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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: YeerkSalad on August 18, 2015, 07:51:19 PM
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Sometimes I listen to stuff and think it'd work well with a certain moment in the series if it were adapted into another television show/movie. Do you guys feel the same way?
Take, for example, Broadchurch's main theme. Once it picks up, it makes me think of the end of #22. Imagine the camera slowly moving backwards as [spoiler]David screams, pleading to rejoin the Animorphs on his lonely little island.[/spoiler]
Crap. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv97mpO5mBc)
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Sometimes I listen to stuff and think it'd work well with a certain moment in the series if it were adapted into another television show/movie. Do you guys feel the same way?
Yes. I have imagined star Trek crisis music playing during the cliamatic battle in Megamorphs 4, and music from Lois and Clark (A 1990s series about Superman) playing as Cassie the whale drops onto the Veelek at the end of Megamorphs 1.
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We're In This Together by Nine Inch Nails is a huge Anisong for me. Both the instrumentation and lyrics really remind me of Tobias and Rachel, and [spoiler]the soft piano at the end of the song is just heartbreaking if you consider the final book.[/spoiler]
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We're In This Together by Nine Inch Nails is a huge Anisong for me. Both the instrumentation and lyrics really remind me of Tobias and Rachel, and [spoiler]the soft piano at the end of the song is just heartbreaking if you consider the final book.[/spoiler]
PP 8-9 of "The Reaction" : Cassie has told her Mom that NIN is short for "Nice Is Neat", not "Nine Inch Nails". Cassie had done that so that her Mom would buy her an NIN CD. Cassie is worried that during the zoo tour, her Mom will reference "Nice Is Neat", which will so embarrass her that she will have to change schools. It seems to me that there is another issue that Cassie has overlooked: When her Mom references the the rock group "Nice Is Neat", everyone will wonder what she is talking about. The ensuring discussion would lead to Cassie's Mom learning that NIN means "Nine Inch Nails", at which point she will be mad at Cassie for lying to trick her into buying the CD.
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That's true, but is it really relevant to this discussion?
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That's true, but is it really relevant to this discussion?
My post discussing Cassie and Nine Inch Nails was in response to a post that discussed Nine Inch Nails. That seemed relevant enough to me!
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Sorry. The first time I read it it seemed pointless and spammy, but in retrospect it was somewhat relevant.
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Or Cassie's mom would just listen to "Closer" and learn what it's really like to "work with" animals.
I'm sorry that was awful
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Volbeat - Room 24 makes me think of the Yeerk pool.
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Or Cassie's mom would just listen to "Closer" and learn what it's really like to "work with" animals.
I'm sorry that was awful
Just looked up the lyrics.
Well then.
I listened to We're In This Together. Industrial rock isn't my cup of tea, but I can kind of see where you're coming from.
Room 24 is... frankly, terrifying. I think it could work with the YP.
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Or Cassie's mom would just listen to "Closer" and learn what it's really like to "work with" animals.
I'm sorry that was awful
OOOOOOOOOH ew. :o
I imagine the soundtrack of animovie/tv show wouldn't that kind of hard rock you guys are talking about. I imagine it would have bit more softer/indie rock sound
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I imagined it to be an orchestral thing - no lyrics, little/no electric guitars... but lots of epic.
Update: Sorry that I keep bringing up Broadchurch, but its music is just... well... *bawls* I'm not allowed to watch the show past season 1, and in fact my mom was uncomfortable with season 1 on its own, but I still love the crap out of it.
Anyway, Beth's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2QziepIE5Q) would fit REALLY well with [spoiler]Rachel's funeral.[/spoiler]
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Dude, people who've read the books are going to grasp the NIN reference, no need to explain it all.
But yeah, pretty much anything off NIN's "The Fragile" for me. Not even so much lyrically, but just the sonic vibe of the whole thing, sort of definitive of that 90s alt-rock feel. Amazing album too, easily Trent's most complex and layered. Heaviness, gentle piano melodies, crazy inventive synth stuff, it's just awesome.
Ah, Volbeat are awesome Redtail. :) Actually met 'em a while back at a dual Volbeat/Iced Earth show, really cool guys.
