# best music **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204 "2001-04-16T22:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/1 "2001-04-16T22:25:17Z")
what is the best music to listen to while playing d&d? ---
**Author:** ![SteveinSpain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@SteveinSpain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveinSpain)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/2 "2001-04-17T09:41:53Z")
Had to look up “d&d”. I think 50’s Rock-a-Billy to get your feet back on the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/3 "2001-04-17T10:39:39Z")
[Zaphod and the New Harmonics](http://www.slimeworld.org/cloister/cd/cdm119.html). ---
**Author:** ![MusicJunkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@MusicJunkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MusicJunkie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/4 "2001-04-18T00:13:34Z")
Jethro Tull’s **Broadsword and the Beast** ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/5 "2001-04-19T03:41:50Z")
does anyone else have another opinion. i’m thinking some dark mood music, but i need some ideas for artists. ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/6 "2001-04-19T06:35:33Z")
or maybe Hot Night in Hell, by Gorebag and the Grunts, which can be searched for from the Zaphod link. But if ya want elven atmosphere try Steeleye Span, or old Incredible String Band, if still available- “The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter” was a good album of theirs. The Gorebag people also have an RPG-themed album called “Send Money or the Fairie Dies”, but I haven’t listened to that one yet. Leslie Fish’s filk-singing is sometimes dark, and certainly sufficiently weird. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/7 "2001-04-20T05:38:36Z")
If you want an old fart’s advice from someone who used to play D&D, try these: Queen II: Their fantasy themed album, with a black side and a white side. Funny, I always preferred listening to the black side, with “The Seven Seas of Rhy,” “The Fairy Queen” and the like. Rock with a fantasy theme. Rick Wakeman: Keyboardist for the original “Yes” (either that or he came in early on). He went solo for awhile and did albums on King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table, and the Six Wives of Henry VIII. In fact, the early Yes albums had a kind of fantasy feeling to me as well. “Tales of Topographic Oceans” is a double album that’s probably not well regarded, but their earlier ones are. You may want to consider some of the ambient artists as well, particularly those who deal with Tibetan themes (bells, sounds of drifting wind and the like). Can’t name names, but check out [http://www.hos.com](http://www.hos.com) (Hearts of Space) and you might find some ideas there. Personally, I never felt the need for background music, but that’s because it was shared storytelling with us rather than dungeon-diving and loot-collecting. Ah, those were the days, but I better stop before I start with the stories, like the time when we came across these Orcs and . . . Hey! Where’d everybody go? ---
**Author:** ![xandar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/22d042/32.png) [@xandar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xandar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music/62204/8 "2001-04-20T10:10:28Z")
Stuff we used to use for D&D and other RPGs: Cure (early stuff) Sisters of Mercy Black Sabbath (also early stuff) Motorhead Lords of Acid Danzig (I recommend Danzig 4)