Musical Monday of EPICNESS
So, I didn’t put a book rec up yesterday…
OOPS.
The worst is, I knew I was skipping it–like, I didn’t forget to put up a post…I just HAVEN’T READ A BOOK IN WEEKS. There’s just been so, so, so much going on, reading hasn’t happened at all.
But I have been clocking in a lot of driving hours, and a lot of driving means a lot of listening to music (and subsequent daydreaming story ideas).
Here’s what’s been blasting from my speakers:
This is my EPIC CHASE/FIGHT SCENE MUSIC, and I owe Sarah J. Maas soooo much for introducing me to the Transformers score. I mean, the epicness in this next song just can’t be contained!
Talk about finale battle music…Then we have the X-Men First Class original score. Magneto’s theme is just full of so much badassery, while the X-Men Training tune is 100% TRAINING MONTAGE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!
Sarah also introduced me to the movie Gladiator (which I had somehow never seen…O_O), and that got me hooked on the wonderfully epic soundtrack.
Ahh, I love it! Although, it IS a bit similar to Hans Zimmer’s other well-known EPIC MUSIC from Pirates of the Caribbean…
Similar or not, thought, I love the Pirates scores. I listened to practically nothing else when I wrote A Darkness Strange and Lovely.
But what about you? What musical scores or tunes are YOU listening to right now?
♥
February 20, 2012 @ 2:16 pm
Gladiator has got to be one of my favourite soundtracks ever, I also enjoy the soundtracks to The Lord of the Rings. Right now I have the radio on, Classic Fm, to keep me relaxed but also not too much of a distraction from work!
February 20, 2012 @ 5:15 pm
Oooh, Lord of the Rings is amazing too. My problem is that it’s too distinctly tied to that story now–if I listen to it, I can’t imagine my own stuff. Does that make sense? Sarah and I totally talked about this (since she can listen to all those well-known epic soundtracks and I can’t).
February 20, 2012 @ 3:45 pm
My all-time favorite soundtrack is The Last of the Mohicans. Not only is it just gorgeous, but it’s perfect inspiration/background music for my current project. So it’s been getting a workout lately 🙂
February 20, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
I feel like you’re pointed this out to me before, and I had every intention of looking it up. I guess I’ll do it NOW instead (since clearly I forgot). Do you have a particular favorite track?
February 20, 2012 @ 4:57 pm
Well, I was wondering what I wanted to use for background music right now and then this post solved that problem. I just played all the tracks you included in the post. Works for me! I think my favorite here is that second Pirates of the Caribbean track!
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of the Skyrim soundtrack (because that game is awesome and the music is, too), the Oblivion soundtrack (game that came before Skyrim) and I found out last night that I can order the Once Upon a Time score from ABC’s website, so I’m planning to do that ASAP.
February 20, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
Oooooh, video game soundtracks. I’m usually a big fan of those (FALLOUT 3, ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD, and DREAMFALL are my faves so far). Thanks for the tip!
February 20, 2012 @ 6:21 pm
Gladiator soundtrack OMG I love it so much! As others have mentioned, The Lord of the Rings, particularly Rohan’s theme! Last of the Mohicans, particularly ‘Promentory’. And How to Train Your Dragon, ‘Forbidden Friendship’ and ‘Test Drive’ 😀
February 27, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
Oh I ADORE the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON score. “Forbidden Friendship” has me in tears every time, and “Test Drive” makes me wanna write a high fantasy. So, *so* good!
February 20, 2012 @ 8:09 pm
Right now, I’m switching between classical pieces (mainly Bach…I LOVE Bach), a lot of Japanese instrumentals (for the WIP) and whatever good instrumental/soundtrack mixes I can find on 8Tracks. When I’m immersed in writing, it doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s wordless and doesn’t make me write the lyrics where a new sentence should be forming. ><
February 27, 2012 @ 3:08 pm
Ha! I’m totally the same about worldless music–although I do enjoy opera a lot. I used to listen to that back in undergrad when I was studying. Since most are in Italian or German, it was all gibberish to me and didn’t seem to affect my brain the way words in English would. 😀
February 22, 2012 @ 3:41 am
I haven’t really thought of soundtracks that much as background music for my MS, but I’ll definitely have to keep some in these in mind. I had downloaded the soundtrack to Firefly a couple months ago when I was still working on this western-y type of project. That would totally get me into the mood for that 🙂
February 27, 2012 @ 3:08 pm
Oh yes! I have the SERENITY score, and that opening piece is just *stunning*!