Topic: Music?

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So, I'm somewhat curious what sort of music the bunch of you listen to. What genres, if genre matters to you? Anything in particular you look for?

Personally, I like having a large mix of genres to listen to. And I usually like things that stand out in some way to me.

Here, have seven random songs I like.

Sorry if this has been done before. I sort of looked but didn't see anything, and I thought it might be fun to share music a bit.

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didnt we have like 2 threads about this exact same subject a while back

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Quite possibly. Like I said, I sort of looked. Didn't see anything. Doesn't mean it's not there somewhere.

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Depends on the song, but mostly Metal, Industrial, Rock. Some Pendulum and Prodigy sometimes.

Rap, Hip Hop and House are no-go´s for me ^^

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Anything by Queens of the Stone Age's frontman, Ginger Elvis/Josh Homme. Songs For The Deaf is my favorite album, and their most recent one, Like Clockwork, is looking to be a classic. It's hard to single any one song out, yet I really enjoy Smooth Sailing and their animated short film , which features 4 edited songs and a full length My God Is The Sun at the end.

The collaboration between John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl, Them Crooked Vultures, is pretty cool. Yup. Pretty cool.

Godspeed You Black Emperor is nice. Try to find a 320kbps download, though

Battles , Nicole Atkins , Death Grips (might take 2 or 3 listens), Björk , Lil Ugly Mane , Nine Inch Nails when Trent Reznor doesn't use lyrics, Chrome Sparks , obligatory Radiohead

and some guilty pleasures like Lady Gaga and Kanye West.

oh, and my theme song

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Amazarashi and Ling Tosite Sigure are two of my all-time favourite bands.

They're on Youtube and I highly recommend you check out their music.

Also the Beatles, David Bowie, Queen and of course Pink Floyd are amazing too

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Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
David Bowie, Queen

think i have a queen discography torrent downloaded which included that 40th anniversary...no, wait, thats all i downloaded as it has like 15 albums in it (big anniversary collection). 2011 - 40th Anniversary (Remastered, LE, SHM-CD Japan) (30CD)

also have 1 or 2 of Bowies albums, pretty nice.

pretty much, as long as it sounds nice i'm not picky. i tend to not worry much about artist, genre, or where its from or the language (don't have to know german to like Rammstein for example. ;)). with a few small exceptions, afaik i haven't ever heard anything good or even decent out of the...screamo genre? or whatever the heck it was called. if i want something loud i have bands like dragonforce to choose from (REALLY like they're music).

David Bowie, Queen, Lady Gaga, Dragonforce, Rammstein, Avenged Sevenfold, Boom Boom Satellites, Daft Punk, Ozzy Osborne, Pendulum, The Prodigy... oo and Skálmöld (they're Baldur and Börn Loka albums are pretty good) to name a few of the artist/bands in my music folder, then theres all the animes and video game music i have in my music folder. >.> i try to keep an open mind on a lot of thing and that might play a part in my music tastes but like i said, i'm not picky when it comes to music just so long as it sounds good. :)

:/ 56.1GB, 10, 003 files. music takes up a good amount of space BUT at least its not FLAC files or else my collection would've been forced down to around a quarter of its current size. and i don't really care about the whole FLAC vs mp3 argument so spare me that dumb waste of time. >.> from what i've read online, FLAC really doesn't affect sound quality vs mp3 as much as some people would like to believe. it just keeps the file size enormous and helps prevent data loss mostly.

anyway, not trying to flame with that, just putting it out there on the off chance someone tries to bother me about it (which they probably will now that i've said something >.> sorry for that)

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Genjar

Former Staff

I don't feel like answering the same question again, so I'm just going to copy-paste my top artists from last.fm.

