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[{IRS}Athos]

What, no love for Koji Kondo and the other Zelda composers?



And while we're on the subject of Brawl, I've always found the main theme entertaining.

[Bart]

Alright

 

[{IRS}Athos]

Some pretty cool stuff in there. I really like the waltzy feel of the Galaxy Rosalina. Makes me feel like grabbing a partner and getting out into the ballroom.

For my next trick:

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Love this theme.

[Pasidon]

Hmm... at least FF X-2 wasn't a complete trash pile.  

What, no love for Koji Kondo and the other Zelda composers?
 

He's quite good, but hasn't really made anything I enjoy listening to outside of the game.  Zelda's lullaby theme is always nice.  But Theophany took the cake when he remixed ten Majora's Mask tracks, making better music than any professional composer I can think of.  

 

Edited by Pasidon, 21 May 2014 - 09:01 PM.

[MattTheLegoman]

This is what I've been listening to.

 

 

Spotify - Lorde – Team

[Lenwë]

What is it with this Revora and heavy-rockers? It seems like the only genre in this topic... am I just not part of some generation that was brought up with metal?

 

EDIT: Excluding game soundtracks

Edited by Lenwë the Luscious, 25 May 2014 - 07:34 PM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Don't think I'd really call Lorde metal, but I guess there's a reason why so many people on the internet like metal. Often, unlike many genres of music, it's raw and honest in both its sound and its meaning, and has infinite ways of illustrating emotion. Its diversity also makes it appealing, going everywhere from symphonic stuff like Nightwish, Within Temptation and Epica which is (not to be stereotypical) fairly oriented towards relationships, often with a touch of sadness, to what I've recently come to love as black and blackened death metal like Behemoth, Watain, Mors Sonat and Death, which generally goes towards a darker, more disturbing theme of anger, hatred and nihilism or Satanism. It's generally a genre for people which need some sort of escape, as I've seen so far, but of course some people just like metal.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

A lot of metal is as fake as Country music.

[Mathijs]

A lot of metal is as fake as Country music.

Yep.

 

I dislike 99% of all metal acts out there. The only exceptions I can think of are Tool (which I love to death), System of a Down, and 1 album by Soilwork. I like a couple more random songs, but that's it. Most of it's so bland, forced, and eager to fit in with pre-established, annoying conventions that it becomes a parody of its supposedly 'serious' themes.

 

Of course I'm not counting old metal acts like Black Sabbath and Highway Robbery, which really don't sound like modern day metal at all.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I think 99% might be a bit much, but you're right, there's plenty of shit, as there is too for every genre. But there's still NIN, Slipknot's first album (not too sure about the later stuff, but I do like it), early Marilyn Manson and Korn, His Infernal Majesty, Gnaw Their Tongues, Children of Bodom. Though you may disagree, their sounds were clearly iconic, and did far from conform to trends. I mean, what the hell Korn's current musical path is I don't know, but they're setting one and that's the point. I think the majority of 'conformist' artists are the Fearless and Rise Records, which are all the punk-metal-electronic crossovers with no new noise bar that which has already been established.

[Mathijs]

I don't think 99% is overshooting the mark for me

 

NIN is not necessarily metal (always sounded more like industrial rock to me), Marilyn Manson is awful, Korn has like 2 good songs, HIM has 1 at best, Gnaw Their Tongues I never heard of and Children of Bodom I loathe. I guess it's just not for me.

 

Anyway, onto some awesome music:

 

 

 

 

 

do turn it up for this one:

 

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Guess you just like different stuff to me.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Also, simply because I finally got the boxset of this album a couple of days ago:

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Tried as I did I could never get into Tool, I prefer the Perfect Circle and I only really like a couple of their songs.

NIN and Marilyn Manson are more categorised as Industrial.

The good thing with Marilyn Manson songs is if you like one you like them all and the same is almost true for NIN.

By the time Korn released Korn III they had forgotten what kind of band they were and basically released an album attempting to be classic Korn and failing.

 

A rather meh song from Paul but the video is always fun.

[Mathijs]

Some metal for Renny:

 

 

and a profound message for the rest of you:

 

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I like that song. That is a nice song.

 

The good thing with Marilyn Manson songs is if you like one you like them all and the same is almost true for NIN.

By the time Korn released Korn III they had forgotten what kind of band they were and basically released an album attempting to be classic Korn and failing.

 

Oh, oh no. No no no. I mean, seriously, MM's Eat Me, Drink Me is a terrible album, but the rest is listenable. And NIN, I think... yeah, compare Hesitation Marks with Broken or The Downward Spiral... yeah.

 

Can't argue with the Korn thing, but admittedly I prefer III to their debut. Korn was too... meh for me, though the subsequent albums are more to my taste.

[Mathijs]

 

I like that song. That is a nice song.

I know right. Every song on Figure Number Five is like that.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I will be 'checking that out'.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]