bad apple would be such a deep cut if it weren't for the shadow art video. like it can't be stressed enough how funny it is that bad apple is still "the touhou song" to a lot of people when it wasn't even the touhou song in lotus land story
it appeared in exactly one game ever, it's not a main character's theme, it's not even a boss theme (it's a stage theme), it has nothing to do with the current canon, and the music video wasn't even made by alstroemeria records (it was made by anira as a fan project)
it's not even a little bit risky to say that bad apple is significantly more popular than lotus land story, especially internationally. it's kind of amazing
today's music coincidence: a sound that seemed so naggingly familiar i had to stop and search through all my bookmarks to find what it reminded me of;
the rhythm and instrument(?) of the ?bassline? of Stratum (by Clean Tears, from Arc of the Colorless) is extremely similar to that of ROMANTIC CHILDREN (KORS K REMIX) (Alstroemeria Records, from DEGENERATE DANCEHALL). Compare:
Stratum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G199n-Plghs&t=3m35s
Romantic Children (kors k remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbwvJrymUY&t=3m03s
@kata4a i know you're a little musicbrained, what would you call the things that are the same here? i don't know enough about musical terminology to satisfactorily describe what the similarities i'm hearing are, other than the rhythm
Put your Fave playlist on shuffle and post the first five songs that come up!
I was tagged by @kimium on this post here! Thanks for the tag. :) Like you, I don't have music playlists, I just pull up whatever I feel like listening to at the moment. So I picked the last five songs.
Bad Apple!! (remix by Alstroemeria Records) [Touhou Project]
Everyone knows the famous Touhou shadow music video, but not as many people know that it was actually just a stage theme for a boss in a 1998 Touhou video game! It's still a gorgeous song, and the animation only helped add to its popularity. It's still one that I go back and listen to regularly.
A Dusk Falls (ft. Yumi Kawamura from Fire Emblem Premium Arrange) [Fire Emblem Fates]
Probably one of my favorite themes in Fire Emblem. The tune itself always started off calm, before it became more intense, and it seems more so with the Arranged version and her vocals.
God Shattering Star [Fire Emblem Three Houses]
This is the final boss theme of the Golden Deer Route in the original Fire Emblem Three Houses, and it's certainly epic and fitting. I love the implication that it's the final boss singing - the vocals are only present when you're on the map making decisions, which then stop when you enter a fight, as if you're distracting him from his singing.
Hopeless Battle [Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds]
This is an unreleased track from the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, and it has a tendency to play during intense, emotional moments during battles. Still upsets me that it never got an official release, so fan-pieced versions are the only ones that we have unless we watch a segment it was played in in the show, but ah well.
Electrical Communication (by Ganasia) [Mega Man 8]
…I think I've been listening to this song since the early 2000s. It was played in the opening of the Japanese version of Mega Man 8, and it's very intense. In my head, this is basically a classic that is just GOOD.
I tag: @lilaxthegreat @shienisanut @pardra @waythroughtheice and anyone else that wants to do it that my ADHD brain forgot. c:
When I read stories, I usually think of corresponding songs that could fit with the story.
When I had fallen into the world of SAGAU recently, songs that fit the concept of the Imposter and Villain AU suddenly appeared in my mind.
Here are some of them:
Even though the actual meaning of the song is disturbing, Mind Brand (MARETU), especially the first chorus, perfectly echoes the real Creator's emotions as they remembered how Teyvat's citizens harshly treated them when they were branded as the "Imposter", and was killed by the Archons' hands. Now they are out for revenge, damning them to the Abyss. This is the first chorus from JubyPhonic's English version:
Though I shouldn’t care,
I couldn’t wait to finally see them all in hell...
(I’ll drag them as we crawl)
Ah, doing it right, feeling that high, taking what’s mine
And I feel just fine!
You took it all away so now this hero cries in pain!
Holding you tight, fighting all night, telling me why
But I can’t rewrite,
The memories I made of you and me, won’t go away!
WELCOME TO THE MIND F**K!
The famous Bad Apple (Alstroemeria Records), especially the extended version, also fits the category. The parts of the song, especially the English version, actually tell the deep thoughts of the Creator from the day they were hunted to the day they took revenge.
The extended version of the song perfectly portrays the SAGAU Villain AU, especially with these lines:
This time you're not hurting me!
This time I will take a stand!
All the hatred in my eyes building up an evil plan...
Standing lonely in the night, with the darkness by my side
Looking deep inside myself, and revealing only fright!
This part of the song Hayloft 2 (Mother Mother) activated the animation meme love in me, and had the urge to make a SAGAU version of this:
An eye for an eye, a leg for a leg
A shot in the heart doesn't make it unbreak
She really didn't wanna make it messy
She really, really didn't, but the girl gone cray!
According to the lead vocalist, Enemy (Imagine Dragons) is "about reconciling internal conflict in a world where sometimes it feels impossible to trust even yourself." In a nutshell, this song is a battle cry of one voice against the world. Seems familiar, you say?
Well, in SAGAU Imposter AU, it's impossible to trust anyone, even themselves... when the fake Creator looks and sounds like them. They can't trust anybody in this AU when the people the Creator had trusted could backstab and execute them if they lower their guard down.
Tell you you're the greatest
But once you turn, they hate us...
Oh, the misery,
Everybody wants to be my enemy!
Spare the sympathy,
Everybody wants to be my enemy-y-y-y-y!
(Look out for yourself!)
My enemy-y-y-y-y (Look, look, look, look)!
(Look out for yourself!)
But I'm ready...
Have you seen the MV of Dernière Danse (Indila)? It's a French song with its title meaning "last dance", but according to some, it was a song about pain. In the song, Indila tells the story of a young foreigner who fights racism every day and about the pain she may feel. In the MV, the protagonist (Indila) looks like a desperate girl who was walking around the metro after being kicked out and shunned by everyone, and there looks like an apocalypse coming in Paris. She realized in the middle of the song that she was the cause of it and sacrificed herself to stop it. In this way, she rebels against the whole world and shows her strength.
I like to listen to this song when SAGAU fics now narrate on the events of the real Creator going to be executed by the Archons while the people start cheering for the death of the 'imposter' (who was the real Creator). Especially at this part of the song where there was a chorus of voices singing along with the main singer:
In this sweet pain,
Of which I have paid all the offenses
Listen how big my heart is
I am a child of the world...
I move the sky, day, night
I dance with the wind, the rain...
A little love, a bit of honey
And I dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance!