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Gary Grigsby's strategic level wargame covering the entire War in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945 or beyond.

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RE: Music to taste

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My avatar should answer this question - for WitP I listen to Bob Marley songs like 'War', 'Survival' or 'Running Away' or Israel Vibration with 'Unfair Advantage', 'Hard Road' or 'Never give up the fight'. And then there are also Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Max Romeo, Black Uhuru, Sly&Robbie, Lee 'Scratch' Perry etc. The laid-back Reggae and Dub music helps me to relax after the tension and strain built-up during the combat resolution phase, especially after carrier battles.
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It's always the right time for
MUSE!
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Hi, Berlioz "Harold in Italy" for doing turn 1.
Tchaikovski Symphony#6 if things are bad
Beethoven symphony #6 if things are good.
Rimsky-Korskov Russian Easter Overture for watching turns resolve
Beethoven Choral Fantasy for doing turns (not watching turn resolve)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas for waiting on next turn (there are 32 of them so you won't get tired of the same one)


Mog...Has anybody ever called you a snob before??????
You would also be less eccentric if you had the decency to play Wagner and Tchiakowsky,fer cryin' out loud......[:-]
Hi, Right there can't you read "Tchaikovski Symphony#6 if things are bad"
I have the same birthday as Tchaikovski and Brahms. May 7th.
I like Richard Wagner "Tannhauser" among others but how does that make me less eccentric? It would require pages to list everything I listen too. I have well over 600 peices in my collection. I am not a big opera fan. I prefer piano/violin sonata's/concertos and symphonies.
Concerning Holst I prefer "Jupiter" but I'm not really into the English composers.
Beethoven,Mozart,Brahms,Sibelius,Dvorak,Tchaikovski,Schubert,Schumann,Berloiz, Mendelshon get most of my attention. There are many others but these are the main composers I like. I also like Arlo Guthrie, Greatful Dead and David Allen Coe.
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After all this time, I still listen to the in-game background music. It just works for me. If it weren't that, it would probably be something large, complex and classical, much like Mogami's list. That seems to fit War in the Pacific, which is a symphony of its own kind.

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Lots of different music from time to time, but for mood music fitting the game I like Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.
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Of the several stock tunes which came with the game,I replaced at least 4 or 5 with Victory at Sea tunes,and the game generates them randomly..IMHO we need more of the "TOKYO ROSE" type clips!!!![:D]

I've got a few of the Victory at Sea mp3's and they are great for WitP. If anyone's interested, I got mine from:

Victory at Sea Theme Music[/size]


I can't believe Caltone hooked us up with this great website for war film music!!!!!
Thank you Caltone!!!!!!!!!!1[:D]
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For some period CDs, the Imperial War Museum has two good ones: American Patrol and Reach for the Sky. Nothing like listening to "Johnny got a Zero" as your pilots shoot down some Nips.

"Johnny got a Zero, he got another Zero. Johnny is a hero today!"
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Hysteria?


I like that song while before a big battle
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"Hysteria? I like that song while before a big battle"
That's my favorite Muse song. Chris Wolstenholme is a bass god. ["bass" as in the musical intrument, not "bass" as in "large-mouthed"] When he hurt his hand, they couldn't find any stand-in who could play Hysteria without slowing the entire song.
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I'm listening to "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles", Lili Marlen, etc. My favorite is Hitler has only got one ball:

Hitler
Has only got one ball,
Goering
Has two, but very small
Himmler
Has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels
Has no balls
At all!

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I'm listening to "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles", Lili Marlen, etc. My favorite is Hitler has only got one ball:

Hitler
Has only got one ball,
Goering
Has two, but very small
Himmler
Has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels
Has no balls
At all!

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Strangely enough (or maybe not), according to an article i read YEARS ago about a Russian autopsy report on Hitler's charred body, he indeed only had one testicle...
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ORIGINAL: testarossa

I'm listening to "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles", Lili Marlen, etc. My favorite is Hitler has only got one ball:

Hitler
Has only got one ball,
Goering
Has two, but very small
Himmler
Has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels
Has no balls
At all!

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Strangely enough (or maybe not), according to an article i read YEARS ago about a Russian autopsy report on Hitler's charred body, he indeed only had one testicle...

That’s true, this is called monochordism… or cryptochordism, poor bastard, no wonder he married Eva Braun only two days before suicide.

Thanks God I have bichordism… or stereochordism?? [:D]
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ORIGINAL: testarossa

I'm listening to "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles", Lili Marlen, etc. My favorite is Hitler has only got one ball:

Hitler
Has only got one ball,
Goering
Has two, but very small
Himmler
Has something similar,
But poor old Goebbels
Has no balls
At all!

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How about "In Der Furhe's Face" Spike Jones [:D]
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hmm, I have apple i-Tunes running in the background playing

Königgrätzer Marsch
Preussesn Gloria
Panzer Marsch
and other things like that ;-)
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I love Preussens Gloria! Ever since I heard it playing while watching The World at War..
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hmmm, I switched over to

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I prefer classical music myself. for long turns like WitP, Mahler is good. Neilson's Sym#1 has a good martial section in the first movement, Percy Grainger's ballet "Warriors" is also good for getting in the warlike spirit but my favorite is Roy Harris's Symphony#6 "Gettysburg" - all four movements.
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World War 2 was hell on the world's opera singers. In 1946 the opera singers were either dead, retired, too old, or too young.
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movie scores (not necessarily soundtracks as they sometimes contain vocals)
blue max
das boot
victory at sea both cd's
war movie theme collections
first blood
rambo 2
gladiator both cd's

didgeridoo music
meadowland song (russian)

holst-the panets
beethoven symphonies
orff-carmina burina
prokiev-alexander nevsky
shostakovich-leningrad symphony
rimsky-korsikov-russian easter overture






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I, too, like the music that comes with the game, but I've stopped listening to it because it runs through my head all day for weeks!

If I listen to music, it could be just about anything -- I'm too lazy to change what's in the player very often. Right now I have a disk of Debussy piano music, the Eastman Wind Ensemble's "Screamers" disk (mostly circus marches, but some others, including Guadalcanal), the Minneapolis Orchestra (obviously an old recording!) with the Gayne Ballet Suite and Shostakovich's 5th, and the Cincinnati Pops' 2-CD set of Gershwin's orchestral music.

I'm more likely to have a movie playing for background noise. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" is a good one to get in the right mood. Almost any submarine movie does the trick, too.
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