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Raetsel_Lapin
11/23/18 12:47:58 AM
#51:


Also made time to listen to Commissions I and Commissions II. They were enjoyable! I'd have to go back and listen to them to have much in the way of comments (trying to type from memory is not ideal), but I have general positive feelings for most of them.

I'm disappointed that half of the Bullet Hell tracks are not available. What we have is good, but the fact that the numbering scheme goes out of its way to tell you that you're never going to hear all of them (why couldn't the songs on the EP be 1 and 2? Did you really have to use 1 and 3, just to rub it in?) feels disappointing.

Suite from Magnetic Rose was the low point... nineteen minutes long and not as immediately gripping as most of his other work that I've heard, it felt unending.

Don't have rankings for the tracks, but I think I'd take everything except Suite over everything else I've listened to the past two days.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/23/18 9:57:09 PM
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Decided to take care of one of the random things I added to the list myself, Vektroid.

...didn't really find anything of interest. There was nothing bad about any of the tracks I sampled (it's also mildly interesting that Vektroid and OPN both have distorted covers of "I Only Have Eyes For You"), but there was also nothing that I feel like posting or raving about.

Apparently her work is Vaporwave? I don't know if I have high hopes for the genre since I wasn't crazy about her work and she's supposed to be one of the best of the genre, but it sounds like that genre does a lot of things I should like, so I may try to seek out some other songs later.
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IhatethisCPU
11/23/18 10:12:19 PM
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/24/18 6:30:26 PM
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Ring! Dong! Dang!: Infectiously catchy, though I'm not sure it really fits Smash Bros--I'll probably use it anyway, but that's more evidence of why I should never have control over the song selection than a ringing endorsement.

Couldn't quickly find a translation of the song. Google Translate on the lyrics resulted in lines such as: "Do not stab my future umbrella, try a rainbow". So that was fun.



SLOW DOWN: Nice enough, but it doesn't excite me or inspire much in the way of commentary. I've also never heard of Terrace House before--show sounds nice enough, though I have no particular interest in watching strangers living together, so it's probably not really my thing.



Go Down Gamblin': I prefer "Spinning Wheel" personally. Not entirely sure if I've heard this one or not--it feels familiar, but Wheel played so often on the oft-mentioned oldies station that I may just be distracted by how familiar the singer is.



Victory Dance: Not really a Kirby fan. I enjoyed Super Star, but perhaps unfortunately, that was the first Kirby game I ever played--when none of his other games came even remotely close to comparing to it, I rather dismissed the character out of hand. I'm sure the rest of the series is perfectly fine, just going from "one of the best Super Nintendo games of all time" to "fine" made everything else feel worse than it probably was.

Also I'm still disappointed that you have to start with Kirby in World of Light, so now's probably not the best time to ask about the character. Try again after I have the game and unlocked some characters I want to use. (In no particular order: Simon, Isabelle, Corrin, Wolf, Pichu, and Pokemon Trainer because I've missed Squirtle and Ivysaur. Would have preferred them being split into unique characters, but they're at least back so I can't complain too much.)



Skeleton Warriors Theme: First reaction--Skeleton Warriors was a cartoon?? I've never played it, but I've spent enough time browsing the Saturn's library that I instantly recognized the name. That was surprising and makes me mildly curious about the game.

Second reaction--this is so ridiculously cheesy that I loved every second of it. A magical prince fighting an army of skeletons on speeder bikes? The show's logo exploding for absolutely no reason? This might be the most ludicrously 90s intro ever.



In the Air Tonight (In This Moment): Funny enough, I was considering posting a different cover of this song over in Se7en's topic today... not that I think he'd like it, but The Protomen's cover is the only other song by them that I could possibly suggest.

This song isn't bad, but since I prefer The Protomen's cover and the Phil Collins original, I don't have any room in any of my playlists for it.



Skeleton Warriors >>>> Ring Dong Dang > Go Down Gamblin' > SLOW DOWN > Victory Dance > In the Air Tonight.

Maybe flip the last two depending on mood.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/25/18 11:57:02 AM
#55:


Good thing I got to that list of songs when I did! With Nintendo trying to wipe all the Ultimate songs off the net (good luck with that </.<), finding that song may be more difficult now.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/25/18 3:53:48 PM
#56:


Also tried to listen to a lot of David Whittaker songs; my favorite was Terminator 2 Game Boy theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch94J_rxWLQ" data-time="


finally listened to this song from the previous topic. it's cool.

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Decided to take care of one of the random things I added to the list myself, Vektroid.

...didn't really find anything of interest. There was nothing bad about any of the tracks I sampled (it's also mildly interesting that Vektroid and OPN both have distorted covers of "I Only Have Eyes For You"), but there was also nothing that I feel like posting or raving about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AIBKGIi7o" data-time="


i love this track, have you heard it? it samples a VGM track so that aspect should be interesting, at least!

