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Moriarty's theme, heard the times he pops up randomly, and in scenes of tension, so...most of the time he's on screen, then. As evidenced here.

And then there's the famous ringtone, and the 'Thieving Magpie' track he stole the Crown Jewels to, which I've linked in a bunch of things already.

My personal soundtrack has added Taylor Swift's Blank Space, as well as a whole bunch of others but I'm in a rush now so will maybe link later. :)

To be honest, the first time I heard Taylor Swift's Blank Space, my mind immediately went to Hannibal and Will Graham, and it has stuck as the kind of cracky addition to my hannigram soundtrack.

...it'll leave you breathless, or with a nasty scar...

I didn't even know the song existed until I saw an excellent Jim/Sherlock fanvid set to it, and it just works so well for them in so many ways. But I could totally see it working for Hannibal and Will too - and Jim and Hannibal have discussed in-bar, and Jenna and I have talked about OOC'ly - recently in fact - there are quality parallels between the two relationships.

I can't help thinking of Obi-Wan and Asajj Ventress when I hear Blank Space.

Jamie and William's canon has a soundtrack!

The score composers for Steven Universe have a Soundcloud account where they frequently post songs and incidental music from the show. Here's a playlist of it.

Ahsoka: Kevin Kiner did a pretty remarkable job of invoking John Williams for The Clone Wars without simply copying him. Great music throughout the series, but I especially love Ahsoka's pieces (Ahsoka Leaves still gets me). Here's a Youtube playlist with 94 songs from the various seasons and the original movie.

Sabine: I don't think Star Wars Rebels has an official soundtrack yet, but the Kiner Brothers have put up some of the music from the second season here on Soundcloud. Great stuff and true to the sound of Star Wars. Sabine even has her own song!

Eliot: The music at play in The Magicians seems geared to those who like alternative or electronica tunes. Here's a playlist someone's put together of songs used in the series (Youtube). I personally see Panic! At The Disco's Death of a Bachelor as being Eliot's personal soundtrack.

Touji: Tokyo Ravens has a nice soundtrack for getting things done. Mostly instrumental and traditional, rather than J-pop inspired, if my memory serves. I'm without headphones as I forgot to charge them over the weekend.

Izana: I *love* the soundtrack to both seasons of Sidonia no Kishi. It is a excellent mix of musical genres, from J-pop, to classical, to industrial, to operatic. Youtube doesn't have an assembled playlist of the official music, but here's one track to give an impression. ETA: Oh, and here's another.

And I've ignored work long enough. I'll see if I can get to the other pups later.

Edited 2016-08-01 17:19 (UTC)

In the head canon Falcon solo movie I have, the sound track is all sorts of black genres; soul, funk, hip hop, 50/60s rock, blues and any other sort of music first created by black musicians.

Okay, actually listening to Tokyo Ravens' soundtrack and there are a lot more modern pieces than I remember.

Yamato: Digimon Adventure's soundtrack is, um. Notably strange? In that there is one film in that continuity in which the soundtrack consists entirely of sinister banjo music, just to start.

For the less odd stuff, it has a lot of Wada Kouji and Ayumi Miyazaki songs, with the two big ones being Butterfly, a pretty upbeat hopeful sounding song with lyrics about someone clinging on to the last vestiges of hope in a miserable, empty world (which serves as the series' opening); and Brave Heart, a really upbeat song which actually has fairly nice lyrics about striving to achieve your potential (and is the series' evolution theme).

Digimon's writers have an interesting preoccupation with retroactively making these songs meaningful to canon, so Butterfly eventually ends up working as a big reference to Oikawa, and Tri has Yamato echoing several of Brave Heart's lines in reference to Taichi.

Yamato himself has a few personal songs, but the one that shows up for him the most is Run With The Wind, a harmonica song that he plays a few times when he's miserable or to help the other kids relax. Also of interest: Requiem, which is sort of Omegamon's theme?

The full soundtrack for 01 is here, but unfortunately it doesn't include Hurricane Touchdown's sinister banjo playing.

The dub also has a pretty good soundtrack, of which my favourite track is probably Heroic Theme.

Sherral: Final Fantasy XII has a soundtrack composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, instead of the franchise's usual composer, so it sounds different to every other game in the series, especially as Sakimoto has a pretty distinctive style. It can be reasonably assumed that if I'm writing a Sherral OOM, I'll probably have Theme of the Empire playing in the background.

The soundtrack also has some great versions of classic Final Fantasy songs, including a sweeping orchestral version of the main theme and the absolute best version of the classic victory fanfare. It also has Imperial and Liberation Army versions of a lot of the songs, like Sorrow (Imperial Version) and Sorrow (Liberation Army Version).

Full soundtrack is over here.

Hawke: Dragon Age 2's soundtrack is orchestral and often quite haunting and very epic fantasy, and has quite a lot in common with, er, the soundtracks from other Dragon Age games.

The main theme is especially nice, as is Mage Pride. Not on the soundtrack (I think?) but from the trailer is Destiny, which could probably be described as a theme for Hawke.

