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the end of s2e3 rightfully had everyone screaming, and that kate bush needle drop was undeniably life-changing. that being said, I actually had a much stronger somatic reaction to the timbre timbre song and final sequence of e2, and as I noodled that fact, I had a terrible, awful, wonderful idea.
big thanks to @nordarknessdimsthesky for helping me make this fever dream a reality. to everyone else:
I'm sorry. you're welcome.
run from me / come back to me
Run from me, darlin'
Run, my good wife
Run from me, darlin'
You'd better run for your life
Run from me, baby
Run, my good wife
Run from me, baby
You better run for your life
And each time I see you
I contemplate
What I love most of all
Your swingin' gaze
Run from me, darlin'
Run, my good wife
Run from me, darlin'
You'd better run for your life
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run
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nononononono PLEASE the strings-version of Gnossienne No. 5 is ON THE OFFICIAL S2 SOUNDTRACK??!?
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#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd soundtrack#ofmd music#mark mothersbaugh#I was already over the moon to have the 'escape plan' bit which I loved so much during episode 3#but to have THIS too??!?!?#this weekend I will be dying over the ofmd soundtrack I guess#(and rewatching episode 8 over and over)#also if anyone reads these tags and knows more about the tracks used in the show - especially the classical pieces - message me!#I want to make a full list of all the bits and pieces of music used in this show#complete with timestamps and stuff#ollie's log#Youtube
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the sun came up above the strange, white plain
blood-red flowers all wet with rain
and the spirit wasn't really willing anymore
but the flesh was very very strong
the mountain goats - baboon
for @brigdh
#i'll probably make something else as well but this needed vomiting out#thank you for the prompt <3#my gifs#ofmd gifs#blackhands#ofmd music#s2
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COMPLETE* OFMD SEASON 2 PLAYLIST
I'm obsessed with the music featured in Our Flag Means Death, and have been slowly identifying music used in the show. The result is this playlist. It features several instrumental pieces that I haven't seen on any other OFMD playlists (they might exist, I just haven't found them).
Why the Astrix* ?
I'm still working to identify several songs/instrumental music from the show. I isolated the music as much as possible from the dialogue and sound effects, but some of the tracks have a lot of background noise that interferes with music identification apps. Apps like Shazam are also not as good with identifying classical music as they are with music genres like R&B, Pop and Rock. I've tried a number of other methods to identify this mystery music, but haven't been successful. If you're a classical music or 1970s & 1980s African Pop and/or American Funk aficionado, please take a listen to see if you recognize anything. With your help, it would be great to make this a fully complete playlist.
Classical & Instrumental music search
1970s & 1980s African Pop & American funk (?) music search
#OFMD music search#OFMD S2#OFMD music#The most complete OFMD S2 play list available (that I'm aware of)#Can you help identify these mystery OFMD S2 needle drops?#OFMD Soundtrack#Our Flag Means Death#Spotify#OFMD
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Calypso's Birthday kiss music edit
I know similar edits have been done but I wanted to do one too.
Stede & Ed's kiss from s2 ep06, Stede Dream from the OFMD 2 soundtrack replacing La Vie En Rose
#ofmd#our flag means death#gentlebeard#edward teach#stede bonnet#ofmd s2#calypso's birthday#stede dream#ofmd video edit#ofmd video#ofmd music#because they deserved to have their first time being intimate without izzy's interference
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They choose the perfect song always, every time.
Thank you, Maggie Phillips and crew!
Anyone else just keep singing “Baby, baby, baby!” in a mock version of Prince’s voice sporadically all day? Surely not just me.
#Taika wearing his purple rain shirt is so personal now#baby baby baby#david jenkins#babygirl things#ofmd stede#ofmd blackbeard#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd stede bonnet#ofmd edward teach#gay pirates#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#ofmd 2#ofmd spoilers#blackbeard x stede#gentleman pirate#ofmd gentlebeard#blackbonnet#ofmd music#prince and the revolution#Maggie Phillips
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Something different for a change! "Because the night" is not only a banger but it is now inextricably linked to a banger show that changed my life (and I definitely didn't have that in mind when proposing this song to my band 👀)
The record comes straight through our rehearsal room (so, no polishing and no editing) as our first gig approaches next week, so please don't mind me fucking up the lyrics at some point lol (English is not my first language 🙏🏻)
Enjoy! 🎵🎶
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@edwardxteach I have answers for you :D
I did a honking great essay last year on the Blackbeard Motif which is specifically for Blackbeard (not Ed) and people in/under Blackbeard's influence.
The first time we get it in the show is in s1e02, when we get the long-distance shot of Izzy, Ivan and Fang. On the soundtrack, the title is Humble Wanderers.
I'm fascinated with how they're using it this season.