(yes, this IS a vektroid tune. macintosh plus is just one of her many aliases. [aphex twin and venetian snares also use a lot of aliases. apparently this is just a thing artists who make some kind of electronic or sample-based music do for some reason.] edit: oh, seems like you already knew this since you mentioned her macintosh plus alias in the previous topic.)
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/26/18 12:09:40 AM
#57:


Mr Lasastryke posted...
Also tried to listen to a lot of David Whittaker songs; my favorite was Terminator 2 Game Boy theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch94J_rxWLQ" data-time="


finally listened to this song from the previous topic. it's cool.

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Decided to take care of one of the random things I added to the list myself, Vektroid.

...didn't really find anything of interest. There was nothing bad about any of the tracks I sampled (it's also mildly interesting that Vektroid and OPN both have distorted covers of "I Only Have Eyes For You"), but there was also nothing that I feel like posting or raving about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AIBKGIi7o" data-time="


i love this track, have you heard it? it samples a VGM track so that aspect should be interesting, at least!

(yes, this IS a vektroid tune. macintosh plus is just one of her many aliases. [aphex twin and venetian snares also use a lot of aliases. apparently this is just a thing artists who make some kind of electronic or sample-based music do for some reason.] edit: oh, seems like you already knew this since you mentioned her macintosh plus alias in the previous topic.)


Indeed I did! It was actually one of the Mac songs that sparked the interest, specifically the first track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJrmzPavcDo" data-time="


No idea how I got there--I was listening to Guile's theme and I could almost swear autoplay started playing this song immediately afterwards, but I can't find anyway the algorithm could possibly have done that... maybe it was just under the suggested videos and I clicked it, then got so confused by the song that I completely forgot how I got there? Or maybe AutoPlay does really weird things at times, I don't know which explanation is most likely anymore.

Either way, that song was weird. Everything about it. The weird artist name, the Japanese song titles, the album art, how it starts off as relaxing background music and then transitions into this warped sample of a song I still haven't heard. And having wound up there from Guile's Theme? It felt like the universe broke.

Blah blah blah, time passed, and I had only the vaguest recollection of the song--I just knew that there was some weird, trippy, experimental, genre-shifting mass of chaos that I'd been eagerly anticipating hearing more of for quite a while... and the album just couldn't live up to those expectations. Not much could, truly.



Linked song is good. I didn't recognize it as being from a game (it certainly sounded game like, but I never spent much time with Turok or its soundtrack to recognize it as being from anything specific) and that does make make it a bit more interesting. I wouldn't mind hearing more of her work or Vaporwave in general.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/26/18 8:37:49 AM
#58:


yeah, that song samples tar baby by sade (which i also love).

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
The weird artist name, the Japanese song titles,


yeah, i love vaporwave music but i know very little about the culture. after listening to it a lot and reading a lot of youtube comments it seems like kanji writings are an integral part of it. and so is writing words in all caps with spaces inbetween in a weird font, so like this:

V A P O R W A V E I S C O O L

well, the all caps thing seems to be optional so you can also do it like this:

V a p o r w a v e i s c o o l

mycro probably knows what all this stuff is about but i have no idea.

it seems like '80s nostalgia is also a huge part of vaporwave (well, turok was released in '97) so i do get the "macintosh plus" artist name, at least.
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IhatethisCPU
11/26/18 2:09:59 PM
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/27/18 12:51:55 AM
#60:


I did go through and listen to all of those tonight, but I feel like I want to listen to them all again tomorrow before commenting. First reaction is that this is probably the strongest batch of songs you've posted in this topic so far.
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handsomeboy2012
11/27/18 3:16:04 AM
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Just finished this VN, amazing soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67ZXLPeg9s" data-time="
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/28/18 12:04:47 AM
#62:


Battle Cry: I didn't know what to expect from new Hanson music and I was rather worried with the credits listing multiple symphony orchestras, but this is actually good? Surprisingly so. I just can't decide if the song is overly religious or if I'm reading too far into it:

And every time you fall face down in the dirt
I never will be far
Don't be afraid

...

I've got a battle cry, so you can follow me
Even in darkness I'll never leave your side


Those lines in particular remind me of other Jesus related things; not that that's exactly a bad thing, I gave really high marks to Gethsemane, I'm just not sure I'm reading these things correctly.



Seven Rings in Hand (Fairytales in Trance): I'm pretty sure I mentioned my love for the vocal Sonic songs at least once at the last topic, so this feels a bit like cheating... going to try The Protomen and The Chipettes next? </.<

Interestingly enough, I actually hadn't heard this one before. I listen to the original often enough, but I guess I've never paid enough attention to The Black Knight's soundtrack to find this version of it... this is a truly wondrous find and I can't thank you enough for it.

Unfortunately, the reaction I have to it and the memories it conjures up, makes it rather difficult to fairly judge any song after it--it's why I had to take a day off and then listen to all the other songs again without this one so completely overshadowing them. In a sense, it's like "Graves" by Caligula's Horse--I truly enjoy it, but I need a little break from music after the experience.



A Dedication to...Everyone: I'm not sure I've even heard of Fragile Dreams before, but the song is quite nice. Game seems interesting enough, but from the reviews I've read, I doubt I'd be a fan? Dunno, haven't really looked up that much about it.



Keep Alive: Between this and "Blue Skies (Infinity Remix)", I'm starting to think I may just like Ace Combat music.



