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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: PeteMurray on February 08, 2007, 06:17:07 PM
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http://www.el-bakkar.com/music.html
Six free albums of authentic* music of the Middle East! Got chaos in Cairo? Murder in Marrakesh? Bollocks in Basra? Get some music to accompany your games!
I don't know how you guys come down on music while gaming. I'm for it, if it's not incredibly loud and sets the feel of the game.
*Not guaranteed to be authentic.
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Excellent saucy pictures to accompany them, too.
First rate job, Field Agent Murray. Take the rest of the day off.
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Excellent saucy pictures to accompany them, too.
I enjoyed them solely for their cultural insight into the 1950s and as demonstration of the themes that Said illustrates in "Orientalism."
First rate job, Field Agent Murray. Take the rest of the day off.
Thank you, sah!
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I'm going to steal the bloody lot for my latest mad scheme: THE LAST STAND OF THE ELKE in which some angry Yemeni tribesmen decide to take on the might of the Kaiser in a bullet-hurling contest during the Great War. Not quite as mad as it sounds, I am basing it very loosely on historical events.
This will be perfect background music for this caper.
I already have plenty of the Kaiser's boys ready, and as we speak I am taking a short break from assembling and painting their Maxim gun. This will be a nasty shock to the Yemeni player, who thinks he has a feeble, weakened foe to deal with.
The Yemenis themselves will be played by Darkest Africa Baluchis (yep, I'm finally getting around to painting them), who are currently all visiting a vocal coach to perfect their Yemeni accents.
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I particularly like "Al-Beeba" from the "Music of the African Arab" album.
That one's going on the iPod. A great party tune to get granny dancing at Christmas.
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I particularly like "Al-Beeba" from the "Music of the African Arab" album.
yep, its a great one. Thanks, Pete!
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I'm going to steal the bloody lot for my latest mad scheme: THE LAST STAND OF THE ELKE .
:lol: Elke! :lol:
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"DIE FETTE ELKE!" :lol:
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Sorry, have I inadvertently said something humourous?
The Elke will be a German commerce raider. I wanted a German girl's name beginning with "E" as she is based on the Emden (and all the ships in my fictional Great War must have girls' names. I don't know why, it's just traditional).
I picked Elke as it is a nice name, and it reminds me of German actress Elke Sommer, who once showed off her shapely buttocks in the British comedy film "Carry on Behind." I saw this at a young age, and it left quite an impression on my young, tender mind.
In case Lead Adventurers are unfamiliar with the lady:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/77523558_feffc569f3_o.jpg)
I'm glad I have made you laugh, but must admit I have no idea how I did it. :)
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For gods sake, the divine Sommer is certainly one of the BEST namesakes a ship could have... :love:
My reference was to a spoofy Rock song by the FunPunk band "Die Ärzte" about an... ah.. slightly overweight, overzealous female fan.
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There is a song of the german band "Die Ärzte", "Die Fette Elke" (the fat Elke) :) Apart from that Elke is a funny name (to me) i never couldnt take it seriously :mrgreen:
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It has a certain Elk-like quality to it, doesn´t it?
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So is it not a common name in Germany, then?
It sounds very pretty to my British ears. Ell-kuh. Ell-kuh. Lovely.
Do you think many Germans find it ludicrous?
Hmmm. I fear I have hijacked Pete's topic. Didn't mean to. I have something of a reputation for doing this on TMP, but I think this is the first time it has happened here. Apologies. Back to those crazy musical Arabs...
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Does Spike Jones and his City Slickers count? Who could forget such classics as Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel or I Dream Of Brownie in the Light Blue Jeans!
Just taken delivery of a 20 CD box set of The Shadow radio plays, wonderful stuff.
Pat
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So is it not a common name in Germany, then?
It sounds very pretty to my British ears. Ell-kuh. Ell-kuh. Lovely.
Do you think many Germans find it ludicrous?
