Music For A Pulp Noir Detective Story

[Nolgroth]

As the title says, I am looking for some recommendations for Pulp Detective Music. Thanks in advance.

[Cancer]

If it's in the Big Band era, a group called Big Band Voodoo Daddy is latter-day (so the recording quality is good) and reasonably faithful to that style of music.

You might parse through The Swing Years And Beyond for old-time music. The Blues Time Machine might work for you too, depending on what you're after.

[Derek Hiemforth]

Or Jazz tunes from that era too...

Two later tunes, but that I think have the right "feel" are Park Avenue Beat (the theme to Perry Mason), and Town Without Pity by Gene Pitney. The latter has vocals, but there are instrumental versions out there too (or a karaoke version would of course have no main vocal).

[Nolgroth]

I was thinking the Bladerunner soundtrack might also fit. At least some of it. Also, portions of Vangelis: The City might be suitable for a Pulp Detective story. And for clarification, by "story" I mean "pre-game inspiration session."


Thanks for the suggestions.

[KA.]

This may sound like taking the easy way out, but you may just want to look for the sound tracks to some classic film noir.
A quick search on Amazon.com for film noir sountrack yielded several promising results
http://www.amazon.com/s/188-2519224-...Mozilla-search

Good hunting,

KA.

[Nolgroth]

Good hunting

Thanks. Great search string by the way.

[Kap]

The Stan Getz soundtrack to "Mickey One" might work for you.

[RJB]

Theme from peter gunn

[Nolgroth]

The Stan Getz soundtrack to "Mickey One" might work for you.

Theme from peter gunn

Have to check those out. Thanks!

[Strongbow]

The Bioshock 2 Soundtrack might have some goodies in it for you!

[Nolgroth]

The Bioshock 2 Soundtrack might have some goodies in it for you!

Good point. I have the Bioshock soundtrack and it has some good stuff in it.

[Pattern Ghost]

Cowboy Bebop soundtrack might have some inspirational tracks.

[Kap]

Perry Mason wasn't quite noir but his theme song could work. Music from Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, etc., would certainly be authentic. I find good jazz records work exceptionally well: Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane...

--Kap

[Darren Watts]

Harlem Nocturne is for me the definitive noir tune. Actually, my favorite version of it is by the Viscounts in the late '50s, though the song is much older. dw

[Nolgroth]

Awesome song Darren. That's pretty much the tone I imagined for the Pulp genre.