 Soundtrack, Seeds for my Pandora SR station? |
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 Aug 28 2009, 03:03 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 13-August 09 From: Illinois, USA Member No.: 17,500  |
I know threads like this pop up all of the time (as recently as May, according to my search) but I think it's because they bear frequent revisitation.
So, the question is, what's on everyone's Shadowrun soundtrack? For the record (no pun intended, really, honest) I've been training Pandora to play a Shadowrun soundtrack for me for several weeks, so it's possible that suggestions here will go into my Pandora seeds to further refine my Shadowrunnin' station. For those not familiar with Pandora, (I know it's been recommended here before) it is based on the Music Genome Project. You seed a station with one or more songs or artists, and it plays other songs based on similarity to those seeds. You can then give thumbs up or thumbs down to instruct the station on what you like and dislike. My Shadowrun station is still a bit rough, but if you're interested in my vision of an SR soundtrack you can listen at: http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh105833272807433416 And if you like, you can start rating things on your own. That will create a clone of my station in your own profile, so it won't affect mine, and you can tailor your very own soundtrack. ... Sorry. Didn't mean for this to turn into a Pandora add. On with the Shadowrun soundtrack recommendations. What's the new hotness in SR tunage? |
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Aug 28 2009, 03:11 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Soft Machine, Silver Apples, Tom Waits, The Black Keys
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Aug 28 2009, 03:15 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 13-August 09 From: Illinois, USA Member No.: 17,500 |
QUOTE (Ancient History @ Aug 28 2009, 09:11 AM)  Tom Waits Good Call! I have an NPC dwarf mafioso in my street ganger campaign named Small Change. One guess where the inspiration came from. (And yes, he does carry a .38). |
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Aug 28 2009, 08:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 16-June 09 Member No.: 17,282 |
Sir, you had to thumbs-down a lot of songs for this station, but the result is good! Thank you for sharing. Certainly I will tweak it, but I appreciate greatly the groundwork you laid.
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Aug 28 2009, 09:34 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 21-August 09 Member No.: 17,528 |
Bauhaus, She Wants Revenge, Death from Above 1979, Fatboy Slim, Aesop Rock, Cibo Matto, Simian Mobile Disco, Ratatat, The Chemical Brothers
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Aug 28 2009, 11:56 PM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 10,538 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
Hmmph. Pandora has 'licensing constraints' and doesn't serve Canada for the time being. I wonder if this is similar to the Facebook thing.
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Aug 28 2009, 11:57 PM
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Street Doc Group: Admin Posts: 3,508 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Neverwhere Member No.: 6,114 |
Search Function. Its not just a band....
Oh wait. It's not a band at all... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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Aug 29 2009, 12:47 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 |
the cruxshadows,sisters of mercy, Razed in Black, um, did I mention The Cruxshadows?(grin)
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Aug 29 2009, 12:57 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 13-August 09 From: Illinois, USA Member No.: 17,500 |
QUOTE (Method @ Aug 28 2009, 05:57 PM) Search Function. Its not just a band.... Oh wait. It's not a band at all... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I know, but like I said in the OP, I thought it might be worth revisiting. Plus I wanted to share the Pandora station, in case anyone was interested. I suppose I could have resurrected an old thread, but... I didn't. |
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Aug 29 2009, 01:08 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 13-August 09 From: Illinois, USA Member No.: 17,500 |
QUOTE (McAllister @ Aug 28 2009, 02:46 PM) Sir, you had to thumbs-down a lot of songs for this station, but the result is good! Thank you for sharing. Certainly I will tweak it, but I appreciate greatly the groundwork you laid. No problem. I listen to it through the Pandora moblie app on my iPod touch, while I'm at work, so it's not too hard to hit the thumbs for almost every song. Helps me keep a lot of control over what's on there. I still get a lot of stuff that I'm not thrilled with, though. |
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Aug 29 2009, 01:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 16-June 09 Member No.: 17,282 |
Yeah! Whenever I build stations like that, I get a lot of Manson. I keep it, because it's LIKE what I want to get more of and downing it all would give the wrong impression, but I skip it with some frequency.
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Aug 29 2009, 01:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 388 Joined: 30-July 09 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 17,452 |
Cruxshadow gets another bump. Fear Factory. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Anamanaguchi. Ken Ishii. Screw.
*Anal Cunt for Anarchistic Punk Rock mayhem. *Warning: 1 song may be too much for some. |
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Aug 29 2009, 07:09 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
Garbage, Placebo, another bump for She Wants Revenge. Combichrist if you like industrial; it's pretty heavy stuff. REM. Rage Against the Machine.
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Aug 29 2009, 07:43 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 22-July 07 Member No.: 12,338 |
Shadowrun is the '80s and early '90s at the latest. SR3 and prior exemplify this -- a credstick weighs in a 1 kg, a cellphone handset is also 1kg, a cd player is 2 kg, and a pocket secretary is 500g, and pagers still exist into the 2060s. SR4 screwed that up a little.
Soundtrackwise, that suggests KMFDM (already represented amongst your songs) and Psykosonik (early-to-mid '90s electronica with cyberpunk themes). |
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Aug 29 2009, 05:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 21-August 05 Member No.: 7,586 |
Soundtracks: crying freeman, aeon flux, GiS:Innocence
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Aug 29 2009, 06:58 PM
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Grumpy Old Ork Decker Group: Admin Posts: 3,794 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orwell, Ohio Member No.: 50 |
All I know is, if you don't have Queensryche, you fail (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Aug 29 2009, 07:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 6-March 07 From: Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 11,168 |
The feel of the setting loans itself to Industrial, Speed Metal, Hardcore, Punk, and other faster and more driving modes of music. A lot of music made in or inspired by the music of the mid to late 80's and early 90's definitely works. A few I haven't seen brought up yet would be:
Death by Stereo, Kid Dynamite, Murder City Devils, Sacred Steel. |
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Aug 29 2009, 07:10 PM
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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 |
Apocalyptica, the rasmus, godsmack, godhead, rammstein, pitchshifter, the cruxshadows, she wants revenge, ozzy, white/rob zombie, sex pistols, guns and roses, zeromancer, neuroticfish, vnv nation, prodigy, crystal method, aphex twins, scooter, monster magnet, megadeth, razed in black, sunshine blind, violent femmes, carfax abbey, ministry, iron maiden, alice in chains, lordi, garbage, snake river conspiracy, social distortion
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Aug 29 2009, 08:17 PM
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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 |
QUOTE (Angelone @ Aug 29 2009, 02:10 PM) Apocalyptica, the rasmus, godsmack, godhead, rammstein, pitchshifter, the cruxshadows, she wants revenge, ozzy, white/rob zombie, sex pistols, guns and roses, zeromancer, neuroticfish, vnv nation, prodigy, crystal method, aphex twins, scooter, monster magnet, megadeth, razed in black, sunshine blind, violent femmes, carfax abbey, ministry, iron maiden, alice in chains, lordi, garbage, snake river conspiracy, social distortion wow,you have just about described the playlist on my mp3 player... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) |
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