It used to be a given that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon followed along perfectly with the movie The Wizard of Oz. If you started the album after a specific MGM lion roar, you could play the album on repeat and it would fit eerily close to certain scenes.
For me, this question comes up because I was playing Spider-Man 2 for PS5 and had Unicorn by GUNSHIP playing. I may have had it on shuffle but the number of times things lined up was crazy good. “Tastes Like Venom” as Peter gets the black suit for the first time, “Monster In Paradise” as he beats the snot out of the Hunters, and “Darkness for Dreams” as Miles and Martin Li enter Peter’s consciousness are literal perfection. The only outliers are the parts of the game, like Howard’s mission, where the song is meant to accompany that section of gameplay. Otherwise, I could play it on repeat and feel some kind of weird connection between the two separate but awesome pieces of art.
Lemmy, what’s your video gaming equivalent? I don’t just mean albums that are cool combined with a game. I mean a combo that gels in the same way as DSotM and Wizard of Oz.
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I used to love jamming to Stabbing Westward when I played Quake. You could even play a cd in the game through the console menu. Man I feel old. That is was in 1998!!
I used to play Quake with all kinds of CDs. Offspring - Smash was a personal favorite.
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You could even play a cd in the game through the console menu.
25 years later and that still sounds really cool!
I remember a friend playing final fantasy 7 and Summertime in the Void came on right as a battle started. The battle entry animations have the screen crack like glass, exposing the battle arena. It worked really well for where he was. In a forest I think.
Bit of a weird one, but I was listening to Pick Up the Phone (by Dragonette) when I played Saya No Uta, and it oddly went really well together imo.
Fair warning: Saya No Uta is one of those “messed up” visual novels. It’s very good imo, but not really something I’d feel comfortable recommending to anyone.
Tame Impala’s Current album plays pretty well along with Wizzard of Oz too, it’s so good it makes me wonder if Kevin lined up Current to Dark Side of the Moon
Oooh. I’ll have to try that out. We love Tame Impala over here.
We are gonna do this next weekend. Is there a specific time to start the album in relation to the movie or no?
I don’t listen to a lot of music, but I have found that there’s a decent overlap between what works as an epic boss track in an RPG, and what works as a “Pursuit” theme in an Ace Attorney game (when you really start unraveling the witness’s lies)
Level four of Strider (arcade) syncs perfectly with Inspection: Check One by Leftfield. I played this combo many times on MAME back in the day.