Character Playlists?

[Feldspar]

Yep, I know we have one going where we pick songs for other people's characters, but... hey, here's one for our own!

I admit, I tend to listen to music when I type. (Don't we all?) I have sort of a looping playlist here, but here's a few of my favorites that I tend to spin up when I need a bit of music in the background while writing!


Pyrotech: Carbon Leaf- American Tale
Fall out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark


Dart: Carbon Leaf- Paloma

Great Big Sea - Something Beautiful

Electric Light Orchestra - The Way Life's Meant to Be

Got character songs you like for your crew? Toss them up, totally dig all the new music and bands I get out of these sorts of threads!

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HOHOYES, music for writing!

I got a ton of that! When I'm not at work I basically live with my iPod in my pocket and my much beloved Bose headset on. I always write with music in my ears.

But I have to admit that 90% of the stuff on my main playlist is geared towards original writing. That said, a handful of songs pull double-duty and work as handy inspiration when I'm writing for my RP crew. A couple are for Wash but most are for Deuce, if only because the jackass has been around for a long time XD.

Plastic Fantastic Lover -- Jefferson Airplane

Panic Station -- Muse

Down the Road -- C2C

The Walker -- Fitz and the Tantrums

M1A1 -- Gorillaz

We Gotta Get Out of This Place -- The Animals

Foggy Mental Breakdown -- Steppenwolf

Live and Die -- The Avett Brothers

In the Meantime -- Spacehog

Love in an Elevator -- GUESS

Space Cowboy -- Steve Miller

D'Yer Wanna be a Spaceman? -- Oasis

Major Tom (Coming Home) -- Peter Schilling

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I have a pretty large list for Roulette:

Abraham's Daughter by Arcade Fire
And when he saw her, raised for the slaughter,
Abraham's daughter raised her bow.

Ava Mary by Pink
Where does everybody go when they go
The go so fast I don't think they know

The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
(Very Decepticon song)
And now the kingdom comes
Crashing down undone
And I am a master of a nothing place
Of recoil and grace

Bite the Hand that Feeds - NIN
What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine

Breath of Life - Florence and the Machines

Locked out of Heaven - Bruno Mars
*cough* She likes the beat.

Bulletproof (Tiborg radio remix) - La Roux
Been there, done that, messed around
I'm having fun, don't put me down

Burn - The Cure

Princess of China - Coldplay (ft Rihanna)
Once upon a time on the same side.
Once upon a time on the same side, in the same game
And why'd you have to go, have to go and throw water on my flame

Fast Lane (Clean version) - Eminem ft lots of people

Fine Without You - Armin Van Buuren

Higher - Taio Cruz
She probably plays this in Shockwave's lab just to irritate him.

Bloody Mary - Lady Gaga
Love the video!

Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey
I'm feelin' electric tonight
Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99

Midnight City - M83

New Low - Middle Class Rut
She dedicates this song to Megatron and his "healing techniques"
All I got now is today
Tomorrow ain't here
And yesterday is gone dead on me anyway

My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark - Fallout Boys
And besides in the mean, mean time
I'm just dreaming of tearing you apart

Oblivion - M83 (ft Susanne Sundfor)
Breathe in the light
I’ll stay here in the shadow
Waiting for a sign, as the tide grows
Higher, and higher, and higher

I have more but that is enough for now.

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New Roulette theme song:

Heaven by Emeli Sande


Will you recognise me
When I'm lying on my back?
Something's gone inside me
And I can't get it back

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Roulette's current playlist as of right now. (Which means anyone unfortunate to be around her is going to hear these playing on her sound system when she thinks she's alone)

Aleesia - Not That Girl
I shot you
I shot you down
Got you in your heart
When you thought I get in the way

Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom

Timbaland - Apologize
Guilty passion she loves this stupid song.

Dido - Let Us Move On
Don't wrap it up and go or hide it behind the sun
Just give it to me as it is
And let it stand
Don't fly it like a kite... between the clouds
It needs no excuse, just bring it down

Zack Hemsey - Vengeance

Ryn Weaver - Octahate
Deep in the trench
Of the crossfire
You shot me down
From the live wire

Mystery Skulls - Animated
Who doesn't like this song/animation?

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Half of these songs are already in the Sound of Music thread, but I figured I might as well put a more complete list here for the heck of it.

For the interested, my Red Alert Playlist:

City and Colour - sleeping sickness

City & Colour - Death of me

Josh Woodward - The Voices

Eli Lieb - Red

Men At Work - Overkill

Jekyll & Hyde - His Work And Nothing More

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Anarbor - Whiskey In Hell


I hope they serve whiskey in hell,
Cause I'm already on my way
And I've f*cked up,
You can't save me now
Cause I'm already on my way
And I'll buy the first round
If you come down
I hope they serve whiskey in hell

Emilie Autumn - One Foot In Front Of The Other

How do we bear this burden, far too much to carry?
How do we change our prison to a sanctuary?
We’ve been kept from the light, no one ever gave a damn
If I’ve no one to fight, how do I know who I am?

Redlight King - Comeback


Many times I've walked the line
I've rolled the dice and questioned my life
Many times I sacrificed and dealt with the pain
I've been down this road before
Where the dead ends are
It rains and it pours
I've been down below and
It's the price that I paid

Redlight King – Redemption

When this life tries to break us and beat us down
They send the beast just to push us around
We might exist with one foot in the grave
This life ain't over we still got something to save

Andrew W.K - Ready to Die


This is your time to pay,
This is your judgement day,
We made a sacrifice,
And now we get to take your life.

We shoot without a gun,
We'll take on anyone,
It's really nothing new,
It's just a thing we like to do.

