What are YOUR suggestions for music and/or songs appropriate for art of supervillainy?
Remember, these are songs for evildoers. Songs that are, themselves, evil, like It’s a Small World or Kyle Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head only qualify for a “dishonorable mention.”
My suggestions?
The Imperial March from the Star Wars soundtrack. ('Natch.)
Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand. (Come to think of it, a lot of Cave’s works would do well, wouldn’t they?)
About half of all the “Bond Themes.” Maybe more.
And, for the two “odd” choices:
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. (As seen in Die Hard. Hans Gruber…always an inspiration.)
And Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World. (Works especially well if you’re a technocrat rising to power in the mid-1980s)
What’s that piece of music from Carmina Burana[?] that’s kinda’ famous, they use it often to give the impression of malevolent forces in play? I once heard it referred to as “psycho hitchhiker music.”
Holst’s Mars, Bringer of War from The Planets. Every time I hear it, I want to stand on a balcony and laugh as my tanks roll past on their way to destroy the neighboring country.
metallica-these are good titles as well am i evil-king nothing-devils dance and master of puppets.
Rob zombie- dragula
slayer-angel of death
steve vai-bad horsie
“Mean Machine” - The Cramps
“Bad To the Bone” - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
“Goin’ Out West” - Tom Waits (not so much for the lyrics as for the music)
Nick Cave’s Solo/Bad Seeds stuff is pretty evil sounding, but it doesn’t come close to the evilness of his old band The Birthday Party.
Bauhaus’ “Stigmata Martyr” would be a good soundtrack for evildoing, and years ago, I chased Mormans away by blasting Christian Death’s “Only Theatre Of Pain” Lp, an album that sounded a lot more evil when I was fifteen. Now it just sounds kind of corny.
I’ve always imagined Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” as one of those themes that could work for both hero and villain. I’ve always pictured Magneto rising up and unleashing his worst to this tune, and it works perfectly in my head.
Windwalker is dead right. Now that I think about it, if your character is evil enough, any song might work. I’m thinking of “Singin’ in the Rain” as a choice example: I don’t think about swinging from lampposts and splashing in puddles when I hear that song; I viddy horrorshow utlraviolence, O my brothers…
Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus would be great particularly if you were a disgruntled superspy who turns on their own government in a bid to bring the world to its knees.