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For Felix: Into the Fire and his own game's soundtrack's Venus Lighthouse theme, mostly.

This one seems to work for Kain, though it's obviously not his full range.

I don't actually have music that speaks to me of Fluttershy or Cranky, at the moment.

Ben doesn't really have a playlist as I've just made a Pandora station for him which features a lot of surf music and crooners like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. I do have a playlist from when I was writing his Fear Itself OOMs which I will post once I get to work.

Val is another I have made a Pandora station for which features Ladytron, Goldfrappe and the like.

Jessica doesn't have a playlist and I'll likely make another Pandora station with Funk Metal and rock. She does have her own cheesy theme song though .

I do have playlists for Hank, Thalia and Palamedes and will have to post those once I get to work.

Kate Kane, Beast Boy, Mars and Julie don't have any sort of playlist and I'm not sure where to start. I know Kate seems like Rockabilly and Flamenco.

So here's the Fear Itself playlist:
Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath
Gangsta's Paradise - Battery
We Will Rock You - P!nk, Beyoncé & Britney Spears
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
One Of The Guys - Kirby Kracle

And here's Ult. Ben's playlist cause I still like to give it a listen:
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Where Is My Mind? - Yoav, feat. Emily Browning (from the Sucker Punch OST)
All My Life - Foo Fighters
Winter - Tori Amos
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Walk - Foo Fighters
Best Of You - Foo Fighters
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Seven Nation Army - White Strips
Walking After You - Foo Fighters
Everlong - Foo Fighters
The Pretender - Foo Fighters

He really liked the Foo Fighters. Can you tell?

Edited 2012-08-30 20:18 (UTC)

I'll link for Palamedes so I can save your scroll wheel. Looking at the playlist, he really needs to get over Iseult.

And for Hank, The Ghost of You.

And Thalia has a few:
Girl Interrupted
Tears In The Rain
We Could Be Heroes.

Someday I should mix these together into one long playlist.

And of course Mars starting making a playlist on my way into work...
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Dogs of War - Pink Floyd
Uprising - Muse
This Is War - 30 seconds to Mars
Thrive - Beltaine's Fire (This one really is the whole of the Mars in my head) Here's a youtube link if you're curious, Celtic hip hop.

A year old. Missing all the SOS list. But here.

Gordon's playlist: I did this up ages ago for the Livejournal incarnation of Daemonmuses. http://acts-of-gord.livejournal.com/17621.html covers it pretty nicely. I'd also add "Bad" by U2 and "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers.

Adrian's: I've had this one for a while, although I haven't gone into nearly as much detail about it as Gordon's. Mostly this one was songs that adhered to him over time.

The fiddle-and-banjo-intensive cover of "Back In Black" from the Back In Bluegrass AC/DC tribute album
"Centerfold", J. Geils Band
"Darlington County", Bruce Springsteen
"Death Came A-Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes), Ruthie Foster
"Don't Fear The Reaper", Blue Oyster Cult
"Enter Sandman", Metallica
"Little Ducks", the Crimson Tide soundtrack
"Remember Us", the 300 soundtrack
"Tarzan Boy", Baltimora
"To Glory", Two Steps From Hell
"Under Pressure", David Bowie and Queen

Ellen's:

"Tik Tik Boom", Peter Gresser, Songs From 5ideways
"Where The River Meets The Sea", John Denver
"Two Thousand Years", Billy Joel
"Urban Wasteland", Warhammer 40k Dawn of War soundtrack
"City of Delusion", Muse – this is for when she's in Scourge of God mode, and was first associated with the destruction of Raven Rock in my head
"Locking Up The Sun", Poets of the Fall. This may be the only time in my life that I say this, but for the most part I mean this song ironically. Ellen does not particularly think in terms of heroes or saving the day and she most definitely does not buy into the idea of being able to undo anything whatsoever. It's not that there's a hero somewhere, it's that nothing is going to get better until somebody does something, and the only somebody you can make do anything is you.
"Nero", Two Steps From Hell
"If Everyone Cared", Nickelback
"Wavin' Flag", K'naan- the version with the World Cup lyrics; the soccer parts don't work so well but they work a lot better than the original lyrics
… I used to have more than that for her but I don't remember the rest now.

I think I need to check out that Bluegrass AC/DC tribute album!

Amazon has it on MP3, apparently. I think I got my one song from iTunes, though.

Heh,

varadia and I were just talking about this last night. Mainly because I've had Florence + The Machine's cover of "Girl With One Eye" stuck in my head with regard to Elle for the past few days, and I... wish she'd stop it, but oh well.

