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Every good story has a soundtrack. Here is a list of the character image songs for the boys of Gravity. All songs listed are copyright and owned by their various artists, producers, and lables. This list is provided for those interested in what kind of music inspires the authors, their muses, and their characters. If you like the music, always support the artists. Eventually, song titles will be linked to lyrics and translations for non-English songs Submissions welcome. |
| SONG |
ARTIST |
ALBUM |
CHARACTER |
NOTES |
| Gravity | Maaya Sakamoto | Wolf's Rain | Game theme | The source of the game's name and its theme song. |
| Dancin' in the Ruins | Blue Oyster Cult | Workshop of Telescopes | Game | An excellent song for a post-apocalyptic/post WWIII game |
| Godzilla | Blue Oyster Cult | Spectres | Game | Another game song. Because there must be carnage, dontcha know. |
| Pepper | Butthole Surfers | Electriclarryland | Game | Received multiple votes for being a really good game song. |
| Fragile | Sting | ...Nothing Like the Sun | Game | Suitable to the theme of the game. |
| Life During Wartime | Talking Heads | Stop Makin Sense | Game | Another excellent theme song for a world where WWIII is an ongoing battle of man against man, even now that governments have collapsed. |
| Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden | Superunknown | Post theme | Theme for the post Black Hole Sun. |
| Deep Red | Apoptygma Berzerk | 7 | Post theme | Inspiration for the upcoming post "Dolls Bleeding." |
| Behind Blue Eyes | The Who | Who's Next | Adam Skyler | A song for a dead man, an ode to his many regrets. |
| Everything You Want | Vertical Horizon | Everything You Want | Aries | Another ghost expressing his regrets, the things he never knew he wanted. |
| Die Another Day | Madonna | Die Another Day Soundtrack |
Corwyth | Was he sacrificed to the great god, or did he live to die another day? |
| Soul to Bleed | Carfax Abbey | Vampire: The Maskerade/Music from the Succubus Club | Corwyth | Dark. So very dark. |
| Love Never Dies | Apoptygma Berzerk | 7 | Corwyth | |
| Who Needs Guitars Anyway | Alice Deejay | Who Needs Guitars Anyway? | Dare | The cyborg loves instrumentals. |
| Got to Get Away | Alice Deejay | Who Needs Guitars Anyway? | Dare | C'mon, everyone needs music to make a quick get-away by. |
| Mobile | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Dare | And this is life - get settled in, start to make friends, and then it's time to leave again. |
| Human Behaviour | Bjork | Debut | Dare | Dare: Human behaviour? Sometimes I just don't get it. |
| Big Time Sensuality | Bjork | Debut | Dare | The cyborg likes Bjork. |
| Hyper-Ballad | Bjork | Post | Dare | A dark sort of look at a bit of Dare's psyche. |
| Enjoy | Bjork | Post | Dare | Did we mention that the cyborg likes Bjork? |
| Duvet (Acoustic) | BoA | Twilight | Dare | An awesome acoustic treatment of an excellent song. |
| Nomad Soul [Piano Version] | Yohko Kanno | Macross Plus - For Fans Only | Dare | Someone find that man a piano. |
| Fur Elise (Trance Remix) | Beethoven | Dare | Only a cyborg would think of it, right? Apparently, classical should be remixed. | |
| Army of Me | Bjork | Post | Dare | This man really is an army of one. |
| Rods and Cones | Blue Man Group | Audio | Dare | Techno music made from found items. Perfect song for the game. |
| Sometimes | James | The Best of James | Dare | Newt, what are you looking at? |
| Lightning Field | Sneaker Pimps | Splinter | Dare | A bit of angst for the young man walking around thinking he's a computer. |
| The Flight of the Bumblebee (Piano) | Nicholas York | Composed by Rimsky-Korsakov | Dare | The fastest piano piece he could think of, to be played when he's trying not to think. |
| Hello | Poe | Hello | Dare | The cyborg demanded that the song about relationships couched in computer terms be included. Guess why. I dare you. First two don't count. |
| Breathe | Prodigy | The Fat of the Land | Dare | Sparring music. Picture it: Dare, Sparrow, Sora, and Long sparring together to this pumped way up LOUD. |
