If I ran a game store I would like to play the song I Fucking Love Science by Hank Green and The Perfect Strangers, but it's NSFW.
Elise Andrew started the "I Fucking Love Science" Facebook page in 2012 as a place to post neat science links. The page grew quickly and as it grew its name became a brand, spilling onto Twitter, Google+, and it's own dedicated website. In 2014, Hank Green and The Perfect Strangers released the song I Fucking Love Science on their album, Incongruent. I don't know that there is any relationship between the band and the brand that Mrs. Andrew has started, but if there's not there should be. Hank Green is an enormous nerd. He's got a science degree, a science blog and a science vlog, he's an inventor and a musician, he's started his own music label and he's interviewed the President of the United States of America. I think he is uniquely qualified to sing the I Fucking Love Science song, officially or unofficially. At any rate, he has this song and it's fun. It's a fast driving, modern rock tune perfect for singing at the top of your voice while you drive... or while selecting a board game from the store shelf. There's a clean version of the song - I Love Science - which is the same exact tune but sung without the expletive. It doesn't have the same punch for me, though. If I ran a game store I would like to play the uncensored version or neither - the clean version doesn't float my boat.
I Fucking Love Science on Google Play
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
Best Game Ever
If I ran a game store I would like to play the song Best Game Ever by Mikey Mason, but it's NSFW.
It doesn't take long after someone starts role-playing for them to start recounting their favorite characters and battles and campaigns. And it doesn't take long after someone starts recounting for everyone else to realize they had to be there to really enjoy it. Mikey Mason has brought to song one of the best nights in gaming that he can recall. The party succeeded with many mighty deeds but what really capped it is that the guy in the group that irritates everyone kept getting slammed in comical fashion. For the song, Best Game Ever, you don't need to have been there to enjoy it - all you need to do is tune in and maybe sing along.
Mikey Mason likes playing his electric guitar loudly and singing loudly and, generally, making loud, gaming music. In Best Game Ever he yields to the verses, with the volume and emotion of his vocal matching the mood of the memory he's describing. The song starts with a calm retelling of the game, but as he enjoys himself more the vocals really start coming from his gut. It comes across like a gamer getting excited and losing it a little bit. Mikey states on the song's Bandcamp page that his inspiration for this song is the song Tonight by Cossbysweater (a.k.a. Allie Goertz), which is another song about role-playing but is radically different from Best Game Ever in tone and sound. I don't know what he heard to birth this song from that one. Tonight is a song I'll cover some other time on X Marks the Beat.
Best Game Ever is from Mikey Mason's 2012 album, Barbarian Jetpack. He released the song on The FuMP in 2013, as well.
Best Game Ever on Google Play
It doesn't take long after someone starts role-playing for them to start recounting their favorite characters and battles and campaigns. And it doesn't take long after someone starts recounting for everyone else to realize they had to be there to really enjoy it. Mikey Mason has brought to song one of the best nights in gaming that he can recall. The party succeeded with many mighty deeds but what really capped it is that the guy in the group that irritates everyone kept getting slammed in comical fashion. For the song, Best Game Ever, you don't need to have been there to enjoy it - all you need to do is tune in and maybe sing along.
Mikey Mason likes playing his electric guitar loudly and singing loudly and, generally, making loud, gaming music. In Best Game Ever he yields to the verses, with the volume and emotion of his vocal matching the mood of the memory he's describing. The song starts with a calm retelling of the game, but as he enjoys himself more the vocals really start coming from his gut. It comes across like a gamer getting excited and losing it a little bit. Mikey states on the song's Bandcamp page that his inspiration for this song is the song Tonight by Cossbysweater (a.k.a. Allie Goertz), which is another song about role-playing but is radically different from Best Game Ever in tone and sound. I don't know what he heard to birth this song from that one. Tonight is a song I'll cover some other time on X Marks the Beat.
Best Game Ever is from Mikey Mason's 2012 album, Barbarian Jetpack. He released the song on The FuMP in 2013, as well.
Best Game Ever on Google Play
Monday, January 5, 2015
I Put My Low Stat
If I ran a game shop I would like to play the song I Put My Low Stat by Mary Crowell, but it's NSFW.
Roll 4d6, drop the low number, sum the rest, and note the total. Do it five more times and you've got the first step in Dungeons and Dragons character creation. Next you assign the numbers to your stats and in doing so you essentially dictate your character's class. We've all been through the woes, but it took Mary Crowell to write and record a song about it. I Put My Low Stat features Mary singing pleasantly over her piano about the pros and cons of assigning the low stat to all six abilities. She drops plenty of D&D lingo and a solitary swear word. I waffled on labeling this song NSFW for the lone swear word, but I decided the balance of the language and the gentle way she swears made the song okay to play in my fictional game store.
I Put My Low Stat was released on Mary Crowell's 2012 album, Acolytes Of The Machine & Other Gaming Stories - which has many other excellent songs about Dungeons and Dragons. The abiding role-playing website, ENWorld.org, hosted "The Battle of the Bards" music competition in 2012. One month after Mary's album released, she won the top prize for I Put My Low Stat.