Other music I'm pretty sure I've thrown out there in old other threads, Bad Religion's "Come Join Us" is pretty much the perfect The Sharing song. :D It's just about cults and lock-step mentalities in general, but man it's so lyrically on-point. Great melody too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWPCiHJ8rk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWPCiHJ8rk)
Also The Offspring's album Ixnay On The Hombre, from '97. Not so much directly addressing the same themes as the books, like the Bad Religion song, but musically it's probably for me the most "nostalgic" of albums in terms of perfectly capturing that pretty specific "sound" of rock bands from the mid-late 90s period the books were being published. Likely it's the album they're supposed to be playing from in the concert scene with Jake/Marco where they're referenced, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-m2zIMN5Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-m2zIMN5Y)
Gah, music pretty much died in about '98/'99. :( Stupid this-decade-and-the-last-one with its stupidness, heh.
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Holy **** man, you like some awesome music! This decade didn't totally suck though, you got a lot of bands putting out great stuff.
Aside from what I already posted, I had a discussion a long time ago about how Ghost of Perdition by Opeth has a lot of parallels with Marco and Visser One. There's also War by Devin Townsend for having similar messages to Animorphs.
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Ah, Opeth. :D Depressing as hell but somehow make me happy. Just like Type O Negative, haha. Doomy & gloomy & ... soothing in their melodic sing-song-y craziness.
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NothingFromSomethin g, are you a Foo Fighters fan by any chance? :) looks like we might share similar music taste!
I quite like the idea that Volbeat - My Body could describe Rachel's feelings about the war:
[spoiler]
Stop, the train is ridin' down to the station
Where you lived when we were school kids
Hey, the rails are caught now
And I am falling down fools in a spiral
Round this town of steam
My body tells me no, but I won’t quit
'Cause I want more, 'cause I want more
My body tells me no, but I won’t quit
'Cause I want more, 'cause I want more
Stop the train is riding down to the station where I lived
When I was a cool kid
Hey, is it my fault that the fallen embers burn down in a spiral
Round your crown of thieves
My body tells me no, but I won’t quit
'Cause I want more, 'cause I want more
My body tells me no, but I won’t quit
'Cause I want more, 'cause I want more
And it rides out of town
Oh, it’s my road, it’s my road, it’s my road
It’s my road, it’s my road, it’s my road
And it’s my war, it’s my war, it’s my war
It’s my war
His eyes are open
His eyes are open
Oh, 'cause I want more, I want more
Want more
His eyes are open
His eyes are open
(Hey, hey, hey)
My body tells me no but I won’t quit
'Cause I want more, 'cause I want more
My body tells me no but I wont quit
'Cause I want more 'cause I want more
It rides out of town[/spoiler]
Shinedown - 45 makes me think of Elfangor:
[spoiler] Send away for a priceless gift
One not subtle, one not on the list
Send away for a perfect world
One not simply, so absurd
In these times of doing what you're told
Keep these feelings, no one knows
What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart
[Chorus:]
And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45,
Swimming through the ashes of another life
No real reason to accept the way things have changed
Staring down the barrel of a 45
Send a message to the unborn child
Keep your eyes open for a while
In a box high up on the shelf, left for you, no one else
There's a piece of a puzzle known as life
Wrapped in guilt, sealed up tight
What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart
[Chorus]
Everyone's pointing their fingers
Always condemning me
And nobody knows what I believe
I believe
[Chorus]
And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45,
And I'm swimming through the ashes of another life
There's no real reason to accept the way things have changed
Staring down the barrel of a 45
45
Staring down the barrel of a 45[/spoiler]
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That Volbeat song sounds more like it's about drug addiction or whatever, but yeah, it's a cool track.
And yeah, definitely like the Foo Fighters. Mostly their early stuff (I'm old, you kids get offa my lawn!), but the last two have been great too, I really, really loved Wasting Light. Might even be their best songwriting, and I love how they recorded it totally analogue and oldschool, great having someone flying the flag for recording things right. Although a month or so ago I threw One By One in the stereo (CD players, whooo, again I'm an old geezer, haha) and had forgotten how underrated that one is. I know the band seems to hate it, but they were doing some really cool stuff experimenting a little there back in '02, a shame it didn't really seem to connect with people. It's the "darkest" Foo album too, by far.
As for the topic at hand, also honorable mention has to go to those great industrial/electronic-influenced rock groups of the era, bands like Garbage are ridiculously perfect 'Animorphs' music, mostly the earlier stuff.
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The Volbeat song Room 24 is about sleep paralysis, knowing you're awake but laying there unable to control your body or move. Sounded appropriate to me.
Unless you mean the other one? My Body? I chose it because Rachel is kind of addicted to the war, the fight... that was my reasoning anyway.
As for the Foos - I think they're pretty awesome. I wasn't too fond of their latest album but can't fault any of their other albums. I've seen them live before and they're awesome! They're playing a special show in my hometown in September and I'm very tempted to go...