| Narayan | Prodigy | The Fat of the Land | Dare | Apparently, Dare likes Prodigy. |
| Trois Gymnopédies | Aldo Ciccolini | Satie | Dare | three-part piano movement: Lent ed douloureux, Lent et triste, and Lent et grave |
| Embryons desséchés | Aldo Ciccolini | Satie | Dare | three-part piano movement: D'Holothurie (allez un peu), D'Edriophtalma (sonore), and De Podophtalma (un peu vif) |
| One of Our Submarines | Thomas Dolby | The Golden Age of Wireless | Dare | Song associated with part of Dare's back story. |
| Aqua | Gabriella Robin/Yohko Kanno | Earth Girl Arjuna | Dark | Instrumentals for the cultured Chinese man. |
| Time's Scar | Chrono Cross | Music from the Playstation Game | Dark | He likes the instrumentals. |
| Stupid | Sarah McLachlan | Afterglow | Divian | Pointed words for the victim turned tormentor. |
| I'm With You | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Elise | Isn't anyone trying to find me. Won't somebody come take me home? |
| Moonlight Shadow | remix by E-rotic | for Dance Dance Revolution 5th Remix | Elise | The song Elise is singing when she is walking up the road in Stanley |
| Long, Long Way to Go | Def Leppard | X | Jerrad | Dear goddess, does this boy know how to do anything but angst? |
| Tasogare no Umi | See-Saw | .hack//Liminality | Jerrad | Apparently not. |
| Touch of Gray | Grateful Dead | In the Dark | Jerrad | The song that is running throug Jerrad's head in the beginning of Black Hole Sun. |
| Fall No More | Bella Morte | Vampire: The Maskerade/Music from the Succubus Club | Jerrad | Oh, the angst! The angst! |
| Rain | Seatbelts | Cowboy Bebop | Jerrad/Sora | Ah, I love the smell of angst in the rain. |
| Underwater (Above and Beyond Mix) | Delerium featuring Rani | Odyssey Remix Collection | Kairi | Haunting music for the soul divided. |
| Time | Sarah McLachlan | Afterglow | Kairi | A haunting song for the boy stuck in storybook land. |
| Fallen | Sarah McLachlan | Afterglow | Kirei | "So don't come 'round here and tell me 'I told you so.' " |
| Open Up Your Mind | Mirai | Gensou Maden Saiyuki | Long | A very sweet, inspirational vocal piece. |
| Open Up Your Mind | Fang Kai | Gensou Maden Saiyuki | Long | The version with Chinese lyrics, of course. |
| Omoide no mori | Saito Miwako | Shamanic Princess OVA | Long | It's hard to know that everyone you've ever known is now little more than a memory. |
| Unwanted | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Newt |
An angry song for the angry empath. |
| clowns (can you see me now?) | Tatu | 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane | Newt | I have secrets I won't share. |
| All She Wants to Do is Dance | Don Henley | Building the Perfect Beast | Sora | Rebels been rebels since I don't know when, and all she wants to do is dance... |
| So Alive | Love and Rockets | So Alive | Sora | For the boy who is walking seduction. |
| y'know (Lectro-One) | Asagiri Priss | As Sekiria - Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 | Sora | cross-dressing rockstar |
| Kon'ya wa Hurricane | Ohmori Kinuko (Priss) | Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal | Sora | cyber-punk for the cyber-brat |
| Demolition Man | Def Leppard | Euphoria | Sora | Music to blow shit up by. |
| Little Busters | The Pillows | FLCL: Addict | Sora | And somehow, this song comes complete with Jerrad and Toast bouncing along in Bessie, singing at the tops of their lungs. |
| Yoru no hana | Shibahara Chiyako | KEY The Metal Idol | Sora | Another stage piece for the drag queen. |
| Angel Voice | Fire Bomber | Macross 7: Ultra Fire!! | Sora | Music addict? This one? Never! |
| Idol Talk | Yohko Kanno | Macross Plus Original Soundtrack II | Sora | Pig noises, French, and phone sex. Of course it's a Sora song. |
| Organ Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue) |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Sora | Church music should not be that sexy. | |
| Danse Macabre | Philadelphia Orchestra | Franz Lizst | Sora | Danse Macabre is a story about a man who overdoses and dreams that he has killed his lover, and so he is beheaded. His soul is eaten at a witch's sabbath, where his lover appears as Satan's date. Sora likes this one way too much. |
