Subject: Nothing that I particularly associate with the PPC,
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Posted on: 2009-03-15 20:05:00 UTC
and the easiest way to explain my musical tastes is to link to the recently completed list of music on my computer
Described by Fynn as huge, eclectic and good.
Basically, since I am a man who loves my music (and whose brain has a tendency to work with the Imagination and cook up in-head music videos for whatever I'm hearing), I'm just wondering what music everyone else likes/currently has stuck in their head. Preferably something they associate with the PPC, but I'm hardly picky.
I'll start off with five of my own. My own tastes run more to "oldies" (ELO is possibly my favorite band ever, for example), but these five are all on my Songza playlist at current. As well as good.
Soft Cell- Tainted Love
Scissor Sisters- I Can't Decide
Rogue Trader- Voodoo Child (I blame Dr. Who for all three of these)
AC/DC- Back in Black
Creature Feature- The Greatest Show Unearthed
There's such a large selection that I like that it'd be next to impossible to pick out one favorite. If it helps, there's only one band whose albums I've ever bought more than two of, and that's Dream Theater.
I like Renaissance folk, techno, metal and goth rock, mostly. I am currently listening to the Mediaeval Baebes on ful
In doing field research for Agent Narcolepsy, I have revived a latent love for techno and electronica. In particular, I have discovered that I really like Does It Offend You, Yeah?.
Um. My music tastes differ with my PPC... tastes. I prefer love songs and quiet accompaniments on instruments like piano and violin (yeah, I'm such a romantic at heart).
Well, I love Vienna Teng and Bear McCreary. (composer for Battlestar Galactica, my current fandom obsession)
As for earworms, I have Linkin Park's "Leave Out All The Rest" and the Battlestar Galactica version of "All Along The Watchtower" stuck in my head.
... is it generally accepted practice that all songs should be by different artists, or can you use more than one by the same band?
I don't think they have to be all different. There was one person who did an entire Battlestar Galactica fanmix using songs by Vienna Teng.
As long as the pieces you pick fit the theme, it's full steam ahead. :]
and the easiest way to explain my musical tastes is to link to the recently completed list of music on my computer
Described by Fynn as huge, eclectic and good.
I don't think I've got anything I particularly associate with the PPC at the moment, but I haven't been listening to music for that… 'Ready to Die', Andrew W.K., maybe, but most of my playlist… well, I'd mention it in writing a mission and suchlike, but themed PPC, not so much. Otherwise, at the moment I'm running a mix of Arashi, The Whitlams (Blow Up the Pokies, Thank You (for loving me at my worst)), The Waifs, Disney, Soler (Not Alone), the SubaSeka OST, Ben Lee, and Utada Hikaru.
Movie soundtracks, Broadway, Bob Marley, Foo Fighters, Breaking Benjamin, Nickelback, Enya, traditional Irish music, classical, Cake, All-American Rejects, Johnny Cash, Martina McBride, Loreena McKennitt, Emmy Rossum, REIK, Coldplay, Billy Joel...the list goes on and on and on...
Ahem. Specifically Alice Cooper's 'Poison', which is clearly dedicated secretly to the Department of Bad Slash. Although most Eighties rock is: please consider
- Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
- Cherry Pie by Warrant (okay, I know, it misses being an Eighties song by a year, gimme a break :P)
- Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi
When I'm not listening to dodgy Eighties hair metal, however, my taste runs more to grunge (yes, I know, most grunge musicians would have crucified me for listening to hair metal, but meh); Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Babes in Toyland, Silverchair (pre-Diorama, srsly) and to seventies rock - Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, etc
And Queen.
And, uh, Savage Garden, ABBA, Steps, Vengaboys and S Club 7. For, y'know, when you get that urge to dance in a flaily way around your own living room after consuming two litres of icecream.
I, for example, have a deeply disturbing appreciation for 5ive. Fortunately this is shared by two of my friends, so we can get drunk, sing along, do the dance, and terrify observers.
I'm a metalhead myself. I like power metal mainly, usually epic metal (which is an unofficial subcategory of power metal, where the lyrics have a fantastical element). But I also like some oldies, rock, alternative rock, and a very small portion of rap (mainly by Fort Minor).
Thanks to you, I now have Tainted Love stuck in my head, but I think my most consistent 'favorite group' is Hoobastank. I also love Linkin Park, Nightwish, Dragonforce, and John Denver.
Oh! Tom Lehrer! How could I have possibly forgotten Tom Lehrer?
*is wearing an Iced Earth shirt and sitting across from a giant Blind Guardian banner*
Clearly this is a sin. I must atone by listening to That Was The Year That Was again.