Lightning Flame Dragon Roaring: Celtic Metal, 'ey? I should look into that later. I hear good things about "Antti Martikainen " (which is to say that name popped up in the comment that said this song was Celtic Metal), so I may try searching for a song related to that tomorrow.



Time Bomb: Never heard of this wrestler (again, my knowledge of non-WWE/WCW wrestlers is extremely limited), but all the comments about him make him sound amazing.

...though possibly too self-destructive...

Song is neat! Far more chaotic than anything else in this batch, which helps it stand out.

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Raetsel_Lapin
11/28/18 12:18:15 AM
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The palm of a tiny hand: Well, I almost cried just looking at the image. Some number of years ago, I watched some random anime on the Anime Network. The only ones that I actually remember any specific details about were Revolutionary Girl Utena and Clannad After Story.

((I also recall watching some of Aria, but can't remember much other than gondolas and Zun Taka Po...something-something Zun! Also something called Alice Academy which I don't recall anything beyond the title? Haven't thought of that one for an eternity. Wonder if it was worth remembering? Probably not.))

Right, right, so Clannad. I'm not sure if I even knew it was a Visual Novel at the time and had no real idea what it was; I figured with the name "After Story" it had to be a sequel or epilogue, but jumped in with it anyway. It was free with the cable subscription (yes, I know that's not exactly "free", but let's not get into linguistic semantics) and I was bored, so why not?

...if I'd known what I was in for, I probably wouldn't have clicked it. That being said, I couldn't stop watching it and ultimately enjoyed the experience... just... really wasn't prepared for certain things. </.<



Rankings:

Clannad and Sonic are obviously the top two from this batch; I think I'm actually going to give Clannad first place tonight. A combination of being in the mood for that sort of song and the unexpected memories of that anime give it an edge over Sonic music...at this exact moment, anyway.

Keep Alive can be in third.

...harder to say after that. Leaning towards "Time Bomb > Lightning > Dedication > Battle Cry"? All good songs and I feel I could flip those into any order and be happy with the placement.
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NFUN
11/28/18 12:29:40 AM
#64:


Mr Lasastryke posted...
yeah, that song samples tar baby by sade (which i also love).

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
The weird artist name, the Japanese song titles,


yeah, i love vaporwave music but i know very little about the culture. after listening to it a lot and reading a lot of youtube comments it seems like kanji writings are an integral part of it. and so is writing words in all caps with spaces inbetween in a weird font, so like this:

V A P O R W A V E I S C O O L

well, the all caps thing seems to be optional so you can also do it like this:

V a p o r w a v e i s c o o l

mycro probably knows what all this stuff is about but i have no idea.

it seems like '80s nostalgia is also a huge part of vaporwave (well, turok was released in '97) so i do get the "macintosh plus" artist name, at least.

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also vaporwave sucks

ok gamefaqs ate my fulldwidth
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handsomeboy2012
11/28/18 1:26:52 AM
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Not sure how it was in the Clannad anime, but it played at the credits of the VN along with some nice scenes. The song was hard to describe... I would say it was both happy and sad? Certainly brought out some emotions at that moment. The After Story was devastating to say the least and the protagonist went through a lot, but I'm very glad and relieved with the ending.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/28/18 3:21:05 AM
#66:


the original clannad anime actually used to be really big on this board - i watched it when everyone was talking about it. thought it was pretty good but not great. never watched after story (or played the games).
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/29/18 12:59:27 AM
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Listened to some of Mycros playlist on shuffle. Cant type much (not at computer), but Ill say that Koji Uenos music sounded interesting and I was pleasantly surprised to see a Steven Universe song pop upneat song, not one I would have expected from the series.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/30/18 12:46:03 AM
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Slowly working my way through the assorted artists list... it's harder to keep focus without any specific songs or albums, but I'm listening to some things. Went with Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise album today... or at least the first two or three songs on it.

Not to diminish his talents, and I still highly enjoy Futile Devices and The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us (I only had Futile Devices in 42nd place? Should be higher than that...), but I really do not like listening to a bunch of his songs in succession.

Great artist, very talented, very complicated work, but I find a little of him goes a long way. I'll...try to look into his other more popular songs in the future, but no more than one song per day at most, any more than that is just too much for me.



Wanted more music like bunbleman, so I went back to that "eerik inpuj sound" page at bandcamp and clicked the first album that interested me to see what I'd wind up with: What you hear is what you deserve by kaneel.

Good album. Think I'm going to give best song on the album to "Aspiration":

https://kaneel.bandcamp.com/track/aspiration

...I don't know why, honestly. Listened to it three times tonight, so I can safely say I like it? So long as there are absolutely no follow up questions or expectations of explanations.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/30/18 9:19:09 AM
#69:


Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Slowly working my way through the assorted artists list... it's harder to keep focus without any specific songs or albums, but I'm listening to some things. Went with Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise album today... or at least the first two or three songs on it.

Not to diminish his talents, and I still highly enjoy Futile Devices and The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us (I only had Futile Devices in 42nd place? Should be higher than that...), but I really do not like listening to a bunch of his songs in succession.

