Help me make a soundtrack for a Sharn police mini-campaign

[Nlogue]

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Almost anything by Hans Zimmer (The Rock, Broken Arrow, King Arthur, Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy) will work as well. He does excellent battle music.

Werd. I second this, and the Blade Runner soundtrack. Also, the score for the Usual Suspects would rock for this campaign.

Edit: If you don't mind techno in your Eberron the Fight Club soundtrack is stellar too!

 

[questing gm]

I believe there's a Sharn soundtrack CD that comes with every copy of the S:CoT sourcebook. As for my personal suggestion, if you also don't mind some techno elements in your music, I highly recommend ALL the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack albums (the same composer behind Cowboy Bebop).

 

[MadMaxim]

The Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues themes?

 

[InVinoVeritas]

The Batman scores. Danny Elfman in general is great stuff. Mission: Impossible is good too, for the same reason.

 

[Klaus]

I believe there's a Sharn soundtrack CD that comes with every copy of the S:CoT sourcebook. As for my personal suggestion, if you also don't mind some techno elements in your music, I highly recommend ALL the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack albums (the same composer behind Cowboy Bebop).

Not strictly Sharn, as the CD covers Talenta Plains and other parts. But I assumed that CD was a given.

 

[masshysteria]

Bioshock has a creepy atmospheric score. Download it here: http://downloads.2kgames.com/bioshock/BioShock_Score.zip


These are some songs I had queued up for a spy action game:
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong*
Radiohead - There, There*
The Music - The People*
Kasabian - Club Foot*
Kasabian - Ovary Stripe
Deep Dish - No Stopping for Nicotine*
The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Help*
Propellerheads - Spybreak
Propellerheads - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Prodigy - Serial Thrilla*
Mission: Impossible Soundtrack - Impossible Mission - Danny Elfman
Mission: Impossible Soundtrack - Claire - Danny Elfman
Mission: Impossible Soundtrack - Trouble - Danny Elfman
Oasis - Bring It On Down*
Oasis - D'you Know What I Mean?*
Coldplay - White Shadows*

Some of them I just faded in and out for certain scenes, most were chase and combat music, and other's were for sneaky/suspense music.

*Have lyrics.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Just for grins I made a pass through my iPod directory and came up with what _I'd_ use, for various reasons:

"Who are you?" - The Who
"In the Air Tonight" - Phil Collins
"Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who
"I Won't Back Down" - (Originally by Tom Petty but I'd use the version by Johnny Cash)
"Helter Skelter" - The Beatles
"Mars, the Bringer of War" - Holst, "The Planets" op.32
"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" - Holst, "The Planets" op.32
"Blowin' Sky High" - Berlin
"The Metro" - Berlin
"Takin' It to the Streets" - The Doobie Brothers
"It Keeps You Running" - The Doobie Brothers
"Jubilee" - 10,000 Maniacs
"Monkey House" - T'pau
"Ride Across the River" - Dire Straits
"The Man's Too Strong" - Dire Straits
"Brothers in Arms" - Dire Straits
"All She Wants to Do is Dance" - Don Henley
"Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money" - Warren Zevon
"Nowhere to Run" - Martha & the Vandellas
"Speak to Me/Breathe/On the Run/Time" - Pink Floyd
"Following" - The Bangles
"The End" - The Doors
"Flirtin' with Disaster" - Molly Hatchet
"Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" - Chris Isaak
"Carmelito" - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
"10,000 Angels" - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
"Forgiven" - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" - Elton John
"Man in the Wilderness" - Styx
"Castle Walls" - Styx
"Stranglehold" - Ted Nugent
"If Looks Could Kill" - Heart
"Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak
"In the Heat of the Jungle" - Chris Isaak
"Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" - The Hollies
"The Voice" - Alan Parsons Project
"In the Heat of the Night" - Pat Benatar
"In the Heat of the Night" - Ray Charles
"Into the Night" - B.B. King
"Forgiven" - Alanis Morissette
"Your House" - Alanis Morissette
"The Indianapolis Story" - John Williams, "Jaws", soundtrack
"Night Search" - John Williams, "Jaws", soundrack
"Who Wants to Live Forever" - Queen, "Highlander", soundtrack
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence
"Po' Lazarus" - James Carter & the Prisoners, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", soundtrack
"Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues" - Chris Thomas King, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", soundtrack
"Renegade" - Styx
"Wave of Mutilation" - Pixies
"Red Vision" Pat Benatar
"Sychronicity 2" - The Police
"Every Breath You Take" - The Police
"Murder by Numbers" - The Police
"Tales of Mystery and Imagination" - The Alan Parsons Project (basically the entire album)
"Terminator 2" - James Horner, soundtrack (for chases and dark mood)
"Aliens" - James Horner, soundtrack (chases, dark mood, combat)
"Runnin' With the Devil" - Van Halen
"Folsom Prison Blues" - Johnny Cash

 

[RangerWickett]

Way too many songs with lyrics there, sadly. I find it hard to roleplay with words in the background.

 

[Herobizkit]

What *I* would love is a rip of the various "look at us doing detective work" scores from the CSI shows. That would fill a whole CD just by itself, I'd think, and very apt for some intense policing scenes and/or general narration.

 

[RangerWickett]

So far I've got a few tracks from Batman Begins that work well for action or darker moments (like investigating murder scenes), and some chase music from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and a few ambient tracks from Cowboy Bebop. Plus, when the PCs go visit inmates in the asylum, I'll whip out the Bioshock soundtrack. So I think I've got a good baseline.

I need to track down some Blade Runner music, though.