(half-demon, really) and will be a bard when she gets through her levels of succubus. The great part about our campaign is that our DM has brought in a lot of fun pop culture references throughout the game. When she starts to level as bard (she'll prestige into virtuoso) I'd love to actually have a playlist of songs on my ipod to play during our encounters. 
My question to you all is:
What (contemporary) songs would you love to have a bard sing in your campaign? They could be pop, country, etc. It would be prefered that said songs be performed by women, as my bard is a female and I'd like for my fellow players to be able to picture a female singing the songs.
Have fun coming up with some fun ones.
You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out;
You put your right foot in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey-Pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
If you want something more modern I'd go for some metal'ish stuff with a fantasy theme like Hammerfall (male singer, but female with a dark voice might be beliavle) - Trailblazers, Titan, Way of The Warrior, Templars of Steel
Avantasia (Male singer, but a girl with a dark voice might be belivable) - The Wicked Symphony, Ratrace, Blizzard on a Broken Mirror, Wasteland, Journey to Arcadia, Dying for an Angel.
Nightwish (female singer) - Bye bye Beautiful, Planet Hell, 10th Man down, Kinslayer, Moondance, Feel for you, End of all Hope, The Siren, Nemo
Kajiuri Yuka (female) - Anything from her really.
Ali Project (female) - Again, anything.
Within Temptation (female singer) - What Have you Done, Our Solemn Hour, Deciver of Fools,
Hazel Fernandes (no idea, but sounds like a girl) - Number one
Tarja Turunen (female) - Die Alive, Lost Northern Star, I walk alone.
Hmm most of my music have male singers it seems like. Anyway those are just some suggestions, but really anything by the artists I suggested is good in my opinion, hope you find something you like.
Good luck, sounds like an enormously fun toon to play
I thought Gloria Gaynor (I Will Survive), Donna Summer, The Chic (Le Freak).
Labelle (Lady Marmalade, "voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)" claim it's Infernal).
Maybe old Madonna stuff.
Or go really evil with Barbara Streisand.
instrumental songs from anime fight sequences are generally good morale songs
its all preference, i dunno, but I generally aim for the over the top sill/epic/sad songs depending on the situation
Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones.
Slash.
Thread.
Also, really, anything from Evanescence seems thematically appropriate.
@Nikita -- I already decided to use a Within Temptation song on our campaign's "Soundtrack" that makes you awesome in my book.
All of your suggestions have been just great. Thanks everyone!
Succubus Bard?
Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones.
Also, Suck My Kiss by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Personally, for my Bard|Storm Sorceror (4E Hybrid - Voice of Thunder Paragon Path) I'm a fan of AC/DC's Thunderstruck (obvious reasons) and Hells Bells. ("I'm rolling thunder, pouring rain - I'm coming on like a hurricane - White lightning's flasing across the sky - You're only young but you're gonna die")
For an inspirational song, how about "I Need a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler?
"Eye of the Tiger" also works, especially this version by Chiara Mastroianni: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA-gAKiiM1I
For a creepy, haunting song, there's always Thriller (the Imogen Heap cover): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxrIBCwyk80
You can also do "Master of Puppets". "One Tin Soldier Rides Away" is also good for tavern performances. And "Through Fire and Flames" by Dragon Force!
Actually, anything by Dragon Force is appropriate. Singing it with a girl's voice makes it more bad ass.
And you can also use (pardon the pun) "Bard Romance" by Her Majesty Lady Gallandra Gawhatsherface
There's a band called Blind Guardian that can be a good resource. Among their songs:
- The Bard's Song
- Harvest of Sorrow
- Skalds and Shadows
- The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight
- A Past and Future Secret
Blind Guardian are called the "Metal Bards" for a reason.
Battle without honor or humanity (from Kill Bill)
Another one bites the dust (queen)
Still Alive (glados, from the game Portal)
King of Pain (the police)
Murder by numbers (the police)
Poison (alice cooper)
Great Balls of Fire (jerry lee louis)
Highway to the Danger zone (kenny loggins, from top gun)
Help! (beatles)
What's that coming over the hill (The Automatic)
Wardogs (juno reactor)
Ain't got no, got life (Nina Simone)
Country Roads
500 Miles (the Proclamiers)
Boots are made for walking (nancy sinatra)
the Beer Song (weird al Yankovich)
Smoke two Joints (sublime)
That is the most of my two playlists:
Every body but me (see this magic card) for the combat background music and ****** Hippies (think Cartman) for the out of combat background music.
i'm still standing(Elton John)
There's a good amount of em and at least 4 CDs that I know of.
