Hi, all. I remember seeing a thread about this a year or so ago, but search isn’t finding it, so:
What music would you recommend for a fun-filled day of global conquest? You know, the sort of thing you’d want to have on your ipod while the Minions of Doom bring the world to its knees?
If it’s available, and absolutely legal (public domain, creative commons, or something similar), then links to MP3s would be greatly appeciated.
Thanks!
The Imperial March by John Williams (aka Darth Vader’s theme).
I, for one, would serenade our alien overlords with Tchaikovsky’s “Marche Slav.”
Ride of the Valkyries.
The Wicked Witch of the West’s soldiers chant. YO-E-YO,YOOOOO-HO ! YO-E-YO,YOOOOO-HO !
Mars from Gustav Holst The Planets.
Fun Fun Fun by the Beach Boys.
Ooh. I like that idea, too. That and The Volga Boatman. And the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh. All say “You are our slaves now!”
Good stuff, but not quite what I’m looking for. I don’t want stuff to demoralize my new slaves with - I want music to put me in the proper mood for a bit of global enslaving. More goose-step, less downtrodden, you see.
The Grudge by Tool
My Generation by The Who because it amuses me
The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring
Stand Up by Stromkern
*Prophecy *by Remy Zero
No Shelter by Rage Against the Machine
*Kamikaze *by PJ Harvey
A cover of *(Don’t Fear) The Reaper *by Nick Cave and Enya
Bad Reputation by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Till I Collpase by Eminem
Ballad for Dead Friends by Dashboard Prophets
Call the Ships to Port by Covenant
*Intergalactic *by Beastie Boys
Taken from a brief scroll-through of my mp3 library.
I’ve put at lot of thought into this very subject.
Possibly…too much.
•Pskov in Flames/Death to The Blasphemer! and Battle on the Ice from Alexander Nevsky
•Horst Wessel Lied—Nazi Party anthem. I have a copy with the speed and pitched dropped by half, which brings to mind the painting from Barlowe’s Inferno, where an army of demons is parading past the memorial to the fallen angels lost in the rebellion in heaven. Yikes.
•Failing that—or if you’re a lefty—you could try The Internationale, the Soviet National Anthem, or the Red Chinese classic The East is Red.
•Der Koniggratzer Marsch, by Gottfried Piefke (Aka the “Nazi Rally March” from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
•Kill the Poor—The Dead Kennedys
•Shadow of Doubt—Yoko Kanno
•Sympathy for the Devil—Various Covers
•Schubert’s Erlking. (Good for plotting)
•Kill All the Humans—Rob Crow
•Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts—Bonnie Tyler. (Trust me on this.)
•One of These Days; The Dogs of War and Run Like Hell—Pink Floyd
•Red Right Hand—Nick Cave
•Several of the Godzilla themes
•Sinead O’Connor’s War
•Several of the French Foreign Legion’s songs—such as Kyrie des Gueux, or Si j’avais un camarade… (The latter is based on an old German song—I think I heard it sung at Otto Skorzeny’s funeral. Full of lines like “Forgive me, my friend, I can’t hold your hand while you die, for I must reload my rifle…”)
•Bach’s Prelude to English Suite No.2
•Mozart’s Chorus of the Janissaries
•Prokofiev’s Montagues and Capulets (“I live…I…liiive…!”)
•Skullcrusher Mountain—Jonathan Coulton
•Monkey Gone to Heaven—Frank Black (Somehow, I easily see gargantuan battle mechs blaring this one over loudspeakers as they pulverize a human enclave.)
•Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien—Edith Piaf
•Drums of Gaugamela—from the Alexander soundtrack
•Drop da Bomb and Build the Robots—by Doctor Steel
•The title music to G.I. Joe the Movie, with a few edits. It’s practically an evil anthem. (“COBRA! (Cooob-RAAA! COBRA! (Cooob-RAAA…!”)
•Heresy—Nine Inch Nails
•The Fight Song—Marilyn Manson
•Plus, most of the Bond themes. Especially The World is Not Enough.
A bit played-out now, but Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from the Carmina Burana.
Some of the music from the Conan soundtrack could work too.
But if I’m an evil overlord, then “Ave Satani” from The Omen.
Is there any other kind? 
Much of Laibach’s catalog would probably work (as well as Rammstein’s). Circling Overland by Front242 is a good choice, IMHO.
Scanning, taping, filing,
Endlessly checking,
Every human, car and plane.
Not sure about the music for during the conquering, but I know what song to play at the victory party afterwards - Saddic Gladdic by Wagon Christ.
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bob Marley.
Then again, I have a pretty twisted sense of humour.
Just thought of something myself - anything from the Total Annihilation sountrack. This was one of the very first PC RTS games with three-dimensional terrain, and it also had an absolutely amazing orchestral sountrack. Just the thing for sending one’s bombers to smite the other guy.
Ride of the Valkyries of course.
“Seek and Destroy”
Metallica
Ditto.
Or the *Dies Irae *from Verdi’s Requiem.
Borodin’s Polovetsian Dances. Especially the bit in the middle with the kettle drum.