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Raetsel_Lapin
11/08/18 1:31:13 AM
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Right, so after my music ranking topic, there were several songs that were not part of the ranking that I wanted to listen to; artists from the ranking that I wanted to learn more about, assorted suggestions of new artists/songs/albums, and what not. It was all going quite swimmingly, until we ran out of posts.

...that would give me the perfect excuse to go back to lurking, but I was quite looking forward to listening to the album Mycro just posted and telling him what I thought about it, so let's have a hastily thrown together continuation!

Rules

Post songs or albums and I'll make an attempt to listen to them eventually; some songs will be listened to immediately, some get thrown onto a list and lost for a month, there's no real structure or format. There will be write-ups when I feel like writing something about the songs--no promises, but I'll make an attempt.

Since this isn't a very formal topic, there's not any limit on songs or anything. Also no telling how long this topic will go on for; as of this writing, I want more songs to add to the list, so nominate whatever for any reason that amuses you. Or don't. I mean, I already made my dream music topic and got it to 500, so I'm quite happy as is although more songs would be honestly appreciated.

No real telling how long this will go on for, depending on my interest and the interest of other participants, but we'll see? ...Forgive the abysmal opening post, I wasn't kidding about this being hastily thrown together.



ZA'LIST

ARTISTS


Alice Cooper

The Mars Volta

Kindo

Vektroid

Childish Gambino

Pain of Salvation

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Spock's Beard

Oi Va Voi

Sufjan Stevens


ALBUMS



dear future self ( https://inpuj.bandcamp.com/album/dear-future-self )

cinnamon fried modulation ( https://inpuj.bandcamp.com/album/cinnamon-fried-modulation )

Rossz Csillag Alatt Szletett ( https://venetiansnares.bandcamp.com/album/rossz-csillag-alatt-sz-letett )

Skulls EP ( https://themegas.bandcamp.com/album/skulls )



MYCRO'S PLAYLIST

For when I just want to push YouTube's random button and have it throw a song at me:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLliVxBMurmt4lRjxsOK5y_0h17vKByMp4


Yes, I'm taking that EP from Snake's all-purpose music topic, which is the first I've heard of it in spite of The Megas being one of my favorite bands. Highly looking forward to more music from them; I suppose I should post my thoughts on that specific thing over at the topic I got it from (and probably will), but I'm putting it on the list here so I don't forget about it.
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handsomeboy2012
11/08/18 3:00:34 AM
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Gz on getting the last topic to 500, right now I don't have anything but might post a few songs one day.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/08/18 9:26:44 AM
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yay, new topic!

the first thing i'll recommend in this topic is zappa's one man, one vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sio9GCHUWqs" data-time="


this is a synclavier track from the album frank zappa meets the mothers of prevention - i didn't recommend that one in the previous topic because it doesn't focus on synclavier music, unlike the four zappa albums you listened to. this is another one of my favorite zappa synclavier tracks, though.
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TheArkOfTurus
11/08/18 10:08:59 AM
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retag

For Pain of Salvation, I recommend the albums Remedy Lane and The Perfect Element, if you're going to check out one other than Be. Everything after Be is a step down, although I enjoyed their last two more than most.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/09/18 12:50:04 AM
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Rossz Csillag Alatt Szletett

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I asked for an album of theirs that I probably wouldn't like, but I doubt it was this. Don't think there was anything bad on the album, though in general it was a step down... the stand out track was easily "Msodik Galamb", which I've listened to three times already today. It is unique and confusing in the good way.

"Ktsark Mozgalom" was also interesting and I've gone back to it a few times too... it is very different. I think I like it.

Other songs didn't stand out as much. None that I had any real negative reaction to, but none that I really wanted to try to remember the names of.



Other than that, I basically just listened to The Megas today. Had to listen to all the new stuff multiple times, then compare both versions of Breakman, then get drawn into listening to some other older songs of theirs (it had been a while since I listened to the enhanced version of "Man on Fire")... sorry will get to the other posted stuff tomorrow.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/09/18 8:36:42 AM
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for what it's worth, i didn't necessarily think you probably wouldn't like rossz csillag alatt szletett. because you talked about your distaste for classical music i thought it was possible you wouldn't like it. but you liked some of the classical music in your ranking and you liked civilization phaze iii. and obviously the classical side of venetian snares is "modern classical" (if that's what you want to call it), which is a lot more in your wheelhouse than mozart, i think. so yeah, i would have understood any reaction you had to it, positive or negative.

anyway, i love this album so i'm glad you at least enjoyed parts of it!
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BlackDra90n
11/09/18 9:06:37 AM
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Check out some Architects. Their new album came out today and I'm pretty hyped.

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

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Mr Lasastryke
11/09/18 9:55:47 AM
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Bonus points for the birds at the transition between the instrumental and main part of the song (and a bit later in the song). Truthfully, I am drawn to any song that even briefly reminds me of an empty beach--seagulls, waves... it's hardly a coincidence that Maclir relied heavily on that sort of aesthetic and came in first place.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFN0W8hY0o" data-time="


i live near a beach and it's one of my favorite places to be in the summer (if not my favorite place period), and this track always reminds me of that beach (obviously they're making the "beach" connotation super explicit with the waves sound effects [and the music video (which i didn't link to) makes it even more explicit]). this is truly one of my favorite music tracks and one of the main reasons why daft punk is one of my favorite musical duos.

