So wut's in yer custom music folder, then?

[Lemon Merchant]

I know that someone started a thread similar to this a while back, but that one asked for songs that related to Civ. This one is different.

I thought it would be neat if we shared 10 of our favorite songs from our custom music folders. They don't have to relate to the game at all, or maybe they will. It doesn't matter, but they should be songs you like to hear when they come up. Ones that just make you happy. The point of this is that we might find ourselves exposed to some really good music that we may not have heard of, or considered listening to. Word of mouth can be a powerful thing. (And so can culture, as we all know. )

So let's open up and share our favorites with our friends, do something fun and constructive, and maybe open up each other's musical horizons at the same time. I'll start:

In no particular order:

"Zero" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Enter Sandman" - Metallica
"Outshined" - Soundgarden
"Freewill" - Rush
"Sex Type Thing" - Stone Temple Pilots
"After Forever" - Black Sabbath
"Rocket" - Def Leppard
"Traveling Riverside Blues" - Led Zeppelin
"Locomotive Breath" - Jethro Tull
"Dirty Little Thing" - Velvet Revolver

Whew! So many good ones, it was hard to pick just ten.

Your turn.

 

[theskibum]

Lemon
Your taste in music...superb!
From my own playlist, my top ten

Metallica- The Ecstacy of Gold
Metallica- Sabra Cadabra
Tool - Lateralus
Led Zeppelin - Bron Y Aur Stomp
Jimi Hendrix - Over Yonder
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
White Zombie - Welcome to Planet MotherF*****
Sevendust - Tits on a Boar
Tool - 10,000 Days
A Perfect Circle - Judith

 

[PieceOfMind]

James Brown - Get Up
Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Dragon - April Sun In Cuba
Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise
Mental As Anything - Live It Up
Dire Straits - Ticket To Heaven
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
David Dundas - Jeans On
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

I would have listed a MJ song or two but everyone would think I'm jumping on the bandwagon

 

[3 EMS]

Twenty-one Eagles
Go to the Mirror Who
Xanadu Rush
The Traveler Alan Parsons
Through the Never Metallica
Moscau Rammstein
My Sweet Lord George Harrison
Cherry JJ Cale
Oh, Jamaica Country Joe McDonald
Conquistador Poco Harum

Those are just some of the songs I'm hung up on now. I'm always listening to music. Rock that is. My mom once told me I was narrow minded when it came to my musical tastes. I replied the I liked ALL kinds of rock.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Nothing at all, I play with sound off . Believe me, once I upgrade my machine that is going to change in a hurry, although I'll probably leave the BTS music on for a while just because it's been a while since i've heard it.

 

[Glassfan]

Beethoven; "Ode to Joy"
Mozart; Symphony #39
Hanson: Symphony #2 the "Romantic"
Wagner; "die Walkerie"
Copeland; "Appalacian Spring"
Bach; "Air on a G-String"
Williams; "Fantasy on a Theme by Talis"
Adams; "Short Ride on a Fast Machine"
de Meis; "Lord of the Rings, Symphony #1"
Anything by Glass

Rock is OK but it becomes dated too quicky. My great-grandkids will still enjoy Beethovin in a hundred years, while they're playing Civilization XXV in their brainimplants. Metalica will be something Archeaologists listen to.

 

[macmert]

I cant even get the custom music work??? Can you help me... Do I need to create another custom folder and put mp3s in it? Cause when I select my music folder as my custom music folder, no music is played...

as for the top 10 list, which I sometimes play using media player running background...

Blackmail the universe - megadeth
Angel of Death - Slayer
Opening menu - Civ4 warlords
Sandal Maker - Stronghold crusades
Castlejam - Stronghold
Take no prisoners - megadeth
Washington is next! - megadeth
Disposible Heroes - metallica
Head Crusher - megadeth
Trooper - Iron Maiden


and I try to play a peaceful game

 

[PibbZ]

I have the soundtracks from the earlier eras, simply because i love it.

