just like "Promises" (another song by Savage Garden--they just go with Animorphs so well in my brain, sorry) makes me think of the leader Jake even if it doesn't fit very well.

"Feathers To a Crown" really reminds me of Rachel/Tobias too--sorry I didn't mention that earlier. :D; It just seems like a nice song too, though. I've actually never heard of the Discovery Channel song but it looks so funny. I watched that channel all the time as a kid too. XD

Jake and Marco's dying friendship really was one of the saddest parts for me. ;_; Espeically since I really love the kind of relationship they had before, and to see that die was really heartbreaking. When I reread the series... Well, I've always found Jake really interesting, but I found him even more so (because uh. I wasn't just paying attention to Tobias anymore. Yeah.) and I got a new fondness for Marco's humour, and it was really tragic seeing it fall apart. D:

Thanks for the link! Now that I've heard it, I'm starting to remember I knew it once upon a time. It isn't OMG but I like it nonetheless - it feels like a darker Savage Garden song (because some of the others are just too cheesy, even for me).

Ahh, no big! You're not obliged to or anything. And the Discovering Channel song = really nothing to do with the channel, hah - back in elementary school people used to sing it thinking they were being sooo cool because the song was actually about sex or whatever.

*sigh* Yeah, Jake/Marco were really good in the beginning - better than Jake/Cassie, I think, and Marco never had any super strong ties with the group except for Jake. I've always found Jake interesting too (well, I find them all interested except for Cassie) but Tobias remains my favorite to this very day! Guess I haven't matured very much. But yeah, the whole thing was definitely tragic.

Yeah, that's why I probably like that song better since it is darker and, even for ME Savage Garden can get cheesy. I only like about half the songs I've heard from them.

I figured it had nothing to do with the channel itself, but still. :B

...Actually, that is true. Marco was only in the group because of Jake, even if he did know who everyone was (well. I don't think he really knew who Tobias was beyond "That kid Jake saved from being bullied one day" but whatever) and he really only stayed because his mom. And even know Tobias is still my favourite, but Jake comes really close to second and Marco super close as third.

^Where is your icon from? It looks so familiar. A Disney film?

Mmm, ditto about Savage Garden. I listened to them a lot in elementary school, but by the time I got to junior high it was more Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana :p

Yeah, I think Marco had the least ties to anybody in the beginning, yet in the end, he probably got along better with Cassie and Tobias than Jake did (albeit under unique circumstances). I always feel really bad for Jake/Tobias because I think they suffered the most from the war. I've got Tobias as my favorite with Rachel a very close second (she reminds me of myself, frankly), Marco and Jake tied for third (I flip-flop), Ax a comfortable fourth and Cassie a long way behind in last place.

loving your song recs, dear! i'd give a few of mine but i'm slowly but surely working on a general animorphs mix and a cassie/jake mix so i don't want to give myself away. :) well, i'm pretty much done with the general animorphs one, now it's just a matter of getting quotes and artwork together because i like to go to the nines with these things...

Glad you enjoy, and I'm now looking veeeery forward to your to-the-nines song mix ^o^ I still might make one in the future, but the quotes/lyrics/artwork portion of the project feels like work overkill for the summer. *sigh*

Wow! As a hardcore Savage Garden and Animorph fan, I'm totally fanning out right now XD! And while "Crash and Burn" remains to be my favorite song in existence, and I do like the other songs that have been mentioned, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Animal Song".

"Animals and children tell the truth they never lie/which one is more human there's a thought now you decide." The song has a feel to it about how the world is so stressful, but then Darren sings "I want to live, like animals/Careless and free, like animals/I want to live, I want to run through the jungle/The wind in my hair and the sand at my feet." It reminds me of how they will morph into birds, dolphins, or dogs and feel totally free and happy.

Oh! And if any of you have continued to be a Darren Hayes fan (lead singer of Savage Garden) he has this awesome song called "Darkness" that sort of reminds me of Jake after the main war with the Yeerks (possibly a little before too).

One song that really makes me think of the Animorphs is O.A.R.'s "Heard The World". The first part of it is a bit slow, but it starts to really kick with the tension during the chorus and I think it really fits their anxiety.

"If the world is crumbling down, I don't wanna be alone.
NO, locked up in this place.

I heard the world up, late night.
Holding my breath tight, trying to keep my head on right.
There's a chill in the air, nobody could care.
How you're caught up in the fight of your life."

you should! i'm kicking myself for not gathering quotes and things when i reread them a few months ago. i constantly had in the back of my mind that i was going to do fanmixes for cassie/jake, rachel/tobias, and a general mix but i only gathered quotes that pertained to rachel/tobias. curse meee! i'm contemplating just reading them again since each one takes me just about an hour to read so we'll see! there's no way i'm posting the mixes without the quotes, so i'll have to do it sometime ;)

If you want quote help, I don't mind lending a hand. Not to brag, but I'm usually a pretty quick reader, so I can see if I can dig up a handful of quotes for you on a character or pairing to make your job easier. Good luck with your mix!

Aww, man! Now that you mention it, "The Animal Song" really is perfect - I guess it's just been too long since I've listened to Savage Garden, because my first thought when you talked about 'the animal song' was NIN's "Closer" (the I-wanna-fuck-you-like-an-animal song :p). THAT would've been... interesting.