Really, REALLY good Bard stuff in those for any occasion.
Black Sabbath "planet caravan"
anything caravan related, really.
Leah
High and Mighty Color
Lia
Anglea
Yuria
Origa
Megumi Nakajima
May\'n
Kalafina
Yoko Hikasa
FictionJunction
fripSide
Shoko Nakagawa
The Brillant Green
there so many more but there are my favorites out of the bunch
Enjoy!
P.S PM me if would like these singers ill give you some of there songs for you I own most of there albums
Any of the songs at the end of the 3 Lord of the Rings Movies...
Somewhere over the rainbow (see Iz)
Where I belong (from Hercules)
Hey there delilah, (replace locations and modern transportation references as needed)
Close to you, (Simon and Garfunkel)
Short People (Randy Newman... hysteical in a group full of halflings)
You are the New Day
First cut is the deepest (lol)
Some classical songs...
The Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams fit the Bard or Rogue PERFECTLY... listen to them once if you get the chance, and you'll see why.
Some sound funny, but honestly, apply them with your typical lute/lyre playing and singing bard and they work... some are particularly good for singing in the tavern after the party just got out of that pesky dungeon that rocked their faces...
- Eluveitie
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcyZgY7es8)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o)
- Finntroll
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUu7c5TBXs)
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGywo81G6lk)
- Kivimetsan Druidi
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vp6I6kRjTM)
And I will bump the suggestion of Corvus Corax with the Filii Neidhardi song.
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I suggest Amy Lee or Annie Lennox, maybe? My 2 cent's worth.
As far as the actual songs go, you'll more than likely have a ton more suggestions in the time it takes me to finish writing this post.
Your half-succubus female bard will be singing these songs, yes? My suggestion: find a Voice. Whatever your character sings, whatever the actual artists, the character sings them using that Voice.
I suggest Amy Lee or Annie Lennox, maybe? My 2 cent's worth.
As far as the actual songs go, you'll more than likely have a ton more suggestions in the time it takes me to finish writing this post.
Thanks! Yeah, she's half-succubus/half-human. Her voice would probably be very close to Amy Lee or Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation, with a little bit of my own voice thrown in for good measure (it's part of her backstory). Thanks for your advice!
Lily Allen's "F*** You" would be nice for a fight against some kind of mendacious evil priest.
And Joni Mitchell would probably be particularly suitable. She did a great job with "The Magdelene Laundries" with the Chieftains.
Best of luck...
T
Also, vorpal frisbee... amazing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oheBQz6wuu0
It was so much more awesome to see it as the final song, live and on stage. I mean, it's a musical about people playing D&D! It's awesome!
Or how about "Dungeons & Dragons"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IgVPnhmVNE&feat...
I'm going to look up the ones the Dragon sings. They didn't show up on YouTube, but I hear the CD is on iTunes. I've gotta find this.
EDIT: So YouTube doesn't have many more songs from the show, but the CD on iTunes have them. On Paper, Don't Feel Bad, Heart of a Fighter, I Will Still Play, The Smell of Adventure. If nothing else, I'm using this for the next time I play a bard.
Personally, when I use a bard, I typically hear him singing the soundtrack from The Last Unicorn. :P
Pat Benatar has good material (Hit Me With Your Best Shot), some of which can be used to lighten tone. Hell is for Children may inspire a paladin to fight the evil overlord.
Use Madonna's Like A Prayer to mock an evil cleric. (This should work REALLY well with your character.) If you have seen the video, she attempts - and fails miserably - to manipulate Christian symbology. Because she's forgotten what the symbols mean.
Wagner's Ring Cycle has a lot of awesome instrumentals (not just Charge of the Valkyries and Siegfried's Funeral) to use as background music.
If your group is willing to put together a comedy act, (hey, adventurers gotta have a job too) you could use the Looney Tunes theme to introduce yourselves!
Couple months later we had a bad guy that we were never going to take down, total TPK in the works, so I figured as long as we're going down I might as well throw it a few times. If I'm not so lucky, I kill a friend earlier than the bad guy can get to him.
I got lucky on about the third shot ).
T
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKh6Gie9oMM