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Topic	Mycro ranks the 278 VGM tracks that were nominated by BOARD EIGHT [rankings] 2
Toxtricity 10/20/20 3:35:29 PM #364:	135nd Game: Parallax Title: Title Composer: Martin Galway Nominator: rwlh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LEA23R-Nc oh hey someone did an oscilloscope view of this song so i don't need to make one. GOOD. because this song NEEDS one because of what this song even like, is. highly recommend watching this, especially for the stuff toward the last few minutes of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JScqpJ3XWw this has like all the makings of being literal LAST PLACE for me...but it's not?! it starts off really ""happy"" and condescendingly mechanical and simple. I basically hate it at first glance, thought this was going to be my automatic last place no question. but it becomes far too interesting for me to have that reaction as it goes. Because actually quite shortly in, the simplicity becomes hypnotic. At :40 there's that disgustingly (compliment, in this case) organic chord that feels like you are looking at the inside of the stomach of an alien parasite. that's the first sign that something is 'odd' about this song after, little details pop in, like the echo. The echo timing becomes rhythms that displaces the loops from themselves and that creates some of my favorite effects. most of the time these delay echoes aren't 'delay echoes', they're just a fragment of the track repeated and offset by a certain amount, as the echo's the same volume as the initial hit, and that is REALLY COOL(hi steve reich). for only 3 channels, this really doesn't feel that empty. no matter how much the sequence of notes sounds like kindergarten glockenspiel music that would piss me off in other contexts, this makes me go ""whoaa!"" about things it's doing even with that sequence. i almost think the contrast of what happens in this song relative to that starting point is extremely important?! and it just keeps getting compositionally darker. this set of notes that felt like a cute pink fairy have become an evil [invert color of background and all surrounding objects] fairy that is distorting reality, slowly. it gets more conventional again around the 3:00 mark, if there was a song that in itself was just the stuff you hear at that portion the whole time, i'd probably rank it last. even if i like how it's 'dark' by this point. but then ...what's this wonky detuning at 3:46?! like...what?! why?! and it eventually goes back into sync and focus...very gradually....very slowly. listening to this song requires a lot of patience. luckily I have quite a lot of patience. minimalism is one of my favorite types of music after all! I have overused the combination of words ""Steve Reich"" far too many times to describe music i like, and his stuff is even more repetitive and mechanical by design. what i like about it isn't necessarily how it's repetitive, though it's a method that works to create atmospheres that are hypnotic (or just the subtle intricacy that forms even with that minimal/repetitive exterior), and this is certainly all those things. I'm also just very fond of gradual change, slow morphing from one thing to another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgX85tZf1ts all that praise but i still probably wouldn't rank this above 200th place if it weren't for...having the guts to have an entire portion of the song from 9:18-end just be...what it is. WHAT. HOW?! how is this a real video game song?! What even is this game?! how does this make any sense as ""title theme"". That section is 2-3 full minutes of nothing but almost 'unlistenable' harsh noise that i didn't even know the c64 was capable of producing. but it does not feel even close to that long either because it's so COOL. just like before with that detuned bit at 3:46, this 9:18-end section has moments of returning to harmoniousness, but the returns to actually sounding like notes rather than painful saw blades into my brain (compliment: if unclear) are gradual. its like a full minute of harsh pain sounds between every bit within this section where you can percieve actual notes being played. AND THATS SO COOL this song is extremely difficult to listen to. like even I of all people find the ""harsh"" part almost too painful to bear, but I would not like this song even close to this much if it wasn't there. I think it's the absolute last thing I'd expect this song to have from the way it starts. yet the transition to it as an idea is so gradual. you start with kinda happy sequence of notes, those notes get recontexualized as sinister evil notes. distortions throughout the track poke through occasionally, varying degrees of intensity of those distortions. and those distortions also get more common and intense as it goes on. but 9:18 to the end it's the climax of intensity the whole thing was preparing me for. it could've just ended right there with a short glitchy fall, but it kept pulling me through and wouldn't end. and it's not a mundane end even though it's just it feels like i'm getting sucked through a tear in the FAbric of REALITY O_O it physically hurts to hear that sound. like my entire body winces as if i just observed a violent death of myself from a future that is 20 seconds from now and i am bracing for the expected pain of it coming. I don't feel any actual physical pain sourced from a physical object, but my body reacts as if i just got stabbed. it's the same feeling i've gotten from when i HAVE gotten stabbed. but the most impactful single-second bits of that feeling stretched out, endlessly for 2+ minutes. the fact that audio can even do this to me is like....really...really impressive. I've never experienced anything like this when listening to a song before. beyond what it makes me physically feel. what it makes me IMAGINE, being Deleted from reality. what does that look like? what does the worst possible physical sensation slowed down and stretched out for hours feel like? what does watching reality DIE %$$^)_W^O look like? what does the end of time ""sound"" like I wish i liked the actual composition of this song more note-wise, I LOVE its structure, and i even love it's simplicity in a way; and the fact that that ending made me feel the things it made me feel. unbelievable. it's even more powerful to me on this listen than it has ever been in the past. one thing I'd like to point out, rwlh has tried to come up with a description of my taste simplified as <cite>Toxtricity posted [p:946082768] in Mycro rank... [t:77515167]...