That said, I've used a few New Wave references in gaming through the years, and in my current D6 Space game moreso than usual. There's a guy named Nik Kershaw, who captains a pirate cruiser aclled the Human Racing;
I bet it would be good to be in his shoes, even just for one day.
I can rarely listen to Zeppelin's
The Lemon Song without imagining a hot cyberchick and a vatgrown ninja stalking each other around a derelict skyscraper end ending in a savage, stylish melee. I sometimes wonder if St Bill of Gibson got inspired by the same song. A lot of the Cult's
Sonic Temple LP is good CP theme music for me too.
If I ever run anything set in the Vietnam war, I've got an entire MP3 playlist sitting on my hard drive, dominated (unsurprisingly) by CCR. You just cant beat the eerie opening of
Run Through the Jungle or their atmospheric version of
Heard it Through the Grapevine for imagining nervous GIs patrolling the bush