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| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 06/18/22 4:36:22 AM #229 | all the VGM --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 06/07/22 3:09:59 AM #227 | there's much VGM to listen to --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 04/22/22 1:35:09 PM #220 | mycro ranked all of my songs --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 04/13/22 4:30:29 AM #219 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 03/20/22 6:35:59 AM #215 | music --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 02/15/22 5:20:38 AM #211 | R-Man posted... 47. Gurumin - Sight of Silence ah yes, i remember this song from VGMC15. [this writeup was written without having read mycro's writeup] top tier falcom track! excellent jazz fusion that reminds me of plenty of other jazz fusion: spyro gyra, george duke, bugge wesseltoft. this song reminds me of wesseltoft because he also often uses double bass in his music - you don't hear this instrument TOO often in fusion but i always love the sound of the combination of double bass and spacey fusion keyboards. the section at 2:20 is so good ahh. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 01/14/22 5:06:36 AM #207 | happy new year --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 12/25/21 9:06:28 PM #205 | happy holidays y'all --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 12/01/21 5:16:29 AM #201 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 11/06/21 11:44:02 AM #196 | ok, we're now entering the R-MAN NOMS ZONE R-Man posted... 46. Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger's Requiem - Cat Blast! great start! awesome jazz fusion(-ish) song. my favorite part is that modulation at 0:37 ahh so good. also, the slap blass slaps. when i discuss music, i usually don't give the bass the respect it deserves (because i just don't care much for the instrument) but slap bass is always worth bonus points in my book. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 11/06/21 11:37:53 AM #195 | cakophon posted... i actually like xevious in-game. i feel like its unfair to call it the worst video game song because of its length but yeah, hearing it for extended periods will probably do something to you yeah, i've heard people speak positively of the xevious song before. goes to show that no matter the VGM song, there will always be disagreements on it. rumor has it there's even people out there who enjoy crazy bus! and yeah, that version is a lot better. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 11/01/21 4:28:52 AM #194 | let's bump this --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 10/18/21 3:18:32 AM #192 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 10:08:36 AM #181 | |
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| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:51:18 AM #179 | NFUN posted... 45. Murasaki Tsurugi - Speartip of Judgement this is peculiar mix of things. it's part '00s trance, part '90s house and part nils petter molvr-ish future jazz. while i'm not as into the trance aspect, this is a good song. absolutely should have beaten resurrectedreplayer in VGMC15 (that song is more trancey so objectively worse imo). --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:49:54 AM #178 | NFUN posted... 44. Auto Modellista - Opaque Air very good song. in his writeup for my speedway nom in his VGM song ranking project, mycro was talking about how it's interesting how racing games in particular often seem to feature fusion or fusion-inspired music. this is definitely fusion but not the "ahhh i'm floating through the blue skies" kind of fusion (mycro likes to use this metaphor) that i associate with racing game music. this is more like "i'm chilling in the cocktail lounge bar of a cruise ship enjoying a nice mojito" kind of fusion, which is also a kind of fusion i love. i really like the fender rhodes-sounding keyboard solo. i love joe sample and this is a very joe sample-ish solo. they even do the typical smooth jazz "changing up the chord progression in the middle of the solo" thing that's in many of sample's solos. yeah, i should listen to the entire auto modellista soundtrack, as well as tons of other racing game soundtracks! (like sonic r) --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:46:53 AM #177 | NFUN posted... 43. Phantasy Star Online 2 - DYREINA great song. it might be the first vocal tune from PSO2 i've heard. i really like the melodies and the instrumentation is pretty good. not quite a top tier PSO2 song but i'd put it in the "tier below top tier" for sure. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:39:31 AM #176 | NFUN posted... 42. jubeat saucer fulfill - Scars of FAUNA can't say i love this as much as mycro did. the "traditional folk song with a dance beat" aesthetic makes it remind me of that ukraine song from the last eurovision that everyone went crazy about. it's fine but i'm not all that into it. in style, it's pretty similar to despair of elferia, but i like that one a lot more because its composition is way more interesting to me. i also like nekomata master's bahram attack remix a ton more (probably a top 5 VGMC15 song for me!). also, mycro mentioned in his writeup that while he likes the "world" nekomata master stuff (he gets a lot more enjoyment out of it than me, probably), he does prefer his more fusiony stuff like elebits... wait, he did elebits? wasn't there an elebits song in a super old VGMC, like 3 or something? i vaguely recall loving that song. yeah, he seems like an awesome VGM composer, even if i'm not fond of this particular song. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:37:30 AM #175 | NFUN posted... 41. beatmania IIDX 16 - Turii ~ Panta Rhei that linedance dance beat bit at 1:47 is so dumb and cheesy. funny how this is another zektbach (that's the alias of tomosuke, i guess?) creation, because that bit kind of reminds me of cotton eye joe by rednex (which i also mentioned in my blind justice writeup). but it reminds me even more of a song by the very popular dutch-italian pop singer marco borsato, specifically the part starting at 3:13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsz1_cUe_4 ugh. (he's actually made some songs that i think are quite good but this isn't it.) anyway, i like the vocal parts. pretty good song but i'd rate it much higher without the country EDM stuff. still not convinced zektbach is a composer i'm super into, but i will say this is a huge step up from blind justice! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:35:56 AM #174 | NFUN posted... 40. beatmania IIDX 12 - Mind the Gap great fusion song. i love the usage of the "jump by van halen" kind of synth. maybe it's a liiittle short for this "all over the place" kind of fusion but it's long enough for me to not be too bothered by that. definitely one of the top tier bemani songs i've heard so far. and yeah, this is way better than those granado espada songs by osamu kubota i've heard. if all of his music sounded like this, i would like him much better! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/13/21 9:07:11 AM #173 | cakophon posted... i actually like xevious in-game. i feel like its unfair to call it the worst video game song because of its length but yeah, hearing it for extended periods will probably do something to you yeah, i don't know if it's the actual worst but it's certainly down there for me. i've seen other people before who like it, though. hey, some people even like crazy bus! and yeah, that version is much better. NFUN posted... the YouTube channel is called varra. this is "lads ranks songs", not "lasa ranks vgm". oh ok. i figured it could have been "not vgm" but the video confused me. ok, let's wrap up nfun's nominations before i get to the r-man ones... --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/11/21 6:03:52 AM #172 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 08/01/21 3:37:05 AM #170 | NFUN posted... 39. Varra - Fortnite II first of all, what the hell is "varra"? i googled "gamefaqs varra" and one of the results was "lasa ranks 100 songs nominated by nfun" but no information about the game came up. is it even a game?! anyway, this is another great song in the style of '80s fusion like the yellowjackets etc. it sounds like the kind of VGM from the fifth generation of consoles era (like eclipse). wait, in the description, there's a bunch of japanese signs and "windows 96"... could this be related to... V A P O R W A V E ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zZ4Gj75xs or did the person who wrote it mean to write "windows 95" and make a typo? cool how the video shows you how to play those beautiful chord progressions i should learn to play them on the piano. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 07/25/21 5:44:01 AM #169 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 06/28/21 4:25:14 AM #162 | NFUN posted... 38. Xevious - Main Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyUrrzGPa4 for the people wondering why on earth nfun would post THIS abomination, i posted xevious as my answer in anagram's "what's the worst video game song of all time" topic (obviously, the actual answer is crazy bus, but i excluded that one to make it a little more interesting). now, clearly this song is terrible - it sounds like the demo song on a toy keyboard for 4 year olds or something - but the song i was talking about was actually a different one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jwkuIs5qI this is the only music that plays during gameplay in xevious. i watched the vod of famous speedrunner themexicanrunner beating xevious for nesmania, his project in which he allegedly beat all licensed NES games in existence (i say allegedly because his criteria for "beating" games were occasionally dubious - but whatever, it was a really cool project anyway). this game took him 12 hours and 49 minutes to beat. imagine listening to this little number for 12 hours and 49 minutes. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 06/14/21 5:41:55 AM #160 | i should listen to VGM --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 04/19/21 7:20:36 PM #153 | NFUN posted... I have been informed that this is jazz fusion, and it rocks, so here we go i guess sure, this is jazz fusion. specifically, this is somewhat reminiscent of "big band fusion" to me like some of the stuff don ellis made, for example. oh hey, it's wataru ishibashi again! i don't like this song as much as the wataru ishibashi songs i just mentioned in my previous writeup but it's good. he hits yet again! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 03/23/21 6:30:13 AM #149 | "soon" --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 03/13/21 8:59:23 AM #148 | coming soon: me talking about video game music --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 02/08/21 4:21:20 PM #142 | Chuck_Tingle posted... 