</cite> <quote>135nd Game: Parallax Title: Title Composer: Martin Galway Nominator: rwlh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LEA23R-Nc oh hey someone did an oscilloscope view of this song so i don't need to make one. GOOD. because this song NEEDS one because of what this song even like, is. highly recommend watching this, especially for the stuff toward the last few minutes of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JScqpJ3XWw this has like all the makings of being literal LAST PLACE for me...but it's not?! it starts off really ""happy"" and condescendingly mechanical and simple. I basically hate it at first glance, thought this was going to be my automatic last place no question. but it becomes far too interesting for me to have that reaction as it goes. Because actually quite shortly in, the simplicity becomes hypnotic. At :40 there's that disgustingly (compliment, in this case) organic chord that feels like you are looking at the inside of the stomach of an alien parasite. that's the first sign that something is 'odd' about this song after, little details pop in, like the echo. The echo timing becomes rhythms that displaces the loops from themselves and that creates some of my favorite effects. most of the time these delay echoes aren't 'delay echoes', they're just a fragment of the track repeated and offset by a certain amount, as the echo's the same volume as the initial hit, and that is REALLY COOL(hi steve reich). for only 3 channels, this really doesn't feel that empty. no matter how much the sequence of notes sounds like kindergarten glockenspiel music that would piss me off in other contexts, this makes me go ""whoaa!"" about things it's doing even with that sequence. i almost think the contrast of what happens in this song relative to that starting point is extremely important?! and it just keeps getting compositionally darker. this set of notes that felt like a cute pink fairy have become an evil [invert color of background and all surrounding objects] fairy that is distorting reality, slowly. it gets more conventional again around the 3:00 mark, if there was a song that in itself was just the stuff you hear at that portion the whole time, i'd probably rank it last. even if i like how it's 'dark' by this point. but then ...what's this wonky detuning at 3:46?! like...what?! why?! and it eventually goes back into sync and focus...very gradually....very slowly. listening to this song requires a lot of patience. luckily I have quite a lot of patience. minimalism is one of my favorite types of music after all! I have overused the combination of words ""Steve Reich"" far too many times to describe music i like, and his stuff is even more repetitive and mechanical by design. what i like about it isn't necessarily how it's repetitive, though it's a method that works to create atmospheres that are hypnotic (or just the subtle intricacy that forms even with that minimal/repetitive exterior), and this is certainly all those things. I'm also just very fond of gradual change, slow morphing from one thing to another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgX85tZf1ts all that praise but i still probably wouldn't rank this above 200th place if it weren't for...having the guts to have an entire portion of the song from 9:18-end just be...what it is. WHAT. HOW?! how is this a real video game song?! What even is this game?! how does this make any sense as ""title theme"". That section is 2-3 full minutes of nothing but almost 'unlistenable' harsh noise that i didn't even know the c64 was capable of producing. but it does not feel even close to that long either because it's so COOL. just like before with that detuned bit at 3:46, this 9:18-end section has moments of returning to harmoniousness, but the returns to actually sounding like notes rather than painful saw blades into my brain (compliment: if unclear) are gradual. its like a full minute of harsh pain sounds between every bit within this section where you can percieve actual notes being played. AND THATS SO COOL this song is extremely difficult to listen to. like even I of all people find the ""harsh"" part almost too painful to bear, but I would not like this song even close to this much if it wasn't there. I think it's the absolute last thing I'd expect this song to have from the way it starts. yet the transition to it as an idea is so gradual. you start with kinda happy sequence of notes, those notes get recontexualized as sinister evil notes. distortions throughout the track poke through occasionally, varying degrees of intensity of those distortions. and those distortions also get more common and intense as it goes on. but 9:18 to the end it's the climax of intensity the whole thing was preparing me for. it could've just ended right there with a short glitchy fall, but it kept pulling me through and wouldn't end. and it's not a mundane end even though it's just it feels like i'm getting sucked through a tear in the FAbric of REALITY O_O it physically hurts to hear that sound. like my entire body winces as if i just observed a violent death of myself from a future that is 20 seconds from now and i am bracing for the expected pain of it coming. I don't feel any actual physical pain sourced from a physical object, but my body reacts as if i just got stabbed. it's the same feeling i've gotten from when i HAVE gotten stabbed. but the most impactful single-second bits of that feeling stretched out, endlessly for 2+ minutes. the fact that audio can even do this to me is like....really...really impressive. I've never experienced anything like this when listening to a song before. beyond what it makes me physically feel. what it makes me IMAGINE, being Deleted from reality. what does that look like? what does the worst possible physical sensation slowed down and stretched out for hours feel like? what does watching reality DIE %$$^)_W^O look like? what does the end of time ""sound"" like I wish i liked the actual composition of this song more note-wise, I LOVE its structure, and i even love it's simplicity in a way; and the fact that that ending made me feel the things it made me feel. unbelievable. it's even more powerful to me on this listen than it has ever been in the past. one thing I'd like to point out, rwlh has tried to come up with a description of my taste simplified as</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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