"The Irish Ballad" is my favourite - gotta use that for the Molly Rath fanmix I'm planning.
Such a baaad influence, Tom is. :P
I LOVE the Irish Ballad... my other favorites are the most offensive ones like "National Brotherhood Week" and "In Old Mexico". And lately, ever since the beginning of the World War I unit in history class, I've been singing "So Long, Mom" and snippets of "The MLF Lullaby" every now and then.
I'm betting that most every Agent has most or at least part of Tom Lehrer's discography memorized. This probably makes for quite the scene at parties.
Especially when you get the Bad Slash Department drunk en masse; they all start singing "Smut" in unison.
Now THAT is an amusing mental image. Fun fact: "Smut" taught me a new word (licentious), and that honestly doesn't happen often.
is the idea of Agents dancing the Masochism Tango!
Or the Wienerschnitzel Waltz?
There should be a verse in "Who's Next" for the PPC.
There's nothing I particularly associate with the PPC. Well, maybe "The Call" by Regina Spektor, which for some reason I have on my computer. Always gives me this urge to exorcise the Disney-sponsored bad-het-wraith from poor Susan Pevensie.
Music currently stuck in my head is Flogging Molly. The man-thing brought three albums round on Monday, and I've been rinsing them ever since. Occasionally this is overtaken by the Propellerheads, but that's not so much in my head as floating up from the living room, as my housemate has of late developed a distressing habit of juggling half-naked in the window, and it helps him keep his rhythm.
As for general tastes? Swing, ska, punk, dub reggae, drum 'n' bass. In other words, the soundtrack to my mis-spent youth.
Incidentally, I heard the Rogue Traders one in a shop the other day, and was immediately overcome by the urge to come home and watch the season three finale.
John Simm probably takes the golden cup for Villain Who Enjoys His Job The Most. And Most Fun To Watch Being a Cock.
The first time I saw him press the button, I thought "Either he's ended the world or just started the largest rave it's ever known." And then it turned out he'd done BOTH.
Well, I don't have an MP3 loaded down with stuff with me, but let's check my Internet Jukebox at Songza.
The Eagles
The Beatles
The Carpenters
Air Supply
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
REO Speedwagon
Chicago
Electric Six
Rush
They Might Be Giants
Rockapella
K.C. and the Sunshine Band
XTC
Whew!
Them and Steeleye Span.
The world needs more Decemberists fans.
Actually I was led to most of my favourite bands by fanfic. Kate Bush, the Pogues, and Steeleye Span can be blamed on my parents, but I came across most of the others after finding them in songfics, and I sought out the Killers and the Decemberists after seeing fanart which used quotes from their songs. Does that make me an even bigger geek than before?
No more than me; my tastes in music have easily doubled, at least, since I got on the 'Net.
My apologies for the double-post, by the way. I'm still not used to this forum, so there was an accident with the back button.
I'm LOVING Great Big Sea at the moment (Sean McCann doing the Mermaid dance!), also Waterson:Carthy, Kate Rusby and Matt McGuin.
Hands up if you have never heard of any of them!
I'm also into some musicals, random pop music and anything else that amuses me (I had a Reggae phase when I was a kid!).
Can't say there's a particular kind of music I love these days. I like mainstream styles: generic punk, generic rock and generic classical (it's very vague, I know). Music from movies and video games is good too. I don't really have a fan mindset though, so I can't name bands.
I hope I'll be forgiven this very unenlightening post.
...I'm very interested in the metal genre. I've also been known to listen to early music, such as baroque and renaissance. Also, Samuel Barber is God. He wrote "Adagio For Strings". He lends the title to Dan Swanö on the weekends, however.
I'm currently listening to the Katatonia CD Brave Murder Day, with I just ripped onto my computer, and I have to say it's very good. Recently my favorite bands are Epica (I have to mention them, seeing as I'm wearing an Epica t-shirt at the moment), Nightingale, Tristania, Nightwish, Opeth, Arch Enemy, and Dark Tranquility. What, you expected me to just pick one?
But very little pop. Not a pop person. *shrug*
There's not much I tend to associate with the PPC, but when I'm writing Wicked I'll put on the karaoke music quietly, and other than that...
Well, it's a long list. I'll sing most Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, Wicked, West Side Story and so on for musicals, soundtracks for most of the classic (ie, before 2000) Disney films, Scottish and Irish folk music - Riverdance, the Corries, the Rankin Family - as well as some random singers, most of which stopped performing about the time I was born.
As for instrumentals, Pachelbel's Canon is my absolute favourite, along with the theme for "Meet Joe Black", and this beautiful extended piece from Star Trek: TNG (Picard's flute, for anyone who's seen that episode).
