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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I've never gone wrong with the Killer7 soundtrack.

There's this one band called Dragonforce 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.

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.

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

You can't go wrong with the classics.

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.

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.

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