Bleak Cabal - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica, or whiney country music.
Doomguard - Thrash or Death metal
Dustmen - either the Cure or Marilyn Manson. Whatever goth people listen to.
Fated - 80s yuppie music
Fraternity of Order - rigidly structured classical
Free League - whatever they feel like, berk
Harmonium - Bad Boys (Theme song from Cops)
Revolutionary League - some folksy 60s revolution subculture
Sign of the One - current pop music
Society of Sensation - every type
Transcendent Order - Jazz
Xaositects - I don't see them as music listeners, but i imagine they would listen to people who really can't play or sing, like the really horrible people who are shown on American Idol as the worst of the worst.
The factions I don't have anything for are :
Athar
Believers of the Source
Mercykillers
I imagine the Harmonium and Mercykillers would be big on march music.
Bleak Cabal? Anything by Nick Cave. "Across the Universe" by The Beatles. For the optimists among them (of whom there are more than you might think), "Always look on the bright side of life" by Monty Python. Also, Attilla the Stockbroker has pointed out that Motorhead's Ace of Spades is the world's most existentialist song, so that might do ... ideally sung by Jean Paul Sartre
Xaositects - I Am The Walrus - The Beatles, any of Stanley Unwin's stuff from Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces
Sensates - Senses Working Overtime - XTC
Doomguard - This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy (in fact, quite a lot of The Sisters' output seems to fit the bill)
Dustmen - River of No Return by Ghostdance
Athar - Dear God by XTC
Free League - I'm Free (To Do What I Want) by the Soup Dragons
Fated - Big Time by Peter Gabriel
Doomguard - Behind Space by In Flames (the last line of the song is "They're pulling down the stars; they're going to pull it down.")
Fraternity of Order- Philip Glass's opera Eintstein on the Beach
Xaositects- Same as above... If you've never heard it, really check it out... and see how it applies to both so well...
Doomsguard- Franz Ferdinard- "This Fire"... pretty cool new song...
Sign of One- David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars... Talk about one solipsistic mofo...
Bleakers- Sonic Youth
The Fated- My band (which is a cop out) because we've got an awesome song about our ambitious Duke...
Sensates- The Doors... try everything AT LEAST once...
Anarchists- Rage against the machine, of course...
Dustmen- most recent "Sounds of the Whales" release. $8.99 at Target.
Indeps- Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Postal Service, Flaming Lips, or anything else that's self proclaimed Indie...
Harmonium- Britney Spears... everyone must conform...
Mercykillers- no sodding idea...
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BTW- Nick Cave for the Dustmen was a very good idea...
Bleak Cabal - The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Doomguard - Blackened or Damage, Inc
Dustmen - To Live is to Die
Fated - No Remorse or Carpe Diem, Baby
Free League - Don't Tread on Me or Escape
Harmonium - Nothing Else Matters
Revolutionary League - King Nothing or …And Justice for All
Sign of the One - Better than You
Athar - Leper Messiah, Cure, Phantom Lord, etc.
Mercykillers - Fixxxer
Bleakers- Ramones, I wanna be sedated
Signers- The Cure, Pictures of you (come on, just for the line "i've been looking so long at these pictures of you, i can almost believe that they're real)
Doomguard- just about anything off Black Sabbath's Paranoid album
Sensate's- Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire
Originally posted by Factol Rhys
Oh sure, sometimes I listen in jazz clubs, but mostly I sit in a dark room and listen to radio static. Mmmmm.... static....
Maybe I'm just crazy, but isn't techno good for the Cadence?
Bleakers - Unwell (I forget the artist)
Godsmen - Calling all Angels (Train)
Xaositects - Another Postcart (BNL) (Another postcard/With chimpanzees/And everyone is/Addressed to me...)
Signers - When I Look to the Sky (Train)
Probably Bleakers or Mercykillers - Bright Lights (Santana)
Guvners - I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General (Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance)
Indeps - Big Yellow Taxi (My memory is horrible, init?)
Drag my name all over the place
I don't care anymore
You can tell everybody 'bout the state I'm in
You won't catch me crying 'cos I just can't win
I don't care anymore
I don't care anymore, D'you hear?
Sounds like the Bleakers have got to Phil Collins!
*grins*
I see the Believers of the Source backing every novelty record that gets released. There has to be some reason why those things get to number one...
"I've been looking for an original sin
One with a twist and a bit of a spin
And since I've done all the old ones
Till they've all been done in
Now I'm just looking -
Then I'm gone with the wind -
Endlessly searching for an original sin"
Originally posted by Bob the Efreet
Maybe I'm just crazy, but isn't techno good for the Cadence?
Seems like the Cadence is all about reacting and not planning. Hence, like Jazz... No planning, no thinking. Just action (at least in theory)... and it sounds cool, too.
Originally posted by Shemeska the Marauder
Mercykillers = the Imperial Death March ;)
That seems more like the Harmonium's style to me.
Give It Away by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Sensates - Original Star Trek theme
Athar - Losing My Religion
Originally posted by Wyvern76
Surprised that no-one has suggested this so far:
Athar - Losing My Religion
Well, as long as we're bringing REM in...
Sensates - Lotus
Indeps - Orange Crush
Bleakers - Everybody Hurts
Doomsguard - Its the End of the World as We Know It
Guvners - Sad Professor
Planeswalker's Guild - Airportman
Originally posted by Go Eata Pita
Doomsguard - Its the End of the World as We Know It
Good call!Originally posted by Raymond_Luxury_Yacht
Xaositects: Anything by Weird Al
Actually, I think They Might Be Giants would be more appropriate.
Wyvern
Do you mean Heaven, by Warrant?
I've got a picture of your house
and you're standing by the door.
It's black and white and faded,
and it's looking pretty worn.
