If a movie adaptation of your book was made...

otterman · Nov 24, 2007

whose songs would be on the soundtrack?

I often imagine my story as a film and keep hearing Loreena McKennitt's music in the background. Who do you hear?

Chumplet · Nov 24, 2007

I hear some Enya and lots of bongo drums. And tracks from the commemorative CD for Jacques Cousteau -- Cousteau's Dream. It has whalesong in it.

Gillhoughly · Nov 24, 2007

Current project?

Sexy Mancini. Low, deep, and sinister Mancini.

That's just for one character. The others have their own music.

Danger Jane · Nov 24, 2007

The two I'm working on now would be either like, Enya, or just instrumental. The one in the works would be Belle & Sebastian because they have awesome songs that are content appropriate and ummm they are fantastic.

ello · Nov 24, 2007

OK how sad is it that I can't be original and the soundtrack for my book/movie would be a combination of songs from Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump.

Angelinity · Nov 24, 2007

mozart's requiem

can't wait to see it, can ya?

Sage · Nov 24, 2007

A combination of music for all of my novels. I make a soundtrack for each one, and try to add some variety, although usually one artist takes over, at least in the beginning stages. 3 Doors Down and Daughtry if I had to narrow down artists for my current WIP, but I have 19 other artists on the current temporary playlist. Dido and music from the first Buffy soundtrack made the top of my AFTRLYF soundtrack. Right now Five For Fighting and Christina Aguilera rule my other WIP, but except for one of each, most of those songs are competing with songs from other artists for the same place in the plot, so that one is very tentative.

LilliCray · Nov 24, 2007

I'm thinking... Newsies soundtrack... and no, that has nothing to do with the fact that I am totally pining for Newsies music.

In all seriousness, I'm thinking some Celtic instrumentals. I've got a good Celtic CD with some really good songs on it. Everything except for the first song which sounds just a little too happy would work for my WIP.

Nateskate · Nov 24, 2007

I don't know what will eventually happen. But I love Howard Shore's score for Lord of the Rings. I'd love to have him work on my movie if that's a possibility.

Strangely, I have ideas for a soundtrack already. They came years ago when I started fiddling with a synthesizer (I'm a guitarist). I didn't intend to write a soundtrack, but just found these interesting parts that were haunting, and had nothing to do with rock or blues or the kinds of music I like to play.

I wonder if someone like Howard would ever consider incorporating some of my ideas into a soundtrack if he was willing to do the movie?

otterman said:
whose songs would be on the soundtrack?

I often imagine my story as a film and keep hearing Loreena McKennitt's music in the background. Who do you hear?

Shady Lane · Nov 24, 2007

I imagine I've Seen Better Days by Sublime as the opening credits for the WIP.

ishtar'sgate · Nov 24, 2007

My memory sucks and I can't remember the name of the pianist but the piece is called 'Mary Queen of Scots'. I used to play it while I was writing the scene when the death carts rolled through the streets at night and also when I wrote the scene for a burning at the stake. It was perfect for such dark moments.
Linnea

kevacho · Nov 24, 2007

Life would be so much better...

... if it were accompanied by a soundtrack.

The novel I'm currently attempting to publish is a suspense/thriller... so I hear a lot of the composer, Mark Isham, as well as Dead Can Dance, and or, Lisa Gerrard. My next project (after I write one more screenplay) will be a full-on, epic Fantasy, and I definitely hear something between Basil Pouldaris and Peter Gabriels' "Passion".

Regards,

Kevin
www.kevacho.com

p.s. If you guys want to read something, that I think, is really positive read about my dealings with New Line Cinema through the link below.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83877

Madison · Nov 24, 2007

pirates of the caribbean soundtrack and holst's 'the planets.' also some lotr-esque songs: my book is intense

arodriguez · Nov 24, 2007

Charlie Brown..the peanuts theme song. Also maybe a little soundgarden and vanilla ice.

RG570 · Nov 24, 2007

I would write the music myself.

maestrowork · Nov 24, 2007

A score by Alexandre Desplat, similar to his score for A Painted Veil, with some amazing piano solos.

KTC · Nov 24, 2007

Sebastian's Poet: Gordon Lightfoot/Bob Dylan/Leonard Cohen/Joni Mitchell/Liona Boyd

Chasing Empty: Bauhaus/Siouxsie and the Banshees/The The/Ramones/New Order/B52s/Forgotten Rebels/Dead Kennedys/The Cure/Leonard Cohen

swvaughn · Nov 24, 2007

It would take me forever to list all the music that might go well with all my novels...

I do have a definite "boy, that would be da shit if it ever happened" for one of 'em, though. First one in my series about street fighters: "Crush 'Em" by Megadeth.

Probably Smashmouth too, since they seem to end up on about half the movie soundtracks out there.

Devil Ledbetter · Nov 24, 2007

For the novel I just finished: Pearl Jam Of The Girl as the opener; Bowie's Soul Love on the closing credits.

xDemode · Nov 24, 2007

Marilyn Manson
Queenadreena
HIM
Porcelain and the Tramps
Rob Zombie
Nine Inch Nails

&Maybe one of Chopin's Nocturnes.

TrishD · Nov 24, 2007

The Slackers
Moon Invaders
Aggrolites
Bedouin Soundclash

Conman · Nov 24, 2007

My main character's theme song would have to be either On My Own or Animal I have Become, both by Three Days Grace.

And the song Nothing Lasts Forever by Maroon 5 perfectly describes the relationship between two of my characters.

Zelenka · Nov 24, 2007

I have a playlist for my WIPs, just songs that get me into the mood for certain scenes, so I suppose that'd be in the soundtrack were they filmed.

WIP #1: Mostly Medieval Baebes and Biffy Clyro, of all things
WIP #2: Definitely 'Blue Piccadilly' by the Feeling, 'The Importance of Being Idle' by Oasis, otherwise a lot of 60s Britpop and some Sinatra / Bobby Darin / Matt Monro sort of stuff.

III · Nov 24, 2007

Oh, this is one of my favorite self-indulgent fantasies. To think about the closing scene of the movie with the music coming up in the background and kicking in as the credits start to roll. For me it would be songs from Matchbox 20's More Than You Think You Are CD - particularly the song Downfall. That song captures the spirit of my story so perfectly. Funny thing is, I really hated their first album, but got hooked on this one when I started writing my series.

Provrb1810meggy · Nov 24, 2007

Bubbly pop songs or bubbly pop-ish country songs. Swelling romantic music.

I definitely need to have a playlist for one of my books these days.

If a movie adaptation of your book was made...

Word Voyeur

This hat is getting too hot

Grumpy writer and editor

absent

Our Lady of Parentheticals

Plot? What plot?

my name is hannah

living in the past

summertime...

Renegade

Fear the Death Ray

Stand in the Place Where You Live

adrift

Come on you stranger, you legend,

Buying a stairway to hell.

.....

Going home!

rockin the suburbs