hexarchate_rpg | [fun and games] songsharing the voidmoth way

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Linkin Park, "Breaking the Habit" [Youtube]
(I actually picked this song out because I liked it BEFORE I saw the music video with all its gears!)
[visuals may be triggery, violence??? I'm not good at content notes]

Edited (huh, no luck with the embed) Date: 2019-09-13 11:59 pm (UTC)

From:

yhlee

Cowboy Bebop Blue, "Chicken Bone" [Youtube, no visuals]

From:

yhlee

TRAPPIST Sounds : TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System Translated Directly Into Music [Youtube]

(I realize it should have a theme song also that is literally a cantata, but vocal music is not my strength. Anyone want to help me out? I'm thinking J. S. Bach.]

From:

yhlee

I don't think this will be a surprise to anyone.
Flobots - "Handlebars" [Youtube]

From:

kese_seyli

My spouse just looked over my shoulder and was like "Wait isn't he...I TOLD YOU, I TOLD YOU I WAS RIGHT." So thank you for making their evening, as they played this song for me after we finished the series last year.

From:

yhlee

*grin*

From:

kese_seyli

None of this has ever shown up in game but a song for Seyli: Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zreotds8U

(the same artist makes up...half of my Jedao playlist atm)

From:

kese_seyli

I think Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise by the Avett Brothers is a good Seyli song, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KEJkJslZuw

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kese_seyli

I have decided that Dessa's Velodrome is 100% a Seyli song as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c8KyRcT020

From:

yhlee

This is such a great, catchy song!

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zuhrovet

Here's the list of songs I associate with Sasha that would annoy her, for a combination of musical reasons and judgment-of-her-relationship-failure reasons:

Lord Anthony, Belle & Sebastian ("When will you realize it doesn't pay/ to be smarter than teachers, smarter than most kids?")
All My Money on You, Diana Jones ("Might be the smartest thing I do/ put all my money on you")
Come Back From San Francisco, the Magnetic Fields ("... and kiss me--I've quit smoking!")
Acoustic Guitar, also the Magnetic Fields ("You understand where she's coming from/ which I obviously don't/ or she wouldn't be gone")

From:

yhlee

Heh, poor Sasha. ^_^

From:

zuhrovet

Sasha judges me so much for liking "Acoustic Guitar." I can feel the judgment pouring off her.

(Emulating her music knowledge is really hard! The herpetology nerding is much easier to fake.)

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yhlee

Sasha would probably hate my taste in music, which runs to very conventional classical (J. S. Bach and Tchaikovsky in particular), sugary pop, really sugary kpop, sappy country music, and the more melodic/pleasant strains of rock.

You know, I have no idea what Jedao's tastes in music are. Probably country & western because ~~Texan~~ Shparoi.

Kujen is a snob and likes opera and ballet.

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zuhrovet

Yeah, Sasha likes some pop, but it's "things that were karaoke standards for a female voice c. 225," so I usually look for 1920s music and then go sideways. I should link things here when I'm extrapolating!

From:

zuhrovet

I recently found Oom Sha La La by Haley Heynderickx. It's peak Sasha music, in the sense that it starts out pretty, silly, and singable, swerves through tragic love ("She'll never be your ego/She'll never be a bandit/
She'll never get to eat you like your heart's a pomegranate") and then turns into hopeless screaming.

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yhlee

I am dying to listen to all the songs! But Ara is practicing the "piano" (USB MIDI controller keyboard), and the audio out is hooked up to the DAW right now, so no other sound from my computer will play. :p Maybe tomorrow?

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slybrarian

Sorry about being a bit quiet lately, but here's some songs.

What Alaric's School Promised His Degree Would Make Him: Dies Irae

What Alaric Thinks He Does: Knights of Cydonia

What Alaric's Progenitor Units Think He Does: Star Trekkin

What The Hexarchate Thinks Alaric Does: New Math

What He Thinks About the Cantata: Space Oddity

What Alaric Probably Actually Does:
She Blinded Me With Science
I Am a Scientist
What We Need More Of Is Science

From:

yhlee

BWAH! I love this.

