Music to shoot thargoids to

Post by **winston** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:18 pm

What do you listen to?

I found that shooting large numbers of Thargoids to the sounds of Ehren Starks 'Lines Build Walls' (more or less pure acoustic piano) to be strangely surreal and rather satisfying.

jonnycuba · Post by **jonnycuba** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:03 pm

Funny you should ask... I've always thought the *UFO* sound from Asteroids would be the perfect accompaniment

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:36 am

I found that in hectic situations, 'soothing' music is great;
And in situations where I have to be concentrated, mucho mahem is great. Somehow it increases my concentration in both cases.

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:55 am

Now that's what I call Oolite Music volume one?

When you need to make sure that you're in the right mood for mass murder and piracy nothing really beats a bit of Slayer

..and for those calmer or more caluculated little calms before the storm - Puccini, Beethoven and Pachelbel.

xaotik · Post by **xaotik** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:26 am

From dub/reggae to jazz to klezmer music - the later gives inspiration for some nice stunts.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:02 am

The Babylon 5 soundtrack (especially the Battle of the Line theme) is my music of choice for stomping bugs.

Although a cd full of kids nursery rhymes provides an amusing juxtaposition.

neilplus · Post by **neilplus** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:48 pm

Selezen wrote:
The Babylon 5 soundtrack (especially the Battle of the Line theme)

Babylon 5 soundtrack? Could you post details of the CD, please? Me want...

I love the No Surrender, No Retreat "music video" that came with the Season 4 DVDs - my rip of the music from that is permanently resident on my MP3 player

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:05 pm

They were released as two suites of music during the series run. There were two CDs.

The composer made them specially for release as symphonic compositions, and they are unlike any soundtrack I have heard before or since.

Amazon has the first CD here and the second CD here.

I can't reccommend them enough. I always have one or the other on if I'm writing or if I'm playing a game like Elite...

neilplus · Post by **neilplus** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:12 pm

Selezen wrote:
Amazon has the first CD here and the second CD here.

Thank you - just ordered one of each

Selezen wrote:
I can't reccommend them enough. I always have one or the other on if I'm writing or if I'm playing a game like Elite...

I'm both hard of hearing and partially sighted. "No Surrender, No Retreat" has essentially become my personal signature tune. It's that effective at getting me back into gear when I'm feeling low. More of the same can only be a good thing

Flying_Circus · Post by **Flying_Circus** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:27 pm

Selezen wrote:
The Babylon 5 soundtrack (especially the Battle of the Line theme) is my music of choice for stomping bugs.

Funny you should say that, I recently started uising the Starwreck sound track (sad, or what?)

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:52 pm

I used to play Elite in a darkened cellar in 1985 with Jean Michel Jarre playing on a Compact Audio Cassette.

I now use Oolite and iTunes!

plus ça change...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:28 pm

Flying_Circus wrote:
the Starwreck sound track (sad, or what?)

Woohoo, extra geek points earned!

EAGLE 5 · Post by **EAGLE 5** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:54 pm

Something nice and chaotic to go with the chaos.

Propellerheads Spybreak (matrix shootout anyone?)

or

Crystal Method - Trip like I do (basically the same type of situation)

Perhaps also the V Soundtrack by Joe Harnell when Mike escapes the mothership would also work great even if it's a different twist then the previous songs mentioned.

sub-user · Post by **sub-user** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:59 am

I like something frenetic -

Faith No More's Album : King for a Day Fool for a Life Time.

the song is Cuckoo For Caca.

(Also, I don't mind a bit of Spiderbait).

CWolf · Post by **CWolf** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:53 pm

Selezen wrote:
They were released as two suites of music during the series run. There were two CDs.

The composer made them specially for release as symphonic compositions, and they are unlike any soundtrack I have heard before or since.

Amazon has the first CD here and the second CD here.

I can't reccommend them enough. I always have one or the other on if I'm writing or if I'm playing a game like Elite...

Excellent! Been looking for this!

As for music for shooting Thargoids, i have a big folder full of movie soundtracks which I often have running. Either that or winamp tuned to Streamingsoundtracks. I miss GameFM tho...