Let's Make a 'Barkerville' Song! - Calling all GB musicians

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#1  Edited By SpikeDelight

I'm sure I'm not the only person who couldn't get 'Barkerville' out of his head after watching that VinnyVania stream... so I've been thinking about putting together some sort of lyrical Barkerville song based on some of the lyrics they spitballed during that episode. Since this song would be a bit out of my range to actually sing, I figure I'd test the waters to see if any more musically-inclined Giant Bombers would be interested in collaborating!

I stitched together a few pieces of Simon's Quest music to make a 2-minute song (with Barkerville as the chorus, of course) and have been tooling around with writing some lyrics. As it stands, it's a sort of account of Simon's business trip into Barkerville and experience with having night fall midway through the song. If we want to get really ambitious, I have also been thinking about a short Rock Opera following multiple storylines, like one of the hidden shopkeeps who is trying to feed his family but can't understand why he doesn't have any customers, and a ghost who is eventually killed by Simon.

This could be a lot of fun, so I pose it to you guys... Post your lyrical ideas, possible arrangements, etc here and let's try to make something awesome!

^ Above is the most recent cut of music. Lyrics should pop up as you listen. Takes a few minutes for them to update when added.

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#2  Edited By conmulligan

♪ Barkerville, ba-ba-barkerville ♪

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#3  Edited By SpikeDelight

Here's the cut I put together. Trying to think of the best way to suggest lyrics; maybe comment on the song and post lyrics where you think they fit?

edit: for non-sounscloud users (like me) click on the lower part of the track's waveform to leave a comment

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This is awesome. I only play guitar, not so good at singing, so I don't think I'll be much help, but I wish you the best of luck!

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#5  Edited By DeadpanCakes

Locks unlock'd with water, not keys

Far from reality, I've come in this search

To a land call'd Barkerville, home to no turkeys

Nor a place to scream -- not a single church

I feel like that's what a bard traveling to Barkerville would sing if they were bored waiting for the Bombcast, but also too lazy to make something that actually flowed well.

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@deadpancakes: Love this! I've added an opening section at the start for these lyrics.

Here's version 2 below. I guess I should update the main post with the most recent changes to the song too...

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I'm sure someone could make a phat rap with the Bloody Tears music, like that guy who does the Barrett Wallace rap they use for VGCW.

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#8  Edited By cloudymusic

If you want inspiration, here's almost every arrangement of Bloody Tears that's appeared in a Castlevania game. If you want to expand it to arranagements from other albums or games, well, you could probably double this number.

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The music is fantastic, unfortunately without lyrics its just not the same

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#10  Edited By GideonAmos

Swell idea! I might come up with something. BTW, Barkerville is in B flat minor, I think.

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I'm not exactly musical but my first thought when I read this was just do a song parody based off of Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, but would that do a dis-service to the actual melody featured in the game? Idk. I've written some song parodies before, including a 5 verse parody of "Michael Jacksons Thriller" called "Michael Jacksons Killer..."

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@pinner458 said:

I'm not exactly musical but my first thought when I read this was just do a song parody based off of Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, but would that do a dis-service to the actual melody featured in the game? Idk. I've written some song parodies before, including a 5 verse parody of "Michael Jacksons Thriller" called "Michael Jacksons Killer..."

Now I want a mashup of Thriller and Vampire Killer called Vampire Thriller.

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I think you need that snippet of Brad actually singing 'Barkerville' for the first time, it was the cutest thing.

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@cloudymusic: Thanks for that! I made a new cut of the music track that incorporates the Castlevania Legends version as a sort of flashback to Barkerville of old :P

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This is magical.

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This is awesome! I felt inspired so I made a ringtone with the chorus of this masterpiece! Feel free to grab it! Barkerville - Ringtone

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#17  Edited By Baillie

@razielcuts said:

I think you need that snippet of Brad actually singing 'Barkerville' for the first time, it was the cutest thing.

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Hamonix' Barkerville rendition incoming.

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This is the greatest thing that has ever happened

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Well that just happened. Drake did good!

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Wait... did I miss it? T-T

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I sure hope someone recorded drake singing Barkerville, though watching them sing "Party in the USA" is pretty great.

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Drake did an awesome job- Best of luck to their Kickstarter!!

I'm still down to do the Giant Bomb version if you guys are though :D

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I sure hope someone recorded drake singing Barkerville, though watching them sing "Party in the USA" is pretty great.

Oh, don't worry. The internet is a great thing.

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So I still couldn't get that song out of my head so my band covered Drake's version over the weekend.

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#26  Edited By RVonE

@juliusblaise said:

So I still couldn't get that song out of my head so my band covered Drake's version over the weekend.

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This is magic.

@brad