Blackbeard's entrance at the wedding when the camera is on the wedding party but it cuts out the second Ed's eyes open
A slower tremolo version when Izzy comes in after the wedding raid, with a sharp cut when the scene cuts to Izzy in the present with the crew.
It returns when Ed says "as a crew" and is there as an undercurrent all the way through to Izzy snarling "Pack it in" and returns right after the shooting.
Fragments during the storm sequence, especially when he orders Jim to fight Archie
A variation on the motif when Hornighost comes back from the dead
When Izzy's leg collapses and he refuses help, crawling away from the crew, saying "you're born alone, you die alone"
Almost every instance that it's used is when there are characters looking at or reacting to Ed, but I'm especially flaily about the last two examples.
When Ed 'kills' Hornigold, it's quiet right up until Hornigold sits up and given that he's not only a figure of Ed's subconscious but the person who led to Ed becoming Blackbeard, the discordant version of the theme jolting back to life there is *chefkiss*.
And then we have Izzy, the man who has tied up his entire life in being Blackbeard's first mate, fallen and refusing help because in his mind, all he was is Blackbeard's first mate. You're born alone, you die alone, he believes, while Blackbeard's theme rolls over him.
The music is murdering me by inches and I love it.
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Blackbeard's musical theme S1 vs S2 observations
I've been rewatching the show recently to find the scenes where Blackbeard's Theme is used, and here are some observations I can share with those interested. I'm not going to get technical or anything, just pinpoint some things I found interesting in the use of that theme in the context of the show, the characters, and the scenes it appears in.
Just so you have it in your ears, this is Blackbeard’s Theme. When I searched for scenes, I was looking for a specific leitmotif that derives from the very beginning of that linked song: the 3 held, rumbly, low notes (E, G and D#/Eb in that order), or a variation of that pattern. In the show, this main theme is often followed by strings playing a high-pitched sustained harmony with fast repeated notes (that or maybe these are long slow strokes with lots of vibrato, you tell me, I don't play a string instrument).
The theme is meant to be menacing.
My observations under the cut, sorry it's a little messy!
- Season 1: the theme is introduced by Izzy in A Damned Man and last heard in a scene with Ed in Wherever You Go, There You Are. The theme is never played for anyone else but them throughout season 1.
- Season 2: the theme is reintroduced by Ed at the wedding in Impossible Birds, and we last hear it at the beginning of Izzy’s death scene in Mermen.
- Contrary to season 1, the theme also appears with the crew when they are fighting with each other in Fun and Games, and with Lucius when he's alone and holding the wooden shark in The Curse of the Seafaring Life. The theme we hear in the scene with the crew is a variation from the original theme.
Some analysis could be drawn from this, such as Blackbeard's poison leaking out of Izzy and Ed and contaminating the crew and reflecting in the way their trauma is portrayed on screen. The theme being heard with lucius is particularly interesting to me, though I'm still trying to form my analysis of this. Maybe because the shark is a physical embodiment of Blackbeard to Izzy? And thus the essence of Blackbeard is transferred to that wooden shark? Who knows, your guess is as good as mine.
- Season 1: the theme is in 21 scenes in 5 episodes only (2,3,4,6 and 10). I’d argue that Izzy is the driving force of the theme in at least half of these scenes (12/21 vs Ed 9/21) as he carries the threatening essence of the theme.
- More than half of those appearances are in only 2 episodes: The Art of Fuckery (7 scenes) and Discomfort in a Married State (5 scenes), but never less than 3 scenes per episode for the other episodes.
- Season 1: we don't hear the theme in The Best Revenge is Dressing Well, This is Happening, We Gull Way Back and Act of Grace. It's interesting to note that, apart from Act of Grace, Izzy and Ed don't interact at all in those episodes.
- Season 2: 14 scenes in 6 episodes (1,2,3,4,5,8). The theme centers a lot more around Ed. At first because he's lost in the persona of Blackbeard and carries the threatening essence of the theme, and then because his fractured vision of himself is mending back with the Kraken and Ed to become one by the end of the season.
- 11 of those scenes are in 3 episodes: Impossible Birds and Mermen (4 scenes each) and Fun and Games (3 scenes). We hear the theme in only one scene for the other three episodes.
- Season 2: similarly, we don't hear the theme at all in Calypso's Birthday and Man on Fire. Maybe signifying the healing amongst everyone involved with Blackbeard? Ed is turning poison into positivity and the crew is healing and embracing him back, and similarly Izzy is embracing his own self-discovery rather than focusing on Blackbeard. In Man on Fire, Blackbeard seems to have become something of the past, especially symbolised with Ed throwing his leathers in the ocean.
- Season 1: the theme is recognizable from one scene to the other, sometimes changing the melody of the motif a little bit, sometimes it’s instrumentalized a little differently (a piano instead of a cello for example), sometimes the motif is only one or two notes, but it mostly stays the same throughout the season.
