UA: The Soundtrack

  • Wiretrippa
    Participant

    So, what do we al play as backingm usic for our games? Do you have a favoured style or artist? Do you use more than one type of music per session? Do you even avoid music?
    Some suggestions…
    Tom Waits (for bar scenes, crime scenes, scenes of heavy weirdness and anything involving Dipsomancers).
    Massive Attack (for long slabs of description, for creating a claustrophobic environment, for scenes involving deliberate, slow motions, or for Pornomancers).
    Prodigy (for action sequences, computer work, or just when you want to fuck with the player’s adrenal cortex).

    What can you add?

    Wire.

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  • Phloighd
    Participant

    They Might Be Giants — “Birdhouse In Your Soul”

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  • Tom McGrenery
    Participant

    I’ve actually burned a dedicated UA soundtrack CD. Here’s the track listing:

    1) Morcheeba, Killer Hippie
    2) Propellerheads, Winning Style
    3) Madrid Symphony Orch., Christmas 1970
    4) Mythos, November
    5) Mythos, La Cathedral
    6) Mythos, The Nile
    7) Beastie Boys, Namaste
    8) Beastie Boys, Sabrosa
    9) Steely Dan, Jack of Speed
    10) Beastie Boys, Lighten Up
    11) Eric Serra, Korben Dallas
    12) The Clash, Guns of Brixton
    13) Eric Serra, Heat
    14) Manu Chao, Je Ne T’Aime Plus
    15) Eric Serra, Radiowaves
    16) The Doors, Riders on the Storm
    17) Air, Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi

    The tracks are ordered so as to provide a smooth segue between one style and the next, hence the repetition of some artists’ tracks.

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  • bpm77
    Participant

    Coil (music to play in the dark, 1 and 2 in particular)

    Caul

    Amon Tobin (dark jazz mashups)

    Merzbow

    Nurse with Wound (almost any)

    Hafler trio

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  • Superstar
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    JJ72, The Velvet Underground, James Browns This is a mans world ( which i kinda like use as a theme song ), Nick Cave, Nat King Cole, My Bloody Valentine, early Rolling Stones, selected songs by the Doors and The Clash (especially Guns of Brixton as mentioned above ).

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  • Doug Billingsly
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    I use a lot of what’s been mentioned already.

    Tom Waits for urban scenes.

    The Alan Lomax recording of the South for rural southern adventures.

    Whatever the individual group prefers for fight scenes

    Swan ambient stuff like “Soundtracks for the Blind” for unnerving reality-ain’t-what-it-used-to-be-stuff

    And I ran my best game for Unknown Armies by turning a Butthole Surfers song as a literal translation for an adventure.

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  • Tom McGrenery
    Participant

    A band I’ve recently come across called Black Box Recorder have a wonderfully twisted UA sensibility.

    Especially their song “Child Psychology”.

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  • Haakon Olav Thunestvedt
    Participant

    Her’s some of my faves to use. Laibach: Macbeth – sounds just evil!
    FLA: Comatose – Gets that adrenaline flowing
    Satyricon: Fuel for Hatred – Man it rocks!
    Velvet Acid Christ: Futile – Hard hittin’ EBM

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  • Nick Wedig
    Participant

    Might I suggest that you find enough covers and remixes of “Viva Los Vegas” to fill up a CD and then base your adventure in the occult underbely of entropomancers and mafiosi in Sin city? Versions range from Elvis to the Dead Kennedies and beyond. Other appropriate songs might work as well, depending on your game.

    I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of variations of musical style, while keeping the same melody (as opposed to how most CDs keep the same style and vary melody). Like the Chocobo song in Final Fantasy.

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  • deathmonkey
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    my all time favorite that seems to fit so well is tool’s lateralis. their album salival also works well. others i like to include that haven’t been mentioned: rammstein, the crow soundtrack, dead can dance (especially “within the realm of a dying sun”), godhead, lost highway soundtrack, nine inch nails, radiohead, run lola run soundtrack, white zombie, zeni geva, mira, shipping news, and you can’t go wrong with richard wagner every once in a while.

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  • Tim Bisaillon
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    Ever since I watched “Mean Guns” mambo music has become a key element in my UA. Especially, Perez Prado.

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