From: jeremyl@owlnet.rice.edu (Jeremy Lyn Hart)
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Subject: Re: music to play by . . .
Keywords: Cyberpunk, music
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:39:42 GMT
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In article <1993Jan20.004409.10065@nas.nasa.gov>, baldy@nas.nasa.gov (Robert R. Baldassano) writes:
|> A friend of mind was asking me what type of music to play while we were gaming
|> (CP2020 - Gurps style)
|> 
|> any ideas, suggestions, or feelings on the matter.

I guess I'm a bit late, but oh, well, what the hell...
I've made up a couple of "Cyberpunk Soundtracks" for playing SR to, and
they seem to work pretty well.  Here's my list for the latest one:

"Wish" - Nine Inch Nails	(from "broken," the new EP)
"Dive" - Nirvana		(mine's off "SubPop - The Grunge Years," but
				 it's also on "Incesticide")
"Bloodstains (Original Version)"(from "Living In Darkness")
	- Agent Orange
"Territorial Rites" - Prong	(from "Prove You Wrong," an instrumental)
"Tomorrow" - The Fluid		(another off the "Grunge Years" album)
"Midlife Crisis" - Faith No More(from "Angel Dust")
"Sex Type Thing" - Stone Temple	(from "Core")
	Pilots
"One More" - Medicine		(mine's off a sampler, but their album's
				 called "Shot Forth Self Living")
"Bombtrack" - Rage Against The	(off their self-titled debut)
	Machine
"In The Meantime" - Helmet	(from "Meantime")
"Retarded" - Afghan Whigs	(yet another off "The Grunge Years")
"Horny For Evil" - Skatenigs	(don't know, just have the single)
"Touch Me I'm Sick" - Mudhoney	(from "Superfuzz Bigmuff plus Early
				 Singles")
"Loomer" - My Bloody Valentine	(from "Loveless")
"Symphony of Destruction" -	(from "Countdown to Extinction")
	Megadeth
"Wish Fulfillment" - Sonic Youth(from "Dirty")
"Ever" - Flipper		(again, don't know, off a sampler)
"Just One Fix" - Ministry	(from "Psalm 69")
"Blast/War Machine Dub" - Praxis(from "Transmutation")

On a more general note, here's some bands I'd recommend, mostly
metal, but also a good bit of "grunge" and some industrial and rap:

Agent Orange (old surf-punk, but still good), Beastie Boys (rap), Biohazard
(hardcore), Faith No More (widely-varying stuff, from funk to death metal),
The Fluid (pretty much "grunge"), Front 242 (industrial, fairly repetitive),
Medicine (techno-rock, some wild guitar noise), Megadeth (metal), Metallica
(metal; I've found "Garage Days Re-revisited" is best), Ministry
(industrial-thrash), Mudhoney (grunge), My Bloody Valentine ("dream pop," lots
of layers of guitar), Nine Inch Nails (industrial-thrash, sort of), Nirvana
("grunge"), Pantera (metal, not that great), Praxis (*excellent* - funk and
thrash from the future), Prong (hardcore-metal-thrash-type stuff), Queensryche
(metal, "futuristic" themes), Rage Against The Machine (thrash-rap), Skatenigs
(punk-hardcore), Sonic Youth (hard to say, varies), Stone Temple Pilots
(grunge, sort of), Soundgarden ("grunge," with older stuff harsher), Suicidal
Tendencies (old S.T. better for this, IMHO), 24-7 Spyz (funk-rap-thrash),
Voivod (weird techno-metal).

Just to plug a really cool & bizarre band again - check out "Transmutation,"
by Praxis.  Like I said above, funk-thrash from the future.  Weird stuff.

On another note, does anybody know if there's a soundtrack out to "Akira" -
the music for that movie really freaked me out, and I think it would make
great background music for playing by...

Hope that helps...

-- 
Later.
Jeremy L. Hart			jeremyl@owlnet.rice.edu
"Did she call my name?
 I think it's gonna rain
 When I die..."
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