Joshua Blum's Blog - Posts Tagged "new-wave"
The Thirteenth Hour Extended Soundtrack
If you liked the new wave synthesizer sounds of Alphaville, OMD, and New Order ...
If you rocked out to electric guitar solos and dive bombs by Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and the Scorpions ...
Or if you wore out VHS tapes of ET, The Last Starfighter, and The Neverending Story from watching them so much ...
Then you're probably an 80s fan who will find something you like on this playlist! It consists of songs and film scores that have, in some way, inspired fantasy books I have written. A number of scenes were directly influenced by music on this list. I originally wanted to add quotes from various songs (like Alphaville's "Forever Young") to various manuscripts, and even got the rights to do so in some cases, but there was not really a feasible way to pay my respects to all these varied influences (back in the late 90s, when I started writing).
Instead, I ended making a retro soundtrack of my own to accompany one of my novels, called The Thirteenth Hour. That soundtrack (picture below) has a mix of styles (some acoustic to be a bit truer to life to the fantasy world of the book, some synthesizers to pay homage to the 80s films that inspired it) and is sprinkled in this "extended" mix. The irony is that had Spotify existed at the time, I never would have written those songs! But this is kind of the next best thing. Hope you find something you enjoy here as well.
Click here to go to the Spotify playlist
If you rocked out to electric guitar solos and dive bombs by Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and the Scorpions ...
Or if you wore out VHS tapes of ET, The Last Starfighter, and The Neverending Story from watching them so much ...
Then you're probably an 80s fan who will find something you like on this playlist! It consists of songs and film scores that have, in some way, inspired fantasy books I have written. A number of scenes were directly influenced by music on this list. I originally wanted to add quotes from various songs (like Alphaville's "Forever Young") to various manuscripts, and even got the rights to do so in some cases, but there was not really a feasible way to pay my respects to all these varied influences (back in the late 90s, when I started writing).
Instead, I ended making a retro soundtrack of my own to accompany one of my novels, called The Thirteenth Hour. That soundtrack (picture below) has a mix of styles (some acoustic to be a bit truer to life to the fantasy world of the book, some synthesizers to pay homage to the 80s films that inspired it) and is sprinkled in this "extended" mix. The irony is that had Spotify existed at the time, I never would have written those songs! But this is kind of the next best thing. Hope you find something you enjoy here as well.
Click here to go to the Spotify playlist