Not really uncommon, but a bit rare nowadays, since it is considered a bit dated. Not that the modern Kevin/Jaqueline/whatshis/hernames are any better. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, it was very popular - not in the least because of Ms. Sommer.
I have to say, though, that it would be unusual in a pre-1940s context, especially during the Imperial era. Now they had REALLY old-fashioned names.
Really. I´d really love a ship that´s named after the lovely Ms. Sommer. And this I say while being fully aware that she´s old enought to be my mother... erm... you know what I mean. Those 1960s movie ladies really had it going on.
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I can live with it being anachronistic, I like the name too much to change it.
My fictional "German Central Africa" also has room for Beyoncé, Warrior Queen of the Ngoni in it, so we don't need to get too fussy about this kind of thing.
Also the Royal Australian Navy ships that bring about the demise of SMS Elke are HMAS Kylie and HMAS Dannii* both of which I think are seriously out of their time.
*Named for a pair of Antipodean singer/actress sisters who you may or may not be familiar with.
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Elke Sommer in her knickers toting a 'Bleispritze'? This is going to be a night of uneasy dreams... :D
Incidentally, Plynkes, you DO realise that your phonetic rendering of Ms. Sommer's christian name, to a german reader, implies her being of a somewhat bovine disposition? Fie, for shame! :lol:
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Really? I must phone her immediately to apologise.
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Ohmygod, Elke Sommer, Beyonce, Kylie AND Danni rolled into ONE scenario! Ooo-er, Missus! :love: :love: :love: :love:
*joyful shudders running down my spine*
We´ve all got serious issues, folks. Seriously.
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You must be reading my mind, somehow, Pete...
Just the other day I contemplated going to the nearest library to borrow some middle-eastern folk- and belly-dance music to use as background music for my upcoming Egypt-pulp-games....
Now... 'make...zombie...pirate...rules...for...Under...the...Black...Flag...' :lol:
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*Named for a pair of Antipodean singer/actress sisters who you may or may not be familiar with.
Well in this globalized world, I think you'll have a hard time to actually find people without having heard of any pop star....
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"DIE FETTE ELKE!" :lol:
In DK we have another girl's name that is hard to take seriously:
Gurli [*goor-lie] (Apologies to any Gurlis out there, but, really...)
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Well in this globalized world, I think you'll have a hard time to actually find people without having heard of any pop star....
You haven't met my Dad then... :lol:
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Well in this globalized world, I think you'll have a hard time to actually find people without having heard of any pop star....
You haven't met my Dad then... :lol:
I envy this lucky, happy man. :) Maybe I´m just growing old, but at age 27, I find more and more variants of contemporary music obnoxious (I´m up to, say, 75%, so it´s getting pretty tight).
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I envy this lucky, happy man. :)
He doesn't have a TV and he only listens to Classic FM and Jazz.
8)
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Obviously he knows perfectly well how to retain one´s sanity.
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Obviously he knows perfectly well how to retain one´s sanity.
Avoiding those "Pop Star" and "American Idol" shows tend to help as well. There is only so much singing through one's nose that I can take. Do you guys over the pond have to put up with that? It seems like there isn't a singer out there these days who can sing a song without piping half of it out their nose.
So, consequently, I play a lot of classical music and Tuvan throat singers.
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Oh yes... it´s toned down a bit from its heyday around 2003-2004, but those "Pop Idol" shows are still around, the most notorious being "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" (lit., "Germany looks for the Super-Star"), in which pitiable, deluded youths are made total buffoons in front of the viewing audience... and the "jury" makes people like Regis Philbin, Cathy Lee Gifford and their ilk (whom I assume to host such shows in the US) appear as pinnacles of the thespian guild.
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I hear that Regis has traded Kathy Lee in for a younger model. Boo! For shame!
They don't show his show over here any more. If Kathy Lee's no longer on it then I care not one jot.
