Favorite music for robot videos

[BrendanB]

Anything from the Robowranglers!

[Grim Tuesday]

Anything Two Steps From Hell

[Nuttyman54]

The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk all have a great selection of tracks that work well. Movie soundtracks tend to have a lot of good options too, as does 80's glam rock. I'm particularly fond of finding a song with some relevant lyrics for the video.

Examples:

190 SVR 2007
-Relevant lyrics/high energy (Van Halen), high energy (The Prodigy)

190 Boston 2009
-Relevant lyrics (Blue Man Group), fast paced high energy (Saliva)

971 2009 season video
-Soundtrack (Dark City), high energy (Daft Punk), relevant lyrics (Muse), Soundtrack (Ironman)

190 2011 Teaser
-Soundtrack/high energy (Daft Punk)

[GarrettF2395]

In my video I went with Ushers latest hit, More.
For me, the second I heard that song it hit me as the perfect music for the video. It seemed to fit what I wanted the video to say.

I would just encourage your students to think about what they want their video to do. Do they want it to inspire, pump up, or promote, etc...?
Then have them use whatever they think fits what they want the video to.
Encourage them to be creative, videography is an art form.

[rifkinni]

Our team uses freeplaymusic.com. It is easy, safe, and free to download songs, and all of them are under the creative commons license, so they can be published or parts of the final product it can be officially submitted for a Chairman's award or other FIRST submission. The site has a huge selection and a wide range of songs, but nobody will have heard any of the music before, so its original and everybody won't choose the same overplayed song. Your trainees can choose the music based on style or feel.

[Kyoshirin]

Ignition- Toby Mac
Frontline- Pillar
Warriors of Time- Black Tide
The Chosen Ones- Dream Evil
Ladies and Gentlemen- Saliva
Have a Nice Day- Bon Jovi
It's My Life- Bon Jovi
Rock You Like a Hurricane- The Scorpions
Coat of Arms- Sabaton
Headstrong- Trapt

[torihoelscher]

"I got a feeling"-BEP
"Boom Boom Pow"-BEP
"Just cant get enough"-BEP
"Dirty deeds done dirt cheap"-ACDC
"Thunderstruck"-ACDC
"TNT"-ACDC
"Walk this way" Aerosmith
"Seize the day" Avenged Sevenfold
"Unholy Confessions" Avenged Sevenfold
"We didnt start the fire" Billy Joel
"Dont fear the Reaper"Blue Oyster Cult
"It's my life" Bon Jovi
"Dream a Dream" Captain Jack
"Requiem for a dream" Clint Mansell
"One last breath" Creed
"Away in Silence" Creed
"Tron Legacy (End Titles)- Daft Punk
"Tron Legacy Theme" Daft Punk
"Hysteria" Def Leppard
"Love Bites" Def Leppard
"May it be" from Enya or Celtic Woman
"Bring me to life" Evanescence
"Good Enough" Evanescence
Miss Murder-AFI
"Right Round" Florida
"All Around me Acoustic" Flyleaf
"Hear me now" Framing Hanley
"It's not what they said" Framing Hanley
"Vesuvius" Frank Tichelli
"Feel Good Inc" Gorillaz
"Dare" Gorillaz
"Rhinestone Eyes" Gorillaz
"Broken" Gorillaz
"Stylo" Gorillaz
"On Melancholy Hill" Gorillaz
"Grease Lightning" John Travolta
"Basket Case" Green Day
"When I come around" Green Day
"Good Riddance" Green Day
"Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N Roses
"Sweet Child of Mine" Guns N Roses
"November Rain" Guns N Roses
"Suite Gothique pour Grande Orgue, Op. 25: IV. Toccata" Hans Fagius
"Run to the Hills" Iron Maiden
Love Theme from Attack of the Clones- John Williams
The Throne Room/End Title-John Williams
Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith- John Williams
"Rock n roll all nite" KISS
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Organ, BWV 565- Kiemens Schnorr (composer I dont think the one who wrote this, its Bach by the way)
"The Rose"LeAnn Rimes
"Ocarina Medley" from Legend of Zelda
"Evenstar" Howard Shore (LOTR)
"Breath of Life" Howard Shore (LOTR)
"4 Minutes" Justin Timberlake and Madonna
"Safety Dance" Men without Hats
"One" Metallica (Great song, sad meaning)
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"For whom the bell tolls" Metallica
"Last of the Wilds" Nightwish
"Ever Dream" Nightwish
"Nemo" Nightwish
"Just Refrain" Orange Avenue (Local Band in Florida)
"Even Flow (Live)-Pearl Jam
"Something to believe in" Poison
Of course the popular songs from Queen...
Also popular songs from Journey
"False Pretense" Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
"Prayer of the Refugee" Rise Against
"So far away" Staind
"Great White Coma" The Sunstreak
"Lonely Day" System of a Down
Toccata - Carpimus Noctum- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The magic flute - queen of the night aria- Wolfgang Mozart
Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude-Bach
The Magic Flute - Overture-Mozart
Hyptonize- System of a Down


