Ideas for music

[baddog_1_2k]

This games gonna need some bad tunes in a dream world what 5 songs would you want to race too

1. Metallica-fuel
2.Zombie-Dragula
3.ozzy-crazy train
4.Lynard Skynard-freebird or sweet home alabama
5.megadeth-angry again

[Tomh]

I can't drive 55, Sammy Hagar
Crazy Train, The Ozz Man
Kickstart my Heart, Motley Crue
Girls Girls Girls, Motley Crue
Running Free, Iron Maiden

I like Dragula too, but you did say name my top five.

[Nismo240]

How about most of the rock music available in the 50's 60's and 70's? It would seem very fitting for this game.

[Kevman]

The whole ACDC Who made who album..

[Javelin]

My guess is it will be very generic public domain music. Possibly grouped by decades or type that we can select the listening station for. I hope we will be allowed to insert our own music/mp3 to listen to that is asigned where existing is. Doubt the rights for mainstream albums is possible.

If so, I will insert the Matt Regan(sp) music from the original MCO which is available on the web in mp3 and I do have.

[Nazz]

Will there be an option to turn music off but still hear the game sounds? I like to listen to my own 300 disc player on random.

[FuzzyDice21]

1.METALLICA - Motorbreath
2.Deep Purple - Highway Star
3.Judas Priest - Breakin the law
4.MEGADEATH - FFF
5.Dethklok - Awaken

I like my cars fast and my metal even FASTER! :rock:

[roadweasel]

MWO will ship with game music but you'll be able to import your own music - yours truly will be the game-voice you hear inbetween cuts. At present we only have plans for one radio station in-game.
Got any dj chatter ideas you might like to hear? You know, stuff like "this is your roadweasel on XREV radio bringing more tire-fryin' music your way"
I'm open to g-rated suggestions. ;)

[LowRidinCrew]

Quick Question Will It Be Mic Support Online?

[baddog_1_2k]

music off the harddrive would be sweet cranking it to zombie metallica megadeth ozzy black label society all as a radio station


I got a radio ad for ya

Eat at the road kill grill you kill'em we grill'em

[gcountach]

Metallica, AC/DC, etc. (see everyone above who listed) are all good, but I'm in a real Nine Inch Nails mood lately. Their newest album is pretty good, I think.

Also will add these to the queue when I play (in reverse alphabetical order AKA my going up my playlist):
Saliva - Click Click Boom
Pitchshifter - Please Sir, Screenshot
Ozzy - Crazy Train, I Don't Wanna Stop
MudVayne - Dig
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Molly Hachet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Korn - Twisted Transistor
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Disturbed - Indestructible
Avenged Sevenfold - Scream, Critical Acclaim, Bat Country, Afterlife
Alice in Chains - Them Bones, Man in the Box

There. :)

[Wraith]

music off the harddrive would be sweet cranking it to zombie metallica megadeth ozzy black label society all as a radio station


I got a radio ad for ya

Eat at the road kill grill you kill'em we grill'em

There's a place with a sign like that in montana or wyoming. I believe it's something like: Road Kill Cafe -- From your grill to ours. You might already know about this and are actually referencing it; if so, then this is for everyone who didn't already know about it.

[jdrouin]

hehe, with oodles of poodles and german shepherd pie ;)

[Allegedman]

I think we have had this topic before.

but as a reminder, our parts database includes custom stereos in which you can buy for your cars which allows you to upload your own playlists of music to race to, with our lovely roadweasel playing DJ in between songs.

[Whiplash911]

but what if im driving my numbers matching 69 mustang mach 1 that came from the factory with a drag pack and radio delete option ....... then i would get no music yes ??

point being ...maybe there should be an in-game radio delete (aka above) .... a standard radio that came with the car ( leaving you to be stuck with the game music) but rumor has it there is a radio in the parts catalog that you would buy, then install in your car ..allowing you to import your own music .... without buying the stereo ....you could do no such thing ....

personally im going radio delete .....im one of thoes guys that would listen to a big block and blower whine over music in a car like that ...not to mention shifts by sound

and for Gcountach- Disturbed - Indestructible....... that is the song that landed my Ford GT in the inpound lot and me buying my way out of a six point ticket ........ long story

[FuzzyDice21]

Whiplash raises a very good point, but on top of that cars from the older generation only came with am radios period, not A-track, cassette, cd or bluetooth. It wasnt like now how some radios read your thoughts and play this song, call that person and bake a cake (being sarcastic). I like the idea of buying a aftermarket stereo and importing your own songs maybe on an ipod or something like (just an idea) but I think it would be cool if in the options menu you can turn down the music volume down and listen to nothing (except a supercharged BB or a turbocharged 5.0)

[baddog_1_2k]

I did not know that..pretty funny boiled or broiled..depends if it damaged the radiator.

