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Posted by: FanGirl Apr 24 2006, 05:35 AM

Does anyone have any songs to recommend that really fit the tone of SR? Of course, anything that's sorta techno-ey and/or angsty would work, but you always want good quality music whenever you can help it. Here's my personal list of must-haves for a runner's mix; I give you the right to make fun of my personal taste.

• "Woke Up This Morning," A3
  You may recognize this as the theme song from The Sopranos. IMO, it speaks to the frustrations simmering inside John Q. Runner and the actions he takes because of those frustrations. Or something like that. Anyway, I recommend that you put this one first on your list.
• "Main Title (from The Matrix)," Don Davis
  I can hear you now: "Oh yeah, FanGirl, really clever allusion there. Linking the movie The Matrix to the SR Matrix is just such genius, you know. I couldn't possibly have made that connection on my own. " But I'm putting it on the list anyway, and not merely because of the allusion factor. I feel that this particular theme does a good job of capturing the expansive and breathtaking world that is the SR Matrix, in both its wonders and its dangers.
• "Little Drop Of Poison," Tom Waits
  Tom Waits is frickin' awesome. That is all.
• "Mack The Knife," Louis Armstrong and/or Bobby Darrin
  After all that angst and grit, you need a nice, fun song to round off your playlist. You need to sit back and enjoy a light-hearted take on the kind of criminal acts you yourself commit in order to survive in this crazy world. You need "Mack The Knife."

Posted by: hyzmarca Apr 24 2006, 05:44 AM

You can never go wrong with hair metal and glam rock.

Posted by: stevebugge Apr 24 2006, 03:26 PM

I'm gonna throw aplug for old Gangsta Rap too, actually if it weren't for the occasional ganger mission some of the old NWA cd's I got in 7th & 8th grade would have long ago been carted off to the used CD store.

Posted by: John Campbell Apr 24 2006, 03:56 PM

#ifndef SRMUSIC_HTML
#define SRMUSIC_HTML
#include <http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/rpgs/shadowrun/srmusic.html>
#endif

Posted by: hyzmarca Apr 24 2006, 04:02 PM

How about BOC's Godzilla slightly rewritten to conform to the exploits of Ghostwalker.

Posted by: creatorlars Apr 24 2006, 04:56 PM

Throbbing Gristle
Einsteurzende Neubauten
Clock DVA

These are all bands that directly inspired/were inspired by the cyberpunk movement and the idea of electronically generated music affecting the mind.

Posted by: Fix-it Apr 24 2006, 04:59 PM

Pink.
Floyd.

End Of Thread.

Posted by: John Campbell Apr 24 2006, 05:38 PM

I... don't really see how that's a thread-ender. I mean, I like Floyd as much as anyone - they're second in number of tracks on my general playlist - but they're not really particularly Shadowrun.

Posted by: stevebugge Apr 24 2006, 05:59 PM

Pink Floyd has a few tracks that thematically link to Shadowrun, but I think they don't really fit the style bill for the setting.

One thing I really liked was the jab SR took at pop music with the Matrix pop song on demand generating servers, just set your preferences and it creates a song based on formulas just for you. Sounds a lot like today's pop music, only without any people involved.

Posted by: emo samurai Apr 24 2006, 06:21 PM

Information High from Macross Plus.
Vera Blue by Chemlab.
Stuff by Frontline Assembly. That's stuff in general, not a song.

Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Apr 24 2006, 06:32 PM

Let's see...

Whenever I think of Shadowrun, I find it always particularly apprpriate to play Rob Zombie's Reload, from, you guessed it, The Matrix Reloaded.

But that may also be because I tend to concentrate on deckers and wire-fu gun-bunnies.

Other good songs from the various Matrix movies:

Matrix 1:
Clubbed to Death (You can't go wrong with this for a meeting with Mr. J.)
Deftones - My Own Summer (Nice general sprawl-in-summer music)
Look to your Owb for the Warning - unbeatable any time your runners find themselves by the old railroad tracks
Spybreak: When people start running up the walls and dodging bullets, you just have to pully out the lobby shoot-out music.
Dragula: Best if played during high-speed chases.
Rock is Dead - nice clubbin' music.