36. Ys VI - Ruins of Amnesia great song. love the melodies and the folktronica aesthetic. my favorite part might be (roughly) 1:49-2:07. ahh so good. the ruined city kishgal from this game was in the last VGMC, which happens to be one of my favorite songs out of that contest. mycro also loved it and pointed out that it was composed by watari ishibashi. oh hey, i recognize that name! he also composed aiming for the future from trails in the sky sc (another falcom game), which i discussed in post #19! that's another great song! man, he rules. but uh yeah, this can't compare to the ruined city kishgal but that's ok. still an awesome tune. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 02/08/21 3:06:29 PM #141 | ok, one more digression before i get to the next one. haste did two more bemani songs in his topic so i want to talk about them too: dornwald ~junge~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZ6jwPP8iA windy fairy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApancI5dOA4 haste ranked these very close together, which makes sense, as they're pretty similar and they're both by dj totto. don't have much else to say - especially since haste already went in-depth on them. plus mycro did writeups for both of them (they were both in VGMC13) so now there's really very little for me to add lol. (mycro loved both but unlike haste, he ranked dornward ~junge~ higher than windy fairy.) i think they're both great songs but inferior to douwa kairou. one thing i do wonder - is the "long held piano note at the end" a very frequent rhythm game trope or something? not only does it appear in these two tracks, it was also in the vocaloid track nfun ranked #999 in his topic! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 02/08/21 3:04:55 PM #140 | ah ok. also, i screwed up again; i meant to say my #2 PSO2 song is false credo ~ earthguide, NOT esca falz mother ~ superiority... i like superiority but it's not top 3 good lol. i guess i got the titles mixed up because i mentioned them both in my (second) writeup for ice-covered love ~ kohri. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 01/26/21 9:15:11 PM #138 | oh whoops, i did the wrong nfun-nominated PSO2 song; i'd already talked about ice-covered love ~ kohri in post #98 >_> i guess my music memory really IS terrible. (funny how i made that comment about "status quo drumming" in both writeups, though.) anyway, here's the song i MEANT to talk about in that post: NFUN posted... if kohri is good may as well throw in hitsugi too yeah, this does sound a lot like kohri. this is hands down the best PSO2 song i've heard so far! another extremely fusion-ish song with beautiful lush chords. out of the PSO2 songs i've heard now, my top 3 would be: 1) hitsugi, 2) esca falz mother ~ superiority, 3) ice-covered love ~ kohri. too bad the entire PSO2 soundtrack is not as good as this tune (as i've now found out) but it's clear that there's a lot to love on it! oh btw, why isn't there a composer listed for this song? is it unknown or did you forget? --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 01/26/21 2:53:12 PM #137 | NFUN posted... No song in the PSO2 albums (so all of the ones I've uploaded to youtube) has a loop over the entire song. Some sections can be looped, and a lot of the tracks are dynamic with individual segments that are melded together which makes the concept a little weird, but this is at least uniquely structured over the full thing oh ok. interesting. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 01/26/21 2:36:14 PM #135 | ok, time for another detour. i'm now going to go through all of the phantasy star online 2 songs that raetsel gave a low rating in her (now purged) topic and see how they compare to the PSO2 song nfun nominated. i will eventually listen to the whole soundtrack, but i thought this would be a fun way to get an idea of what it is like. so here we go! deus esca ~ yggdrasil shining on the earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xa-6SZGjtk agree with raetsel on this one - she gave this a low rating entirely because it's super short, not because she thought the music was bad. i also think it's essentially a jingle rather than a "song," if you will. that being said, for a jingle, this is really good! esca falz mother ~ superiority https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7TPScowlY huh, am i the only one who... kinda likes this? raetsel gave it 25.10 points and nfun said it "sucked." i enjoy the epic feel of this! raetsel called it boring and complained about the pulsing beat (fair point). and i recognize that, for the most part, it's just a short loop that's repeated over and over again. but all that being said, i still think it's above average. false credo ~ earthguide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuY1_Dzs3w can't agree with raetsel on this one - she thought this was "adequate" while i think it's amazing! this is an extremely fusion-ish song, so is exactly the kind of thing i adore. ok, it does have a church organ-sounding instrument, which i'm usually not a fan of. but since it's not the focus of the track, i'll forgive it. in fact, i think the church organ complements the other sounds quite nicely! also, i'm too lazy to go back and check but this DOES loop at some point, right? raetsel called it a "seven minute barrage of adequateness" but i feel like it's more like 3:45 minutes (of awesomeness)! tears of the moon ~ artemis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxkuHn98tI ...ok, i agree with raetsel that this is not good. a few complaints i have:
eclipse for esca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKg-Gragbhc another one i dislike but for different reasons than raetsel. this is another one she disliked for its short length, while i just don't like this kind of cheesy scary movie music. like, if this were two minutes longer, i would probably still dislike it. metamorphosis to esca falz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0dMT2rsMc well, i don't think this is bad but i'm not fond of it either. it's a bit too quirky and dissonant for me to really love. i prefer the fusion sound of false credo ~ earthguide to this more modern classical-ish sounding tune. seems like a song mycro would be super into but i think it's just ok. superluminal ~ danger ~ esca falz mother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EOfqIkeZSg this is one of those "super frantic beat" songs that i often don't enjoy. i do like this and it's definitely one of the better tunes i've heard as far as that kind of music goes, but this is one where i feel like the short length is detrimental. raetsel said that this COULD have been a really great song if it were longer and i totally agree with that sentiment. the perfection ~ phaleg (midnight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KspafBdklS4 i liked this way more than raetsel did. another one that's very fusion-ish but it does lose points for also being another "super frantic beat" song. with better drumming, this would be perfect (no pun intended) to me. but as it is, it's merely "good." superliminal ~ chase ~ esca falz mother (phase2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK6jPJmYmE0 ...uh yeah, insert the previous writeup here? i'm struggling to think of something original to say. raetsel ranked this right after the perfection ~ phaleg (midnight), which makes sense, given how similar they are! i guess i could mention that i'd give this song bonus points for prominently featuring the electric guitar (raetsel also mentioned this aspect!). sacredness ~ adam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhFmVMt66s agree with raetsel that this isn't good. another song that features the church organ but unlike false credo ~ earthguide, this DOES really focus on the instrument so i can't really get into this. composition-wise, some parts of this are quite good. but yeah, this just isn't a type of music i enjoy. alright, that's it for songs from raetsel's topic (she gave sacredness ~ adam a 49.99 and the next PSO2 song got a 50.00). let's get to nfun's nom now: NFUN posted... 31. Phantasy Star Online 2 - Ice-covered Love ~ Kohri |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 12/14/20 7:05:32 AM #127 | ah, thanks for the info. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 12/11/20 6:04:18 PM #125 | NFUN posted... yeah I've only gone through Nekomata and the reflec beats. One month I'm going to go insane and listen through everything in chronological order haha, i actually kinda liked that song for the first minute or so - after that it got pretty obnoxious - but yeah, it's obviously not fusion lol. that's actually the main reason why i wanted to (re)listen to a bunch of bemani songs, to see how much of it sounds like fusion. i always thought a lot of it did but it turns out there weren't that many of those songs in this particular sampling. thanks for the warning/recommendations. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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| Mr Lasastryke 12/11/20 5:29:46 PM #122 | hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nkSUn1aU34 this is from pop 'n music usagi to neko to shounen no yume. this appeared in the last VGMC. well, no need for me to go over this one again, as i've already talked about it in post #20. ...but wait, why was i acting like i'd never heard it before?! it was in several matches in VGMC14! is my music memory that bad? apparently! well, listening to it again, i do like it a lot and i think it's better than just ok (as i said in the writeup) but the frantic beat still bothers me. this was composed by one "zutt"? well, based on this, i'd say he's not as good as all the other mentioned composers (aside from tomosuke) but he's good enough to make me want to hear more stuff that he's done. mycro loved this song! shining wizard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLlFv47lwGk&feature=emb_title this is from jubeat knit. this appeared in VGMCs 7 and 8 and this is another song that was composed by daisuke kurosawa (i stole all of this information from haste btw). makes sense that this is a kurosawa song as, like right brain salad surgery, this is also very fusiony. great instrumentation (the metal flourishes almost make this sound like a planet x tune) and good melodies. i like RBSS a little better (from what i remember, anyway) but this is also awesome. again, go check out haste's writeup! scars of fauna this is from jubeat saucer fulfill. this appeared in the last VGMC. another song that seems to have been removed from youtube (going by the VGMC link, at least). i can still check out the mycro writeup, though... he loved it and mentioned that this is yet another naoyuki sato composition. so this is probably very good! chloe this is from jubeat prop. this appeared in the last VGMC. yet ANOTHER song that was removed from youtube - seems like they went really hard after the "jubeat" brand of bemani songs for some reason. shame because this was mycro's second favorite song in the contest!! (well, at least we can still listen to dungeon - geofront 4...) according to mycro's douwa kairou writeup, this is another dj totto composition so i'm assuming i would really like this too! ok, now we finally get to... NFUN posted... 