I Put My Low Stat on Google Play
Roll 4d6, drop the low number, sum the rest, and note the total. Do it five more times and you've got the first step in Dungeons and Dragons character creation. Next you assign the numbers to your stats and in doing so you essentially dictate your character's class. We've all been through the woes, but it took Mary Crowell to write and record a song about it. I Put My Low Stat features Mary singing pleasantly over her piano about the pros and cons of assigning the low stat to all six abilities. She drops plenty of D&D lingo and a solitary swear word. I waffled on labeling this song NSFW for the lone swear word, but I decided the balance of the language and the gentle way she swears made the song okay to play in my fictional game store.
I Put My Low Stat was released on Mary Crowell's 2012 album, Acolytes Of The Machine & Other Gaming Stories - which has many other excellent songs about Dungeons and Dragons. The abiding role-playing website, ENWorld.org, hosted "The Battle of the Bards" music competition in 2012. One month after Mary's album released, she won the top prize for I Put My Low Stat.
I Put My Low Stat on Google Play
Friday, December 26, 2014
Game On
If I ran a game store I would like to play the song Game On by 3d6, but it's NSFW.
The lines don't all rhyme and they don't all have the right number of syllables and the song is a bit too loud and it's sort of offensive. That's all because 3d6 is a "nerd punk" band. They're rules breakers, not rules lawyers. Game On is their ode to D&D. It's about a guy and his girlfriend who decide to visit their favorite local game store and get in an adventure. The guy has a problem with the DM, who seems to be favoring the other PCs and his own NPCs, so the guy goes outside and cuts the brakes on the DM's car. Even if this song were SFW it would still go on the IFFY list because it's messed up. The voice of the song is rather impatient and sounds angry, and who wants to game while listening to that? I might. I listen to this song while I drive and I enjoy its hectic pace.
I get the feeling that the guys in 3d6 - Dave, Anthony, and Rudy - were all delinquents. I envision them at 13-years-old, watching ThunderCats on the patio where they're allowed to smoke and curse at Lion-O. They probably game with half-melted minis because they like to destroy stuff. They're dice throwers for sure. Maybe I'm wrong, but their music makes me think this.
Game On is from 3d6's 2011 album, Damage.
Game On on Google Play
The lines don't all rhyme and they don't all have the right number of syllables and the song is a bit too loud and it's sort of offensive. That's all because 3d6 is a "nerd punk" band. They're rules breakers, not rules lawyers. Game On is their ode to D&D. It's about a guy and his girlfriend who decide to visit their favorite local game store and get in an adventure. The guy has a problem with the DM, who seems to be favoring the other PCs and his own NPCs, so the guy goes outside and cuts the brakes on the DM's car. Even if this song were SFW it would still go on the IFFY list because it's messed up. The voice of the song is rather impatient and sounds angry, and who wants to game while listening to that? I might. I listen to this song while I drive and I enjoy its hectic pace.
I get the feeling that the guys in 3d6 - Dave, Anthony, and Rudy - were all delinquents. I envision them at 13-years-old, watching ThunderCats on the patio where they're allowed to smoke and curse at Lion-O. They probably game with half-melted minis because they like to destroy stuff. They're dice throwers for sure. Maybe I'm wrong, but their music makes me think this.
Game On is from 3d6's 2011 album, Damage.
Game On on Google Play
Sunday, October 5, 2014
I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere
If I ran a game store I would like to play the song I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere by Future Folk, but it's NSFW.
Two space aliens from the planet Hondo have arrived on Earth. Their own planet has no music and no art, so the two are inspired by what they encounter on our home world. They don their space suits, grab a guitar and banjo, and form a folk music band: Future Folk. General Trius and The Mighty Kevin play songs about adapting to life on Earth or lamenting what they miss from home. Their subject matter is what makes me want to play their music for gamers – it's bluegrass sci-fi played for a smirk. Their songs are usually family-friendly, but in I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere they slip in an f-bomb. In the song, the duo sings about the pleasantries of Earth but temper the good vibes by complaining about their need to keep on their space helmets.
I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere is from their 2012 album, Future Folk, Vol. 1. They also have a feature length film called The History of Future Folk that gives the story for their journey to Earth and first forays into music.
I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere on Google Play
Two space aliens from the planet Hondo have arrived on Earth. Their own planet has no music and no art, so the two are inspired by what they encounter on our home world. They don their space suits, grab a guitar and banjo, and form a folk music band: Future Folk. General Trius and The Mighty Kevin play songs about adapting to life on Earth or lamenting what they miss from home. Their subject matter is what makes me want to play their music for gamers – it's bluegrass sci-fi played for a smirk. Their songs are usually family-friendly, but in I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere they slip in an f-bomb. In the song, the duo sings about the pleasantries of Earth but temper the good vibes by complaining about their need to keep on their space helmets.
I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere is from their 2012 album, Future Folk, Vol. 1. They also have a feature length film called The History of Future Folk that gives the story for their journey to Earth and first forays into music.
I Can Not Breathe in Your Atmosphere on Google Play
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