For Asami - So a little while ago I randomly saw this band called Moon Hooch playing in Washington Square Park, and after subsequently downloading their album I really associated them with Korra generally, I think because they're kind of electronic, but also really jazzy. I don't know, I'd never really heard anything exactly like it before. Anyway, most of their stuff is instrumental, but their one track with vocals (which I think of for Asami a lot), called "Contra," is actually up for free here.

I also like "Strict Machine" by Goldfrapp, "Charity Song (Gong Yi Ge Qu)" by Liang Long, and if I were going to make an Asami/science vid, it would probably be to Florence + The Machine's "Drumming Song."

For Leslie I don't have a lot in particular - I go with Sarah McLachlan because she canonically likes her so much, and I like "Home" by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes and "Huddle Formation" by The Go! Team for the show generally, but I don't have a lot particularly for her.

Manny's canon has a lot of great music, with my favorites being Ninth Heaven and Compañeros. But I also like Florence + The Machine's "My Boy Builds Coffins" for him.

And... Elle has a big long list that I just kept adding things too. As mentioned above "Girl With One Eye" got in my head the other day and hasn't left. I think the first song I really associated with her was "Witchy Woman" by The Eagles. "Grounds for Divorce" by Elbow has probably become my anthem for her, a lot because it really fit my mood when I was doing her split from canon. And there was all the music I used in linktext for finishing up that plot, which included "Black Sheep" by Metric, "Life Like" by The Rosebuds, and "Thistledown Tears" by Jeffrey Foucault.

And, okay, this could get really long really fast, so I'm just going to make myself choose remaining favorites, um:
"Chinese Burn" - Curve
"No, I Don't Remember" - Anna Ternheim
"Up the Wolves" - The Mountain Goats (admittedly more Elle-X, but)
"Evolve" - Ani DiFranco
"Circling Around the Moon" - John Mellencamp
"I Think I'm Paranoid" - Garbage
"Oh My God" - Ida Maria
"Public Displays of Affection" - Morcheeba
"Sparks Fly" - Daniel Agust

And really, my playlist for her is pretty long, but yeah.

Fallen Goddess Amascut

Never Be Free by Garbage	Play ►
Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam	Play ►
Proud Like a God by Guano Apes	Play ►
Fall Into Sleep by Mudvayne	Play ►
Temptation Waits by Garbage	Play ►
Nature Boy by David Bowie & Massive Attack	Play ►
Can't Change Me by Chris Cornell	Play ►
The End is the Beginning is the End by Smashing Pumpkins	Play ►
The Beginning is the End is the Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins	Play ►
Judith by A Perfect Circle	Play ►
When Animals Attack by Institute	Play ►
Hypnotized by Runescape Audio Team	Play ►
Ænema by Tool	Play ►
Tikal by E.S. Posthumus	Play ►
Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei	Play ►
Cat People(Putting Out The Fire) by David Bowie	Play ►

Playlist format by

wastintime and posted in

rp_tutorials

Its getting sorta long. Some of these are inspiration for future OOMs, admittedly. I stole this format from Mercy Thompson mun I think, when I was spying on Milliways' friends list out of boredom. It took some fixing as it originally had a play and pause button of sorts that weren't working well with LJ's code.

A few things from my Warehouse 13 playlist that are specifically Claudia:

"Tenuousness," Andrew Bird
"Easy to Slip," Little Feat
"Part of the Plan," Dan Fogelberg
"Cry Love," John Hiatt
"Not a Robot, but a Ghost," Andrew Bird
"Overture," Patrick Wolf
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," Daft Punk
"Gravity Blues," the Black Box Revelation
"Kooks," David Bowie
"Call and Answer," Barenaked Ladies
"Brother," Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Fire it Up," Modest Mouse (this is my ultimate Claudia/Fargo song; if I'd done the Eureka stuff as an OOM the link text would've been 'two of life's best mine canaries.')
Sir Not Appearing On My iPod: "She Blinded Me With Science," Thomas Dolby
Honorary mention: "Everything Bounces," the Stalking Horses - I thought it was a Claudia song at first and then I realised it's actually more about her brother.

This is ~half of my W13 playlist; some of the rest are atmospheric, some of them are about specific people (mostly HG, though MacPherson snuck on there, as did Steve).

As a bonus, these are the songs on my playlist for HG:

"Spiral Stairs," Elf Power
"Fake Palindromes," Andrew Bird
"A Second Out," Roger Daltrey
Hovering on the edge of actual inclusion: "Viva La Vida," Coldplay

I should also note it hit me hard last night that "Overture" also works really damn well for HG.

