hexarchate_rpg | crowdsourcing songs for our characters

yhlee posting in

Let's suggest theme songs for other people's characters! If you want to participate, post a comment asking for [X theme] for your character. I'll start us off.

(Thanks to

ursula /

zuhrovet for the suggestion!)

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From:

yhlee

From:

delight

Westfall by Okkervil River.

ETA: Confession, I have a really long carefully curated murder ballad playlist because I love them, but this is the first one to come to mind as actually suiting Jedao. Too many of them are specifically about murdering lovers or avenging their mothers!

Edited Date: 2020-03-31 07:34 pm (UTC)

From:

yhlee

I dunno, I think Jedao would be happy to avenge his mother if he knew who'd done her in!!

From:

zuhrovet

My vote for the least Jedao murder ballad is Katie Dear, featuring a protagonist whose logic appears to be "You can't kill me if I die first!"

From:

yhlee

That is hilarious. XD

From:

yhlee

From:

hoardingpearls

This is a real challenge - I don't remember any of the names of the cantatas my church choir sang, when I was in church. (Save that one of them involved major amounts of Handel. Oh, Handel.)

Sleepers, Wake is always a good choice, though, and suitable for the newly-conscious moth.

From:

venndaai

just because I'd like to listen to more instrumental music

From:

yhlee

Do you like classical/orchestral, or should I look at other genres for Sulen?

From:

venndaai

I like most things! Would love some classical/orchestral.

From:

yhlee

Vaughn Williams' "Rhosymedre" (orchestral version--apparently originally written for pipe organ, which I hadn't realized)

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2

Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor for Piano

(I have played two out of three of these, guess which ones haha)

From:

hoardingpearls

How about Lindsey Stirling's Shadows? Instrumental and a really fun music video for a bonus.

From:

venndaai

Woah, that is a fun music video! And very fun song- maybe a bit more upbeat and energetic than I would think for Sulen, but gosh, it's gorgeous- makes me feel like I'm going on a fantasy adventure.

From:

kese_seyli

Everyone's Memory is Snow by Phildel (the whole Album QI is lovely) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNzcUbdBvWw

From:

venndaai

Ooh, yes, appropriately regretful, and very pretty!

From:

chomiji

Breton an Bro - Maggie Sansone and co.

Binary Sunset - John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra (from the Star Wars A New Hope Original Soundtrack)

From:

venndaai

Oooh, nice, thank you!

From:

hoardingpearls

Because she'd probably really like it!

Other strongly rhythmic and upbeat music welcome, of course.

From:

yhlee

If you accept kpop, I really like Red Velvet's Sunny Side Up (lyric video with translation). My friend

inkstone calls it the perfect song for summer.

(What. It's definitely summer in Louisiana!)

From:

hoardingpearls

I definitely accept kpop! Have been meaning to listen to more of it, even. What a fun song. xD

It is definitely not summer here, so I'll take the summery sound!

From:

yhlee

HEre's another Red Velvet one that Reshad might like: Umpah Umpah [Youtube MV, work-safe]

For something a little sillier, here's Red Velvet's English version of Really Bad Boy [Youtube]. Okay, maybe a LOT sillier. Uh, content note for werewolf/Halloween imagery?

(G)I-DLE's What's in Your House? [lyric video, work-safe]

And one more for the road--Chung Ha's "Snapping" [music video] has random-ass fencers. XD

From:

zuhrovet

Maybe Indila's Run run run? (Though in fairness, I like it for Reshad partly because the lyrics are much less upbeat than the music: "Prêt à sacrifier tout pour ton job" indeed!)

From:

yhlee

Not pop and not a Reshad song, but I'm reminded of Margaret Davis's "Chanson de la Mariée" [Youtube] which sounds peaceful and contemplative musically but if you understand the French, oof.

From:

hoardingpearls

Ooh, interesting one! I don't have any French, but fortunately someone had translated the lyrics and put them where they could be found.

I enjoyed this, thanks.

From:

kese_seyli

Everything At Once by Lenka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE9tV1WGTgE

From:

zuhrovet

Yay, fox song!

From:

chomiji

Well, gosh, if we want upbeat pop with surprisingly grim lyrics, there's always:

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

Maybe she'd also like:

San Francisco - The Mowglis

From:

stormglass

How about the Paul Oakenfold mix of Delirium's Silence?. The lyrics might be appropriate too.

From:

kese_seyli

-wakes up from a sickness haze-

More on a theme than a genre, I'm a fan of all kinds of genres

From:

chomiji

Lots of thoughts about war and being a soldier .. folk music and pop,

The Universal Soldier - Donovan (written by Buffy Sainte-Marie,)

No Mans Land - Eric Bogle (Live)

Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish, live at Woodstock

Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

99 Red Balloons - Nena

From:

venndaai

Woodkid!

especially Iron ("A soldier on my own, I don't know the way") and The Other Side ("And in the arms of endless anger / Will end the story of a soldier in the dark")

From:

chomiji

So Dar has lots and lots of memories, because she's lived a while.

She also hasn't told anybody much about those memories.

Have at it.

From:

kese_seyli

perhaps By Way of Sorrow, by Cry Cry Cry (which features Dar Williams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdTpGPKzmQ

From:

chomiji

Oh, I like that! I know the first two artists a bit.

Yes, Dar's come by way of sorrow.

From:

stormglass

Peter Gabriel's "I Grieve" might be fitting. Not just for the tie to sad memories, but also because the tune changes towards the end and becomes more...I'm not sure I'd quite say upbeat, but nevertheless suits the 'life goes on' thread of the lyrics. Which seems suited to Dar.

From:

zuhrovet

Any thoughts on what Sasha might have sung at karaoke around 220?

From:

stormglass

If you've read any of the Expanse books, they talk about Belter music as a fusion of many different influences from earth, matching the cultural fusion of the Belters themselves. I was thinking a style like that would be popular in clubs and such in Xiulan's timeline. Anyone have any suggestions for music that might fit that description?

From:

yhlee

Maybes:

Tenpenny Joke's "She"

Keny Arkana's "Ils ont peur de la liberté"

From:

zuhrovet

Yay, more francophone pop!

I have a theory that Moroccan pop would be right for this description, but I haven't found anything that's a really great lyrical match yet.