Songs that make you think of WOT

[sVieira151]

I used to play music while reading tEotW for the first, and my playlist always started with Jaws of Heaven by Spock's Beard. It's just incredibly epic and makes me think of all the characters and WoT in general. 'Tis awesome. PS I can'd find the full version of the song on youtube, so I give you myspace instead.

 

 

Also, I tend to compose songs, and I had been using Guitar Hero WoR studio to create songs. Well, I had a plan to write a whole set of songs based on tEotW. I only completed one song, and I named it Dragonmount. I just kinda tried to follow the emotions and mood of the prologue, so it's is pretty progressive in that sense. I'll see if I can youtube it sometime

[Zhipp]

Wheel Of TIme, by Bliind Guardian.

 

I cheated, I know.

[sonuvnothing]

Basil Poledouris -Conan the Barbarian soundtrack- The kitchen/the orgy

Don't knock Arnie, the entire Conan score is excellent WoW-reading music.

 

Also, anything by Danny Elfman.

Danny Elfman - Nightbreed Soundtrack - Carnival Underground

[Sleeper]

This song fits Dark Rand perfectly. Even the lyrics work pretty well.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cucFfpsqf8

[keisler3]

Behind Blue Eyes, by The Who. It always seemed like a good Rand theme:

 

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

 

No one knows what it's like

To be hated

To be fated

To telling only lies

 

But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be

 

I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free

 

No one knows what it's like

To feel these feelings

Like I do

And I blame you

 

No one bites back as hard

On their anger

None of my pain and woe

Can show through

 

But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be

 

I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free

 

When my fist clenches, crack it open

Before I use it and lose my cool

When I smile, tell me some bad news

Before I laugh and act like a fool

 

And if I swallow anything evil

Put your finger down my throat

And if I shiver, please give me a blanket

Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

 

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

[Durinax]

Alone to Break - Korn

 

just thinking about rands descent into madness, fits perfectly.

 

Master of Puppets - Metallica

 

just describes Ishy

[postaldave]

Hello I'm new here.

 

 

These are some of my favorites.

 

 

RAND - One of the best songs ever, fits Rand perfectly imo.

Vision - I personally imagine it done kind of cartoonish style (like Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution" video) where at the end with all the chanting of "All alone" I see Rand crawling towards the camera as giant white cloaks stand in formation chanting. Just one vision I had, but this song I feel relates to Rand immensely.

 

SONG - "Bird and the Worm" by The Used

 

NOTE: You might not realize it (As I didn't at first) but this is the song they used for the newest "Clash of the Titans" movie, damn good sound.

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Egwene or Faile - Fits Faile more, but good song for her being trapped in the camp, when she talks about the Hammer I imagine it as kind of metaphorical for Perrin.

Vision - Imagine seeing Faile walking in her white robes slowly towards the camera carrying the laundry to be washed, slow moving, during the cheerier parts the other gai'shain break out into dance around her then as it ends they all fall back into work. She looks longingly at the woods around the town as she mentions the hammer.

 

SONG - "Help I'm Alive" by Metric

[postaldave]

Mat - This song kind of has the humorous quality I imagine Mat to have, the only truly good part for relating to Mat is the first part and maybe the second, but the 3rd obviously doesn't relate with talk of TV and such.

Vision - I just imagine Mat walking around one of his pretties singing the first part, and the chorus kind of applies to him a bit.

 

Song - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" by Cage the Elephant

[JamesL85]

I thought I'd throw in a few.

 

The Gholam:

The lyrics are in the description.

 

Pretty much any battle:

The lyrics are subtitled under some gory video from the 300 movie.

 

Rand:

I realize this was in Highlander, but it's a great song!

 

There are others. These are just some that I remember thinking about when playing D&D a decade or so ago.

 

James

[Guest Theros Sledgefist]

I have always thought of Arco Arena by Cake as Lan's theme music...

[Aerials]

I always thought of

when thinking of the WOT

[Random Man]

Can't believe no one mentioned this one before:

 

Wheel in the Sky by Journey!

[Mongoose]

I love Disturbed.

I play a Tolarian Artificer on mIRC whose theme songs were Disturbed's Indestructable and Alive.

