Music that fits SSSS?

[Solovei]

8tracks seems to be pretty popular in other fandoms...

[Sunflower]

I've assembled a soundtrack for the Corps of Discovery's venture into the Silent World.  I intended it to be somewhat in the spirit of "Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix" -- that is, a music collection made by someone here-and-now, which somehow seems to have survived on CD for 90-odd years until it pops up in Our Heroes' vehicle (which also, somehow, seems to have a working CD player). 

The versions on paper and on 8tracks are somewhat different; 8tracks has a more limited repertoire than YouTube, and not all the available tracks have great sound quality.  This is my first venture onto 8tracks -- or any music-sharing service -- so I'm sure there are technical glitches I didn't recognize or couldn't fix. 

I tried to include music from each of the countries represented (including Iceland), and a tribute to each of Our Heroes.  (For example, "Light My Fire" for Emil and "Sounds of Silence" for Lalli.) Still haven't found ideal themes for Captain or Doc (beyond the reference to "my family doctor" in "Good Lovin'."  And I gather the Scandinavian countries all have thriving metal scenes.  But death-metal isn't my thing (though hey, if it's yours, rock on with your bad self).

So I welcome any edits/improvement to this playlist.  Or better yet, compile your own!

8tracks Radio listing: http://8tracks.com/sunflower411/ssss-road-trip  [somebody already had the handle "Sunflower"]

Text/YouTube version (longer)

Dawggy Mountain / “Car Talk” Theme (David Grisman Quintet)

On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)

Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)

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The Way (Fastball)

Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Beatles)

Hot Rod Lincoln (Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen) 

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena (Jan & Dean)

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Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen (cover by the cast of Passion – Wallmans 2008)

(plus amusing bonus video by Pilou Asbæk for Eurovision 2014)

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Motorcycle (Rhea feat. Pharrell Williams)

Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now (Hairspray)

Komdu Með / “Come With Me” (Haraldur Örn Haraldsson) 

Take On Me (a-ha)

Airstream Driver (Gomez)

Runnin’ Down a Dream (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

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Laulutyttö (Värttinä)

Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) 

Mystery Train (Elvis Presley)

Sausalito Summernight (Diesel)

Light My Fire (The Doors)

The Sound of Silence (Paul Simon/Bobaflex cover version)

Good Lovin’ (The Young Rascals)

Matalii ja mustii (Värttinä)

Cliché Love Song (Basim, Eurovision 2014)

Waterloo (ABBA)

Money, Money, Money (ABBA)

SOS (ABBA)

Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)

[Hrollo]

A tune I listen a lot to currently is Arvo Pärt's "Summa"; while it's a bit solemn, I think it would fit in SSSS for scenes of quiet exploration, when their vehicle is strolling around in the silent world's countryside.

A nice thing about this song is that there are a number of different versions and interpretations of it, which is always nice for a theme tune in a series/movies, when the same melody is declined in different moods:

Quiet vocal version
Bit energetic instrumental version
Gentler instrumental version

The composer is estonian, which is like, almost finnish :p

[Rabbit]

I listen to movie music a lot, and I've found How To Train Your Dragon soundtracks, both first and especially the second, to be pretty awesome background music for SSSS! Suitably (faux) Scandinavian, plenty epic.

Sigur Rós also goes quite well with the quiet parts, and the scenery porn

[Sunflower]

As Our Heroes finally get rolling, I ran a poll for suggested soundtrack music.  I got some great suggestions after offering these initial choices:

1) "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson.
2) "Movin' Right Along" from the Muppet Movie
3) "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf
4) "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads
5) None of those, you aging American cultural imperialist silly-person! How could you have overlooked __________?!?


MattStriker 
Maybe Kickstart My Heart, like Dead Winter used?
http://deadwinter.cc/page/476

Euodiachloris 
Best of Queen. *shrugs*

Greenwood Goat 
So many to choose from!