[Ayce]

Here's an odd thought.:trytofly:
What if your radio would only play music from the year of the car and previous? For example, if you are driving a '58 Fury, your radio couldn't play music from any year after that, (Apologies to S.K.) unless you install a new stereo system, purchased in game, then any year is playable. :D

@ Fuzzy, don't you mean 8-track??

[gcountach]

and for Gcountach- Disturbed - Indestructible....... that is the song that landed my Ford GT in the inpound lot and me buying my way out of a six point ticket ........ long story

We've all got 185 days... lets hear it. :p

[FuzzyDice21]

ya simple mistake, tamato, tomato its all the same.

[DreadZer0]

here's an idea:

Make radio stations, like they have in GTA...

Classic rock, prog rock, metal, etc.

Get some DJ's to pick playlists and suchlike...

[FuzzyDice21]

If that turns out to be the case I would like to nominate myself for the METAL :thrasher: playlist. I got over 100 different artists of every genre on my hard drive.

[DreadZer0]

If that turns out to be the case I would like to nominate myself for the METAL :thrasher: playlist. I got over 100 different artists of every genre on my hard drive.

I knew i forgot to say something... maybe we can do alternate days...

[FuzzyDice21]

I knew i forgot to say something... maybe we can do alternate days...

Do you thing you got what it takes to be a DJ on 996 THE SCRAPYARD, MWO's true metal station, trashing the tunes while you trash the gears.

I think I could let you on the team.

[DreadZer0]

What kind of metal were you thinking?

[FuzzyDice21]

definitely speed, some death, black, trash, and melodic.

[baddog_1_2k]

My biggest problem with GTA idea is they rarely get to many good metal in the game if any how can you even suggest metal without Metallica Megadeth or Black Sabbath you would never satisfy everyones need to headbang Personally I am not crazy about alot of the deathmetal but I love speed and Thrash (I don't count Hair Sorry Tommy Lee even if its good its not metal) But what if it was done more like Satellite radio genre specific maybe Outlaw Country Blues Rock Metal classic Rock of different decades and some Alternative and then you can bookmark you favorite artist and it will alert you when it comes up and even some of the new ones have MP3 players which could be off your hard drive.

[FuzzyDice21]

1.METALLICA - Motorbreath
2.Deep Purple - Highway Star
3.Judas Priest - Breakin the law
4.MEGADEATH - FFF
5.Dethklok - Awaken

I only listen to good music "hair metal" is not music and you forgot 2 other bands Slayer and Pantera. The satellite idea would complicates things even more. but I think you should still be able to upload your own music, or play what ever you want in the background with Itunes or something if you don't like the in game music. but there is no way to satisfy everyone's needs that's impossible. The stations should be there to give people something to listen to if they don't have that much music on their computer, or want to listen to different stuff.

[Dr Freedom]

if you guys need any guitar sounds i can get down with that blues and classic rock vibe and i can play with my teeth so you know it will be for real:fight::bandit:

[Kurrupt_Midtown]

I say just use some of the music from the original game. I dont think i could stand listening some of the music listed above. The music from the original game was great I thought. No lyrics, was from the era of the time of the game and so forth.

but please dont put music with screaming lyrics in it. And none of that speed/death metal stuff. Just my thoughts

Edit: I mean if you put that death/speed/hair band stuff then why not put some hip hop tracks. The music of the game should be for everyone and not everyone can stand that metal stuff. I say just put generic music in the game as Ea did. That was one think i thought they did very well was the choice of music they had in the game. If I could just hear the music again it would be great. I actually really liked it lol

[Taigo]

We cant use the original music, since it belongs to the ea.
But we will stick to the theme, old rock, surf music and blues, no lyrics nor anything :)

Dr Freedom, do you have any kind of sample so i could hear your work?

If you are interested feel free to contact me.
That goes for anyone.
You don´t even have to worry about recording, all i need would be a midi file.
Iv got synths and all the software required to finish the work.

[Wicked Chicken]

Why can't we use the music? This game was abandoned by EA in 2003 and we bought the rights to use the music since it is on the CD's. According to the abandoned software act, we have all the rights to use it as we are not making any profit off of it when the game goes live for free. Please check out this dudes my space page, he is playing all the MCO tracks and I am sure that no one cares. If you want, went through the CD 2 days ago and pulled all the music off it. They are .asf files and I converted them to .mp3 files so I could play them through I-Tunes. Hell, I could even convert those to a .wav file and burn them on CD for your car. Get that old MCO feeling while driving your real car.

http://www.myspace.com/motorcityonline

[roadweasel]

Whatever music it ships with you can insert your own tracks. You can download the music you're looking for here KM. http://by-legend.info/album1995791/soundtrack-various-artists/motor-city-online-soundtrack/

[Taigo]

Why we cant?!