And I'm quite sure anyone reading this has lost interest by now, so I'll just shut up :P
Seriously, it's just about always something Broadway, and not something that is easily specified further. There are certain musicals - Scarlet Pimpernel, Secret Garden, Les Mis, Andrew Lloyd Weber stuff - that are more common than others, and love songs seem more likely to come up than other types, but I can get almost any musical in here.
I've only gotten the mental music video thing twice, sort of; once with a piece of classical music I don't remember that resolved as a Studio Ghibli credits sequence, and once with Sleigh Ride, which came out as a movie trailer involving an automated snowball catapult.
I Can't Decide, Voodoo Child, Westminster Bridge, and hell NuWho music in general...Star Wars and Halo music is nice too.
My favorite is Blind Guardian, in all their fantasy-obsessed glory: Nightfall and Times Stands Still are great, especially if you like The Silmarillion.
There's also Ayreon, a series of progressive rock/folk music/heavy metal sci-fi rock operas. Here's a song from Into the Electric Castle
Iron Maiden, too, although they're not so into sci-fi/mythology/fantasy.
The Master dancing to his own personal soundtrack while taking over the world is quite possibly the best thing ever.
"Symphony #6" by Ludwig van Beethoven
"Kometenmelodie Zwei" by Kraftwerk
"Take 5" by Dave Brubeck.
"This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" by Murray Gold
The song of the superb lyrebird. All save the last are on my mp3 player (although I'd like to find some lyrebird music on mp3).
I Like:
The Killers
Green Day
Panic! At the Disco
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie.
Carrie Underwood
Let's see here... Recent head music includes:
Neuroticfish - Why Don't You Hate Me?
E.S. Posthumous - Pompeii
Hyper - We Control
And a couple I don't know the titles to, by VNV Nation and E Nomine.
I tend to lean towards electronic music, in case you haven't guessed.
(Sophe Lux, that is). I doubt any one else will have heard of her though. XD
http://www.last.fm/music/Sophe+Lux/_/Mermaid+Song
Lyrics aren't work safe, btw.
Normally I listen to soundtracks though. I haven't listened to a radio for about five years now, and before then I listened to classical FM. *pretends to have class*
Sooo, my five most played songs on itunes are:
I'm alive, Becca (Kuroshitsuji)
Down to Earth, Peter Gabriel (Wall-E)
When she Loved Me, Sarah McLachlan (Toy Story 2)
The Call, Regina Spektor (Prince Caspian)
So Close, Jon McLaughlin (Enchanted)
Lux will kill your brains.
XD It's good music. I like it.
Unfortunately I found Celtic Woman this week, so by the time I get round to rescuing my CD from the abyss that is the Royal Mail I'll be too busy listening to "Danny boy" on repeat to listen to her.
My mp3 includes, um ... The Killers, Creature Feature, Flogging Molly, Kate Bush, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, the Sweeney Todd soundtrack, the Decemberists, the Pogues, and a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff. Also been listening to Rihanna's "Disturbia" and a few Mindless Self Indulgence songs on YouTube.
Yeah, I have very random taste. Good for making song-based riffs in MSTings and gags in missions. And will be helpful when I work on the VQ Musical chapter in the OFUR ...
They came and played at my university, and I was on the tech crew. That's one A/V pass (and bootleg recording) that I'm definitely hanging on to.
This is one of the problems with living at the arse end of nowhere - very few decent bands make it over here these days. And I'm too poor to get myself over to Leeds or Sheffield for these things, alas.
Besides, I think her theme band would be Mindless Self Indulgence. "Molly" and "Pre-Teen Violence" are in competition for being her theme song. (Considering what her father nearly did to her, "Pantyshot" might be on there too, but that's way too dark for the PPC even though we're talking about an adorable anthro ferret kid who eats people.)
I don't associate any particular songs with the PPC in general, but I do sometimes associate certain songs with certain characters or situations.
The latter two songs I mentioned in my first post are two my aforementioned "Mental Music Video" function associates with the PPC. "Back in Black" hooked on when I got to the climactic battle while reading the logs of HFA, and I imagine "The Greatest Show Unearthed" as agents staging some kind of demented carnival of the PPC's history and the history of the Mary Sue in your traditional Creepy Deserted Fairgrounds.
And the OFUR Purging Party after That Series needs to play "Closer", even if we specify no other songs ...
And speaking of Creature Feature, think we could assemble a PPC version of "A Gorey Demise" with Sue names?
Considering they like using the odd letters, I'd say yes. It'd be a riot.