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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: Mickey Finn on December 29, 2006, 04:34:56 PM
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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
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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.
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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...
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For fantasy, you don't get better than this band called Dragonforce outta Britain, and Heather Alexander.
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
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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 (http://"http://www.thickets.net") (I hope that link actually works). They are the premiere (maybe the only?) Cthulhupunk band. And they rock hardcore.
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Here ya go for the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets http://www.thickets.net/ (http://www.thickets.net/). I love this band =)
I also think some of Roison Murphy's http://www.roisinmurphy.com/ (http://www.roisinmurphy.com/) music fits the weirdness of the Dresdenverse. Especially Night of the Dancing Flame and RamalamaBANGBANG.
Also in a weird way Daikaiju http://www.daikaiju.org/ (http://www.daikaiju.org/)....The Phasing Spider Menace is a fave of mine.
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All of coheed and cambrias stuff is very RPG
Also CKY flesh into gear is very cyberpunk.
As for background music for cyberpunk games i used a soundtrack from the manga cybercity.
For modern day horror ie D20 or dresden files one day soon i like to use an album by Two Gallants called "what the toll tells"
I also like "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash.
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Have you seen/heard Stephen Lynch's Dungeons and Dragons (D-n-D)
ps: I am at work and youtube is blocked so I hope this is the correct link, I can't verify it to be sure though. If you would rather google Stephen Lynch & Dungeons and Dragons, it would work too, well worth you time :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNNtgiOdWNM
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Have you seen/heard Stephen Lynch's Dungeons and Dragons (D-n-D)
ps: I am at work and youtube is blocked so I hope this is the correct link, I can't verify it to be sure though. If you would rather google Stephen Lynch & Dungeons and Dragons, it would work too, well worth you time :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNNtgiOdWNM
That was freakin' genius! Thank you for sharing.
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You know what's really great music for RPGs? Free music composed/remixed from videogames by japanese bands with weird names, that's what. Well... not all of it is great, but there are quite a few good ones.
http://www.muzie.co.jp/cgi-bin/artist.cgi?id=a017591
http://opus-xero.com/contents/music.html
http://www.middleisland.net/sound.htm
http://www.muzie.co.jp/cgi-bin/artist.cgi?id=a003884
http://www.ucatv.ne.jp/~ookami/music.htm
http://www.dobuusagi.com/
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There's this really cool metal band from Austin called The Sword and their stuff is great for D&D. Most of their lyrics are based on Norse myth.
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Null Device: A Million Different Moments - Wraith, GURPS, Illuminati: New World Order (so it's a CCG; we really get into it.)
The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Vampire, Cyberpunk/Cyberspace/CP2020, Car Wars
The Shamen: Axis Mutatis - Mage, GURPS, Changeling
Depeche Mode: The Best Of - Mage, Vampire, BESM (I used to use it as background music in a Lain campaign)
iris: Disconnect/Reconnect - Mage, Hacker (bookcase card game), Shadowrun, Cyberpunk/Cyber Hero/Cyberspace
Information Society: Don't Be Afraid - Vampire, Etherscope
Information Society: Peace and Love, Incorporated - Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
Tim Curry: Fearless - Teenagers from Outer Space, BESM
The Cruxshadows: Dreamcypher - BESM Utena, Mage, Cyber Hero
Pet Shop Boys: Introspective - Mage, BESM (it can be fit into 80's style campaigns if used well)
The Dresden Dolls: Yes, Virginia - Etherscope, GURPS, Paranoia (for that great "WTF??" feeling)
Psykosonik: Psykosonik - Cyberspace/CP2020