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Weight of the World
Rose-Killing Carmilla
Anistar City

-(HAGANE music makes me very happy !!!!! i feel like every time i hear a one step from eden song i think "i like other songs from this game more than that one such as []" until i list every song in the game in a row and loop back to the first song in the list. my point is i like every song from it around the same but have an imaginary vision in my mind that i like every song more than i do. In some ways maybe this is a good thing? The music creates a memorable aesthetic vision that sticks with me, and i remember even more fondly than the actual music itself when listening. ...i DO think there are plenty of osfe songs i could get super enthusiastic excited about compared to this one. Anyways i still love this, things that are pretty safe bets i'll at least slightly like the song with me, and easy to talk about; thick chords / breakbeats / cool synth sounds / etc. but i feel like it stops right at that surface. at least there is another hagane song in the contest i really can say i undeniably love with all of my heart)-

-[the plucked string part in this song at the start is "Light" from kirby air ride played upside-down!!! love the lush dense piano harmonies...a thing i'm surprised i didn't initially notice about nier music back when i didn't like it (note: I've noticed it for years even when "i still didn't like nier music yet" but i mean at the VERY beginning i'm surprised it wasn't something that stuck out to me). There's a lot of cliches in this track but it's presented in such a dramatic way that i'm actually really into pretty much all of them. though the big break from that, the startling chord change at 1:11 makes me go YEAH!!!!!!!!! in the same way the big moment in HEAVENS DIVIDE does. I didn't vote for this song in my favorites bracket for maybe the opposite reason of osfe lol. I have an image in my mind that "nier songs that aren't specifically the ones i talk about liking" are songs that i enjoy way less than i do. maybe part of that's because enjoying music from it was a slowly acquired taste and i did not originally like it at all. but i love this song when listening to it actively way more intensely than any memory of this track would lead me to believe.]-

-{savior of dramatic vocals}-

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-(i said this and maybe wish i'd been more assertive---this might just be me or weird imaginary thoughts because i haven't made a careful comparison; am pretty sure the lower quality version of this track (the one used when this was in long ago), is WAAY better mixed. just lower quality. This track has so much SNESMD16 style sidechain/limiter/compression stuff going on that i find a huge distraction from ability to enjoy it as much as i would otherwise. would much rather listen to the lower quality version from before (though it might actually be doing the same thing and just sounds less punishing when everything is lower quality somehow?). even with that said, knowing that Murayama is the same person as Yanagi, this actually explains a good deal...a lot of Murayama's falcom songs have a similar non-deliberate sounding wavering-volume limiter thing going on that almost feels like amateur. which is a shame because he's an amazing composer in every other way to me, and stuff like this is a big dealbreaker to me at times. It doesn't totally ruin this song for me, but i wish it was different.
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1:10/3:24 is SO GOOD AHHHH. that constant 16ths synth on that cool sound makes me so happy : ))))) and the vocals are so gusty and fun!! NORIKO MITOSE!!! I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU ARE ON A LOT OF MY FAVORITE AR TOONELICO sONG% i like the hi- hat in this song for some reason, when i listen to it i think about "that high hat part" synth bits like the rotating panning on the harpisochord like sequence at 2:10....that's what makes it good, gives it this driving energy even while calm. oh yeah this song is in odd time a lot who cares odd time is boring and stupid <NO ITS NOT YOU ARE LYING JAMES> ok)-

-[I like Osamu Sato, and respect Collen's unusual favorites a lot, but i'm kinda sad i haven't liked the lsd dream emulator picks this year or last all that much. maybe part of that is the ones being picked grid themselves a lot in a way my favorite osamu sato stuff doesn't? though honestly around 1:20 the piano bit "feels" like Tong-Nou Theme (which is my 6th favorite song ever) but it somehow doesn't strike me nearly as much. movement is more simple and plainly chromatic? the phrasing is like TOO FAST or something. It feels weird to criticize weird music because i love weird; but not this exact incarnation as much, again, just like fax factory...sad. Honestly, I think the LSD Dream Emulator songs i'd be the most into are the actual loops in low quality that would not actually do well in a contest setting at all hahaha. i know there's some others i'm waaay more into, not off the top of my head by name
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ok i am being TOO NEGATIVE ABOVE about a song i actually think is very cool. so i am only going to say positive things about this song from this point on. I LOVE that choir sound it is so goofy and cool and old fake souding. I love the metallic clanks in this intro part they are so much like gigantic shmup fish. The intro is really my favorite part, it's also ambiguous about where the beat and tempo are, partially because of the slow attack of the choir, but also because of the drums being so stuttery in a way that isn't easy to grasp grid alignment with. cool how contrasting the much more clear quarter/8th/16th section feel immediately after is, it's almost necessary for the intriguing ambiguity of that intro to sink in on its significance. THere are so many cool sounds in this song. I love how 2:47 piano reminds me of my SIXTH FAVORITE SONG EVER (TOng Nou Theme) because it is by the same composer ha ha.]-

-{lol was he on drug when make the son}-

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-(Anistar City stood out overwhelmingly to me when I first heard it. i'm one of the (many) people who thinks xy's ost was a noticeable step down from gen 5 (it doesn't help i have a lot negative to say about the game itself compared to every other mainline pokemon by far), but this is one of the many gems from the game that steps in the face of the dominantly grey atmosphere this game has to me. This song is bright and shiny! It's beautiful, the instrumentation choice is stunning ITS JUST LIKE UNTAMED HEART. IT HAS weird timed pianoo delay echoes OMG. ITs exactly the type of big glass case emotion song jewelry box tourmanline i want in my ear holes. when this game came out i liked this song, but these days i'm even more into this type of music, so i REALLY like this song now. I OLOVE DELAY ECHOES cool chord changes Minako Adachi is so good at town themes and is probably the unconfirmed composer of all my favorite "pretty songs" in gen 8 please nominate celtic wild area theme next year or something maybe. these percussive sounds are so cool. the fading in strings, like i'm just listing every single instrument in this song, it's perfection to me)-

-[my favorite part of this song is the intro pretty handily. It's nice and spooky and has the primary focus on the coolest synth sounds that are in the song. i was probably too hostile about mekazoo music in the past because i was mad at electro swing for being [none of the things i liked about jazz or edm, simultaneously, while supposedly being both at the same time] but idk i've warmed up to it these days and it's probably because spinel is my favorite steven universe character and her theme song is the coolest electroswing song ever. this isn't even that genre really but it's fun it reminds me of songs i like that ARE and has a dark cartoony energy i dig just like spinel]-

-{bird pokemon}-
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