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The following is on-topic* and provided for cultural edification and pedagogical purposes only:
[edit: Goddamned jump-cuts in the original link. Go here and find your own edifying videos instead: http://www.theindigo.net/2006/]
The music is all wrong, though. I invite you to mute the video and turn up Mr. Al-Bakkar's mp3s for an authentic** feeling.
Nur Kultur! Nur Paedagogie! Not solely for the visual delight of sexy, sexy*** dancing.
*: As on-topic as a thrice-threadjacked topic can be.
**: Not authentic.
***: But delightfully edifying.
[edit: Link may contain Regis and Kelly. Avoid contact with eyes, eardrums. Brain damage may result from prolonged exposure.]
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Don't know about the Indigo but the thought of Kylie, Danii and Elke in her heyday all bellydancing is enough to make me decide to Tibet for my pulping. There is only so much a man can stand, you know.
It's all a plot by the Green Shadow, you know! He seeks to divert our attention while he takes over the world! Curse you, green Shadow, I shall not be tempted. Well, perhaps only so I can say I bested it. Which way to the Casbah again?
regards
LGKMAS
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Did anyone else but me have trouble downloading track 8 of album 3??
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Mood music is definately good. If you look at some of the Red Shadow games on www.warflag.com you won't be able to see that under the minaret there is a little tape player that plays the calls to prayer. That's a very fun touch of Ian's.
Another friend put on a western gunfight game that was all about the movies, with players as competing movie directors and western movie theme music in the background.
On the middle eastern theme I think some dancing girl figures from Reaper would help set the tone, along with some of those Hasselfree harem guards. :love:
On the topic of names, perhaps an American equivalent to Elke would be Ethel. I haven't heard of anybody being named Ethel since the 50's or early 60's, but it was once a common name. Unfortunately, Ethel has a much less alluring sound to American ears than does Elke. Still, it would be fun to create a pulp scenario around a super-sexy femme named Ethel, just as a joke... :mrgreen:
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Ethel seems so out of fashion that the Monty Python lads did a skit set in a bookstore where one of the lads kept asking for books with idiotic titles. One was Ethel the Aardvaark goes Quantity Surveying. I have never heard the name Ethel after that without immediately thinking of this book title.
I suppose Ethel merman was the other big name in Ethels? Any others?
Bob
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Ethelred, who fought the Danes, IIRC?
Hmmm... Red Ethel... now that would make an interesting Senior Superhero.
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There's the Bank of Ethel in Dilbert.
Some old lady (my image of Ethel) sitting behind a bank counter always thinking up new ways to cheat poor ol Dilbert!! :lol:
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Back to the subject of music - I like old British WW2 songs. Very melancholic, all about euphoric weekends, sad partings and wishing for better days...
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Ethelred, who fought the Danes, IIRC?
Hmmm... Red Ethel... now that would make an interesting Senior Superhero.
I think, Ethel means 'land' or 'territory' in Old English... I'm not sure, I only have 'An Introduction to Old English' by G.L. Brook (Manchester University Press 1978) to lean on, and it only lists the words actually appearing in the texts in it....
'Red' might mean 'advice' (like in Mordred = bad advice)? It also just might mean red... dunno....
Ethel could also be derived from Æthele, meaning 'noble' (Ædel, in modern Danish).
Here I am ranting on about language again :lol:
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There's the Bank of Ethel in Dilbert.
Some old lady (my image of Ethel) sitting behind a bank counter always thinking up new ways to cheat poor ol Dilbert!! :lol:
YES!
Dogbert, visibly shaken: "I lost all my fortune in risky financial manoeuvring!!!"
Dilbert, as usual: "Oh! Hedge fonds?"
Dogbert: "No, a deposit account with "Ethel´s Loans&Savings!"
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Dominic, there were definitely two waves/periods of WW2 Britsh song. The first few months were all very chirpy, "Hang out our washing on the Seigfried Line", "Run, rabbit, Run", "Goodbyee". Even George Formby was there and he could never be called melancholic.
After Dunkirk, they got all melancholy, maudlin and wistful. No wonder American music took hold.
regards
LGKMAS