...also, this isn't nearly as repetitive as the other daft punk stuff you've heard, so this may be a daft punk track you DO enjoy...!
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11/09/18 1:42:47 PM
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Mega Mana
11/09/18 2:17:00 PM
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Glad you enjoyed and were surprised by the Third Eye Blind album. "Motorcycle Drive-By" is my favorite too (hence the nom and #37 ranking). Also, though I know I've had the album play all the way through many a-time (because theres this burning like theres always been), I actually dont recognize nearly everything after "Hows It Gonna Be" by name and barely recognize them when I give a quick listen. They really are quite forgettable in that middle chunk, but still a good background listen.

Also, every time i went in and clicked #8. Just Friends, I kept expecting this song i think i ranked in 2012?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gQ1v2iRZA" data-time="

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Raetsel_Lapin
11/10/18 1:14:22 AM
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Binged on a lot of music tonight--probably too much all in a row, but let's see what details I can remember.

BE

"Everything after Be is a step down," seemed like a cue to start there. I like concept albums, it already had one song I highly enjoyed, and a recommendation for the album itself definitely pushed it over the edge.

Having listened to the entire thing now, I'm not quite sure what I listened to. It bounced between genres, characters, and concepts so rapidly that at no point did I ever have a guess what was coming next. It feels rather like the inevitable punchline the entire last topic was building up to; complain about songs being too repetitive or not varied enough, crash into an album that feels like it can't stay on any one train of thought for more than a few minutes before derailing with enough force to launch into space, through a black hole, and into another universe before exploding in a shower of rainbow colored chocolate chips.



"Animae Partus I": A great start to the album. I've mentioned enjoying songs about questioning God; God questioning God is a different take on it, but one I can appreciate. Enjoy the shifting voices, very nice. I have a hard time calling it "music" though, it reminds me of that Sega CD Warning video--it does a lot of things I like, but could I really give it a high score?

...now I want a mash-up of this song and Sega CD Warning. I feel like if Warning were to continue into a full album as I always dreamed it would, something like this song would follow it.

https://www.rave.dj/7AoKfe81XA-cYQ

O.o?

"Deus Nova" was also interesting. The counting population growth bit might go on too long, but works for what it is, and I'm up for more confused-tri-voice-God.

"Imago (Homines Partus)" is an unexpected change of genre, going with a nautical type song? It's nice, but it's also the point where I realized I was definitely not going to understand anything, much like with Imaginos--though I was drawn to Imaginos due to the confusing nature of things, so that's a compliment.

We then go to an orchestral interlude about rain for..some reason. That goes on for five minutes. I like rain and I like songs doing something unexpected, so I actually don't mind this--never going to be one of my favorite tracks of the album, but it's not bad.

"Lilium Cruentus", just to further defy expectations, is a relatively normal song about grieving the death of a loved one. On the surface, anyway. There's probably a thousand deeper levels of meaning to the song, but whatever; it works and I like it--not as much as the first two tracks or Iter Impius, but I like it.

"Nauticus"...uhh...what?

"Dea Pecuniae", while I'm not exactly a fan of it (or even particularly clear who or what Dea Pecuniae is), works well enough. It's nice to develop Mr. Money a bit before we get to Iter Impius, so it's what I was looking for when I started the album.

"Vocari Dei" is another interesting experiment that I like, though I don't know that I could give a good score to it. It's apparently fans of the band leaving messages for God while an orchestra plays background music; there's something very...pure about it.

"Diffidentia (Breaching the Core)"; I'm completely lost on this track's symbolism, but I think I like it well enough. It's probably the first song that I can actually identify as Progressive Metal on the entire album.

*more songs to come; long album...long, complicated album...*
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/10/18 1:34:29 AM
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"Nihil Morari"...I dunno. It's not bad, but...well honestly I'm rather tired right now and don't actually want to type more.

"Latericius Valete" is another interlude, not as good as the rain one--also one more line about Earth's population, just to make sure you can't call it an instrumental track.

"Omni"...I don't know that I could type up thoughts about this even if I were fully awake. So Nauticus is a...space probe or something, sent to try to save humanity or the planet by...something...

"Iter Impius"--hey, there's the best song on the album!

"Martius/Nauticus II"...so Space Probe is God now or something?

"Animae Partus II"...what.

...no seriously, what? Why the long period of silence? Why the little girl? Why is that question the note we end the album on? What happened and what was the point of anything? There are albums that go completely over my head (Imaginos is still the best example) and then there's something like this, where I just...

...what?



I listened to more songs than just this one album, but I'm just too tired to say anything on any of them. More stuff tomorrow.
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TheArkOfTurus
11/10/18 9:54:39 AM
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Yeah, that was more or less my reaction to it the first time I heard it. It's grown on me a lot, though.

That's the only album of theirs that is like that, though. Everything else is more straight-forward prog metal.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/10/18 6:04:34 PM
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One Man, One Vote

Nifty. Not one of my favorites of his, but still good. Autoplay followed it up with "What's New In Baltimore?", which was also nifty. Probably would have been niftier if I knew who Steve Vai was--he may have been awarded 10th greatest guitarist of all time by Guitar World, but I don't really know musicians, so I'm not sure I'd even heard of him before.

Last night Autoplay followed Baltimore with something from the Sleep Dirt album. I remember the album name and artwork, but not the track or anything about the track--it was the last song I listened to before trying to type thoughts out on the things I'd listened to and I was already kinda tired, so it didn't leave much of an impression.