 

I'm not a big Classical fan, but I have CDs with String Quartet versions of A Perfect Circle and Tool songs and often play them in the background while I read WoT since they seem so fitting.

 

The ones that most remind me of WoT are

,

(over eight minutes), Parabol,

and The Package (Youtube didn't have it, but the original is here

 

 

[HighWiredSith]

Okay, this is silly and not quite on this topic, but every time I hear the Amy Grant song "El Shaddai" I hear "Aes Sedai."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuXB1a3NBCw

[HighWiredSith]

On a more serious note - I imagine the final battle being fought to the sounds of Carmina Burana...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw

[Guest seven1317]

So first time poster, but just had to have my 2 bits, music being such a subjective thing and all

 

I'm a pretty hectic Muse fan, so my couple are all Muse, although some of those Inception ones are pretty awesome. In fact Hans Zimmer in general :ohmy:

 

Ok, so is it just me, or for Rand's epiphany, does it not seem like Muse's "Exogenesis Symphony" from "The Resistance" is almost a perfect macth?

 

You've got "Overture", which is heavy and sad, perfect for his (almost) wiping of the Seanchan in Ebou Dar.

 

Leads straight into "Cross-Pollination", starts quiet, middle is desperate, ends quiet- Perfect for his internal struggle on DM

 

Finally into "Redemption", which even in name is perfect. It starts reflective, like he is JUST before the epiphany and leads to a big middle climax, Lews Therin's "To Live is to Love" moment, finally fades off as he "comes down"

 

Actually, strictly speaking to me, "Redemption" would be the perfect piece for the Movie of TGS. Because the ending, with a bit of clever editing, would line up PERFECTLY with Egwene seeing Dragonmount with the Ring of cloud and sunshine and Rand beginning to quietly chuckle for the first time in the background......fade.......tear.....

 

Enough of that. Finally, my pick for A Storm of Light in TOM; the whole scene from where Rand enters with Bashere and Itrualde, all through the Storm against the Trolloc hoards- AGAIN Muse's "Apocalypse Please". It's so dramatic, frustrated and angry and believe it or not actually works as you read it in sections (well, at my reading speed anyway) works really well when it's REALLY loud

 

Just my 2 cents

[ryanphlp2002]

How about this:

 

Round, like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel.

Never ending or beginning,

On an ever spinning wheel

Like a snowball down a mountain

Or a carnaval balloon

Like a carousell that's turning

Running rings around the moon

 

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping

Past the minutes on it's face

And the world is like an apple

Whirling silently in space

Like the circles that you find

In the windmills of your mind

 

Like a tunnel that you follow

To a tunnel of it's own

Down a hollow to a cavern

Where the sun has never shone

Like a door that keeps revolving

In a half forgotten dream

Or the ripples from a pebble

Someone tosses in a stream.

 

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping

Past the minutes on it's face

And the world is like an apple

Whirling silently in space

Like the circles that you find

In the windmills of your mind

 

Keys that jingle in your pocket

Words that jangle your head

Why did summer go so quickly

Was it something that I said

Lovers walking allong the shore,

Leave their footprints in the sand

Was the sound of distant drumming

Just the fingers of your hand

 

Pictures hanging in a hallway

And a fragment of this song

Half remembered names and faces

But to whom do they belong

When you knew that it was over

Were you suddenly aware

That the autumn leaves were turning

To the color of her hair

 

Like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning,

On an ever spinning wheel

As the images unwind

Like the circle that you find

In the windmills of your mind

 

Pictures hanging in a hallway

And the fragment of this song

Half remembered names and faces

But to whom do they belong

When you knew that it was over

Were you suddenly aware

That the autumn leaves were turning

To the color of her hair

 

Like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning,

On an ever spinning wheel

As the images unwind

Like the circles that you find

In the windmills of your mind

 

 

First heard that on the "Breakfast on Pluto" soundtrack - The Windmills of Your Mind by Dusty Springfield

[OptimusPrime]

Heres something Brandon Sanderson mentioned on his blog.

 

A SONG THAT MENTIONS RAND!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CL39uUINbc

[Mongoose]

@HighWireSith: rofl

I get the same thing with this song, which I say could be Siuan Sanche's song

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bQn9DtgUA

 

Aes Sedai that builds the boat

and Aes Sedai that sails 'er!