Truckin' by the Grateful Dead. (annotated lyrics)
Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band. Tuuri will get the vehicle straightened up eventually.  [Editor's Note:  Theme to Top Gear, something I had to learn from Wikipedia.]
Phantom Of The Opera by Iron Maiden.
Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.s.
All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan (Hendrix cover)

And I wasn't even thinking about references to cats, but some of these haz them!

Plenty of others, too, depending on how you wanted to spin it in your mind. Chariots of Fire perhaps? Ride of the Valkyries? The Magnificent Seven? Bonanza? I'm going to keep an eye on this thread...

Sharion 
Chorus of "Highway to Hell" from AC/DC? With lots of headbanging.

JoB --> Sharion
[Nodbangs] Ayup.


Minando 
I vote for "ride of the valkyries with occasional klanks, cronks, kracks and bangs"


FrogEater 
Autobahn (Kraftwerk) :-)

JoB --> FrogEater
Switching to Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" a couple collisions later? ;-)

unlos --> Sunflower
Road Trippin' by Red Hot Chili Peppers is close to perfect!

Bookfisher Von Herring
with the risk of losing well everybody, this hymn to classic Volvos is the most fitting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

[BrainBlow]

If this series ever was to have a score, I imagine it would maybe sound a lot like the Game of Thrones OST, albeit more lighthearted tracks.

For example, in the moments right before and through the troll attacking the train(starting with the clouds covering the moon again), we'd get a soundtrack that sounds something like the White walkers track from the GoT OST.

[OrigamiOwl]

Heh, I just spent nearly an hour collecting video links and then my phone's browser crashed and I've had to start again....but on a laptop instead.... U__U

So! These songs arent very scandinavian/Nordic, but when I hear them I think of SSSS anyway (also, I have weird music tastes..... ;__;)

The Legend of Ashitaka (hey it censored again! hehe X'D) from Princess Mononoke, it just seems to match the epicness of Minna's landscape and scenery pages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-MAErg8q0w

Hey Now by London Grammar, it reminds me of the Post-Prologue time, and also Saimaa and Keuruu. (ee! I didn't know it had its own video now! eee!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEHJPuggHQ

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These songs remind me of Onni and Lalli:
Better Than That by Lakyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8EXCSNFCsY

Hanging On by Active Child (and the Ellie Goulding version too if you like)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-OoisekXIA

Keep On Running by Andy Bull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSGUxRWR_r8

Screenager and maybe Bliss by Muse sorta sound like a reeeeeaaaaally grumpy and angsty Lalli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXcLL4Dptsw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaDVyx8IC4

And then this song always reminds me of Braidy in Iceland, maybe dancing around a field
Elan by Secret Garden- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoTmembE5gA)

[Raya]

One song that reminds me a lot of SSSS is Ég á Líf (I Am Alive), Iceland's 2013 Eurovision entry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtunhyMW1hM

(I totally voted for this song in the final)

Translated lyrics:

I set out upon that long journey
I walked on lost and restless
Didn't think about anything until the following day.
I chose peace and tranquility.
I am alive, I am alive
I glide above every hardship
I am alive, I am alive
When the winds turn against me

I climb over the high mountains
I am alive, I am alive
I didn't understand about love, which can move everything
Didn't dare to embrace and to simply exist
I felt like I didn't deserve to open up my mind
And let the bright love enter within

I am alive, I am alive
I glide above every hardship
I am alive, I am alive
When the winds turn against me
I climb over the high mountains
I'm alive, I'm alive because of you

And I believe it
Yes I do believe it

Perhaps the wondrous gates of heaven will open
Beautiful love will flood out
to embrace me alone
I'm alive, I'm alive
I glide over every difficulty
I am alive, I am alive

When the winds turn against me
I climb over the high mountains
I am alive, I am alive because of you
I am alive, I am alive, I am alive

I really wish I could animate, I can perfectly imagine an AMV to go with this song...

