Stepman3 | 23 Jan 2016 12:43 p.m. PST |
Is there any songs that inspire you to wargame a particular event? Maybe a song that makes you think of a certain battle? "Lucky Man" by ELP makes me think of the Charge of the Light Brigade… "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin…Vikings of Course. A lot of their songs are also influenced by Tolkien… "Of Wolf and Man" by Metallica, I get a Warhammer Fantasy vibe or really any fantasy genera… |
x42brown | 23 Jan 2016 1:16 p.m. PST |
I am getting tempted to start on 'The Great Nothern War' by Sabaton's Carolunus Rex album. Tracks like YouTube link are inspirational. x42 |
Wackmole9 | 23 Jan 2016 1:36 p.m. PST |
Theme to Raiders of the lost Ark also gets my Pulp Intrest up. Zulu theme making take out my armies and play S&F. |
Cardinal Ximenez | 23 Jan 2016 2:54 p.m. PST |
Holst "The Planets" – Anything Wagner – Kursk Passages – Empire Brass Quintet – Ancient thru Medieval Waterloo Soundtrack – Well, Waterloo DM |
stephen phillip | 23 Jan 2016 3:00 p.m. PST |
Immigration song by led zeppelin and broadsword by jethro tull vikings vs saxons burning bridges by mike curb congregation ww2 korea and vietnam wars Kasin by cold chisel vietnam |
Stepman3 | 23 Jan 2016 3:37 p.m. PST |
Vietnam had the best soundtrack… |
Stepman3 | 23 Jan 2016 3:46 p.m. PST |
Then there's this…not so much inspiration but subject appropriate… YouTube link and this one to me screams "Bush War"… YouTube link |
Ottoathome | 23 Jan 2016 4:21 p.m. PST |
Handel to Haydn Monteverdi to Mozrt Scarlati o Salieri Boccharini to Beethoven The 18th century is the glorious century of Music, and I listen to it all the time. The Entry march of Pasha Selim to "The Abduction from the Seraglio" to the Turkish March from the Ruins of Athens. But the real treat is the minuets and contre-tanzes. But of course one of the most charming is "The Charubino Aria" from "Nozza.." and the chorus of Papageno's bells" from Zauberflotte… "Das Klinget to herrlich, das klinget so schon… tra la la, la… Of course the 19th century is good too with "Il Barbariri…","Li Italini…" and the overture to "Semiramide." |
cavcrazy | 23 Jan 2016 4:34 p.m. PST |
Garryowen if you are doing Plains Indians wars. |
Cmde Perry | 23 Jan 2016 5:41 p.m. PST |
Led Zeppelin's Kashmir – sci-fi big battle or skirmish Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries – not for the obvious 'nam scenario, but for pre-dread or spaceship fleet battles Olivia Newton-John singing "Magic" from Xanadu – Dungeons & Dragons Perry |
Gone Fishing | 23 Jan 2016 5:51 p.m. PST |
Otto, I couldn't agree more. Gilbert & Sullivan and Suppe always make me want to play colonials! |
stephen phillip | 23 Jan 2016 6:21 p.m. PST |
Couple more Oliver's army Elvis Costello anything involving mercs in South Africa or Middle East Flash Queen sci fi Stop the cavalry. Jona Lewis anything involving a mass cavalry charge War of the worlds sci fi Final conflict. Album Pink flyod ww1 inetwar british civil war etc |
Texas Jack | 23 Jan 2016 6:25 p.m. PST |
Every time I hear Johnny Hortenīs Battle of New Orleans I am strangely tempted to game the Battle of New Orleans. No, really. |
stephen phillip | 23 Jan 2016 6:37 p.m. PST |
And yet a couple more On the border al stewart spanish civil war The final countdown Europe cold war or modern |
stephen phillip | 23 Jan 2016 7:18 p.m. PST |
Yet again Trooper iron maiden crimean war Out in the fields gary moore any conflict silent running mike and the mechanics cold war to modern invasion or civil unrest War edwin starr anti war song but an inspirational song none the less. |
Zephyr1 | 23 Jan 2016 9:11 p.m. PST |
Cutthroat Island soundtrack (pirates, duh ;-) |
