Eerily Quiet Place Where There Are Probably Bad Elves With Knives
Vs. Wolf Demons in a Waist-Deep River of Blood
Song Appropriate To Play Right After Your First-Level Magic-User Uses "Sleep" For The First Time And Everybody's Impressed Because It's AD&D So The Gnolls Get No Saving Throw
Encounter in the Chamber Wherein Dwells the Halfling Vampire Queen and Her Pet Vampire Monkey
Fighting Witches In Their Creepy Witch-Place
Yeah, Sure Villagers, We'll Take Your Money, We'll Solve Your Little Problem. Where? Over In That Ruined Subterranean Complex? No Problem. What? Yeah, A Little, But We Can Still Pass A Breathalyzer Test
I Know You Guys Know What's In The Next Room And I, As Your DM, Would Just Like To Reassure You That Everything Will Be Ok, Just Let Me Switch The CD, Now, Ok, What Were You Saying Your Plan Was?
(Dylan--"Fixin to Die")
Vecna's Bride Held Aloft In The Center Of Undead Army On Palanquin By Zombies Visiting Vengeance On All Mankind
A Dimension Warp Opens And Things Suddenly Get All Arduin and Shit
(Dead Link--Monster Magnet "3rd Alternative")
Emerging From The Dungeon To a Twisted Frostscape of Withered Trees
Helm's Deep-Esque Epic-Hopeless-Stronghold-Defense-Type Situation
(dead link--Metallica "For Whom The Bell Tolls")
You Summoned It But Now It Wants To Eat You So Now You Are Running Away
(I cannot for the life of me remember what I linked to here)
Any Scene That Feels Like RE Howard Wrote It
Any Scene That Feels Like RE Howard Wrote It (drunk singalong)
(I am guess in this was an Iron Maiden "Sun and Steel")
The Fact That Nothing In This Abandoned Temple Has Tried To Hurt Us Yet Only Makes Me More Nerv...FUCK!
The Fact That Nothing In This Ruined City Has Tried To Hurt Us Yet Only Makes Me More Nerv...FUCK!
Wait, That's The Same Flail Snail Who Killed My Last Character?
(dead link to Screaming For Vengeance by Judas Priest)
Goblin Attack!!!!!
Oh My God I Am Rolling Dice And Cutting Stuff Up And This Rocks And I Rock And You Rock And This Dip Rocks And I Can't Believe I Ever Stopped Playing This Game
(...Twisted Sister? Wish I could remember)
Heading Toward Certain Death On Viking Warship
Now The Viking Warship Is On Fire And There's People With Axes Trying To Board It
Pursued by Death Knight On Tenebrous Steed
The Twisted Chaos Sorcerer Has Transported Us To The Elemental Plane of Fucked-Up Stuff Erol Otis Probably Drew
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time To Kill the Plant Monster In Death Frost Doom But Look What Happened
Helplessly Watching the March of the Army of the Demon Prince That You Probably Should've Levelled Up Before Pissing Off
I Expect You'll Be In Combat For Another Hour So I'm Just Gonna Put This Bolt Thrower CD on Repeat (Bolt Thrower, obviously)
*throws horns in approbation*
ReplyDeleteTangential question: are pig-in-a-poke links (ie: f'ing Youtube, shorturl, etc) bad netiquette?
I don't understand your question.
ReplyDeleteI think he wants you to embed the videos instead of just linking blindly.
ReplyDeleteAh.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was more fun this way.
That would be a lot of embedded videos!
ReplyDeleteIn high school, our usual D&D music was The Cars' Greatest Hits, because my best friend, whose house everyone played at, played that tape *all the time*. Other popular choices of the day:
-The soundtrack to Excalibur or Conan the Barbarian
- "Hells' Bells" by AC/DC
- "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" by Rush
Google alerts has turned James Raggi into a Demon Prince--type "Death Frost Doom" and he will appear.
ReplyDeleteThose song titles are epic.
ReplyDeleteWait, wait, I've got one...
ReplyDeleteHey that shady guy over in the corner looks like he might have some info, lets go talk to him
You just made me start listening to Monster Magnet again after a maybe 8 year hiatus!
ReplyDeleteDon't listen to Chris, it is more fun this way.
Not my intent to cause a stink, sorry if I did. I think I've just been Rickrolled too often to trust anything that just says *.youtube.* anymore. ;)
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side: Screaming for Vengeance and the humble Flail Snail are now irrevocably linked in my mind.
Getting all Arduin. Yes please, but using Bolt Thrower and Summon.
ReplyDeleteHow did I know that "Now The Viking Warship Is On Fire And There's People With Axes Trying To Board It" was going to be Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song?"
ReplyDeleteI collect movie scores, and I've used quite a few tracks from them as background music for gaming, especially when I was running the Dragonlance Chronicles campaign. I think my favorite was using the main theme from Crimson Tide as Ember's cue (for those unfamiliar with Dragonlance, Ember was the Huge Ancient Red Dragon partner of the Dragon Highlord Verminaard, the party's nemesis through the first four modules in the campaign). The third time in the campaign I hit "play" and that came on, there was a general chorus of "Oh, shit!" They were on top of the Floating Tomb of Derkin, with nowhere to flee from the dragon....
My group always started singing the Rolling Stones song "Shattered" when they fought skeletons.
ReplyDeleteFor some good high weirdshit-o-meter noir style mood music, you cannot do better than 'God Speed You Black Emperor'. One of my favorite tracks (and by now probably a horror film classic) is 'East Hastings'.
ReplyDeleteJust listening to it again conjurers up scenes of something horribly inevitable. An unrelenting horror or a climactic battle for the souls of countless millions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9USJgkruTw
I can also point you to the sound the walls might make in your Gigadungeon, if an earth tremor set them thrumming. This is quite literally a guy called Stephan Micus playing huge specially constructed stone sculptures in a German Cathedral.
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Stones-Stephan-Micus/dp/B000025ZXK
Finally, I don't do much music at the table, but I remember my 3.5 "Sharn City of Towers" came with a pretty cool movie style soundtrack CD.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20040912news
"I Know You Guys Know What's In The Next Room And I, As Your DM, Would Just Like To Reassure You That Everything Will Be Ok, Just Let Me Switch The CD, Now, Ok, What Were You Saying Your Plan Was?"
ReplyDeleteThis video is coming up as having been removed for copyright. What song was this?
"fixin to Die"" Bob Dylan
ReplyDeleteGlad to see someone else listens to Amebix when they play. Monolith is perfect RPG music.
ReplyDeleteAmebix clone band Acrostix split LP w/Contrast Attitude is PERFECT music to play. I'll send emps if you want. The song "Eternal Winter" is the jam for D&D.