Sometimes writing works a lot better if you can prime your brain with good music first. Here’s some!
Though not all music. The first bit is an action scene… a very funny action scene.
Ryo Saeba and Makimura VS Gangsters | City Hunter Opening Fight (2024)
Airwolf for 8 Cellos
X-Men: The Animated Series
Knight Rider
Thundercats
Power Rangers
And because you can never have too many versions of good theme music to inspire action writing…. Some of KOSmusic’s take on themes!
Knight Rider
Airwolf
The Addams Family
And a few more I found for fun.
Street Hawk Theme (Enzo Margaglio Remake)
Automan Theme (Enzo Margaglio Remake)
…Ahem. Yeah, I needed some upbeat stuff lately. 😉
This was on loop in my head for a week and a half thanks to a fandom that I only know through fanfiction. No, this song was never mentioned in any of the stories, but they invoked that vibe intensely.
And this is my latest song obsession
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Discovered that you can play YouTube playlists in the YouTube Music app as audio tracks. Which means if you’ve got a pile of YouTube music you listen to, it will play nice with Apple Carplay and Android Auto.
Which is handy in travel, because pretty much everything I listen to is esoteric music on YouTube.
Case in point:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ylePpEFen1g&si=-U0jOlHSfyf0I_0P
I’m not even sure which group did this one, or what the title even is. Just that it exists and is fun.
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I’ve been writing to this playlist by Jonathan Young. It’s his Sea Shanty album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw0i4BSicsU&list=PLVV4_eRUyhKYJbLIFIGnG36EpTC0XI9X7&index=1
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Oh, when I was sketching out a VR Megaman game idea, and laying out story concepts, this was the song that game me the idea for the best ending:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LorRUibhOKY&si=xV-iyI5xvjuBPpJD
Essentially if you did all the side things you’d get the best ending and this would be the credit music.
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The Music isn’t bad at all!
Not really into Megaman, but the music I can dig, as long as there’s no lyrics…
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Music with no lyrics you say? How about another in a fairly different genre?
One of the things that fascinates me with the touhou fan music is how broad the interpretations end up being. A single character’s theme can have many widely divergent interpretations with widely different emotional themes, yet still work and still fit the character.
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I have a lot of favorites from that franchise! Both with and without lyrics.
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At some point we will have to exchange favorites. Always open to new music.
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Yes, yes we will!
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We’ll have to figure out some way to communicate without stacking Crossover’s comment section…
But one last one:
This one was interesting. I saw it before the translation was posted, and though she was having a conflict between duty and love, and noped so hard it turned into the fanfic thing. (Basically I thought he was courting her, those we gifts he’d given her, and that she was receptive but felt like she was obligated to reject it.)
Turns out the actual story there is completely different.
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This is not one I’ve heard before.
As to what to do about that? I have a blog, I just haven’t posted anything on it yet?
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Are either of you two on Discord?
Cedar Sanderson has a “Book Club With Spikes” that has room for such stuff.
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I do indeed have a Discord!
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Invite, one week expire, five people.
https://discord.gg/8bthUvty
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Indeed I do have discord. Indeed I probably have too many channels open and need to prune some. Invite followed.
Thank you!
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Thank you much! Got it.
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Great!
Not on it much, but they’re great folks, and it has a decent sized lurker population. 😀
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I think They’ve gotten at least one more, because I lurk, a lot…
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Now I just need to figure out how to get the playlist itself to open the the app instead of just in the web browser…
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Hang on, I’ve got a link that might help…
Try this one: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nw0i4BSicsU&list=PLVV4_eRUyhKYJbLIFIGnG36EpTC0XI9X7
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Thank you. I was able to find the playlist, and was listening to it on the drive home. Very cool.
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Right now my DnD group has a Pirate game going on and we are using this specific version of Randy Dandy as the opening.
Man the Cannons makes me want to play another pirate game where we all are Bards… The video is just awesome!
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Edit:
It you open my first link and save the playlist, you should be able to open it in the app…
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Somehow, that song sounds very mexican to me. I think it’s the instruments…
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Deadwood-Really Slow Motion is one of my battle themes.
2Weis’s Pushing On Pandora Edition is another.
If I need Boss music: The Almighty from Persona 4 or X-ray Dog
for Shrine/calming music: Rabx32’ s
Flute/Woodwind Knight
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