Porcelain And The Tramps – Gasoline

You cross me once and you'll see
It's like a match in gasoline
'Cause I'm highly flammable
A caged up animal
I will go off on you

The Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell

Father did you miss me?
I've been locked up a while.
I got caught for what I did but took it all in style.
Laid to rest all my confessions I gave way back when.
Now I'm versed in so much worse,
So I am back again.
And he said

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I've been writing/playing Deuce for like thirteen years now, and in that time he's accumulated a lot of music for his playlist XD.

Stone Free -- Jimi Hendrix

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction -- The Rolling Stones

Sympathy for the Devil -- The Rolling Stones

Fortunate Son -- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Plastic Fantastic Lover -- Jefferson Airplane

The Walker -- Fitz and the Tantrums

We Gotta Get Out of This Place -- The Animals

Love in an Elevator -- NO, GUESS

Space Cowboy -- Steve Miller

D'Yer Wanna be a Spaceman? -- Oasis

Major Tom (Coming Home) -- Peter Schilling

Intergalactic -- Beastie Boys

Technologic -- Daft Punk

Ramble On -- Led Zeppelin

I'm Only Joking -- Kongos

What Would You Give -- The Bedquilt Ramblers

Hollow Moon(Bad Wolf) -- AWOLNATION

My Type -- Saint Hotel

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City and Colour - Silver And Gold

Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb
Oh the seas ran dry and the winds had calmed
The skyscrapers fell, and crumbled to dust,
And their skeletons of steel were covered in rust

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Colours were drained straight from the sky
And nothing living had survived
Mountains were merely removed from the earth
And silver and gold had lost all its worth

I woke from the dream in a cold, cold sweat
I was full of doubt and deep regret,
For suddenly it was all so clear to me;
There was nothing left in which to believe

Lauren Aquilina - King

You've got it all
You lost your mind in the sound
There's so much more
You can reclaim your crown
You're in control
Rid of the monsters inside your head
Put all your faults to bed
You can be king again

Metric - Blindness


What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose

I wanna leave but the world won't let me go
I wanna leave but the world won't let me go

What it is and where it stops nobody knows
You gave me a life I never chose

I was the one with the world at my feet
Got us a battle, leave it up to me


Michael Bublé - Feeling Good

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
It's a new life
For me

And I'm feeling good


Bulletproof - La Roux - Classical Cover by Aston

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Silence - Bastille

Not only is this song amazingly awesome, it really does make you think of Deuce...whether you want to or not. XD Jk

Tell me a piece of your history
that you've never said out loud
Pull the rug beneath my feet
and shake me to the ground
Wrap me around your fingers,
break the silence open wide
Before it seeps into my ears
and fills me up from the inside

Pote was asking for a song for Megalette. This is one of the few I post to. Because a sappy love song isn't gonna do it.

Breath of life - Florence + the Machine

And the fever began to spread
From my heart down to my legs
But the room is so quiet, oh oh oh oh

And although I wasn't losing my mind
It was a chorus so sublime
But the room is so quiet, oh oh oh

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Lungs - Townes Van Zandt

Won't you lend your lungs to me?
Mine are collapsing
Plant my feet and bitterly
Breathe up the time that's passing

This song I thought was always rather fitting for Nell, I can't really place my finger on the why it just does.

Devil's Backbone - Rearview Ghost

'Cause it started with the whiskey
and ended with a fight
my knees are dirty
and my hands they bleed

This one is one of those 'fight songs' when it comes to Nell, the whole song is just totally her

What Doesn't Kill You - Jake Bugg

What doesn’t kill ya
What doesn’t hurt
Sometimes you feel you’re up against the world
What doesn’t kill ya
What doesn’t break
This life it seems
To bring you to your knees
You try you bleed then finally you breathe

Another fight song for Nell, but a lot of Jake Bugg songs fit her in a way like Two Fingers, Lightening Bolt, and Slumville Sunrise

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Alrighty, here are a few theme-songs for the convicts:

Tamer - Beautiful Crime

We fight every night for something
When the sun sets we're both the same
Half in the shadows
Half burned in flames
We can't look back for nothin'
Take what you need say your goodbyes
I gave you everything
And it's a beautiful crime

Each breath I left behind
Each breath you take is mine
Walking on the line ten stories high
I fear the fall, you're asking "Why?"

We're leaving the things we lost
Leaving the ones we've crossed
I have to make an end so we begin
To save my soul at any cost


X Ambassadors - Renegades


Run away-ay with me
Lost souls in revelry
Running wild and running free
Two kids, you and me

And I say
Hey, hey hey hey
Living like we're renegades
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Living like we're renegades
Renegades, renegades


Nicole Dollanganger - Coma Baby

Coma baby, with your sick head
The doctors saved you, but you’re still dead
Through your scalp I would like to reach in
So I could pull out the monster you’ve been

But you would do anything to
Destroy the body that they rescued
Your sick little head, so brain damaged
Lying in that hospital bed

Lately I can’t recognize you
The doctors lied when they said they saved you
You’re just the shell of the boy that you’ve been

And you’re dying, I can feel it


The Antlers - Kettering


You said you hated my tone
It made you feel so alone
So you told me I had to be leaving

But something kept me standing
By that hospital bed
I should have quit but instead
I took care of you

You made me sleep all uneven
And I didn't believe them
When they told me that there
Was no saving you

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I'm not one usually to have playlists specifically for characters. But for Smokescreen, lately I've been jamming to:

MSTR ROGERS - I'll Take You

And I have no idea how I found this or what the context is but for Fight Club:

Rushden & Diamonds - Fast Lane