I've said before, they need peppier folk-type tunes. The songs we do hear, the music is kind of mournful. People do like happier, sappier stuff for distraction entertainment in times of trouble more than they do in times of peace.

And it was really sad trying to watch Khajit belly dancers try to do their thing to "Red Diamond", I think it was. They looked like low-rent strippers strung out on too much heroin. Sad. Really sad.*

Note that I don't think the current two songs should be replaced, just .. we need more variety, and stuff that's a little less of a bummer.

Check out the traditionals that modern bands like Steeleye Span and Great Big Sea have done. Or even the Irish Rovers. Or even some rocknroll versions of "Whiskey in the Jar".

*Unless it was really, really meant to look sad, because this is what Skooma does. I thought Skooma was supposed to be more fun than that, though - an upper, not a downer, if you will.

Something like Tania Opland and Mike Freeman's "Dragon Lady" would be awesome.

(MasterHarper of Pern album. Check it out.)

In settings under audio,there is an option to turn off the music.Not a button,but a slider.Low or loud.As to the type of music,this isnt supposed to be updated modern music.The world is supposed to be a very old one,and music was rather primitive in those times.Just my opinion tho,... :}

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isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

I've said before, they need peppier folk-type tunes. The songs we do hear, the music is kind of mournful. People do like happier, sappier stuff for distraction entertainment in times of trouble more than they do in times of peace.

And it was really sad trying to watch Khajit belly dancers try to do their thing to "Red Diamond", I think it was. They looked like low-rent strippers strung out on too much heroin. Sad. Really sad.*

Note that I don't think the current two songs should be replaced, just .. we need more variety, and stuff that's a little less of a bummer.

Check out the traditionals that modern bands like Steeleye Span and Great Big Sea have done. Or even the Irish Rovers. Or even some rocknroll versions of "Whiskey in the Jar".

*Unless it was really, really meant to look sad, because this is what Skooma does. I thought Skooma was supposed to be more fun than that, though - an upper, not a downer, if you will.

I hear you, some variety would be nice.

But look at the times, major war in Cyrodill, Dark Anchors dropping from the sky, monsters everywhere. Upon entering a new town you are greeted with some derivation of, "Boy, you picked a bad day to come to XXX!" What do these people have to be happy about?

You adventurer! They have you!

Again, people like happy sappy the best when in times of trouble. In times of peace, we get splatterpunk slasher movies. When a full-blown war is on, we get musicals. During the Cold War, we got Dark Shadows and Twilight Zone. Creepy as hell, but not particularly gory, with secrets that don't get revealed until near the end of a story.

Heppy entertainment is appreciated more when everyone's life is ***. It's detested when people are generally doing well.

Also; those old troubadour songs also doubled as the news, of course. Traveling musicans/performers picked up bits of news, that they would translate into a song/poem, and that's how news was spread before mass media was invented. It constituted the first "infotainment", only in this case, the news was more or less relevant, and not confined to some goofy Ronco product.

I can give you many examples of folk songs with dour content, but rather peppy, upbeat (or at least, not mournful) music.

Great Big Sea/Gone by the Board - by Great Big Sea (Newfoundland traditional, about a hurricane/tsunami that wiped out Long Beach. A very pleasant tune.


Sonny's Dream - by Ron Hynes. Another Newfoundlander; the song is about a son bound by guilt re: his needy mom. A typical coastal song, about the unreliability of sailor husbands, and possible psychological problems passed on from mother to son, in a non-genetic way.

Little Sir Hugh - Steeleye Span. Nice tune, but an old urban legend based on blood libel; involves child murder. Horrible lyrics, nice tune.

Sir James the Rose - Steeleye Span, another English traditional. It's about a knight who killed his squire (a child in training) for reasons unknown. His friends are tasked with hunting him down; he begs his girlfriend for succor, but she rats him out. She is later rewarded with James' head.

Also see various WW1 and WW2 tunes; not all of them had sad music (lyrics being a different story.) Dogface Soldier is from WW1, and was written by a soldier. ("I'm just a dogface soldier, with a rifle on my shoulder" .. used to have that on 75 RPM, sigh. It was a reassurance to the folks back home that their "dogface soldier boy's OK", as long as you "feed me ammunition, keep me in my old division.")

We also have the issue of those belly-dancing Khajit. You cannot belly-dance to mournful music. You just can't.

Oh, and I wish I could roll a Templar that sings this everywhere. I shall name him ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7cD6qmydo


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