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nano_moose) wrote2008-07-28 09:51 pm
nano_moose) wrote2008-07-28 09:51 pm
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"You are not a florist! You are a manufacturer of weapons!"
Okay, as well as being Game Music What I Think Is Awesome, this will be part of my contribution to the Replenish Baco's Music Library Initiative! NOT MY ONLY ONE I HOPE, but yeah, Baco, I'll gladly reupload any songs I've given you.
Coaxing Meche - Peter McConnell (Grim Fandango)
It was a while before I could decide on a track from Grim Fandango, partly because of spoilers, but mostly because pretty. Anyway I like this one because it's a few themes intersecting, which totally rocks for the scene in question. I can count at least three.
The Enlightened Florist - Peter McConnell
Hee hee hee. Hee. Sorry, memories. I mean, erm, the multitude of instruments exploited for the music in Grim Fandango really gives it an interesting sound and allows it to be very versatile and effective in its expression of mood and character. Yup. Hee hee. Hee.
Isolated - Chiasm (Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines)
Alternate lyrics: 'By the way, I am a vampire, totally a vampire, la la la, monster wearing a human face and everything, check out my fangs, la la la, we have a secret society, all humans are cattle.'
What I love about the licensed songs in Bloodlines is that they're all this thumpingly unsubtle, although some are more specifically about your character. It's wonderful.
I'll never crawl again
I'll never fall again until I'm free
I stare at light that makes me blind
Internally there's nothing left for me to be
I'm here alone and isolated
Vampire Theme
On the other hand, this is the music that would spontaneously manifest were you to walk menacingly down a street at night, in a long dark coat, performing the Kubrick Stare. I plan to do exactly this when I play the game. Even if I'm a Malkavian, although in that case I would probably pause in my menacing staring walk to accuse the traffic lights of plotting against me.
CP Violations and CP Violations (Remix) - Kelly Bailey (Half-Life 2)
I'm putting this in to remind myself that it doesn't all have to be about plot or character: sometimes, it can just be about kicking ass and taking names, even though I happen to think Half-Life 2 is an excellent example of storytelling in videogames that we should be trying to improve upon. (It manages to tell quite an affecting and detailed one through environment and brief dialogue and little else - hey where you guys goin'?)
Access the Animus - Jesper Kyd (Assassin's Creed)
The music is probably the one thing they got simply right in AC, without any "except they should have"'s - it's an effective mix of oldschool, Eastern, and more techno/science fiction elements, and it knows when to be simple and thoughtful and when to ramp up the pace like a brick on the accelerator. This one, being nine damn minutes long, starts off with caution and ends up "JESUS FUCK DID THEY SEND THE WHOLE CRUSADE." Seriously, just listening to it makes me want to jump up and run like a crazy person and it's even better in game over the sound of alert bells. (For reference, that section begins at 6:40.)
Coaxing Meche - Peter McConnell (Grim Fandango)
It was a while before I could decide on a track from Grim Fandango, partly because of spoilers, but mostly because pretty. Anyway I like this one because it's a few themes intersecting, which totally rocks for the scene in question. I can count at least three.
The Enlightened Florist - Peter McConnell
Hee hee hee. Hee. Sorry, memories. I mean, erm, the multitude of instruments exploited for the music in Grim Fandango really gives it an interesting sound and allows it to be very versatile and effective in its expression of mood and character. Yup. Hee hee. Hee.
Isolated - Chiasm (Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines)
Alternate lyrics: 'By the way, I am a vampire, totally a vampire, la la la, monster wearing a human face and everything, check out my fangs, la la la, we have a secret society, all humans are cattle.'
What I love about the licensed songs in Bloodlines is that they're all this thumpingly unsubtle, although some are more specifically about your character. It's wonderful.
I'll never crawl again
I'll never fall again until I'm free
I stare at light that makes me blind
Internally there's nothing left for me to be
I'm here alone and isolated
Vampire Theme
On the other hand, this is the music that would spontaneously manifest were you to walk menacingly down a street at night, in a long dark coat, performing the Kubrick Stare. I plan to do exactly this when I play the game. Even if I'm a Malkavian, although in that case I would probably pause in my menacing staring walk to accuse the traffic lights of plotting against me.
CP Violations and CP Violations (Remix) - Kelly Bailey (Half-Life 2)
I'm putting this in to remind myself that it doesn't all have to be about plot or character: sometimes, it can just be about kicking ass and taking names, even though I happen to think Half-Life 2 is an excellent example of storytelling in videogames that we should be trying to improve upon. (It manages to tell quite an affecting and detailed one through environment and brief dialogue and little else - hey where you guys goin'?)
Access the Animus - Jesper Kyd (Assassin's Creed)
The music is probably the one thing they got simply right in AC, without any "except they should have"'s - it's an effective mix of oldschool, Eastern, and more techno/science fiction elements, and it knows when to be simple and thoughtful and when to ramp up the pace like a brick on the accelerator. This one, being nine damn minutes long, starts off with caution and ends up "JESUS FUCK DID THEY SEND THE WHOLE CRUSADE." Seriously, just listening to it makes me want to jump up and run like a crazy person and it's even better in game over the sound of alert bells. (For reference, that section begins at 6:40.)