http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCxvv8Y3Bs - Stuck in my head for the past Month.


<expletive!>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7GXPDVSWY



"Sometimes you guys scare me."--Annwyl
"You people worry me."--GM Abasha
"Hmm..."--Z

"I'm no Superman" a.k.a. the theme song for Scrubs. I like the use of the banjo; it's sorta The Kinks meet the California sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1GPTCbAtHU&NR=1

~player of Gulphphunger

I've been sitting on this for awhile, but tonight I'm searching for something to occupy my mind.

About a year ago there was a thread digression in the Necromancer folder about "Necromancer songs." I came away from that thread with the horrifying realization that anything that involved heavy metal or references to eeevil spoke to people about the Necromancers.

In the hopes of both exposing people to good music and perhaps touch on a slightly more nuanced presentation for the audiophiles, I present my Necromancer playlist. Instrumental pieces appear when the original context of the piece was relevant. The tone of some pieces may seem unintuitive to their attributed ideology; that's probably intentional.

Redeemed:
Bear McCreary - Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica: Season 2)
Coil - Christmas Is Now Drawing Near (Winter Solstice: North)
Diecast - Hourglass (Interal Revolution)
Pink Floyd - Stop (The Wall)
Pink Floyd - The Trial (The Wall)
Savatage - Heal My Soul (Streets: A Rock Opera)
Savatage - Man in the Mirror (Poets and Madmen)
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan (The Wake of Magellan)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Who is this Child? (Beethoven's Last Night)
Within Temptation - Julian (The Silent Force)
Within Temptation - Our Solemn Hour (The Heart of Everything)

Philosophers:
Aerosmith - Dream On
Bear McCreasy - All Along the Watchtower (Battlestar Galactica: Season 3)
Bear McCreasy - Baltar's Dream (Battlestar Galactica: Season 2)
Cowboy Bebop OST - Rain
Cowboy Bebop OST - Space Lion
Edenbridge - Shine (Shine)
Freespace 2 OST - Agnus Dei
Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg)
Michael Bell - The Show Must Go On (cover of Queen's song)
Homestuck - An Unbreakable Union (Homestuck Vol. 5)
Homestuck - Upward Movement (Homestuck Vol. 2)
Persona 3 OST - Burn my Dread [Last Battle]
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 (The Wall)
Pink Floyd - Hey You (The Wall)
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin (The Origins of Ruin)
Savatage - Handful of Rain (Handful of Rain)
Savatage - Morphine Child (Poets and Madmen)
Savatage - One Child (Dead Winter Dead)
Savatage - Streets (Streets: A Rock Opera)
Savatage - This Isn't What We Meant (Dead Winter Dead)
Serenity - From Where the Dark is Born (Worlds Untold & Dreams Unlived)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Epiphany (Night Castle)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Mephistopheles' Return (Beethoven's Last Night)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - What is Eternal (Beethoven's Last Night)
Within Temptation - Stand my Ground (The Silent Force)
Within Temptation - The Truth Beneath The Rose (The Heart of Everything)

Perverse:
Epica - Another Me
Evergrey - Words Mean Nothing (Solitude Dominance Tragedy)
Krypteria - The Promise (Bloodangel's Cry)
Masterplan - Aeronautics (album)
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 (The Wall)
Rammstein - Engel (Sehnsucht)
Savatage - Tonight He Grins Again (Streets: A Rock Opera)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Mephistopheles (Beethoven's Last Night)
Within Temptation - The Howling (The Heart of Everything)

The Transcendant:
Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
Queensryche - Anybody Listening? (Empire)
The Void OST - The Adit

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Perverse:
Alice in Chains - Get Born Again
The Decemberists - Culling of the Fold

Philosopher:
Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself
Stone Sour - Through Glass

Redeemed:
Days of the New - Enemy
Steve Conte - Could You Bite the Hand?

Thank you for the recommendation list, GM Armifer, I have only heard of one of the bands with several songs listed. Pink Floyd, which has a reputation as being favored in the drug community, however their music is interesting. I am not so much into heavy metal in general, I will try to give suggestions a listen anyway.
Neoclassical is more my taste, out of everything listed, maybe the gothic metal stuff a lil, but that is the sort of thing I probably shouldn't be listening to, even though I tend to do that.

-Armifer says consequences are how we honor evil roleplaying.
-Abasha says, "Personally, I love supporting evil characters, but not if they can't take their lumps too.
-Quarel says, "Not me I hit you because I like to hit."

>>I am curious why you chose this cover of the song, instead of Jimi Hendrix (or even the U2 cover)?

