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The Song Remains the Same

Started by Kyle Aaron, January 08, 2008, 11:51:09 PM

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Kyle Aaron

January 08, 2008, 11:51:09 PM
Are there any songs that are forever connected in your mind with some moment or character in an rpg session?

I've had now six sessions of my mate's AfterWorld game, and in that there's an NPC called Fergus. We've established that he resembles Steve Zahn in Sahara.

When the GM first described him kicking up the engine to the jeep he drove, Led Zep's Good Times Bad Times came on. Since then, every time he's appeared, the GM's put that track on. Those opening chords are now forever connected in our minds with Fergus. I can't hear the track without thinking of him.

And when last night the jeep was driving away from two broken and burning vehicles, smoke rising into the clear desert air, dead bandits lying around everywhere, expended brass crunching into the sands under our tyres, Fergus behind the wheel, one PC Jason on the gun mounted on the back, another PC Doc reloading her pistol, Whole Lotta Love came on. So now that one is now connected forever with that moment and scene.

So how about you lot, then? Is there any music you hear which inevitably calls forth the image of some character or scene in an rpg session?



 
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David R

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January 09, 2008, 12:08:28 AM
My closing narration for our (OtE) Day of Living Dangerously campaign was always punctuated by the theme from The Sheild.

(In Harms Way) Our Cruel Sea always began with James Newton's score from Signs

These things happen very frequently in my games...

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David R

Imperator

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January 09, 2008, 07:58:15 AM
Many times.
 
I remember that my girlfriend always associated Apocalyptica (the song No Education) with the attack of werewolves in Vampire: the Masquerade.
My name is Ramón Nogueras. Running now Vampire: the Masquerade (Giovanni Chronicles IV for just 3 players), and itching to resume my Call of Cthulhu campaign (The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man).

kregmosier

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January 09, 2008, 01:31:02 PM
great topic, Kyle!

any mass-battle that doesn't begin with "Immigrant Song" is just not a heroic mass-battle.  period.

...and it may be from watching Heavy metal too many times in my youth, but Dio's "Mob Rules" conjures a balls-to-the-walls battle in my head.

I took a cue from one of my meandering blog posts and used "Last Caress" to wrap up my first few playtest sessions of the Dead and it worked out really well.
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jhkim

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January 09, 2008, 01:54:44 PM
My James Bond 007 campaign was set in the 1980s, and each mission had its own theme song.  

Rather than just imagining a theme song, I named each mission after an appropriate eighties song.  Each was roughly like a feature film.  There was "Down Under" , "When Doves Cry" , "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" , and "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".  I think "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" was the most fun and faux-Bond theme song.
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