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Deathbane

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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #45 on: August 20, 2008, 03:59:17 pm »

I second anything by Ensiferum/Moonsorrow or other bands of the Viking/folk metal genre mainly because the sound which fits so well,  i just imagine dwarves as mini vikings most of the time :P#

Also, the song by summoning called Khazad Dum is an obvious one for me when i listen to it while my dwarves dig deeper. Perphaps too deep.

From ashes and fire be broken
A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless shall again be king

The world is grey, the mountains old
The forge's fire is ashen and cold
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls
The darkness dwells in Druin's halls

The shadow lies upon his tomb
But still the sunken stars appeal
In the dark and windless Mirrormere
There lies his crown in water deep

'Til Druin wakes again from sleep
A deadly sword, a healing hand
A trumpet - voice, a burning hand
A lord of Wisdom...

Fire and shadow - both defied
In Khazad-Dum his wisdom died
In joy thou hast lived

If thou hearest the cryof the Gull on the shore
Thy soul shall then rest in the forest no more...
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #46 on: August 20, 2008, 04:01:06 pm »

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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #47 on: August 20, 2008, 05:19:07 pm »

The Benny Hill theme song.
"Yakity sax" is it's name. Aw man, I just saw my hunters chasing a groundhog around and thought of that music.

Had my Clerk running all over the map trying to lose a gobbo ambush and it had the same effect. :)
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #48 on: August 20, 2008, 06:03:37 pm »

Tom Waits did a cover of the Dwarves song from SN and the 7 dwarves. Its much more appropriate in tone for DF than the original.
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #49 on: August 20, 2008, 08:37:17 pm »

For me, it's "Echoplex" by Nine Inch Nails:

nice and high and far apart
just like they said
i built this place with broken parts
just like they said
you chip away the old version of you
you'd be surprised at what you can do
i'm safe in here
irrelevant
just like they said

my voice just echoes off these walls

you feel me breathe
i am watching you
i see it all
the many ways you can't get to me
i see it all
i see the hell you put yourself through
oh the things i could do (if i wanted to)

my voice just echoes off these walls
i don't need anything at all
my voice just echoes off these walls

and i just slowly fade away

you will never ever get to me in here
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #50 on: August 20, 2008, 09:08:04 pm »

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by the Beatles.
"The Wall" by Pink Floyd. (Hey! Snatcher! Leave them kids alone!)
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #51 on: August 21, 2008, 12:13:21 am »

Dead Again, by Possible Oscar

Rocket launcher, rail gun, BFG Nine Thousand One,
Never saw it coming and I never had a chance.
Bad enough being dead, Sub Zero pulled off my head,
Master Chief is doing his victory dance.

Lost Asia in Risk, Diablo burnt me to a crisp,
Even though I had the Godly Plate of the Whale.
Two pair, eights and kings, Sauron got the One Ring,
Getting dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

Harry Potter came up short dueling with Voldemort,
Elspeth Holliday met the Blair Witch.
Spider-Man showed such aplomb till he met that pumpkin bomb,
Mr. Incredible didn't throw the switch.

Cliff racers, cave bats, stupid frickin' giant rats,
Deadly pirahna poodles, or soldier ants,
You were eaten by a grue, Hah! The wumpus got you,
Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo teabagged in Halo 2

Dead again,
Splattered all over a rendered killing floor,
Dead again,
Let me respawn and I'll be back for more,
Dead again,
Let me get to the checkpoint, then you can do your worst,
Dead again,
Then I'll reload but this time I'll shoot first.

My marble plummets from a height, should have rolled it to the right,
Jumped through lots of traffic but then fell off a log.
Russian cubes from the sky, and I let 'em stack too high,
Punched right off the screen by a humanoid frog.

T-rex got me, now I'm toast, chased down by a blinking ghost,
Landed on some spikes and dropped every last ring.
Bitten by a fanged slug, Jafar zapped my flying rug,
Trampled in a bog by a Barbarian King.

Mechanized war bots, Mudokan slingshots,
Centipede dropping a flea on my head.
Couldn't fly as Alfred Chicken, Duke Nukem kept on kickin',
Fought Guy of Gisborne with only some bread.

Skeletons hit me twice, dragon breath cased me in ice,
Couldn't line up all the jewels three in a row,
Shot up by Miami cops, beaten with karate chops,
Kept on missing platform hops, and the timer never stops.

Dead again,
How come these worlds have so many bottomless pits?
Dead again,
And everyone that I meet wants me blown to bits.
Dead again,
Reincarnation one byte at a time,
Dead again,
It's so embarassing to be killed by green slime.

Real life goes on until you're
Dead, or so I'm told,
Injury, catastrophe, or
Simply growing old
Fantasy's supposed to be where
You can find your dreams,
But all I find is game designers
Hooked on players' screams.

Smothered by a boa constrictor, drawn and quartered by a lich or
Eaten by a cat while dodging Beethoven's Fifth.
My flying ostrich drowned, monkeys thowing barrels down,
Torn apart by creatures out of legend and myth.

Zombies got a hold of Jill, nurses up in Silent Hill,
All those German snipers on the beach at Omaha.
Swallowed by the sand worms, infected by some nasty germs,
Didn't slap the leather when I heard him say, "DRAW!"

Running from Koala Kong, made a turn that's really wrong,
Sephiroth's supernova fried us where we stood.
Broiled in a lava flow, squashed by Super Mario,
Didn't make my saving throw again,st lawful good.

Thirty zillion space machines blowning up in cut scenes,
I actually found a way to die in Myst.
Ninja swords decapitate, plasma guns obliterate,
Pocket nukes annihilate, reboot, transubstantiate.

