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Icde Cream Gods by Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons. A bit residents-like.
For me I'd probably say what inspires me is a lot of alt rock from the 80s and 90s. (Joy Division, Public Image Limited, The Smiths, New Order, etc.) It takes me to a dark place...and I gotta say i love it. It gives me great dark story ideas which I have not really used in my Brickfilms.
For me I'd probably say what inspires me is a lot of alt rock from the 80s and 90s. (Joy Division, Public Image Limited, The Smiths, New Order, etc.) It takes me to a dark place...and I gotta say i love it. It gives me great dark story ideas which I have not really used in my Brickfilms.
It's pretty much the same for me as well, the only difference being that I listen to dark electronic music more than rock. I often have listened to Massive Attack's Mezzanine whilst animating. Music like this seems to fit the dark atmosphere I'm in whilst animating quite well.
Yes, that stuff I grew up with! I love the music. You know that Joy Division and New Order are related?
Also, there is a Public Image Ltd song being played in Holding Our Own Episode 2!
Animation Issac, do you also like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb? Or CAN U DIG IT? From Pop will Eat Itself? Here's a Youtube rip of that last one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nWNAvtwrw
Yes, that stuff I grew up with! I love the music. You know that Joy Division and New Order are related?
Also, there is a Public Image Ltd song being played in Holding Our Own Episode 2!
Animation Issac, do you also like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb? Or CAN U DIG IT? From Pop will Eat Itself? Here's a Youtube rip of that last one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nWNAvtwrw
Yes HoldingOurOwn I did know that the members of Joy Division became New Order after the lead singer Ian Curtis's death. Also there was a PiL song playing in episode 2 of Holding Our Own? Which one? That's awesome. Also I have definitely heard of those last few electronic bands you spoke of. Nitzer Ebb is pretty great. Will have to check out Pop will Eat Itself.
Brick Block, The P.I.L. song is "Happy" from their 9th album, "9" (1989). Everyone loves track 2, "disappointed", but I think happy is much better. I just love how the synths clash a bit with the chords yet they still work... I'm still trying to write something that works so well! Also U.S.L.S.1. is really cool from that album, about an Islmaic terrorist aboard a plane. (this is from the 1980s & has nothing to do with 9/11.) The song has a 3/4 motif in 4/4 time, a popular new wave gimmick, and some vocal effects like pre-delay which seem to combine Sigue Sigue Spunik and 1982 Devo. The vocals are very powerful. There are also samples of the leters U S L S giving it an eerie quality. PIL later does something weirder in their song CRUEL (1993, I think. Album "That What Is Not", the one with a toupee on the cover.). The chorus is a sample or an actual voice of one of the members WHEEZING the word "Cruel" in musical pitches. "Second Edition" AKA "Metal Box" is also one of my fav albums form PIL. Okay, I'm rambling. What I mean to say is, the song in the brickfilm is "Happy".
Pop Will Eat itself has many faces (that is, many sounds), but are best described as a punk equivalent to Beastie Boys. Their earliest work is what they call Grebo/Grunge (circa 1986) then they started getting hi-tech. Later stuff is industrial and more hardcore, but less fun IMO. Still, there are some GEMS like RSVP which appeared in the Playstation game LOADED's soundtrack, and Ich Bin Ein Auslander, an anti-racism song. Their stuff from 1988 to 1990 is best though!
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Wow. I will have to rewatch episode two then to listen to it. I also love Happy and think that's a great PiL song. I also did dig Pop Will Eat Itself. Awesome song. It has 80s cheese oozing through the riffs
Yes, It does. I recommend, if you like PWEI, to start with their 3rd & 4th albums, "This is the Day, This is the Hour... this is THIS" and "Cure for Sanity". Their best work is here, and you will find that they sample EVERYONE in their work!
I will have to check them out more. Thanks for the recommendation.
Music that I listen to while animating is either Printed Circuit-Brick It, or almost anything by CHVRCHES.
One song that I love to animate to is called The Catching Game. IT's an old 1970s synth instrumental. I didn't see it on YouTube so I can't link it (most of the songs I listen to are in my CD/record collection and when I discuss them here provide a YT link for you readers). In the middle it sounds a heck of a lot like something from Super Mario Bros 2.
Oh very cool. Are there any songs that are popular among animators that help the process?
Oh very cool. Are there any songs that are popular among animators that help the process?
I would say that each animator has a personal taste. So no.
Brick Block, if you like PWEI, I'll get you some nice instrumentals together as a list and post here soon
Wow thank you HoldingOurOwn I really appreciate that.
I pretty much listen to this on repeat while I brickfilm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVj32UmUyQ
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I've been loving The Doors recently. Jim Morrison was a genius. Except for the dying part, that wasn't that genius.
Disney's Atlantis The Lost Empire by James Newton Howard
A truly inspirational soundtrack. I get goose bumps every time I hear it.]
Disney's Atlantis The Lost Empire by James Newton Howard
A truly inspirational soundtrack. I get goose bumps every time I hear it.]
I just listened to this for the first time recently and enjoyed it quite a bit.
If you haven't done so already, check out some of his other work, he's really good at writing gorgeous orchestral and string soundtracks. "Flow Like Water" from the Last Airbender film (yes the really awful one) is a fantastic piece of music, and his scores for Maleficent and The Village are great as well.
As for music that inspires me, it should be obvious from posts that I'm a huge fan of film soundtracks. Three soundtracks that I listen to a lot but aren't often mentioned often yet inspire me are Casino Royale, Halo: Reach, and The Hours. All three are very different but quite good.
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