Music to Game by

From: "Nyrath the nearly wise" <nyrath@clark.net>

> > If you haven't left for home yet - please bring yours! I've got

A topic dear to my heart...

Hi-Tech SF ground combat, suitable for DS2;

> At 01:09 PM 10/21/00 +1000, you wrote:

Mine, too. I think I've posted my senso mix before, but I'll tack it on to
the end of this message for the fun of it. ^_^

> Hi-Tech SF ground combat, suitable for DS2;

Or B5, Some few ST tracks, Star Wars, etc. for Full Thrust (and/or
DS/SG).
Plus some anime tracks (Armitage, Memories, Patlabor, Kishin Corps... Lodoss
is good too but usually feels more like fantasy, not SF). Computer games with
soundtracks are great; I'm kinda peeved at Homeworld, as the latest box
contains a soundtrack CD. Grr. I want, but I'm sure as heck *not* going to buy
the game again....

> Emerson Lake and Powell's orchestration of Gustav Holst's

Hmm. Will have to find this one, I have a Bernstein.

> The Charge of the OUDF Light Horse;

Charge of the Light Brigade! ('Course, I haven't heard that piece since I
played it back in high school... what, 8 years ago?)

> Mike Oldfield's "Ommadawn" Track 1 15:49 to 18:40

Hmm, sounds like something to find as well. Any pointers as to a CD title?
^_^

Other music that can be fun are the nationalistic pieces -- Ma Vlast,
Finlandia, lots of Russian (not Soviet) music, pieces like that. Many have
dynamic and tempo changes that don't make them wholly suitable for combat
music, but the general spirit is certainly present throughout.

Now, the Senso mix (made for 90 minute tapes, don't have a CD burner or
anything like that yet...):

SIDE A
------
1. Mutiny (Crimson Tide) 9:00 9:00 (segue...) 2. Senso (Wings of Honneamise)
3:10 12:10 3.?? (MechWarrior II CD#3) 2:25 14:35 (segue...) 4. Mars (Holst,
Bernstein cond.) 6:32 21:07 5. First Attack (Dune) 2:44 23:51 6. Arise, People
of Russia (Alexander Nevsky) 2:29 26:20 7.?? (MechWarrior II CD#8) 2:12 28:32
8. Silent War (Armitage III Movie OST) 5:21 33:53 9.?? (MechWarrior II CD#16)
2:04 35:57 10.?? (MechWarrior II CD#9) 1:46 37:43 (segue...) 11. Excerpt from
The Last Battle (Star Wars) 7:45 45:28 (CD1 #15, start @4:28, through to end
@12:13)

SIDE B

From: "Aaron Teske" <ateske@HICom.net>

> >Emerson Lake and Powell's orchestration of Gustav Holst's

We have about 3 on various CDs - Karajan/Berlin Symphony is
a distant no 2. AFAIK only available on "Emerson Lake and Powell" the album.

> >The Charge of the OUDF Light Horse;

This isn't the Charge of the Light Brigade as such, it's something far better.

Mr Treske, you've done a lot for this list. This is one occasion when I can do
something in return, and makes me feel really good.

You obviously haven't heard of Mike Oldfield, or have forgotten. So you're in
for real treat.

I'm not a Mike Oldfield fan. I just consider him to be the best composer of
symphonic works of the 20th century. Given that it only has 2 1/2 months
to go, I feel safe in saying that.
My music collection isn't extensive - a bit here, a bit there. No more
than a
half-dozen Pink Floyd.  But I have 95% of all non-bootleg MO in
existence.

As a composer of song's he's OK. Sure, he's had a few hits like "Moon Shadow"
and "5 miles out". As a guitar player, he's really good, but not one of the
Greats. And his short pieces aren't generally good as his long ones. But the
long ones, the symphonies (though the record companies don't call them
that...)... look, just listen to some of them, OK? You may not like em of
course. But be warned, they're addictive. You have to play them at least 50
times with different settings on a graphics equaliser to get all the
complexities though, more leitmotifs on any one than Wagner used in the entire
tedious Ring Cycle. One of the few composers whose work just doesn't translate
to MP3 format, which discards most of the complexities.

OK, here's a few:
Tubular Bells ( Excerpts used for the Exorcist) - there's an excerpt
here that's perfect for a Highlander attack. Ommadawn Hergest Ridge
Incantations QE2 Five Miles Out Platinum (contains one of my favourites,
"Punkadiddle", which I would love to do a short film of the history of space
exploration from V2 to Apollo 11 to) Crises Discovery
Amarok (that has the most hilarious send-up of Margaret Thatcher near
the
end..)
Songs of Distant Earth (Music for the AC Clarke novel, contains a
Mac-only
multimedia prequel on the CD). The Killing Fields (Soundtrack to the movie)
Tubular Bells II ( "I got fed up off other people ripping me off, so I ripped
myself off" - MO) I'm listening to this now, excellent piece.
Tubular Bells III - The Horse Guards parade in London was filled with
people
from 16 to 60 in the pouring rain listening to the premier - and the way
he managed to time things in concert (so to speak) with Big Ben... I have the
video, the only music video I own.
The Millenium Bell - a musical history spanning 1000 years. I defy
anyone to listen to "broad sunlit uplands" (WW2 and just after) and listen to
the words of Anne Frank without shedding a tear. And the section covering the
Romantic Poets is just plain flawless.

Just do a search under "popular music" for "Mike Oldfield" on
http://www.amazon.com

A while ago I posted a URL for mpgs from the 'Aliens' soundtrack -
having just gotten the 'official' Aliens CD soundtrack I've got to say that
the missing tracks are mostly better. We had them running on Tony's computer
while playing SG2 & FMA a couple of weeks ago, and it was pretty cool. Added
to the ambience, certainly.

It got funny, too - someone was in the middle of moving a squad when the
music became really dark and ominous, so they're asked, "Are you really sure
you should be moving those guys there? The soundtrack sounds like it would be
a bad idea...":>

One of these eons I'm going to rip all the tracks off the commercial Aliens
CD, combine them in order with the 'missing' mpg tracks, and
re-burn a complete soundtrack CD for myself. Please don't hold your
breath for this...