Hereafter

Not bad, but while I'm sure it's just me, it just feels like "standard metal song". I have no complaints about the singer, the band, the lyrics, or the video but it never does anything I love either.

Fresh

I do love the waves, but that little vocal sample being repeated on an endless loop is just a bit too much for me.

Just Be Friends - Nico Nico Chorus

It's actually really good and it's impressive that combining so many different covers of the song works so well, though the lyrical dissonance is very strong with it. Such an upbeat, happy, group song for tragic breakup lyrics.

Pain of Salvation - Other Albums

Both of those albums seemed a bit too...emotionally intense for me last night. I'll probably listen to The Perfect Element at some point, but I have to be in the right frame of mind before trying to tackle an album dealing with those subjects.



Just Be Friends Chorus > What's New In Baltimore? > One Man, One Vote > Fresh

Trying to rank everything from BE would be difficult, but it held my attention for the entire duration, so most of it probably scores decently; Nauticus, Latericius Valete, and Animae Partus II flop (is it even fair to rank Part II?), but the rest of the album was good or unique enough that I enjoyed it.
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Mr Lasastryke
11/11/18 8:57:33 AM
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...
Nifty. Not one of my favorites of his, but still good. Autoplay followed it up with "What's New In Baltimore?", which was also nifty. Probably would have been niftier if I knew who Steve Vai was--he may have been awarded 10th greatest guitarist of all time by Guitar World, but I don't really know musicians, so I'm not sure I'd even heard of him before.


glad you liked them. yeah, i love what's new in baltimore?

I do love the waves, but that little vocal sample being repeated on an endless loop is just a bit too much for me.


aww. did you watch the music video, though?
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/11/18 8:51:42 PM
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I hadnt at the time, though Ive gone back to watch it now. Wasnt expecting a dog person, that might help the song slightly; it interested me enough that I stuck around to see whatever the original video with Charlie the Dog was, though I cant recall the name.

I got distracted by that Rave DJ site, turning random songs into discordant noise. Nothing worth sharing, but Ive apparently wasted two nights on it already...
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Mr Lasastryke
11/11/18 9:14:50 PM
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yeah, the original video is the one for da funk.

i love the fresh video (why didn't daft punk direct more videos?!), and for many more reasons than a beach being the featured location. i love how... ambiguous it is. it shows charlie the dog having a negative experience (trying to explain something to the director who isn't listening) and a positive experience (talking to his girlfriend). gives it a very "slice of life" feel. also, endings are very important to me so i love how it ends with an appreciation for the sea. and i'm a sucker for continuous long takes.

i didn't link to it when i recommended the track, though, because i see it as a short film rather than a "music video." the video kind of overshadows the music.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/12/18 3:41:37 PM
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Yeah, there are always some music videos that make a point of not letting you hear the song--I'm sure there are plenty of better examples, but the one that always comes to my mind was the video for Phil Collins "Don't Lose My Number"; a bizarre meta take on a music video, parodying an assortment of other 80s music videos and movies, which takes a solid minute and a half before the song even starts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM" data-time="


To be fair, there's still more focus on the song than either of those Daft Punk videos, but for a while this was the only version of the song you could get on YouTube. They kept removing anyone's attempt to upload an actual version of the song, leaving you with this video or nothing. And if, like me, you were determined to listen to as many of Phil Collins' Greatest Hits as possible, you probably wouldn't be thrilled about being limited to the version where they have a meta conversation about what to do during the guitar solo during the guitar solo.



Either way, I wouldn't worry too much about posting such videos. This isn't exactly a formal music topic and the videos tend to be interesting; for what it's worth, I liked both Daft Punk videos. Da Funk was rather interesting--especially the debate between the band and the fans, with the band insisting that there is no meaning to the video and the fans insisting that there definitely was.

...not entirely sure how they can claim there's no symbolism at all--Charlie choosing the music over Beatrice seems like a pretty straight forward message, even if they somehow didn't intend for it to be one.
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IhatethisCPU
11/12/18 4:12:01 PM
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A short assortment (An asshortment) of Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6JkX40lYGk" data-time="

I've not actually *watched* Somewhere Street, but from what I've heard it's a tad... odd, for a traveling show. ...Kinda interested but *no* idea where to watch it.

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


I feel like I *should* apologise for this next one on principle, because it might *objectively* be a bad song. I actually like this, but I know my taste in music's gotten a skosh wonky over the years. Just as a warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqLNrZLBQ0" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncic96eYXRE" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jz8xdpR0M" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOhGhq0e54" data-time="

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Mr Lasastryke
11/12/18 6:53:45 PM
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yeah, don't lose my number is one of my favorite phil collins songs and i would never want to listen to the song via the music video (even though it's a funny video, for sure).

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
...not entirely sure how they can claim there's no symbolism at all--Charlie choosing the music over Beatrice seems like a pretty straight forward message, even if they somehow didn't intend for it to be one.


yeah, i think daft punk is kind of like the orson welles of music, by which i mean that what they say about their own stuff should be taken with a grain of salt. in my view there absolutely is meaning to the video.