- The only two times I can think of when the theme is the most “different” is in 1) The Art of Fuckery, when Ed is doing a fuckery with fireworks and descending from the sky with a harness. There, the theme mirrors the theatricality of the scene; 2) the very last time we hear the theme in Wherever You Go, There You Are, when Ed keeps Jim and Frenchie on his crew. The theme is sped up, more colorful and rhythmically more dynamic. To me, it symbolises the change in Blackbeard's persona as someone a lot less stable and more dangerous.
- Season 2: still mostly the same theme but it shapeshifts a lot more. The range gets broader, getting more and more high pitched, to the point of being shrill at times, which contrasts a lot with the low, rumbling sound of the cello we're so used to hearing, the main melody has more variations (with the crew in Fun and Games, with Izzy in Fun and Games and Mermen) and it even appears very distorted when Buttons is talking to a bound Ed in Fun and Games. Interestingly, the theme appears in more distinctly different variations in Fun and Games than any other episode, when every one is dealing with the brunt of their trauma.
- Season 2: when Ed is pointing his gun at the crew then at himself in Impossible Birds, the theme is the most shrill we've ever heard as the tension rises, with the same sustained harmony from the original motif played at a very high pitch and doesn't cease to be played until Izzy yells and the music completely stops. It picks back up once Ed shoots him, and the lower range of the theme emerges as well with the shrill harmony.
- Season 2: When we hear the theme with Ed by himself in Mermen, it's never heard on its own anymore. We hear it partnered with the Kraken theme and/or Gnossienne n°5. BUT the theme is pretty much in its original form and at that point in the season, we haven't heard it like that since Impossible Birds (if I'm not mistaken).
- Season 1: This happens only once, where the echo of Blackbeard's theme quickly morphs into Gnossienne when Stede realizes that maybe Ed does fancy a fine fabric in Discomfort In A Married State. (And no, I’m not taking the Kraken Theme followed by Gnossienne in The Art of Fuckery into account, as I’m only focusing on Blackbeard’s Theme here).
- Season 2: Let me also point out that we don't hear the theme with Ed after his discussion with Buttons in Fun and Games, and it's so fractured and distorted that it's hard to recognize at all. We hear it with the crew, Izzy and Lucius but not Ed until Mermen. And it comes back in Mermen following Pop Pop telling Ed to go back to what he is good at. This time however, what he's good at is not only being Blackbeard but channeling all the parts of himself to protect others.
- Also, as mentioned before, Izzy has a strong connection to the theme in season 1 but not nearly as much in season 2, if at all. The theme really is his in 2, arguably 3, scenes even though he is present in more than those two scenes (6/14). Now this is my interpretation, you're free to make your own, but I tend to analyze this as him losing control over Blackbeard, especially at the beginning of the season where we can see how he doesn’t know how to stop the spiral Ed is in. Izzy wanted Blackbeard and not Edward but it resulted in him having neither. And the disappearance of the theme with Izzy also symbolises that, Blackbeard doesn’t belong to him anymore. It's even more clear when we consider how Izzy was a driving force to the theme in season 1 or at least Ed and Izzy shared the theme somewhat equally -though in Izzy's favor (12 for Izzy, 9 for Ed)-, yet in season 2, 9 scenes out of 14 are all Ed compared to Izzy's 2/3.
- When the theme is heard with him again, Izzy is at his lowest point mentally. He's lost his leg and throws the unicorns ones to the feet of the crew before falling down and crawling away while the crew watches him move away with concern and pity. I personally think the theme coming back in that moment is some sort of reckoning for Izzy, and the theme is a variation of the original one too. Izzy fully faces what pushing for Blackbeard to keep existing cost him and he's having a hard time coping with it.
- The last two times we hear the theme with him after that, are: when he talks to Ricky, and the theme turns almost positive, hopeful even, maybe Izzy is allowing Blackbeard to be something positive instead of negative, paralleling Ed doing the same as he embraces all the parts of himself? Then, as a last echo, the final nail in the coffin so to speak, the theme shows up at the very beginning of Izzy's death scene. Here, the theme is higher pitched than the original version of it, and feels tight, strained and weak, almost paralleling Izzy holding onto life.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions if you even read all of that. That was a lot of rambles, sorry!
#ofmd#our flag means death#no one will care but eh#ofmd music#ofmd meta#ofmd analysis#feel free to correct me as well I might have missed A LOT of stuff#but this is at the top of my head for now#might add some stuff later on#my gifs
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Soooo I covered This Woman's Work by Kate Bush featured in Our Flag Means Death.
