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Mickey Finn:
Simply a list of music either perfect for (or you swear was inspired by) RPGs.

To start:
Manfred Mann's Blinded By the Light: Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
Smashing Pumpkin's Bullet With Butterfly  Wings: White Wolf's Werewolf: The Sulking Apocolypse
Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London: White Wolf, Toon, Castle Falkenstein, Amber

Also, spoofing:
The Beatle's All You Need is Blood: White Wolf's Vampire

jtaylor:
Ok, here are some off the top of my head...

Concrete Blonde's Bloodletting: White Wolf's Vampire
Bjork's Bachleorette: Vampire
Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
The Prodigy's Firestarter: Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, Spycraft
Tegan and Sara's Walking with a Ghost: Wraith or any other game were you're plaing ghost.
Radiohead's Paranoid Android: Paranoia
Beck's Tropicalia: Spycraft game set in the tropics.
Basil Poledouris' Conan the Barbarian soundtrack: Best D&D music ever.

I forgot, Voltaire's The Vampire Club: Spoof of vampire goths good for a vampire game.

Kiriath:
Lord of the Dance or Riverdance.
Castlevania music... Symphony of the Night especially rocks.
I've heard some people say the Alien soundtracks rock.

The Lunar: Eternal Blue music played during an RPG session I played in once, and it fit really nice. The game was Star Wars, but it was nice and hyper anyway...

taralon:
For fantasy, you don't get better than this band called Dragonforce outta Britain, and Heather Alexander. 
 


--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on December 29, 2006, 04:34:56 PM ---Simply a list of music either perfect for (or you swear was inspired by) RPGs.

To start:
Manfred Mann's Blinded By the Light: Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
Smashing Pumpkin's Bullet With Butterfly  Wings: White Wolf's Werewolf: The Sulking Apocolypse
Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London: White Wolf, Toon, Castle Falkenstein, Amber

Also, spoofing:
The Beatle's All You Need is Blood: White Wolf's Vampire

--- End quote ---

Samldanach:
As background music for a session, I find that soundtracks are better.  Usually, the obvious ones (Conan, LotR, Diablo, Disney's Three Musketeers).

There are a huge number of European metal bands, like Dragonforce, that clearly have a fantasy or RPG influence.  It's actually a sub-genre of metal over there.  Like most niche sub-genres, they range from awe-inspiring to dread-inspiring.

Queensryche (predominantly Operation: Mindcrime, but to a lesser degree Empire) is, in my mind, the ultimate cyberpunk sound.  I can't listen to some of their songs (particularly Jet City Woman) without picturing a guy in a trenchcoat and mirror shades standing in the rain.

Metallica's Shapeshift is a fabulous werewolf song.

I can't let this go, however, without pimping Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (I hope that link actually works).  They are the premiere (maybe the only?) Cthulhupunk band.  And they rock hardcore.

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