Will check out the Darren Hayes song (it sounds familiar, actually), and the O.A.R. as well. The lyrics seem to be really spot-on from what you've quoted!

aww that would be sweet! i'll let you know -- it's kind of on the backburner right now since i'm currently doing a reread of the HP series, but when that's over with, i'll probably jump right back into animorphs :)

Yay, fandoms colliding. Out of curiosity - where d'you think the Animorphs would be Sorted if they ended up going to Hogwarts?

deep down i think they all belong in gryffindor, but hey so did snape but he ended up in slytherin SO... i think jake would still be in gryffindor, as well as rachel. tobias seems ravenclawish to me. marco actually seems very slytherin. ax is so noble that he would definitely be gryffindor. cassie is so hufflepuff it's not even funny. then again i could be biased because cassie is my least favorite character and hufflepuff is my least favorite house ;)

It's Jim from Disney's Treasure Planet! A rather unappreciated film that I really like--but, well, I like Disney movies. But it's still one of my favourites.

...I have no clue what I listened to in middle school. But it wasn't that because I wasn't cool enough for NIN. :B

I never paid attention to the James/Tobias relationship... but you're right. Wow. How come I never noticed? XD Tobias is actually the one I related to the most, so he'll always remain my favourite. :D And then Jake is really interesting, Marco's funny... I think Rachel comes forth, because even though she is annoying from time to time I forgive her. Ax is fifth even though Andalites are just awesome, and Cassie is last 'cause she's boring sometimes. *is mean*

Interesting! I concur with you on Jake/Rachel, but I've always seen Tobias as a Hufflepuff - he seems very loyal and caring, but there's also a lot of Ravenclaw to him (I guess it's the fact that he's always daydreaming and pondering things). I'm definitely with you on Marco being Slytherin - there's a great quote from him in one of the books about how being ruthless isn't being mean but being able to see clearly from Point A to Point B and not be bothered by anything that falls outside of that neat line, or something (such a Slytherin quote). Cassie seems Ravenclaw to me because she's always over-thinking - pondering, philosophizing, wondering about the deep moral implications of their actions (and also being a thinker rather than an actor). Aww. It seems like a lot of people dislike Hufflepuff, but I've got a soft spot for the badger crew.

Hahaha, "The Animal Song." That one was so obvious I let someone else mention it. :P

I've never really listened to Hayes' music much (uh, because the band broke up, right? I don't pay attention, whee~) mostly because... I love the first two albums (yay, nostalgia) and I don't wanna find out if their other stuff was crap and never knew anyone else who liked their stuff. XD But I'll go look up that "Darkness" song 'cause now I'm interested.

Ahh! I had a feeling, but wasn't sure - that movie spawned one of my favorite Goo Goo Dolls songs ("I'm Still Here"). Have you heard it? And ITA about the movie being underrated because it is actually really well-done!

Lol. I've always been music-crazed, I guess. But I can't remember what the cool kids in middle school were listening to, either.

I tend to notice really odd things about character relationships, which is probably why I'm such a shipper. Jake is really interesting - I don't understand it when so many people say he's boring (I guess he's a bit stolid and silent at times, but still waters run deep). Marco's a riot, and I related to Rachel rather than Tobias, so she holds a special place in my heart. Ax also brought the funny (however unintentionally) and yeah, Cassie never interested me. She had the least to lose and didn't really lose anything in comparison to the other characters, so it's hard to feel sympathy for her, and there was always an odd morally-superior slant to her character I never liked. I guess she served her purposes of raising important ethical questions or whatever, but I felt like her character was a little... flat at times.

i see what you mean about tobias. the reason i think he'd be good in ravenclaw is because he always came off as the most intelligent to me -- besides ax of course. the boy hadn't been in school for god knows how long, but he still knew so much stuff, sometimes more than the rest of the animorphs. i remember one time, he's talking about something to rachel and she marvels at him and just says "the things you know, tobias!"

cassie could fit in ravenclaw too though now that i think about it. and that marco quote is perfect! i know he had said something specifically that stood out as slytherin to me, and that was it. he would be such a kick ass slytherin!

I always thought that Goo Goo Dolls "Give a Little Bit" was appropriate to the final scenes with Rachel and the Ellimist. Kind of think of it from Rachel's point of view talking to Tobias.

Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
Give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my love to you
See the man with the lonely eyes
Take his hand, you'll be suprised

So give a little bit
Give a lttle bit of my life for you
So give a little bit
Give a little bit of your time to me
Now’s the time that we need to share
So send a smile, we’re on our way back home
ooh yea... yea yea
We gotta feel it
Yea yea yea yea...
Ooo
Don't you need to feel at home
Ooo you gotta feel it
Yea you gotta want to
OO you gotta sing, we've come a long way tonight

I also second the Animal Song by Savage Garden.

Ooooooh, that's a good point about Tobias! I always thought Marco was the most intelligent, actually - or, at the very least, the most street-smart (and also quickest) but I think Tobias has awesome powers of observation and deduction. Uh, I guess that makes Marco an excellent lawyer and Tobias an excellent scientist or detective or something... :p

That was probably one of my favorite Marco quotes because it is just so damn kickass and made me wonder for about the millionth time why this book is marketed to pre-teens... because I'm sure some adults even forget some of that wisdom. And he would've made an excellent Slytherin, I agree wholeheartedly!

Yay, more Goo Goo Dolls love. I always see them as such a R/T band because half their songs = perfect for this couple, this one included! "Give A Little Bit" is an amazing song all on its own, too :)

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