As the summer begins to stretch out and we realize the wait for Game of Thrones Season 7 might indeed be more endless than we could have possibly imagined, a malaise sets in to the hard core fans. Call it “Seasonal Affected Disorder: Winter Withdrawal.”
When these sorts of terrible depressive episodes happen to me, I know I find comfort in music. Which is why the latest spate of versions of the Game of Thrones theme, inspired by Season 6, are right on time. We’ve got three of them this morning to help you get over the hump of the week that is Wednesday, starting with a gorgeous acoustic slide cover from the band A Thing From The South.
But perhaps you aren’t into the idea of a “western” Game of Thrones. (I simply can’t imagine why you wouldn’t be. If that’s not made for riding through the endless sand dunes of Dorne, I don’t know what is.) But to each their own, Here’s something far more modern. In fact, it’s so electronic dance music that it’s actually played on the guts of electronics–floppy disks.
Are the visuals of electronic hard drives just not doing it for you? How about belly dancers?
The version of the theme song here is performed on a tabla, which is a traditional South Asian percussion instrument, and really brings out the middle eastern overtones of the melody.
If you need something more traditional, here’s a Ukrainian orchestra doing a smoother, softer “cantabile” style version. One thing to note is not all the different styles, but how global the reach is of these covers.
And finally, in the animation department, we have what the opening titles would look like….if they were redone in Lego.
Beyond the fact that this is one of the coolest ideas we’ve seen in a while, it also gives rise to the question of why there are not Game of Thrones branded Lego sets. After all, Lord of the Rings sold like hotcakes. There are Doctor Who sets, and Harry Potter sets and Star Wars sets. Without boxed Lego sets, there’s no Lego animation versions of Westeros, no Lego video games of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen as heroes, and no chance that Ned Stark might lose his little mini fig head in a hilarious cameo in the next sequel to The Lego Movie. Get on that, Danish people who run Lego! We need Nikolaj Coster Waldau minifigs, and so do you!
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/07/20/esoteria-game-of-thrones-theme-song-edition/
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