I also hate the modern era soundtrack, so this is the point where i enable my custom folder

 

[Helghallen]

Hmm. I had no idea you could do this. I generally play pretty quietly but I do have a nice setup for sound in my gaming room. Perhaps I'll set this up. How do you do this?

and once i do have it set up, this will be in the queue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaL5vFYVLUs

 

[PibbZ]

How do you do this?

Escape > Options > Sound > Check the "custom music" checkbox and browse to a folder of your choice (containing mp3 files).

That is, if my memory serves me right (at work atm)

 

[Helghallen]

Sweet, thanks.

 

[theskibum]

Beethoven; "Ode to Joy"
Mozart; Symphony #39
Hanson: Symphony #2 the "Romantic"
Wagner; "die Walkerie"
Copeland; "Appalacian Spring"
Bach; "Air on a G-String"
Williams; "Fantasy on a Theme by Talis"
Adams; "Short Ride on a Fast Machine"
de Meis; "Lord of the Rings, Symphony #1"
Anything by Glass

Rock is OK but it becomes dated too quicky. My great-grandkids will still enjoy Beethovin in a hundred years, while they're playing Civilization XXV in their brainimplants. Metalica will be something Archeaologists listen to.

I couldn't agree with your more about Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, etc being timeless. I happen to like them too and if I want to hear them while playing CIV...I have them too, but nothing gets me in the mood for war like Metallica (although I admit Beethoven's 5th can make me want to stomp some one too!)

As for archaeologists being the only ones who will listen to rock/pop (of today) music in your great-grandkids time (lets say 80-100 years) I think you are mistaken. There are many groups that will certainly fade into obscurity, but some songs, bands, albums simply become timeless in thier own right.

I know this doesn't qualify as 80 years ago, but nearly 45-50 years now that The Beatles and Rolling Stones came onto the scene. Elvis Prestly is nearly an American legend for over 50 years. Go back further even further still to country western, blues, Big Band and jazz (all rock precursors) there are names that still stand out. Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson just to name a few.

This is certainly speculative, but I think 50 years from now these people will be joined by certain bands that will not be forgotten. Bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Tool, Metallica and Nirvana that either brought a certain type of music to the mainstream, or invented a new type of rock altogether. Just as we all still remember folk songs that our mom's sang to us as kids (you know songs like Do Your Ears Hang Low, Yankee Doodle Dandee, etc) I think people 100 years from now will still know of these songs and bands, who knows maybe my Grand daughter will sing Stairway to Heaven to my great-grand kid at bed time

 

[ston]

I'm in a retroSton mode at the moment, so:

Les Paul & Mary Ford:

How High The Moon
Vaya Con Dios
Twelfth Street Rag
That Old Feeling
If I Had You


Roy Orbison:

In Dreams
Only The Lonely
Love Hurts
Unchained Melody
It's Over


Rush (from Feedback):

Summertime Blues
Heart Full of Soul
Mr Soul
The Seeker
Crossroads

 

[Da_V_Man]

I don't have any... but I did want to add some. I really hate the modern soundtrack now.

 

[Glassfan]

Skibum,

Popular music fades away with the generation that listened to it. As an older man, I remember Floyd, Zep and Rush very well (I still own their "Albums"). But they are already "Golden Oldies" (like me). Pop music from the 1950s - Big Band and Swing, are seldom played nowadays. And music from the 1920's and 30's like Rudy Vallee are only heard on Turner Classic Movies. Can you name a single song from 1900?

On the other hand, some lyrics by Lennon, Dylan or others, are so timely that they will survive as poetry and be reinterpreted by future artists. Performers are eventually forgotten -Caruso was once as famous as Pavarotti. Composers are remembered.

On the other, other hand, I play a lot of Civilization. That much Matallica might result in significant brain damage. But tastes may very. You might have to get a hearing aid when you're 60.

