Gilmore Girls - Troubadour Appreciation #2 - Because we would never leave him twisting

lukelover87 · 08-10-2006, 10:16 PM

Because he needs a thread.

Welcome to the Stars Hollow Town Troubadour Appreciation Thread

Banner made by: Lena (Lenschn)

Thread title by: La Rose Bleue and lukelover87

Definition of a Troubadour:
trou·ba·dour (n.) (1.) One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in Southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love. (2.) A strolling minstrel.

Connecticut State Troubadour

Stars Hollow Troubadour Bio:

Only one town Troubadour exists and he is played by Grant Lee Phillips.
He plays guitar and harmonica and sings on all the street corners of Stars Hollow.
He's been Troubadour of Stars Hollow for 6 years.
We know very little about him because: "You're not supposed to talk...You're supposed to speak through your music. That's the whole point." It's all about the mystique.
Troubadour is cast as Judas in the "Last Supper" painting in The Festival of Living Art.

Quotes about Troubadour:
"In the interest of not talking about this subject for another second, I hereby designate 'Mystique Guy' over here the official town troubadour. And no other troubadour may usurp his territory, meaning this other guy." ~ Taylor, Love, Daisies and Troubadours

"Because sometimes you have something you need to say but you can't because the words won't come out or you get scared or you feel stupid, so if you could write a song and sing it then you could say what you need to say and it would be beautiful and people would listen and you wouldn't make a complete idiot out of yourself, but all of us can't be songwriters so some of us will never be able to say what we're thinking or what we want other people to know that we're thinking so we'll never get the chance to make things right again ever. (Brief pause. She puts her hand on Troubadour 1's shoulder.) So give this guy a license." ~ Rory, Love, Daisies and Troubadours

TAYLOR: Wait a second, wait a second! You there, when Lady Godiva here wanted to be town troubadour over you, I stood by your side. Why aren’t you backing me now?
TROUBADOUR: ‘Cause you left me twistin’ for a long time before you did, Taylor, and it didn’t feel good. I even wrote a song about the experience.
LORELAI: Oh, I heard it. It’s called "Taylor Left Me Twistin’."
RORY: Oh yeah, it’s really good.
TROUBADOUR: You think? Because I’m having a little trouble with the chorus. Taylor left me twistin’, he set my eyes a mistin’. I’m just not sure if it has that thing, though, you know?
LORELAI: Oh, no, I love that part. I actually thought that maybe at the end you could do more about the sweater. We’ll talk.
~Troubadour and Lorelai, Dead Uncles and Vegetables

Grant the Troubadour Discography
Songs he has sung on the show
Truly Truly - 1.05 - "Cinnamon's Wake"
Sunday Best - 1.14 - "That Damn Donna Reed"
Beautiful Dreamers - 1.14 - "That Damn Donna Reed"
Heavenly - 1.16 - "Star Crossed Lovers & Other Strangers"
Mockingbirds - 1.16 - "Star Crossed Lovers & Other Strangers" & 3.21 - "Here Comes The Son"
It's the Life - 1.18 - "The Third Lorelai"
Honey Don't Think - 1.21 - "Love, Daises, and Troubadours"
Sadness Soot - 1.21 - "Love, Daises, and Troubadours"
Everybody Needs a Little Sanctuary - 1.21 - "Love, Daises, and Troubadours"
Spring Released - 2.02 - "Hammers & Veils"
Jubilee - 2.06 - "Presenting Lorelai Gilmore"
Nothin' is For Sure - 2.08 - "The Ins & Outs of Inns"
Be True To Your School - 2.11 - "Secrets & Loans"
Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go) - 2.17 - "Dead Uncles & Vegetables"
Smile - 3.03 - "Application Anxiety"
Peace Train - 3.22 - "Those are Strings, Pinocchio"
Mona Lisa - 4.13 - "Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found The Gnostic Gospels"
Lily A Passion - 4.22 - "Raincoats & Recipes" & 5.03 - "Written in the Stars"
Mama Tried - 5.22 - "A House is Not A Home"
Pre-owned Heart - 6.01 - "New & Improved Lorelai"
40 Years - 6.20 - "Super Cool Party People"
Me And Julio Down By The School Yard - 6.21 - "Driving Miss Gilmore"

Grant-Lee Phillips Discography
Grant-Lee Phillips:
Virginia Creeper
Mobilize
Ladies Love Oracle
Grant-Lee Buffalo:
Storm Hymnal
Jubilee
Copperopolis
Mighty Joe Moon
Fuzzy

credit: GrantLeePhillips & CrazyInternetPeople
*Lists compiled by SoSaysI81

TOP TEN TROUBADOUR MOMENTS
Counting down from ten, voted by the Troubadour Groupies

Honorable Mention: "Peace Train" - Those Are Strings, Pinocchio, Season 3.