[BrainBlow]

While perhaps a bit too aggressive, I think there's a lot of stuff in the Shin sekai Yori(From the New world) OST that would be close to something fitting.
Much of the soundtrack has been pulled from Youtube(though you can find torrents of it elsewhere), but I think soundtracks like Traditional would fit neatly for epic landscape views.
I didn't fangasm over this anime as much as many others did, but the soundtrack is seriously impressive, and much of it is pretty fitting for a post-apocalyptic series like this.

[Hrollo]

After thinking a bit, this is what I would put together if I was in charge of making a soundtrack of SSSS

My first idea is that the soundtrack will have a light side (for all the character interaction and humor) and a dark side (for the ... other stuff).

Let's start with the light side; one word: jazz.

Character themes:
Tuuri's theme should something a bit enthusiastic and starry-eye'd, gentle but not too gentle; Out of Nowhere played by Coleman Hawkins and Django Reinhardt.
Lalli needs something weird and mysterious, an bit velvet like; A Night In Tunisia played by Dizzy Gillespie.
Emil needs something frantic and boisterous, but that also shows his "partnership" with Lalli… so how about a very different version of the same song as Lalli? A Night In Tunisia played by the Jazz Messengers.
Sigrun needs something very upbeat, with a military hinge to it, but still with goofiness; Blues March played by the Jazz Messengers.
Mikkel needs something quiet, but ambiguous, which could be seen as both reassuring and threatening; 'Round Midnight played by Thelonious Monk.
Braidy well, we don't really know him yet, but from all the pictures I imagine something cheery and happy, but rather gentle; Honesuckle Rose played by Thelonious Monk.

Some ambiance tracks:
Such Sweet Thunder played by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Lil' Darling played by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Stardust played by Lionel Hampton.
Love for Sale played by Miles Davis.
Stabblemates played by Benny Golson.


And now there's the dark side of the sountrack, the side of the Silent World, of trolls and giants. Here too, one word: Alien.

As in, the sountrack of the movie Alien, composed by Jerry Goldsmith (if you haven't seen the original Alien, only the action-packed sequels, I really recommend it; it's a really well made sf mystery-thriller, about a bunch of space truckers who stumble upon an unknown planet from which they accidentally bring back something horrible; kind of the fundation of modern sf-horror —and so a distant progenitor of SSSS through Dead Space). Seriously, it fits perfectly.

Main theme:
Dawn

Exploration/travel themes:
Hypersleep
Landing
Hive
End Credits (alternate)

Suspense/cities themes:
Derelict
Coma
Ash
Motion Tracker
Hunted Hunter
Confrontation

Action/monsters themes:
Acid as Blood
Brett
Parker & Lambert
The Alien - Aftermath
Not Alone
The Shaft - Last Survivor

[Echo]

I dropped this in the theme song thread, might as well drop it here.

I can't really go over how it fits, heck even my explanation in the other thread isn't really justified. Really, if I can just imagine something along to a song, that's how I personally determine its value. And I can only imagine SSSS with this...

John Mayer - The Age Of Worry

[Noah O.]

After thinking a bit, this is what I would put together if I was in charge of making a soundtrack of SSSS

My first idea is that the soundtrack will have a light side (for all the character interaction and humor) and a dark side (for the ... other stuff).

Let's start with the light side; one word: jazz.

Character themes:
Tuuri's theme should something a bit enthusiastic and starry-eye'd, gentle but not too gentle; Out of Nowhere played by Coleman Hawkins and Django Reinhardt.
Lalli needs something weird and mysterious, an bit velvet like; A Night In Tunisia played by Dizzy Gillespie.
Emil needs something frantic and boisterous, but that also shows his "partnership" with Lalli… so how about a very different version of the same song as Lalli? A Night In Tunisia played by the Jazz Messengers.
Sigrun needs something very upbeat, with a military hinge to it, but still with goofiness; Blues March played by the Jazz Messengers.
Mikkel needs something quiet, but ambiguous, which could be seen as both reassuring and threatening; 'Round Midnight played by Thelonious Monk.
Braidy well, we don't really know him yet, but from all the pictures I imagine something cheery and happy, but rather gentle; Honesuckle Rose played by Thelonious Monk.

