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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3894579" data-attributes="member: 25619">I understand your hesitation.  I'm thinking of their stuff that feels old British Isles, as mood music for home front setting stuff, certainly not battle music.For Sting -- who actually sings in Gaelic and English on the Chieftain's Mo Ghile Mear/Our Hero about "his firey blade engaged to lead/he'd break the bravest in the field" -- I thinking specifically of "Fields of Gold".  It's a nice pastoral love with old timey lyrics about making out in the fields of barley -- very easy for me to imagine a bard playing it at the pub with the old creepy guy who gives out adventure ideas.On a mix CD I did for myself, "Fields of Gold" comes right after Rush "Closer to the Heart" as the "before" bad things happened in the Shire bit.After that, "The Long Black Veil" falls, and things get gradually more foreboding ("All Along the Watchtower") and oppressively metalheaded until all hell breaks loss (lots of Metalicca, including the evil army marching in to triumph in "No Leaf Clover"!).  Then there's period of failed heroic insurgency (more Irish trad) before Rush's "The Necromancer", which ends with:"Steathily attacking, By-Tor slays his foe.The men are free to run now, in labyrinths below.The wraith of the Necromancer shadows through the skyAnother land to darken with evil prism eye!"After that, time to move on to the next module with Metalicca "Roam", which just has some classic wandering adventurer stuff in it!"And with dust in throat I crave/Only knowledge will I save/To the game you stay a slave.Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond: call me what you willAnywhere I roam/Where I lay my head is homeI adapt to the unknown . . . By myself but not alone"The other Sting song I was thinking of was "All This Time", which has some neat lyrics about an old English city: "The Romans built this place. They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the Empire garrison town. They lived and they died/They prayed to their gods/But the stone gods did not make a sound/And their empire crumbled/Till all that was left/Were the stones the workmen found.All this time/The river flowed/Endlessly down to the sea"BTW, "Fields of Gold" is on the album "Ten Summoners Tales", which really sounds a lot more D&Dish than it is, sadly.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />As for Mark Knopfler, it was this one particular solo album song about a night in Edinburgh that captured something cool of the medieval city.  I forget the name of the song.</blockquote>

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