# Music recommendations? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397 "2011-08-12T00:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/1 "2011-08-12T00:24:39Z")
You all look like you know stuff about things, so here goes. I am looking for some music recommendations. More specifically, I am looking for the sort of music that you often hear in film scores, the dangerous music that builds ominously to a crescendo. Not much to go on I know, but I am looking music like these: Everloving, Moby [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hUD7m3MZOt4/hqdefault.jpg "Moby - Everloving") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUD7m3MZOt4) Tribal war, Black Hawk Down [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6gWYjHYvd8) Ashes to Ashes, Black Hawk Down [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfuqxrWJAT8) Massive Attack, Angel [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hbe3CQamF8k/maxresdefault.jpg "Massive Attack - Angel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k) Does anybody get what I am after? Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/2 "2011-08-12T01:12:06Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > More specifically, I am looking for the sort of music that you often hear in film scores, the dangerous music that builds ominously to a crescendo. You might be into some of JG Thirlwell’s stuff. Here’s [How to Vibrate](http://youtu.be/UrKWhRypZXA). ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/3 "2011-08-12T20:19:38Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wcbwS5Y4UQ) Not the same genre, but has the same crescendo and primal thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![Clumsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Clumsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clumsy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/4 "2011-08-13T12:27:34Z")
Theme to 28 weeks later : [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMyIG2EKPoE) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/5 "2011-08-13T14:33:18Z")
I’m a big fan of the song [Ozar Midrashim](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgzbyd2MhbE) by Information Society. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/6 "2011-08-13T15:18:07Z")
Ummm, try some film soundtracks? The \*Pirates of the Caribbean \*soundtracks are pretty good, and sound much like you describe. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/7 "2011-08-13T15:26:40Z")
> [@Clumsy](#): > > Theme to 28 weeks later : > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMyIG2EKPoE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMyIG2EKPoE) I have this one, and I should have used it as an example as it is exactly the type of thing I am talking about. Good call. > [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Ummm, try some film soundtracks? The \*Pirates of the Caribbean \*soundtracks are pretty good, and sound much like you describe. Ummm, I’d find it rather inefficient to listen to every film soundtrack ever made, so I thought I would ask for recommendations, you know, narrow the search down a bit. Crazy I know. Thanks to everybody for the suggestions! ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/8 "2011-08-14T15:29:46Z")
I think I have exactly what you are looking for [Oh Fortuna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiyKgeGWx0) ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/9 "2011-08-17T23:07:37Z")
> [@CWN](#): > > I think I have exactly what you are looking for > [Oh Fortuna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiyKgeGWx0) Ah, now thats what Im talking about, good shout. The thing is, I know I should be looking at classical music for this type of music, but it seems to my uneducated ear that so many classical songs will sound badass, but then some bloody flutes or something will trill away for a few minutes right in the middle, thus spoiling the effect. That is why I specifically mentioned movie soundtracks, as they seem to be more focused. Something like “Dual of the Fates” stays ominous right the way through. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/10 "2011-08-17T23:39:12Z")
bucketybuck: Try listening to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. i think you will be pleased. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/11 "2011-08-17T23:45:38Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > bucketybuck: Try listening to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. i think you will be pleased. Sorry, just not feeling that one, it has that up and down all over the place sound that so puts me off a lot of classical music. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/12 "2011-08-18T00:19:32Z")
Michael Gira of Swans does this in a lot of his songs. The last album by Angels of Light, one of his side projects, uses it in some fashion on almost every song – you can hear what I’m talking about in [“Sometimes I Dream I’m Hurting You.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVVmYU8Y6Xs) And, of course, there’s the latest album from Swans, which has songs like [“Inside Madeline”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZR2j9J6vs&feature=related) and [No Words/No Thoughts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADeOg8qbNMc). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/13 "2011-08-18T00:32:20Z")
Have you heard the rest of the Mezzanine album by Massive Attack? If not, I suspect you’d like it. Also, maybe some Goran Bregovic? How about: [Ederlezi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU--Ox25DCo) or perhaps [The Belly Button of the World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On5UahTxo84)? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/14 "2011-08-18T08:47:54Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Massive Attack, Angel > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k) That’s the track that pretty much defines building to an onimous crescedo. Off the same album, Mezzanine, [Dissolved Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpluQpyAn8) and [Group Four](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HnF5T4Neuc) also fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/15 "2011-08-18T21:30:06Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#): > > bucketybuck: Try listening to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. i think you will be pleased. That’s what I came in for – not specifically the symphony, but his String Quartets. Plus, Shostakovich was (among lots else) a film composer of sorts. Dynamics are the name of the game, though, so maybe there might not be much out there that keeps dynamics pretty static. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/16 "2011-10-03T08:08:54Z")
every song by Godspeed You! Black Emperor ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-recommendations/592397/17 "2011-10-03T08:25:35Z")
I like a lot of the soundtracks from my video games…and I own an album by the Black Mages. That might or might not be what you’re looking for. [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgmaQCffXYw) (JENOVA) [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87e5qQnVerI&feature=related) (Fight with Seymour) How about a playlist? [Black Mages Live: Distant Worlds - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgIAqAjbKo&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AV4oVf-d_DwKDKIzlaQNDeA9VfF0T99wrQ) Edit: The first song on that playlist might not be what you want, try the next one.