I’m having a gathering tomorrow, and I’m trying to put together music to take my party from burger burning and frisbee throwing in the evening to drunken insanity and passing out in the yard by 4 am. I’ve got a handle on the whole thing, except for the fireworks show. Once it gets dark, I’ve got about half an hour’s worth of not-legal-in-my-state pyrotechnics to let off. It’s going be a prodigious show worthy of a substantial soundtrack.
While I’d love to choreograph the whole deal, the best I can hope for is setting the proper mood music. Some powerful stuff with lots of meaningless lyrics like “boom” and “bang”.
So I request the help of the esteemed SDMB cultural experts. I’m looking for songs that fit the following criteria:
Hard rock/Metal
About fire, burning, explosions, blowing shit up, or raw displays of power
Not unreasonably offensive or vulgar (it’s generally an audience I don’t care about offending, but gratuitous lyrics may detract from the show)
Age of the song is not a factor, the audience is bound to appreciate new stuff as well as some classics.
Some candidates so far…just a few obvious ones, and I like Rammstein =] …
•1812 Overkill from extrememusic.com
•A number of selections from the soundtrack to Trinity and Beyond. (I’d suggest Hiroshima/Nagasaki Requiem and/or China Gets the Bomb)
•You might try the soundtracks to Conan the Barbarian or The 13th Warrior, maybe even Gladiator. (If blowing things up with artificial hellfire in defiance of the laws of Nature and Men doesn’t make you feel like a God already, this stuff sure as heck will. )
For the record, I am assuming you are kidding about the illegal fireworks. Yes.
Although you didn’t ask for classical, one great track would be the “Mars, the Bringer of War” movement from Holst’s symphony The Planets. It’s the closest thing to metal in classical, if you know what I mean.
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