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Topic	[VGMC] day 2: Rude Buster vs Brain Power, Silver Star Kaleido vs LoveULoveULove
Flamander 03/31/20 9:41:32 AM #45:	Rude Buster Silver Star Crysta Kaleido Invitation Flower ~ Autumn Rude Buster Man, it's hard to succinctly describe why I love Rude Buster so much. It's a dance tune. Let's start with that. The song starts off with these cool calm chords sound design wise. Later on, a grittier lead enters. An FM bass ties the whole song together. The chords + bass share the same motif, but when the grittier lead enters; the bass drops into the background and starts doing a solo as the lead 'improvises' over it [it's not actually improvising but it becomes 'looser']. Best mental image I have for this is a situation falling out of control. Mixing with the in game scenario it plays in [combat], it creates a feeling of danger. It's fun danger, though. The bass and the chords tie together to create this incredibly dynamic atmosphere that feels playful - at least at the beginning. When the gritty lead enters, I like to imagine it takes a turn for the worse. I guess it starts major and ends minor - I tend not to think in terminology. At the end of the song though, the bass comes back in; so the tables clearly turn. What else... the song shares a name with an ability Susie has in game - Rude Buster. Not sure which came first. As Tox said, the song very much feels like Yousuke Yasui - I want to back that up by saying it especially feels like Custom Robo V2 - some songs from that OST share a lot of elements with this one - mainly the THICK COOL CHORDS and gritty lead. Brain Power This feels like if a robot dressed up in a clown costume and started malfunctioning. Half the song just feels incredibly empty to me. The drop is pretty good, yeah - but so much could be done with the stuff up to that point. It's disappointing. Things I do like about it: Gated vocals, that's something I value a lot in music. Also, it feels really well balanced sound wise. Everything has its own place. My mental image for this is undoing like a million locks on the safe that is your mind and then delicious rainbow goop spurts out of the mindhole rather tamely. I want rainbow goop to be coming out constantly, and even more when it drops. This just isn't satisfying enough to me. == Silver Star Crysta Kaleido NOW THIS IS RAINBOW GOOP. This song does a lot of things I love really well... my mental image of this song is like. BIOTECH. that's the best mental image i have. lots of squelchy fluid percussion. using bagpipes for the lead was an amazing choice it sounds so faded out and nostalgic. I love that when the beats become all compressed, the vocals become compressed too! And, there's this pad that goes all throughout the song and it stops just for that compressed section and it sends chills down my spine. It feels like the subject of the song becomes 'trapped' halfway through. Outside of the 'trap', though it feels like this MASSIVE COLD ROOM that feels like FAKE NATURE [read: electronics and mechanisms and ROBOTS trying to act like nature]... and after the 'trapped' section, compressed percussion starts being used a lot more. The trap affected them in some way - it changed them, either through personal development; or through FORCEFUL BIOMODIFICATION. btw i've said this is a 12 for me before that is no longer true it's more like an 11.4 lol [which is still better than like 99% of vgm in my eyes]. i was extremely starstruck but listening through a few more times the reverb on the vocals and the squelchiness at times of the percussion takes things away for me rather than adding to the song. also this song quotes csikos post which is one of my favorite classical pieces Love You Love You Love fashion show music for gamer teens who have anorexia. it sounds like HUMAN AFTER ALL DAFT PUNK which is good i like human after all daft punk. weirdly enough i think i'd like this song concept better if it wasn't composed by kaufman lol. like. same sound design but non 'virt' composition. i want this to compositionally sound like plok beach is what i'm saying. this is extremely cathode 2-3 years ago but i've grown a lot in my music taste since then. if the whole song was variations on 0:16 to 0:20 with cool arps i would like it more. i'm avoiding describing the song lol 'fashion show, gamer' pretty much sums up what i think of this song. the bass isn't colorful enough - the song doesn't move how i want it to it feels too rigid. dubstep for soldiers. very 80s funky. now give me mordecai and rigby 8bit land topdown 4 next vgmc so i can expect it to crush the block then have all my undertale - hopes and dreams dashed. == Invitation Flower ~ Autumn why is the first thing i think of when it comes to this song rain. It's the ghostly pads in the background and then the constant ostinato MALLETS. but it keeps going in this oriental ninja samurai sakura trees ukiyoe face direction [woah cool flute, BRASS SECTION] for some reason which i don't mind but it's kind of subverting my expectations. i have never played an atelier game in my life [that reminds me nfun i have still not played trails] my favorite song from atelier ayesha is still wish for treasure. i like the cool SWEEP that happens at the beginning that's fun. Six Feet Thunder i like dannyb.... he has a really unique sound that i don't really hear elsewhere in vgm of like 'HORROR THIS PERSON IS PLAYING AN ACTUAL ORGAN' and that appeals to me. he would do good on a horror game soundtrack idk why we haven't seen him on one yet i want to see dannyb soundtrack the next splatterhouse game that said six feet thunder isn't particularly a song i care for much. sound design wise there's COOL BUZZING underneath the song that reminds me of ELECTRICAL CURRENTS. a big reason i love dannyb isn't actually because of his composition but it's because he does reverb in a way that i think was probably majorly influential to me when i was listening to him growin up. it feels MASSIVE, like A WHOLE WORLD and that's something that not only shows through in my taste but how i analyse songs and that comes back through to my taste and how i might perceive certain tracks as well. what i'm saying is super meat boy - hot damned was probably a massive marker point in my musical taste and if i didn't listen to baranowsky when i was a young teen then the impact on my taste would be massive, much more than if i didn't listen to any other musician --- cathode on discord <cite>Flamander posted [p:936530641] in [VGMC] day... [t:78524484]...