The Matrix Reloaded:
Prodigy & Tom Morello - One Man Army. Good for any time the players are facing large numbers of very homogenous enemies (like a Lone Star SWAT team rapelling down the sides of buildings, or corporate HTR team)

Rage Against the Machine - Calm Like a Bomb. Gotta love some hard rock that starts out as jazz. Good for any sort of techno-heavy scene with a gun-battle or a Matrix fight.
Marilyn Manson - This is the New Shit. Great for clubbin', great for wire-fu fistfights.
Juno Reactor and Don Davis - Mona Lisa Overdrive. Very long, moody theatrical piece. The mood, of course, is "Driving on a freeway with people chasing you".
POD - Sleeping Awake. Nice tune for melee fights, but there's better.
Rob Zombie - Reload. I just can't iterate it enough, this is the song to use while the players are in full VR.
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels. Another moody instrimental piece. More introspective here, this is a good song for betrayals.

The Matrix Revoloutions
Don Davis - Navras or Neodammerung. These are perfect for climactic "boss battles", or when the players wind up tangoing with K-E Firewatch. If you put this on, the players should be crapping their pants like it was CreepwoodRun.
Don Davis - Main Title. This is of course, the awesome, as Fangirl said above.
Why, Mr. Anderson? Nice song to set the players on-edge, good for narrative sequences where the players are watching things crumble, but they haven't been slagged yet.

I'll let others add their other songs, rather than giving you the highlights of me gigabytes of pirates mp3s. Suffice to say I prefer my Shadowrun with a healthy flavoring of The Matrix, but that's by far not all of it.

Posted by: Platinum Apr 24 2006, 06:50 PM

Music thread http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=10857&hl=, http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=9962&hl=, http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=9673&hl=, http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=8399&hl=, http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=3601&hl=, http://invision.dumpshock.com/index.php?sh...c=1761&hl=music

What worked for me
Sisters of mercy
Frontline assembly
Delerium
Megadeth

Posted by: FanGirl Apr 24 2006, 07:58 PM

Aw man, I love "Spybreak!" I've known the music for a long time, but I didn't know the title until just now. I just bought the song on iTunes, along with "Mona Lisa Overdrive" and "Navras." I would have bought more songs, but the cash on my giftcard ran out. Thanks, ShadowDragon!

Posted by: Thanee Apr 24 2006, 08:24 PM

Weird Al Yankovic - Trigger Happy

You better ask yourself, do you feel lucky, punk?

(Ok, probably more DH than SR. )

Bye
Thanee

Posted by: Nightshade- Apr 24 2006, 08:30 PM

Korn
Die Krupps (Little known but great techno-metal group out of Germany but they are all from the U.S. and the lyrics are in english. Check some place like Amazon.com to find them. Should be cheap. "Ring of Steel" is a good albumn.)
Suicidal Tendencies
Metal Church
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
Ministry
Anthrax
Pantera
Maralyn Manson

Other bands that I don't like but would be good for background.
Slayer
Seplatura
Cradle of Filth
Neuclear Assault
Misfits
Ramones
Danzig
Exodus
Static X
Godsmack
Disturbed

Posted by: Trax Apr 24 2006, 08:50 PM

O Fortuna
Mars, Bringer of War
Name of the Game
Heavy Metal
Drowning Pool- Bodies
Wlecome to the Jungle
Hell March
Hell March II
Highway to Hell
Kill Bill theme
Immigrant Song
Mission Impossible theme
March of Cambreadth
Duke Nuken theme
Kinslayer
Pistolero
Spybreak
Operation Mindcrime
Operation Mindcrime: The Mission
Rage Against the Machine Imperial March remix
Superbeast
Paint It Black
Smooth Criminal
Born to be wild
Magic Carpet Ride
Devil Man
More Human Than Human
Another One Bites The Dust
Blaze of Glory
Wanted Dead or Alive

Posted by: Dale Apr 24 2006, 09:43 PM

I like the retro techno song Running Through the Tunnels from the Shadowrun soundtrack.

