December 06, 2004

We're taking over the world So what do all the monkeys listen to to make them feel invincible? [MI]

What piece of music makes you feel like you can take on the World / Empire when you listen to it? A couple that do it for me might be 'D'You Know What I Mean' by Oasis and, embarassingly, the theme tune to 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (original and PropellerHeads versions), which never fails to convince me I could garrotte the guard and escape... How about you? Sorry, no MP3 versions to hand at the mo...

  • Commodore Rock - Ladytron Scenic Pastures - Archers of Loaf Moya - Godspeed You Black Emperor! Farmer in the City (Remembering Pasolini) - Scott Walker Hate the Christian Right - Team Dresch
  • Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim mix) Bjork - Big Time Sensuality listening to a n00b quadruple post
  • The music to Thundercats used to get me going when I was a kid. It could be adapted for monkey hybrids.
  • Seumas Ennis playing pretty much anything but particularly Slieve Russel and the Groves Hornpipe. Misty in Roots - Own Them, Control Them Dick Gaughan - Revolution (live in Edinburgh version) Soviet National Anthem sung by the Red Army Choir
  • The Voices In My Head. . .
  • Laibach.
  • Althought I suppose if you're looking for topical music for the middle-east situation, I would recommend Passion Sources and Passion, the soundtrack on Womad by Peter Gabriel... I listened to them both constantly during Gulf War One.
  • andrew w.k.'s "the wolf." most earnestly inspirational rock album ever.
  • Vinx - I Know the Way Big Country - In a Big Country Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day Walter Hawkins - Going Up Yonder Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
  • Listening to David Bowie gives me illusions of glamdeur.
  • I'll second Hypnotized by Fleetwood Mac and add: Breakdown - The Alan Parsons Project Year of the Knife - Tears for Fears Live Forever - Oasis Epic - Faith No More Carry My Picture - Connells Start With Me - Del Amitri Never Say Never - Romeo Void Living In Another World - Talk Talk Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush Queen of Misery - Toy Matinee Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd Hmmm, makes me think this may be the feeling I'm looking for when I play or listen to music...
  • not applicable - convergence (scott walden remix) seems odd in this category, but it works for me, in a relaxing, taoist, "nothing can stop me unless I let it get to me" sort of way. wagner - flight of the valkaries hollenthon - fire upon the blade and various other metal tunes by opeth, anorexia, etc.
  • Music to bring to a gunfight? The Living End - Killing the Right The Offspring - Neocon Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor Or Humanity Refused - Liberation Frequency Electric Six - I Am the Bomb And if you get to take over the world/Empire in slow motion, Doves - Sea Song
  • A gun fight, or the image I quite like is one of being part of a massive marauding gang. 'Loose Fit' by the Happy Mondays does that for me...
  • Not that I've ever been in a massive marauding gang, I'm sorry to say (football matches don't count...)
  • I say this with all sincerity: Invincible - Pat Benatar
  • Side one of Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance," followed by the Black Sabbath suite "E5150" and "Mob Rules." Light the candle, m***erf***er! It wouldn't hurt my corporate badass allure if Saliva's "Click Click Boom" were playing each time I enter a meeting, either.
  • B'Boom/Thrak - King Crimson Midlife Crisis - Faith No More The Baguio Track - Luzon (GU14: Hong Kong) Lazarus Raised - Peter Gabriel 2 Wicky - Hooverphonic among others. I call it "Soundtrack to a Case of Whoopass".
  • "Filipino Box Spring Hog" -- Tom Waits "Boogie Chillen" -- John Lee Hooker "Mannish Boy" -- Muddy Waters
  • I'm also a fan of Soviet propaganda music. There's one particular song called 'On the Road' which is magnificent and incredibly sturring. Also, 'The Vagabond' by Ralph Vaughan Williams that one butt-kicking song from Turandot 'Mary Ellen Carter' and 'The Nancy' by Stan Rogers
  • Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone Mogwai - My Father My King Lightning Bolt - Assassins
  • "Yum yum Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee Tuna I love Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee Tuna Yum yum Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee Tuna Love a sandwich made with Bumble Bee!!!!" -Meskaphales
  • Add'l track: Halcyon+On+On - Orbital That one just makes me feel good about the world. Which is rare.
  • I'll second halcyon & on & on. I'm gonna have to go with "Dead Disco" and "Combat Baby" by Metric, as well.
  • Black Flag - Rise Above Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
  • Jumbo - Underworld Ocean Size - Jane's Addiction Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
  • Revolting Cocks - Attack Ships on Fire Ministry - So What (live 12' version) Cassandra Complex - Prarie Bitch Killing Joke - Kick to Kill Front 242 - too many do it for me(body to body, headhunter, welcome to paradise - yes I like them ... maybe a little too much) Dead Kennedies - all of it ;) fast, angry, angst ridden, lotta bass and drums
  • "Eminence Front" - The Who "Achilles Last Stand" and "The Rover" - Led Zeppelin "Run Like Hell" - Pink Floyd And, of course, the soundtrack to Star Wars.
