Music?

[cannister]

This is still and likely always will be the musical theme to the story of Gunnerkrigg Court and Gillitie Wood, at least in my mind. Though recent chapters have dropped the nocturnal gothic atmosphere of the first few, the heavy clockwork percussion and accentuation still feels a perfect metaphor for the Court's emotionless power, and the winding, wandering strings of about 4:35 speak of the alien, foreboding mystery of the Forest.

[bykerhill]

A rather obvious theme for Zimmy would be 'I'm Only Happy When It Rains,' by Garbage... the title says it all.

Anthony Carver is a character who seems to loom over everything that happens in this story. He's the one who sets Annie off on her journey for unknown reasons, he lurks offstage doing who knows what, everyone seems to know of him but nobody is quite clear on his game or his motives. We never see him except in flashback or down one end of an etheric connection or on the other end of a satellite or a cryptic phone call. The only time people are definite on what kind of person he is, it's to tell you that when you get to know him he's completely different than he appears. To many readers, he serves as the closest thing Gunnerkrigg Court has to a main villain, yet it's unclear that he is in fact villainous at all. Even Annie I think doesn't know how she feels about him. Love? Hate? For that matter, how does he feel about her?

Sarah McLachlan's 'Building a Mystery' strikes me as a good song for him. I have a feeling Anthony is going to keep sidling around the edge of things, never letting himself be really seen on any level, working with that intent frown on his face, until the story comes to its climax and he jumps down to center stage.

[GK Sierra]

I was watching The Great Gatsby, and some of the OSTs stood out.

Zimmy & Gamma


Paz & Kat

[Corvo]

Jun 13, 2013 1:49:15 GMT bykerhill said:

Sarah McLachlan's 'Building a Mystery' strikes me as a good song for him. I have a feeling Anthony is going to keep sidling around the edge of things, never letting himself be really seen on any level, working with that intent frown on his face, until the story comes to its climax and he jumps down to center stage.

I don't think it fits Tony very well. But then again, I can only imagine (with rare exceptions) instrumental musics for GK soundtrack, haha. I think Derek R. Audette's "Above the Sands of Saqqara" suits our analitical mysterious obsessive genius quite well.

[Señor Goose]

Savior, by Rise Against.

Not because of the lyrics or anything, but because that was what I was listening to when I started to read the comic.

[TBeholder]

Ysengrin - Ovvertvre

[Corvo]

Jun 15, 2013 8:24:03 GMT TBeholder said:

Ysengrin - Ovvertvre

Makes me think of the ravine and the Annan Waters.

[znntqkumxh]

So here's one about spiders! So totally Gunnerkrigg Court! Slight sixties weirdness, so... beware of that. :V

[TBeholder]

Jan 6, 2011 5:09:44 GMT Mezzaphor said:

In light of the revelation about Annie's true nature, it seems that every song that ever mentioned fire is now relevant.

Aye. Therefore, needs more precision. E.g. for Fire Spike... KMFDM - Ultra.

[GK Sierra]

This is Tom's soundtrack as he crafts his wicked plots to keep us guessing.

[gradiant]

Jun 15, 2013 7:08:17 GMT Señor Goose said:

Savior, by Rise Against.

Not because of the lyrics or anything, but because that was what I was listening to when I started to read the comic.

For me it was this.

[Señor Goose]

Who the hell made that video? Why would they set a German song over Soviet illustrations?

[Deleted]

The German word »Aufmarsch« is difficult to translate, but it always carries a militaristic connotation. It can refer to the tactical deployment or gathering of troops, a parade of troops, or an extremist manifestation. The full title of the video reads »The Clandestine Aufmarsch«, incidentally also the name of my current symphonic metal project executed entirely in GarageBand.

Edit: The video opens with »Throughout the world goes a whisper... Worker, can't you hear it?« in nasal and monotonous German. I'd wager that it's musty Communist propaganda from the Golden Twenties. Or possibly a Laibach song.

[gradiant]

The song's from the late 1930s, and is essentially musty Communist propaganda.

I also listened to this.



I think I have weird taste in music.

[legion]

Aug 12, 2013 18:01:04 GMT Señor Goose said:

Who the hell made that video? Why would they set a German song over Soviet illustrations?

Because Marx and Engels were German and most of the early communist activity was in Germany? Or maybe because half of Germany was a communist country for nearly half a century? Or maybe because that song is about communism? I don't know, pick one.

[GK Sierra]

Aug 13, 2013 10:44:08 GMT legion said:

Aug 12, 2013 18:01:04 GMT Señor Goose said:

Who the hell made that video? Why would they set a German song over Soviet illustrations?

Because Marx and Engels were German and most of the early communist activity was in Germany? Or maybe because half of Germany was a communist country for nearly half a century? Or maybe because that song is about communism? I don't know, pick one.