Posted by: emo samurai Apr 24 2006, 09:46 PM

There was a Shadowrun soundtrack? If it's legal, can someone post it, please?

Posted by: Trax Apr 24 2006, 10:10 PM

Officially Licensed
Title: The Shadowrun Concept Album
Artist: N/A
Release Date: N/A
Description: This little-known album was released exclusively in Germany and is full of Shadowrun gaming goodness. It contains 9 musical track that are divided up between 3 different concept sections -- "The Streets", "The Matrix", and "The Battle -- and the music is meant to express the feel of those particular concepts.
Index:
The Streets
Track 01 - "Dream of Electric Sheep"
Track 02 - "Cool Cruise"
Track 03 - "Seattle Override"
The Matrix
Track 04 - "Nods n Nerds"
Track 05 - "Silent Run"
Track 06 - "Interfaith"
The Battle
Track 07 - "Predator"
Track 08 - "Barrens (After Dark)"
Track 09 - "Lone Star Rising"
Download: N/A

Title: The Shadowrun Soundtrack
Artist: Alex Cremers
Release Date: N/A
Description: Found mostly at conventions, this is the "official" soundtrack of the Shadowrun world.
Index:
Track 01 - "Voices from the Past"
Track 02 - "Cityscape 2056"
Track 03 - "Native American Cruiser"
Track 04 - "The Otaku"
Track 05 - "An Eye for an Eye"
Track 06 - "Shadowrun"
Track 07 - "Corporate Anxiety"
Track 08 - "Foreshadows"
Track 09 - "Comes the Dawn"
Track 10 - "Physical Security"
Track 11 - "Into the Labyrinth"
Track 12 - "The Arena Conflict"
Track 13 - "Epilogue"
Download: N/A



Inspired by Shadowrun
Title: SRI - Black IC
SRI - Coming Home
SRI - Dante's Inferno
SRI - Path of the Bard
SRI - Tripping the Deck
SRI - Urban Shaman
Artist: Harmony Steel
Description: Once known as "Alarin", Harmony Steel has created several Shadowrun Inspired (SRI) works over the years. An avid roleplayer, musician, and artist, we have chronicled all of her available Shadowrun works for you here. To download an item, simple click on the name of the song. All files are in .mp3 format.
Website: www.harmonysteel.com

Posted by: emo samurai Apr 24 2006, 10:16 PM

Where can I buy the second CD?

Posted by: Trax Apr 24 2006, 10:26 PM

No idea

Posted by: Kagetenshi Apr 24 2006, 11:44 PM

I still need to find and upload the rest (as well as providing a proper credit/cover page), but Ms. Steel has graciously given me permission to redistribute her Shadowrun-inspired works. You'll find them http://www.sotsw.net/music/.

~J

Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Apr 25 2006, 01:40 AM

I was about to flip out because Harmonysteel was down for maintenance.


Kagentenshi, you are teh rock and win.

I'll just check the file sharing channels to see if the others are available. Arrrgh.

Posted by: Shanshu Freeman Apr 25 2006, 01:46 AM

for a horror run (not Horror) I used Tricky - Excess

Posted by: hyzmarca Apr 25 2006, 04:32 AM

There are some parts of Shadowrun that could benefit from some hardcore prohibition-era jazz.

Minnie The Moocher as the theme for a powerful Seductress Shaman, for example.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Apr 25 2006, 05:02 AM

The rest of the SRI works are up at the link above (ok, for you sticklers out there they're actually transferring now, but if you click on the link any time after five minutes from now it should all be there), as well as some of her other works.