...that being said, i'm a pretty pretentious guy when it comes to movies and sometimes i might read too much into them. i even think there's some kind of meaning to un chien andalou, even though buuel and dal insisted that it's completely meaningless. (man, this reminds me of when i had an argument with muffin about the producers [the original movie]. he insisted that it's a comedy and nothing more, i insisted that there's more to it.)
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/13/18 1:40:43 AM
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Somewhere Street Intro

Nice and pleasant. Somehow, it reminds me of the Wings theme--I can just see a small plane slowly flying over the ocean when I listen to it. Which also makes it work quite well for a travel show! Can't say I've ever heard of the show though, so I couldn't help you with where to see it.

Go To Hell

Since all the related videos are Japanese Wrestling related, I'm going to guess this is the theme for some Japanese Wrestler?

Google leads me on a journey to Dragon Gate and a very similar song by the same artist, "Go To Heaven"... so I'm guessing someone had one of the themes, had a face/hell change, then switched to the other version? Though it could just be a gimmick chance, kinda like Cody Rhodes and both versions of "Smoke and Mirrors".

Song is alright, though I think enjoyed trying to research the song's origins more than the song itself.

Till I Find You

I've never cared about objective quality, so don't let something like that stop you. I have no idea why you'd give a warning about this song though--it feels like a boy band song, possibly...Backstreet Boys?

*checks comments*

Hey, someone agrees with that comparison! It'd probably never be one of my favorites, but I'd never change the radio to avoid listening to it--it's a perfectly fine and nice song.

The River (Blues Saraceno)

Okay, but I've never watched The Walking Dead or played Watch Dogs 2, so I don't have any memories to associate with the song.

River (Bishop Briggs)

It's not fair, but repeating "Like a River" 37 times turned me off the song quite quickly...it devolved into a game of trying to guess exactly how often she was going to say that over the course of the song.

I should try to listen to it again and not be as ludicrously unfair to it, but it's late; I'll give it a second chance tomorrow.

One (Harp Twins)

It's pleasant, but I don't know that I'd ever heard the original version of One before looking it up to compare it to this song--without that context, it's just some nice harp music. I get that it's technically impressive and their FAQ in the comments section explaining a bit about the development of the song helps--hearing that one of them split her foot in the making of the song really puts into perspective just how far they went when trying to figure out how to do the song.

As for the Metallica version of the song, which I presume to be someone's next question, it's pretty good. I feel like I should be bothered by it and the story it's telling, but for some reason I'm fine with it. Using that song also gave me the closest to a decent result off of rave.dj:

https://rave.dj/nIKsjIRkmqoS1Q

Certainly not great, but after several days of messing with things, that almost kinda works. And while it's completely unrelated, I was clicking other recently submitted mashups and found the best possible rave.dj result:

https://rave.dj/AZkjay-PUQ2YBQ

...again, not related, but I'm also not concerned about staying on topic.



Till I Find You > Somewhere Street Intro > Go To Hell > One (Harp Twins) > The River (Blues Saraceno) > River (Bishop Briggs)
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/13/18 1:46:58 AM
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Mr Lasastryke posted...
yeah, don't lose my number is one of my favorite phil collins songs and i would never want to listen to the song via the music video (even though it's a funny video, for sure).

Raetsel_Lapin posted...
...not entirely sure how they can claim there's no symbolism at all--Charlie choosing the music over Beatrice seems like a pretty straight forward message, even if they somehow didn't intend for it to be one.


yeah, i think daft punk is kind of like the orson welles of music, by which i mean that what they say about their own stuff should be taken with a grain of salt. in my view there absolutely is meaning to the video.

...that being said, i'm a pretty pretentious guy when it comes to movies and sometimes i might read too much into them. i even think there's some kind of meaning to un chien andalou, even though buuel and dal insisted that it's completely meaningless. (man, this reminds me of when i had an argument with muffin about the producers [the original movie]. he insisted that it's a comedy and nothing more, i insisted that there's more to it.)


Yeah, my knowledge of classic films and what not is...nonexistent. Pretty sure I've never seen anything with or by Orson Welles, so I mostly associate him with Maurice LaMarche's parody from The Critic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7ycxiog40" data-time="


My knowledge of Dali and the Producers is somehow even less existent. </.<
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Mr Lasastryke
11/13/18 9:28:58 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s" data-time="


this is the essential orson welles-related thing you must watch!

aside from citizen kane
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/14/18 12:16:06 AM
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Mr Lasastryke posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s" data-time="


this is the essential orson welles-related thing you must watch!

aside from citizen kane


Ah. I figured there had to be something with Orson Welles commercials considering The Critic's parody, but never tried looking anything up. Thanks for that!



Not much music related today. I did listen to "dear future self", but didn't fall in love with any of the tracks. Nothing bad, but no real standout tracks. I think I'd actually pick "stone" as the best track on the album? There's a wind chime sorta quality to the music that stands out, not just in comparison to that album but in terms of anything I've heard before, which gives it an edge over the competition.

kyogre waterfall & hall of dry yeast are probably in second and third? secretosore.txt was memorable, which likely lets it take fourth place on the album.

Really though, the album just made me wish I was re-listening to either of the Venitian Snare albums I already liked, or possibly diving into some third album of his. Think I'll try something else of his tomorrow.



Listened to River again, definitely not as down on it tonight as I was last night--good voice and what not, though I'd probably still have it ranked lower than the other songs you posted.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/14/18 9:24:58 PM
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Am I Cool or What?

Cracked informed me that there was an entire album of Jazz and R&B songs inspired by Garfield, so naturally I put listening to it at the top of my To Do list. I figured it would either be overwhelmingly furry, laughably horrible, or both.

