"Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. My story is pretty much a tale of a bunch of people who could be considered villains and why they became that way.
Full picture here.◊ Drawn by Saemus!Project One Fifty Four is closely linked to Depeche Mode for some reason. A lot of their music * describes either Jack Clive or the story's tone very well, and even the chorus of Freestate matches the theme of Project One Fifty-Four beautifully. This is unusual because I normally consider lyrics and music to be completely different things and thus rarely pay attention to song lyrics for their literary/poetic value alongside their music.
The setting of Project One Fifty Four (2040's) happens to have a popular style of music called stomp (it's basically a form of electronic industrial), which is somewhat similar to Depeche Mode's style.
It's time to start playing your part
Freedom awaits
Open the gates
Open your mind
Freedom's a state
EDIT: Also, why is this in world building? Unless we're actually discussing styles of music we've created for our settings, this belongs in Writers Block.
edited 24th Apr '11 10:58:49 PM by annebeeche
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.I may be mistaken, but I put this is World Building because the music we've contemplated for a our stories, original or otherwise, is a constructive element that potentially contributes to narration, character development, plot, setting, etc. I didn't find it appropriate for Writer's Block because it's not really something that requires a critique regarding developmental issues, and I personally don't see the subject matter being much different from the various discussions about fantastical races, magic types, environments and clever names for comic relief characters. I'm not dead-set on having it here, but World Building seems to be the right place from what I can tell.
The story is about an Occidental Otaku who gets lost in her own Dream World, where she's the reality-warping monarch of an RPG Verse.
Here's one for the project I have planned after this one
, which is wildly different.
It's pretty much a deconstruction of the Vigilante Man genre.
edited 25th Apr '11 4:33:50 PM by Wheezy
Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.Well, just the other day I heard Handlebars by Flobots for the first time in a long time (and immediately downloaded it because it’s awesome). Anyway I could totally see the first (chronological) half of my work as a music video set to that song.
My work is a Just Before the End / After the End story precipitated by a plague.
If my book ever becomes a movie I’m totally making that video!
Other than that, I tend to associate most of my charters and storylines w/ songs.
For example: Tango: Jumper (Third Eye Blind)
Tango/Athena: Hey Soul Sister, If it’s Love (Train)
Athena: Ke$ha, Pink
Ace: The Fray
Julian (the Kid): Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
Etc, etc, etc
Also Kryptonite (3 Doors Down) works for many of my characters as most of them are on the edge of madness and trying to be someone’s superhero.
edited 25th Apr '11 4:56:21 PM by HistoryMaker
Funny story; my post apocalyptic story (which still needs a name,) was spawned from a painting I did listening to a Gorillaz song, "O Green World"
on more or less continuous loop. I think it set the tone for the entire story.
Geez. I have what could be unofficial soundtracks for some of my stories. I basically do a lot of my writing with music I listen to, so even if the song itself could not be used, it generally tries to convey the character or the feeling of the scene in mind.
One of my Pokemon fanfics has a story and characters loosely inspired by Samurai Champloo and Afro Samurai, so I generally write it with hip-hop in mind. I have no actual idea what people in universe would listen to, so I want to try to avoid dropping in music from the real world aside from the occasional Shout-Out, however.
An original story I am writing am working involves a warring family of gods and a human Big Bad, so I developed a few characters with different songs in mind:
- Diablo is a huge fan of rap music in universe. If I had to give him a real-world Leitmotif, it would probably have to be Seven
by Army of the Pharaohs, but when I thought of his introduction, I was thinking of Eminem's Remember Me?
.
- El is still undecided, but he has some type of hard rock/heavy metal theme, preferably one with an Epic Riff.
- Ba'al Hadad - I'm actually doing some research into ancient Hebrew/Sumerian music right now, because Hadad(who was the Biblical Ba'al) is very much a Fish out of Temporal Water in my story.
While I quite often think of what music would fit my stories, I rarely think of specific songs. The Big Bad of Forgotten Lore has background music in the story, played by his minions. For some reason I've always imagined it to sound like the chorus part of "Prince Ali" from Disney's Aladdin, except played with flutes at much higher pitch and tempo. The music for Zaran il Legio varies from military marches to sounding vaguely like Russian folk music to sounding like the theme from Luigi's Mansion.
In short:
- Desk: Excerpts from Glenn Branca's The Ascension
could serve as bookends. Otherwise, silence is golden here.
- Focal Point: Lots and lots of Julián Carrillo
and Alvin Lucier
.
- Hello!: Excluding the "official theme," I would say that Animal Collective's "Unsolved Mysteries"
sums it up quite nicely.
- Here Goes Nothing...: Mostly diagetic due to the nature of the film, though something like this slab of Australian post-punk weirdness
comes to mind as an appropriate end-credits track.
- Jacob's Mind: Open with "Pied Piper"
by Public Image Ltd; close with an early version of "Solitaire"
by the same. Feel the claustrophobia!
- The untitled epic-thing: No. Frigging. Idea. Too. Many. Ideas.
edited 26th Apr '11 6:23:52 AM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Hmmm...
- And They All Lived (Inu Yasha Fan Fic): Why not just use the music from the 1st season
of Inu Yasha?.
- Fortress Celestia: Hmmm, hard to say, since I wasn't really inspired by anything musical... Need something epic... maybe "Kiseki no Umi" by Yoko Kanno
or "What Shall We Die For" by Hans Zimmer
?
- Gothic Light: I was inspired by Nightwalker, so "Gessekai" by Buck-Tick
- What Geass May Come (Code Geass / What Dreams May Come Inter Continuity Crossover): "Run" by Snow Patrol
.
edited 26th Apr '11 9:10:59 PM by FrodoGoofballCoTV

What theme music do you have in mind for your story? If you are musically inclined, describe or post your music. If not, identity a currently established soundtrack or song that captures the overall tone of your story.
This obviously isn't restricted to media that would normally use a soundtrack such as a television show or a video game. My story exists in the form of a novel, but I still have particular tunes in mind for the kind of mood and atmosphere I'm creating.
And this should go without saying, but be wary of copyright laws if you're going to post your song or another person's song, especially the latter.
Also, very briefly describe your story so we can get an appropriate context between the narrative and the soundtrack.
My novel is a work of espionage/military science fiction that involves issues regarding states of consciousness and self-awareness, the relationship between sex and violence, and the nature of how personal bonds are created and destroyed.
My song of choice is "He Films the Clouds Part 2" by the band Maybeshewill because it captures the tribulations and Pyrrhic victories the characters experience.