2063 Billboard Top 100..., what are your characters listening to? Options

[Req]

So I've got a long ol' list of band and album names that I've come up with so I'm ready when my players ask what's on the radio. And I'm always looking for more. What are you listening to?

Top 10 on the billboard this week:
1. Thag and the Spike Babies, C'mere, Breeder!
2. Toby the Hammer, Solo
3. Push Down And Turn, Childproof
4. The Strangely Angular Homeboys, Brain Box Blues
5. Genesys, Making a New World (One Crime at a Time)
6. Rickenharp, Rickenharp
7. TMF, No Sleep 'Till Aztlan
8. Big Russia Style, Ivan Hates You Too
9. Darwin's Dog, Dead (Again) And Loving It
10. Tsam Tsam Tsuki, ancientones

[Kagetenshi]

I have little doubt that there will still be Tupac albums coming out every few years in 2063.

~J

[sidekick]

For your listening pleasure chummer:

MTV-Rolling Stone-Billboard's Top Ten of the Week
1. Lorelei Angel - My Shinning Hour
2. Horns of Plenty - Break Her In
3. Tommy Chong and the Blurs - Razor Grrl
4. Nikki Nuyen - Lonely Heart in Chiba
5. Blunt Trauma - Empty the Brain Pan (Redmond Remix)
6. The Huge U.G.E. feat. Tusk Jay - All my Trogs in the House
7. Lo Rez - \\UCAS\RTG-23890 (1101101)
8. se7en K - Poli boy
9. DJ Street Sweeper - Geekin the D (Ragnorak Remix)
10. Athena Jackson - Long Time Gone (Renraku Arcrology Tribue)

[nezumi]

I just have to ask.. with that first one, did you mean 'Shinning' or 'Shining'? Because one is making light and the other one is hitting your leg on something. Normally I'd assume you meant Shining, but shinning is much funnier. (I especially like number 7... I'd love to hear someone rap out 'one zero zero one one...')

[Kagetenshi]

I have my next wacky character idea.

An Otaku rocker, using the rules in Shadowbeat.

~J

[Req]

If you name him Johnny Silverhand, I will personally have him killed. Even if I'm not in the game.

Jeezus, I hate that dude.

[Kagetenshi]

Good news! I've never heard of him.

~J

[sidekick]

[Req]

With his breakthrough hit "Chippin' In" and his second album "A Cool Metal Fire," Johnny Silverhand exemplifies all that's wrong with CP202x music. Stupid little bastard.

Got the metal beneath my skin / I'm chippin' in

Riight. Listened to any real music lately, R. Talsorian? Sheesh.

[Adam]

Given that CP2013/CP2020 was a child of the 80s... that /was/ real music. ;-)

[FlakJacket]

Or who could forget the fabulous DJ Vinyl Wang. :)

[Req]

Oh, right. He worked with DJ Shokk Riot, I remember.

[Adarael]

From Mr. Atkinson's CD collection:

Enoch Ian Keys - The Seal
Blunt Force Trauma - Die By Wire
Semotic Shift - Agenda Suicide
Entropy 5 - Coiling Serpents
Defused - Aoi Inori
Your Bent Reflection - Marley's Ghost

And though I wish I could have it ICly, the GM would never let me get away with having
Colostomy Explosion - We Are Made of Meat.

"Would ya like some TOAST!?!?"

[Adarael]

And Reg?

Hooray for Tom Waits. Savior of all that is American Gothic.

[Req]

[Kagetenshi]

Pretty easy to tell. Anyway, I've played CP2020 once, and never actually read a CP2020 rulebook, so no, I'm not up on the history :)

~J

edit: apparently when I'm tired anyone=anyway.

[FlakJacket]

SotA Had a list of the top ten albums of the year I think it was, IIRC.

[Req]

Yeah, I know - but the ones outta the twisted minds of this forum's denizens ought to be a lot cooler. :)

[Plastic Rat]

Darwin's Bastards - Breeder blues. (still hanging in there despite itself)
Trog - Bite me!
Maria Mercurial - Cute
Concrete Dreams - Look this way!
Chromer - Stupid fraggin' trog.
Darwin's Bastards - Do we not bleed? (a classic)
Amerind - Sioux Shock.
Concrete Dreams - Tribute to to the city.
Maria Mercurial - We can make this work.
Chromer - Better than beetles.

(Guess who loves Shadowbeat :) )

[annachie]

Hey Req, you forgot the live album from the Rolling Stones World tour of 2062, and the latest techno re-mix of a previously unreleased Elvis clasic

[Digital Heroin]

Guy in one of the campaigns I ran had a 1 intelligence troll who called himself metroll, his street name on sheet was 'hey you with the big gun' always carried a panther around, no matter what the situation...

Part way through the campaign, metroll decided he was a rockstar, and somehow got a band together (low on brains, high on charisma)... I still refer to them in games to this day...

[Kagetenshi]

"Weird Al" Yankovic (parodying Amerind)- Sioux Chef

~J

[Sunday_Gamer]

Yet another silly anecdote from me. Just because it's on topic for bands and music.

We had a Dwarven Japanese mage once, who was an Elvis impersonator, that is to say, he dressed like Elvis and his name was "Elvis" Takamura. His music skill was 2 or something completely awful as was his English.

So this one time, we're tracking down this psycho who's trying real hard to smoke Maria Mercurial, we know he's gonna kill her as soon as she takes the stage so in an effort to stall, the mage uses a few spells to gain backstage access and gets on the stage before Mercurial. Needless to say, he sucked extremely in front of dozens of thousands of people but it DID buy us the time we needed to nail this guy before he could kill anyone (else).

However, for the next 3 years, if the chance came up, Elvis was sure to mention how he opened for Maria Mercurial. We were sure he was gonna get linched when he broke into his rendition of "Brue Suede Choos".

Sunday

[Req]

That totally rules.

All we had was a certain psycho street sammie with a tattooed, bald, blue head, who couldn't get over that he used to play in this certain band. Every meeting with Mr Johnson, he'd ask "Oh, you never heard of the Shank Kings? We fraggin' RULED!" and start into one of their songs.

[Velocity]

On the topic of music, lemme knock this topic (slightly) off-course and ask: what kind of music do you think is being played in Seattle (or wherever) in 2060?

Do you think it would be unrecognizable noise to us? If a time traveller from 1943 heard today's music, some would be easily understood and digested--most "easy listening," crooning ballads, contemporary blues, etc.--while many genres wouldn't even be understood as music qua music.

Given that Shadowrun (and cyberpunk in general) is very much a child of the 80s, and RPGs are still generally written by white dudes and marketed to white dudes, it's not surprising that industrial music is de rigeur in the Sixth World. Realistically though, by the time the Shadowrun universe comes about, the industrial "movement" and the artists involved would probably be--at best--footnotes in music history. Except Gran'pa Jorgunsen. And Buck Satan. Don't fuck with Buck.

Anyway, I'm curious... what do you imagine coming out of club speakers in 2063? What's pop? Is "rock" still a relevant form? How has hiphop continued to mutate? What kind of instruments are people playing?