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bariolage

I never listen to music on Youtube or watch music videos, so I've only checked the first few bars of these to make sure it's the right versions of songs and have no CLUE about the videos, don't read into them, I didn't watch them. I have songs on my Ione playlist besides these (one in question: Check it Out - Oh the Larceny) that just kind of make me think of her musically, but here are four that actually are on there because they relate to her both musically and lyrically on some level!

Ooh La - The Kooks
Volcano - Damien Rice
Masterfade and Imitosis - both Andrew Bird

Edited Date: 2019-09-18 08:05 pm (UTC)

From:

yhlee

Oh, how neat! :D

From:

hoardingpearls

All links are to YouTube.

Songs that remind me of her:
Breath of Life - Florence and the Machine, chosen for the way the vocals and instruments seem to be doing two different things most of the time, and also lyrics.

Steer Your Way - Leonard Cohen. Depressing, because Leonard Cohen.
"Steer your heart past the Truth that you believed in yesterday
Such as Fundamental Goodness and the Wisdom of the Way..."

Reshad's taste in music is eclectic. She can enjoy almost anything, given a chance to find something she likes about it.

She'd probably like the following:
Namonaki Oka - Yoshida Brothers (Tsugaru Shamisen instrumental, I love the way this one peaks about 2:20.)

Lean On - Major Lazer & DJ Snake
"Blow a kiss, fire a gun
All we need is somebody to lean on"

Personally, I listen to video game music or symphonic metal when I'm working, which is somewhat stereotypical of me. When I'm not trying to focus, almost anything goes, although I favor things with lots of harmony. I grew up on Beethoven and Mozart and the Moody Blues.

Edited Date: 2019-09-19 03:50 am (UTC)

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yhlee

Oh man, these are pretty. I like your taste in music! :)

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yhlee

Pssst--who would you recommend if I really loved the Yoshida Brothers piece and wanted to explore more along those lines?

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hoardingpearls

I'm glad you enjoyed these! :D

Yoshida Brothers music is pretty unique, I think. That particular piece with the shamisen and piano is one of my favorites, and even much of their other music sounds different - they change their instrumentation quite a bit.

I've even put them as a seed in Pandora and Spotify and mostly gotten music that doesn't sound much like them. If you like the rhythmic strings, other tsugaru shamisen music may appeal. If it's the duet and overall sound... I wish I had more! XD

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zuhrovet

I grew up on opera and odd bits and pieces of reggae and West African pop, but I didn't actually start forming a musical taste of my own until I got my driver's license and could listen to music without the rest of the family having opinions about its artistic merit. One of the downsides of a very Andan background!

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yhlee

Heh, I was raised on classical (including ballet) and...country. Because we were in Texas. XD I still like both. My daughter, on the other hand, is horrified by classical, because I managed to raise her on, um, Linkin Park and Evanescence.

My dad memorably originally (ss a high? schooler) thought classical music was "for sissies" (his exact phrase) until the music teacher played von Suppé's Light Cavalry Overture, and then he went all in! Oh, Dad. XD

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kese_seyli

I love stories about what kind of music people were raised on. My mom fed me a steady diet of Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, and similar classic rock musicians and then late 80s/early 90s country like Garth Brooks.

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hoardingpearls

Nice xD ...or at least I think so?

I have an aunt who loves Simon & Garfunkel. We listened to their entire discography on a road trip once.

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hoardingpearls

Hee! My niece was listening to something the other day and when I inquired, said I probably wouldn't like it because it was Linkin Park. We promptly had a nice tour of some of their other stuff, which she'd never heard, and we both enjoyed.

That's a great story! I went and listened to Light Cavalry Overture, and can see how that would be a surprise.

I've come to enjoy some outlaw country as an adult, but it took quite a while to get interested in it.

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hoardingpearls

West African pop! That's something I can honestly say I've never tried. Got any recommendations?