34. REFLECT BEAT groovin'!! - Recursive Function first of all, what game is "reflect beat groovin'!!"? i mean, gamefaqs lists 4 reflec beat games but none of them are called "groovin'" (the original, limelight, + and colette). anyway, this is great! together with shining wizard, this is definitely the most distinctly fusion sounding song out of all of these, both in terms of the instrumentation and the composition (ahh those lush chords), and you should know by now how much i like fusion. "OSTER PROJECT" is a name i haven't encountered yet - too bad none of their stuff made it into the last VGMC! kanata no rafflesia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-fjE66WNY i don't get what game this song is from either - apparently, it's from "the reflesia of eternity," which is another reflec beat game gamefaqs doesn't list? eh, maybe i should just give up trying to make sense of bemani lore - this is clearly too complex for someone who knows nothing about this stuff, like me. anyway, this appeared in the last VGMC. great song, it sounds like a "generic anime song" with a beat that's distinct but not super frantic. mycro really liked this too. he didn't mention who composed it but the image in the youtube video says "DJ TOTTO." if it is them, this sounds nothing like the other stuff by them i discussed but i love it nonetheless! --- well, seems like this bemani stuff is really my jam! it's clear to me by now that there's many different composers contributing music to these soundtracks but i liked almost all of these songs anyway (i'm making the safe assumptions that i like the songs youtube deleted too)! someday, i would like to do a thorough listenthrough of these soundtracks, but the incredible amount of games in this franchise is pretty intimidating... --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 12/11/20 5:29:24 PM #121 | ok, rather than just talk about the next song - recursive function from relflec beat groovin'!! - i'm going to zoom out a little here and look at the bigger picture. i went down a rabbit hole here - apparently reflec beat groovin'!! is part of a rhythm game franchise called bemani and gamefaqs informs me that bemani is associated with a number of other rhythm grame franchises (dance dance revolution, drummania, guitar freaks, pop'n music, jubeat, dancing stage, dance maniax) and beatmania has a subfranchise called beatmania IIDX and most of those franchises have like 86 games in them?? damn. (i assume "BEMANI" is shorthand for BEatMANia or something, right?) i was talking to mycro about bemani on discord a few years ago and he informed me that not all bemani-related music is amazing and that it depends on the composer. still, i'd now like to talk about some songs in these franchises i've somehow encountered before and i'll incorporate my recursive function writeup into this too! the least 333sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRAYSALtrqk this appeared in the last VGMC as being from "GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX" - i guess the implication is that it appears on both of these soundtracks? anyway, great tune. the emphasis on (what sounds like an) acoustic piano kind of makes it sound like mouse on the keys to me - though wikipedia describes mouse on the keys as a post-rock band, their music mostly sounds like frantic neo jazz and so does this song (though mycro described this as "pretty solidly in the progressive rock genre" in his writeup). love the electric guitar too. mycro loved this song too! yay! right brain salad surgery this appeared a few times in past VGMCs. apparently, it appeared on both the guitar freaks v6: blazing!!!! and the drummania v6: blazing!!!! soundtracks. no link because i can't find one anymore on youtube :-( anyway, from what i remember, this was a great song. very fusiony with some prominent fretless bass. mycro told me on discord that it was composed by "96," which, according to haste's topic (i will refer to it more times later), is the alias of one daisuke kurosawa. douwai kairou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEhGUmXcG2Y this is from gitadora overdrive and it appeared in the tournament of champions in the last VGMC. oh, this youtube video is kind of enough to mention the composer in the title ("dj totto"). i assume the least 333sec was also by dj totto as it sounds extremely similar to that one. this one sounds more fusiony, though, as there's a more prominent role for the electric guitar. another great tune, i like this a little better than least 333sec, even. i don't know if i like dj totto as much as 96, from what i've heard, but they're clearly no slouch either! mycro also loved this one, he ranked it #4 out of the ToC songs! he pointed out that it's partially in 5/8 (a time signature simple enough for me to follow!) and even though he loved it, he did critcize the guitar (i love the guitar in this so i can't agree with him on that one!). blind justice ~torn souls, hurt faiths~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Y66A4jP-M this