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Music to shoot thargoids to
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:18 pm
by winston
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:03 pm
by jonnycuba
Funny you should ask... I've always thought the *UFO* sound from Asteroids would be the perfect accompaniment
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:36 am
by Rxke
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:55 am
by Spooky
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:26 am
by xaotik
From dub/reggae to jazz to klezmer music - the later gives inspiration for some nice stunts.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:02 am
by Selezen
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:48 pm
by neilplus
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
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:05 pm
by Selezen
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...
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:12 pm
by neilplus
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
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:27 pm
by Flying_Circus
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?)
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:52 pm
by Wiggy
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...
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:28 pm
by Rxke
Flying_Circus wrote:the Starwreck sound track (sad, or what?)
Woohoo, extra geek points earned!
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:54 pm
by EAGLE 5
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:59 am
by sub-user
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).
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:53 pm
by CWolf
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...