Your favorite music to adventure to?

[Herbert West]

 I looked around and didn't see another thread like this, so I hope its not a repeat.

 What  song, or piece of music inspires your imagination with dreams of steamy adventure? Doesn't have to be your favorite song, just one that inspires you.

 I'd have to go with  

The Time Machine OST 6 I Don't Belong Here

 Its from that awful remake of The Time Machine from a couple years ago, but to me it bring to mind images of airships sailing off to new adventures.

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     The soundtrack from the Crimson Skies PC game.

Crimson Skies - OST Track 1

Crimson Skies - OST Track 8

Crimson Skies - OST Track 9

[James Harrison]

'Discombobulate' by Hans Zimmer. 

Most us probably know it for this:

Sherlock Holmes Theme song

[Aleister Crow]

Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (Orchestral Version)

This and pirate shanties.

[chicar]

I have many ones, depending of the mood.

To lightest to grimest (warning: You have to consider than my inner steampunk world was made by Walt Disney's evil emo brothers, Edit: or in other word is a dark humoristic world like the one of Fritz, only more cartoonish, to understand my choice, especially the four first ones )  :

Selena Gomez - Live like theres no tomorrow (Lyrics)

(Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa to be such a manchild)

Castles In The Sky (Oh Tell Me Why) Ian Van Dahl (lyrics)

Heaven - DJ Sammy & Yanou - Featuring Do & Alia

Angel of Darkness lyrics

Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Oyster Cult

Saosin~You're Not Alone lyrics

Dissidia Final Fantasy Themes #15 - Chaos Last Battle (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
Apocalyptica- Hope vol. 2 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
The Lost Boys - Soundtrack - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys) - By Gerard McMann (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Arabella Periscope]

Ah, a good question, there are so many -- one that comes to mind is the Karl Jenkins theme from the movie of 'The Time Machine' ?

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     For Fritz, I often listen to something dark and eery sounding (or, alternately, something happy and cheery sounding as Fritz's universe is intended to be darkly comedic) and imagine flying in my zeppelin, looking down below at a landscape of ruined cities, zigzagging trenches and earthworks, shell craters, and piles of rubble and corpses.

     If imagining a battle, I will frequently listen to Beethoven or Wagner.

[Herbert West]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. I'm adding them to my music collection. Please keep them coming!

'Discombobulate' by Hans Zimmer.  

Most us probably know it for this:

Sherlock Holmes Theme song

Nice. And faintly similar to the TV Holmes theme.

BBC Sherlock`s Theme Melody (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Wandering Scholar]

Mike Oldfield's 'Music of the Spheres' album (click the url link beneath the video for the full list):

Youtube playlist (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Perhaps a bit more on the fantasy side, but a number of the tracks definitely evoke the sense of flight and/or exploration (at least to me )

[Ulysses Reynolds]

Definitely not any where near period. But any time I imagine or write out an adventure. This song pops up and starts repeating itself. Definitely a good song for a daemon hunter.

Devil May Cry 3 - Devils Never Cry - With Lyrics!! (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Daedalus Forge]

There's some wonderful music on You Tube by a young composer who goes by the moniker Feroyn.  This one is a particular favourite:

London, 1856 - A Steampunk Orchestra (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Herbert West]

Very cool Daedalus. I'll check him out.



Trevor Jones theme from Cleopatra is a nice one if you're into Egyptian adventure.

Cleopatra - Trevor Jones (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Been a fan of his work going all the way back to The Dark Crystal.

Also, the musics not very steamy, but the visuals from the Animusic series are quite nice.


Animusic HD - Pipe Dream 2 (1080p) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Animusic HD - Resonant Chamber (1080p) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Animusic HD - Pipe Dreams (1080p) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Animusic HD - Gyro Drums (1080p) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Angus A Fitziron]

Mr West, very much enjoyed Animusic - thank you for bringing him/her/them/it to my attention!

I find most of the tracks suggested so far to be too serious or intimidating, full of threat and impending doom to be of much use to me going off on an adventure. Whilst I recognise such enterprises often entail danger and excitement, I prefer to kid myself that it's all going to be fine with some jolly little piece of music that will make me feel good and smile a lot. Currently Caravan Palace fills that slot in my life.

