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The problem with the DS9 rewatch - the only problem, really - is that DS9 wasn't a musical fandom for me. Most of my fandoms are, you see, and then when I come back to them, I have albums or bands or playlists that I associate with that fandom that I can play. Even if I don't have songs that I feel match up with the fandom, I often have associations between music I was obsessing over at the time of the fannish obsession and the fannish obsession itself. So Matthew Good's Avalanche album is Buffy, and Farscape is Blues Traveler, and Inception is Gaslight Anthem, even though there's no real thematic link. (I was trying to figure if the Mountain Goats had an associated fandom and was about to conclude that it didn't but then I remembered that my Lovecraft renaissance was also a period of obsessively listening to Heretic Pride. John Darnielle does kinda sing like a Lovecraft protagonist.)

But DS9 never had a musical association. I mean, it had occasional onscreen music and yeah, I have Sisko singing The Best is Yet to Come on my mp3 player as we speak, but I have nothing beyond that. I remember what I was listening to at the time of my first watch-though of DS9 - mostly the Indigo Girls - but I don't feel a fannish connection between the two. I've usually got at least a few songs. Blake's 7 and Fringe are notably unmusical for me but I have at least a couple songs for both of them. It makes me a little sad, not having DS9 music.




(This post brought to you by Poe's Haunted album, which is forever associated in my brain with House of Leaves (of course), Black House, and Twin Peaks, all of which my brain insists happen in the same universe and thus have the same music.)