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A lot of us have iPods and MP3 players and computers and stuff. A lot of us love music.
I hereby challenge Paizocon attendees to create a 4-song playlist of your very favorite songs you'd love to share with other members of the community and bring it to the convention for a listening party hosted by yours truly.
Here are the rules:
1. No lame-ass fantasy movie scores and stuff like that. Honest to god kick-ass music of any genre without regard to whether or not it fits into the historical context of a fantasy game or whatever. Kick ass, awesome music you love so much you want to share it with other people.
2. The music doesn't necessarily need to be super-rare. If you think "Detroit Rock City" needs more converts, fly the flag high. This is really an event aimed at people who consider themselves somewhat snobbish in their musical tastes, though, so the deeper and awesomer the cut, the more likely that you will gain the respect of your peers.
3. Please burn the music to a CD so I can review each one at my leisure and play them on a CD player at the party. There will be prizes for awesomeness awarded to the mix I deem as the SWEETEST, as well as some goofy prizes handed out at the party.
4. Try to keep to shorter songs. Songs longer than 5 minutes are pushing it. Do not include them unless their sheer awesomeness is overpowering and commands that you disobey a rule in the spirit of rock and roll or heavy metal thunder or elfin folksy purity or whatever. Under no circumstances include a song longer than 7 minutes.
5. Name your mix something triumphant and awesome.
6. Be prepared to evangelize and defend shoddy choices.
I'll figure out the time and place for the listening party later, but it is highly likely that it will be after-hours.
Please note that CDs will be discarded after the event. The idea is to listen to awesome music, not distribute it.
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
I think I do have a few rare pieces that people NEED to be informed about. I'll just have to figure out how to tie them together.
Honestly though I'll have a hard time defending my pieces. Mostly 'cause I just could care less what others think of my music at much of it is a very odd musical mishmash. ^_^
Paul Hedges
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Tales, Battles Case, GameMastery Maps Subscriber)
4. Try to keep to shorter songs. Songs longer than 5 minutes are pushing it. Do not include them unless their sheer awesomeness is overpowering and commands that you disobey a rule in the spirit of rock and roll or heavy metal thunder or elfin folksy purity or whatever. Under no circumstances include a song longer than 7 minutes.
That so kills off about half, maybe a bit more than half, of Kayo Dot's discography.
Hmm, although it gives you the guts of Blue Lambency Downward, their third album. Plus, A Pitcher of Summer, from Choirs of the Eye, fits in, too. My whole issue is that I'm an album monkey, more than a mix guy....might be fun to try out, though.
Yeah, I usually do 20-song mixes, but there's not enough time to listen to 400 songs in a couple of hours. That's why this is a challenge.
Hmm, Erik Mona throwin down a gauntlet. I think Ill have to go in swingin. Can I get a Hell yeah!!
Sorry for the non-family friendliness of my post. I got caught up in the moment.
Oh, this is gonna be sweet. I'll discuss possible options with Ben when he's off work. I've been listening to Tom Waits for two days straight (as I am wont to do) and Ben's got all those Clutch CDs. I bet we can find four to eight songs amongst them that people have gotta hear.
Honestly, both make regular appearances in my D&D games. Clutch makes great fightin' music, and Tom Waits plays very well into pretty much any urban or semi-urban campaign I ever run. The man pretty much made up my soundtrack for Diamond Lake and Sasserine, and is getting a good showing in Old Korvosa.
There will be music, sir. Music indeed. :D
So, aaah, it must be rock and roll eh?Absolutely not.
Just no lame fantasy movie soundtrack crap.
Well how about a song from a videogame soundtrack?
I won't be able to attend so I can't participate but this is absolutely my most favorite kick ass song ever created (So far). Give it a try. :D Let me know what you think.
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsWpcwvmI0
Yeah, I can see the appeal of that when playing a video game, but....
NO, NO, NO, a thousand times NO.
No soundtrack stuff. I mean, really, do whatever you want, but all the stuff like this is going to run together and no one is going to be able to remember any of it.
I assume all of us have reams of music that's good for background noise when playing RPGs (and this is an excellent example thereof).
This event is not about RPGs at all, though, and is meant to share cool music with each other.
And by music I mean actual music, not just pleasing noise that goes well with the sound of clattering dice.
Perhaps an example is needed?
What I am picturing a good selection would be is something like this (though I just grabbed 4 CDs and picked songs at random):
Black Uhuru Genocide
Pat Methany Naked Moon
Santana Oye Como Va
Billy Bragg & Wilco One By One
What would be a bad selection would be something along the lines of:
Pirates Of The Carribean Fog Bound
Willow Escape From The Tavern
Lord Of The Rings The Nazgul
Pick Yer Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Flick Pick Yer Favorite Soundtrack Item
The goal being to bring tracks that one listens to simply because they kicks butt, not necessarily while gaming as background or scene setting.
Correct.
I might rib you a bit on the Santana choice since it's not exactly a deep cut, but some friendly hassling is bound to come up at the event.
Choose whatever you want to choose.
Just don't bring soundtrack stuff. We all have enough of that, I imagine.
Oh you just wait Erik. Got an odd mix working together on this end ... still have to figure out the last track ... but have not repeated a genre yet. ;)
Paul Hedges
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Tales, Battles Case, GameMastery Maps Subscriber)
Doesn't need to be PG rated.
Two songs under 5 minutes count as two songs, even if they are one track.
Unless you don't want them to.
It's not a test.
But I am starting to think it will be very well attended, so the more songs you bring and the longer they are, the less a chance we will have to listen to everyone's music.
Paul Hedges
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Tales, Battles Case, GameMastery Maps Subscriber)
Well, that was all kinds of awesome.
I think everyone agreed that the best discovery was Wishmaster, a Finnish theatrical metal band with an operatic female singer presented by Paizo's star Finn.
The mix ended up 39 songs long, with some really cool stuff. I will post the final track list later this week.
Well, that was all kinds of awesome.
I think everyone agreed that the best discovery was Wishmaster, a Finnish theatrical metal band with an operatic female singer presented by Paizo's star Finn.
The mix ended up 39 songs long, with some really cool stuff. I will post the final track list later this week.
Does that include my three?
(Next year I WILL have a CD. Promise.)