My Shadowrun Soundtrack, Give it a listen |
My Shadowrun Soundtrack, Give it a listen |
Dec 31 2007, 06:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 13-August 07 Member No.: 12,615 |
For various reasons, I always think of Shadowrun when I play these songs. Feel free to chime in with your own. Enjoy. Or maybe not; I've been told that my taste in music is, to quote my father, "crap".
The first is from an 80's show called crime story. Michael Mann hired Del Shannon to rewrite "Runaway". This reminds me of that detective from the SR novels...can't think of his name...the one whose sister was inhabited by a bug spirit. Listen to it here. My very first SR character was an eagle shaman. I guess that explains "Eagle Fly Free" by Helloween. Listen to it here. So, you may be wondering what an Orxsploitation band would sound like; "Sick of You" by Gwar would fit the bill, with it's talk of "human filth!" Come to think of it, if you've ever seen them in concert, the kinda LOOK like an ork band. Listen to it here. Blade Runner has a definite SR look and feel. The music during the end credits is both eery and exciting. Listen to it here. Some songs have seemed perfect for razorgirls and gangs like the Desolation Angels. These include "Celebrity Skin", by Hole, and "I'm Only Happy When It Rains", by Garbage. "Remember Tomorrow", by Iron Maiden. Perfect for mages and their astral quests. These next two focus on the "shadowrunner vs. the system" type stuff. They are "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll", by Judas Priest, and "Judas", another tune by Helloween. |
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Dec 31 2007, 07:49 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Now I have to listen to my entire Priest library again. Oh no ... the horror! :D
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Dec 31 2007, 07:56 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 27-August 06 From: Albuquerque NM Member No.: 9,234 |
You've just made my buy the DVDs of Crime Story. I hope your happy. I liked that show....
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Dec 31 2007, 08:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 13-August 07 Member No.: 12,615 |
Never saw the tv show. But the song (both versions) rocks.
The Only horrific part would be the Turbo album. Ugh. Painkiller or Defenders of the Faith would be your best bets. |
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Dec 31 2007, 08:41 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 12-October 07 Member No.: 13,673 |
Here's my massive SR playlist - it's about five and a half hours long, mostly because I designed it to be session background music. It's heavy on the trance and synthpop, with a smattering of industrial - sound was more important than vocals, because really clear vocals is kind of distracting in background music. There's a lot of stuff from the Matrix and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The one song I wanted to include and had to cut because it made really lousy BGM was Ministry's "Thieves", because shadowrunners are all thieves and liars, pretty much. Also, all the OC Remix stuff is free at OCRemix.org - the two I have are both FF7 remixes (Midgar, cyberpunk? Hell yeah).
[ Spoiler ] (And yeah, Gwar totally is practically an ork band) |
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Jan 1 2008, 04:51 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
for magic, leg work and travel I like Celtic stuff like Clannad, the Corrs and the Mollyhawks. country stuff like toby Keith and Trace Atkins and anything by Jim steinmann Some 20's style jazz-I like the sound track from The Shadow. As it picks up more techno, but I can also use 60's brass sounds. think a james Bond movie with Sean Connery or George Lazenby. Vangelis has some good stuff.
2XS, Derek 'dirk' Montgomery. his sister was Theresa. |
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Jan 3 2008, 04:34 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
Speaking of soundtracks, has anyone heard from Shev? I've been trying to contact him, but so far no replies.
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Jan 3 2008, 03:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
I do not GM but I like a lot of the J-pop. since Japanese culture is so dominant in SR it really works in the city settings.
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Jan 3 2008, 06:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 30-August 07 Member No.: 12,989 |
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Jan 4 2008, 12:56 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,629 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,361 |
It's become a tradition in our games to simultaneously say "...roll initiative" and fire up "first it giveth" by queens of the stone age.
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Jan 11 2008, 04:02 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
hard music
what no classical? no Dr. Demento? you kids today and your heavy metal/rap/screaming music. |
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Jan 11 2008, 04:16 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
was gonna add this before but I had already posted.