Some ambiance tracks:
Such Sweet Thunder played by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Lil' Darling played by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Stardust played by Lionel Hampton.
Love for Sale played by Miles Davis.
Stabblemates played by Benny Golson.


And now there's the dark side of the sountrack, the side of the Silent World, of trolls and giants. Here too, one word: Alien.

As in, the sountrack of the movie Alien, composed by Jerry Goldsmith (if you haven't seen the original Alien, only the action-packed sequels, I really recommend it; it's a really well made sf mystery-thriller, about a bunch of space truckers who stumble upon an unknown planet from which they accidentally bring back something horrible; kind of the fundation of modern sf-horror —and so a distant progenitor of SSSS through Dead Space). Seriously, it fits perfectly.

Main theme:
Dawn

Exploration/travel themes:
Hypersleep
Landing
Hive
End Credits (alternate)

Suspense/cities themes:
Derelict
Coma
Ash
Motion Tracker
Hunted Hunter
Confrontation

Action/monsters themes:
Acid as Blood
Brett
Parker & Lambert
The Alien - Aftermath
Not Alone
The Shaft - Last Survivor

I don't know, much of your soundtrack seems to focus on the darker side, while I think that we should be seeing more humor, light-heartedness, and pseudo-familial bonding going on.

[JaoLao]

After thinking a bit, this is what I would put together if I was in charge of making a soundtrack of SSSS

My first idea is that the soundtrack will have a light side (for all the character interaction and humor) and a dark side (for the ... other stuff).

Let's start with the light side; one word: jazz.

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And now there's the dark side of the sountrack, the side of the Silent World, of trolls and giants. Here too, one word: Alien.

As in, the sountrack of the movie Alien, composed by Jerry Goldsmith (if you haven't seen the original Alien, only the action-packed sequels, I really recommend it; it's a really well made sf mystery-thriller, about a bunch of space truckers who stumble upon an unknown planet from which they accidentally bring back something horrible; kind of the fundation of modern sf-horror —and so a distant progenitor of SSSS through Dead Space). Seriously, it fits perfectly.

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I quite like this. I specially like the idea of two characters sharing leitmotif's, but I would actually pair Tuuri and Lalli instead of Lalli and Emil. Perhaps even adding a third variation of the theme, for specific acting together moments?

And while I think the an Alien-like score is pretty much spot on for those moments when the comic does go dark, I think I agree with Noah - at least for now. There' still plenty of time for the comic to turn all darky-mcpants on us.

[Hrollo]

Well I kept the jazz selection light mostly because I didn't want to bore non-jazz people before they even reached the other part of my post. But certainly we can add more jazz light themes, it's not like the repertory to chose from is limited

[Deadlander]

That Pärt suggestion is brilliant.
I have a few ideas:

Bo'arigh by Frog Pocket for a chase scene - there's time for some sneaking and build-up, and then for a flat-out run from something angry - and fast!

The Haze by Echoes for Lalli's nightmares.

Lots of stuff by Emancipator could be good; Bury Them Bones, for instance, but also Rattlesnakes, Vines, Old Devil, Ares, Minor Cause, and Dusk to Dawn.  Plenty of tracks for long walks.

Running To The Sea by Röyksopp might make for a good montage of survivors trying to escape the first trolls.

I'm certain Dead Can Dance would have a few good tracks - Host of Seraphim from The Mist comes to mind.

And when you're on the offense?  Tyr might have something for you: perhaps the Norwegian sailors had a take on Tróndur í Gøtu that told a different side to that story that they chanted as they went out to slay sea-trolls?