Edited 2012-08-30 17:16 (UTC)

snowy_river_man comes with one of my all time favorite soundtracks. Samples here (the 'breaking the colt' montage!) and here.

headed4hell's playlist is here. I chose a lot of them for obvious reasons, but some are just so Grace.

My

try_corsets playlist is here.

Alanna's playlist is full of milli-related stuff that isn't totally relevant anymore, but enduring favorites are listed below!

Alanna/George:

As Lovers Go, Dashboard Confessional (This really is the most perfect Alanna/George song in existence.)
Bad As I Am, Great Big Sea
When You Come Back Down, Nickel Creek

Alanna-Thom:

Back to Me, Nine Days ("Could you sit and watch me die..." And a DUCK POND. It's so perfect.)
If I Die, Something Corporate
Globes and Maps, Something Corporate
Your Winter, Sister Hazel (AUGH. This hurts me.)

Alanna/Jon:

Hunter, Dido
For You, Barenaked Ladies
Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper & Sarah McLachlan

Alanna:

I'll Make a Man Out of You, Donny Osmond ( :D? )
Prettiness, Noe Venable
Your Armor, Charlotte Martin
A lot of Loreena McKennitt, actually. Alanna is a Daughter of the Goddess, and there's something about the combination of rhythms and the mystical feel in Mckennitt's songs that feels right, particularly The Mystic's Dream, All Soul's Night, Come By the Hills, Night Ride Across the Caucasus and The Old Ways.

And bonus Milliways song: That Was a Crazy Game of Poker, by OAR. Ever and always my bar song! :D

Edited 2012-08-30 15:41 (UTC)

Red/Ruby (the only other fandom of my set I have a playlist going for):

"Werewolves of London," Warren Zevon (Red)
"Hanginaround," Counting Crows (Ruby)
"Take Me Out," Franz Ferdinand (Ruby)
"Tiny Town," David Byrne (Ruby, and Storybrooke in general; I want there to be a vid of this so bad)
"Furr," Blitzen Trapper (Red)
"Wild Wild Life," Talking Heads (Ruby)
Sir Not Appearing On My iPod: "Hungry Like the Wolf," Duran Duran (Red)

This playlist also has a bit of Andrew Bird, but it's either atmospheric ("Measuring Cups") or about another character entirely.
(Fun trivia: "Not a Robot, but a Ghost" is also on this playlist, serving its original function as a breakup song. Graham and Regina, for those playing along at home.)

Howl by Florence and the Machine could be good for Red.

I was building one for Link using just Kirby songs, but since I juuuust got a new-ish laptop you're gonna have to wait a sec to see that.

But here, have this one non-Kirby song that I associate with Link!

Alright, the Kirbyfied Link playlist:

- Tiny Town (Actually Bubbly Clouds, but I went with "Tiny Town" because...tiny...ahem)
- Checker Knights
- Start with a Circle (not explaining that one)
- Dream Land (this is more of a Zelda thing, but in conjunction with Link...you know...that scene; on a semi-related note, I'm amused that all covers of this theme are lullaby-like and soothing as opposed to the original. Oh Ishikawa~)
- The Greatest Warrior in the Galaxy (because he really is as badass as this song)

Maybe I should include Dark Matter's Last Stand because of eyeballs...

I don't really have a playlist for Mark, but some of the instrumentals from the soundtrack of "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" (written by Chris Corner of the Sneaker Pimps, which is how I found the music) will fit some upcoming action, especially "14th of July."

I haven't made a character-specific playlist for a while, so here's one I made for Charlie Pace back in the day.

A Scruffy Bloke From Manchester (Charlie Pace)

	Song Name	Artist	Album

1	Hurt	Johnny Cash	American IV: The Man Comes Around
2	Life In a Northern Town	The Dream Academy	Rhino Hi-Five: The Dream Academy - EP
3	Strawberry Fields Forever	The Beatles	1967-1970 (Disc 1)
4	Unholy, Dirty And Beautiful	David Usher	Little Songs
5	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	The Rolling Stones	Out Of Our Heads
6	Konstantine	Something Corporate
7	Ride On	Christy Moore	Celtic Moods
8	Hopeless	Sister Hazel
9	I Fall In Love Too Easily	Chet Baker	My Funny Valentine
10	Redemption Song	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Legend
11	This Old Guitar	John Denver	Take Me Home-The John Denver S
12	Across The Universe	The Beatles	1967-1970 (Disc 2)
13	Memory (Acoustic)	Sugarcult	Memory (Acoustic) - Single
14	Waiting [Tom Lord-Alge Remix]	The Devlins
15	Turn The Page	Jesse Thurgood	Under The Influence

As far as other characters go,

jack_inthegreen's song is "The Green Man" by XTC, though I'll also always associate "The Scientist" (specifically the Aimee Mann cover) with him as well because of plot reasons.

