# Compose the ultimate old-school Dungeons and Dragons playlist. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882 "2017-12-08T04:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/21 "2017-12-08T20:54:45Z")
Bill Bailey’s [The Leg of Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc79m1X-mXU): > [@](#): > > Was it the Wizards? (No) > Was it the Goblins? (No) > Was it the Elves? (No) > Was it the Dwarves? (No) > Was it the Kestrels? (No) > Was it the Satyrs? (No) > Was it the Brain Police? (No) > Was it the Orcs? (No) > Was it the Man With The Key To The Door Of Reality, Underneath The Mat Of Insignifigance? > Nope. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/22 "2017-12-08T21:39:28Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > It’s a cliche because that’s the way it really was. For some anyway. The group of guys I met in college used to listen to The Smiths and The Cure. That would be us, as well (also, Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave and Bauhaus) - but the OP wanted ones lyrically/thematically related, and not a lot of Smiths songs are:D. I think Bauhaus’ [Hollow Hills](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yuFrrsXJQQ) definitely fits, though. The Cure’s [A Forest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0) does too Fields of the Nephilim is more suited to Call of Cthulhu than D’nD 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/23 "2017-12-08T22:15:54Z")
Styx got a lot of play, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/24 "2017-12-08T22:36:01Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That would be us, as well (also, Sisters of Mercy, Nick Cave and Bauhaus) - but the OP wanted ones lyrically/thematically related, and not a lot of Smiths songs are:D. > > I think Bauhaus’ [Hollow Hills](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yuFrrsXJQQ) definitely fits, though. > The Cure’s [A Forest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0) does too > > Fields of the Nephilim is more suited to Call of Cthulhu than D’nD 🙂 If you have Bauhaus, you have to have [Party of the First Part](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI4-PQYUgI). ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/25 "2017-12-09T01:02:24Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Styx got a lot of play, as I recall. Definitely! _Castle Walls_ fits perfectly. _Lords of the Ring_ came out around the time the Bakshi brothers put out their animated LOTR but James Young said he was just making up a song and his lyrics have nothing to do with the Tolkein work. _Man of Miracles_ would work well, but that hails from before they got into mainstream pop. * * * A friend of mine and I ran two completely separate campaigns (a couple years apart) based on our different interpretations of Kansas’ _Point of Know Return_. Add to the Dio list: _Dream Evil_ and _Stargazer_; possibly \*Kill the King. \*Definitely _Gates of Babylon._ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/26 "2017-12-09T01:57:47Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > Definitely! > _Castle Walls_ fits perfectly. > _Lords of the Ring_ came out around the time the Bakshi brothers put out their animated LOTR but James Young said he was just making up a song and his lyrics have nothing to do with the Tolkein work. > > _Man of Miracles_ would work well, but that hails from before they got into mainstream pop. > > * * * > > A friend of mine and I ran two completely separate campaigns (a couple years apart) based on our different interpretations of Kansas’ _Point of Know Return_. > > Add to the Dio list: _Dream Evil_ and _Stargazer_; possibly \*Kill the King. \*Definitely _Gates of Babylon._ Oddly, I always associated Lords Of The Ring with the Green Lantern Corps. Because the singularity of the One True Ring is an essential point. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/27 "2017-12-09T02:02:42Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > My D’nD soundtrack is _Aeon_-era Dead Can Dance (_[Fortune Presents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLvZvjkLrtg)_… is all about the whims of chance) and the[Dream Warriors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGBe12KxO8). Yeah, I’m DCD as well. Throw in some Loreena McKinnit for the Celtic bits, some Phillip Glass Akhnaten for the dwarves, some Bauhaus (“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” if you want some hipster irony for your vampire adventure, e.g.), some Siouxsie and the Banshees with “Cities in Dust” etc. for yer post-apocalyptic fun times, and now you’ve got a gothgeek **party** going on! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/28 "2017-12-09T17:23:42Z")
You’ve got to have AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/29 "2017-12-09T17:36:52Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > You’ve got to have AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. When I was about eleven years old and first heard this song, I found it odd when the mention “contracts.” The whole song is about nasty, noisy street hoodlums … and then it switches to men in business suits quietly discussing some contract? Obviously, I wasn’t aware of the mafia meaning of the word. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/30 "2017-12-09T18:28:53Z")
Nightwish, [“Elvenpath”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PRWQ86s4ks). [Do have to giggle a bit when the lead singer Tarja Turunen, whose 1st language is NOT English, calls it the “Elvenbath”…] ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882/31 "2017-12-09T19:07:32Z")
All three Ritchie Blackmore “Rainbow” albums with Ronnie James Dio. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compose-the-ultimate-old-school-dungeons-and-dragons-playlist/803882.md?page=1)