Great artist, very talented, very complicated work, but I find a little of him goes a long way. I'll...try to look into his other more popular songs in the future, but no more than one song per day at most, any more than that is just too much for me.


aww. i like sufjan stevens a lot.

i lost a little bit of respect for him when he admitted the whole "i'm going to make an album for every state" thing was just a publicity stunt, though >_>
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Mr Lasastryke
11/30/18 7:50:37 PM
#70:


new name for the european VGM composers list: charles deenen. he did the soundtrack for m.c. kids, which i like a lot. despite his english-sounding name, he's actually from my country: the netherlands.

also, at least in europe, m.c. kids was published by ocean!
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/01/18 12:04:46 AM
#71:


Mr Lasastryke posted...
new name for the european VGM composers list: charles deenen.


Not bad! I tried flipping through a lot of songs credited to him and I'd say his two best were easily from the SNES Lord of the Rings game. The title theme is the obvious choice for best song (and I wouldn't disagree with that), but Hobbiton Theme isn't far behind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHZGlkRd2OY" data-time="


The chirping bird effects are really impressive for a 16-bit game. I'll also give a special shout-out to the first minute of Mantalos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQpmhz3Y6WQ" data-time="


That is great; I'm less interested in the song once it gets going, but it has one of the strongest opening sequences of any VGM I've ever heard. And while it's not really one of his songs, he is credited as a Producer on a few Virtual Pool tracks, like "Lose My Way":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWxNo5i-IWE" data-time="


Not his work at all (Written and composed by Ronald Valdez, sung by Stacy Darin), but it did come up while I was searching his name. Not at all the type of song I was expecting to find, but I like it. Remind me to nominate that one and that Game Boy Terminator song the next time a VGM ranking topic asks for nominations.



Also, something kinda funny: I've been listening to the Classic Rock station a lot more often lately (it's the only station I listen to that still isn't playing any Christmas music) and they actually played Thunder Road today! That was fun.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/01/18 10:11:34 PM
#72:


If anyone wants to suggest specific songs or albums, they may wish to do so soon; I'm probably taking a short break after Smash bros. comes out. Not sure I'll bother much with the online, but World of Light and Classic should be amusing for a few days.



Decided to listen to the album that Reign of Kindo song came from tonight. Not a bad album, though I didn't find any of the other songs to be half as good as the nominated one (The Moments In Between).

"Till We Make Our Ascent" probably came closest, I think I'd pick that as second best from the album. I got a laugh out of Breathe Again which may be the first dark Christmas song I've ever heard--don't take that as a request for more as I doubt they invented the concept, it was just unexpected.
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LOLIAmAnAlt
12/02/18 1:23:05 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Uc_Gi7gdM" data-time="

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Raetsel_Lapin
12/02/18 3:31:14 PM
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Sloop John B: Well, that was one heck of a nostalgia bomb! I heard this song (and most of the rest of the Beach Boys' greatest hits) so many times on the oldies station, but I don't think they've played it in a long time... feels like it has been years since the last time I heard it. Or most of their songs, honestly; they don't play too much from the 60s these days, so Kokomo is the only one I know is still getting a lot of airtime.

I've never been too big a fan of the band--never tried to avoid their music, but I've also never sought it out either. They were always there with so many big songs, then eventually they just kinda...weren't? Never really thought about them or the sudden lack of their songs playing on a seemingly endless loop. Might try listening to a Greatest Hits collection later... feel like I could go for Good Vibrations or Little Deuce Coupe at the moment.

"Sloop John B"'s not a bad song. The chorus is a bit too repetitive for my tastes, but it is infectiously catchy... I've had it stuck in my head for hours now. This is also the first time I've ever really paid attention to the lyrics and apparently I've had some very, very wrong interpretations about it. I thought it was an anti-war song, or at least anti-military. The chorus' repeated refrain of

Let me go home, let me go home
I want to go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home


I thought that was someone begging to be released from military service. Then you look at everything other than the chorus and...uhh...nothing even remotely points toward that being a valid reading of the song? And it's actually an old folk song from 1916? No depth, no hidden meaning, just an old boating tune. Nothing wrong with that, but where did I get the idea that the song was anything else?

A quick Google search offers a plausible explanation: "In the movie Forrest Gump, this plays when Forrest is in Vietnam, and the camera shows the latrines. The lines, "This is the worst trip I've ever been on... I wanna go home" are emphasized."

I have no specific memories of the film, though I did see it once. Is it possible that scene implanted the "this song is about Vietnam" thought in my mind and I just never questioned it, even after I couldn't remember anything about the scene itself? Probably. The timing seems about right.



The song also inspired a lot of really weird memories. Something about the higher pitched way the band sings the word "home" was giving me a vision of singing dogs... it was quite disorienting and took me a while to follow those memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQySZpkBdGQ" data-time="


The 80s Pound Puppies intro! Something about the way the dogs and the Beach Boys sing the word "home" seemed similar to me, or at least brought up memories of each other. Hadn't thought about 80s Pound Puppies in quite a few years either--I loved that show when I was really little, but that thing really did not hold up, at all. Tried watching an episode or two after I was grown up, but they were almost painful to sit through.

