City Bulding Music.

[Schutze 0]

 Well, I've been tired of listening to SimCity's music since well...foreve (yup...even way back in the SC3K days).

I'm asking here, what kind of music out there would be good to build cities with? Or so to speak, what music from outside SC would work with the game?

Here are some examples of what I'm trying to get at here:

Now, a good example would be Coldplay's "Clocks"...it captures the emotion of surreality and eccentricity.

Mainly, it immediately reminds me of the SC3K menu screen.

Another somewhat 'surreal' track would include U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmGGlznSz8

SC3K at least, is quite known for its cuts of Jazz ("Central Park Sunday", anyone?). "Highway Blues",the ubiquitous sampling of Marc Seale in Windows' OS systems captures the sort of Jazz from SC3K.

Hope y'all can get what I'm trying to get at here.

Now, of course more genres than songs like these would be real nice...can someone give me a idea for 'suitable' metal in SC4? Hehe.

Thanks  

[Nuck97 0]

I started trying something I picked up while watching one of Haljackey's youtube videos. I started listening to the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack while I'm playing SC4. The composer for that show, Bear McReary is an absolute genius with music and there's quite a few memorable tunes to be heard. The music is mostly instrumental.

[MattShizzle 11]

The original SimCity didn't have music (at least in the Commodore 64 version.)

[astronelson 339]

I'd like to suggest George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

[bigthing 35]

Go for something easy listening, preferably something you can sing along with. The Cities just fly by!

[MandelSoft 2,769]

I just listen to a mix of the game soundtracks of SimCity 3000, SimCity 4, CitiesXL (only a part of it), Transport Tycoon Deluxe (a game from 1994) and Chris Sawyer's Locomotion (TTD's successor, 10 years later).

Beside that, I listen to my own composed music too, when playing one of the above games. The music genre of the music I created is mostly trance.

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

i just put itunes on shuffle and listen

[+Guest bastardsunjt]

i downloaded random latin jazz or jazz fusion. works great

[Retep Molinari 68]

Jazz is great, or make a JJ Cale station on Pandora. Chill stuff. Good to focus on your work.

[Dodger_1590 0]

I personally like Hybrid Sound systems album Morning Sci-Fi while playing. some lyrics but all in all nice ambiant and entrancing music i find personally

[smileymk 4]

I have 3 suggestions: 1. Song 2 by Blur. Nothing like planning out residential zones and then hearing the immortal 'WOO-HOO!' coming out of the stereo (at full blast!)! Oh yeah! 2. Knights of Cydonia by Muse. Great gaming music, and gets you right in the mood. In particular listen to the end. 3. Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy. The only one that comes anywhere close to game-related and it's on GTA. A good listen and not too loud or aggressive.