Bardcore

[Bohandas]

 

[Bohandas]

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and also a version for if you're playing Call of Cthulhu instead

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

+1 for Postmodern Jukebox!

 

[Bohandas]

and along similar lines to Postmodern Jukebox is the 8-Bit Big Band


Although I think I've now strayed a bit from the topic at hand

 

[Mad_Jack]

FWIW, Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) started a band with Candace Night back in the 1990s doing madrigals, etc., including the odd cover of modern music in that style. He even did some of his own past work, but it’s not necessarily as “authentic” as the others.

Funny story:

I try to go to the Connecticut Renaissance Faire as often as possible every year.
One weekend, I discovered the music of Blackmore's Night while looking around a vendor's tent. I promptly bought all seven CDs the vendor had for sale...

The very next weekend, I went back to the Faire...

...and saw Ritchie Blackmore walking around, dressed in the same costume as in one of the pictures in the liner notes of the CDs.
His family lives in Long Island, and they show up at the Faire every once in awhile.

I also had the opportunity to see the Harp Twins play at the Faire last year.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Also, you might want to check out the music of a band called CU DUBH.... They're a bagpipe and drum band that does their own heavy metal and world music-inspired songs.

 

[Bohandas]

Also some stuff that's like reverse bardcore

 

[Orius]

You know what this thread needs?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You know what this thread needs?

More cowbell.

Unfortunately, this was the ONLY bardcore cover of DFtR that featured cowbell, and ALL were instrumental.

However, one commentator (on another version) did work out some lyrics:

Time goeth ever on
Cometh and hath gone
Seasons fear not the reaper
Nor fear the wind, the sun nor the rain (So we two shall fear not)

Come, my dearest( fear not the reaper)
Dearest, take my hand (fear not the reaper)
Shalt be able to fly (fear not the reaper)
Dearest, I'm your man

St. Valentine hath blessed
All who art at rest
Romeo and Juliet
Sleep together in eternity (Romeo and Juliet)
40,000 souls fly onward every day (Like Romeo and Juliet)
40,000 souls fly onward every day (refine thy happiness)
Another 40,000 goeth every day (So we two shall fear not)

Come, my dearest (fear not the reaper)
Dearest, take my hand (fear not the reaper)
Shalt be able to fly (fear not the reaper)
Dearest, I'm your man

Love maketh one of twain
Still they fly again
Came a night so woeful
She was fain unfit to go on
The door stood open and the wind did blow
The candles blew and the light did go
The curtains flew and he came to show (He said, fear not)
Come, my dearest, (And she did not fear)
And she ran to him (And she was able to fly)
They looked back and they said goodbye (She had become like they are)
She had taken his hand (She had become like they are)

Come, my dearest
Fear not the reaper

 

[Bohandas]

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and also a version for if you're playing Call of Cthulhu instead

Continuing this tangent, I found another swing/lounge/jazz version of Gangsta's Paradise, and this one is a deepfake of Frank Sinatra's voice