...The album is so strangely average that I'm even less sure what the point of it all was. There's so many big names doing the best they can with the material, that it's never laughably terrible. It's also not good and not as furry as one might expect. It just..."is". It exists in defiance of everything; it has no reason to be, yet it exists. It should be terrible, but it isn't. These artists should be good, but they aren't. It should appeal to someone, but it doesn't.



Shake Your Paw (The Temptations): Well, they did what I felt was impossible--they made a song about wagging your tail that I don't care for. This song is a failure on every conceivable level: The lyrics are unbearably repetitive, consisting almost entirely of "Shake Your Paw (Shake Your Paw), Wag That Tail (Wag That Tail)" ; it wants to be a dance song, but it doesn't have a good enough beat to be played...anywhere, at any time, for any reason, in any universe.

It's rather sad to see such a great group reduced to a song like this.



I Love It When I'm Naughty (Patti LaBelle): ...why. Just...just why...



Fat is Where It's At (Carl Anderson): I actually like this song. I shouldn't, but it's kinda funny and I like the music. I don't have many R&B songs on any of my playlists, but it's got this nice mellow groove that I'm digging tonight. I should try to do more research on that genre at some point.

Also, it gets some points for being clearly related to Garfield--after the failed dance song and the abomination that was the last song, it's nice to have someone get the album back on topic.



Long 'Bout Midnight (Natalie Cole): Have you ever wanted to hear a jazz singer use her sexiest voice while singing about Garfield eating in the middle of the night? No judgment! Just kinda wondering who the target demographic of this song was.



Nine Lives (The Pointer Sisters): A fairly generic love song that does nothing for me. It's not bad, but I think I'd take a song I actively disliked over the average-ness of this track.



Here Comes Garfield (Lou Rawls): I think this is the first song that mentions Garfield by name, which seems a bit odd for an album about Garfield. Song's okay; it's just a generic Garfield theme song. There have been better themes and worse themes, leaving it as something that just sorta exists. It is perhaps the song that best represents the album: Short, pointless, inoffensive, and forgettable.



Next To You I'm Even Better (Diane Schuur): I've been trying all night to find a way to connect this song to Garfield and haven't come up with anything. It feels like it's entirely unrelated, like the song was written for a different album and somehow wound up here. I don't get it.



Spare Time (David Benoit): Do you want an instrumental version of one of the themes from "Garfield Gets a Life"? Was there ever anyone who watched that special, heard this song, and said "yes, I want more of this, but jazzier and without the lyrics!"?



And then two other songs, but I've lost interest in discussing this album. "Fat is Where It's At" was worth finding, the other songs not so much.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/14/18 9:32:14 PM
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cinnamon fried modulation

Not bad, though there's nothing as good as focus tous or fissure queen. Favorite track was "Fleshtruck (dunade 2)", particularly the part starting at the two minute mark. Something about that sound reminds me of the stairs sound from the Dragon Quest series; to me it sounds like little 8-bit footsteps walking away from an explosion, then getting progressively faster as they run, ending with them hopping onto a helicopter and flying away.

...I doubt that's what the end of the song is supposed to sound like, but that's what it felt like to me, and I'm sticking with it.



Spider was also good, though it didn't make me think of anything specific.



Briefly listened to a few Venetian Snares tracks at random, but it feels like there's way too many songs to sort through, so I mostly just got overwhelmed by the amount of choices to click on and gave up quickly. Will probably go back to it sometime soon-ish.
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IhatethisCPU
11/14/18 9:45:14 PM
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Yeaaah, GO TO HELL'S Genki's Heel Theme, and his face theme's had... a *lot* of remixes over the years. @__@''

....I'm actually more surprised by it being in Walking Dead/Watchdogs 2. Haven't seen/played either of those.

...And I'm also legitimately surprised you've never heard 'One' before this topic. Hmm...

Objectively bad song, but still honestly adore despite it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJ8ixlfKUs" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CulRs_F9kMI" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4bGBDKrPs" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6KCTNx5dMU" data-time="


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERyK8TszwM" data-time="

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Raetsel_Lapin
11/14/18 11:39:46 PM
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Yay suggestions! I'll start working on those tomorrow.

IhatethisCPU posted...
...And I'm also legitimately surprised you've never heard 'One' before this topic. Hmm...


Like I said, most of my music knowledge comes from oldies stations, 80s stations, and classic rock stations. I think Metallica was just too heavy to get plays on most of those... I think I hear Enter Sandman on one of the classic rock stations occasionally (or the song is so omnipresent in pop culture that I just feel like it plays more often than it does), but I'd have a bit of a rough time even naming any other Metallica songs.

I can't say with certainty that I haven't heard any of their other songs (I didn't know just how many singles came from that Third Eye Blind album until I listened to said album, so it's entirely possible I know more songs from any given band than I think I do), but my first reaction is that I know next to nothing about Metallica.
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BlackDra90n
11/15/18 5:37:34 PM
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Whoa, a Kamen Rider song!

But man, if you're gonna link a Gaim song you gotta link this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3AbooMnow" data-time="


Gaku Sano just loves being Gaim. There's one video of him performing this song where he ends up crying because it's his last show.
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11/15/18 7:20:02 PM
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Girlfriend: Not bad. Knew the song, didn't know it was Avril Lavigne. Had a couple of her songs (My Happy Ending and Nobody's Home) on an mp3 player at one point, though I don't really recall how or why. Felt like they were always on it and I kept them around because they were always on it, in some bizarre loop that doesn't seem to have a starting point.