I worked really hard on this. Please give it a listen 🩷
#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd season 2#kate bush cover#kate bush#this woman's work#song cover#gentlebeard#blackbeard x stede#stede bonnet#ofmd music video#ofmd music#blackbeard#ed x stede#edward teach#blackbonnet#Youtube
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Okay, so an artist called Doll Normal has released a bunch of songs inspired by OFMD.
Just a little PSA for people who dig the various fanart inspired by this wonderful, obsession-inspiring show, but who, like me, were somehow missing the musical aspect of the fandom.
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i’m going insaneee right after ed says “buttons, people don’t change. not into birds or otherwise” and then the bushes start rustling. right when ed turns to look, the harpsichord part in the score plays part of the theme from gnossienne no. 5 😭😭😭
#just that subtle tie in to implicitly tell us the importance of that moment#UGH i’m chewing. on the fucking . drywall#ofmd#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd music#z.op
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OFMD Music
I'm doing it, making a spreadsheet with the goal of having every bit of music that's used in OFMD identified and logged.
This thing will be growing steadily, I've only gone through some bits of some episodes until now.
I'd love all OFMD-fans who are interested in this subject to share this, take a look at the list and maybe put additional infos in the comments here...
I'll put some of my sources in a reblog.
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I have come to the conclusion that if the last song they played at the end of ofmd s3 was ‘high on a rocky ledge’ I actually would never recover and would probably go into a coma spanning several years before I wake up and speak in a different language entirely
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STORIES TELLING: HOW RECURRING MUSIC IN OFMD CAUSES MENTAL DEVASTATION IN THE VERY BEST WAY
How the Blackbeard theme, Gnossienne No. 5, and Voi Che Sapepte reveal, reinforce and recontextualize the narrative. An in-depth analysis of key scenes throughout seasons 1 and 2.
Much gratitude to pocket friends who were so encouraging and provided valuable feedback while I worked on this.
Meta by these authors (links, below the cut) influenced this video:
@asneakyfox, @asongaboutpirates, @bakasara, @doyoueverstopandthink, @chaotic-neutral-knitter, @forpiratereasons @fresne999 @gaypiratepropaganda, @jaskierx, @medievill, @mxmollusca, @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @veeagainsttheday, @57flagsofdeath
Gnossienne No. 5
doyoueverstopandthink - i will literally never get over about how fantastic the transition from robert schumann's "träumerei" to erik satie's "gnossiennes: no. 5" is
Voi Che Sapete
asongaboutpirates - Another little detail about OFMD that makes me go feral
Transformation in OFMD
fresne999 - Half way through the journey of our analyses
mxmollusca - The transformation from object to subject, from something that has things done to it versus someone with agency.
Ed's & Izzy's Relationship
asneakyfox - you have to understand i have always felt the key thing that makes blackhands interesting...
chaotic-neutral-knitter - Izzy telling Stede "I know you think you understand him," and Stede immediately describing Ed's emotional state perfectly accurately...
gaypiratepropaganda - On Izzy saying "because of your feelings for Stede fucking Bonnet"
Ed's Arc
veeagainsttheday - Ed, Killing, and the Kraken in Our Flag Means Death S1 and S2
piratecaptainscaptainpirates - I've been thinking about how Ed starts directly killing people in s2e8
57flagsofdeath - Still thinking about this scene. Ed lights the fire place, puts a blanket on the floor to lay on, and puts the two cake toppers next to each other before rolling over and bursting into tears.
asneakyfox - i've talked a fair bit about how i don't think "anger issues" is a very useful way to describe how the show frames ed's relationship with violence
Izzy's Arc
bakasara - Trying to parse my thoughts on Izzy's death and why I had a different reaction to it than I thought I would.
forpiratereasons - all right. i'm ready to talk about izzy.
Love & Relationships in OFMD
jaskierx - posting some thoughts from the discord about how many 'irl relationship' things they're dealing with in ep7 and how much i am eating my mattress about it
medievill - ofmd does not give a fuck about reality or history or anachronism but it draws the line at magic dick.
#The effectiveness and attention to detail of the OFMD sound crew's use of recurring music to emphasize the narrative is incredible#If you love the music in OFMD you'll probably enjoy this#OFMD is an absolute treasure#gnossienne no. 5#blackbeard theme#voi che sapete#kraken theme#ofmd music#Mark Mothersbaugh#maggie phillips#OFMD sound crew#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd s1#ofmd s2#ofmd s1 s2 music comparison
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So I was eagerly awaiting the first time Gnossienne No. 5 was played this season, and I thought it wouldn't happen until Ed and Stede were actually looking at each other romantically again
So for it to start playing while Stede is seeing how Ed's heartbreak destroyed the ship they co-captained, I was really emotionally devastated by that
#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd season 2#ofmd 2#ofmd 2 spoilers#ofmd s2#ofmd music#blackbeard#stede bonnet#the revenge#And I would also like to say I loved the song they reunited to
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