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To be honest I didn't listen to a lot of music growing up when I was first reading the series. As terrible as the TV show was, the theme song was actually pretty cool so obviously that makes me think of Animorphs. There's also Song Unsung by Eden White which played at the end of The Capture Part 2, which is one of the few scenes in the show I genuinely liked, so the song always reminds me of Animorphs.
In case you haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AetdbJ7Mwv8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AetdbJ7Mwv8)
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Book 18:
I am imagining martial music sounding as the crew of the Ascalin do their death chant.
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I've always found the bridge of Sunday Morning by No Doubt made me think of Karen in book 19.
[spoiler]I know who I am, but who are you?
You're not looking like you used to
You're on the other side of the mirror
So nothing's looking quite as clear
Thank you, for turning on the light
Thank you, now you're the parasite
I didn't think you had it in you
And now, you're looking like I used to! [/spoiler]
I also really like You Can Still Be Free, by Savage Garden, either from Jake to Tom, or from Marco to Eva.
And of course, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is totally the song Rachel and Tobias danced to in book 33, and no one can convince me otherwise.
There's also a local band called An Acoustic Sin that has a song called The Last of the Haunted that makes me think of the Yeerks every time I listen to it.
Reignite by Malukah was written for Mass Effect, but suits Animorphs really well, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re32xnyYP3A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re32xnyYP3A)
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No Doubt, Goo Goo Dolls. Awesome call. :D
Much as "Iris" by GGD I feel is way overexposed/overplayed, one of those songs back in the day that was all over the radio so often you get fatigue of listening to the damn thing, they're seriously one of the best pop bands ever. And the rest of that album that song was on is amazing.
And No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom & Return of Saturn are so, so 'Animorphs' sonically, perfect representation of the period and general place the series is in.
Jeez I miss, like, '94-'01ish. Good times.
EDIT: This thread encouraged me to break out my NIN albums again after so long, haha. Listened through both discs of The Fragile, and man, so very perfectly Animorphs. I don't know if I could think of an album that better encompasses that whole period, even if it post-dates the start of Animorphs by a couple of years it sort of sums up the whole 90s in a way.
These two instrumentals really connected with me this time in an "Animorphs" way. Haunting, evocative, really illustrates the sort of paranoia and anxiety so, so very well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erm19Kdplz4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erm19Kdplz4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt31hQnJbEs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt31hQnJbEs)
Perfection. Listening to this album again was just like "the 90s are saying goodbye", haha. So illustrative of that time, the couple of years before mainstream music basically died for good. If NIN came around today for the first time, they'd never ever get played on the radio. Different times I guess.
Trent's recent spin-off project with his wife is pretty interesting, too. :) Somewhat more modern in a sense, but also keeping a bit of that mid-late-90s sensibility with the tone of the synths and stuff. Very melodic, creepy stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPXOC-Y713A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPXOC-Y713A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCdQuZzjtFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCdQuZzjtFY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnU7LvSMQgE&list=PLMHv1fyehZkzKuTjr21toacr-Zu9TXKRX&index=12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnU7LvSMQgE&list=PLMHv1fyehZkzKuTjr21toacr-Zu9TXKRX&index=12)
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Also, god, A Perfect Circle. Mostly the first album, though I guess all of it's absolutely fitting. Tool too, but there's something just a bit more refined & elegant about the APC side-project somehow.
Mer De Noms as an album is just haunting, melodic & spooky, just great. Came out in 2000, so a little later than some of that 90s vibe, but retains a lot of the same feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9TGsHVcROM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9TGsHVcROM)
Also a lot of the early Lacuna Coil stuff, before they became a bland radio-alt-rock band about a decade ago. Everything up to Comalies is just so beautiful & evocative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdcG6TdG_Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdcG6TdG_Y)
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It's really funny that you would post two songs from The Fragile and the entire Mer De Noms album, since I just listened to both of them in the past couple days. I've personally always liked Tool better than APC, and in fact, Ænima is my favorite album of all time.
Anyway, back on-topic, it's really hard for me to listen to "Every Planet We Reach is Dead" by Gorillaz and not think of Jake at the end of the series. Check it out for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDEm8mC-Nw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDEm8mC-Nw)
And speaking of Tool, I don't recommend listening to the song Jambi while reading The Andalite Chronicles. Tears will happen. Trust me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noz6-KaT4fA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noz6-KaT4fA)
And of course, I have to mention the entire album Hork-Bajir by Blujugganaut, AKA Adam. Not just saying this because he's on here and is a good friend of mine, but it is a really solid acoustic album.
https://blujugganaut.bandcamp.com/album/tiktaalik-hork-bajir (https://blujugganaut.bandcamp.com/album/tiktaalik-hork-bajir)
And one final song. I think the parallels to Animorphs are fairly obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsfnuyyjaB0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsfnuyyjaB0)
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And of course, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is totally the song Rachel and Tobias danced to in book 33, and no one can convince me otherwise.