Top 50

1 CMX 6,066
2 Rush 3,092
3 Virgin Steele 2,882
4 Ayreon 2,826
5 Falconer 2,765
6 YUP 2,738
7 Running Wild 2,571
8 Sabaton 2,369
9 Voltaire 2,354
10 Gamma Ray 2,280
11 Iced Earth 2,205
12 Blind Guardian 2,147
13 Leevi and the Leavings 2,068
14 Grave Digger 2,008
15 Jethal 1,806
16 HammerFall 1,802
17 Iron Savior 1,680
18 Rhapsody 1,671
19 Sir Elwoodin Hiljaiset Värit 1,588
20 Avantasia 1,572
21 Edguy 1,488
22 Luca Turilli 1,458
23 Edu Kettunen 1,440
24 Dreamtale 1,438
25 Shadow Gallery 1,402
26 Firewind 1,389
27 Kamelot 1,378
28 Sonata Arctica 1,346
29 Freedom Call 1,293
30 Stratovarius 1,287
31 Machinae Supremacy 1,275
32 Kiuas 1,273
33 Beborn Beton 1,254
34 Helloween 1,229
35 Elvenking 1,185
36 Crash Test Dummies 1,135
37 Symphony X 1,063
38 Blackmore's Night 1,043
39 Nightwish 1,039
40 Beefy 1,000
41 King Diamond 986
42 Lemon Demon 981
43 Jonathan Coulton 978
44 Vision Divine 976
45 Jonathan Larson 965
46 Korpiklaani 946
47 Sirenia 941
48 Primal Fear 935
49 Charon 895
50 Burning Point 868

(The number is tracks played over the past years.)

And here's my genre tagcloud.

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Get ready people, because I recently made a list of the 14,000+ songs I have on me, thankfully not organized individually but by their albums and album artists.

Wall of Music

Animé/cartoon (Avatar: The Last Airbender; Bleach (Beat collection, Breathless collection, both Concept Covers, the four Original Soundtracks, The Best, The Best Instrumental, everything movie related); Death Note; Dragon Ball Kai (Complete Song Collection, Original Soundtrack, Original Soundtrack 2, Song Collection, and Soundtrack III & Songs); Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection (from one to twelve only); Dragon Ball Z American Soundtrack Best of Dragon Ball Z (all of them); H.O.T.D (Highschool of the Dead); Kill la Kill (all of them); My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (all of the songs from the first to fourth seasons, even the full opening song and Japanese versions of the opening songs); Naruto (all three Original Soundtracks, The Very Best Hit Instrumental Version, and the Best Hit Collection II, and everything movie related); Naruto: Shippuden (both Original Soundtracks and everything movie related); Pokémon (2.B.A. Master, 3: The Ultimate Soundtrack, Christmas Bash, Gotta Catch ‘em Live!, Sound Anime Collection, TV Anime Pocket Monsters Original Sountrack Best 1997-2010, World, X: 10 Years of Pokémon, and everything movie related); Shingeki no Kyojin [Attack on Titan] (Both Original Soundtracks); SpongeBob SquarePants (most of the production music, Greatest Hits, The Best Day Ever, The Yellow Album, and “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Soundtrack: Music from the Movie and More….”);Sword Art Online (the Bonus Disc: Original Soundtrack Vol.1; Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (BEST SOUND and Original Soundtrack); The Legend of Korra; Yu-Gi-Oh! (4Kids Opening Collection; 5D’s ED 1-5 Single; 5D’s OP 1-5; 5D’s Sound Duel Vol I-III; Duel Monsters ~ Duel VOCAL BEST!! 2012; Duel Monsters ED 1, 3, and 5; Duel Monsters GX ED 1-4; Duel Monsters GX OP 1-4; Duel Monsters GX Sound Duel Vol I and II; Duel Monsters OP 1-5; Duel Monsters: Original Soundtrack Duel I and II; Duel Monsters: Original Soundtrack Sound Duel I-IV; Kawaita Sakebi CD Single; Music to Duel By; Series Duel VOCAL BEST!! 2; The Movie Soundtrack; The Movie Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcended Time Single – Makemagic; Unreleased Soundtrack; ZEXAL ED 1-3 Single; ZEXAL II ED and OP Single; ZEXAL OP 1-3 Single; ZEXAL Sound Duel 1-3).).

Classical music (The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music; The 99 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music; Mozart – 100 Supreme Classical Masterpieces: Rise of the Masters).

