44 Gigs is a lot to search through

[neotoma]

I've been hit by a DC Comics plotbunny, since I was foolish enough to look on Tumblr and see how pretty the art is for the new 52 Flash (really pretty guys).. so I've been searching through my music library for songs to weaponize, because if I'm writing a Flash story, I'm writing Pied Piper, and if I'm writing Pied Piper I really should know what music he's using.

It's pretty sad that I looked through my 'fierce' playlist and rejected Black Sabbath songs as 'not aggressive enough'. Also, apparently I don't have enough Queen or Jethro Tull songs -- Queen because Piper canonically did blow up a planet using The Show Must Go On and Jethro Tull because that's the only rock band that I can that used a flute regularly.

Currently, I've got a few contenders for the ominous, 'you've fucked with the wrong guy, assholes' scene. In the Land of the Pigs (The Butcher is King) by Meatloaf, Exterminating Angel by The Creatures, or Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult, which might just be a little on the nose. Of course, I could go with something completely instrumental like Avanti by Corvus Corax (which is an excuse to use the quakepipes!) or just Verdi's Dies Irae.

I'm also trying to figure out some alternative names super-hero/villain for some of the legacy characters I'm going to have in this story, since they don't want to disrupt their predecessors' lives by running around using a name they inherited from someone who doesn't know them from Adam. Currently, I'm trying to figure out what might work for Captain Boomerang II, Stargirl, Atom Smasher, and maybe Obsidian. Manhunter wouldn't feel the need to change hers, because it's quite generic, Spoiler gets to remain herself if she goes back to her original handle, and Impulse would be the first one of that name since the DCnU has Bart as Kid Flash but never Impulse, and I've already figured out what Piper gets stuck with, due to an ill-timed snarky remark from Boomerang.

Comments

[laughingrat]

HELLO I DIDN'T KNOW YOU LIKED THE CREATURES HELLO FRIEND

I was thinking I'd have a fair bit of Tull, but in retrospect I think I only own Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. Would either be useful to you? Or if you need a lot of drums, I could shoot you the entire album that Creatures song comes from, or their last album, which has lots and lots of drums?

[neotoma]

Since my Jethro Tull consists of one song off of The Broadsword and The Beast, and seven songs from their Christmas album, I'd love Aqualung and Thick as a Brick.

I have Boomerang and Anima Animus. Anything you can give me is gravy.

[laughingrat]

Oh nice, looks like I can be useful! :D I'll get back to you hopefully in a day or two with a link.

[mrshamill]

Try Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (Check Youtube, there are several concerts). It was in Excalibur and several other violent shows. It's orchestra and choir and VERY good.

[neotoma]

You're thinking of O Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi, which is lovely and dramatic but is completely wrong once you look at the lyrics. Though it might work against Two-Face, given that it's all about chance and fortune.

Also, it's an orchestral and choral work -- even beatboxing, Piper's one guy. I don't think he can manage something that has that many layers just by himself.

I'm really hoping someone with more knowledge of jazz than I have suggests something. Piper used to sit-in with the band as jazz clubs back in early Flash v2 when Wally was just starting out as Flash.