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| Topic | [VGMC] d28: Isoleucine vs Snowman, Looking Up at Sky vs Toccatina, R2 ToC begins |
| Toxtricity 04/26/20 6:14:00 PM #44: | [...continued from above] Looking Up at the Sky is my 174th favorite in the contest! huh that's way lower than i'd have expected myself to rank this. i guess i didn't feel much from it when i did rankings so it went into 5.x zone, and like yeah i'm not a fan of how much attention it calls to some chord progression resolutions and things but like these individual chords are cool and the space the instrumentation/production fills is nice and full in a way i like. cool sounds. pitched down drums at 3:12 are beautiful. wish the mixing was just slilightly different since a lot of my favorite parts are quiet and hard to hear. i'd rank this much higher if i did a re-rank though at the same time i wouldn't say i super love this. other slow/sad falcom songs are more my thing than this one. this'd probably be like 143-150th or so, i guess that's not that much a boost, but my point is i definitely don't dislike this or find it boring like the other stuff this low Toccatina is my 48th in the contest! This does a lot with like, constant 16th piano and just accenting the right beats to give it a more deliberate rhythmic/melodic feel despite just being a constant stream of 16ths mostly. this is a style of piano stuff i'm really REALLY into. reminds me a lot of HAYATO MATSUO in the 1990s like G.U.T. from G.T.R. and the very similar Naoko Mikami - Beady eyes from the same compilation album. some amazing harmonies and chord changes. :50's big spread out chord voicings and prominent acoustic bass solo beneath the transposing light rhythmic piano chord stabs is like aaaaaaaaaah!!! synth pad chords in the background at that part fill the space really nicely with something beautiful. the way that seamlessly segues into like rhythmic gated synth patterns subtly in the background is cool too. This is so good and very much my style and i wish this was longer!!! whats falcon song team jfk |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Seize the Truth! is my 54th favorite ToC entrant! least favorite contest champion. 54th/56th out of this toc. i do not like this song : ( this is the kind of song that made me think i hate falcom music even though i now realize i actually love falcom music just not most of the songs that got talked aobut here but ESPECIALLY NOT THIS ONe. it's just tonally the antithesis of what i want to hear, the melodic line that i dislike is too much the focus, chord changes that place a big emphasis on tension/resolution in predictable places. the instrumentation's ok, i can dig dance music of older electronic sensibilities with violin over it, except the violin is playing nothing i want to hear and also the guitar drags this down, just fills the space with an even more unappealing timbral atmosphere. the electronic elements are great though, especially love pitched down drum loops and stuff at 2:18 are great, and i love fake piano! WOW NOW i only "have to" do one writeup for certain matches! Ricordando il Passato i ranked 24th, it's in the middle of the pack for me but "at least it's not seize the truth" and i've grown to like the more subdued type of thing Ricordando is more than in the past, easy match --- time ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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