Oh, I love this thread! Not to mention it’s filled to the brim with good musical taste! Absolutely delicious that!
Right, here are several pieces out of my thousands upon thousands collection.
Only several are kind of, roughly thematical - the rest, well they just pop in my mind from time to time when I lurk in FL or drown in SS. :D
Edit: Aaaand I’ll post the rest of the songs just as links instead as embedded items so the thread doen’t slow-load or kill someones bandwidth.
(1) Doktor Kosmos - Holiday - YouTube / Doktor Kosmo - Holiday => I imagine this is one of the songs that play in a never ending loop inside the Hell-bound trains at Moloch Street.
(3) Alexander Borodin: Requiem - YouTubeAlexandar Borodin - Requiem => You can never go wrong with classical music. Also when I imagine the gates of the Avid Horizon opening or another city getting dragged underground - this is the musical piece that pops to mind.
I say, have any of you ever heard of Malukah? She does covers for videogame songs as well as some original music. She’s her own singer, pianist, guitarist, and backing vocals/drums, and she’s also done a few collaborations with pianist Lara and violinist Taylor Davis (also check out Taylor’s music, I’ll throw in one of her songs for good measure). She’s extremely talented and I beg of you to support her music if you happen to enjoy it (which I can guarantee you will).
"Failure" by Breaking Benjamin always makes me think of Fallen London, especially the Liberation of Night, due to the lyrics "Bury the sunlight" and "tear the whole world down." And the overall despairing tone of the song makes me think of some of the particularly bleak aspects of the lore, as well as my own character’s descent into despair and decision to end his suffering by wiping his memory.
EDIT: Yeah, right back at you, whoever downvoted me for no reason :P edited by Kukapetal on 7/21/2016 edited by Kukapetal on 7/21/2016
Also, I must echo Sir Frederick’s suggestions for Death By Water, because I absolutely love them. (in fact I adore and endorse the entire soundtrack proposed by him, but this part is most relevant to my post, so I’ll stick to it.)
[quote=Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook]Death By Water
Florence + the Machine - What The Water Gave Me
Florence + the Machine - Never Let Me Go
Florence + the Machine - Drumming Song[/quote]
[quote=The Furious Prophet][quote=Kukapetal]
EDIT: Yeah, right back at you, whoever downvoted me for no reason :P
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Personally, I downvoted you because I disagreed with your selection. Didn’t mean for it to be taken personally - sorry if I managed to offend.[/quote]
I wasn’t offended, it just seemed pointlessly petty. I haven’t liked some of the songs suggested here either, but I didn’t go around giving other forum members negative rep because they have different tastes in music than I do. It’s fine to not like my suggestion, but I don’t see what was so wrong with my post itself.
Here’s a fanmix I made, actually! May as well explain my reasoning for all the songs here, though. They mostly all have a melancholy indie-rock sound, which I think fits Fallen London quite well! Most of these lyrics fall somewhere on the scale between ‘mournful’ and ‘angry as hell’, which I think fits too!
Also, two of them have Seven in the name and some are about drowning. Fun times.
Blindness- Metric- Absolutely haunting. Starts out soft and sad, gets bitter and intense.
More to my tastes, here’s Phelios. It’s a dark ambient project out of Germany by a guy named Martin Stürtzer, Good stuff, easy to chill to, and it’s got a sort of grandiose quality to it that lends itself well to the FL universe. Enjoy! - Gates of Atlantis | Phelios | Martin Stürtzer