((I rather liked The Hub's updated Pound Puppies cartoon that came out around the same time the current MLP series started--at least, the first season of it, since it had a drop in quality afterwards--but that was short-lived and not terribly relavant to anything.))

Inexplicably, the last time I remember watching the 80s cartoon when I was an appropriate age, was renting an old VHS of the show at same place that rented the Fist of the North Star Game Boy fighting game. Which is weird and kinda uncomfortable.

...well either way, the song I'm supposed to be talking about is alright. Not sure how I feel about all these unrelated flashbacks being triggered by the song, but it was certainly an experience.
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Mr Lasastryke
12/02/18 9:00:30 PM
#75:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLH75HiZZM" data-time="


no idea what you'll think of this - let's see!
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LOLIAmAnAlt
12/02/18 11:15:16 PM
#76:


Ha, glad I inspired a bunch of flashbacks lol.

I went to see Brian Wilson/Al Jardien's Beach Boys just a few weeks ago and have had them on my mind.
Al (The guy in the white suit) still sounds great and it was good to see Brian still be there even if he is in bad shape.

But it's a shame that the Beach Boys are so fractured and their entire story basically from birth is actually a really sad one. They literally tour at the moment as two separate groups.

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
No depth, no hidden meaning, just an old boating tune.

Actually, Brian altered and added lyrics to the old folk song to play into the story Pet Sounds (as a whole) tells.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/03/18 12:28:38 AM
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To speed up the ARTISTS section, I decided to throw some artist names into Spotify and listen to the first three suggested tracks. Not the best way to get the full experience of an artist, granted, but it's a chance to see what songs are actually being listened to and get a vague grasp of who the artist is.

The Mars Volta

...No.

"Cerpin sees giant dogs, and can hear their voices as they lead him somewhere. Above Cerpin is a surgeon, whose name is Dr. Wolfram Tarant. The Doctor has Dogs for arms."

.....No.

"Cerpin is now in the Eriatarka house of facial and muscular corrections. Cerpin starts to become angry at the Doctor, but before he can get out of control, the Doctor shows him his new form. Cerpin now has wings, his new form is called Moatilliatta - The last of the great Teraquetzals (Tera and Quetzal are both names for certain flying dinorsaurs, Pterodactyl and Quetzalcoatl)."

....

"The album is based on a book that Cedric Bixler-Zavala wrote about his friend Julio represented by the character Cerpin Taxt in the book. He was a drug addict, had an overdose, and went into a coma. When he got out of the coma he killed himself."

.......I'm just...just gonna go over here and not listen to this band any further now, thank you.

And how is every band on the planet supposed to be similar to THIS?!?





Spock's Beard

This band, on the other hand, is one that I actively want to hear more of! I actually wound up listening to all five of the songs listed as "popular" and actually don't have anything negative to say about any of them. Even a song like "What Becomes of Me" that reads like a suicide note is enjoyable because it seems like the band is great enough to get away with anything.

Not sure where to start listening to other songs by them, but I'll definitely get around to listening to more, eventually.



Oi Va Voi

Question: How did this band wind up on ZA'LIST to begin with? I don't dislike what I've heard of them, but they don't sound like any of the songs that were nominated, so I can't recall how their name would have even came up.

*checks*

Ah, their name came up in Thank You Scientist's comments. Their song was compared to this band, and Snarky Puppy, and The Mars Volta. I have no idea how any of those four bands can be compared to any of the others, but that's YouTube comments for you.

Band's alright; the songs feel a bit too slow and traditional for my tastes, but I have no qualms with the singer, the band, the lyrics, or anything really.





Moving along to the newly posted song:

Soft Machine - Hope For Happiness

Huh. This band kinda reminds me of "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band", oddly enough.

...well not that oddly, since I only heard of that band a couple days ago. With the aforementioned Classic Rock Station getting lots of play, I'm finding things that are new to me and "The Man in the Jar" was so bizarre that it left an impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVI4C_lPWs" data-time="


Not entirely sure what kind of impression, honestly. It's weird. I obviously don't dislike it; I cared enough to track down the band, the name of the song, listened to it multiple times... but I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I like it? I haven't decided.

This song is kinda like that.

Mr Lasastryke posted...
no idea what you'll think of this - let's see!


Good question. Let me know if you find the answer. *floats away aimlessly*
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/03/18 12:33:37 AM
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...
But it's a shame that the Beach Boys are so fractured and their entire story basically from birth is actually a really sad one. They literally tour at the moment as two separate groups.


Huh. I actually don't know too much about the band themselves, like I said, I never really thought about them. Kinda sad to hear that.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
No depth, no hidden meaning, just an old boating tune.

Actually, Brian altered and added lyrics to the old folk song to play into the story Pet Sounds (as a whole) tells.


I know one of the lines was changed, though I couldn't find anyone entirely sure if there was any reason the line switched to "this is the worst trip I've ever been on". SECRET DRUG REFERENCE, PERHAPS? But then it's not like any of the rest of the song lends itself to that interpretation, which seemed to just leave people confused in the short amount of research I did.