| High School Confidential | Carole Pope | Queer as Folk | Sora | A pointed song for the working boy and terrorist. |
| Hurt | Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | Sora | angel is not so fond of this version, and her personal playlist has the "And All That Could Have Been" live version. |
| Hurt (Quiet) | Nine Inch Nails | Further Down the Spiral | Sora | The cyborg demanded multiple versions. |
| Gratitude | Oingo Boingo | Best O' Boingo | Sora | The cyborg mentioned that this might also make a very good game song. |
| Haunted | Poe | Haunted | Sora | It's only life, but sometimes, a bad decision will come back to haunt you. |
| Murder by Numbers | Sting | Synchronicity | Sora | Lessons in murder as art for the trained assassin. |
| Show Me Love (Extended Version) | Tatu | 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane | Sora | Get off the floor, ham. And for god's sake, put a shirt on! |
| Vanilla | Gackt | Mars | Sora | Bad Engrish, very ecchi, so very Sora. |
| Kurenai | X Japan | Blue Blood | Sora | A screaming J-rock ballad to round out the soundtrack. |
| Anything But Ordinary | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Sparrow | She's a happy little assassin, for the most part... |
| Hunter | Bjork | Homogenic | Sparrow | Dare: Well, she IS a hunter... Sparrow: No, I'm not. Dare: Oh, yes you are. And anyway, it's a good song. |
| Control | Poe | Haunted | Sparrow | I would also vote for this being a Toast song. |
| Tomorrow | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Sparrow/Rob | And I try to believe you, when you say that it'll be okay; yeah, I try to believe you, but I don't. |
| Naked | Avril Lavigne | Let Go | Toast | ne, para-chan. we really need to do the T?WT? Halloween post |
| Hell | Squirrel Nut Zippers | Hot | Toast | The song that plays after "Burnin' Down the House" on the disk that is playing in the post Burning Down the House. |
| Burning Down the House | Talking Heads | Stop Making Sense | Toast | Irony, in a painful way. Also the song playing when the MBoT returns to camp in the post Burning Down the House. |
| Bring Me to Life | Evanescence | Daredevil Soundtrack | Yuuki | This song will make more sense when we actually meet the blind Borrower. |
| Oh, Boy! | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly Golden Hits | Zenith | Only Zenith could manage to slash a Buddy Holly song. |
| One Night in Bangkok | Company | Chess | Dare/Sora | Comes complete with imagery of Dare dancing in a manner that used to be illegal in a lot of states. |
| I Miss You | Bjork | Post | Dare/Sora | I miss you, but I haven't met you, yet. |
| Dreaming Piano | G-Point | Dare/Sora | More techno piano for the tecno-pianists. | |
| Fantasia in D Minor | Mozart | Mozart for Meditation | Dare/Sora | Again, those boys and their piano pieces. |
| Piano Concerto (Techno) | Mozart | Dare/Sora | Cause the cyborgs cannot get enough of the techno piano. | |
| Nightmare on the Dance Floor | Mussorgsky | Remixed by Prodigy? | Dare/Sora | Techno Remix of Night on Bald Mountain. |
| The Becoming | Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | Dare/Sora | Dare pointed out that this was an excellent song for a cyborg. Sora agreed. |
| NEN - Yoroi no Chikara | Samurai Troopers | Ronin Warriors- I Jin Hen |
Dare/Sora | A great instrumental. |
| Everything | Lifehouse | No Name Face | Jerrad/Toast | An appropriate song for this non-relationship |
| Light the Light | Fire Bomber | Macross 7: Ultra Fire!! | Jerrad/Toast | Almost qualifies as a game song. |
| Thief | Belly | Tank Girl Soundtrack | Sparrow/Newt | You are my liar, so I will be your thief. |
| Noshi ni natta Hanabi | Midorikawa Hikaru | Sotsugyou M | Sora/Aries | Some things are lost forever. |
| Why Does the Sun Shine? | They Might Be Giants | Severe Tire Damage | Sora/Aries | Songs for teenage boys to wreak havoc by. |
| Wild Boys | Duran Duran | Decade | Sora/Dark | Boys behaving badly |
| Wasted Time | Skid Row | Slave to the Grind | Sora/Sterling | It's hard to watch someone you love destroying himself. |