Fyre's List

I've been meaning to do this for a couple of weeks. And then we were talking about music yesterday in the game. I woke up this morning thinking about it, so I'm finally going to post it.
This is Fyre's current playlist. Well, current-ish, because I started it weeks ago, and added just a little over time. Some of the "reasoning" behind the picks doesn't exist anymore, but the songs stayed. I won't post the entire list; it's gotten rather long. But you can safely assume there is no soft rock, oldies, new age, jazz, or folk music.

Live and Let Die-- Guns and Roses
Yep, it's a cover. From somewhere around 1989. But it's pretty much the song the whole play list was based around. "But this ever changing world in which we live, makes you give in and cry, 'live and let die.'" I think it works pretty well for a hero gone bad. (Or has she?!)

Fine Again-- Seether
A little slower than the pace of a lot of the other songs, but it still fits.

Somebody Save Me-- Cinderella
It doesn't really fit. And it's 1980's hair metal. The pacing's good, though.

This Fire-- Franz Ferdinand
Hello, "fire?" Do I need to explain it?

Why Don't You Come Over-- Garbage
Okay, Garbage is possibly my favorite band, ever. Top 5, at least. I have a lot on all my playlists, game and regular. Still, it applies: "You were baking biscuits, while I was bending the law; sacrificing something, as you counted all my flaws."

Body Snatcher-- Billy Idol
This is off his 2005 album (Yes, there was a new Billy Idol album then. Really). Loud, and a little creepy. "The dark side gets its way."

Never Will I Break-- 3 Doors Down
Lots of electric guitars and drums. I could listen to this stuff all day. "At least a million times I've fallen, but never will I break."

Metal Heart-- Garbage
See? Another Garbage song. Good beat, good lyrics. "I wish was as big as you, you'd have to tell the truth. I'd be nothing you could hurt, nothing you could use."

I'm Not Okay-- My Chemical Romance
Almost too "emo" but it works. It's loud, obnoxious emo, as opposed to whiny emo. "For the last time, take a good hard look. I'm not okay," and then later, he screams "I'm telling you the truth, I mean this, I'm okay. Trust me." I like the contrariness.

I Didn't Like You Anyway-- The Donnas
It doesn't really apply. I like the song, though, and the beat.

Thoughtless-- Evanescence
It's a cover of a song by Korn that I've never heard. And I have a terrible copy, a bootleg recording of a live show. It's fuzzy, and half the time I skip it because the fuzz makes my head hurt. "You can try to tell me no, beat me to the ground. I will see you screaming."

Heaven's a Lie-- Lacuna Coil
A little quieter. "Set me free, your heaven's a lie."

Firestarter-- Prodigy
Chosen not for lyrics, though other characters may think they apply now that I think of it, but just for the title and the beat.

Breathe-- Prodigy
The best Prodigy song made, though it got less attention than, say, "Smack My Bitch Up." Here, mostly for pacing. Really nice for tearing through Longbow.

Let's Go (Crazy Train Remix)-- Trick Daddy, Little Jon, etc.
One of the very few rap songs I even own. It samples Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train, though. I don't recommend it unless you like rap or have a fondness for songs that contain the f-word. I'm just amused at the rapping with Ozzy doing the sound effects in the background.

The Wreckoning-- Boomkat
The lyrics and the beat. Maybe a little too "pop-y." But she swears, and you can't swear in pop songs, right? "I came, I saw, I kicked some ass. The pain I caused, it makes me laugh."

Getting Away with Murder-- Papa Roach
This should have been villain-Mason's theme song. Really. I'd have to post the complete lyrics if I even started. But, you know, it IS a rock song, so it's not like there are many lyrics.

Celebrity Skin-- Hole
"I'm all I wanna be, a walking study in Demonology." Okay, it's the only thing that even vaguely applies. I just like the song.

You Know I'm No Good-- Amy Winehouse
Doesn't apply, except maybe for some vague metaphor with the title. And the pacing doesn't mesh well, either. I just threw it in there for a break, mostly.

Next Contestant-- Nickelback
I love the pacing of the song. Lyrically, it doesn't apply. It's a song about a guy who wants to beat up everyone who comes onto his girlfriend. Nickeback, though, is my FoTM. The song Animals is on the list, too.

Guilty in Here-- Miranda Lambert
Yeah, it's country. I really like Miranda Lambert, though. If you crossed Joan Jett, Brittany Spears, and Lynyrd Skynard, you'd get Miranda Lambert. I love the lyrics to this song, but none of them apply. "Is it guilty in here, or is it just me?" I also have Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Gunpowder & Lead by her on the list, too.


