Music [3]

Finishing a law paper..

https://vimeo.com/28388228

I need all the motivation I can get.

Jay-Z's a good choice to listen to since he has experience with law.

http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LJ56-2_Mason_Article.pdf

Ah, well, I was more in need of the motivation. But I'll definitely keep it in mind fr another context.

Kinda Off topic here, but I'm fairly weird as (among other reasons) I've never really been into music-I appreciate it as an art form, but it's just never been something that really speaks to me much on emotional level like cinema or literature does (though I certainly enjoy a good song on the rare occasion I actually bother listening to music), but I recently dug out my dusty battered copy of GTA Vice City, and even to someone as ignorant and tone death as me that had a damn good soundtrack for a video game, absolutely littered with 80's classics, sure some of the idealism and lyrics are cheesy and/or dated, but there's still something wonderfully catchy/memorable about that decade in music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Official_Soundtrack_Box_Set








(The sequel, Vice City Stories had an equally eclectic soundtrack)

http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Radio_Stations_in_GTA_Vice_City_Stories

Rockstar are surprisingly good at getting the rights to hit songs considering their videogames are littered with violence and satire...

malickfan wrote:Kinda Off topic here, but I'm fairly weird as (among other reasons) I've never really been into music-I appreciate it as an art form, but it's just never been something that really speaks to me much on emotional level like cinema or literature does (though I certainly enjoy a good song on the rare occasion I actually bother listening to music), but I recently dug out my dusty battered copy of GTA Vice City, and even to someone as ignorant and tone death as me that had a damn good soundtrack for a video game, absolutely littered with 80's classics, sure some of the idealism and lyrics are cheesy and/or dated, but there's still something wonderfully catchy/memorable about that decade in music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Official_Soundtrack_Box_Set








(The sequel, Vice City Stories had an equally eclectic soundtrack)

http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Radio_Stations_in_GTA_Vice_City_Stories

Rockstar are surprisingly good at getting the rights to hit songs considering their videogames are littered with violence and satire...

The GTA Vice City soundtrack was awesome, I could spend hours just driving around in cars and listening to the radio on that game

Ringdrotten wrote:

malickfan wrote:Kinda Off topic here, but I'm fairly weird as (among other reasons) I've never really been into music-I appreciate it as an art form, but it's just never been something that really speaks to me much on emotional level like cinema or literature does (though I certainly enjoy a good song on the rare occasion I actually bother listening to music), but I recently dug out my dusty battered copy of GTA Vice City, and even to someone as ignorant and tone death as me that had a damn good soundtrack for a video game, absolutely littered with 80's classics, sure some of the idealism and lyrics are cheesy and/or dated, but there's still something wonderfully catchy/memorable about that decade in music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City_Official_Soundtrack_Box_Set








(The sequel, Vice City Stories had an equally eclectic soundtrack)

http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Radio_Stations_in_GTA_Vice_City_Stories

Rockstar are surprisingly good at getting the rights to hit songs considering their videogames are littered with violence and satire...

The GTA Vice City soundtrack was awesome, I could spend hours just driving around in cars and listening to the radio on that game

That's pretty much what I was doing a few nights ago

GTA soundtracks are consistently great.

Eldorion wrote:GTA soundtracks are consistently great.

Yeah definitely, they really add to the atmosphere of the games (hell, it was Vice City that actually made me appreciate 80's music at all, I'd just assumed it was all camp techno-pop).

Though I must admit when I think of the original games soundtrack this springs to mind:

{{{MMM whats that running on? It looks a lot better than I remember the originals looking Love Laslow though and in fact all the right wing talk radio stations in GTA games- nail on head perfect- this sums up the Bush era perfectly culturally}}}

malickfan wrote:

Eldorion wrote:GTA soundtracks are consistently great.

Yeah definitely, they really add to the atmosphere of the games (hell, it was Vice City that actually made me appreciate 80's music at all, I'd just assumed it was all camp techno-pop).

Though I must admit when I think of the original games soundtrack this springs to mind:

What is it about farts ? After all these years I still bloody laugh

Any Townes Van Zandt fans on here? I've been playing alot of online poker lately, and I've been revisiting some old favourites in music. Listened to him alot when I was 18 or about that age. Just a guitar and a voice, but excellent (though mostly sad) lyrics

Ringdrotten wrote:Any Townes Van Zandt fans on here? I've been playing alot of online poker lately, and I've been revisiting some old favourites in music. Listened to him alot when I was 18 or about that age. Just a guitar and a voice, but excellent (though mostly sad) lyrics

I don't ever think I've conciously have, Ringo. Wanna suggest some songs?

Tecumseh Valley
To Live is to Fly
No Place to Fall
If I Needed You
High Low and Inbetween
Pancho and Lefty (perhaps my personal favourite)
I'll Be Here in the Morning
For the Sake of the Song - some to start you off Like I said, the lyrics are pretty sad for the most part. Pancho and Lefty is more a story than a song, very Dylan-y

Only one I've listened to so far, but am rather liking it.

Bon Iver.

One of my all time fav's

Parts of this song by the Sranglers is very similar to that Animals record, especial near the end.

Brilliant sneering vocals, brilliant drumming, bass and keyboards , The Stranglers giving another take on an old classic.