Last Voyage: Pretty good. It's sufficiently nautical and pirate-y, works for her and her character. A lot of comments compare it to Soul Calibur music, but I've never really focused on any of the series soundtracks to have much of an opinion on that? It feels like it would work well as the theme for any of the more seafaring characters (Cervantes, Maxi).



Lejonet Frn Norden: Hey, it's these guys again! Still metal, still very good voices, still giving vague history lessons on historical figures I know nothing about. I think I still prefer Night Witches, but this is also a good track.



Kamen Rider Gaim: For being a series I've never seen in any of its original forms, Kamen Rider seems to keep popping up in my life. I first learned about it from the obscure Kamen Rider Sega CD game; it wasn't really any good, a sad Dragon's Lair clone using footage from one of the Kamen Rider films--the movie wasn't translated, but the game was for some reason? I have no particular memories of anything that happened in the game, but I do recall playing it.

When Saban released an American version of the show, Masked Rider, I immediately recognized it as being Kamen Rider from that game I had played. Tried watching some episodes of the show, didn't care for it, don't remember enough about the show to really comment on it.

Years later, characters from it popped up again when I got into MUGEN. There are a lot of Kamen Riders in MUGEN and some of them are actually quite well made! Kamen Rider Kaixa is always fun and I really enjoy watching Gillskaya--their moveset is the perfect mesh between brutality (they have a curb stomp super which, in spite of only being a stomp, is still one of the most painful looking moves I've seen) and comedy (driving a motorcycle over the opponent). Can't say I know anything about their source material, but they made good game characters.

Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed the nonsensical trip down memory lane, I'm not really into the song itself. The opening chanting or whatever grates on me quite quickly and, while the song improves drastically around the 55 second mark, it's so short that it ends as soon as it starts to get good.



Mummies Alive: And the award for least expected song of this topic goes to...



Rise/Raise Up Your Flag: Much better than the other Gaim song. Good lyrics, I like how fully committed he seems to be to the role--it's goofy, but he feels passionate about the material, so he does a good job selling it. Also while looking up this song, I learned about "Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders". That thing may not have had Gaku Sano in it, but considering the title, I can only assume it to have been the greatest film in this or any other universe.



Lejonet Frn Norden > Last Voyage > Raise Up Your Flag > Girlfriend > Mummies Alive > that other Kamen Rider song
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BlackDra90n
11/15/18 7:24:55 PM
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Gaku Sano is unfortunately not in the movie, but Gaim is. It was an ok movie.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/15/18 7:46:57 PM
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Garden of Delete

I very much enjoyed the album. Few notes I can recall:



I like the opening to Ezra, with the music cutting in and out. The part starting at around the 25 second mark is amazing...until we get to the vocalization at around the 38 second mark. I don't like that voice sample and it appears so often on this track that it really drags it down; I love all the sections without that specific voice though.



When I look at "Sticky Drama", the phrase "best song on the album" comes to mind, though I can't recall why... *goes back to listen again*

I don't know how to put it, but something about the beat and vocal elements make this feel like a mainstream song that was heavily edited and distorted? There are points where I feel like I hear a traditional pop song in the background, but it's buried under the static and distortions. It is a very pleasing effect. It loses that near the end, becoming a bit too chaotic... but then I like the chaos anyway, so I have no intention of holding that against the song.



Mutant Standard is just too long. It takes it a bit too long to get going and then it feels like the song never ends; I know there were parts of it that I liked, but I think it was probably the low point of the album for me.



Child of Rage... I like this. It's up there with Sticky Drama for best song.



Animals... if you could remove that distorted voice or whatever, this would easily be one of my favorite songs of all times. The purely instrumental portions, just the computerized instruments and the static, are heavenly and purrfect..... but that high-pitched vocalization isn't quite working for me, which hurts it somewhat. Still great, but not as amazing as I may have wanted it to be.

Also that cat pun feels weird even to me, but parts of that song made me feel like purring, which is a new experience so here we are.



Remaining tracks were also good; I can't recall any other really stand out tracks, but I didn't have any complaints about any of them and was quite sad when the album ended as I wanted it to keep going. Would like more from this artist and plan on listening to this album again. (Actually listening to some of it again right now; I didn't recall anything specific about Freaky Eyes, but I'm rather enjoying it now--this mellow synthesized portion in the middle of the song that seems peaceful and nice before fading into a static-y screeching noise... oh I love that part of this track. It just has some problems of being in direct comparison to so many other songs I like.)



BlackDra90n posted...
Gaku Sano is unfortunately not in the movie, but Gaim is. It was an ok movie.


I refuse to believe any film with a title that convoluted and flying Pac-Man viruses is anything other than amazing.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/15/18 8:58:40 PM
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MycroProcessor posted...
Glad you liked Garden of Delete just as much as R Plus 7 (if not more it almost looks like?)


Hard to say as I haven't gone back to that album yet. My first reaction is that Garden has higher highs and lower lows; I don't recall having as strong of complaints about anything on R Plus Seven, but Garden also had more parts that I loved on it, so it would probably be a tough call. Still plan on listening to both of them more either way.

...actually I'll probably listen to r+7 for background music while I'm doing some other things at the moment...



