For the latest in my series of Ranchoth’s Hideous Playlists™, I was wondering…by any chance, would anyone have any suggestions for music for artillery?
That is, with artillery-themed (or merely applicable) lyrics, some historical associations with artillery, or even just music that would go well with sending iron downrange.
Besides the obvious answer of “ANYTHING, JUST PLAY IT LOUD, OKAY?”, so far, I’ve got:
Pretty much this. If you want music where cannon fire is not only included, but is included so well and with such perfect timing that it gives you chills, FTATR(WSY) is it.
“Barrett’s Privateers” by Stan Rogers is mostly about seafaring, but one of the verses does mention that the ship is armed with “cracked four-pounders”
I thought I was on to one with the Russian “Katyusha Song,” until I read that it was the song that inspired the name of the artillery piece, not the other way around.
Iron Maiden’s *The Trooper *is about being on the wrong side of artillery, does that count ?
Soleil Royal, by the pirate metal band Running Wild, is mostly about wooden ships and their iron men, but there’s a good deal of cannoning going - but then, that’s true of pretty much 90% of their repertoire. They’ve got a gimmick, they stick to it, by gum ! The band frequently uses musical cannon, both on album and on-stage.
That would be a bad thing. 4-pounders are on the bottom of the naval combat scale, utterly ineffective against anything but the smallest craft, and if they’re cracked, they can’t even be used anyway due to risk of explosion. They’re pop guns mounted only for show.