That one?
I'll believe it when I see it for myself.
I don't need no one
To tell me 'bout heaven ...
That one.
Nevermore's "Poison Godmachine" seems pretty appropriate for the Athar.
"Do you believe everything you see?
Children of the void come follow me
Denounce your faith and penance the savior is unseen
Poison is a word, God is a word used for fear"
Nevermore's "I, Voyager" seems to fit well for the Sensates.
"I am the voyager
I have tasted pleasures of the flesh
And drunk the pleasures of the mind
To reach the point I've attained
Clear focused and defined
If you live life draped in sorrow
You will destroy the path we follow
Take my hand and walk in wonder
The patterns spin in random order"
This thread seems like a really good idea, there is probably no better way to explain some factions than through music.
And Wither's "Human Condition" never fails to make me think of the Athar, even though it's probably not quite the best song for them.. the "rage against organized religion" theme is certainly there, though.
"So you think you found the truth
Told to you by a man
But the man he has a god
That he'll never understand"
It also reminds me of yugoloths, but I can't really explain where THAT association is coming from.
"The followers of chaos, out of control"
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Oh no, I've got to keep on moving
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh no, I've got to keep on moving...
Wyvern
This song, Kneel to the Cross by Sol Invictus (although I prefer Agalloch's cover) reminds me of the Athar simply because it points out the rampant hypocricy in an organized religion.
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/agalloch/ofstonewindandpillor.html#4
By the way, since this is my first post, I figure this is a good place to ask a question. Is it possible to have a custom avatar, perhaps after a certain number of posts, or are we stuck with the list?
Boy, this is really the wrong foot to start on, huh?
You cannot get your own custom avatar unless you win a contest (I believe UnCon gives this away), become a moderator or do some great service for the boards (like make an exceptionally useful FAQ or the like, they don't give these out much), or get on the staff of WotC. Other than that your pretty much out of luck. However the selection en't too bad on the normal list, so I'm not complaining.
Oh yeah, and welcome to the boards.
-Your amicable neighborhood Archdevil.
I've always thought a good theme for the Baatezu as a race is "Princes of the Universe" by Queen, with a few tweaks...
Here we are,
born to be Kings,
we're the Princes of the Multiverse
I am Immortal,
I have inside me Blood of kings
"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in thee Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale,
For he made his home in
That fish's abdomen.
Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale.
To get into Heaven
Don' snap for a second !
Live clean ! Don' have no fault !
Oh, I takes that gospel
Whenever it's pos'ble,
But with a grain of salt."
Harmonium: Yellow Submarine by The Beatles
Bleakers: Violin Concerto No.1 by Shostakovich, or Cello Suite No. 2 by J.S. Bach, or Child Killers by the Delgados
"Lately days all seem the same
since I lost my brain
Golden nights will see you through
Darker days need glue
How can I find what's right?
The truth's our lives were shite
What's the point to you?
Goodbye wonder goodbye brain
This life is insane
No one here gets out alive
Not for life you'd like"
Xaositects: Sakikage Cromartie High Soundtrack (just listen to it!)
Guvners: Schoenberg
Sensates: Scriabin (preferably a full performance, with flashin lights and all)
Ciphers: Tan Dung, freeform jazz, trance
Fated: The original poster was right on with '80's pop music, can't beat that one....
The Lady of Pain: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Originally posted by Voldenuit
Bleakers: Violin Concerto No.1 by Shostakovich, or Cello Suite No. 2 by J.S. Bach
Now that's an interesting selection. [wishes there was a smilie for raising an eyebrow] Why those pieces in particular?
The Lady of Pain: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Three chipmunks in a dress, eh? ;)
Wyvern
Originally posted by Wyvern76
Now that's an interesting selection. [wishes there was a smilie for raising an eyebrow] Why those pieces in particular?
Wyvern
Well, mainly for the discordance in the Shostakovich, and its departure from classical music progressions. While there are many more modern classical works that have gone down this road, this piece sticks out for me as one of the pioneers.
For the Bach (for the more mellow Bleakers), probably in reference to Rosptropovich's (iirc) comment that he was playing this piece "for all the sad people in the world".
Meanwhile, the song "Fill it up" by Trout Fishing in America would probably be good for ... I'm getting thoughts of Xaositects and Guvners, and, strangely, eladrin. Can't figure that one out.
I've got an ice cream cone,
Gonna fill it up all the way to the bottom.
Chocolate, strawberry, maybe vanilla
And sprinkles if I got some.
One scoop, two scoop, three scoop, four;
If it were much bigger then I'd have more.
It's cool and sweet and such a treat,
I want to live on Ice Cream Street.
If you go walkin' into the woods,
You can only walk halfway in.
'Cause if you take just one more step
You'll be walkin' out again.
One step, two step, three step, four;
If I lived here, I'd live outdoors.
It's cool and green and I can't see
The forest for the trees.
Fill it up ...
All the way to the bottom!
I'm not ashamed ...
But I'm not to proud.
Half-remembered ...
Yeah? Well that's half-forgotten.
'Cause halfway in
Is halfway out.
Seems like things were so much bigger,
Back when I was smaller.
Some things change while stayin' the same;
Every day I get a little bit taller.
One inch, two inch, three inch four;
Farther and farther away from the floor.
Up to the bottom, down to the top,
I keep on growin' ;til I stop.
Fill it up ...
All the way to the bottom!
I'm not ashamed ...
But I'm not to proud.
Half-remembered ...
Yeah? Well that's half-forgotten.
'Cause halfway in
Is halfway out.
Half-remembered ...
Yeah? Well that's half-forgotten.
'Cause halfway in
Is halfway out. [/IC]
Revolutionary League: God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols
Athar: Song Of Isaac - Leonard Cohen