MycroProcessor posted...
He has a very very recent album (came out this year) called "Age Of" that is ALSO kind of a different direction. I'm not as much a fan of it as the previous two, it's sort of like a 'collection' of various different styles. but one of the styles that is represented there is definitely the Garden of Delete style, so if you want more of that, there's a few tracks from that album that you'll probably appreciate!

Commissions I and Commissions II are also definitely EPs worth checking out with a mix of interesting styles.


I'll definitely check those out later, thanks! Not sure if I'll go right to one of them or take a break to listen to some of the other Venetian Snares albums you named earlier; will just have to see what I wind up clicking tomorrow.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/17/18 1:06:56 AM
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Got caught up in ither things, Tried listening to Age Of, but couldnt focus on it; will try to make time to pay attention to it tomorrow.
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NBIceman
11/17/18 1:35:18 AM
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I don't know if you're still looking for avant-garde metal, but I stumbled upon this lovely composition a few days ago and thought I'd throw it in anyhow. Closest thing I've found to a Diablo Swing Orchestra feel in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kGm2ndYw0" data-time="

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Raetsel_Lapin
11/17/18 7:58:19 PM
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I'm looking for any random suggestions at the moment, not after anything particular--it is nice to find something that's actually of this genre though, since my attempt to find more avant-garde metal songs didn't really go anywhere (a flaw with my search technique, mostly).

Song is... I wouldn't say bad; I like that it's different, but... not a big fan of stories about cannibalism, really. It doesn't take itself too seriously ("YEE HAW!"), but it's still a bit off-putting.



Age Of

I feel like I should like this album more than I actually do. The title track that opens the song is by far my favorite track on the album; the way the song switches between almost depressingly normal and chaotic is intriguing and I like what's happening there.

The Station is perhaps the best representation of my thoughts of the album. It feels like something I'm supposed to love; we've got a highly synthesized voice, lyrics that are reminiscent of The Thing or Alien or something like that, a unique sound... but I'm not connecting with it, not like I did with the other two albums.

"Last Known Image of a Song" was interesting because the iPad decided to freeze while I was listening to it. The song would play, but I couldn't pause or look at anything else; only this song, which given the name, was equal parts appropriate and creepy. Not that I should give the song credit for unrelated technological failures, but it really set the mood.

Other songs also feel like things I should like. We've got songs about the apocalypse, songs that are the soundtrack to fictional films, a track with "cat" in the name... but they all feel like they're missing something? Or more likely I'm judging them too harshly because I enjoyed the other albums so much. Garden of Delete was so good I listened to the album in its entirety twice in one day, so just about any other album was going to have a hard time living up to those expectations.

Garden of Delete > R Plus Seven > Age Of.

...though I'd probably say I still enjoyed Age Of. I listened to it in the background while doing other things yesterday and my reaction was "I need to focus and pay attention to this album", not "I don't want to listen to this". And I did listen to it again today--a few songs multiple times in hopes of finding something I wanted to say about them. So the experience is still generally positive... but not quite the same.
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/18/18 8:33:12 PM
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Decided to go with "Songs About My Cats" today--it felt like the next logical step. After that Garfield album and some light praise for Age Of having a song with cat in the title, it really felt like I had to click on this particular album next.

It was good! Not quite as good as "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" (I've already gone back to
Li2Co3 multiple times and I'm now willing to call Li2 one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard), but it was a fun trip.

I think I'd give best song on the album to "For Bertha Rand". Probably not much of a surprise; Cat is fairly low on the list of forms that I'd like to take, but I can still appreciate the constant "I am a cat" message--add in some heavily distorted, almost demonic versions of that message and you've got a track that's practically made for me.

On a more unexpected note, I think I pick "Lioness" as second best. There's something about the track that feels like the final screen of an 8-Bit RPG. Like you save the generic princess and this songs starts playing as a generic "now you save princess and story is happy end, thank you from amusement creaters ! ! " message scrolls onto the screen. It's just nice and relaxing, bringing up some pleasant memories.

Also give high marks to "Look", though only being 30 seconds long hurts it somewhat--I'm left wanting more, which isn't exactly bad, but slightly disappointing?
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handsomeboy2012
11/19/18 3:00:35 PM
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An old show got rerun on my TV today, really dig the theme song. Don't have much to say about it as I don't know how to analyse music


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgECnV15V6M" data-time="
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Raetsel_Lapin
11/19/18 7:36:27 PM
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Unfortunately that particular version of the song is blocked in most countries and I don't see a way through... but after doing some searching, I think I found the song itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-9TlnFYT8" data-time="


With possibly lyric translation over here:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%E4%B8%80%E7%94%9F%E4%BD%95%E6%B1%82-what-more-could-i-ask-life.html



It's pretty! And the lyrics are nice too--well nice probably isn't the right adjective...how do I put it..."the lyrics are well made and pleasing, even if the lyrics themselves are wistful and sad"? Either way, I like it.

Obviously if I found the wrong song, then let me know and I'll try to search some more.
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handsomeboy2012
11/19/18 9:43:21 PM
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Funnily enough your vid is blocked for me, but the lyrics are the same so it's fine
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11/20/18 6:07:39 AM
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...
I'm looking for any random suggestions at the moment, not after anything particular--it is nice to find something that's actually of this genre though, since my attempt to find more avant-garde metal songs didn't really go anywhere (a flaw with my search technique, mostly).