</cite> <quote>Rude Buster Silver Star Crysta Kaleido Invitation Flower ~ Autumn Rude Buster Man, it's hard to succinctly describe why I love Rude Buster so much. It's a dance tune. Let's start with that. The song starts off with these cool calm chords sound design wise. Later on, a grittier lead enters. An FM bass ties the whole song together. The chords + bass share the same motif, but when the grittier lead enters; the bass drops into the background and starts doing a solo as the lead 'improvises' over it [it's not actually improvising but it becomes 'looser']. Best mental image I have for this is a situation falling out of control. Mixing with the in game scenario it plays in [combat], it creates a feeling of danger. It's fun danger, though. The bass and the chords tie together to create this incredibly dynamic atmosphere that feels playful - at least at the beginning. When the gritty lead enters, I like to imagine it takes a turn for the worse. I guess it starts major and ends minor - I tend not to think in terminology. At the end of the song though, the bass comes back in; so the tables clearly turn. What else... the song shares a name with an ability Susie has in game - Rude Buster. Not sure which came first. As Tox said, the song very much feels like Yousuke Yasui - I want to back that up by saying it especially feels like Custom Robo V2 - some songs from that OST share a lot of elements with this one - mainly the THICK COOL CHORDS and gritty lead. Brain Power This feels like if a robot dressed up in a clown costume and started malfunctioning. Half the song just feels incredibly empty to me. The drop is pretty good, yeah - but so much could be done with the stuff up to that point. It's disappointing. Things I do like about it: Gated vocals, that's something I value a lot in music. Also, it feels really well balanced sound wise. Everything has its own place. My mental image for this is undoing like a million locks on the safe that is your mind and then delicious rainbow goop spurts out of the mindhole rather tamely. I want rainbow goop to be coming out constantly, and even more when it drops. This just isn't satisfying enough to me. == Silver Star Crysta Kaleido NOW THIS IS RAINBOW GOOP. This song does a lot of things I love really well... my mental image of this song is like. BIOTECH. that's the best mental image i have. lots of squelchy fluid percussion. using bagpipes for the lead was an amazing choice it sounds so faded out and nostalgic. I love that when the beats become all compressed, the vocals become compressed too! And, there's this pad that goes all throughout the song and it stops just for that compressed section and it sends chills down my spine. It feels like the subject of the song becomes 'trapped' halfway through. Outside of the 'trap', though it feels like this MASSIVE COLD ROOM that feels like FAKE NATURE [read: electronics and mechanisms and ROBOTS trying to act like nature]... and after the 'trapped' section, compressed percussion starts being used a lot more. The trap affected them in some way - it changed them, either through personal development; or through FORCEFUL BIOMODIFICATION. btw i've said this is a 12 for me before that is no longer true it's more like an 11.4 lol [which is still better than like 99% of vgm in my eyes]. i was extremely starstruck but listening through a few more times the reverb on the vocals and the squelchiness at times of the percussion takes things away for me rather than adding to the song. also this song quotes csikos post which is one of my favorite classical pieces Love You Love You Love fashion show music for gamer teens who have anorexia. it sounds like HUMAN AFTER ALL DAFT PUNK which is good i like human after all daft punk. weirdly enough i think i'd like this song concept better if it wasn't composed by kaufman lol. like. same sound design but non 'virt' composition. i want this to compositionally sound like plok beach is what i'm saying. this is extremely cathode 2-3 years ago but i've grown a lot in my music taste since then. if the whole song was variations on 0:16 to 0:20 with cool arps i would like it more. i'm avoiding describing the song lol 'fashion show, gamer' pretty much sums up what i think of this song. the bass isn't colorful enough - the song doesn't move how i want it to it feels too rigid. dubstep for soldiers. very 80s funky. now give me mordecai and rigby 8bit land topdown 4 next vgmc so i can expect it to crush the block then have all my undertale - hopes and dreams dashed. == Invitation Flower ~ Autumn why is the first thing i think of when it comes to this song rain. It's the ghostly pads in the background and then the constant ostinato MALLETS. but it keeps going in this oriental ninja samurai sakura trees ukiyoe face direction [woah cool flute, BRASS SECTION] for some reason which i don't mind but it's kind of subverting my expectations. i have never played an atelier game in my life [that reminds me nfun i have still not played trails] my favorite song from atelier ayesha is still wish for treasure. i like the cool SWEEP that happens at the beginning that's fun. Six Feet Thunder i like dannyb.... he has a really unique sound that i don't really hear elsewhere in vgm of like 'HORROR THIS PERSON IS PLAYING AN ACTUAL ORGAN' and that appeals to me. he would do good on a horror game soundtrack idk why we haven't seen him on one yet i want to see dannyb soundtrack the next splatterhouse game that said six feet thunder isn't particularly a song i care for much. sound design wise there's COOL BUZZING underneath the song that reminds me of ELECTRICAL CURRENTS. a big reason i love dannyb isn't actually because of his composition but it's because he does reverb in a way that i think was probably majorly influential to me when i was listening to him growin up. it feels MASSIVE, like A WHOLE WORLD and that's something that not only shows through in my taste but how i analyse songs and that comes back through to my taste and how i might perceive certain tracks as well. what i'm saying is super meat boy - hot damned was probably a massive marker point in my musical taste and if i didn't listen to baranowsky when i was a young teen then the impact on my taste would be massive, much more than if i didn't listen to any other musician --- cathode on discord</quote> ... 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