[The Doomed One]

So I ran Food Fight the other day, and discovered that music really does make the game.
Does anyone else have any useful music they use for Shadowrun that may not fit in with the usual feel of the game?

[Black Sheep]

In my last game, I used a lot of Lacuna Coil stuff for general mood/background music with some heavier rock/techno for the combat situations.

Don't really know that rock or techno is out of place for Shadowrun, though...

[Unadept]

I don't know if it's out of place, but I use the original Deus Ex sountrack, the Deus Ex: Human Revolution sountrack, the Tron Legacy soundtrack and stuff from The Glitch Mob for my ambient.

I'm also considering using some dubstep for action sequences, though that requires careful selection to make sure you only have good, high-octane tracks, or KMFDM.

[Inconnu]

Some of the more actiony stuff like Havoc from Homestuck Vol. Eight seems appropriate.

[Prodigy]

No Justin Beiber? Hannah Montana?

J/K.

[Wakshaani]

I use lots of big band music and torch singers on my end. Pop music has lots of idols and prettybois, but there are tons of sidemarkets for all kinds of stuff.  Blues is making a comeback.

So, pop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwRo8fQtqpE

Swing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAko7E

Torch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNpSsJgHgsw (Horrible copy, great club)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5THitqPBw (Good quality, not as good of a song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwSJkzo5Vw


One of the things that Shadowbeat laid out oh so many years ago (And, since it was just re-released in PDF form, picking one up from Drive Thru isn't at all a bad idea!) was that 'Song-o-Mat' style had allowed anyone to create popular music more or less at will and that the sign of real talent was performing live. Pretty much allowing you to take some of today's "Pop Factory" stars and crank it up to 11. Which means that live music is a valued thing, which means it's a commodity, which means that the well-offf want to  have it around, which leads to a resurgance of Jazz Clubs.

Which are just stylish. Everybody loves CLub Obi-Wan at the start of Indiana Jones 2, right?

[AndyNakamura]

I usually go for Industrial and Electronica. Some recommendations:

Dope Stars Inc. (Pop-like, Matrix influences)
Zeromancer (similar to above)
KMFDM (Punky and anti-establishmentarian)
Rammstein (some songs work great as combat tracks, or if running in Germany)
Rob Dougan (of The Matrix fame, great combat and chase tracks)
Don Dougan (same)
Juno Reactor (same movie, same reasons)
Laibach (old-school Industrial, for factory-type areas)
Die Krupps (kinda similar to above)
Deathstars (Darkwave, works great as fetish club soundtrack, esp. if a gunfight breaks out)

[Solodice]

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV

QOTSA: Mosquito Song

Sleigh Bells: Treats

Buckethead: Lotus Island

Korn: Kill Mercy Within

[Deimonos]

I never use music for my games, is very distracting for me.

[DamienHollow]

I've used all kinds of things from Nightwish (Moondance of all songs. It was supposed to be the piece played in the background during a ball the teams face had to attend and he was having to make checks all through the dance.) To Abney Park (All the Myths are true, played more for laughs than anything else.) My personal favorite was from Repo: The Genetic Opera (Genetic Repo Man, when a "repo-man" came for a PC who took the In Debt quality so he could buy Bioware.) The Escapist (by Nightwish, can't remember what for though), Little Black Fox (by Mercedes Lackey, for the introduction of a Shape-shifter,) and Dead Man's Party (by Oingo Boingo, I was trying to drop a hint. It didn't take.)