My family tried hard for exposure to the arts, but living in The Middle of Nowhere made that somewhat difficult.

It's definitely nice to be able to explore on one's own.

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zuhrovet

This isn't something I've revisited as an adult (though I really ought to!) but after a bit of digging I have found a song of my childhood: here's Youssou N'Dour singing Old Tucson, a song about what an intense experience it was to visit a legendary place from the movies.

And I suppose recently I've been listening to HK & les Saltimbanks, which is upbeat angry leftist French music with accordions, founded by the hip-hop artist & writer Kaddour Hadadi. Here's Citoyen du Monde.

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zuhrovet

And while we're at it, here's HK & les Saltimbanks' Niquons la Planète; I can imagine twenty-two-year-old Sasha going out with people from work and getting absolutely smashed and trying to see how quickly she can sing this song.

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lleullawgyffes

I realize I'm extremely late to this party but who cares!

Rosalía: “Di mi nombre” (it's funny because everyone else who interacted with the staff on Station Moongray used a pseudonym and Virmad just blithely told them his real name)

y en el último momento / dime mi nombre a la cara
(and in the final moment / say my name to me)

half·alive: “Still Feel” (the transition from Circling to Uncircled isn't always smooth)

when I'm furthest from myself (far away)
feeling closer to the stars (outer space)
I've been invaded by the dark (can't escape)
trying to recognize myself when I feel I've been replaced

Jane: “It’s a Fine Day” (Virmad is a man of simple pleasures with some bittersweet regrets whose fundamental desire is for peace)

it's going to be a fine night tonight
it's going to be a fine day tomorrow
we will have salad...

Kimbra: “Good War (Reimagined)” (a quiet revolutionary)

you and I are gonna die free
'cause we're fighting in a good war

Ramin Djawadi: “Go Big or Go Extinct (Patrick Stump remix)” (this is what's running through Virmad's head whenever it's time to break out the scrying or when he has to pretend to be a working Inquisitor)

Steve Grand: “Aint’t It Something (Demo)” (this song is about a threesome and honestly? there are things about being Rahal that Virmad misses)

you know, life is hard and dark and heavy but
it don't have to feel / so empty

Charli XCX: “Boys” (I...had to)

I was busy thinkin' 'bout boys / boys / boys
I was busy dreamin' 'bout boys / boys / boys
head is spinnin' thinkin' 'bout boys

Sufjan Stevens et al.: “Saturn” (ominous and difficult; a collection of lyrical imagery that I think would appeal to Virmad-the-poet)

tell me I'm evil
tell me I'm not the name of love
tell me I'm evil
tell me I'm not the face of —

Janelle Monáe: “Cold War” (revolution is more difficult than he thought — but worth it, still; it has to be)

bring strength to the weak and bring grace to the strong
may all evil stumble as it flies in the world
all the tribes come and the mighty will crumble
we must brave this night and have faith in love

From:

yhlee

=D The party has no time limit! Can't listen this week due to house guests but I am looking forward! =D

From:

stormglass

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5wbqpxtk4
Skylar Grey’s Building a Monster came into my head early on as a thematic song. The haunting tone fits, as do the words. There are trust issues and, more than that, there are REASONS for trust issues. And then there’s the whole working for an entity that will happily weaponize your trauma.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXSbsZoYnU
The Hidden Citizens’ cover of Paint It Black was played quite a bit while I was writing up her application. Sometimes, achieving a thing you were working toward just makes everything worse.

I haven’t quite figured out what sort of music she likes listening to IC yet. That said, she can play the clarinet a bit and I thought it’d be amusing to have her know Fly Me To the Moon for it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEJ69oeqv4 Here’s a version I found with said instrument.

(I will admit MY favorite version of the song itself has been the one played at the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion*g*)

I’ll post again if and when I manage to wrangle the IC musical tastes.

Edited (Not sure why those links didn’t want to work, trying another way) Date: 2019-12-30 06:40 pm (UTC)