Movie soundtracks (A Bug’s Life; Avengers Assemble (both the original motion picture soundtrack and the inspired music soundtrack); Avengers: Age of Ultron; Big Hero 6; Cars; Ender’s Game; Finding Nemo; Forrest Gump (both the Original Motion Picture Score and the Soundtrack); Frozen; How to Train Your Dragon (and its sequel); James Cameron’s Avatar; Kung Fu Panda (and its sequel); Man of Steel; Monsters Inc.; Ratatouille; Requiem of a Dream (just the “Lux Aeterna” Orchestral Version); Shrek (all of them); Star Wars (all six current episodes); Tangled; The Dark Knight Trilogy; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Hunger Games (both the first and second movies); The Incredibles; The Land Before Time; The Lego Movie; The Lion King; The Matrix Revolutions; The Prince of Egypt; Titanic; Toy Story (all three movies); Transformers (all four films’ respective albums and scores); Up; Wall-E; Wreck-It Ralph).

Music artists (ACDC; Arcana; Brand X Music; Coldplay; Deep Purple; Disturbed; DragonForce; Electric Light Orchestra; Elvis Presley; Europe; Foster the People; Gary Stadler; Green Day; Guns N’ Roses; Jean-Jacques Perry; Linkin Park; Lost Horizon; Metallica; Michael Jackson; Queen; Radio Head; Serj Tankian (everything that isn’t System of a Down); Styx; System of a Down; Two Steps From Hell; Van Halen).

Video game soundtracks [by far my largest genre] (A Bug’s Life (the PS1 video game); Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War; Batman: Arkham City; Bayonetta (both the first and its sequel); Call of Duty (all of them); Biohazard Revelations/Resident Evil: Revelations; Dementium II; Donkey Kong Country Returns; Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (both the Original Soundtrack and the Symphonic Suite); Drammatica -The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura-; Final Fantasy (I & II: Dawn of Souls, III DS, IV DS, IV Celtic Moon, the two “Distant Worlds” albums, all three Tactics games, the Symphonic Suite, and the “Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption” fan-made album); Fire Emblem (The Sacred Stones); Gran Turismo; Gyakuten Saiban/Phoenix Wright (all of them plus the recent Gyakuten Saiban 5, even Gyakuten Kenji/Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, except for the Japanese Phoenix Wright film); Halo (all of the video games soundtracks and even the one for Halo: Legends); Hotel Dusk: Room 215; Kid Icarus: Uprising; Kingdom Hearts (all of the video game soundtracks and the two piano albums, even 1.5 HD Remix and the two “Project Destati” fan-made albums); Kyokugen Dasshutsu 9 Jikan 9 Nin 9 no Tobira [999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]; Last Window: The Secret of Cape West; Mario & Luigi (Superstar Saga, Partners in Time, Bowser’s Inside Story, and Dream Team); Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater; Metroid (Fusion, the Prime Trilogy, Other M, and even the “Harmony of a Hunter” and “Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run” fan-made albums); Minecraft (both the Volume Alpha and Volume Beta); Monster Hunter (all of them, including the 8-bit, anniversary, brass, club mix, disco, ethic, guitar, jazz, orgel, and orchestral variants); Need for Speed IV: High Stakes; Okami; Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary; Pokémon (Black and White, Black 2 and White 2, Conquest, Diamond and Pearl, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen, Gotta Catch the Sound, HeartGold and SoulSilver, Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Platinum, Reorchestrated: Kanto Symphony, Reorchestrated: Double Team, Reorchestrated: Hoenn Summer, Ruby and Sapphire; X and Y; and even the “Still Want To Live In Their World?” fan-made album); Portal; Professor Layton (Curious Village, Diabolical Box, The Unwound Future, The Last Specter, Miracle Mask, and even the Professor Layton VS Gyakuten Saiban [Phoenix Wright] Magical Mystery Music); Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (upgraded to the Perfect Sound Track instead of the included CD soundtrack); Super Smash Bros. (Melee, Brawl, 3DS, Wii U, the Smashing…Live! Album, and even the “Harmony of Heroes” fan-made album); Sonic the Hedgehog (the “Dreams of the Absolution [LB vs. JS Remix” only); Star Fox (64 3D, Adventures, Assault, and Command); Subarashiki Kono Sekai [The World Ends With You]; Super Mario (3D Land, 64, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, Sunshine, and World); Symphonic Fantasies -Music from Square Enix-; Symphonic Legends -Music from Nintendo-; The Greatest Video Game Music (and its sequel); The Legend of Zelda (25th Anniversary Special Orchestra CD, Hyrule Symphony, Ocarina of Time 3D, Skyward Sword, and Twilight Princess); Toy Story 2 (the PS1 game); Trauma Center: Under the Knife (and its sequel); Video Games Live; Video Games Live: Level 2).