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handsomeboy2012
11/21/18 10:20:44 PM
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Up I guess
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NFUN
11/21/18 10:24:58 PM
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attempt #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXJLQntCP0" data-time="

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IhatethisCPU
11/21/18 11:53:26 PM
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11/22/18 1:36:39 AM
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handsomeboy2012 posted...
Funnily enough your vid is blocked for me, but the lyrics are the same so it's fine


As soon as I posted that, I had a feeling that would wind up being the case... but for some reason I decided I was probably just being paranoid and didn't even bother checking. Sorry about that; but if the lyrics are the same, then it should be the right song, so it all worked out.

And thanks for the bump, I actually did forget about this earlier. Whoops.

NFUN posted...
[One long song]


I highly look forward to listening to that tomorrow. One in the morning seems a bit late to jump into a fifteen minute long Tool song.

...also happy thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it and pleasant random Thursday in November to everyone else!

CPU songs

"Twinkle, Twinkle": Never sure how to react to spoo~ky covers of children's songs. I can't think of any that I particularly liked or disliked, or any that I was particularly creep-ed out by. Song is alright, I guess? Unsure if I would rank it higher or lower than "Mr. Spock's Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkzSi2UaQs" data-time="


...alright so I would definitely rank it higher than Leonard Nimoy rambling for two straight minutes about "what if we replace the word 'star' with the word 'Earth' in every song" in character as Spock. Probably. I just wanted an excuse to post a Leonard Nimoy song.



"Crash and Burn"... technically good, but I'm not personally a fan.



"Vortex Infinitum"... as soon as I saw "Robo-Ky's theme", I started preparing myself for the ordeal. Sure, I appreciate what they were going for, giving him a distorted and broken version of Ky's theme, but it's not a particular enjoyable listen...

...and then it turns out this song isn't "Holy Orders?" in the least. It's quite good! I think. I mean, it didn't have to do a lot to exceed my expectations, so I could be overvaluing it just because it isn't Holy Orders? but... eh, it's late and I enjoyed listening to it, let's just leave it there.



"Iron Chef Japan - Main Theme": Good. It helps that I like Iron Chef. I was mesmerized from the moment I first learned about it...you see, I played a lot of Star Ocean 2--like a lot, a lot. Like...I think my number of complete playthroughs of that game is in the double digits. And late in that game, there's a Cooking Contest which is blatantly a parody of Iron Chef.

Of course, at the time, I had never heard of Iron Chef and didn't know what it was. As soon as I heard about the show, it was just wonderful--it was as though a part of one of my favorite games had spontaneously became real! I know that's the exact opposite of how things actually happened, but it made the whole series feel fantastic and magical. I've seen a few episodes of the original, Iron Chef America, and even the very short-lived "Iron Chef USA" starring William Shatner.

...why was there a terrible American version starring Shatner as the Chairman? Surely they knew the show doesn't work if the chairman is a recognizable celebrity? A reality show where the host is a fictional character is one thing, but it all falls apart when you recognize who they really are with even a casual glance.

.....why does this post keep looping back to the original Star Trek?



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11/22/18 1:48:41 AM
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"Asking Akitaka (Bus Stop)". I'm not a fan right now, but it's possible that I could come around on it giving enough time. When I strongly dislike something, there's always a chance that my opinion on it will do a 180 after enough exposure to it... like that Garfield Season 7 theme. I mashed up that song with everything on rave.dj when I was addicted to that site. That song, Partus Animae, Heathcliif's theme, and Garfield Amiga's music were my go-to picks.

Garfield Season 7 & Knight Rider almost worked together. "Knight Rider - A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. He's my main cat, Garfield!" ...sadly the rest of the mash-up didn't sync together and it wasn't worth posting, but for a brief moment, it really looked like it would.

...what were we talking about?



"The Bus Is Late (Waiting For The Bus In The Rain)"--oh good. The comments on the last song kept talking about this song and I was worried I'd have to try looking it up at some point, but it's here now, so that's a time-saver.

It's more interesting than I expected. The background music sounds 8-bit, which keeps my attention, in spite of the repetitive lyrics. I've also been mildly curious about Night Vale for a while (not enough to ever actually listen to anything, but enough that I'm aware it exists)... this song is not what I expected from what little I knew about Night Vale. Not that I knew much: Something something, Podcast. Something something, Twin Peaks comparison.



Bus is Late > Vortex Infinitum > Iron Chef > Twinkle, Twinkle > Bus Stop > Crash and Burn.

...had Bus Stop in last, but moved it up. Tempted to put it over Twinkle, Twinkle, but...nah, I'll leave it there tonight.
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11/22/18 2:57:42 PM
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Rosetta Stoned was certainly a unique way to start the holiday. It's technically impressive, but I prefer Lateralus by quite a bit--almost fifteen minutes of listening to someone ramble incoherently in an overly vulgar song about how a bad acid trip made them crap themselves...that's not exactly something I'm going to listen to voluntarily, sorry to say.

I see a lot of love for the track. If you try Googling it one of the first hits is going to be a rather long article about how it is the greatest song of all time, though I don't really get it. Part of it is that I don't know enough about music to actually recognize time signatures or anything, so all the talk about how overwhelmingly complex the song and its signatures are goes over my head. I can generally recognize it as sounding like it would be highly difficult to perform, but that's about it.

Think in comparison to the other songs posted last night, I'd probably slot it between Iron Chef & Twinkle Twinkle. Possible I might put it over Chef if I listened to both of them a few more times, since it's more unique and stands out more.
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