Crashed-- Daughtry
Good song, good lyrics. A little slower than some of the other songs, but it fits. "Where we're headin', there's just no knowin'"


All That I'm Living For-- Evanescence
There are other Evanescence songs on the list, but this one applies the best, lyrically. This could be Fyre's theme song.

All that I'm living for

All that I'm dying for

All that I can't ignore alone at night

All that I'm wanted for

Although I wanted more

Lock the last open door

My ghosts are gaining on me

Never Again-- Kelly Clarkson

The song's about the singer's ex who did her wrong, but I think it sums up Fyre's general attitude about a few people pretty well. "I would never wish bad things, but I don't wish you well."

Highway to Hell-- Marilyn Manson

Bodies-- Drowning Pool

The Hand The Feeds-- Nine Inch Nails

My Way or the Highway-- Limp Bizkit

Guerilla Radio-- Rage Against the Machine

Just good ripping through enemies, fighting music

Tourniquet-- Rasputina

Quiet, a little evil, kind of creepy. Most of the lyrics don't apply, but I like it anyway.

Take your hatred out on me

Make me your victim, your next

You never ever believed in me

Secret Agent Man-- Devo

Will's song, sort of? Nah, not really. Just a break from some of the other stuff.

Girl On Fire (Renholder's Apocalypse Mix)-- Rob Zombie

On every playlist that Fyre's associated with.

Nothin' Better to Do-- LeeAnn Rimes

Yeah, it's country. But it's upbeat and tells a fun little story. Another song that's mostly a break from the louder stuff.

I Just Wanna Live-- Good Charlotte

Doesn't apply AT ALL. It's another break song. And the lyrics crack me up.

I rock a

Lawsuit

when I’m going to court

A white suit

when I’m gettin’ divorced

A black suit

at the funeral home

And my birthday suit

when I’m home alone

Save Yourself-- Stabbing Westward

A good song for an "ex-hero," even just for the title alone. The pacing makes it suitable for fighting, and the lyrics fit.

I know that you've been damaged

You soul has suffered such abuse

But I am not your savior

I am just as fucked as you

I cannot save you

I can't even save myself

So just save yourself

I won't be posting the songs I substituted for the regular boombox songs. Mostly, because I don't remember what I used. I have quite a bit of music, so it was pretty random. Yes, I did throw Gettin' Jiggy wit' It, by Will Smith on there. It looks absolutely perfect when a character boomboxes to that song. I highly recommend grabbing the CoH Splasher program, even if just for this purpose. Especially if you PuG. When some obnoxious little guy in Atlas busts out his boombox while the team is gathering for a mission, you won't mind in the least.

More Music

Before I get started on the drama, I think I’ll back up a few steps. I had brief random thoughts awhile back, that included some music randomness. And it caught on. My original thoughts, though, were so brief and random that I’m doing it again, more comprehensively this time, though.

Originally, I had a play list for both CoV and CoH. Then, each game had its own. Now, both of those play lists have grown and morphed, and have overlap. I won’t post the entire lists, both because they’re long and they don’t entirely stick to the subject. I’ll hit some of the highlights of both, though.

CoV:
Rob Zombie, “Living Dead Girl,” “Girl on Fire,” “Super Beast.”
Yeah, I kinda like White Zombie and Rob Zombie. And a lot of fits CoV, both musically and lyrically.
Billy Idol, “Body Snatcher”
Off of one of his later albums, possibly the last. Again, perfect for CoV, especially when I was playing my Necromancer MM, who was, of course, deleted.
Snake River Conspiracy, “Homicide,” “How Soon Is Now?”
System of a Down, “Toxicity”
Marilyn Mason, “Long Hard Road Out of Hell”
The Donnas, “It Takes One to Know One”
Nonpoint, “In the Air Tonight”
A re-make of a Genesis (Or was it just Phil Collins?) song that I’ve always liked. The newer remake speeds it up some and adds more of that “dangerous” feeling.
Filter, “Hey Man Nice Shot”
Limp Bizkit, “Click, Click, Boom”
Gotta be on pretty much every CoV play list. As well as:
Drowning Pool, “Bodies”
I think I’ve seen CoH/V movies on YouTube with both of those songs.
Godsmack, “Voodoo”
Joydrop, “Beautiful”
Nine Inch Nails, “What You Are”