~J

Posted by: Platinum May 4 2006, 03:34 PM

Sorry to dig up an old link, but I thought it would be better than creating a new one and sparking up a whole bunch of discussion we have hashed through many times. I just found this and I have been downloading the archives, and find them great for shadowrun atmosphere.

http://www.plastiksickness.com/

Posted by: Trax May 5 2006, 12:33 AM

Posted by: FanGirl May 5 2006, 02:05 AM

I like "Zoot Suit Riot" too, but implying that it's an example of "hardcore prohibition-era jazz" is like implying that Britney Spears is one of the great and innovative female musicians of our time.

Posted by: Kremlin KOA May 5 2006, 08:51 AM

You mean she Isn't?

What's next? Telling me the tooth fairy isn't real?

Posted by: MYST1C May 5 2006, 09:12 AM

Such a long thread about SR/cyberpunk music with so many bands mentioned - and the name Fear Factory hasn't appeared yet?!

(BTW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Krupps, meaning "The Krupps" in English, were originally founded in Germany as an industrial band in the early 80s. In the 90s they started to include more and more guitars in their style becoming Europe's prime Industrial Metal band. They disbanded in the late 90s as they thought to have reached a "stylistic dead end". The band was revived recently and now uses a more electronic, less metal, style again. My favorite Krupps song is "Fatherland" from the 1993 album "II - The Final Option").

Posted by: Smilin_Jack May 5 2006, 09:32 AM

For some reason when SR and Music are brought up I think of the following bands:

General
Hewy Lewis & The News
Corey Hart
Orbital
Cyndi Lauper
Cruxshadows

Goblin Rock
Napalm Death

Posted by: Tattered~Seraphim May 5 2006, 11:04 AM

My thursday group has an mp3 album we have playing in the background every session that has, amongst other thngs, the Queen of the Damned and Grosse Point Blank osts, Metallica. It's usually all music along that style.

Posted by: Grinder May 5 2006, 11:59 AM

We play mostly Hardcore and Death Metal during our sessions. But Bands like Neurosis, Cult Of Luna etc. are also pretty good and make a decent atmosphere.

Posted by: Dog May 5 2006, 12:29 PM

I've said it before and I'll probably say it again. Queensryche is Shadowrun. It's canon.

Posted by: Grinder May 5 2006, 01:13 PM

Or Mötley Crüe

Posted by: The ubbergeek May 5 2006, 08:28 PM

I like New Order in Shadowrun, for some reasons. Great retro beat.

If one like rap... how about the groovy french band IAM? Dey rawkz.

How about some sountracks? It's cliché, but Scarface had that thang for it.

Or, for a very high-tech game, one of the Ghost in the Shell ones.

Posted by: Dale May 5 2006, 08:34 PM

Actually for some reason I've always associated Shadowrun with Motley Crue's "Kickstart my Heart"

Posted by: Grinder May 6 2006, 03:13 PM

Scum - Gospels For The Sick
Turbonegro - Hobbit Motherfuckers (for the ever-rebellious Runners)

Posted by: Fire Hawk May 6 2006, 05:20 PM

I've made up a couple of Cyberpunkish soundtracks (which I conveniently don't have access to at the moment), which featured the following:

* Love & Rockets (A few songs off of "Lift")
* Psykosonik (Their self-titled album had many gibsonesque lyrics)
* Songs from the two Mortal Kombat soundtracks (MK: Annihilation sucked, but that soundtrack kicked @$$.)
* KMFDM -Virus (as well as the two songs from the affore-mentioned soundtracks)
* Bono & The Edge - Jonny Goes To Hell For A Bottle Of Milk/Korova

I can also see where the Crüxshadows would work very well for that sort of ambience.

Posted by: emo samurai May 17 2006, 02:08 AM

I have an idea for music: "Who Wants to Live Forever" by Queen for Harlequin and Ehran.

Who waaaaaaaantss.... to liiiiiiiiiive.... forevaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAARRR!!!!!

Apparently they do.

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes May 17 2006, 02:14 AM

Warren Ellis operates the Apparat, and Superburst Mixtape before that. It's hard to imagine the author of Transmetropolitan wouldn't have a good clue about music in the Shadowrun setting.