"Sword and Shield" by Sister Hazel was my Boromir song, back when I played him.

When I think of

bagginsofbagend I usually think of "Concerning Hobbits" from the FOTR soundtrack or "Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy.

dragons_emrys hasn't really inspired any musical choices for me, and

thekidfrombrooklyn usually gets music from the 1930s and 40s. For some reason I think of "Don't sit under the apple tree" a lot for him. Though thanks to a reverse big bang I just completed recently I also associate "When you were young" by the Killers with him now.

For Voodoo, in some particular order:

Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked – Cage the Elephant
Invaders Must Die – The Prodigy
Smack My Bitch Up – The Prodigy
Mindfields – The Prodigy
Hero (The Legion of Doom Remix) - Skillet
Into the Fire – Thirteen Senses
I Won’t Back Down – Johnny Cash
Awake and Alive - Skillet
Exile Vilify – The National
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel
Room of Angel – Akira Yamaoka
I Need a Doctor (feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey) – Dr. Dre
Shelter From The Storm – Bob Dylan
Cinderella Man – Eminem
‘Til I Collapse – Eminem
I Will Not Bow – Breaking Benjamin
Ain’t No Grave – Johnny Cash
The Fire (feat. John Legend) – The Roots
Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
Smile Like You Mean It – The Killers
Big Iron – Johnny Cash
Rusty Cage – Johnny Cash
Renegade – Jay-Z
The Dead Flag Blues – Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Redemption Day - Johnny Cash
Honor (Main Theme from The Pacific) – Hans Zimmer

I don't have a playlist for John quite yet.

Short, and in no particular order....

spaceboy3000:
The Phenomenauts - Tiny Robots
The Phenomenauts - Earth Is The Best
Jonathan Coulton - Chiron Beta Prime
Fountains of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas
Rick Astley - Together Forever

(I used to have a much longer general Futurama playlist, but I found it recently and went "Uh.. WTF?" at some of it, so this is part of it.)

psyched_you_out:
Great Big Sea - Consequence Free
Great Big Sea - When I'm Up
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Ben Folds - Still Fighting It

Brisco doesn't really have one. Any suggestions?

Edited 2012-08-30 17:42 (UTC)

I figure "Spaceboy" by Dr. Steel probably fits for Fry.

... That is extremely cool. :D Thanks.

I recommend all of Dr. Steel's discography. He is going to take over the world, you know.

*Points down RE Brisco*

McCabe's the one I've got the clearest idea of, soundtrack-wise. Maybe could use a few that aren't completely downbeat, though.

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Song
John Martyn – Dealer
Allman Brothers – Midnight Rider
Grateful Dead – Friend of the Devil
Robert Johnson – Love in Vain
Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released
The Band - It Makes No Difference
John Martyn – Stormbringer
Nick Drake – Harvest Breed
Leonard Cohen – Winter Lady

Edited 2012-08-30 18:06 (UTC)

(Posting again to avoid editing my comment for the kabillionth time. >.>)

Out of curiosity - when you make playlists for your pups, do you tend to choose music they'd like, or music that reminds you of them? (I tend to do a mixture of both with mine.)

Stuff that reminds me of them, with maybe one or two songs per playlist being something I could picture them listening to in-universe. (If you go back to my very first Ellen OOM, the John Denver song is cast as a lullabye her father sings her after he successfully gets them into Vault 101 when she's a few days old. The Gambler is on Gordon's soundtrack because I had him listening to it in a hotel room when he was waiting for word about his job interview at Black Mesa. Shephard was singing Centerfold during one of the OOMs around the time the Combine destroyed Black Forest. Etc.)

Mine was all music that reminded me of my pup and her philosophy, with possible still unwritten plot themes added in. I didn't know her preference for ballads when I compiled it.

I'd have to go with both, especially if I'm not familiar with the era the pup comes from.

A mix of both, leaning heavily toward music that reminds me of them. It's been fun at times to take a song the character canonically likes and build a mix around that, though--like an interpretation of their taste.

It's been really spooky, and justifying :D, when I've used a song for a character in-game and it showed up later in canon. Like, I had Charlie sing "Wonderwall" many times in-game and then in his last season he was shown to sing it while busking. It was a real gleeful CANON'S OUR BITCH moment, but also it felt like, yeah, I know his tastes.

Stuff that reminds me of them!

I don't often have a strong sense of what music my characters might like or dislike, if it isn't canonical; this is probably partly because none of mine are from contemporary Earth (and very few of my past ones were, either), but also just because of how my brain works. That said, sometimes the "feeling" of a song will push it more towards one character or another, or else I'll say something like "the feel of it is wrong, but the lyrics fit."