is from beatmania IIDX 14: gold. it appeared in the last VGMC. this, uh... kinda sucks! it's not the worst song ever but man, it really does sound like someone was like "hey, let's throw a bunch of shit that annoys lasa all in one song." first of all, this somehow sounds baroque-ish, which is not a classical music genre i'm fond of (though i do like some of it). second of all, i don't like the sound of the church organ so the fact that there's a church organ sounding instrument in this is also bad. and jesus, all this combined with the vocals and the '90s dance beat makes it sound so cheesy. it reminds me of cotton eye joe by rednex. well, not all of these bemani tunes can be great, i guess. too bad! just looked up the mycro writeup and... he called it an "amazing track" O_O he compared it to bach, so good to know that my "baroque" comment wasn't super crazy (i wrote the above paragraph before reading the writeup). he also said that he liked church organ. i'm pretty suprised that mycro was raving so much about a tune where the drums are so stiff but hey, i'm glad he gets so much enjoyment out of this. but yeah, it's not for me. oh yeah, mycro mentioned that this was composed by one tomosuke, so i'm glad i know whose stuff to avoid when looking for new VGM in the future >_> dark legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKVLq7Ub0s this is from beatmania IIDX 21: spada. this appeared in the tournament of champions of the last VGMC. i'm not crazy about the frantic beat but this is still good! mycro loved it and he mentioned it was composed by naoyuki sato. this tune is nowhere nearly as good as the more fusiony stuff by 96 and dj totto but i still like it. haste also talked about this song in his topic and he gets into the technical stuff so go check out his writeup! despair of elferia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNmTgi43zuo this is from beatmania IIDX 22: pendual. this appeared in the tournament of champions of the last VGMC. great song. love the melodies and for once the frantic beat ADDS to the intensity of the beautiful composition, rather than distracting from it. i don't really like the '90s trance aesthetic that's prominent at times but that's my only (minor) complaint about this. mycro also loved this (he ranked it #7 in his ToC rankings) so we pretty much agree on this one. oh, this was also composed by naoyuki sato? i'm a lot more interested in him now. this is way better than dark legacy! also, this is another one that haste talked about! midnight lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHVJrubwwsQ this is from beatmania IIDX 25: cannon ballers. this appeared in the last VGMC. A E S T H E T I C S ...no but really this sounds so much like vaporwave, it's crazy. i wouldn't be surprised if macross 82-99 composed this but apparently |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 11/05/20 12:09:53 PM #113 | no new writeup yet but i just wanted to say that yasunori mitsuda also (partially) composed the chrono trigger soundtrack, one of my favorite soundtracks?!? man, embarrassing reminder of how little attention i usually pay to the people behind my favorite VGM >_> but yeah, i do like the chrono trigger OST better than the three mitsuda songs nfun nominated for this. same possibly goes for the chrono cross OST (which mitsuda also did), though i personally like that soundtrack less than the chrono trigger one... --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 11/04/20 2:39:46 PM #112 | NFUN posted... 33. Soma Bringer - Ring Tower i liked this one a lot less than run through flames ~ largo bridge. it's another waltz but it doesn't sound like a "fusion waltz" like run through flames did (like zappa's a pound for a brown on the bus). this sounds more like a johann strauss II waltz, which is a style of music i'm much less into. the composition appealed a lot less to me too. still decent, though! so yeah, i liked all three mitsuda tracks that were nominated but didn't love anything. however, i do want to check out the soma bringer and tsunami: atonement soundtracks someday to see if there's anything on there i DO love. i feel like the potential for this to happen is definitely there! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Lasa Ranks 100 Songs Nominated by NFUN |
| Mr Lasastryke 11/04/20 2:34:04 PM #111 | NFUN posted... 32. Soma Bringer - Run Through Flames ~ Largo Bridge nice "cheesy" instrumentation (fake horn!) (cheesy instrumentation is a good thing in this case). i associate this sound with "european VGM" but i assume "yasunori mitsuda" is not european. there's probably tons of non-european VGM that sounds like this (the rhapsody: a musical adventure soundtrack - which this soung kinda reminds me of - is another example) so the "european VGM" thing is probably some weird thing i made up that makes no sense. also, i did not know this soma bringer game and assumed it was something from the '90s-early '00s but nope, it's a DS game from 2008! though maybe the DS's 64-bit format makes it sound like an N64 soundtrack so it somewhat sounds from that era anyway even though it's not? who knows. but yeah, good song. good instrumentation, nice melodies too. oh, mitsuda also did the devil, which i apparently didn't love at first and then liked a lot better. maybe that means i'll like this even more later on? we'll see! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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