CAoL "Soundtracks"
Subject: OOC: An AAE soundtrack?
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:12:21 CDT, in Message # 00001112 Michael Jon Knight said:
As I walked the mile home from college yesterday, I began thinking of compiling a cassette tape or two of songs relating to time, and especially time travel. "Time Warp" was an obvious choice, and I had also been thinking of the new Amy Grant song "It Takes a Little Time" (At least, I THINK that is the title.) Anyway, I was entertaining ideas about including humorous and serious songs about time. So I started thinking about some of the ones I had used here. Of course, I hadn't used many time-specific songs, but I had used several pieces of music over the months. That got me thinking that we all have.
So the question I pose is, if you hear any music when you write, or if you've used any music in your writing, what is it? And/or is there any theme music for your character(s)?
{Mike gave examples -- I've put them in the table}
--Mike
So, here's a compilation of what folx had to say.
Information on purchasing some of this music from is noted in brackets. Please forgive the commercialism, but this is a way for me to try to get a little something back for the time I put in maintaining this site :-). For anything purchased through the following links, I get a small credit. So have a look and see if there's anything you like!
Roland/Blaze | -- Theme from The Flash TV series *g* (B) [Danny Elfman,
Music
For A Darkened Theatre, Vol. 2] |
Morgan | -- Roland sez: "Angel" -- Aerosmith :-)
[Big
Ones] |
Roland and Morgan together |
Our Song, IC: "I Will Find You" -- Clannad,
Last
of the Mohicans soundtrack, or longer version on
Banba |
Dhyrclhanc | -- "Man of La Mancha" and "The Impossible Dream" --
Richard Kiely (none of this Placido Domingo nonsense)
[Man
of La Mancha Original Broadway Cast)] And my nomination for the CAoL battle theme, especially with both
Dhyrclhanc *and* the Stardragon back: |
Fuzzy | "Weird Science," I've been trying to find one for the parts of him that have not been made obvious yet. (What else could it be?) [Oingo Boingo, Dead Man's Party; extended dance version on Vol. 2 -- Hit That Perfect Beat] |
Knytt | -- "Time Warp" --
[Rocky
Horror Picture Show soundtrack or the
Audience
Par-Tic-I-Pation Album] |
Snarky, Clayton, and "The Evil One" | The latter is probably best served by John Williams -- that is, the Star Wars soundtracks (eps 4-6 only) [Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi], particularly Vader's -- and possibly Iron Maiden's Caught Somewhere In Time [Somewhere in Time]. The other two? The Omen. Gotta be (it'll become obvious who gets which tracks /later/). |
Rob Nishikawa | I find myself running "Land of Confusion" (Genesis, live
version from
The
Way We Walk) through my head in fight scenes. That, or "I'm Just
a Singer (in a rock and roll band)" (Moody Blues)
[Seventh
Sojurn or
Night
at Red Rocks] |
Driscoll | Well Driss's theme (obviously to those of your from AAE2) is "Behind Blue Eyes" -- The Who, [Who's Next] with his own filk that goes with it. |
Chaos | Almost any song by Queen, "Don't Worry, Be Happy," [Bobby McFerrin, Don't Worry, Be Happy] or that Enya song from the movie Toys ["Ebudae" -- Enya, Toys soundtrack] |
The Controller | "Stayin' Alive," [Saturday Night Fever soundtrack] or the Emperor's entrance music from the Star Wars movies. ;-) [Star Wars -- The Return of the Jedi soundtrack] |
Joe | "Hey Big Spender" [Sweet Charity Original Broadway Cast] |
Xzerrion | Well, Xzerrion at one point quoted "March of Cambreadth" by Heather Alexander. When he's on a morality kick, "Courage Knows No Bounds" by the same singer works as well. (For lyrics, hover over song titles on The Heatherlands on BandCamp.) |
Drisonel | With the scrying activity Drisonel's been up to, "I'll Be Watching You" seems appropriate for her :) |
John | I have 2 Tenchi soundtrack CD's I sometimes use. Other times a song will play through in my head as I write certain scenes. Or I'll be listening to a song and scenes will suggest themselves for later writing. [Tenchi soundtracks] John's theme music: "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen [A Kind Of Magic] |
Stranger | -- "Here I go again" -- Whitesnake
[Whitesnake] Dramatic battle music: |
Nimrod | -- "Gimme the Prize" -- Queen
[A
Kind Of Magic] |
Sythea | -- "Athena" -- Moody Blues (or is that Dire Straits?) [the
most likely one I found was by The Who on
It's
Hard] |
Anna Mahloy | (Martin mentioned "Venus" by Bannanarama) |