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Post by hengest on Feb 21, 2021 20:34:50 GMT -5
Thread for music that seems somehow suggestive re: EB, even if I wouldn't play it during a session.
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Post by hengest on Feb 21, 2021 20:37:35 GMT -5
Retro but not rip-off. Music fron a slightly different world. If someone played in my world and then said this reminded them of it, I'd be happy.
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Post by hengest on Feb 21, 2021 20:56:11 GMT -5
The Adagio (up through 3:07) I think of as a message in a bottle from a lost world. The Allegro, after that, I think of as a musical megadungeon.
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Post by hengest on Feb 21, 2021 21:08:29 GMT -5
"I saw unusual creation / I saw the waste of a world"
I think this is about, or could be about, the spirit of the ref actively and passively observing the game world as it comes into being.
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Post by hengest on Feb 21, 2021 23:39:24 GMT -5
The title says it all.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 3:12:22 GMT -5
Retro but not rip-off. Music fron a slightly different world. If someone played in my world and then said this reminded them of it, I'd be happy. I like that hengest. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 3:15:41 GMT -5
The Adagio (up through 3:07) I think of as a message in a bottle from a lost world. The Allegro, after that, I think of as a musical megadungeon. That is deep and philosophical thinking. I see it/hear it, after you said it. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 3:17:28 GMT -5
"I saw unusual creation / I saw the waste of a world" I think this is about, or could be about, the spirit of the ref actively and passively observing the game world as it comes into being. That is mind blowing thinking. It really explains how you come up with the incredible ideas that you do. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 3:18:46 GMT -5
I find that to be a really fun and LIGHT-hearted piece of music. |
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Post by hengest on Feb 22, 2021 12:13:27 GMT -5
The last section (the link takes you to the right time in the track) of the Beach Boys' "fairy tale" Mount Vernon and Fairway, released in 1973. I recommend headphones.
My mind has been stuck on this piece for maybe twenty years.
"Dom, dom, King Dom" -- a combination of the doo-wop nonsense vocals, already dated in the early 70s, and the idea of some kind of King Dom (some sort of DJ named Dominic, I guess, a kind of fairy tale Wolfman Jack.
"My radio is radiatin' through the, through the misty night..." -- it's this idea that has been with me since I was a kid, the idea that there's something in the night that you can almost see or hear, something that would be wonderful if you could just get to it before morning.
You can barely hear this awesome piece on the original recording. Only on the box set release in the early nineties did they kindly turn this piece up enough that you could make out the arrangement.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 22, 2021 18:01:55 GMT -5
Wow, I had never heard the "King" in this before and I would have missed it if I had not been listening for it. I like your point of something wonderful if you could just get to it in time. Got to be some gaming ideas in there.
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Post by hengest on Feb 26, 2021 16:46:25 GMT -5
I post this not really because it's megadungeon theme music, but because it amazes me that this gigantic piece of music fits on one instrument (even though here it's not the instrument it was written for). Just like all the magic that fits inside the D&D, a game played at a table with pencils and paper.
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Post by hengest on Feb 26, 2021 17:02:33 GMT -5
Wow, I had never heard the "King" in this before and I would have missed it if I had not been listening for it. I like your point of something wonderful if you could just get to it in time. Got to be some gaming ideas in there. You had Holland when it came out, PD? The vocal arrangement on this has always troubled me. I can't quite track everything. I feel like there's a voice I'm always missing. In that way, I think it's very successful -- it evokes that experience of trying to catch something on the radio, feeling like it's there and you can't quite get it. It's that experience that I chase when I try to think of my gaming ideas. As to gaming ideas, it seems to me there are a million implicit in this very brief song, yes. "My radio is radiatin' through the, through the misty night..." — so many little ideas here, the play on radio and radiate, the "message in a bottle" idea of radio communication (someone is somewhere far away talking one-way to me in the night and I'm here hearing it), secret information or information that is there for the taking if you just go to the trouble to pick it up... I think of an old lich regretting becoming undead and setting up a magical beacon to summon powerful adventurers in the hope that they will kill him or cure him. Or the archmage who blankets the countryside in magical arrows that any Elf can see and follow. Or simply the local baron (or King Dom) who puts the word out that there's a reward for bringing his daughter back unharmed. The idea of that "beacon" that radiates from a central point, like ripples on a puddle, is so attractive. I'm sure it could inspire anything. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 26, 2021 17:14:41 GMT -5
I post this not really because it's megadungeon theme music, but because it amazes me that this gigantic piece of music fits on one instrument (even though here it's not the instrument it was written for). Just like all the magic that fits inside the D&D, a game played at a table with pencils and paper. I really like this. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 26, 2021 17:17:21 GMT -5
Wow, I had never heard the "King" in this before and I would have missed it if I had not been listening for it. I like your point of something wonderful if you could just get to it in time. Got to be some gaming ideas in there. You had Holland when it came out, PD? The vocal arrangement on this has always troubled me. I can't quite track everything. I feel like there's a voice I'm always missing. In that way, I think it's very successful -- it evokes that experience of trying to catch something on the radio, feeling like it's there and you can't quite get it. It's that experience that I chase when I try to think of my gaming ideas. As to gaming ideas, it seems to me there are a million implicit in this very brief song, yes. "My radio is radiatin' through the, through the misty night..." — so many little ideas here, the play on radio and radiate, the "message in a bottle" idea of radio communication (someone is somewhere far away talking one-way to me in the night and I'm here hearing it), secret information or information that is there for the taking if you just go to the trouble to pick it up... I think of an old lich regretting becoming undead and setting up a magical beacon to summon powerful adventurers in the hope that they will kill him or cure him. Or the archmage who blankets the countryside in magical arrows that any Elf can see and follow. Or simply the local baron (or King Dom) who puts the word out that there's a reward for bringing his daughter back unharmed. The idea of that "beacon" that radiates from a central point, like ripples on a puddle, is so attractive. I'm sure it could inspire anything. No, I never owned very much when it first came out. I owned quite a bit of stuff used. I sold tons of stuff years ago, because it was taking up so much room, books, music and such. I like your commentary on this, makes a lot of sense, especially gamewise. |
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Post by hengest on Mar 13, 2021 21:37:42 GMT -5
Creature with the Atom Brain by Roky Erickson and the Aliens.