...I may try looking into that album some day. I've seen its name pop up before, supposed to be this big influential thing and what not...
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Mr Lasastryke
12/03/18 9:05:46 AM
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Huh. This band kinda reminds me of "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band", oddly enough.


interesting comparison. never heard that one before!

aww, you didn't like the mars volta.

glad you liked spock's beard, though!

and yeah, definitely check out pet sounds. one of my favorite albums period (though sloop john b is probably my least favorite song on it, no offense to loliamanalt).
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STElNER
12/03/18 9:09:17 AM
#80:


i'm bored here's some bands i'd like you to check out

Soen
Acid Bath
Rishloo
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Mr Lasastryke
12/03/18 9:14:36 AM
#81:


interesting thing loliamanalt brought up about pet sounds, relating to it being a big influential thing: i suppose it's the first concept album ever created. frank zappa is my favorite artist ever but i'm not sure why freak out! is often credited for inventing the concept album when it was released a month after pet sounds. perhaps because it more clearly has a concept/story than pet sounds does?

whatever the case may be, it's undeniable that the beatles' sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band is NOT the first concept album (even though people often claim it is).
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STElNER
12/03/18 9:16:22 AM
#82:


i'd always heard pet sounds as a hugely influential thing but never realized that was why. cool
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Mr Lasastryke
12/03/18 9:21:33 AM
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it's not just because of that, pet sounds was an incredibly inventive album for several reasons (pretty sure a "pop" band had never made an album that was this progressive and experimental before). but that was one of the main reasons why, yeah.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/03/18 9:28:25 PM
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Soen

Don't think I'm a fan, sorry to say. The three songs listed as Most Popular (going from #3 to #1)

Lucidity, I found kinda boring. The song's just so slow and sleepy that I have a hard time even focusing on it.

Rival was alright. A marked improvement over Lucidity, though it didn't leave much of an impression.

Sectarian had so much promise. When the song opened with the line "Eradicate all life", I was incredibly hyped up for something--something awesome, or villainous, or dark, and...well it was a good song, but it never reached the lofty heights I hoped it would. Probably gets a bit of a boost because an interview implies this is an anti-religion song, as I was rather hoping for a few of those to balance the more Christian songs around.



Acid Bath

A band that can't be found on Spotify or YouTube, 'ey? That's rough. It's especially annoying because there's a chance I might like them? "Scream of the Butterfly" was surprisingly enjoyable for something so overwhelmingly dark. One of those songs that I should hate, but don't.

...of course there's only a rather low quality recording of a recording, so who knows? Perhaps they are as good as Alice in Chains, if not better, and I would enjoy more of their work? Perhaps I'm over hyping them because they're so forbidden--a band that I will never truly hear, the low-quality of the recording only enhancing the forbidden mystique?

Only other song I listened to was "Dr. Seuss Is Dead" which had a somewhat decent live video uploaded... didn't care for that one. Louder and harsher, it didn't work for me I think I appreciated the chance to listen to it though.



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NBIceman
12/03/18 10:24:15 PM
#85:


Glad to see you sought out some more Kindo, although I agree that nothing else on that album comes close to touching Moments in Between.

If you still want some more of them, though, the songs that round out my top 3 for the band are October's Storm and Feeling in the Night, both of which should be on Youtube.

Edit: Check that, the studio version of October's Storm isn't on YT. Here it is.
https://soundcloud.com/daily-indie-dose/the-reign-of-kindo-octobers
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STElNER
12/04/18 5:28:40 AM
#86:


i did not realize acid bath were now hard to find on youtube as well, that's unfortunate. scream of the butterfly is incredible, and paegan love song/bleed me an ocean is the best 1/2 punch start to an album ever

sectarian is great though i agree it doesn't climax as much as you'd like.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/04/18 11:29:28 AM
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Rishloo

Hey, one of the bands nominated on the actual ranking! I was actually really hyped up to listen to more of them--a unique musical experience that reminded me of Mega Man 8's soundtrack on acid? That's exactly what I want to be listening to right now!

Then I clicked a song and realized I was confusing this band's name with Sphongle. Also that Sphongle song only got 116th Place in the ranking? Probably way too low there; not absolute top tier, but I figured it'd be around the top 50.



So, Rishloo, Rishloo... let me dig up what I had to say about them at the ranking:

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83:

Song Name: Just a Ride
Song Origin: Rishloo
Song Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqUBALfsL4" data-time="

Nominator: NBIceman (10/15)


If this is considered to be the easiest Rishloo song to understand, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to ever click anything else by them.

[FINAL NOTES: I'm unsure if those saying the song is easy to understand are just making a joke, trolling, or operating on a higher level of consciousness than I am. Possibly all of the above.]

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Well it got into the top half, which is oddly more than could be said for Sphongle (that's not to say that Just a Ride shouldn't have been up there, more just confusion as to how the other song wasn't. Though I haven't listened to Sphongle since the ranking, so I may just be remembering it as better than it was? I'll listen to it again later.)..

The other two songs picked by Spotify were "Scissorlips" and "Feathergun In The Garden Of The Sun".

