Theme songs for your characters

[lovecraft68]

For most of us our characters become real, especially those we've featured in novels, long series or multiple stories.

Part of them being real is we-okay, maybe I just do this-play games with them, like...what would be their-or their stories theme song.

So....go.

 

[lovecraft68]

For "Abigail" who is a witch who controls fire...it's a pretty easy choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLZ2TDK5DKA

 

[lovecraft68]

Mark and Megan from Siblings with Benefits this song is so fitting Its what I decided to call the e-book version of the saga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeI4Ft8P7ks

 

[jburton042]

I'm still slowly working on my first story, so not much point of sharing all the songs. This is definitely something that I do, though. Thank you for letting me know I'm not crazy for doing it! I have a scratchpad that I keep info about characters on for reference... it's mostly a list of songs to play while writing about them.

Perfect choice for Mark and Megan!

 

[Kantarii]

For "Abigail" who is a witch who controls fire...it's a pretty easy choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLZ2TDK5DKA

Based on the description of you character, hmm.
Diamond Head's - Am I Evil comes to mind Kant

 

[AwkwardMD]

I wrote a post-apocalyptic story involving cyborgs and androids, and used this song as inspiration:

https://youtu.be/R8CKs2TIJa0

 

[Carnevil9]

Well, I wrote a series called "Midnight Confessions" so naturally the old Grass Roots song had to be the theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZnqtDdsws

 

[lovecraft68]

Based on the description of you character, hmm.
Diamond Head's - Am I Evil comes to mind Kant

Thought of that one, but I prefer the Metallica cover of it. You know...the one in my sig?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Thought of that one, but I prefer the Metallica cover of it. You know...the one in my sig?

Huh, never noticed that was a cover!

Stalled lately, but I've been working on one based on ASP's "Krabat": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tus9pB_GX_g and the rest of that album. Prog/folk/black metal concept album based on a folk tale about a boy who apprentices to a sorcerer, though I'm taking some liberties with that.

 

[NotWise]

I associate songs--or more often classical music--with a lot of my stories.

In a draft of "A Valentines Day Mess pt 2" Manny and Claudia sang "Casas de Carton" (Cardboard Houses) to each other after they learned that their father had disappeared in El Salvador's civil wars. The song was used by the leftists and banned by the government.

Casas de Carton

I had to remove that sequence because it totally wrecked the pace of the story, but I still associate the song with the story.

 

[lovecraft68]

This is another one for Mark and Megan, for the first sex scene in chapter one which was a damn violent fight as much as a fuck scene. If they ever made it a sleazy showtime show(A running joke with me and the wife) this would have to play during it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9BEjwI5DJg

 

[NotWise]

An interesting re-invention of Carly Simon's song. Who was that about, anyway?

 

[jburton042]

I think Carly Simon's vocals are more brutal than Manson's. Manson is certainly more appropriate for Mark and Megan, though.

You would know better, Lovecraft, but this might be a song that Mark would have listened to a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTsQZP-FZ7s

 

[NotWise]

In "Unlikely Angels" Elsie introduces herself to Ellis by playing the last movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Sonata on a baby grand she found in the back of a bowling alley bar.

 

[lovecraft68]

An interesting re-invention of Carly Simon's song. Who was that about, anyway?

I think it was about James taylor?

 

[lovecraft68]

I think Carly Simon's vocals are more brutal than Manson's. Manson is certainly more appropriate for Mark and Megan, though.

You would know better, Lovecraft, but this might be a song that Mark would have listened to a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTsQZP-FZ7s

Dann straight

And thanks for being one of the 20 people who read the series

 

[NotWise]

I think it was about James taylor?

That sounds right, but the context is lost for Manson. Maybe translating it to Dita Von Teese (briefly Manson's wife) works.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[AwkwardMD]

Allegedly, the different verses are about different men. IIRC, James Taylor is buried in there somewhere but Warren Beatty was the primary inspiration.

 

[NotWise]

Allegedly, the different verses are about different men. IIRC, James Taylor is buried in there somewhere but Warren Beatty was the primary inspiration.

Makes sense for Carly Simone. For Manson, I love the idea that he might be talking about Dita Von Teese.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Allegedly, the different verses are about different men. IIRC, James Taylor is buried in there somewhere but Warren Beatty was the primary inspiration.

I've always heard it associated with Warren Beatty - from way back.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Currently I'm in the middle of a three story series that features one female character. The inspiration for here came from this song, which I was listening to at the time I started writing her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_o7XUX3fg

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[NotWise]

Currently I'm in the middle of a three story series that features one female character. The inspiration for here came from this song, which I was listening to at the time I started writing her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_o7XUX3fg

I think a lot of people find that theme to be pretty inspiring.

 

[holliday1960]

An interesting re-invention of Carly Simon's song. Who was that about, anyway?

NW, you seriously must spend the better portion of your day rolling on the floor in hysterics.