Yellow Moon Heard this a ways back, still one of my favorites to listen too (listening to it right now). It gives one hope, that despite all the bad stuff, all the stress, all the nagging and dirty diapers, there is a person out there. A person who is a hot 18 year old bi curious catholic schoolgirl with her hair in pigtails, with an equally hot friend, waiting for me. My mistress is out there peeps, but where? how shall I find her? -your friendly neighborhood Hocus Pocus |
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Jan 14 2008, 08:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 10-August 02 Member No.: 3,083 |
I don't use music very much in my own games, but I find that both Portisehead albums (Dummy and Portisehead) set an effective mood for noirish and dystopian settings.
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Jan 17 2008, 08:13 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,286 Joined: 24-May 05 From: A 10x10 room with an orc and a treasure chest Member No.: 7,409 |
Ride of the Valkyries
O Fortuna Mozart's requiem Funker Vogt (especailly Gunman) Apoptygma Berzerk (Deep Red, In this Together, Coma White, Strange Day) Beborn Beton (Spawn, Reanimator) Cruxshadows (Heaven's Gaze, Return) Gravity Kills (Guilty, Enough, Goodbye) Offspring (Jennifer Lost the War) Qntal Razed in Black (I'll Damage You, Share This Poison, Visions, Neverment_V2) Mortal Kombat soundtrack (both of them) Thievery Corporation (depends on the atmosphere a very diverse group) Thou Shalt Not (Trial by Fire, 100 Generations) KMFDM VNV Nation (Joy, Chosen) Zeromancer (Dr. Online, Eurotrash, Wannabe, Raising Hell, House of Cards) Prodigy Crystal Method Rammstein Monster Magnet (Powertrip, Baby Gotterdamung ) Our Lady Peace (4am, Clumsy) Pitchshifter |
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Jan 17 2008, 06:21 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie: (#1) Introduction, (#5) Joie du Sang des Étoiles, & (#10) Final.
...Messiaen: L'Ascension: Transports de joie. ...Messiaen: Visions d' L'Amen - (#2) Amen des étoiles, de la planète à l’anneau, (#4) Amen du désir, & (#7) Amen de la consommation. ...Yeah, Carl Orff: O Fortuna, from Camen Burana (OK, a warhorse but still good to set the tone for a firefight) ...Yeah again, Richard Wagner: Walkürenritt from Die Walküre (I have a recording performed on the organ at St John the Divine in New York by Anthony Newman, talk about absolute bombast...). ...Stravinsky: L'Oiseau De Feu: Danse infernale. ...Bach: Tocatta und Fuge d-Moll [BWV 565] (it worked for Rollerball) ...Holst: The Planets: Mars The Bringer of War. ...Almost anything by Larry Fast, in particular, Metropolitan Suite & Audion. ...Soundtrack to Cat People (& no, not for elf catgirl encounters). [edit] whoops forgot a couple of my faves: ...Messiaen: La nativite du Seigneur: Dieu parmi nous. ...Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms. ...Bob Thiele What a Wonderful World sung by Louis Armstrong (remember the scene from Good Morning Vietnam where this was used? Kinda creepy but effective.). |
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Jan 28 2008, 05:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
doing a load of clothes late last week, looked up at the full moon, with some stars and wisps of clouds, beautiful. "shoot the moon" I always say when i see that, remembered the movie Voyage dans la lune
then pow! the song tonight, tonight . Beautiful and nice homage to the original. worthy of anyones shadowrun collection |
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Jan 30 2008, 04:57 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 602 Joined: 2-December 07 From: The corner of Detonation Boulevard and Fascination Street Member No.: 14,464 |
our group does'nt listen to much music when we play. we spend enough time arguing about the game without arguing about what music is playing. :)
but when I am writing about shadowrun(which I'm supposed to be doing now) my play list looks something like this: sisters of mercy-temple of love rage against the machine-pistol grip pump blue oyster cult-astronomy queensryche-empire moltov-parasito razed in black-Ill damage you Cruxshadows-Winterborn(god I love this song) the 69 eyes-don't turn your back on fear flogging molly-devils dance floor powerman5000-relax(zoolander mix) killswitch engaged-just barely breathing gogol bordello-gypsy part of town dragonforce-soldiers of the wasteland northern cree singers-NDN car |
