# Fairytale(ish) Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304 "2012-04-29T06:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/1 "2012-04-29T06:17:42Z")
I like these songs: The Pierces “[You’ll Be Mine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kFhx27OMdE)” Sea Wolf “[O Maria](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU7e9THLcsY)” Cursive “[Driftwood: a Fairytale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFfWar2rU2U)” They all evoke fairytale imagery. What other songs do? Meant for adults, that is, not off of Disney movie soundtracks. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/2 "2012-04-29T06:23:36Z")
[One Tin Soldier - The Legend of Billy Jack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-JoW_8qw0&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/3 "2012-04-29T06:26:29Z")
[Mother Goose](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpO_oVtXCa4) and [The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjWq9yedo0s) by Jethro Tull. ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/4 "2012-04-29T06:38:47Z")
[Green Jello "Little Pig, Little Pig" ‌‌ - Bohemia Afterdark - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYwNWHZuT0) \m/ ---
**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/5 "2012-04-29T06:46:01Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hctZHMzT9O4/hqdefault.jpg "Wonderboy--Tenacious D") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hctZHMzT9O4) ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/6 "2012-04-29T11:00:18Z")
Gingerbread man - Kickapoo Creek [Christabel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH52dFF42SA) - Robert Earl Keen ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/7 "2012-04-29T12:54:39Z")
[This song right here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5UIiOr2-w) will take you far, far away. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/8 "2012-04-29T13:57:36Z")
“Like Their Feet Had Wings” by Three Weird Sisters And, of course, the score of Stephen Sondheim’s _Into the Woods_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/9 "2012-04-29T14:29:04Z")
“Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/10 "2012-04-29T15:02:50Z")
[Rush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_%28band%29) - [Madrigal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPVUNOR76Y), [By-Tor and the Snow Dogs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UU62UcP_BA), [Rivendell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZce6-rQNyA), [The Fountains of Lamneth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mC7j-fxqfs), [The Necromancer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NHB684BBRc), ah, hell - just borrow all their albums and rummage around… [Alan Parsons Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alan_Parsons_Project) has an album of Poe Tales of Mystery and Imagination, [Dream Within a Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZyNKrYo9I4) is very good. He was involved in the soundtrack for LadyHawke. [Rick Wakeman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wakeman) of Yes had a few independent albums, I think Myths and Legends of King Arthur would work for you. I think all of the music is on youtube. [Renaissance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_%28band%29), [Rainbow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_band) and a few other bands have stuff along these lines as well, even Led Zeppelin does, and [Tyr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr_%28band%29) is heavy metal with a ragnarok bent. Many bands in 1968- about 1974ish frequently did unusual things with music, and there was a fashion for fantasy perhaps because of the popularity of Tolkein and the renaissance of F&SF type pulp magazines. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/11 "2012-04-29T15:22:30Z")
For the ultimate in Tolkien-trippin’ epic metal escapism, look no further than Austria’s Summoning. [This song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHESjItTd-Q), or else [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYOdfOgmQI&feature=related). Middle Earth, man - _can you see it appearing before your very eyes or what?_ For more or less the same but with cleaner, less harsh-sounding vocals, and, uh, with vikings instead of hobbits, [this song right here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpc-831GPs) is what you want. Viking metal-era Bathory, with an acoustic intro, clean-ish vocals and all the rest of it. (Don’t watch the video though, it’s too ridiculous for words.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/12 "2012-04-29T16:43:57Z")
“[Are You Sitting Comfortably](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LH72BTAYME)” by the Moody Blues might qualify, though it’s more Arthurian than Fairytale-ish. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/13 "2012-04-29T16:58:29Z")
“[A Trick Of The Tail](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPl11lh1wBk)” by Genesis. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/14 "2012-04-29T17:58:46Z")
That Pierces song always reminds me of vintage [Fleetwood Mac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3w5fttedA). Although for real fairy Tale music, you want[Faun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmU0cbkjeQ&feature=related) (although Egilsaga specifically is pagan, not fairy) There’s always [Mediaeval Baebes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlR2v7CkUOo&feature=related). (Or [Corvus Corax](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIXV2NhLb_0) if you want to be …Unseelie) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/15 "2012-04-29T18:11:23Z")
Renaissance’s gorgeous [Ocean Gypsy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGhUVX3-A18), or the weirdly wonderful [Witches Hat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Z00tEMEIo), by the Incredible String Band. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/16 "2012-04-29T19:41:00Z")
Harry Chapin comes pretty close in TAXI. _“It was somewhere in a fairy tale,”_ he says, explaining that _“I’ve got something inside me to drive a princess blind; there’s a wild-man wizard, he’s hiding in me,”_ in between chatting up his latest passenger with a slightly archaic and stilted manner – _“Where you going to, my lady blue? It’s a shame you’ve ruined your gown in the rain”_ – and wrapping the whole thing up by concluding (in best fable-narrator style) that _“it’s strange, how you never know – but we’d both gotten what we’d asked for, such a long, long time ago.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/17 "2012-04-29T20:11:39Z")
Storybook Love with Willy Deville, from The Princess Bride. Emotion in Motion by Ric Ocasek (especially the video.) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/18 "2012-04-29T20:57:13Z")
Here’s a [beautiful song](http://youtu.be/e4MGlG-M4fQ) inspired by Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. (the monster will not hurt you) Here’s Noe Venable’s [“Midsummer Night’s Dream”](http://youtu.be/KWamyYoevic) Here’s another Tolkien song: Sally Oldfield - [Nenya (Songs of the Quendi)](http://youtu.be/y3eSCquYRNA) Pretty much Sally’s entire discography, especially the album Water Bearer sounds fairy-taleish. Yes, she is Mike Oldfield’s sister. [Water Bearer](http://youtu.be/1EdwtTcWycY) [Mirrors](http://youtu.be/1X-JMJmCE6E) [Night of the Hunter’s Moon](http://youtu.be/3RqteF_H5lI) Personal trivia: I discovered Kate Bush, Sally Oldfield and Lene Lovich on the same day. Changed my whole life. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/19 "2012-04-29T21:08:18Z")
_Magician’s Hat_ - Bo Hansson ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304/20 "2012-04-29T21:57:05Z")
[My Fairy King - Queen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYUqsfl7gE) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairytale-ish-songs/620304.md?page=2)