Lurker > HasteDeux

This topic is not finished yet. (of course, it should wait until after nominations)

6th place out of 39? Not bad considering I never explored much music!

I enjoyed this! Seeing this finished is significant to me, as this topic started about the time I started getting into vgm!

rwlh posted...

I'm pretty sure I nominated Frantic Aspic for last year's VGMC and it didn't get in :( Great song!

Based on the VGMC 15 and VGMC Nom History sheets, it's never been nominated. Anyway, I would probably support FA if it needed the help!

The great music keeps coming! I especially like ridicule. And my hunch was correct regarding Yggdrasil being your true favorite PSO2 track.

Wow, I didn't know such a neat track (Iceberg) existed in an SNES Kirby game! Add yet another contender for my third favorite Kirby track ever. That 24 Tales (Alex Machacek) track is awesome, too....

Great music!

Also, I forgot to say, "yay" for picking Toxtricity's favorite main series Mega Man track! And I noticed just today...

https://youtu.be/fX1zPuBG1Hc?t=29

I knew that section reminded me of something (i just never made an effort to find out)! But yeah, you got a simple repetitious melodic idea on top of chromatic shifting harmonies (in this case, it's three chords, not two) a lot like the middle of Gravity Man. I will hopefully nominate Volcanic Entei battle not this year, but next year for VGMC because it seems like it would do pretty well in a contest, or at least better than most of my other PMD favorites.

Lastly, I'd better correct something I said a couple of months ago....*spoilers for this topic* I I take back what I said about Toxtricity absolutely preferring GOSU to Yggdrasil.... I figured out what's likely the "real" reason Tox didn't support Yggdrasil in VGMC 14, and that reason is extremely obvious, and so it's very possible Yggdrasil could be Toxtricity's "real" favorite PSO2 track. Normally I would keep thoughts like this to myself, but I thought I'd better say this to avoid looking like a fool later.

Well, I'm famous for having a bad memory! And, I'm sorry to say, but I prefer Dark Man to Gravity Man, just slightly. But they both are my top two NES themes....

Huh, you had said like three years ago that Napalm Man was your favorite MM5 track, but things changed since then, I guess? (or maybe you lied in an attempt to avoid spoiling this topic!) Also, funny, 'cause I was specifically thinkiing "this won't make the 9.x tier, but if it does, Tox will surely revise it down lower"...so much for that. But, like you, I am absolutely astonished that Gravity Man's stage theme exists. Octave-jumping chromatics (and the way they interrupt the previous material) are the coolest! The middle section was the part that initially hooked me, though...

Toxtricity posted...

they have a very similar nature, just, very subtle things like the timing of the grace notes and stuff like that, and i guess the fact that they both have an echo effect applied! that's quite a distinct thing honestly, delay echoes applied to a brass solo is not something i can point to many examples off the top of my head of

I can't think of many examples either, but a visiting trumpet prof came to my university (a few years back) to do a recital/lecture and he had some equipment that allowed him to use delay echoes in real-time as he played... cool stuff.

Ah, you ended up using the newly uploaded Hamauzu channel upload. Nice. Whoa... I swear this one is higher quality than the previous video I used. Anyway, the more I listen to Batttle III, the more blown away I am by it, both the sound design and the composition... A lot of people would probably dismiss this track because there's no mainstream appeal in terms of melody, but the lack of a normal melody is largely why I find it so intriguing. The melodic/harmonic interction from 0:32 - 0:35 is just fantastic. It is my #86 vgm (really, it should be higher). It is also, in retrospect, my #1 vgm before "getting into" vgm 3 1/2 years ago.... I just never realized how much I loved it until I rated it alongside music from other games.

I couldn't find that specific version of Birth of a Wish ANYWHERE; the ones on the all the music sites were all missing the tripletized "Be-come-as-----GODS" at the start, which was one of my favorite parts of it. Thanks for being Darkwing Duck. (but if you take it down, that's fine, too)

I am very pleasantly surprised. :) When you were telling us the next write-up was ambitious, I specifically hoped it would be for A Warning to All Pokemon. But I knew it wasn't going to be that one! (except it was!) I seriously loved that video, too. (I might as well put it in my Favorites) And I'm glad you'll revise the score higher since I was a bit disappointed in its official placement.

A Warning to All Pokemon! is actually a very meaningful track to me. It marks the beginning of what I consider the best 31-track streak in any OST (ending in Second Dark Matter Battle). This one ranked...let's see...#122 in my vgm rankings. I love "dark" PMD music. Subtle details everywhere (e.g. delay echoes, swells) One thing I like about its composition regards 0:52, where you would expect completely new material. It sounds like it's doing just that if you aren't paying attention, but it's exactly the same melody as the beginning; it just fits within the meter differently. Clever. And then the "oohs" near the end of the loop make me float away every time I hear them! *_*

You'll be disappointed to hear this, but PSMD has overtaken Gates to Infinity as my top game soundtrack, after finally fully exploring it last summer. That's sad because Gates' soundtrack doesn't get nearly the attention that the other games in the series get, but it definitely deserves it. (Gates has a higher average rating because PSMD has lots of filler; however, I would take the top portion of PSMD over the top portion of Gates, easily) PSMD has some strong connections to some very personal things (it's quite literally helped with certain problems in my life), which I'm sure is a factor in why I like its music so much. On discord I said there were "at least three" PSMD tracks in my top 100 vgm, but that was an equivocation. Saying the number of them would make me look bad, haha.... despite that, there are still 37 composers represented in my top 50 vgm, however.