#10. Troubie singing "Heavenly" - Star Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers, Season 1.
#9. "Be True to Your School" - Secrets and Loans, Season 2.
#8. "Taylor left me twistin', he set my eyes a-mistin'..." - Dead Uncles and Vegetables, Season 2.
#7. Troubie singing "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Dead Uncles and Vegetables, Season 2.
#6. "Pre-owned Heart" - New & Improved Lorelai, Season 6.
#5. "You're supposed to speak through your music!" - Love, Daisies and Troubadours, Season 1.
#4. "Mama Tried" - A House is Not a Home, Season 5.
#3. Letting the other troubadour jam with him after he becomes the official Stars Hollow troubadour, because "Everybody Needs A Little Sanctuary" - Love, Daisies and Troubadours, Season 1.
#2. "Lily-a-Passion" - Raincoats and Recipes, Season 4 and Written in the Stars, Season 5

and for the TOP TROUBADOUR MOMENT, as voted by you all...

*drumroll*
#1. Troubie at the Firelight Festival, singing "Mona Lisa" - Nag Hammadi Is Where they Found the Gnostic Gospels, Season 4.

Caps of Troubadour:
Credit: opposites-are-polar.net
One of the first times we meet Troubadour:

Rory sticks up for Troubadour:

Troubadour as Judas:

Reasons Why We Love Troubadour:

1. Because he doesn't own a Kinko's!
2. Because he hates Taylor like the rest of us!
3. Because he kicked Kirk's ass!
4. Because he has got a gig opening for Neil Young.
5. Because he's the REAL town troubadour
6. Because even Taylor missed him slightly
7. Because we still love him, even if he got booed
8. Because he brightens up every episode he's in
9. Because we're glad he came back!
10. Because even Daniel Palladino wants to be a Troubadour!
11. Because he's a nice guy willing to share the spotlight sometimes
12. Because he's a great singer!
13. Because Stars Hollow without Troubador wouldn't be Stars Hollow!
14. Because his songs get stuck in our head (but in a good way)
15. Because we love the brown corduroy
16. Because he has 'mystic'

Troubadour Groupies:
1. iheartbsb
2. SoSaysI81
3. LG rocks my socks
4. orangesherbet7
5. Folie
6. MineyMouse14
7. Lenschn
8. GGAva
9. LisaBloem
10. oywidapoodles
11. MickeyJr3000
12. lukelover87
13. Zutfan05
14. JJ4EVER
15. -Genevieve-
16. La Rose Bleue
17. efka
18. doodlearound
19. Javalava86
20. little miss greg sanders.
21. twinkiecat28
22. AisicsRule
23. xmonalpx

TROUBADOUR!

Previous Thread

If you have something you want added to the list or the post, let me know.

SoSaysI81 · 08-10-2006, 10:30 PM

YAY! New thread! Thanks Carolyn!

**blue sky blues** · 08-10-2006, 10:33 PM

New thread! Thanks!

lukelover87 · 08-10-2006, 10:41 PM

So I put me and Rose down for the title 'cause I accidentally messed it up a little but the idea is there. Sorry.

I added the Top Troubador moments to the opening post, if we wanna only have 10 let me know so we can vote.

La Rose Bleue · 08-11-2006, 03:19 AM

Hey! Whoo for the new thread! (LOL, it's times like this when it sucks to have a real life so I miss thread openings... *tear*...) Thanks, Carolyn!!!

The moments are great great great in the first post - I think we were thinking of having like a moment "survivor" so we can put them into order. There are eleven on the list, I believe. We could put them into order? It'd give us something to post about... shall I set it up? Or shall we just leave it as it is?

Rose

NineBlackAlps · 08-11-2006, 03:34 AM

Hey everyone

I've posted this in the GG Music thread, but I should have posted it here :

Has Grant-Lee Phillips ever recorded a studio version of his cover of "Me And Julio Down By The School Yard" or did he only sing it in the episode ?

**blue sky blues** · 08-11-2006, 07:04 AM

Hey Troubadour fans!

lukelover87 · 08-11-2006, 09:59 AM

A survivor sounds good Rose. We can figure out what order to put them in.

**blue sky blues** · 08-11-2006, 10:08 AM

A survivor does sound good. Bring it on.

Zutfan05 · 08-11-2006, 11:22 AM

thanks for the new thread, Carolyn

**blue sky blues** · 08-11-2006, 01:42 PM

*dances to the Troubadours music*

JJ4EVER · 08-11-2006, 03:25 PM

thanks for the new thread!

twinkiecat28 · 08-11-2006, 03:44 PM

Could I be added to the list?

I love the Troubadour and how he often ties things together in the show.

**blue sky blues** · 08-11-2006, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twinkiecat28

Could I be added to the list?

I love the Troubadour and how he often ties things together in the show.

Welcome to the thread!

lukelover87 · 08-11-2006, 05:03 PM

Adding you now twinkiecat28! Welcome.