  • Isaac Hayes' theme for SHAFT
  • well, that would have to be the theme song for "Team America," the chorus of which is... AMERICAAAAAAAAAAA, FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!
  • Last Exit - Pearl Jam!
  • "Hells Bells" - AC/DC the finest in "fuck it, nothin' matters and what if it did" mentality.
  • Oh yeah, and htf do you conquer the world with music from Kate Bush or Bjork? Get the fuck out! I just can't see it. Noooo, wait I can see it. Ewww.
  • Anything with yelling involved. Bjork is right up there, for me. Supergroove, who next to no one here will know because they're a mid-nineties, one-album, kiwi hiphop group.
  • "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock n Roll" - Long John Baldry
  • Here are good ones for you guys. I like to have a solid base of jock jams, with some other general "fuck you" sentiments in slower songs. A slide guitar helps me, and it may help you too... I already kick so much ass that I've worn out most of yours, but the Lightning Bolt was right on, Blaise. Away we go: Sabbath: War Pigs (Fairies Wear Boots is also acceptable, though it can be hard to kick ass while singing about fairies. YMMV.) Jay-Z: 99 Problems Danse Asshole: Fist Fight KMFDM: Brute Public Enemy: Bring the Noise Golden Palominoes: Something Else (Is Working Harder) Animals- Send You Back To Walker The Faces- Poolhall Richard Curtis Mayfield- Pusherman WilliamDe Vaughn- Be Thankful for What You've Got 16 Horsepower- Outlaw Song John Coltrane- Africa That's enough for at least an hour of ass kicking. Lemme know if you need more.
  • What? No Rocky's Theme or Eye of the Tiger? And I 2nd goetter's vote for the theme to Shaft.
  • Some good stuff in js's queue. I'd add Motörhead's We Are The Road Crew.
  • I just listen to my husband telling me how wonderful I am. /he being soooo right, of course.
  • Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine: Fuck me. Where do I begin? The Only Living Boy in New Cross. Bloodsport for All. Do Re Me, So Far So Good. Lean on me, I won't fall over. RSPCE. Alternative Alf Garnett. Glam Rock Cops. Let's Get Tattoos. Senile Delinquent. Technopunk anthems a-go-go. Queen: I Want it All (banned in South African because the kids played it during protests); Hammer to Fall. Iron Maiden: Hmm, decisions, decisions. Run to the Hills. Can I Play with Madness. The Number of the Beast. Hallowed be thy Name. Aces High. Powerslave. 2 Minutes to Midnight. Wasted Years. Stranger in a Strange Land. Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. From Here to Eternity. Wasting Love. Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia. California Uber Alles. Pop Will Eat Itself: Ich Bin Ein Auslander. Shriekback: Nemesis (I *finally* secured an MPEG of the video for this!). Rammstien: OK, I don't understand the lyrics. *It doesn't matter*. *puts on Scorpio Girls, rocks out with tracicle*
  • For revving up my posse: Laibach "Tanz Mit Laibach" Leading my screaming horde towards enemy lines: Death Sentence "Live To Die" Realising we fucked up because the other guys have saber-toothed tigers and we must now fling ourselves off a cliff rather than surrender: ES Posthumous "Nara"
  • (mind you, I would have called Supergroove more of a ska-ish outfit. Madness with a rapper.)
  • I was also thinking funk, rodgerd. Maybe we should go for eclectic?
  • Rogerd- What you want isn't Ich Bin Ein Auslander, but Kick To Kill. It's on the same album. Try it next time you need to kick ass- you'll notice the difference! Similarly, I prefer Hammerheads by Shriekback. Off their best album. But CarterUSM? I had that 1992 album and sold it. That may be something I'm just not Anglophilic enough to enjoy. Goetter: If M
  • man, Laibach is all over the monkey massive today... but for me, the total unstoppableness of hellfish and producer's dj mix 'No Mistakes Allowed (51 Minutes of Fury)' ("you got knock'd da-you got knock'd da-you got knock'd da FUCK OUT MAN!" and somewhere in there an insane, siren-driven 'jack the ripper' remix) or a bit of Austalia's own headkick jungle master Paul Blackout - check out revolution (mp3).
  • More kicking of ass, more more diverse: 1,000 Homo DJs: Supernaut Gil Scot-Heron: Whitey's On The Moon The Clash: White Riot Suicide: Ghost Rider Bruce Springsteen: State Trooper PiL: Rise The Jam: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight Pailhead: I Will Refuse The Who: Won't Get Fooled Again (which I belatedly realized would have been a great themesong for Kerry's campaign) Radio Birdland: Murder City Nights The Avatars: Electric Revival Outkast: Bombs Over Bagdhad Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come Saturday Looks Good To Me: Lift Me Up The Rants: Miracles The Sights: Got What I Want Thee Michelle Gun Elephant: Smokin' Billy Wire: Mr. Suit Ludicris: Roll Out
  • Oh yeah, and Meat Beat Manifesto's: Never Acid Again!
  • Ready to Go : Republica Clubbed to Death : Rob Dougan
  • No armed insurgent is fully equipped without a copy of Let's Get Free by the Dead Prez. Not only do they want to kill the president, revolutionise the education system and smash capitalism, they also eat tofu, consult the I Ching on all matters of importance and want to make love to your mind, baby.
  • Dude, Vamoose, you used your telepathy, didn't you? I was going to toss in "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop" by Dead Prez, but decided my list was too long. Thanks for the assist!