I think I like Just a Ride more than either of the other two. I'll admit there's a chance it gets a boost by being more familiar than the other two songs, but then I just like the lyrics and vocals so much more on Just a Ride. "And I've been to nothingness and barely bothered to survive" and "Splitting the line between two sides, but I am neither one" are just better lines than the other songs gave.

...also relistening to Just a Ride makes me think that song might have been a bit too low itself, but that's neither here nor there, I suppose...

Scissorlips is kinda interesting in contrast by being harsher, giving a bit more depth to the band. Feathergun...uhh...

"I spy walrus tooth in the way outside of the shoegaze revolution"

...honestly I kinda tuned out at that point. It was like, "I am never going to understand this song in the least and I would rather try a different song by this band, but I'm out of time so I'll just listen to this anyway, and I guess it's alright but definitely the weakest of the three".



NBIceman posted...

Glad to see you sought out some more Kindo, although I agree that nothing else on that album comes close to touching Moments in Between.

If you still want some more of them, though, the songs that round out my top 3 for the band are October's Storm and Feeling in the Night, both of which should be on Youtube.

Edit: Check that, the studio version of October's Storm isn't on YT. Here it is.
https://soundcloud.com/daily-indie-dose/the-reign-of-kindo-octobers


Will listen to those Kindo songs later, thank you.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/05/18 12:14:11 AM
#88:


October's Storm: Nice song! It's got a good sound and a nice message. I still prefer Moments, but I'd say this is a definite step up from everything else on that album.

Feeling in the Night is interesting, bringing a much jazzier sound than I'd come to expect from the band. Not my favorite song of theirs, but it gives a new perspective on the band and was well worth listening to.



Shpongle: I apparently can't spell that, sorry about the repeated flipping of the letters earlier. Anyway, I see why the band (or artist, let's not pretend I know who or what they are) wound up where it did--the nominated song was interesting, but not really amazing... and the trippier Shpongle songs tend to run too long. "Divine Moments of Truth" starts off incredible--research says the vocal parts are being played forwards and backwards, giving this distorted effect. Then we've got throat singers, style changes, it's so unique that I'm drawn into it... but it just doesn't need to be over ten minutes long.

Some other song I listened to by them had similar problems. It does things I like, but doesn't manage to hold my attention for the full ten minutes--not that there aren't long songs that I like, but these aren't them. But they are interesting enough that I'll probably go back occasionally and flip through songs at random; feels like they should have at least one song that I absolutely love, but I haven't found it yet.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/05/18 11:51:32 PM
#89:


Sorry, didn't get to anything tonight. Tomorrow I'll try some music by Childish Gambino and The Dillinger Escape Plan, which I think will clear everything from the backlog? Unless I forgot anything or something else is suggested between now and then.
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NFUN
12/06/18 12:50:34 AM
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Mr Lasastryke
12/06/18 3:12:02 AM
#91:


Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Sorry, didn't get to anything tonight. Tomorrow I'll try some music by Childish Gambino and The Dillinger Escape Plan, which I think will clear everything from the backlog?


did you ever listen to alice cooper?
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IhatethisCPU
12/06/18 11:37:54 AM
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/06/18 12:21:45 PM
#93:


Mr Lasastryke posted...
Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Sorry, didn't get to anything tonight. Tomorrow I'll try some music by Childish Gambino and The Dillinger Escape Plan, which I think will clear everything from the backlog?


did you ever listen to alice cooper?


Not exactly. I tried looking up information on assorted albums and got in completely over my head. It's like "how theatrical do you want him to be? When he was constrained by a band or when he went overboard with no one to hold him back?", "how dark? You want more of the mainstream pop sound or go back to the more iconic earlier albums?", "third question?".

Then I kinda just wandered away because it was too much to think about. </.<
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/06/18 11:57:30 PM
#94:


The Dillinger Escape Plan

Not really a fan of the three top songs on Spotify. I was turned off by the song titles and felt, "wow, I do not want to click these names" ; then I got a page with the lyrics pulled up ("If you wanna cry bitch go do it alone ") and I really did not want to click the song.

I listened to it out of obligation to do so; it was not any better than I expected. "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants" heavily reminded me of "Ningen wo Kaburu", the ill-fated Dir en Grey song that came in 178th Place--which may have been too high a ranking, honestly.

Black Bubblegum was alright. It kinda invited comparisons to Dixie Wolf:

But you forgot that in your fairy tale I'm the wolf
All this attention got you thinking that you're a queen
You think that everything you're doing isn't a dream
Long as it feels alright




I am the villain to you
You are the princess to me
I got you where I want you
Let love bring you to your knees
If I can not have you, darling, no one will
This fairy tale is ending, this fairy tale is ending


Not really the same, granted, but... well they're both songs by metal bands that are less intense than the other songs I've heard by their respective bands and containing references to fairy tales. So that was a nice memory.



Childish Gambino

Still good, though I preferred R.I.P. and Shadows to anything I went through tonight. Looked at a list of his best songs, which gave me "Secret Track" (a remix of a song I still haven't heard which is notable because the internet had to do some work to actually get the track), "Stand Tall", "Sweatpants", and "Redbone". I'll need to listen to more at some later point...

