Sound of Music (on Planes)

W00t, first post and a good theme.

So to begin in revial tone
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my opening theme choice for Sigil would be either a typical jewish folk melody (I have a good one on the "Snatch" soundtrack) or a Tim Burton movie theme, for example opening theme from Beetle Juice.
These both sound very silly because in both of our PC parties live outside of Hive and are good friends, so I'd have to change it for a more serious campaign/party or gloomy to some sort of progressive indie music.
But unfortunately I don't have any of that on my comp.

I like to use both David Bowie and Tool/Full Circle groups for atmospheric purposes of various planes.
I remember that Pink Floyd was superb for Mount Celestia and System of a Down were cool for Pandemonium.
But anything can be used I guess(even ska if you like more of an anime setting), I have to come up with a list.

I'm a little bit annoyed with DM's music preference(heavy metal this and heavy metal that :shock: ).

Btw. @Clueless - you gave me a good idea to compile a list and save it on my new laptop and we should have a session in the nearby mountain shed(my house is on the hill side of town and mountain resorts are pretty near, 15 min drive or so).
This is quite possible now that two of the players have cars.

This should create a great atmosphere .
I'll have to try it out soon, because the weather is great.
Sorry for the OT and thread hijacking.

P.S. spam _ @Clu' - Moby's version of Bond theme is very good, it just came up on my playlist .

We have a hard enough time sometime keeping the DM on track sometimes in the first place. And any of the atmospheric musics we could use (Tool for example) would distract him the most - he would most likely simply *stop* talking while listening to it.

Teardrop -from "Massive Attack" is a great atmosphere booster for a planescape emo moment's, as well as Annah - Torment theme.

I like Ignus's theme song the best. (The music that plays when you walk near him in the Smoldering Corpse.)

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I don't tend to use music much in my campaign, except for the occasional hint of something to provide emphasis.

That said, I'm currently writing a con scenario that has the specific instruction to play the overture from Don Giovanni at the beginning. If you're looking for good thematic music have a look at some of the stuff from before 1950, you can find some very interesting music for use in your games amidst the works of Elgar, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Bach, etc.

I'd reccommend Oh Fortuna for Pandemonium. It's always put me in mind of a somewhat tempestuous scene. Perhaps Zadok the Priest for Mt. Celestia.

I decided to make use of a small piece of music I wrote recently in my game this evening. My players know that it was inspired by the group of Xaositects found in Armoury99's Desire and the Dead and so when I was bringing them in against one of the players, I was able to just play the music and the player who was encountering them instantly knew what had happened.

Mozart's earlier work is much more light-hearted and could work on the Upper Planes. His personal zeal for life and parties causes me to think that it would sit well in chaotic and good aligned planes. Following his father's death, his music became much darker. Not necessarily the evil, rage, or manpulation associated with the other Lower Planes, much the dread, despair, and depression that I think is best represented by the Gray Waste.

On the other end of the planes, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (parts featured in Disney's Fantasia) would work well in Elysium or the Beastlands.

Children of Dune for Sigil, maybe?

I see my music taste is being questioned here. retribution will be swift and merciless.

wave@ duster and squaff

If we're talking about metal, I suppose an argument could be made for Manowar on Ysgard, Bolt Thrower on any battlefield for the Blood War, and Fear Factory for the scarier areas of Mechanus.

Also, I'd like to add the score to Firefly to the list of Sigil music

I think torment soundtrack is by far the most fit as music background (specially the mortuary theme... totally love it). Then any rpg background or movie score can work it out... but i think that is better a) try to put music from the same source (with a certain mood, don't change that much) and b) nothing very 'noticeable', you know, don't distract player's attention with the music

Any ideas where I could find the soundtrack to Torment?

Oh, and has anyone recommeded the soundtrack to "The Longest Journey" yeet, which can be downloaded freely from the game's website?

Thanks!

The PS:T soundtrack is great. Does anybody know something about the composers Mark Morgan and Richard Band?

Wikipedia says something about a song by Lustmord, that was composed but wasn’t used for Torment. His music really fits Planescape.

If inevitable, I prefer somehow “bizarre” (don’t know a better word for it) classical music for pen&paper:
Orff’s (inevitable) “Carmina Burana”,
“Dance of the Knights” from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”,
(“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” From “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky

Sigil needs something distinctly urban, perhaps even atonal. Or, I would imagine, something akin to the Ghost in the Shell anime soundtrack (very cross-cultural) or, even, the excellent Millennium series. The Hive could do with some ethnic music, but given the sheer difficulty of imagining what say, tiefling, half-orc or elven music would be like complicates matters. In any case, Sigil has to be fusion by definition.

I dunno where you can find one. But that'd be one time it would serve the purposes of the game to distract PCs.

Ther are a lot of different atmospheric moods CD's out there, they mostly use those at Tai Chio sessions or at museum exhibitions.

I have a CD of storms and winds but I'm sure you could find what you're looking for.

Representative polls showed that nine out of ten Sodkillers listen to Rammstein.

Btw, I warmly recommend In Extremo’s album “Weckt die Toten” (Rouse the Dead). They mix original medieval lyrics and instruments with punk rock.

Amiga 500 era! There were three parts. Which one do you mean? All had an eerie atmosphere. The soundtrack of part two can be downloaded from the composer’s homepage.

I myself generally am a musician; I make music which is more or less "industrial ambient," which is useful for the kind of grunge that Planescape captures.
I usually write music for my group uniquely. It's fun.

When I'm not doing that, I like to make my more sneaky, darker games have soundtracks ranging from Meat Beat Manifesto to Nurse With Wound.