Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 09:23:40



"What every filker _should_ filk" and "What every filker _does_ filk"
are two different things, and it can even be argued that the former
should exclude the latter in order to encourage variety...

Seriously: The only "should" I can think of is that you probably want
a wide enough variety of songs to allow you to fairly reliably participate
no matter which corner of filk the group decides to wander into, plus
a few for changing moods when you want to introduce a paradigm shift.
You don't need a Tolkein song to follow a Tolkein song, after all -- you
can follow general themes of fantasy/culture/quest, or follow mood,
or reply by inverting one of these axes, or...

Oh, one other "should": It's a good idea to learn at least some of the
classics, simply because it's so much fun to participate in (or lead!)
a whole-room sing now and then. 

Beyond that, what you sing and what you write is a matter of what you
like and how strange your own personal muse tends to be.


If you want additions to the what-everyone-_does_-filk list, that could
go on for a while... a sea-chanty spinoff, an addition to the Moggy Cycle,
something based on a Stan Rogers tune, something about your job and/or
computers, something about relationships and/or sex ...

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