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Lerk

12-04-2010, 04:50 AM

helbent4

12-04-2010, 05:49 AM

Hello!
I decided to share the music i originally made for use for my sessions of the polish campaign. It's three songs, close to 45 minutes total. They escalate, fade down and they're very good to loop and shuffle.

I found a legal torrent site to put my work at and i will be seeding it there for some time, if you have use for the music in your campaign, please consider seeding it.

http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=3d9ca99269eae5edb139b4c5761a9f427a2a488b

Lerk,

I don't run a face-to-face game but will be happy to download it when circumstances permit. (I am currently having computer troubles but they should be solved, soon. Hopefully.) Anyways, happy to seed and share, anything I can do to help.

When creating a campaign for different games, songs (commercial ones) sometimes suggest themselves. The following one came to mind for my current T2K game "Angels of the Apocalypse":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71EnaOs-Xdk

Edit added: I managed to download the songs relatively quickly, so that worked out well. Among other things, is that a sample of numbers stations in the T2K march? (I used a sound clip of one before in my T2K games. Very Cold War-eque.)

Tony

Lerk

12-04-2010, 07:38 AM

Yes i used numbers stations, i find that they have very eerie sound. In the songs i also use propaganda radio from Hanoi during the Vietnam war, some speeches by Erich Honnecker, some news from North Korea and whatever i find that fits at the moment :)

I have 3-4 songs that are currently work-in-progress.

Currently i use those songs plus the soundtrack from the stalker game, but i plan to phase that out once i compose enough of my own tracks. The goal being to be able to have unique music for the whole session. I find it somewhat irritating when people recognize tunes and starts discussing those instead of playing, so make songs that are entirely new.

Fusilier

12-04-2010, 10:04 AM

I found a legal torrent site to put my work at...

Legal site... hmm.

Do I dare step out from the shadows and into the strange and legitimate world of a legal torrent?

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Lerk

12-04-2010, 03:58 PM

While i'm at it composing music, any special preferences as to what sort of music you find fits T2k? I can do a variety of music styles.

bigehauser

12-08-2010, 08:18 PM

European techno, hardstyle, trance, house, and all the other genres that fit in there for a weird Eastern Euro feel to games based in that region.

Lerk

12-23-2010, 06:51 PM

A new song will be done soon. Sounds a tad Rammstein meets Red alert hell march.

dragoon500ly

12-23-2010, 10:33 PM

Call me old school, but for my FTFT2K games I've always found that some of the various Hollywood soundtracks can't be beat...theme from Preadator and Rambo to name a couple. First time the players came across the wreckage of a Soviet column that had been bombed to pieces in the first days of the war...had Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" keyed up.

If you can find a copy of Dunnigans "Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War", he has a play list of songs that were beloved by the GIs...dated I know, but still managed to get some of my players when they finally saw the fleet at Bremerhaven, waiting to take them home...."Freebird"

And of course, when we did Armies of the Night....theme from "Escape from New York"..

what ever works..

helbent4

12-23-2010, 11:07 PM

dragoon500ly

12-24-2010, 07:06 AM

Lee,

I do like the examples you gave of your own game.

A great soundtrack is the soundtrack for the movie "Sorceror" by Tangerine Dream, a great synthesizer-driven sound! Despite the name and the trippy title, it's really about a bunch of guys driving a truck full of nitro to put out a oil-well fire at a wellhead over rough South American roads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrNtrIQVdo&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYTJllfKW4&feature=related

Tony

Another good soundtrack!

A lot of the John Williams soundtracks are excellent choices. I've also used some nice smokey jazz for the scene set in Na Zdrowie, right before Tanya is introduced.

And of couse, some nice heavy metal for the combat scenes...I've used the soundtrack from Heavy Metal the movie for those and gotten some good response.

Stich2.0

12-24-2010, 09:40 AM

Any song from Insane Clown Posse for any mood or any situation.

Raellus

12-24-2010, 10:28 AM

Any song from Insane Clown Posse for any mood or any situation.

I really hope that you are joking.

dragoon500ly

12-24-2010, 11:31 AM

I hope he is joking...but I'm getting this funny feeling!:rolleyes:

Raellus

12-24-2010, 12:07 PM

I hope he is joking...but I'm getting this funny feeling!:rolleyes:

If he's not joking, I'm going to have to banish him from the forum. ;)

Stich2.0

12-24-2010, 02:42 PM

I really hope that you are joking.

