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Originally posted by FollowMal:


Mruniverse, I too am at a loss as to what to suggest.

Perhaps some of the rousing scores from Westerns over the years. "Tombstone", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Silverado", any John Wayne movie? Spaghetti westerns?

Unfortunately we get to see Mal having very little fun.

I have noticed that he is surrounded with Chinese stuff in his cabin... maybe oriental music?

He was raised on a ranch, maybe old cowboy standards... but that might not suit the folks who are listenin'.

My two cents... as folk say around here.



"Don't make no sense." Jayne

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Originally posted by Ursula:
Maybe some old time Western Swing, like Bob Will and the Texas Playboys, or maybe some Johnny Cash. ("Ring of Fire" perfectly describes what happened with Mal when he met Inara.) Oh, and Hoyt Axton! Especially his rendition of a Civil War song called, "I'm A Good Ol' Rebel". And "Yellow Rose of Texas". And "Don't Fence Me In"!!!! (Yup, I loves me Hoyt!)


Tell me this ain't Mal to a tee:

Oh, I'm a good ol' Rebel, Now thats just what I am.
And for this Yankee Nation, I do not give a damn.
I'm glad I fought again' 'er, I only wish we'd won.
I aint asked any pardon for anything I've done.
I hates the Yankee Nation and everything they do.
I hates the the declaration of independence too.
I hates the glorious Union, tis drippin' with our blood.
I hates the stripped banner, I'v had it all I could.
I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years thereabout.
Got wounded in four places and I starved at point lookout.
I caughts the Ruematism a'campin in the snow.
But I killed a chance of Yankees and I'd like to kill some mo'.
Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in southern dust.
We got three hundred thousand before they conqured us.
They die of southern fever and southern steel and shot.
I wish they were three million, instead of what they got.
I cant take up my musket, and fire it now no more.
But I aint gonna love 'em, now that is certain sure.
And I dont want no pardon, for what I was and am.
I wont be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.
Oh, I'm a good ol' Rebel, Now thats just what I am.
And for this Yankee Nation, I do not give a damn.
I'm glad I fought again' 'er, I only wish we'd won.
I aint asked any pardon for anything I've done.
I aint asked any pardon for anything I've done.....

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Originally posted by misterUniverse:
What exactly did he do for fun?

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Originally posted by JubelLate:
Mal's surrounded by violence and a tormented inward soul. It seems he would want to escape that. At the risk of sounding rediculous, I think he'd be an ambiance guy, slow soothing music with perhaps one or two instruments so he could find a way to sleep at night.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Any of ya'll familiar with Steve Earle? His music is something I think Mal (or at least Nathan) would enjoy. He's a cross between country, folk, blues, and rockabilly.

I was listening to several of his cds today. Guitar Town, Copperhead Road, Train a'Comin', and El Corazón. I have another one, I Feel Alright, but it was in my work truck. I got a very eery feeling listening to one of the tracks on Train a'Comin' called "Northern Winds." It is acoustic guitar only, and it is remarkably similar in tone and melody to David Newman's arrangement of "The Ballad of Serenity."

Other performers that would fit into the 'verse nicely include The Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Poco and Pure Prairie League. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man" could be a song Mal's mother wrote for him, and someone should try to do a filk rewording of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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