Perfect song choice, and also by amazing coincidence it's the only Goo Goo Dolls song I own.
I haven't listened to much NIN, but even I associate them with Animorphs because the series itself mentions the band. It stands for "Nice Is Neat" right? :P
Oh and I almost forgot another song I will always connect with Animorphs: the Superbook theme song. Of course that's entirely because Poparena uses it as the intro to the Opinionated Animorphs Guide.
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I've been meaning to watch/listen to those book guides. Any way I can download them as .mp3 files?
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Not sure, but I would definitely recommend them. He has Patreon now so maybe if you donate it's an option?
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I haven't listened to much NIN, but even I associate them with Animorphs because the series itself mentions the band. It stands for "Nice Is Neat" right? :P
Listen to The Fragile album, you'll think it's pretty 'neat'. :D Probably the most layered & complex electronic album ever.
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I personally prefer either Broken or Year Zero, but really, anything except Pretty Hate Machine is great in my book.
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Broken's awesome too, but it's a lot more bare-bones by design, an EP rather than an album, and more of a straight-up aggressive rock record with synth elements, not the big sweeping double-album piano/synth/guitars fest like The Fragile.
Still one of the best Trent releases though. Something about Year Zero didn't really connect with me for some reason, I love a couple of individual songs on it ('The Beginning Of The End", "The Warning", "The Great Destroyer", "In This Twilight", and "Zero-Sum"), but it all sounded a little less dynamic somehow, probably due to Trent making the entire thing just on his laptop. Also the lyrical themese got a bit too specific & activist-y, it's like one bit anti-Bush rant.
With Teeth destroys though, in that more low-fi more rock-y way. Neither's really "Animorphs" like the earlier works though, in feel.
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With Teeth is kind of a mixed bag for me. I really love the opening track, Sunspots, The Collector, and a few others, but there are a few songs that I can't stand, namely You Know What You Are and the title track. Also, we are waaaayyyyy off-topic right now. :P
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I guess a bit of a tangent, yeah, but a lot of this stuff relates back to Animorphs.
The first two Garbage albums, mid-90s alt-rock Animorphs-y bliss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9jcDwY-MM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9jcDwY-MM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7o9DVkP3I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7o9DVkP3I)
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Almost forgot about This Is War by 30 Seconds To Mars. I saw an Animorphs music video to that song once and it seemed to fit really well.
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I've been binging a ton on Deftones lately (hence my new personal text), and the album White Pony has a very Animorphs vibe, especially the songs "Pink Maggit" and "Digital Bath."
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Sorry to double post, but I started a playlist of stuff that was mentioned in this thread, and a couple songs that I thought of that weren't mentioned. If you guys have any suggestions, feel free to post them.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOl0K5JxmogXbeR-gNzw-auOlI8IP7rvn (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOl0K5JxmogXbeR-gNzw-auOlI8IP7rvn)
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I saw this thread title and thought we were talking about Animusic. http://animusic.com/ (http://animusic.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKUTYxJEB44
I don't know how to embed videos.
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huh who knew
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I listen to 90's alternative on Pandora all the time, and so much of that music "feels" Like Animorphs to me. I don't know if it's just because that's what was on the radio when I was reading them as a kid or if it just feels like the 90's, which matches the Animorphs timeline, but I really love listening to it while I'm reading the books. Especially bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Three Doors Down. Also, I know Jake likes The Offspring, which is mentioned in book 10 (The Android). Hannah and Kelly from the Hindsight Anipodcast were discussing what Jake's favorite Offspring song was. 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy made me laugh, especially since Jake occasionally morphs fly, but I was listening to The Kids are Alright and thinking that's like a seriously relevant Animorphs song.
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The first thing people think of when they hear "The Offspring" being "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" still kinda depresses me. :( :P Haha. Oh well.
Ooh, Smashing Pumpkins, good call. One of the greatest bands ever, and yep, totally in that cultural time capsule of the books and that era. Memories.
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I finally heard Ghost of Perdition. I think I get what you were saying, gh.
Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew deceiving
Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"