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Apr 22 2008, 04:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 13-August 07 Member No.: 12,615 |
Hey, Fortune...here's another must-have song for your Judas Priest collection. Enjoy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Judas Priest Shreds |
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Apr 22 2008, 07:16 AM
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Street Doc Group: Admin Posts: 3,508 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Neverwhere Member No.: 6,114 |
I like Angelone's list. I almost forgot about Pitchshifter. And KMFDM probably has the best theme song for a NeoAnarchist ever. I would add:
Nine Inch Nails The Refused Probot Fear Factory |
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Apr 22 2008, 07:26 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
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Apr 22 2008, 07:37 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdItwaLrv1U
Not my usual musical tastes but it has it's place in my SR run music (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) And wow... Pitchshifter, never heard of em before but they will certainly be added to my music collection. Some other personal favorites: City of Delusion Exo Politics Assassins |
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Apr 22 2008, 08:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Shadowrun music threads are my guilty pleasure. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Apr 22 2008, 10:44 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 263 Joined: 18-October 03 From: Cal Free State Member No.: 5,734 |
My current working SR soundtrack is as follows:
1) Collide - Razor Sharp 2) Apoptygma Berzerk - All Tomorrow's Parties 3) Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun 4) Sisters of Mercy - Blood Money 5) Underworld - Underneath the Radar 6) Golden Earring - Twilight Zone 7) Joy Division - Shadow Play (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Ozzy - SIN 9) Prodigy - Voodoo People 10) Front 242 - Headhunter 2000 (Funker Vogt Mix) 11) White Zombie - More Human Than Human 12) Skinny Puppy - Killing Game 13) Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell 14) Warren Zevon - Things to do in Denver When You're Dead 15) Queensryche - I Dream in Infrared Kinda all over the place, but I like it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:20 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
I don't like using music with lyrics/voices because it tends to interfere with the player's and GM's speech. My own soundtrack is essentially made of video games soundtracks, because they tend to be good as ambient music (especially if the videogames suits Shadowrun, or the specific atmosphere you want), and are aften meant to be played in loop without being too monotonous nor intrusive.
Also most of them come with the game which can be free, if the game is a freeware or a mod, or can be downloaded free of charge from the official game website. On the top of my head, I use some musics of: * Dreamweb * Deus Ex 1&2 * Unreal, Unreal Tournament 99 & 2004 * Action Unreal mod for UT2004 * Killing Floor mod for UT2004 * Max Payne 2 * Syndicate Wars (20 min long "cyberpunk" ambient tracks...) * T.A.G.A.P * Various more or less obscure freeware games I have on my HD. |
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Apr 22 2008, 02:15 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,851 Joined: 15-February 08 From: Indianapolis Member No.: 15,686 |
Music can feature pretty heavily in my games either as background for a particular location (like a restaurant) or as a plot device, like an Orxsploitation music concert or a disc of JetBlack's music.
My runners are in Seattle right now and are using Matchsticks as a rally point as its where the team fixer hangs her hat. So I have modern jazz-funk fusion playing the background as they have drinks and chat; musicians like Barry Adamson or RL Burnside. Orxploitation is an obvious riff on blaxploitation so I tried to find the grittiest rap music I could for Nabo's concert from On the Run: Wu Tang Clan. In my mind Goblin Rock would be more like Gwar. JetBlack's mystery music disc had samples from Type O Negative. When shopping at Stuffer Shack what else would you hear but The Girl from Ipanema? When I think "elf music" I think Enya and Loreena McKennit. I also think of the folk songs from The Wicker Man, especially Willow's Song. |
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