...okay, I don't have much time at the computer tonight, so I'm gonna have to cut these a bit short:

The Filthy Mind--not the best DM DOKURO song, but all of his stuff is good so I was happy to hear it.

Got hive of Ra--When I saw "E.G.G." I thought this was going to be a song from Elemental Gimmick Gear. I'm sure that EGG isn't particularly good, but as an obscure Dreamcast RPG I never had a chance to play, I got really excited to see a reference to it... only for this E.G.G. to be totally unrelated. Song's nice, though I irrationally hold points against it for being the wrong egg acronym.

Bomber Girl--Not bad. I didn't care for it at first, but after Milk Lizard, I've realized how much better this song actually is. I also like having some chaos and this is the most chaotic song I've heard tonight, which gives it a bit of an edge.



Party Hard (Symphonic)--Still not a fan of symphonic covers in general, sorry. Don't think I'd ever heard this song before, so I had to go find the original...I'm not sure if it was a serious song or ironic like Fight For Your Right to Party.

Written Invitation to Death--Another day, another RPG song that tries too hard to sound epic. Honestly, it's several steps beyond that Bravely Default song that was nominated for the ranking, but I doubt it could hit the top 100.

Cabin in the Woods--Kinda funny, has a 60s beach party vibe and while I don't know much about Evil Dead, I know enough to laugh at all of Ash's lines. I could see myself listening to the whole album someday.

*continued*
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/07/18 12:02:55 AM
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Four Horsemen--It may be the quality of the recording, but there's an almost deafening ringing sound in the back of the track that makes this...uncomfortable? It's not really painful, but the song probably works better without the tinnitus simulation.

Theme of Azai Nagamasa--Unexpected. I know the cast from the fighting game, Sengoku Basara X (though only because of MUGEN conversions), but I've never seen anything from the main series or anime. And I don't know enough about Japanese history to know who this is. Song is nifty and inspires me to look up some information about the character or the historical inspiration, at some other point in the future.



Cabin in the Woods > Azai Nagamasa > The Filthy Mind > Got hive of Ra > Bomber Girl > Written Invitation to Death > Party Hard Symphonic > Horsemen
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handsomeboy2012
12/08/18 1:40:15 AM
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/08/18 10:39:14 PM
#97:


Smashy smashy smashy smash smash.

Off to work on unlocking Corrin/Kamui next, the character from 4's DLC that I most wanted--barely touched 4, certainly never had the DLC, but I liked the looks of their moveset. Wish the US version kept the name at Kamui though... tempted to flip the language to Japanese just for the name. But, either way, first I need to go unlock them.

...will post something musically related before Tuesday.
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/10/18 12:44:04 AM
#98:


<3 Corrin, <3 Isabelle. Unsure who to main, or if I'll even play enough to really have a "main", but I'm rather attached to those two. ...Still have several characters left to unlock though, so I guess there's a (slim) chance I may like someone else.



...I suppose I could let this purge, but I promise I have at least one actual post I want to make. I just keep getting sidetracked. Shiny new game...shiny shiny...
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NFUN
12/10/18 12:47:56 AM
#99:


Raetsel_Lapin posted...
<3 Isabelle

hmm? but wait...

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
I am the bad type of furry


oh no...
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Raetsel_Lapin
12/12/18 12:54:58 AM
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Funny, but if I meant it like that, I think I'd just be a normal furry? </.<

Aaanywho, I want to take a moment for something even more self-indulgent than usual (which is saying something considering this topic): A list of ten songs that I would nominate, if I were trying to pick songs for someone with tastes similar to mine. It was harder than I expected--I wanted to avoid having any recycling songs I'd nominated at other actual topics, which made things a bit difficult--The Stand (Man or Machine) and Fast Car were my first picks, but I already used those at Se7en's topic... and "focus tous" would be super #1 pick foreverrrr, but it would just be cheating to use songs that were actually nominated...

So... some songs, in no specific order!

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1: Something by The Protomen

My favorite band ever, I have to nominate something... but since I already posted five songs at Se7en's topic, it's harder to find something to go into this slot. The Stand is my favorite song of theirs and stands reasonably well on its own, while I don't think anything else from Act 1 really does. Even so I'm going to go with--

The Will of One:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2ibnzM1YI" data-time="




Not a conventional choice, or a good one. This track desperately needs the preceding and following songs, "Unrest in the House of Light" and "Due Vendetta" respectively. Without Unrest, you can't fully appreciate the lyrical callbacks as you hear Light's final words to Proto Man. Without Vendetta, the song just kinda stops abruptly. It's also harsher than their later work, described by at least one commenter as "grungy". The extended screaming of "Hope Rides ALOOONNNNNNEEEE!!1!11!!!" doesn't exactly do it any favors either. It is in no way a good introduction to the band.

But, I've always loved the lyrics to this and actually used some of the lines for a sig at some point. It'll never be my #1 favorite song by The Protomen, but it is the second best song from their debut album and a personal favorite, so... sure, let's go with that one.

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