So I was thinking I would just post some of the songs that inspire a lot of my writing. Most notably they are works from Bad Religion and I decided to post links to youtube videos with lyrics. I'll give them an 'area' as best I can.
Also apparently the blog doesn't parse youtube links so just click on the song name to be taken to the video.
'Pity The Dead' this is a song that is pretty much specific to the gutter. It covers the general feeling I want to have for the place-- that is to say that people are living so horribly that death is probably the best thing to happen to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDQKPMSI1E
'God Song' is a good feel for general attitudes toward religion in Espher and a flavor of the treatment of Christians in the current age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0w2kQf0bjI
'God's Love' is an extremely strong inspiration for the way I have built Espher in regards to religion. Most people in miserable situations see a lack of mercy and question/drop their faith. Keep in mind all 'zealous' Christians were forced out of the city when they became violent in their demands that Espher join the war in the east. That's when they got the boot. In Espher you keep your religion to yourself if you do have one at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfnoi22-Bpk
(You will need to hit the 'show more' button below the video for the lyrics, I could not find one with lyrics on the video)
'Los Angeles Is Burning' is a general song that helps me with a lot of Espher. To get the 'things really aren't good if you look past the forced smiles and bullshit and see the statistics. It's generally good for showing how focused people are on stupid shit, allowing their city to become a dictatorship, the hell around them (if they don't have the money to buy themselves enough distractions for forget it)
The following three are my most dramatic inspirations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvmcJZ5r1o0
'Against The Grain' is a general feel for the resistance/underground/people in Espher who can see things as they are and do not buy into propoganda or scare tactics, those who see what is wrong and do what they can in all their own ways to fight against things as much as they are able.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbVX-ELsUQ
'Punk Rock Song' is a good song about people living in Espher and how those with money can ignore things without worry. The declining conditions for everyone below The Cloud and how little is ever done to change or improve that. It focuses mainly toward the gutter, however, but is a good look at Espher in general, people not caring enough about others to notice that their circumstances are dangerously close to theirs if only a few things were changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQFqXDCN80E
'Epiphany' is a good song to bracket the entire story or to apply to the main characters/the underground. 'What's right is wrong' 'What's clear and pure is not so sure' 'All promises become a lie / All that's benign corrupts in time' are all very good lines in looking over Espher.
'What's right is wrong' points that doing the right thing for those of us who are 'good' is now somehow mutated into something you don't or do not want to do.
'What's clear and pure is not so sure' is a nice line in regards to the government and general law enforcement or military focuses. You can never know just who actually means it when they say they are a good person, how far from your back their knife really is.
'All promises become a lie, all that's benign corrupts in time' points directly to The Iron Obelisk. All the promises that it would make human greed and political bullshit disappear, that it was a solution to it all. That all the good things that were there in the beginning have become warped enough to be nearly the exact opposite of what they are in the name of 'progress'.
That's all I'll do for now but if you were curious you might have wanted to look them over/listen to them.
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