1 - Because with this game, it would be like a step in ea´s foot.
You cant compare distributing a game (even for free) with a my space profile.

2 - Because we can do it better using the same style of music.

and 3 because we dont need anything from ea, plain and simple.

[Mad Mike]

and 3 because we dont need anything from ea, plain and simple.

I couldn't agree more, and

4 - even if using the original MCO soundtrack was legally sound, I'm sure EA would still find some way to hit us with a lawsuit.

[Shay Feral]

I can't believe no one has thought about mentioning "Flirting with disaster" by Molly Hatchet.

Anyway, the GTA style radio stations would be a good idea.

Maybe even a talk radio station where we can get a couple people to talk about stupid issues...

I nominate myself as the Classic/hard rock DJ, I can make a list that'll rock your socks off. And it won't sound so generic like the GTA rock stations lol I'll make a list and I'll post what I can come up with :cool:

[Mad Mike]

If we're going with radio stations, I'd suggest a station with a similar theme to the 96.2 Gear talk radio show in the PS2 game Roadkill, where they talked about: Engines, cars, demolition derbys, racing, guns, explosives and general things they liked doing in their spare time

Something along those lines incorporating: vehicles, parts, tuning advice, best places to race, and some classic Mopar vs GM vs Ford vs AMC banter would be ideal.

[Shay Feral]

Here is what I would have in mind for a rock station

"The Wolf" 105.1, MWO's home for hard rock and metal classics!
Playlist (in no partiuclar order)

Twisted Sister:

Were not gonna take it
I wanna Rock

Whitesnake:

Here I go Again
Still of the Night
Fool For Your Loving

Molly Hatchet:

Flirting with disaster

Thin Lizzy:

The boys are back in town
Jail Break

Led Zeppelin:

Kashmir
Black Dog

Scorpions:

Big City Nights
Rock you like a Hurricane

Ratt:

Way Cool Jr
Round and Round

Skid Row:

18 and Life
Youth Gone Wild

Quiet Riot

Metal Health
Cum on feel the noise

Ozzy Ozborne

Bark at the moon
Mr. Crowley

Motley Crue:

Wild Side
Kickstart my heart
Dr. Feelgood

Aerosmith:

Sweet Emotion
Same ol song and dance
Walk this way

Bon Jovi:

Wanted dead or alive
living on a prayer

Deep Purple:

Smoke on the water
Stormbringer
Highway Star

Dio:

Holy Diver
Rainbow in the dark

Kiss:

Detroit Rock City
Rock and Roll all night
Shout it out loud

Jimmy Hendrix:

Voodoo Child
Purple Haze

Guns n' Roses:

Welcome to the Jungle
Mr. Brownstone
Moving to the city

Styx:

Renegade

Iron Maiden:

Run to the Hills

Black Sabbath:

Paranoid
Iron Man
Heaven and Hell

The Eagles:

Hotel California

Blue Oyster Cult:

Don't fear the reaper
Burning for you

Alice Cooper:

Schools Out

ZZTop:

Tush
Sharp Dressed man
La Grange

Pink Floyd:

Money
The wall

Van Halen:

Hot for teacher
Running with the devil

Heart:

Barricuda

Steve Miller Band:

Jet Airliner
Keep on rocking me

Lynard Skynard:

Freebird
Sweet Home Alabama
Saturday night special

Bad Company:

Bad Company
Rock and Roll Fantasy

Tom Petty:

Free Falling
Running down a dream

Joe Walsh:

Rocky Mountain Way

George Thorogood:

Bad to the Bone
One Burbon, one scotch, one beer

Steppen Wolf:

Magic Carpet Ride
Born to be Wild

AC/DC:

Back in Black
Highway to Hell
Thunder struck

Foghat:

Slow ride

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I put a song limit of 3 per band, unfortunately I can't think of everything XD

[Ayce]

Rush:
Red Barchetta
YYZ
One Little Victory....................................oops EA used that one :redface:
Fly by Night

[ROKKET]

there is actually a lot of old 50's - 60's tunes without singing ,,,,one group it the VENTURES may be an idea if you wish i can dive in and come up with a sound track of oldies an maybe even some old drive in car hop comercials ,.,,,, possably do some voice skitts with TRACK names and such ,,,,like OPENING SAT motor world Drag way Southern style bring what you brung HEADS up no handi tourney ECT, i know a guy with a deep crackle voice do it just for kicks

[Tomh]

I don't care so much what music is in the game, and going with something generic is probably the best bet. What I'm really interested in is the ability to put my own MP3's in the game. If it can grab my tunes from a play list, and insert the "dj" bits between them, that will be great.