Now, the whole song is kind of an example of what I want here, but I mean especially the spoken dialogue from 1:28 to 1:52. The idea here is roughly some kind of 50s horror, so, not the same as any of my bits of material on this sub. But I post it here because I think it's a solid example of minimal writing that helps you to see (imagine) an entire picture. It leans on things you already know without imitating anything so closely that it's a pointless formula or cliche. Plus I do like the song overall.
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Post by hengest on Mar 24, 2021 17:31:11 GMT -5
For unexpected tonal shifts that somehow make sense, this song by Dennis Wilson.
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Post by hengest on Mar 24, 2021 17:34:28 GMT -5
The Beach Boys go gonzo.
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Post by hengest on Mar 29, 2021 23:19:31 GMT -5
Sandy Denny, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"
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Post by hengest on Mar 29, 2021 23:23:21 GMT -5
I should say a bit about why I include this one, I think. The lyrics seem so simple, there's almost nothing there. But there's something masterful about them. Like she aimed for this total lack of adornment that works surprisingly well. Would that I could write so well.
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Post by hengest on Mar 29, 2021 23:26:28 GMT -5
"Tam Lin," by Fairport Convention, vocal by Sandy Denny. Based closely on the traditional ballad. If you don't know this one, but maybe everyone does, give it a listen and follow the lyrics. This is totally a "fairy tale railroad" kind of story.
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Post by hengest on Mar 29, 2021 23:33:16 GMT -5
Tell me this isn't somehow inspirational.
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Post by hengest on Mar 29, 2021 23:40:50 GMT -5
Claire Lynch singing "Doin' Time" by Sarah Siskind and Al Anderson.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 30, 2021 10:17:16 GMT -5
Great links!!
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Post by hengest on Mar 30, 2021 20:17:32 GMT -5
A killer song with lyrics by Robert Hunter. I don't know if there's a whole setting in this song, but there's enough atmosphere for one. Three cheers for Robert Hunter (1941 - 2019). |
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Post by hengest on Mar 30, 2021 20:22:16 GMT -5
"Think of Rain," by Margo Guryan. Spare and striking lyrics.
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Post by hengest on Mar 30, 2021 22:35:30 GMT -5
Again, tell me this isn't a song for the ages.
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on the traditional "Jack-A-Roe".
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 31, 2021 2:48:57 GMT -5
Great selection of music and I really love that last one!!
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Post by hengest on Mar 31, 2021 18:41:33 GMT -5
One of the best lyrics by Lucinda Williams, in my opinion, and she has many good ones.
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Post by hengest on Mar 31, 2021 18:46:06 GMT -5
Gillian Welch with a lyric that, maybe, Tolkien would have appreciated.
"All the girls all dance with the boys from the city
And they don't care to dance with me
Now it ain't my fault that the fields are muddy
And the red clay stains my feet
And it's under my nails and it's under my collar
And it shows on my Sunday clothes
Though I do my best with the soap and the water
But the damned old dirt won't go
But when I pass through the pearly gate
Will my gown be gold instead?
Or just a red clay robe with red clay wings
And a red clay halo for my head?" - G Welch
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The oars were stayed. They turned aside;
‘Do you hear the call, Earth-maiden?
Firiel! Firiel!’ they cried.
‘Our ship is not full-laden.
One more only we may bear.
Come! for your days are speeding.
Come! Earth-maiden elven-fair,
our last call heeding.’
Firiel looked from the river bank,
one step daring.
Then deep in clay her feet sank,
and she halted staring.
Slowly the elven ship went by
whispering through the water:
‘I cannot come!’ they heard her cry.
‘I was born Earth’s daughter!'
-Excerpt from "The Last Ship," The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
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