Posted by: emo samurai May 17 2006, 02:31 AM

I have that Highlander song stuck in my head. That is reason beyond reason to include Harlequin.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin May 17 2006, 02:38 AM

All you need is 80s pop music. The Final Countdown just occured to me. That would be hysterical.

Posted by: The ubbergeek May 17 2006, 02:57 PM

It GOT TO HAVE New Wave, of course. It's making a come back of sort, so...

Posted by: stevebugge May 17 2006, 03:39 PM

There are a few tracks off the Top Gun soundtrack that are fun to go with riggers, well ok it's pretty much all of the soundtrack.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/soundtrack

Posted by: Witness May 17 2006, 04:13 PM

What, no Rolf Harris?
Just me? Oh ok.

Posted by: Shrike30 May 17 2006, 06:17 PM

Juno Reactor gets some pretty heavy play in my games. VAST as well.

Posted by: emo samurai May 22 2006, 05:50 AM

Dude, I just found a song from the Casshern soundtrack, and it ROCKS. It's "Requiem" by "Back Horn," a J-rock band. It's from where Casshern fights the king of the robot army and loses. It rocks as much as that scene.

Posted by: Telion May 22 2006, 11:16 PM

Can't forget the Maiden.

Posted by: Fix-it May 23 2006, 02:20 AM

Posted by: Smilin_Jack May 26 2006, 07:26 AM

Damn you all... this thread has caused me to abuse my poor paypal account at the itunes store.

Songs that just Scream SR:

Connected - Stereo MCs: Gotta get connected... and watch out for dirty tricks.
I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses: Joygirl theme song.
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles: Atlantean Foundation pops to mind.
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - Pink Floyd: Screams SINless attitude to me.
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses: Welcome to the Sprawl Chummer.
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head: One night in Hong Kong/Seattle/LA makes a hard man humble.
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones: IE conspir-i-see.
Nightrain - Guns n Roses: Heh... Gangers, what else?
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics: Chipheads/BTL Dealers
Pancho and Lefty - Willie Nelson: Runners that got geeked in Aztlan and are now folk heroes in whats left of Texas.
Fight for Your Right - Beastie Boyz: SINless or Spoiled Corp Kids.
18 and Life - Skid Row: More Gangers.
Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row: Even more gangers, and noob runners.

Posted by: Rajaat99 May 26 2006, 03:18 PM

Get Satillite Radio. I have it and I can switch to another station if the local changes. Just walked into a Jazz Club, alright. *Click the Remote*, Jazz Music is playing, never loops. It's like $12 a month though, so if you'd only use it for SR, then don't get it.

Posted by: NightHaunter May 27 2006, 02:35 PM

Currently: Soundtracks to;
Predators 1 & 2
Terminators 1 & 2.
The Alien Trilogy.
John Carpenters the Thing.

Goblin Rock: Turisas, Beserker, or a bit faster, DragonForce.

Maria Mecurial: Nightwish, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil.

Oh yeah and some Matrix/Blade soundtracks for combat.

And the Ultimate in mood setters: The Klendathu Drop theme from Starship Troopers.

Posted by: Snow_Fox May 27 2006, 03:18 PM

I'm kind of old school here. Clanad and otherr irish folk rock for country settings. and for the city- try the sound track to Alec BNaldwin's The Shadow for more refined areas. Things are more down class? Meatloaf is reliable.

Posted by: Omer Joel May 29 2006, 11:19 AM

Ska-P (for Neo-A's, Reviv-o-A's, rads and street-punks in general)
System Shock 1 (the computer game) http://www.ttlg.com/ss1/music/ (great cyberpunkish purely-electronic music for corp scenes)
The Morrighan (eco-terrorism and light Shamanism)
Rhea's Obsession (heavy Shamanism)

Posted by: bigdrewp Jun 16 2006, 08:02 PM

Iggy Pop- Lust for Life and The Passenger. Both have a feel to them that screams downtrodden to me.

Posted by: 2bit Jun 16 2006, 08:16 PM

3 pages now and no one has mentioned
COWGIRL
which was totally written for Neuromancer. Holy crap.