These are all the songs I can see in a robotics video. Also some of the songs I like were already mentioned.

[Travis Hoffman]

"Baba O'Riley" - The Who

"Bat out of Hell", especially the intro - Meat Loaf

"Don't Stop Believin'" - Glee ca....?#$#!!%%...Journey

"Machinehead" - Bush

"Stranglehold" - Ted Nugent

"Glory Days" - Bruce Springsteen

"Ladies and Gentlemen" - Saliva (already mentioned) was awesome as the recap video music back in the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals (you know, back when LeBron James still had a soul)

"Under Pressure" - Queen/David Bowie

"First Time" - Lifehouse

"Whip It" - Devo

"Devour" - Shinedown

"Apache (Jump on it)" - Sugarhill Gang

Opening Theme to "Phantom of the Opera" (can't go wrong with a pipe organ)

"Ole Ole Ole" (Soccer Anthem)

"War" - Rocky (Instrumental)

"Even the Losers" - Tom Petty (ha)

"Sirius" - Alan Parsons Project

"Stayin Alive" - Bee Gees

"Two Minutes to Midnight" - Iron Maiden (maybe a bit over the top, huh?) :-)

"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour

"You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban...j/k...but yeah, that actually made it into a team video.

[J.Warsoff]

Stobe by Deadmau5
Human After All by Daft Punk
One Minute to Midnight by Justice
Mammagamma by Alan Parsons Project
Thunderstruck by AC/DC
Adagio for Strings by Tiesto
Building the Perfect Beast by Don Henley
Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson
Electric Feel (Justice Remix) by MGMT
Play the Game Tonight by Kansas
Where's My Thing? by Rush
Voyager by Daft Punk
YYZ by Rush

Those would be a few of my suggestions. Not necessarily robot related, but still great video background music

[musicspeaks]

My #1 pick: Thunderstruck (AC/DC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3NkSWoVEI sorry to use my own video, but i do, in general, really love when robots + ACDC mix
Some others:
Palladio - Escala
Inception Soundtrack
Inspector Gadget (Dubstep) - Chrispy <-- this one could be interesting.. haha
Kill Everybody - Skrillex <-- weird lyrics... but the rest of it is great!
Technologic - Daft Punk
The Son of Flynn - Daft Punk (from Tron)
Battle - Harry Gregson-Williams (from Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
Requiem for a Dream is an AMAZING piece and always a great choice
And finally, this commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJdSinx-S8) played at my freshman year drumline world championships. Sadly, I do not know the name of the music that's playing, but I still listen to just this clip often, because I love the music so much. If you find out the name of it, it'd be great as background music as well.
Hope this helps!

[Lil' Lavery]

Orange Goblin - "Scorpionica"
Priestess - "Lady Killer"
Metallica - "For Whom the Bells Tolls"
Torch - "Fire Raiser"
The Stooges - "Search and Destroy"
Christian Mistress - "Black Vigil"
Helmet - "Unsung" (for fans of the Robowranglers' video that used Refused, this is probably your best bet)

[R1ffSurf3r]

Unkle, or movie themes catch people off guard