Music that fits SSSS?

[Gwyrion]

I was just wondering what kind of music, if any, you guys listened to while reading the comic. I know I love to listen to specific kinds of music, or even specific songs while reading things, and I was curious if anyone else here did that too! And if you don't, then what kind of music do you think fits the comic thus far? You can post songs you think go along with specific chapters or pages.

[Eich]

Tough question.  I'm trying to think of what music it would have as an animated film...
For exploring the Silent world, even just panning nature shots, I feel like certain parts of this would be good.  Dark and mysterious, with an otherworldly romantic feel... it's beautiful but it's scary to think about.  That's how I envision their world.  Maybe it would go well with an introductory scene to lay the setting.

/sleepy-time-over-romanticizing

[Fimbulvarg]

Tough question.  I'm trying to think of what music it would have as an animated film...

An animated film would be so great. As a kind of trailer music I think this one might fit the general mood of a brave expedition into a desolated world.

Imagine a scene, from year 2 or something like that, where the survivors of some Scandinavian village send an expedition to a neighbouring village to find out how they were doing. Parts of this one would go well with the part where they find out all elements of civilization around them has been wiped out by the disease.

[Sunflower]

Great question!  Some of the replies to the general Music Thread addressed this.  (Others just recommended a lot of great music to listen to.)
I'll take the liberty of repeating some of my replies from there:

I find that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius makes a great background for both Minna's epics.  He was deeply interested in Finnish folklore and the Kalevala, and set several of its episodes to music.  (He even tried to reproduce traditional runo-singers' rhythms.)

Directly relevant to ARTD or any mention of the past in SSSS:  The Swan of Tuonela (the river of death). 

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Finlandia, a musical tribute to his homeland.  The slow, solemn part at the end later got turned into a Finnish patriotic hymn. 

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Kullervo, a retelling of a Kalevala hero's wretchedly tragic life.  Luckily, the music has cheerful parts (and a hot, sexy part in the 3rd movement).  It also features an evil talking sword.  Music: 

/>Texts of the two sung parts are on the last 4 pages of these program notes: https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/uploads/pdf/Program%20Notes-Sibelius.pdf

Jaeger March

This music is rated M for Manly.

I've also amused myself imagining an appropriate "mix tape" for our team as they head out into the wilderness.  I'll put that in another message.

[OrigamiOwl]

I've also amused myself imagining an appropriate "mix tape" for our team as they head out into the wilderness.  I'll put that in another message.

Haha wow! So have I!

Except my music tastes are pretty weird. ;__;
I'd love to see yours!

[Hrollo]

Someone already mentionned, in another thread, the pieces of Ligeti that are used in 2001: A Space Odyssey; in the same creepy-atmospheric vain of silent-world appropriate music, some of the soundtracks created by the late japanese composer Toru Takemitsu can be quite impressive:

Kwaidan
The Woman in the Dunes

[pipar]

I'm probably biased because they're one of my two absolute favorite bands, but Pariisin Kevät's "Saari" seems relevant.  Some lines remind me of the theme of exploration and sense of danger throughout the comic (...älä katso taakse siellä joku niskaan hengittää...), while others remind me of certain characters (Lalli and ...luulen näkeväni henkimaailman olentoja joka nurkassa, viikatemies mua jahtaa, me ollaan aina samassa seurassa... being the prime example). 

Another song I relate to SSSS is Kent's "Sundance Kid".  The emergency siren at the beginning and overall mood of the song are nice with the story, I think.

[Annie]

I heartily second the Ligeti suggestion.

Another song I relate to SSSS is Kent's "Sundance Kid".  The emergency siren at the beginning and overall mood of the song are nice with the story, I think.

Oh, that's nice. I think I'm going to have to check out more of their stuff.

[BrainBlow]

Music that fits SSSS?
Fanitullen, obviously.
What, you think it sounds cheery?

Clearly you haven't read the original poem to the song

In the hardened days of yore
when with beer and brawn
the knives of Hallingdale
from their sheats were often drawn
when women to the feast
funeral shirts would bring
with which they would swathe
their dead husbands in
there once took place a wedding
somewhere in Hemsedale4
where song and dance did cease
and the men did ring the vale.
In the center of the floor
framed by shoulder-broad men
two stood with knives unsheated
and a leather belt round them

And like columns carved
unmoving, serene
another four stood
as guardians of the scene
They lift burning torches
toward the blackened beams
where curls of smoke collected
to a dark and brooding stream

In vain two women try
howling, to stem
the living wall of bodies
raised before them
Angrily they’re thrown back
and left to despair
while the fiddler quietly sidles
toward the cellar stair.

Down he goes to tap beer
as the winner of the fight
may have need to kiss
the bowl's rim tonight.
Within the belt they'll duel,
blood running like sap
the vein will need refilling
from the beer casket tap.

Standing in the cellar
he saw a bluish glow
someone sitting on the casket
tuning fiddle, holding bow.
This man held it backwards
tightly to his chest
and as soon as it was tuned
put his fiddle to the test.

There came a song of wonder;
It rang like angry words,
Like steel bite into wood
Like fists rammed into boards.
It jubilantly roamed
Around the darkened cellar hall
And came to a halt
At the sound of a fall

Quietly the fiddler listened
to the mighty flow
It was like the music’s eddies
went down his spine and brow.
He quickly asked the other
“Where did you learn that song?”
The answer: “Don't you mind that,
But remember it – for long!”

