This is a support page for Ribbon Drive’s musical front.
As you may know, the first two songs of a mix have a huge impact on gameplay. If chosen as the title mix, your first song will determine the nature of the road trip and the second will influence the shape that characters take.
The example text in the book uses a mix CD called “Sucking Marrow.” The first song is Spitting Venom, by Modest Mouse. The second song is Step Off The Map & Float, by Library Voices.
The mix included with the game is called “The Decimation of Small Things”. The first song is Toward Oblivion, by XOX. The second song is The Devil & My Family, by Ghost Mice.
Additional mixes can be added as comments to this page. Please! Add your own themed mixes (40-80 minute run time, with a title). I’ll update this list with my own mixes and the mixes of those I play with.
The Skinny on
The Decimation of Small Things
Toward Oblivion is a song by xox, the umbrella under which Jackson Tegu performs. You might have noticed Jackson’s name all over Ribbon Drive – he pwns the dedication, he’s thanked in the credits, and he’s on the mix CD under two different project names. That’s because he’s both prolific and beautiful. Based out of Olympia, he’s working on a million musical projects right now, but I don’t think you can pay him money for any of them yet.
The devil & my family is a song by Gainsville, FL based Ghost Mice, who are possibly the coolest folk-punk band in the world (placing them high in the running for coolest band in the world). You can check them out at www.myspace.com/ghostmice, and they have songs available on iTunes. Aside from the devil & my family, my favourite song of theirs is Witches and Warlocks. Ghost Mice makes me want to play in a folk-punk band.
The Innsmouth Look is a song by Vancouver’s beloved H.P. Lovecraft tribute band, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. These guys put on really cool shows. Their singer, Toren Atkinson, is a member of the Vancouver Gaming Guild (www.vancouvergamingguild.com), which connects local gamers and hosts neat conventions. Their website is www.thickets.net and you can buy their music and merch from there. The Math Song is one of my favourite songs.
Poison is by You Say Party! We Say Die!, another Vancouver-based band. Downtown Mayors Goodnight and Monster are both amazing songs that you should listen to. Their myspace is www.myspace/com/yousaypartywesaydie, and there are links there to all of their albums.
Paper Crown is a song by Minneapolis-based The Butcher’s Bag (www.myspace.com/butchersbagmusic). They gave themselves an awesome review, saying “The end result could be described as a horrific circus of beautiful nightmares.” Yes, and that’s largely due to the vocals of Charlie Glib, a member of the story games community (rawk!). They don’t appear to have an album out yet, but you should road trip to Minneapolis and see them play.
Falling Out Of Windows is a song by Vancouver-based Tuck. They’ve recently put out a really amazing CD titled “Lullabies and Other Lies”, which is linked from their myspace (www.myspace.com/tuckvancouver). They really fill a stage and a room, and are definitely worth seeing live.
The Rifle is the second-most-gorgeous song by Olympia-based June Madrona. The first-most-gorgeous is Santa Fe, which destroys me and captures immediately the tone of my favourite Ribbon Drive moments. Their work can be heard at www.myspace.com/junemadrona. If you are destroyed by June Madrona, you will also be destroyed by the song Hunting Ghosts by Library Voices (www.myspace.com/libraryvoices), which I had really wanted to include on this CD.
Consequence is a song by Vancouver-based Maria in the Shower (www.myspace.com/mariaintheshower), who describe themselves as Voodoo Gyspieland Cabaret. These guys play a phenomenal amount of shows locally, often with another cool band called Blackberry Wood. Come to Vancouver, stay at my house, see those two bands.
20 Minutes of Oxygen is a second song by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. This is from the album Spaceship Zero, the soundtrack to that (non-existent) excellent, cult-classic movie. There’s also a Spaceship Zero roleplaying game written by members of the band (Warren Banks and Toren Atkinson), which is published through Green Ronin. It’s really cool, and if you lack retrofuture space action in your life, you should pick it up.
Life Comes At You Fast is by Seattle-based Van Gogh’s Severed Ear. Van Gogh’s Severed Ear is Brandon Hopper, and his myspace is www.myspace.com/vangogh39sseveredear.
Portland is by Chris Clavin, who’s also in Ghost Mice. In additional to his solo project, his bands and constantly touring, he runs Plan-It-X Records. He is likely made out of pure energy. Myspace: www.myspace.com/therealchrisclavin.
Windows Down is by Linear Markets. That’s kind of an inside joke, born out of a game of Bleeding Omaha (my emo songwriting game; our fictional band was named Linear Markets). Linear Markets is xox. Hey, this is a cool idea: listen to the ending of Windows Down really closely.
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Hi,
I’d heard about the game for about a year before I finally tracked down a copy and I’ve hosted it at a couple of UK cons now with some decent results.
