Sitting here eating my lunch (thank you Ivy, it's killer) and a car drove by playing Blue Oyster Cult's a Veteran of a Thousand Psychic Wars. We used to play this during games. Blue Oyster Cult was always a favorite, Pink Floyd was featured also, but for some reason that song really brings back memories of a young me (with hair) sitting around with my friends having a great time rolling dice and going through The Village Hommlet or Tomb of Horrors for the dozenth time and loving it.
So what song/band/album floods your memories of old gaming times?
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Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult and Led Zeppelin to be sure. But also Iron Maiden, Rush and oddly enough The Alan Parsons Project.
ReplyDeleteI based a whole campaign off of BOC's Workshop of the Telescopes....
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying your potato cheesy ham dish. I made leftover mash with sausage for me. Was super good.
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Awww...I miss the descending hearts on Tim's blog.
DeleteAh man, now I gotta go watch Heavy Metal...
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing!
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DeleteI don't think we ever played music during sessions. I still don't, though I occasionally bring up something on my phone during game as a sort of in-joke. However, when I first started playing D&D in 1981, my main exposure to Fantasy as a genre had been the Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit. To this day, hearing those songs takes me back to 6th grade.
ReplyDeleteStrangely, there are no songs I associate with playing D&D. I do however, associate playing Avalon Hill wargames (which I started around the same time) while listening to Queen's Another One Bites the Dust over and over again (a bit macabre, I know, but hey, I was twelve).
ReplyDeleteWe never listened to music while we played when I first got into roleplaying, but we listened to a lot of Dead Can Dance when I gamed during the 90s. Sometimes, listening to a certain Dead Can Dance track or album takes me back to a specific game or adventure I had completely forgotten about.
ReplyDeleteI don't have much in the way of association, except maybe Kiss' "God of Thunder." Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine," Metallica's "Enter Sandman," and Zeppelin's "Ramble On" put in mind of gaming when I hear them now. Oddly enough, Philip Glass' Symphony #3 does as well.
ReplyDeleteThis came out in 1976, the year before I found the Holmes boxed set in a comic book store in Ann Arbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHZ9vrcgxA
DeleteI haven't listened to "God of Thunder" (or Kiss) in decades. It hasn't aged well.
Like Adapt, we didn't listen to a bunch of music when I first started gaming, but by the end of the '80s we'd started including a bit. I played a bunch of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Skinny Puppy when we played Cyberpunk.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I have always tried to include a Tavern, Inn, or Bar called "Four Winds" in my game worlds ever since I first heard "Astronomy". There's a ton of BÖC that goes incredibly well with gaming.
I was recently introduced to the great idea of basing SF scenarios on Fields of the Nephilim (the given idea was "Project Dawnrazor, designed to stop the Mourning Sun"), which I now need to do.
The Sleepy Hollow soundtrack. And Pirates of the Caribbean for 7th Sea. For some reason, we almost never play non-film score music during our sessions. Might have to dig up my BÖC stuff after what I'm reading here, though.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't really listen to much music while playing D&D when I waws younger, but we normally had music playing during other table tops, particularly World of Darkness. Not necessarily proud of it, but a lot of Nu Metal makes me think of White Wolf games because of that.
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