Suzy - Caravan Palace - Music video (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Herbert West]

Mr West, very much enjoyed Animusic - thank you for bringing him/her/them/it to my attention!

I find most of the tracks suggested so far to be too serious or intimidating, full of threat and impending doom to be of much use to me going off on an adventure. Whilst I recognise such enterprises often entail danger and excitement, I prefer to kid myself that it's all going to be fine with some jolly little piece of music that will make me feel good and smile a lot. Currently Caravan Palace fills that slot in my life.

Suzy - Caravan Palace - Music video

You're very welcome. I've been a great fan of these videos since they came out in the early 2000's.
Heres one I forgot. Recorded at a lower resolution, but the closest thing to a steamy device in the lot. Animusic - Drum machine (2001) HD (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
 But I tend to agree. I like my music to give me goosbumps, and have  a preference for classical (doing a search for 'Epic Music' on Youtube brings up tons of great compilations) Though somber music definately has its place.
 I really like your clip though. So cute and danceable!
 Of course, I'm also rather fond of the Lovecraft-inspired group AKLO. Lovecraftian Music - AKLO - Beyond Madness (Embedding disabled, limit reached) Doesn't get much darker than that.

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     I find Middle Eastern sounding music works well for my dieselpunk/ pulp "adventurer archaeologist" character. The soundtracks for the Middle Eastern and African civilizations in the "Civilization" series of computer games actually has some fairly good music (Civ IV in particular had an amazing soundtrack all-around).
 
Civilization IV: Warlords - Al Nadda (Main Theme) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

    Civ V didn't have as good a soundtrack as Civ IV (nor was it anywhere near as good a game), but it did have a few good tracks.

Civilization 5 Soundtrack - Jallaman (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Sid Meier's Civilization V - Middle East Africa - War - Gawazi - Soundtrack (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Herbert West]

     I find Middle Eastern sounding music works well for my dieselpunk/ pulp "adventurer archaeologist" character. The soundtracks for the Middle Eastern and African civilizations in the "Civilization" series of computer games actually has some fairly good music (Civ IV in particular had an amazing soundtrack all-around).
 
Civilization IV: Warlords - Al Nadda (Main Theme)

    Civ V didn't have as good a soundtrack as Civ IV (nor was it anywhere near as good a game), but it did have a few good tracks.

Civilization 5 Soundtrack - Jallaman

Sid Meier's Civilization V - Middle East Africa - War - Gawazi - Soundtrack

Nice ones Fritz. Did you ever play any Pharaoh back in the day?  Pharaoh -- Theme (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Dante Coal]

depending on the type of adventure i suppose....

im always partial to Apocalyptica, Nightwish, and ES Posthumus for the more epic and daring adventures.

while the sounds of The Gaslight Anthem  always make me want to jump a train and see where it will take me.

regards,
Dante

[Calvin Sinclair]

The fabulous Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani and the many Homestuck soundtracks.

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     Jamestown: Legend of The Lost Colony (isn't Roanoke actually the lost colony) is a wildly historically inaccurate but cool-looking game with an epic soundtrack. I don't usually like most shooters (mostly because I'm bad at them and many of them lack a plot), but Jamestown was pretty neat to watch other people play.

 Jamestown - Prologue (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Jamestown - War Upon the East Frontier (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Jamestown - Journey Into the Dark Sector (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Jamestown OST Title 2 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Jamestown - Secret Mines of New Madrid (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     When in a slightly western mood, I listen to the soundtrack from Bastion (I'm told this game is fantastic, never played it though).

Bastion Soundtrack - Spike in a Rail (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Bastion OST~7. Terminal March (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Zeppelin Kapitan Fritz]

     Why is it I keep posting video game soundtracks? I don't even actually play video games very often (when I do they are usually in the 4X genre).

[Herbert West]

Probably because with a few exceptions, video games are the last bastion of epic storytelling and sweeping musical scores.