 

[PieceOfMind]

Remember that music is much more accessible these days. I would imagine that music 100 years ago was more a luxury - something that mostly the middle or upper class enjoyed, either by listening to performers or gramophones (or whatever they used). Nowadays every second child (in affluent countries like ours) has their own ipod with hundreds of tracks. Music that is created today will be more easily found in 100 years time because it is put in digital form now. mp3 recordings weren't done 100 years ago and so you could argue a lot of the older music is not commonly listened to now just because it is relatively more difficult to find. And even then, recordings on any media from 100 years ago are likely to be poor quality making it much less pleasurable to listen to that music than it would have been for people listening to it live back then.

Now, you could argue that the way we currently enjoy music in digital form (mp3s or whatever other format) could be ancient tech in 100 years (it probably will be) but the shear volume of music data that is stored now means that in 100 years time someone might accidentally discover they like, say, Metallica and quickly gobble up all the digital copies of their songs. That is not really possible for music 100 years ago from today.

For the record, most of my favourite music was around before I was born, and a lot of it would be what you'd call pop from its time.

Taste in a particular type of pop music doesn't fade with time IMO. What does fade with time is its presence in the mainstream. There are millions of people who favour 70s or 80s music who weren't even part of those generations. But for them to enjoy their music they don't rely on the mainstream channels (radio and tv etc.) but rather the more niche channels (dedicated night-clubs, classic radio stations, music cds etc.)

 

[Ai Shizuka]

I'm too lazy to convert my music to mp3. Yeah, shocking, I buy the CD if I like something. I don't have an iPod and I have a huge mess of CDs in my car, wich could be easily replaced by 2-3 mp3 compilations. But I'm just too lazy.

So I've just replaced the modern garbage with the renaissance tracks.
To answer the OP, I guess a big pile of Saxon, Motorhead, Iron, Manowar, Alice Cooper. You get the drift, I think.
If I wasn't so lazy, that is.

 

[Birdman6]

Rock is OK but it becomes dated too quicky.

I think this is unfounded. Modern pop in its most general categorization is too young to determine its lasting ability. Jazz too. True, classical music has withstood the test of time, but how many genres out there have even had that opportunity? Folk music of countless types comes to mind and you can question the durability of that, but then again folk music has rarely been written down/recorded over the centuries. I suspect the future will prove the above comment wrong.

Skibum,
Popular music fades away with the generation that listened to it.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Mozart was the epitome of popular music in his day...not for a second has he diminished.

By contrast, Bach's music was lost for 100 years after his death and had it not been for Mendelssohn who knows what would've happened. But Bach is certainly popular now, more so than when he lived.

There is a certain element of human musicality that ultimately goes retro and rediscovers "lost" music and brings it back to the "cool". Bad music of course will fall by the wayside (as hundreds of dead classical composers have) but quality music will likely survive, especially with the proliferation of recording technologies/habits and with the thorough globalization of the world. I have no doubt many of the groundbreaking popular musicians of the 20th/21st centuries will be influential for centuries to come.

 

[Ronojoy1917]

I thought this was a great idea and set about creating my own Civ playlist, just songs I thought I would like listening to while playing:

Californication, Can't Stop-Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Battle of Evermore, Kashmir-Led Zeppelin
Speed of Sound, The Scientist-Coldplay
To Rid The Disease-Opeth
We Laugh Indoors-Deathcab for Cutie
Lost In Hollywood-System of a Down

I also made another playlist for wartime songs that would get me in the mood for destroying:

The Trooper-Iron Maiden
Chop Suey, Soldier Side-System of a Down
Young Cardinals-Alexisonfire
Hit The floor, Tears Don't Fall-Bullet for my Valentine
Unbroken- Killswitch Engage

 

[DerBürokrat]

Rise Against - Dancing For Rain
Muse - Micro Cuts
Story Of The Year - Until The Day I Die
Guns 'N Roses - November Rain
Spiritfall - My Reason
Switchfoot - Meant To Live
My Chemical Romance - The Ghost Of You
Boy Sets Fire - Rookie
Di~rect - Adrenaline
Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About Yout
(Fits Zara Yaqob for some reason... )

Otherwise I agree that Classical Music is timeless, but I can only listen
to it if I have time to sit down and enjoy... during a game of Civ I need
something fast with drums & guitars... no idea why, but that's the way it is