Edited 2016-08-01 18:38 (UTC)

Wilford has none. :(

The closest thing he has to recognisable music is channel outro music, but that's used on everything, and not just his videos. (I use this one This one, starting at the linked point as my ringtone, which is easy to hear over everything that goes on around here, but awful when a robot calls me at oh god o'clock.)

There's some very subtle scoring in the Cyndago portion of his canon, which can be described as Royalty Free. Bland and unrecognisable, and immediately forgettable. The game portion of his canon swings wildly between the same bland royalty free stuff to pounding dubstep or whatever you call this.

Last night at 2am, I did purchase the soundtrack to a related canon. Everything about their music is great, since it's specifically composed, but I wouldn't want a Wilford collab, even for some awesome music. That's actually a terrifying thought, and I hate myself for even going there.

Busy moving over the next three days so I can't dig up many links, nor do I have time to deal with my many thoughts on what an Alera soundtrack should be. I am sad I cannot do this DE justice, because it is perfect for me.

Lois canons in general have had some good soundtracks: Williams, some Smallville original stuff is beautiful, and Zimmer did a fantastic job (my favorite track did not make it into the movie but is stunning, I have it on single repeat right now). Dragon Age: Inquisition is also fantastic on the music. Go to YouTube, read what Eric and Lynne have to say about DA music, it's great.

But that is not why I am replying to this DE. I am replying for one simple reason, sometimes ranked best in its class of all time, which you can all look up on YouTube at your leisure because it is endless:

John Williams + Kevin Kiner's adaptions.

Bye now.

Obviously this means I'll need to revisit this in a few months so you'll have a second chance! I hope the move goes well.

Ellen's canon has an ambient soundtrack used when the player hasn't got access to a radio station. Not bad stuff, really. There are a number of radio stations scattered around the Wasteland and since one of the early quests you can get involves restoring one to full functionality, for both music and news, they wind up being a sizable part of the game experience. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_soundtrack covers things more clearly and more easily than I can, and has links, too.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas are easily amongst my favourite game soundtracks.

Emcee's whole life is a Cabaret! Yes, I said it. I suppose it's easier when your pup comes from a musical.

True Blood has seven seasons of music, so I'm not going to even try to get links, except for this catalog if anyone is interested. I think there's a predominance of southern rock and alternative. Best example of the tone would be the show's theme song, Bad Things, which has the distinction of being one of those catchy HBO show openers that you simply cannot fast forward through even while binge watching.

And there's the car scene at the very end. That's a catchy pop tune, isn't it?

If not, it should be.

If Eric considers electronic hard rock to be catchy pop, then yes XD

http://youtu.be/z0A6gZq-OYM

This brings me much joy.

Edited 2016-08-02 16:11 (UTC)

Totally pop

Beverly's the only one from a live-action canon, and her soundtrack is all . . . this kind of thing. (That video has some gory Hannibal shots in it and plenty of Brian Reitzell's creepifying score.)

It's great for a horror show, but difficult to write to, so I listen to a lot of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' instrumental film scores if I need a musical soundtrack for Beverly.

Epimetheus' PB is Matt Verta-Ray, one half of rockabilly band Heavy Trash, so that probably counts.

Nita has had many and many a playlist over the years, way too many songs for me to dig up here. Kim, on the other hand, doesn't have any music I associate with her. Some Regency costume drama's soundtrack might work for her once she goes respectable, but while she's living as a street thief, the closest she's got is that time in canon she sings "Darlin' Jenny" (better known to many as "Whiskey in the Jar") to herself to time a break-in.

Steve has The Star-Spangled Man with a Plan. His music is of the orchestral, heroic type. I also love that in the Man Out of Time arc, Steve becomes a fan of Radiohead. I'd love to see the movies play with that.

I tend to think of Sherlock's score as playful--you don't get many drums or electric guitars, though there seem to be a lot of stringed instruments as well as unusual uses of percussion. You'll get some sadder compositions (Irene's theme) but mostly it tends to be more sprightly.

I also have a fanmix inspired by a fic about Lestrade, John, and Sherlock going on a road trip and fighting over the music a lot, and Sherlock's music from that story works for me as fanon: things like the Decemberists, Portishead, the Smiths, and Florence and the Machine.

Furiosa has Comma Doof. BOOM. Seriously, though, the whole score is one power chord and drumbeat after another and I love it to bits. Have Brothers In Arms, for example.

Oh man, I haven't thought of the road trip fics in aaaaages. The ones where Sherlock keeps wanting to stop and look at cows, right?

That's the one! I can't remember the title of it, though.

Oh man. Those, and the ones where he accidentally summons demons were the height of the fandom for me.

I...was not aware of that one and may have to seek it out.

The other one that's stuck with me most had the premise of Sherlock being a hollow man with a clockwork heart. It was really lovely.

I think it's literally called like, "how to accidentally summon a demon"? All I know is there were two of them in the same series, and I'm not going to say any more about it, because it needs to be unspoiled. It's amazing.

The Addams Family AU was really good, too. The dude that wrote that wrote a lot of AUs. This one, John was an Addams, which is why he's so totally unfazed by all the crap Sherlock does.