Usually a combo, especially when it comes to Clementine.

I forgot to put this one up: "Don't Tell the Band" by Widespread Panic. It's not for Mark, but it's very much a Milliways song, especially the last verse. (I would have used it during the Allpocalypse, if I'd been playing.)

I love music but my playlists aren't terribly organized just where I think the music belongs.

There are songs I sort of associate with characters but it shifts a lot. So please, give me recs and what songs you think about with my characters.

Pinkie Pie:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Party Hard - Andrew W.K.
Party all the Time - Eddie Murphy
Smile, Smile Smile (Living Tombstone Remix) - Pinkie Pie
Celebrate - Kool and the Gang
Blame it on the Boogie - Jackson 5
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) (Ultimix) -Whitney Houston
Pon Pon Pon (P-Club Remix featuring Megapoid Gummi) - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Move Your Feet (Radio Edit) - Junior Senior
Party - Beyonce
The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue
You Should Be Dancin' (Matt Mix) - Bee-Gees

Clementine:
Crush With Eyeliner - REM
Marry The Night - Lady Gaga
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan (lots of Steely Dan, obviously)
Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton
Kiss - Prince
Janis Joplin Vs Kraftwerk - Mercedes Benz Auf Der Autobahn (MattPop Mashup)
Right Hand Man - Joan Osbourne
Do You Wanna Touch Me (There?) - Joan Jett
Fugitive - Indigo Girls
Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton
Madonna Whore - Cyndi Lauper
Nobody's Girl - Bonnie Raitt (I have lots of Bonnie Raitt for my Sam/Clem playlist)
Is That Too Much To Ask - Beth Hart
I Take My Chances - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Glory of the 80's - Tori Amos

Sam (

hoochedseal)/Clementine
Here, There And Everywhere - Emmylou Harris
You and I (Florida Version)- Lady Gaga
1983 - Neon Trees
Not the Only One - Bonnie Raitt
Thing Called Love - Bonnie Raitt

Dixie:
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
Pendulum Swinger - Indigo Girls
Legend of a Cowgirl - Imani Coppola
Sin Wagon - Dixie Chicks
Hell on Heels - Pistol Annies
Vegas - Sara Bareilles

Brisco (

harvard_bounty)/Dixie:
Wild Angels - Martina McBride
Last of the True Believers - Nanci Griffith
Round of Blues - Shawn Colvin

Juliet:
(I blame all of the great Jules fanvids for this playlist)

Echo - Jason Walker
Do It Like a Dude - Jesse J
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
That Girl is Fierce - Love, She Wrote
Watershed - Indigo Girls
32 Flavors - Alanna Davis

Shawn

psyched_u_out/Juliet
Accidentally In Love - The Counting Crows
Domino - Jesse J
Hey Soul Sister - Train

Merida:
Ebudæ - enya (which is Gaelic and not Scotch-Gaelic but pretty close)

And elsewhere:

Sam Axe:
I've been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison

Sam Axe/Mike Westen:
Joking - Indigo Girls

Ash Williams:
Beast of Burden - Bette Midler (IDEK)
Crazy in the Night - Kim Carnes
Devotion - Indigo Girls

Ash/Sheila:
Beautiful Ways: Pat McGee Band
Half of My Heart: John Mayer and Taylor Swift
Gentleman Who Fell: Milla Jovovich
Baby, I Love You: The Ramones
Building a Mystery: Sarah McLachlan
Sugar - Tori Amos

Edited 2012-08-30 20:17 (UTC)

Loreena McKennitt might be good for Merida as well.

Oooh! thank you! I tend to listen to more modern celtic rock, and none of it has the proper flavor for Merida's story, so suggestions are love!

I don't really have a full playlist, just songs that immediately make me think of Tommy or the show in general, plus "Rescue Me" has an awesome soundtrack of its own. I've taken a couple of standout songs (for me at least) from the show itself and added some other choices.

"Devil" - Stereophonics
"Run" - Snow Patrol
"Trouble" - Ray LaMontagne
"All the Wild Horses" - Ray LaMontagne
"I Shall Believe" - Sheryl Crow (an ALL OF THE TEARS song)
"My Hero" - Foo Fighters
"How Many Friends" - The Who
"However Much I Booze" - The Who (Okay, basically the entire The Who By Numbers album)

Edited 2012-08-30 22:00 (UTC)

Who By Numbers is one of the great boozing-and-brooding albums of the Seventies. And that's no small feat.

"Make No Mistake" by John Martyn works for him as well, I think.

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