Raellus, you can't even hold music.

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4992/1270774390416.jpg

Raellus

12-24-2010, 03:15 PM

LoL.

Now my eyes, as well as ears, are hurting.

Fusilier

12-24-2010, 03:16 PM

LoL.

Now my eyes, as well as ears, are hurting.

LOL.

helbent4

12-25-2010, 04:59 AM

Any song from Insane Clown Posse for any mood or any situation.

Stich, ICP is an interesting choice.

For a more serious choice, the following band did a heavy metal conceptual album based on GDW's Traveller RPG. It totally kicks ass! Makes me want to run a Traveller game.

It's heavy metal but good heavy metal. (If you think any such music could be considered good, that is.)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QWSHXZt1r58/SbsGoGJDStI/AAAAAAAAABo/gWiLDr5-nkA/s320/Lord+Weird+Slough+Feg.jpg

Have a listen on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOQF6RDRIe0&playnext=1&list=PLA0260E878BB3BDBA&index=38

Gotta love a song with the lyrics, "Busted in the Sword Worlds with a loaded gauss gun!" - Traders and Gunboats

Tony

Legbreaker

12-26-2010, 07:03 AM

How can ANYONE go past metal as a sound track!? :O

dragoon500ly

12-26-2010, 07:12 AM

How can ANYONE go past metal as a sound track!? :O

Some of the best of Hollywood soundtracks can make a nice background. It's also not a bad idea to try the varous Call of Duty/Medal of Honor soundtracks. The studios can afford to get some serious talent, especially singers known for doing other types of music.

Lerk

12-26-2010, 05:26 PM

And here it is:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/187907/Casings.mp3

helbent4

12-26-2010, 06:20 PM

Some of the best of Hollywood soundtracks can make a nice background. It's also not a bad idea to try the varous Call of Duty/Medal of Honor soundtracks. The studios can afford to get some serious talent, especially singers known for doing other types of music.

Lee,

I used to dismiss heavy metal out of hand, but as I get older I find I'm less picky. I even like some disco! (Don't tell anyone.)

The soundtrack for the movie Heavy Metal (1981) is pretty good for background, not heavy at all of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuIZNwpL3cU

Speaking of songs keyed to specific in-game events, I'm playing in a home-brew PBEM (Day of the Dead: Black Horse) and our PCs went on a mounted patrol of Helena MT to pick up a mobile MRI and medical supplies at a hospital. My PC was chewed out for playing "Running with the Devil" by Van Halen on the Humvee's interior sound system because the music might attract the geeks/zeds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4dEAtxo0M

Tony

dragoon500ly

12-26-2010, 07:07 PM

Tony...

The Mob Rules is almost required for group combat!!!!!

Heavy Metal, at least the first sound track, is one of the best RPG soundtracks out there....

helbent4

12-27-2010, 02:42 AM

Tony...

The Mob Rules is almost required for group combat!!!!!

Heavy Metal, at least the first sound track, is one of the best RPG soundtracks out there....

Lee,

Hell yeah, you know it brother!

Tony

bobcat

12-27-2010, 09:50 AM

i find behind blue eyes by the who is awesome for a sniper battle. the song from the good the bad and the ugly was made for an ambush, and for everything else mix it up.

helbent4

12-27-2010, 06:10 PM

i find behind blue eyes by the who is awesome for a sniper battle. the song from the good the bad and the ugly was made for an ambush, and for everything else mix it up.

Bob,

I tend to think of "Behind Blue Eyes" as more the theme song for New America. And/or "In God's Country".

Back to the soundtrack for Heavy Metal, reading the comments for the song "All of You" by Don Felder that reference making out during the track, and my wife and I would like to confirm that after much scientific research and double-blind studies it's at least 105% more awesome.

="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye6u7WmR_so&feature=related"

Tony

General Pain

12-30-2010, 04:32 AM

http://thebigbookofwar.50megs.com/RPGmusic.html

this is what we usually use on our campaigns.....

