The Good, the Bad, and the Nights Watch

September 29, 2014 9:41 AM

The theme from GoT covered as a western, à la Ennio Morricone.
posted by pjern (30 comments total)

1. I WANT TO WATCH THIS SHOW.
2. alternately, I want to rewatch Deadwood, replacing the opening theme music with this.

George Hearst is Tywin Lannister.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 9:45 AM on September 29, 2014 [3 favorites]

That was perfect!

I'll have to substitute this for the original next time I watch GoT.
posted by AxelT at 9:47 AM on September 29, 2014

Winter's a-comin.
posted by Spatch at 9:49 AM on September 29, 2014 [14 favorites]

That was perfect!

Nearly perfect -there should've been a snippet of Hammond organ and Vibraphone.
posted by Smart Dalek at 9:51 AM on September 29, 2014

Needs: a real hat, some galloping horses (slow-mo or real time), and touch of accelerando. Perhaps the Internet will rise up and provide these.
posted by amtho at 9:51 AM on September 29, 2014

Wow that is great. Now do Rains of Castamere as a cowboy ballad.

The same guy has a mariachi cover of the Battlefield theme, from the computer game. It's not quite as iconically recognizable for most folks but it's fun.
posted by Nelson at 9:52 AM on September 29, 2014

Hodor, I reckon.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:52 AM on September 29, 2014 [3 favorites]

Rickon?
posted by leotrotsky at 9:53 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

Wow. That opening bass line works so amazingly well as a lonely whistle.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:53 AM on September 29, 2014

That was perfect!

Nearly perfect -there should've been a snippet of Hammond organ and Vibraphone.

and mark it down a further 15 points for the lack of strategic whip cracks.
posted by philip-random at 9:54 AM on September 29, 2014 [4 favorites]

‘Game Of Thrones’ Opening Reimagined As An Old Man Eating Soup
posted by boo_radley at 9:54 AM on September 29, 2014 [4 favorites]

see also: GoT theme 80s version
posted by poffin boffin at 9:55 AM on September 29, 2014 [5 favorites]

A sprawling epic about competing ranching families (each with their own house brands on cattle) with wendigo armies awakening in the northern frozen wastes, an approaching apocalyptic cold snap that threatens the crops and herds of every rancher alike, epic gun battles and shoot-outs, native tribes fighting with the cavalry on the northern border as an ancient evil closes in on them both, intrigue and backstabbing in the large port and rail trade cities (styled liked turn of the century Chicago and San Fran)...

Oh man, my imagination is firing with all of the possibilities, but I also realize that it's essentially the good parts of Stephen King's Gunslinger universe without the bad.
posted by codacorolla at 9:59 AM on September 29, 2014 [5 favorites]

Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george. Finish the books george.
posted by lalochezia at 9:59 AM on September 29, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Think you used enough wildfire there, Tyrion?"
posted by leotrotsky at 10:00 AM on September 29, 2014 [1 favorite]

Ahem.

Reckon you used enough wahldfahr?
posted by entropone at 10:03 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

I think this one has been posted here before, but this jazzy version is exceedingly good.
posted by fancyoats at 10:09 AM on September 29, 2014 [4 favorites]

Keep them dragons roarin'
Rawhide!
posted by a lungful of dragon at 10:14 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

Wow that is great. Now do Rains of Castamere as a cowboy ballad.

If it's Morricone's style we're going for, I hear that theme more as a quiet harmonica that gets joined by one instrument at a time until the whole orchestra is blaring as loud as possible. An Ecstasy of Gold kind of number.
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 10:20 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

Wow that is great. Now do Rains of Castamere as a cowboy ballad.

Close enough?
posted by Twain Device at 10:22 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

"Them Lannisters were never right. That Tywin, well he was a mean old cuss- never had a kind word for nobody, and would step over a body for a flake of the color. 'Course, there was always plenty of bodies for him to step over. Folks say it was him who burned down the old Castamere place, then wrote a song about it. Jaime and Cersei weren't much better, neither- those were two apples that didn't fall far from the tree, and the way you'd hear tell, they was more than just brother and sister. You'd never want to let them get wind of it though, not if you valued your tongue. Cersei was the worse of the two- meaner than a rattlesnake with a hangover on a good day, and that's before she took to drink. 'Bout the only half-decent one in the family was Tyrion, and that's not sayin' much, considering how much he liked the whiskey and whores. Of course, the rest of them treated him worse than a rented mule, on account of him bein' a dwarf. They say he gut-shot his old man while he was sittin' on the privy."
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 10:27 AM on September 29, 2014 [13 favorites]

I'm also a fan of this Western (well, indie-celtic really) cover of Wrecking Ball by the inimitable Gregory Brothers.
posted by Popular Ethics at 10:27 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

I have no interest in GoT, but I have heard the theme, and this is pretty great, although to be perfect a trumpet would have had to take over the melody about 3/4 of the way through.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 11:19 AM on September 29, 2014

Actually, like the second time through, and then after the bridge the trumpet and guitar both play it, with some wordless, tuneful vocalization backing them up.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 11:22 AM on September 29, 2014 [1 favorite]

Now do "Far From Any Road" with a bard playing a lute.
posted by Apocryphon at 11:23 AM on September 29, 2014

We got both kinds of music, Country and Westeros.
posted by Devonian at 11:31 AM on September 29, 2014 [14 favorites]

native tribes fighting with the cavalry on the northern border as an ancient evil closes in on them both

I think it's more that the long-lost daughter of the family that used to own the whole county is uniting the native tribes in the area, and there's been a lot of crazy talk about thunderbirds lately...
posted by Rock Steady at 11:32 AM on September 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

This Song of Ice and Campfire idea, much of it makes sense, but how would they handle the rise of Tommen and Ser Pounce?
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:37 AM on September 29, 2014

GoT covers are so fun for some reason. Saul Bass style!
posted by misozaki at 3:16 PM on September 29, 2014

Rains of Castamere, western-style
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:07 PM on September 30, 2014