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nano_mooseMany eons ago, I was given a letter and told to upload five or more songs starting with that letter, and let nobody say I do not eventually get the job done! If you give me, like. A few months, maybe.
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thebaconfat, and it was the letter O. You can request one in the comments, if you like!
Things That Begin With O
Obokuri-eeumi - Ikue Asazaki
Gorgeous piano piece that made an appearance in Samurai Champloo, during a beautiful, wordless scene. I can’t understand the lyrics or the title even a little bit, but that should in no way impede your enjoyment.
Hateigachi ya naryuri
Tobibani ya neranu
Hare utou katabani
Ya karachitabore
Hitotsu aru bani ya
Kanasha se ni kusuitei
Hare wanu ya okuyama
Nu kazuradasuki
(August draws near
But I have nothing to wear
I want to dress up
Brothers, lend me a sleeve
I want to dress the children and those I love
With the single kimono I own
I will wear vines
That I picked deep within the mountains)
Open Conspiracy - Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco
I have the Prototype soundtrack on my hard drive because of shut the hell up. (I found a copy with a crazy discount, and enjoyed the game far too much to easily justify my general disdain for it and its fandom. Blast. It seems nimble assholes in hoods are my kryptonite. I’ll have a gamebabble post up for it soon, anyway.)
Like most of the soundtrack (an exception is The Last Man, which reminds me more of The X-Files), this is about half frantic, discordant strings/synths/voices that sound like crawling sickness and half pounding drumbeats that sound like something unstoppably powerful and epically ticked. These, conveniently, sum up the game’s premise. Good music for smashing.
Ozar Midrashim - Kurt Harland (Information Society)
This is apparently from the Legacy of Kain series, which I’ve never played and yet feel as though I should, because I hear it has a hilariously convoluted plot and there are vampires in it that act like vampires (unlike, say, Edward Cullen). I mention this because I have absolutely no idea what the context for the music is – although, just by the sound of it, I suspect it is extremely epic. And slightly weird.
Overdose Delusion – Akira Yamaoka
More game music! Man, what is it with Silent Hill and its bizarrely pretty soft-rock ballads? There’s something about them that makes the games just a little more eerie than they already are. Also, as most of my flist probably already knows, this is awesome.
Orange Sky – Alexi Murdoch
Soothing, uplifting folky guitar. A song that sounds like coming home to rest after a long journey.
Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes, I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said brother, you know you know
It’s a long road we’ve been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road we’ve been walking on
Bonus Things That Do Not Start With O (But Have O in Them)
Leaving Hope – Nine Inch Nails
This, the first Nine Inch Nails song I ever heard, is very quiet, very beautiful and very depressing, and I ended up thinking it was all like that.
Imagine the shock the first time I heard Closer.
And, look, before you download this you may want to know what you’re getting into: it’s banned by the Geneva Convention due to its potent heartbreaking qualities. Side effects upon listening to it may include existential angst, falling to your knees, weeping, and spontaneous rain.
More Human than Human – White Zombie
One of an increasing number of songs I associate with Alex Mercer (GODDAMMIT), and as you’d expect, it’s loud, angry, sinister, over-the-top, the lyrics don’t make much sense and the singer sounds like he’s singing into a tin can and been smoking since he was four. That said; it does rock an awful lot.
I am the Astro-Creep
A demolition style
Hell American freak
I am the crawling dead
A phantom in a box
Shadow in your head
Ezio’s Family – Jesper Kyd
Look, it’s the other vengeful hooded murderous bastard! The handsome, likeable one with ethics and fashion sense!
In seriousness, this is ridiculously beautiful and Jesper Kyd is all of the soundtrack win. It starts utterly elegant, changes to become uplifting, then finishes with badass electric guitars. In less than four minutes. Seriously. Did I mention it is amazing?
This letter was given to me by
thebaconfat, and it was the letter O. You can request one in the comments, if you like!Things That Begin With O
Obokuri-eeumi - Ikue Asazaki
Gorgeous piano piece that made an appearance in Samurai Champloo, during a beautiful, wordless scene. I can’t understand the lyrics or the title even a little bit, but that should in no way impede your enjoyment.
Hateigachi ya naryuri
Tobibani ya neranu
Hare utou katabani
Ya karachitabore
Hitotsu aru bani ya
Kanasha se ni kusuitei
Hare wanu ya okuyama
Nu kazuradasuki
(August draws near
But I have nothing to wear
I want to dress up
Brothers, lend me a sleeve
I want to dress the children and those I love
With the single kimono I own
I will wear vines
That I picked deep within the mountains)
Open Conspiracy - Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco
I have the Prototype soundtrack on my hard drive because of shut the hell up. (I found a copy with a crazy discount, and enjoyed the game far too much to easily justify my general disdain for it and its fandom. Blast. It seems nimble assholes in hoods are my kryptonite. I’ll have a gamebabble post up for it soon, anyway.)
Like most of the soundtrack (an exception is The Last Man, which reminds me more of The X-Files), this is about half frantic, discordant strings/synths/voices that sound like crawling sickness and half pounding drumbeats that sound like something unstoppably powerful and epically ticked. These, conveniently, sum up the game’s premise. Good music for smashing.
Ozar Midrashim - Kurt Harland (Information Society)
This is apparently from the Legacy of Kain series, which I’ve never played and yet feel as though I should, because I hear it has a hilariously convoluted plot and there are vampires in it that act like vampires (unlike, say, Edward Cullen). I mention this because I have absolutely no idea what the context for the music is – although, just by the sound of it, I suspect it is extremely epic. And slightly weird.
Overdose Delusion – Akira Yamaoka
More game music! Man, what is it with Silent Hill and its bizarrely pretty soft-rock ballads? There’s something about them that makes the games just a little more eerie than they already are. Also, as most of my flist probably already knows, this is awesome.
Orange Sky – Alexi Murdoch
Soothing, uplifting folky guitar. A song that sounds like coming home to rest after a long journey.
Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes, I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said brother, you know you know
It’s a long road we’ve been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road we’ve been walking on
Bonus Things That Do Not Start With O (But Have O in Them)
Leaving Hope – Nine Inch Nails
This, the first Nine Inch Nails song I ever heard, is very quiet, very beautiful and very depressing, and I ended up thinking it was all like that.
Imagine the shock the first time I heard Closer.
And, look, before you download this you may want to know what you’re getting into: it’s banned by the Geneva Convention due to its potent heartbreaking qualities. Side effects upon listening to it may include existential angst, falling to your knees, weeping, and spontaneous rain.
More Human than Human – White Zombie
One of an increasing number of songs I associate with Alex Mercer (GODDAMMIT), and as you’d expect, it’s loud, angry, sinister, over-the-top, the lyrics don’t make much sense and the singer sounds like he’s singing into a tin can and been smoking since he was four. That said; it does rock an awful lot.
I am the Astro-Creep
A demolition style
Hell American freak
I am the crawling dead
A phantom in a box
Shadow in your head
Ezio’s Family – Jesper Kyd
Look, it’s the other vengeful hooded murderous bastard! The handsome, likeable one with ethics and fashion sense!
In seriousness, this is ridiculously beautiful and Jesper Kyd is all of the soundtrack win. It starts utterly elegant, changes to become uplifting, then finishes with badass electric guitars. In less than four minutes. Seriously. Did I mention it is amazing?
