MUSIC

So what kind of music is everyone into? More importantly what (if anything) does everyone listen to when gaming?

Sound effects?

I generally have movie/T.V. soundtracks music playing low in the background while running a game.

Also while on the subject is anyone a musician of any sort?

I myself play piano and record with a Roland Fantom Xa, ACID 7.0 Pro, Sound Forge 6, and an extensive library of sounds on the PC that are always being added too. So far I have accumulated 52 songs since 1998. :idea:

 

I had a gaming group that when it came time for battle it was time to put on Metallica "Black" or Led Zeppelin "Runes."

Great battle music! And the party usually fared better when the music was playing. Strange I know. But true.

 

Mostly, soundtracks from action movies.

If its more of a party then throw on some party music, etc.

Folk music that has balls to it (otherwise forget it! ).

Rock is hard because if it turns into a pile of guitar wails or drum solos it throws everybody off so it pays to be selective in this regard.

 

Radio Rivendell has some cool stuff on it. If you have hi-speed and just let it run in the background, though, their mix might not match what's happening at the table. When it does though, we turn up the battle music!

 

I LOVE to listen to the sounds of 'Blue Clam Cult', "Don't Fear the Keeper or 'Stealing, Damn's', "Deekin Boos". or "Sobs & Whimpers of My Opponents, by the "MR. T" band, or "I Feel for You" by 'Itssa Khan' or................... :roll: .................. :lol: (I CRACK ME UP!)

 

I try. I try.

 

My D&D music:

The Lion in Winter
Gladiator
Diablo II
Conan the Barbarian
The Lord of the Rings ’78
The Passion of the Christ
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica ’78

 

I got my Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as a Voice major (i.e. Opera). Currently my wife sings full-time with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. I mostly work in the field of Russian Orthodox Church singing.

 

Wow!! Impressive on both accounts!

I imagine one cannot find Russian Orthodox Church singing on CD just anywhere. :?: How did you come by your interest in that? :arrow:

Doing the DJMGRPG we have a mix of musical genres that we listen to as well. Below is a partial list of what I and my Players generally listen to when we game:
Beauty in the Beast
Ben-Hur
The Celts
The Chronicle of the Black Sword
The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions
Fighting the World
Hamlet
Hologram Rosebudd
It Is the Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous
The Mummy
The New Worlds Fair (ReMastered) a.k.a. Roller Coaster Holiday
Pattern Fall
Shadow: Hed Session
The Shape of the Universe
Sign of the Hammer
Sonority: St. Jacob’s Swedish Chamber Choir
The Transformed Man
Warrior on the Edge of Time
Watermark
Alien (all Movies)
Amok Time
Blade Runner
Clockwork Orange
Conan the Barbarian
Damnation Alley
Dracula
Dune
Forbidden Planet
Gladiator (And the extra album ‘More music from the motion picture Gladiator’)
Lawrance of Arabia
Logopolis
Nature’s Drums
Planet of the Apes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Red Sonja
Shore Leave
Signs
Space 1999
Descent Psychosis
Star Trek (all movies and TV)
Switched on Bach
AON: The Ambient Collection
The Best of Babylon 5
The Cage
The Dark Knight
The Doomsday Machine
TLotR (All newer ones.)
The Naked Time
The Passion of the Christ
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
The Ten Commandments (ReMastered)
The Terminator
The Twilight Zone
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
Songs in the key of X
TRON
Where no man has Gone Before
Wish You Were Here

 

I tried the music thing a couple of times and had more than one person ask to turn it off. So, off it went and it never came back. I've played in games where it's been played and I don't have an issue with it. These days I doubt you could even hear the music with 10 guys at the table all vying for their share of the night.

I heard Melf was into Don Cornelius. I wonder if Soul Train was on a tv in the background a lot?

 

Well... I am Orthodox. And we sing the Russian-style music in church. Not all that strange, really! (Also, you CAN find recordings.)

 

Well then I shall have to seek out some as it sounds like something I would like to have in my collection.

 

I know an Orthodox monk from some online interaction and he sent me a CD but, unfortunately, it wasn't in English so it was a bit difficult for me to follow.

BTW, I'm actually thinking of taking a guided study on Orthodox church history since that is an area that's very lacking at my seminary.

 

"The Souuuuuuuul Traaaaiiiin!" I remember my Mom was a big fan of that when I was a kid. I was pretty young but I remember wondering why people liked to watch other people dance on TV. Seemed strange to me. Especially when they could be watching Star Blazers!

As for music while gaming, nahhh. An old group I was in experimented with the Conan soundtracks but it really was just a distraction because we all kept commenting on the music instead of the game.

 

Just found my copies of the first Dragonlance series of books on cassette!!! Gawd was I thrilled, until I realized I don't own a cassette player anymore!! DAMN CD's!!! Maybe I'll bring them to GC2, if anyones' interrested?

 

For anyone who cares and for those I have not already virtually accosted, this is (some of) my music-

http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=Shalaban

I sometimes throw it into the playlist when we play Changeling, Gamma World, Star Drive, or Eclipse Phase.

WOW! :!: This is my 100th post! Now I need to celebrate!

 

Silence! That is my preferred background sound for gaming. I prefer a lack of competition for people's hearing and attention (conscious or sub-conscious).

 

We usually have background music on. When it's time for combat- the CD is switched out by the players for "Battle music."


Good times...