Favorite music for robot videos

[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.

[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

[Tristan Lall]

Reported.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Duke461

111 from 2004

Eight years later, still the benchmark I compare others to.

Another one to throw on your list: "The Fire" by The Roots. Theme music for our whole season.

[Frenchie461]

Road to Revelation Road to Revelation works great for anything dramatic
Magika This would be awesome for a robot unveiling
To Glory Video from a competition that you did well at + To Glory=pure epic

[Koko Ed]

Utah Saints Techknowledgy is the song I would like to most use for a FRRB with Pendulum's Granite an ideal second.
I did one previously using Tribal Warfare from the Black Hawk Down soundtrack of the 2006 FLR competition and Youtube actually took it down for a year due to the song owners complaining about my use of their music(be aware there are certain companies that are very aggressive about the use of their intellectual property and will go after your creation with a vengeance no matter what the intention). They surprisingly put it back up a year later.

[MrForbes]

I always mute the sound on robot videos so I won't have to listen to the weird muzak.

[gblake]

World-class Western/European artists have been writing and performing "epic, upbeat, somewhat fast, and good to listen to" music for centuries. Try a few that have brought audiences to their feet decades. Also, many of these bear the "Used in a Bug Bunny cartoon" seal of approval).

Think outside the box.

1812 Overture
William Tell Overture
Flight of the Bumble Bee
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Pictures at an Exhibition - The Great Gate of Kiev
Beethoven's 5th
Hallelujah Chorus
Anvil Chorus
Carmina Burana (Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi)
Flight of the Valkyries
The various short dances from The Nutcracker
Night on Bald Mountain (and other pieces featured in Disney's Fantasia)
Bolero (think of ice dancing, not Dudley Moore movies)

More recent compositions that I like, that seem to have some staying power, are Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man, and parts of his Rodeo ballet.

Perhaps an Olympic Fanfare.

A piece I particularly enjoyed playing for one year's HS Concert Band piece was Russian Christmas Music. Folks either love it or hate it; but the right arrangement does a great job of drawing you in early and then steadily building to magnificent wall-of-sound finale.

Perhaps an Olympic Fanfare?

Like I suggested above, think outside of the box.
Blake

[Karthik]

In general I think that FIRSTers show a lack of love to the world of hip hop and rap. I'm thinking any of Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake or Lil Wayne all have tracks that qualify under "epic, upbeat, somewhat fast, and good to listen to songs."

If Hip Hop isn't to your liking, then take a page out of the playbooks of the sporting world. NFL Films has one numerous Emmy's for their amazing packages featuring all sorts of inspiring classical music. Also, many sports highlights montages have borrowed extensively from the soundtracks from films such as Rudy, Seabiscuit, Remember the Titans, etc.

Here are some great examples of epic sports montages with great music: (Seriously, I could watch these all days long)

2011 Miami Heat Team Intros Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
2010 World Cup, Landon Donovan's Game Winner -- Theme from Rudy
2008 Summer Olympics
2008 NBA Playoffs
2008 Phoenix Suns Intros
2007 Toronto Raptors Playoff Intro
2006 Toronto Raptors Team Intros Jay-Z/Beyonce - Crazy in Love
2002 Winter Olympics Recap -- Remember The Titans
1997 NBA Finals Recap -- R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
1996 NBA Finals Recap -- The Outfield - Winning it All
1995 Michael Jordan Returns to the NBA
1996 Summer Olympics Recap -- Beethoven's Ninth
1992 NFC Championship Game
1992 Summer Olympics, Derek Redmond
1991 NBA Finals

[araniaraniratul]

I believe we forgot My Hero- Foo Fighters

[AlecMataloni]

Originally Posted by Karthik

In general I think that FIRSTers show a lack of love to the world of hip hop and rap. I'm thinking any of Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake or Lil Wayne all have tracks that qualify under "epic, upbeat, somewhat fast, and good to listen to songs."

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a robot video featuring "Big Pimpin'" by Jay-Z as much as the next guy; however, I think the amount of profanity and blatant sexual references in most of the songs performed by those artists doesn't appeal to the reputation of FIRST teams, some of whom may or may not be making the video to show to members of their community.