I genuinely enjoy the pesudo-Persian sound the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack had going on. That particular cover also has an intense edge to it that seemed more appropriate in this context than the Hendrix rendition.

>>I hadn't this before, though I expected some Iron Maiden on the list. Why no "Number of the Beast"? (Given the fevered dream, etc..)

A bit too "Rawr Evil" for my tastes. With the exception if the TSO offering, which has particularly relevant context (the entire rock opera is awesome and thematically appropriate for any story about immortality) the Perverse list was picked to consciously go down a different course than something blatantly demonic.

>>One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, I had to listen to this again with the 'lens' of the Necromancer to see how it fit. How incredibly applicable! The entire song fits, but most especially, "We could find that we're all alone / In the dream of the proud"

I stand by all three songs in that section. But I'm going to digress momentarily. There's a game called The Void. Something from it made my very short list of songs to listen to when contemplating the sublime. This by itself should be a little telling.

It's about a lost soul who finds itself caught, briefly, in a transient afterlife. The Void hovers just above Absolute Death, where souls fall into final dissolution and nothingness. Only by consuming what little seeds of life exist in the Void -- the Color -- can the soul survive for another minute or hour. The soul must struggle to find Color in an endless famine, and to chase after the tiny hope that it can change its fate and reclaim the life that it lost.

The Void is not for everybody; there's quite a few people who flat out wouldn't understand the story it tries to tell or care about the content matter if they can. But if you want to take a look at a crushingly serious story about death and transcendence, set in one of the most achingly beautiful games I've ever seen, take a look at The Void.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

I'm a cheater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qdpSGIz8aw


- Fuquois

Board Villainy is a lost art.

The Void game is kind of interesting, it would probably be easier to navigate with a console controller, though. I just started it yesterday, since GM Armifer recommended it.

It also seems to me, some people's real lives are similar to this premise, a bleak and desolate environment, while nearly everyone they encounter seems bent on snatching away the scarce elements which make existence semi-enjoyable, or at least tolerable.


-Armifer says consequences are how we honor evil roleplaying.
-Abasha says, "Personally, I love supporting evil characters, but not if they can't take their lumps too.
-Quarel says, "Not me I hit you because I like to hit."

>>Armifer's Playlist

That is one hell of an excellent playlist! I especially like the TSO and pink Floyd Pics!

I've seen TSO every time they came through phoenix, and though Pink Floyd wasn't touring when I was old enough to see them, I've seen Roger Waters several times (I know its not the same...but...as close as I could get!)

Again, excellent playlist, for any purpose :)

I'm working a gig with ? And the Mysterians. 96 tears and a sequined knotted shirt is amazing.


After a long deliberation, the judge finally says, "Jalika, this court finds you innocent of the charges brought upon you. You are free to go. Guards, please return this woman's things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MP_G6arpVI

kind of fitting.....

>>Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg)


curiously , someone removed "Bruce Dickinson" as the author of my quote
<chortles> thought that was odd.

"Don't try and blame me for your sins, for the sun has burned me black" Your hollow lives , this world in which we live , I've hurled it back."

Starcraft 2.

Wait where am I?

-Raesh

PS: Fixed the subject. Can't have it go three years only to break the subject can we guys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZv62ShoStY

"Hey, studio bigshots! I've got a great idea for a new song!"
"Yeah? Let's hear it."
"Okay, first you start with the Electric Slide..."
"Go on..."
"And you cross it with a square dance."
"..."

Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay

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Faerie tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Faerie tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
- G.K. Chesterton

I hate you. :(


I will continue to get blunter on this topic until people get the message or my posts contain enough profanity to be removed. - Armifer

This is the worst one yet. It's been about 5 days, and it's even in my dreams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGtb7QsG9w

R.E.M.'s cover of Superman. Ugh.

~player of Gulphphunger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKe453nMVY4

For some of you who like the Piano but also like Metallica.


Crusader Taghz

DFA = DISC + AGIL + TM > Evasion + Reflex

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother...", William Shakespeare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM

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Ogdaro

Yes. It always is.

Posting actual claims of being the highest circle/skills ends up with threats to remove you for being off topic.

This folder is a hold out from the old java - pre web migration DR boards and a tradition started by players back then. Anything goes within policy; not DR related; No conflicts.

...and then the music started.

That's all player of Gulphphunger's fault. One day I will have my revenge. SOON.


Annwyl
Message Board Supervisor

If you've questions or comments, take it to e-mail by writing me at DR-Annwyl@play.net.