But as the man bent down
Reaching for the tap
He saw a horned hoof
against the casket rap
He forgot to tap the beer
And ran up to the hall
Just as the men were lifting
The body from the fall

Fanitullen it is called
This wild and haunting spell
And in Hallingdale they play it
And they play it well
And when its tune is singing
to beer and feast and brawn
again knives of Hallingdale
from their sheats are quickly drawn

Original Norwegian version:

I hine hårde dager
da ved øldrikk og svir
hallingdølens knivblad
satt løst i hans slir, -
da kvinnene til gilde
bar likskjorten med,
hvori de kunne legge
sin husbonde ned;
stod der et bryllup
i Hemsedal etsteds,
hvor lek og dans var tystnet
og karene slo krets.
Ti midt på gulvets tilje
i den mannslagne ring
stod to med dragne kniver
og et belte spent omkring

Og som utskårne støtten
i hvilende ro
står ennu fire karer
i kretsen om de to.
De løfter tyrilysen
mot det sorte bjelketak,
hvor røkens virvler samles
til et rugende lag

Forgjeves tvenne kvinner
med hyl trenger frem
å bryte det faste gjerde
som er stillet foran dem.
De kastes vredt tilbake
av de muskelsterke menn -
og spillemannen rolig
går til kjellertrappen hen.

Nu skal han ned og tappe;
ti den seirende mann
kan saktens vel behøve
å kysse bollens rand.
I beltespenning nappes
de kun med blodets tap;
så må vel åren fylles
fra tønnetutens gap.

Men da han stod i kjell'ren,
han så et blålig skinn
én sitte der på tønnen
og stemme felen sin.
Og karen holdt den omvendt,
tett opp til brystet klemt,
og gav seg til å stryke
så snart han hadde stemt.

Det var et spill som dugde;
det klang som vred manns ord,
som hugg av stålsatt bile
og som neveslag i bord.
Det jublet og det hulket
i den skumle kjellerhall
da slåttens toner endte
med et rungende mannefall.

Taus spillemannen lyttet
til de mektige løp;
det var som spillets virvler
nedad ryggen ham krøp.
Så spurte han den annen:
"Hvor lærte du den slått?"
Han svarte: "Det er det samme,
men minn deg den blott!"

Nu mannen med seg lutet
og etter tappen tok -
da så han hestehoven,
som takt mot tønnen slo.
Han glemte rent å tappe,
han sprang i stuen opp -
der løftet de fra gulvet
den falne mannekropp.

Fanitullen kalles
ennu den ville slått,
og dølene den spiller,
og spiller den godt.
Men lyder de grumme toner
under øldrikk og svir,
da løsner atter kniven
i hallingdølens slir.

Doesn't sound quite so cheery now, does it?

[pipar]

Oh, that's nice. I think I'm going to have to check out more of their stuff.

My most recent favorite of theirs is "Innan himlen faller ner".  The chorals are beautiful, and I suppose it veeery loosely fits the sort of post-apocalyptic theme of SSSS.  "Dom andra" and "Isis & Bast" would be my other recommendations for Kent, but I don't think I can make those fit the story.   

[Mkvenner]

"7734" by Sabaton
"In Scandinavia" by Runrig
"Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers
"Herr Manneling" by Haggard
"Dust and Echoes" by Martin O'Donnell
"Never-Ending Story" by Within Temptation
"The Old Ways" by Loeena Mckennitt
"Over the Hills and Far Away" English folk song
"The Last Dance" by Within Temptation
"Paradise" by Within Temptation
"Strangers Like Me" by Phil Collins (if survivors are met in the silent world)
"Run with Us" by Lisa Lougheed

[Hedge14]

This is the part where I spam this topic with links to (modern) Finnish folk music, right? :D I mean, it's totally appropriate.

Sanna Suoni-Kurkio - Vaskilintu (English translation included.)
Poropetra - Luonnotar (Nature goddess)
MeNaiset- Kuulin äänen   (I heard a voice)
Nostatus- Sanan synty (The Birth of the Word)
Suo- Hiiden hirvi (Moose of Hiisi.) This one fits aRTD more, but I think it's atmosphere is quite good background music for SSSS.

And there is this one, which is not folk music, but just as beautiful as well. It about yearning for peaceful and better old times, which is quite fitting too. There is English translation under the video.
Rajaton- Ikävöi, ihminen!

[Aquilae]

/>Íslandsklukkur (Instrumental)
This one I think will be most appropriate at least until the grandeur of setting out passes.

/>Tröllaslagur (Instrumental)
This one will be best when the comic title comes into effect.

I don't know if the lyrical versions of these would fit the mood because it seems the ones I remember have been removed from youtube. Also finding good translations of the lyrics is hard.

This one's good too, but the right mood for it is probably yet to come for a while.

[Sunflower]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYA8n-tw8Y
Íslandsklukkur (Instrumental)
This one I think will be most appropriate at least until the grandeur of setting out passes.

/>Tröllaslagur (Instrumental)
This one will be best when the comic title comes into effect.

This one's good too, but the right mood for it is probably yet to come for a while.

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These are great!  Thanks, Aquilae!

Actually, I think your third song (the lighthouse song) would suit the Iceland part of the Prologue.   If not Arni's distress at shooting down the refugee boat, at least the heroic resolve of the rest of the Coast Guard crew.  It already sounds like the entire Icelandic Armed Forces are singing.  Just stick in a couple of lines about "mutated, man-eating whale-beasts" and it'll be fine. 

[Sunflower]

Can anyone recommend a service for sharing playlists?  I'm putting together one for Our Heroes to launch into the Silent World, and I'd like to make the music easily available.  (Since I can't exactly mail a mix tape to each of you, though that would be awesome...)

I use iTunes at home, but I've never used its Shared Playlist feature.  So I don't know whether you need to personally own all the music in a Playlist.
YouTube has a lot of the music I like, but not all of it. 
Spotify?  Other services?
It would need to be free to sign up for, available globally, and not spammy. 

Thanks for any ideas y'all may have.