stephen phillip | 24 Jan 2016 2:37 a.m. PST |
Last one I promise Paint it black Rolling Stone Vietnam war; it was used as the theme song for the tv series tour of duty |
Stepman3 | 24 Jan 2016 4:13 p.m. PST |
"99 Red Luftballons"… Nena…Cold War… "Major Tom"…David Bowie…Space Battles of a Pulp origin… "Games Without Frontiers"…Peter Gabriel…Cold War… |
Weasel | 24 Jan 2016 5:01 p.m. PST |
I try to pick suitable music while writing, like Hammerfall or Blind Guardian for fantasy stuff (not that I am writing fantasy stuff..) or Sabaton/Hail of Bullets for WW2. If in doubt, death metal though. |
stephen phillip | 24 Jan 2016 5:03 p.m. PST |
Ah yes games without frontiers! Good choice stepman3 most appropiate for cold wars |
Stepman3 | 27 Jan 2016 2:32 p.m. PST |
"Aces High"…Iron Maiden…WWII Air Combat |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 27 Jan 2016 6:57 p.m. PST |
Getting back (well,part way)to Otto's high falutin' picks, the Naxos 3 volume "Best of Operetta" makes me yearn for Ruritania. |
Ottoathome | 28 Jan 2016 8:54 a.m. PST |
Dar Haven con Schlockenberg and Daryl Hazelton Thank you very much. Largarita Mike, late of this list ridiculed my manner of gaming saying "Comic opera is not war games" but I think that it is comic opera at its best, or rather the best it can hope for is Comic Opera. Uvecommando panned my article on Imagi-Natins in WSS and hated the use of punny-funny names and burlesque, but I think that's all there is. History is so grim, so awful, so bloody once you get into it that you have to take some comic relief, and the delights of Ruritania and the oddball are as wonderful to restore the soul as champaigne and whipped cream, to just name two of the food groups to the Vienese. That's why I pitched the fun part of the Battle Report on my 18th Century Imagi-Nations campaign AS a comic opera! (You can read it under it's heading on the 18th century imagi-Nations campaign. Hafen- I have that set too, but only vols 1 and 2, I am looking for the third. Isn't Kalman's "Komm mit nach Varaasin simply delightful!" By the way if you want a disc of music that is just too cute and sweet enough to shatter your teeth, The Porter Music Box Company produces a disk of music bock movements which all the old chestnuts on it like Moonlight Sonata to Morning Papers and Viener Blood Waltz. You can't listen to too many at once, they turn into one of those marvelous Sacher tortes you can have only a little sliver of (vuud chu like zum chocolate mit your chocolate Mein herr?) but it's great. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 28 Jan 2016 9:26 a.m. PST |
Otto--some of my faves are on volume 2,but I seem to have misplaced it in moving,so can't cite them,so I'll tell this: I played some selections for my mother when they were released--she was a an amateur soprano with perfect pitch,in fact her family was musically gifted--and her reaction was: "I would have loved to sing one of those duets with that wonderful tenor". "But what if he turned out to be short and fat,with a walrus mustache?". "I'd close my eyes". |
Ottoathome | 28 Jan 2016 2:34 p.m. PST |
Dear Hafen My wife's maiden name is Farrar. She has numerous cousins, and one of them 2nd or 3rd or whatever, was Geraldine Farrar a famed Soprano for the Met, famous for her "Carmen." way back at the turn of the 20th century. She was the great raging love object of Kronprinz Wilhelm, the Kaisers son who wanted to marry her. My closest brush by with fame and fortune… had the Germans won WWI. By the way, the composer I like the LEAST… is Wagner. all those Motto's and leitmotif's battling it out in a musical free-for all. |