So far I’ve had to stick with the CD from the game plus five or six that I have put together myself. I’ve announced the game in advance along with what’s needed if people want to bring their own CD, but am yet to have a player turn up with one!
This is the playlist that was chosen for the first game I hosted.
The theme was called ‘Sweet Revenge’
Sweet Revenge
Revenge- Mindless Self Indulgence
That’s How Murders Happen – Singing Loins
Man That You Fear – Marilyn Manson
Vengence Is Mine – Alice Cooper
Freddy Kreuger – Reuben
Dig (Your Own Grave) – This Is Menace
The Perfect Enemy – Dry Kill Logic
The Unrepentant – Steve Earle
Burning Down The House – Talking Heads
Don’t Get Mad, Get Even – Aerosmith
Vigilante Man – Nazereth
Boadicea – Enya
Silent Anger – Brian Tyler
Jihad – Sisterhood
You Oughta Know – Alanis Morrisette
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle – Nirvana
Platypus (I Hate You) – Green Day
Feeling This – Blink 182
Calm Before The Storm – Fall Out Boy
The lyrics to Mindless Self Indulgence – Revenge can be found here – http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Revenge-lyrics-Mindless-Self-Indulgence/6E3E16BC32BC92BA48256CB6001150F6
But the Singing Loins are a local punk/folk band in Kent in the UK. They are worth listening to, I’d buy their back catalogue CD as a first hit – http://damagedgoods.greedbag.com/buy/the-complete-and-utter/
The lyrics for That’s How Murders Happen aren’t available on the web so I had to type them out -
That’s How Murders Happen
Singing Loins (copyright Chris Broderick)
She told me I couldn’t smoke
I was not even gonna to smoke
people there were eating
and I’m no unfeeling animal
I have a touch of common sense some times
I moved in to the garden and there I rolled a cigarette
ordered tea and scones for two,
four quid.
She wagged her stupid finger at me
smirking all the while
said ‘you may not even smoke out here please sir’
(chorus)
Don’t she know that’s how,
that’s how murders happen
Don’t she know that’s how,
that’s how murders happen
all these rules and regulation from the petty bourgeoisie
when a man has had it up to here still pushing down on me.
Well don’t she know that’s how,
that’s how murders happen
Don’t she know that’s how,
that’s how murders happen
yes they do.
Please let me reiterate
in case you think I’m full of hate
I had no master plan to blow
my filthy smoke on anyone
I have some sensitivity sometimes
I was in the bloody garden
for Christ and pity’s sake
in a jumped up cafe in Biddenden in Kent
cycling with me girlfriend and thought a cup of tea
would go down pretty well
not World War 3
(chorus)
she told me I couldn’t smoke
silly cow
silly cow
I was not even gonna smoke
silly cow
silly cow
She wagged her stupid finger at me
smirking all the while
said ‘you may not even smoke out here please sir’
Don’t she know that’s how, that’s how murders happen
Well don’t she know that’s how, that’s how murders happen
all these rules and regulation from the petty bourgeoisie
when a man has had it up to here still pushing down on me.
Well don’t she know that’s how, that’s how murders happen
Don’t she know that’s how, that’s how murders happen
yes they do, yes they do, yes they do
murders happen
yes they do, yes they do, yes they do
murders happen
yes they do (x 14)
I mentioned this elsewhere, this is the playlist chosen for the second game I hosted. Having typed it out here I hadn’t realised how heavy it got in the middle, I wonder if that helped the game become more manic. We didn’t reach the end of this CD, which is probably a bonus as it’s one of my play lists that has a ‘we’ve definitely reached the end’ track to finish it off!
The theme was called ‘A World Insane’
Shes’ Lost Control – Joy Division
All Messed Up – Sum 41
She’s Got Issues – The Offspring
Brain Stew – Green Day
Psycho Candy – Jesus & Mary Chain
Mad Man Blues – Dr Feelgood
Start Screaming – The Singing Loins
Psychosocial – Slipknot
The Frayed Ends of Sanity -
Aqua Dementia – Mastadon
The Patient Mental – Mudvayne
Group Therapy – OPM
Frontier Psychiatrist – Avalanches
Hysteria – Def Leopard
Crazy Mary Goes Round – Dokken
Mad Not Mad – Madness
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? – REM
Crazy – Barenaked Ladies
U Krazy Katz – PJ & Duncan
Lyrics for Joy Division’s ‘She’s lost control’ can be found here -
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/She%27s-Lost-Control-lyrics-Joy-Division/CF18B91DFAB7D86F4825695B00005D45
Lyrics for Sum 41′s ‘All messed up’ can be found here -
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/All-Messed-Up-lyrics-Sum-41/80CF23ED50BDD2A348256C6E00082512