[Wicked Chicken]

Why we cant?!

3 because we dont need anything from ea, plain and simple.

Since you put it that way....I understand, thanks. I concur but it sounded like you wanted to use the sound track. Got ya!!!

[421HO]

All the songs mentioned and I am surprised no one thought of "I'm in Love With my Car" from Queen. My little sister gives me static and tells me that this should be my theme song. The song is on A Night at the Opera album. A good rocker.

[roadweasel]

What I'm really interested in is the ability to put my own MP3's in the game. If it can grab my tunes from a play list, and insert the "dj" bits between them, that will be great.

Last I heard, that's the plan ;)

[Wicked Chicken]

I think that your own MP3's in the game is the best. Maybe all we need is the DJ spots and commercials in the game. I have a whole CD of 1960's Drag Racing Commercials from Lion's Drag Strip, so there is no rights issues. The track closed in 1972........

A music importer sounds the best, as everyone has a different taste in music. Forget the sound track, that would make the DEV groups job easier.

[wickedkmk]

personaly i would be happy with the old sound track from MCO very catchy and soothing music but just my idea

[cline]

I have got a recording studio so i am offering to do a custom soundtrack if you are interested.

[Javelin]

We cant use the original music, since it belongs to the ea.
But we will stick to the theme, old rock, surf music and blues, no lyrics nor anything :).

So glad to hear this, the MCO style of music fit perfectly with the game and having the ability to use your own tunes is a bonus.

Matt Ragan's (SP) music in MCO was the bomb. My guess, should EA not own the rights, he does. I wouldnt be surprised if Matt was open to the idea of writing some tracks for MWO, you never know till you ask.

[Ayce]

I wouldnt be surprised if Matt was open to the idea of writing some tracks for MWO, you never know till you ask.


Don't think he'd do it for free, though. :D

I do like a lot of his stuff from the NFS series. :smile:

[Taigo]

I have got a recording studio so i am offering to do a custom soundtrack if you are interested.

You got a pm :)
Contact me so we could talk about the details.

[kevmeister]

if yer talkin' surf music, you GOTTA at least mention Dick Dale. some of his stuff would probably work...yeah, I know, there's that whole licencing thing (it was a good idea while it lasted)

[Dolfan1]

I dont know if this would be too much of a hassle, but there are a ton of good internet radio stations of all different genres of music. Is there a way you could just incorporate them into the game? That way you could possibly include what ever bands you want without having to pay (I think).

[cobra96]

honestly it would be easier to just include custom music so u could import any music u wanted...just put 50's, 60's, and 70's music on radio and let us have the option of playing our own music...cuz im gonna be rockin out to some disturbed, hollywood undead, saliva, bullet for my valentine, and a bunch more

[roadweasel]

www.pandora.com - a music genome project, lets you plant seeds and listen to music like the music you like. I listen all the time.

[gcountach]

There's also the problem with bandwidth. When I'm playing a game, I don't have anything else running that will be using bandwidth (like a internet radio station). You can play one in the background if you want, but try to stay out of the way when you see all the cars around you warping everywhere!

[Ayce]

Pandora is N/A outside of the US. :( Figgers.:mad:

[roadweasel]

I wouldn't be able to run pandora at the same time as the game... goes without saying. It's a great place to listen to music you like while you surf though.

[Zombie66]

imeem.com is a pretty good playlist site , you can make your own or listen to other peoples . they have a good selection , i havent found another site with so many Maximum the Hormone songs .

[Kurrupt_Midtown]

Well I'm back again to actually suggest something this time =-). I was reading up on some of the suggestions already done and such. I've actually come up with one of my own. Prolly kind of hard or unable to do but here it goes. I was thinking of an Auction Channel of sorts. For both cars and parts. I know some of the fun in the game was sorting through the parts/cars auctions ravaging for those certain "rare" or desirable parts. But what better way is it to hear those reare parts/cars that in there perhaps. Instead of rummaging through 100's of parts at once ya know.

And As of now im trying to get a list of the specs for the best muscle car ever made. THEE 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1!!!! Ill post it later as im trying to get all the exact specs for it and such

[Chaul]

Copyrights last 50/70 years after the death of the author. Just let everyone play their own music, that would be an important feature (multiple different playlists?), and lets the developers off from paying royalties to some big record companies.. I think. I'm not much of a fan for death metal, so I'd probably pick something like ZZTop. :D