Dead again,
Inching ahead until once more I choke,
Dead again,
The funeral bills would leave my whole state broke,
Dead again,
Something is trying to chew off both my legs,
Dead again,
Who in the hell dreams up these easter eggs?

Dead again,
All of the guys at work think I'm a freak,
Dead again,
They watch golf and NASCAR every week,
Dead again,
They'll never understand what I call fun,
Dead again,
'Cause any of my lives is cooler than their one.
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #52 on: August 21, 2008, 07:00:11 am »

I like watching my legendary everything hammerdorf running through an entire Gobbo seige while listening to 'Cant touch this' by MC Hammer
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #53 on: August 21, 2008, 06:06:40 pm »

An elete bowgoblin, the leader of a civ, once got into my fort, through my army of champs without a sweat, and was slaughtering my, massed drafted, work dwarves.

That automatically reminded me of the "Im an asshole" song.

*TWANG!* "'cause im an ashole, im an asshole..." *TWANG!* *dwarf scream*
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #54 on: August 21, 2008, 08:03:44 pm »

Rainbow in the Dark- Dio
Deadly Sinners- 3 Inches of Blood
....I can't think of any more; my mind is blank right now.
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #55 on: August 22, 2008, 03:54:37 pm »

Gold Gold GOLD GOLD! (150 Dwarfs drinking and singing)  ::)
Gold Gold GOLD GOLD Diamonds!
Gold Gold GOLD GOLD!
GOLD Gold GOLD GOLD! Hicups! GOLD GOLD!!!!
Gold Gold GOLD GOLD!
GOLD Gold GOLD GOLD!
Gold Gold GOLD GOLD! Hicups! GOLD GOLD!!!
GOLD Gold Gold Gold!
Noble asking for Adamantium item NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

What will we do with the adamantium demand? (Song what will we do to the drunken sailor=noble)
Smash the noble
Kill the noble
Sling him from our mountainhome
Hang him high and dry
Burry him deep in the mountain
Learn him lava walk
Trow him in a put and hear him screaming,
Feed him to the dogs, the lions, give him to the snakes for hugging.
Trow him in the pond with carps.
Feed him to our dragonpet.
Let him wrestle with the Trols.
That is what we do to who ask for adamantium.
So that's why we only sing over,
Gold GOLD GOLD Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold GOLD GOLD. Hickups!!!!!!!

 
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #56 on: August 22, 2008, 06:21:49 pm »

Nice, but I would have found something like this even funnier! :P

What shall we do with the annoying noble?
What shall we do with the annoying noble?
What shall we do with the annoying noble?
What shall we do with the annoying no-ble?
EARLY IN THE FOR-TRESS!
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #57 on: August 23, 2008, 10:14:02 am »

Let's see   ::)

EARLY IN THE FOR-TRESS!
When there is no need for NOBLES!
Let him kiss the lovely carps early in the fortress.
HE HO

EARLY IN THE FOR-TRESS!
What shall we do with a demanding noble?
What shall we do with a demanding noble?
What shall we do with a demanding noble?
Who want's an adamantium item?

Chorus:
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
EARLY IN THE FORTRESS!

Put him in the pits 'til he's sober
Put him in the pits 'til he's sober
Put him in the pits 'til he's sober
Early in the fortress!

Chorus:
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
Early in the fortress!

Put him at the pumps and let him fill his death trap.
Put him at the pumps and let him fill his death trap.
Put him at the pumps and let him fill his death trap.
Early in the fortress!

Chorus:
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
Way-hay, down we dig
Early in the fortress!

Shave his beard with a rusty razor
Shave his beard with a rusty razor
Shave his beard with a rusty razor
Early in the fortress!

Chorus:.....repeat

Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts some flippers
Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts some flippers
Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts some flippers
Early in the fortress!

Chorus:........repeat

Put 'im in bed with the a GOBLINS daughter
Put 'im in bed with the a GOBLINS daughter
Put 'im in bed with the a GOBLINS daughter
Early in the fortress.

Chorus:.............repeat

Alternate Version:

What'll we do with a drunken noble,
What'll we do with a drunken noble,
What'll we do with a drunken noble, Who ask for an adamantium item?
Earl-aye in the Fortress?

Alternate Chorus:

Way hay and down we dig
Traps o' diff'rent sizes will smash the goblins
Way hay and down we dig
Earl-aye in the fortress

Alternate verses
(repeat 3 times):

Sling him in the prison pit's till he's sober
Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er.
Pull the handle and wet him all over (4/7?)
Take 'im and shake 'im, try an' wake 'im.
Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.
Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.
Give 'im a dose of salt and water.
Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.
Shave his beard with a rusty razor.
Send him down the pit's till he's forgotten
Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under
Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.
Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts flippers.
Put him in the guard room till he's sober.
Put him in bed with the captain's daughter (captain's daughter is a reference to a whip).
Take the Baby and call it Bo'sun.
Turn him over and drive him windward.
Put him in the scuffs until the horse bites on him.
Heave him by the leg and with a rung console him.
That's what we'll do with the drunken noble.
Who ask for an adamantium item.  ::) 
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #58 on: August 25, 2008, 12:32:32 pm »

"Come Sweet Death" from End of Evangelion

It all comes... tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...
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Re: Songs that sum up dwarf fortress for you
« Reply #59 on: August 25, 2008, 02:35:05 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc

Dennis Leary - I'm An Asshole

Can you blame me? I AM working on a drawbridge launcher to fire goblins into a magma pit.
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