CoH:
Full Blown Rose, “In the Light”
Nope, even I never heard of this group. It’s off the Elektra movie soundtrack.
Lacuna Coil, “Swamped
Gwen Stefani, “Danger Zone” “What Are You Waiting For?”
Not particularly “heroic,” not that a lot of these choices are. The first, I just love the lyrics and the upbeat music. The second is a song that helped get me out of bed at 5am for all day long, intense training classes.
Bonnie McKee, “I Don’t Need Anybody”
Kelly Osbourne, “Save Me”
Audioslave, “Show Me How To Live”
Beastie Boys, “Fight For Your Right”
Nickelback, “Hero”
Well, duh.
Garbage, “Go Baby Go”
Garbage comes up an awful lot on both play lists. And pretty much every other play list I’ve ever made. One of my favorite groups.
Janet Jackson, “Black Cat”
Bon Jovi, “Have a Nice Day,” “It’s My Life”
Boomkat, “The Wreckoning”
The Offspring, “Defy You”
Evanescense, “Everybody’s Fool”
Poe, “Control”
Poe also sings “Angry Johnny,” that one of Sybil’s thug henchmen is named after.
Prodigy and Sneaker Pimps, “Fire Starter”
Same song, two totally different versions
Miranda Lambert, “Kerosene”
Yeah, I listen to country, so what? But, not a lot of it made it on these play lists.

Maybe I should have added a disclaimer here in the beginning. These play lists are made for game play. Some of the lyrics or song titles may apply to characters, and I may even think of some of as theme songs for characters, but they have little to nothing to do with RP. If music is on during RP, chances are really good that I’m not even going to notice, much less pay attention to it.

Random Thoughts

Last night was pretty uneventful, in comparison to other nights with Team Angst, at least.

Mason talked to Frost, apparently, but was a little vague and brief when he told Fyre and E that they talked. I expect to hear more about that, both IC and OOC.

Fyre and E ended up on their own for a bit, but both the characters and players avoided “drama.” I don’t have the logs, so I’ll try to paraphrase the only thing that seems to have stuck in my head. Fyre and E were on that big ruined map, the one that sort of looks like the ritzy section of Boomtown, chasing Clockwork. I hate Clockwork on that map. They’re too hard to see. Anyway… E’s phantom did something or other, and E said something about wondering why Doppy (the phantom) sometimes charges into things. Fyre, speaking before thinking as she often does, says maybe he’s mad because he’s dead. E says maybe, and suggests something else. Fyre starts to say something and stops. E prompts her, and she covers it with a joke, saying maybe he’s just cranky because he didn’t get his morning coffee. E laughs and they move on. What she was going to suggest, though, was that maybe he was mad because he was being forced to protect the person who killed him. Does she really think that way? Maybe, maybe not. Luckily, she caught herself before she said it.

And now I find myself with free time and no big events to rehash. Perfect time for random thoughts.

I listen to music, a lot. I also tend to associate certain people or situations with certain types of music or songs. Of course, the majority of my mental music library starts about 1987. For example, after the E/Fyre/Serra thing, I kept hearing “Breath,” by Breaking Benjamin. Fyre, by herself, makes me think of a couple of songs off the newer Evanescence album, The Open Door, “Weight of the World,” and “All That I’m Living For,” if you’re keeping track. I think Fyre probably hears, “Fighter,“ by Christina Aguilera in her head a lot. Mason, especially when he was doing his “I’m a bad, bad man,” schtick, made me think of “Behind Blue Eyes,” the Limp Bizkit version. All of Cass’s costumes have sunglasses, except one, because of the glare of the invulnerability power sets. I feel like I need sunglasses for it, so Cass wears them instead, so I hear “Sunglasses At Night,” by Corey Hart sometimes for her. Just cruising through the map, especially Steel Canyon, for some reason, I hear “Fascination Street,” by the Cure. Any time I hear “Alien Sex Fiend,” by Garbage, I think of the Kheldians in the game, especially the Warshade that I deleted., who was a not-entirely-reformed Nictus. Blaze gets “Witchy Woman,” the version by Babes in Toyland (which is, by the way, really, really hard to find.) I have a bunch more, but I’ll stop now.

Oh, yeah, and if I haven’t said it before… I hate I9. Crashes, lag, and bunch of enhancement stuff to re-learn. Oh, sure, I made a few million influence, and that was okay, something different to do. An orange drop was fun. But, then I decided to start playing with IO’s. Sure, that was fun for awhile, too. I even bought an invention table for the base. And THEN I paid 5 million influence for one piece of orange salvage for a yellow recipe. Yeah, so, like I said, I9 sucks. I’ve read-- I should say, I’ve TRIED to read all numbers and percentages that Keen, Mason, and others have posted. I get so far, and it all runs together. I don’t get it, and I guess I don’t care enough to work through it. If I wanted math, I wouldn’t have skipped all those algebra classes in college (and I do mean ALL. Still passed, somehow). So, I’ll “play” with them a bit, but I just can’t get serious about it. Still waiting for a nice, expensive wing drop, though.

Now, on to see what other mayhem Team Angst gets into.