Soundtrack for the Last Battle

Megana Vallentin

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Does anyone else do this? I like to listen to music while I read. The best scenes are the ones that I can envision as if they were playing out before me, like a movie rather than just words on paper. At some point Demandred says "This is the end" and immediately Skyfall popped into my head, and seemed pretty fitting for that particular scene.

Any other songs that you guys associate with the Last Battle?
 

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I don't really associate specific songs with the LB, but I listen to soundtracks while I read quite often and when ever a climatic or intense song came on (I use Pandora a lot for this and listen to classical on I-heart radio when I tire of commercials..) it made me all happy inside :pleased-1:
 

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I have totally had "Apocalypse" by Imagine Dragons in my head for several days accompanied by the image of Egwene furiously blowing things up before before sacrificing herself in a blaze of glory. :D

This totally makes me tingle.

And this may be the reason I have listened to this song an obnoxiously large amount of times in the last week or so. :look:
 
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Funny, I tend to prefer to read in silence if I can.


Anything else tends to be distracting.


I must be boring :)
 

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I also prefer silence when given the choice, but I only get that from about midnight to 4am Sig and so I've learned to use wordless background noise that's just loud enough I hear it but don't focus on it and it just covers up other noises to the point that they all become background mumbling.

Some of the best fitting soundtracks were either John William's scores and Hans Zimmer.
 

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At one point I think Demandred calls Lan "King of Nothing" and at that point in my mind Metallica's King Nothing started playing :laugh: I can't help but think that was done on purpose though!
 
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I like to listen to either ambient new age (david arkenstone/enigma) or other downtempo beats. I'm not a big fan of reading while listening to someone sing a language I can understand. That is uber distracting.
 

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Jeremy Soule's soundtrack from Skyrim goes with almost anything.

Jeremy Soule's music is just awesome like that. I didn't know he did the Skyrim soundtrack...because I am sooo not a gamer and didn't realize it was part of the Elder Scrolls series until googling just now. I loved the Oblivion music. Must listen now!
 

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Yeah, my brain kind of creates a soundtrack of spontaneous music on its own.
 

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Oh, I read in complete silence as well. And for this book I rather insisted on it.

Its in the days afterwards, when I'm mulling things over in my head while driving in the car, that the music starts popping up. :P
 

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Jeremy Soule's music is just awesome like that. I didn't know he did the Skyrim soundtrack...because I am sooo not a gamer and didn't realize it was part of the Elder Scrolls series until googling just now. I loved the Oblivion music. Must listen now!

The Skyrim music soundtrack is close to the greatest music soundtrack for a game ever. I'm amazed Soule hasn't scored many major films, he's a genius.
 
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:laugh: Skyfall. Now I'm picturing James Bond music for the whole series, and I have to admit it makes everything more hilarious.

I read in silence too, but definitely sometimes I imagine epic fantasy game or movie music playing for certain scenes. Imagine only, never hum :look: never!
 

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I also read in silence, but I found that during the entire book, two poems kept asserting themselves against my memory. Thrusting themselves against the cages of my mind, and mingling with the book I had before me- poems that inspire and lift me, and that show themselves as an example of good men doing what must be done.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
~Dylan Thomas


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.




Then, when the Last battle came, I thought of this poem.

The Last of the Light Brigade
<dl><dd>~Rudyard Kipling</dd></dl> <dl><dd>There were thirty million English who talked of England's might,</dd><dd>There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.</dd><dd>They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;</dd><dd>They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,</dd><dd>That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song.</dd><dd>They asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door;</dd><dd>And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four!</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They laid their heads together that were scarred and lined and grey;</dd><dd>Keen were the Russian sabres, but want was keener than they;</dd><dd>And an old Troop-Sergeant muttered, "Let us go to the man who writes</dd><dd>The things on Balaclava the kiddies at school recites."</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They went without bands or colours, a regiment ten-file strong,</dd><dd>To look for the Master-singer who had crowned them all in his song;</dd><dd>And, waiting his servant's order, by the garden gate they stayed,</dd><dd>A desolate little cluster, the last of the Light Brigade.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They strove to stand to attention, to straighten the toil-bowed back;</dd><dd>They drilled on an empty stomach, the loose-knit files fell slack;</dd><dd>With stooping of weary shoulders, in garments tattered and frayed,</dd><dd>They shambled into his presence, the last of the Light Brigade.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>The old Troop-Sergeant was spokesman, and "Beggin' your pardon," he said,</dd><dd>"You wrote o' the Light Brigade, sir. Here's all that isn't dead.</dd><dd>An' it's all come true what you wrote, sir, regardin' the mouth of hell;</dd><dd>For we're all of us nigh to the workhouse, an' we thought we'd call an' tell.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>"No, thank you, we don't want food, sir; but couldn't you take an' write</dd><dd>A sort of 'to be continued' and 'see next page' o' the fight?</dd><dd>We think that someone has blundered, an' couldn't you tell 'em how?</dd><dd>You wrote we were heroes once, sir. Please, write we are starving now."</dd></dl> <dl><dd>The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.</dd><dd>And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with "the scorn of scorn."</dd><dd>And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,</dd><dd>Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They sent a cheque to the felon that sprang from an Irish bog;</dd><dd>They healed the spavined cab-horse; they housed the homeless dog;</dd><dd>And they sent (you may call me a liar), when felon and beast were paid,</dd><dd>A cheque, for enough to live on, to the last of the Light Brigade.*</dd></dl> <dl><dd>O thirty million English that babble of England's might,</dd><dd>Behold there are twenty heroes who lack their food to-night;</dd><dd>Our children's children are lisping to "honour the charge they made - "</dd><dd>And we leave to the streets and the workhouse the charge of the Light Brigade!


</dd><dd>


And then, when the time came for Rand's final stand, and he would not bow or bend, I thought of this.


[h=2]Invictus[/h] Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

~William Ernest Henley



I realize these are not songs- but they are what came to mind as I read.

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Being the youngest in my household, I don't get much choice :\

Sometimes I've said I needed a trip into town to get something just so I could go and read quietly in the car for a couple hours. When I get home I just say I got distracted :look:
 

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Oooh love the poems, Ty! Def. fitting for those scenes.

I read it in silence as well. I mean if I haven't read the book, how do I know which music goes with which parts?

That's true...I admit I did read in silence the first time, it was when I was re-reading some sections later that I suddenly wanted to have certain music to go along with the scene. But sometimes it just hits you! Like the line I mentioned in my starting post.
 
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