I scream I scream I scream so much you know what I mean
this electric stream in my tears in league with the wires and energy
my machine this is my beautiful dream

Posted by: Lazerface Jun 16 2006, 08:39 PM

I've never gone wrong with the Killer7 soundtrack.

Posted by: emo samurai Jun 25 2006, 08:51 AM

There's this one band called http://www.dragonforce.com/main.html that makes songs that are REALLY D&D-inspired. They're either the worst band ever, or the awesomest. I want to use their songs in at least one of my campaigns.

Posted by: Vlad the Bad Jun 25 2006, 04:50 PM

Three words: Front Line Assembly

Good albums for use with shadowrun include Implode, Millennium, and Flavour of the Weak

Edit: oh yeah, and elements of Yoko Kanno's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Sound Track.

Posted by: Rock Jun 25 2006, 07:24 PM

Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., and Waylon Jennings.

You can't go wrong with the classics.

Posted by: Sahandrian Jun 25 2006, 07:52 PM

I'll just copy & paste my Winamp playlist for SR like I did last time, and maybe add some comments.


1. (hed)p.e. - Bartender
2. AC/DC - Moneytalks
3. Bush - The Chemicals Between Us
4. Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
5. Fear Factory - Cyberdyne
6. Filter - The Best Things
7. Garbage - Push It
8. Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
9. Gravity Kills - Not Enough
10. Guns and Roses - My Michele
11. Guns and Roses - Paradise City
12. Guns and Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
13. Gypsy Kings - Zorba the Greek
14. Hednoize - Loaded Gun
15. Iron Maiden - Be Quick or be Dead
16. Kid Rock - I am the Bull God
17. KMFDM - Anarchy
18. KMFDM - Beast
19. KMFDM - Brute
20. KMFDM - Flesh
21. KMFDM - Light
22. KMFDM - Power
23. KMFDM - Terror
24. KMFDM - Ultra
25. KMFDM - Virus
26. Marcy Playground - The Shadow of Seattle
27. Megadeth - Duke Nukem
28. Megadeth - Insomnia
29. Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
30. Monster Magnet - Baby Götterdämerung
31. Monster Magnet - Power Trip
32. Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
33. Project Pitchfork - Clone Your Lover
34. Project Pitchfork - Existence
35. Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
36. Queensryche - Empire
37. Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
38. Shadows Fall - Welcome to the Machine (It's the Pink Floyd song redone with a metal/industrial style)
39. Shinedown - 45
40. The Offspring - End of the Line
41. The Offspring - Jennifer Lost The War
42. The Offspring - L.A.P.D. (Lone Star)
43. The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (The Barrens)
44. Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor or Humanity
45. Tool - Aenima
46. Ultraviolence - Hardcore Motherfucker
47. VNV Nation - Circling Overland
48. VNV Nation - Fallout


That's the main playlist. I tend to have that one playing when I GM. If I'm playing, I have different ones depending on the character I'm running. I'll probably post my Adversary shaman's after I clear some things off of it.

Posted by: underaneonhalo Jun 26 2006, 12:08 AM

Gothic/death rock with a liberal splash of old industrial always satisfies my need for dark gritty music.

I'm about to run "On the run" to help me and my players get used to SR4 and I think that the following bands are fantastic for the setting;
Bolshoi
Fields of the Nephilim
Tones on Tail
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
also Big Electric Cat has an album called "Eyelash" that really has a "JB" feel to it, I think I'm gonna use a mini CD with some of the tracks for a prop.

Of course Nitzer Ebb and Throbbing Gristle are as much a part of the cyberpunk genre as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling so they always work wonderfully.

Posted by: Neverborn Jun 26 2006, 05:50 PM

Lets see

3 Inches of Blood - They have a song called Destory the Orcs for goodness sake

The Unfolding, Darkest Hour, and As I Lay Dying for any of the action sequences

BT - Its some techno helps deal with just random PC happenings and clubs if your feeling froggy

and for any type of wilderness treks you can always use instramentals they work wonders for atmosphere