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Toxtricity posted...

although maybe you'd meant something more like "i can't decide if klonoa will be at the top because i know you like klonoa, or if you'll hate it for how happy it is" or something like that. pretty certain that at some point you definitely pointed out how it was at odds with my usual interests at least.

oh yeah, this is certainly possible. i remember i absolutely put snowball scuffle in that "???" category because with that song, i was like "well i know you love kirby music but this song is also very happy so maybe you think this sucks because of that reason??" could very well be that i initially said similar things about moonlight museum.

also that's an extremely cool personal story with klonoa 2! I didn't know that about you, but honestly, what a fitting soundtrack to be one of your earliest experiences with vgm-out-of-context, or even active attentiveness to music in that exact way! the idea of submissions to this sort of thing being "personal" is really cool. and it can create some neat intersections with ones relationship with another person when you start to take a look at things like this. I'd have never known that an ost so important to me was also deeply important to you, but in a completely different way!

yeah that's very cool.

another one of my "early music experiences" was the album speaking of now by pat metheny group - my dad owned that CD and i played it over and over again. (to go on a tangent, i think you've been here long enough to remember the user amazing telephone? i want to say he was a music critic for a living. anyway, back in 2004 he posted his top 10 bands and artists in a "post your top 10 bands" topic and i recognized absolutely nobody he listed EXCEPT for "pat metheny," i think he was #6 or something. that was another cool very early board 8 memory for me.) anyway, i said to my brother (who also loved speaking of now): "wow this klonoa 2 music kind of sounds like pat metheny group doesn't it?" and he was like "huh no it doesn't." funny how i was being the "mycro" in this case ([insert music thing] sounds like PAT METHENY") and he was being the skeptical "lasa" ("i'm not really hearing it") haha.

also interesting how your comparison point for moonlight museum was actually allan holdsworth rather than metheny. i guess i associate the calmness and soothing sound with PMG but yeah, the holdsworth comparison also makes a lot of sense.