"I am the jigsaw man. I turn the world around with a skeleton hand."

[nano_moose]

Many 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.

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?

Comments

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

All so pretty! I really like "Orange Sky", which is ... kind of surprising because that's not a type of music I have much of in my collection. I'm beginning to think it's just because I've not had much exposure to it.

(ahaha, oh, man, that song would be a bit misleading for your introduction to Nine Inch Nails.)

ALSO I will totally take a letter.

[nano_moose]

Hee, it's a little odd to see "Ozar Midrashim" and "More Human than Human" described as pretty (especially considering who I associate them with) but hooray! I usually like more weird electronic sort of things than "Orange Sky", myself, but I've been trying to expand my music horizons recently, and that was one I really enjoyed.

This post is brought to by the letter R!

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, I'll be the first to admit that my definition of pretty doesn't entirely sync up with most of the rest of the world's. XD

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

The links after the first song don't work for me. (I mean, I am pretty sure I can get to them anyway but I need to go to bed anyway. But! I am really excited to get some new music in, yaaaaaay! Especially that NIN one; I get all the best NIN music from you.)

[nano_moose]

...And this is what I get for not testing the links. Also, to hell with you, Microsoft Word! You and your HTML-killing autocorrect.

(Mutual yaaaay!)

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

I haaaate Microsoft Word's autocorrect. Whenever I get a new version of it I have to go through the preferences and turn it all of. *is anal*

Ahaha, I love how your musical selections basically stay at the extremes between "gorgeous" and "hard rock." And I guess a little bit of both mixed in for "Ezio's Family."

Oh man, I really like Leaving Hope. It's so pretty, but that added static mess makes it just a little bit creepy. I'm not sure why, but it vaguely reminds me of T:DS? Something about crawling around the City, maybe the docks? Or maybe related to the widow. Hmm. There's something sort of Silent Hill-esque about it, too, but more in the beautifully pretty and slightly creepy bits than the OH GOD OH GOD creepy bits.

AND WHOA Ezio's Family is awsome. Pretty vocals, pretty background, plus start of something epic = WIN.

Oh, Rob Zombie, I tried to deny you and you just come back to me. By which I mean, I have problems with the _ Zombie music en masse, but tend to like the individual songs more than I should. <3

[nano_moose]

You know, as long as I'm paying attention, I rather like it? Except for the smartquotes. They are stupid because they screw up my links. Oh, and it changing all my Australiasms to US English. IT'S SPELLED COLOUR YOU OVERDEVELOPED TYPEWRITER STOP DELETING MY U'S.

Originally I'd had them arranged so it was pretty! Rock! Pretty! Rock! ...More or less solely for my personal amusement. But then I remembered I was on my parent's computer and don't have access to my full collection, so that messed up the order. Sadface.

Huh, you know, listening to both The Overlook Manse and Leaving Hope, they do have similarities. I never noticed! I think it's the piano combined with the wavering tones. (Or whatever the official musical terminology is, because I have no idea.) And thinking about it, they both summon that feeling of loneliness and loss, you know? It's funny you should mention Silent Hill; I downloaded Leaving Hope from someone who made that connection as well. Although the creepy synth voices that come it near the end also remind me a little of Prototype, since I am apparently doomed to be haunted by it forever and it often used creepy synth voices to evoke the disease.

Jesper Kyd's work on Assassin's Creed is basically win, but look you might not be convinced, so have some more. Heart (prettiness prettiness prettiness ROCKING), Sanctuary (pretty much all prettiness my god I love that piano so much) and Venice Fight (IT IS TIME TO ROCK THE HELL OUT. BUT CLASSILY).

Man, the only Zombie songs I've heard are this and Living Dead Girl because it was on Angel, so I haven't really formed an opinion of them so far apart from: boy, they sure are loud. Also: "I tried to deny you and you just come back to me" is totally my opinion of Alex. Stupid virus man. Stupid weakness for parkour and hoods. Why can't there be a nice game where I can backflip off the Empire State Building?