Apart from that, any musicians on this forum should put their tracks on
soundcloud.

www.soundcloud.com

(free)

dragoon500ly

01-06-2011, 11:20 AM

Now this may not be T2K, but it is intresting...This is a list of the popular music of the US Army in Vietnam:

The Letter (Box Tops)
Leaving on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul and Mary)
We've Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals)
Paint it Black (Rolling Stones)
The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival, hereafter CCR)
Bad Moon Rising (CCR)
Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)
All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (the Fifth Dimension)
As Tears Go By (Rolling Stars)
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin)
Baby Love (Diana Ross and the Supremes)
Ballad of Ira hayes (Johnny Cash)
Billy and Sue (BJ Thomas)
Black is Black (Los Bravos)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Bobby McGee (Bobby Gentry & Glen Campbell)
Born on the Bayou (CCR)
Burning Bridges (the Mike Curb Congregation)
Coming Home Soldier (Bobby Vinton)
Crimson and Clover (Tommy James & the Shondells)
Darling Be Home Soon (Lovin' Spoonful)
Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes)
Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys)
Do You Believe in Magic (The Lovin' Spoonful)
Don't Worry, Baby (Beach Boys)
Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs)
Drive On (Johnny Cash)
Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
Fortunate Son (CCR)
Galveston (Glen Campbell)
Get Off of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)
Good Morning Sunshine (Oliver)
Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
Hang on Snoopy (The McCoys)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain (CCR)
Heartbreaker (the Crystals)
Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
Heu Jude (the Beatles)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
I Wish It Would Rain (the Temptations)
I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald & the Fish)
I'm a Believer (The Monkees)
In the Year 2525 (Zaeger & Evans)
Is There Anybody Here (Phil Ochs)
Judy in Disguise (John Fred & the Playboys)
Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)
Light My Fire (the Doors)
Long As I Can See the Light (CCR)
Lookin' Out My Back Door (CCR)
Louie Louie (the Kingsmen)
Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills)
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo (Lobo)
Monday, Monday (Mamas & the Papas)
Mr. Lonely (Bobby Vinton)
My Girl (the Temtations)
Nowhere Man (the Beatles)
Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry)
Okie from Muskogee (Merle Haggard)
One (Three Dog Night)
Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan)
Presence of the Lord (Blind Faith)
Proud Mary (Ike and Tina Turner)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Radio V-I-E-T-N-A-M (Bell & Shore)
Reach Out, I'll Be There (the Four Tops)
Rescue Mission (Kris Kristofferson)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Kenny Rogers)
Run Through the Jungle (CCR)
Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the Beatles)
Sherry (the Four Seasons)
Silver Medals and Sweet Memories (the Statler Brothers)
Snoop vs the Red Baron (the Royal Guardsmen)
Soldier Boy (the Shirelles)
Soul Deep (the Box Tops)
Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette)
Star-Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix)
Still in Saigon (Charlie Daniels Band)
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch (the Four Tops)
Susie Q (CCR)
These Boots Are Made for Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells)
Unchained Melody (the Righteous Brothers)
Up Around the Bend (CCR)
Veterans Day (Tom Russell)
Vietnam Blues (Dave Dudley)
Walk Like a Man (the Four Seasons)
What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge)
Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (the Lovin'Spoonful)

and then there is Special Forces Sergeant Barry Sadler who had three hit songs: "The Ballad of the Green Beret", "I'm A Lucky One" and "Trooper's Lament"

This list is from Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F. Dunnigna and Albert A Nofi. It simply is the best list that I have seen for the music of the Vietnam War.

helbent4

01-06-2011, 10:52 PM

and then there is Special Forces Sergeant Barry Sadler who had three hit songs: "The Ballad of the Green Beret", "I'm A Lucky One" and "Trooper's Lament"

This list is from Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F. Dunnigna and Albert A Nofi. It simply is the best list that I have seen for the music of the Vietnam War.

Lee,

Outstanding!

A couple of songs from the 80's sneaked in there, like "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel (1982) and "Radio V-I-E-T-N-A-M: by Bell & Shore (1989).

Aside from his songs, Barry Sadler's other claim to fame was amassing an enormous collection of Nazi and assorted WWII memorabilia. (Although to be clear he was never accused of anti-Semitism or being pro-Nazi personally, to my knowledge.) His son said, "it wasn't until I went to school that I realised the Germans lost the war!"

Tony

kcdusk

01-07-2011, 03:35 AM

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by Sabastian Bach. It was the theme music to the 1975 film Rollerball. Or even a remix of it.