I was pretty floored when I found out that Marx had been a correspondent for the New York Tribune and even wrote on the War Between the States from a dialectical materialist perspective.

To hear some people talk you'd think he was manufactured in hell and appeared at Lenin's right side the day he was born.

[TBeholder]

Gasp! You mean, Marx and Engels weren't Mongolo-Chinese devils promoting the Eastern Collectivism as a replacement of the Asian Solar Myth?
Ahem. From what is visible of traces from something dragging its monstrous tail over the purity of the language text in the right top corner of that video, that one was from 5-th anniversary of 1917. Other pictures are obviously of more recent origin. As in "it was a big collage even before it was remixed into teleyoutubbies-friendly format".

[Señor Goose]

Aug 13, 2013 10:44:08 GMT legion said:

Aug 12, 2013 18:01:04 GMT Señor Goose said:

Who the hell made that video? Why would they set a German song over Soviet illustrations?

Because Marx and Engels were German and most of the early communist activity was in Germany? Or maybe because half of Germany was a communist country for nearly half a century? Or maybe because that song is about communism? I don't know, pick one.

It doesn't even make any sense. It's a German song about invading the Soviet Union, but it's put over Soviet posters and propaganda. Kind of like taking a song about invading Iraq (about sixty million of them were released in 2002) and setting it to Iraqi artwork and illustrations.

[GK Sierra]

Aug 13, 2013 21:32:39 GMT Señor Goose said:

Aug 13, 2013 10:44:08 GMT legion said:

Because Marx and Engels were German and most of the early communist activity was in Germany? Or maybe because half of Germany was a communist country for nearly half a century? Or maybe because that song is about communism? I don't know, pick one.

It doesn't even make any sense. It's a German song about invading the Soviet Union, but it's put over Soviet posters and propaganda. Kind of like taking a song about invading Iraq (about sixty million of them were released in 2002) and setting it to Iraqi artwork and illustrations.

It's not about invading the Soviet Union, though. Back before the Nazi's emerged and World War Deuce kicked off, Germany had dozens of political parties. Fascist and socialists were fighting for control, and the fascists won out in the end, Nuremberg Fire and Hitler and all that.

The rallying cry of international communism was "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your chains!". They are marching against the bourgeois and the rich capitalists, not the Soviet Union.

[gradiant]

Aug 13, 2013 21:32:39 GMT Señor Goose said:

It's a German song about invading the Soviet Union,

No it isn't. From the translated lyrics on Wikipedia

This is a war of World leaders

Against the working class.

Because the assault against the Soviet Union

Is a strike in the heart of the Revolution.

And the War, which sweeps through countries now,

Is a war against you Proletarian-!

If anything, it's telling workers to not stand for the perceived attack on the SU by western nations.

[Señor Goose]

So maybe it was written by a Communist Faction in Germany during the second World War?

I'll ask my history nerd friend about it.

[Señor Goose]

Aug 14, 2013 1:28:31 GMT gradiant said:

This is a war of World leaders

Against the working class.

Because the assault against the Soviet Union

Is a strike in the heart of the Revolution.

And the War, which sweeps through countries now,

Is a war against you Proletarian-!

Well no, so it still is technically about invading the Soviet Union.

[legion]

You're being dense.

[sidhekin]

Technically, he is.

[Deleted]

The lyrics were written by a Communist fourth-rate poet named Erich Weinert, whom you should picture as Brecht without the dry humour, introspection or flat-out anything interesting to say beyond »fight tha power«. He fled to the United States of Soviet Russia when the Nazis seized power. His poems were loaded on Tupolevs and distributed par avion on the German front lines, to demoralize the soldiers. After the war, he returned to East Germany and advocated for Socialist democracy, but unfortunately with limited impact.

[GK Sierra]

Aug 14, 2013 7:18:43 GMT Señor Goose said:

So maybe it was written by a Communist Faction in Germany during the second World War?

I'll ask my history nerd friend about it.

Before. Before the second world war. And you're talking to a history nerd who nerd-ed so hard he actually got a degree in that utterly jobless field of study, but I guess it never hurts to consult another one. Just bring snacks. They get grumpy sometimes, memorizing all those dates.

[zombie]

I don't know why, but Neil Young's music reminds me of Gunnerkrigg Court sometimes. maybe its the sheer breadth of his work. From the Electronica of Trans through Hard Rock and proto-Grunge to Folk-Rock and Folk (with diversions into Rockabilly with Everybodies Rockin'), ending up in the unrepentant Country and Western of albums like Old Ways

[Daedalus]

For some reason, 'Ordinary World' by Duran Duran makes me think of Gunnerkrigg once the lyrics have begun. As I haven't figured how to imbed a hyperlink, here's the youtube address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s

[Per]

"Better" by Cat and The Menagerie could work as a theme song for Kat and/or Paz right now.

[GK Sierra]

Kat/Paz


The overarching plot