Other (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The Album; WWE (Piledriver: The Wrestling Album 2; RAW: Greatest Hits – the Music; The Wrestling Album; ThemeAddict: WWE The Music, Vol. 6; Voices: WWE The Music, Vol. 9; WrestleMania: The Album; WWE Anthology; WWE Hall of Fame 2012 – The Music; WWE Originals; WWE The Music, Vol. 8; WWE The Music: A New Day, Vol. 10; WWE The Music: The Beginning (Volumes 1-5); WWE The Music: Vol. 7; WWE Wreckless Intent; WWE: SummerSlam – The Music 2013; WWF Aggression; WWF Forceable Entry; WWF The Music, Vol. 2-5; WWF We Gotta Wrestle; You Can’t See Me).)

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Despite being a reposted thread, it's been rather interesting nonetheless.

Also yes. That is a huge wall of music.

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I'm into just about anything, but if I had to pinpoint one thing, it'd be piano or strings. I love the sound of violins, cellos, etc., but I also love piano.
Buy as I said, I love just about anything. Metal, electric, country.
Just, not rap. It usually sounds terrible and the lyrics are even worse.
"All my niggas be fucking the bitches."
Yes, I heard that in a rap once, don't know what it's name was, but a coworker was playing it. Like seriously, ugh.

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TheGreatWolfgang said:
Recently I'm into Classical.

Probably because of Freddy ..

eh, i like classical stuff too sometimes. ah, right, there is at least 1 beethoven track somewhere in my collection. >.>

Garrett said:
Just, not rap. It usually sounds terrible and the lyrics are even worse.

there is such a thing as good rap music but yeah, its no good imo when it winds up being little more than someone who "thinks" they're a musician when all they're doing is spewing profanity nonstop. that's not music, thats just someone spewing profanity constantly. less profanity and drugs and other stupid topics and i may like that genre more.

i do like some rap music but not much due to the above reason(s).

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Clawdragons said:
Despite being a reposted thread, it's been rather interesting nonetheless.

Also yes. That is a huge wall of music.

Damn right it is. And I recently bought a 128 GB MicroSD card to store it all in. I may reach 30,000 songs by the time that memory card is filled, and I hope that happens a few years from now.

I'm glad the music I listen to is mostly instrumentals. None of the garbage that is mostly played on the radio or dumped onto the internet.

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GameManiac said:
Damn right it is. And I recently bought a 128 GB MicroSD card to store it all in. I may reach 30,000 songs by the time that memory card is filled, and I hope that happens a few years from now.

I'm glad the music I listen to is mostly instrumentals. None of the garbage that is mostly played on the radio or dumped onto the internet.

I listen to almost entirely non-vocal music, but nothing is free from the internet. :V

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parasprite said:
I listen to almost entirely non-vocal music, but nothing is free from the internet. :V

You obviously haven't looked hard enough. That's how I found the soundtrack to Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

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Rock music, primarily pop rock and emo rock. My favorite band is Panic! at the Disco.

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Crazy, I just clicked on the forums just now to start a thread like this.

I like good non-instrusive melodic dubstep and chillstep, but I'm fond of other genres such as Japanese music, rock, classical, orchestral, some rap, etc. I enjoy thinking that I appreciate a broad spectrum of music.

I'll provide links to some of the songs I've been listening to lately.

Current favorite dubstep/chillstep tracks

Clams Casino - I'm God Amazing chill song, I know it's a Lil B rap instrumental, but my god, Clams Casino has crazy talent.
Dubsidia - Like a Blizzard A pretty heavy track, but I still enjoy it. It's Dubsidia, I admire their works and this is no exception.
Gold Panda - You Another chill track that I am fond of.
SirensCeol - Coming Home Super good, you have to listen for yourself, that's all I can say.
aKu - The Final Blow Chill with an oriental vibe. Nice.
DNKL - Wolfhour More chill, very relaxing when I'm stressed out.
Memtrix - All You Are Just the right blend of what I love.
Jomekka - Eighto Engage sex dubstep. Not usually my taste, but I like this one because it's a really hard song in a rhythm game I love (osu!), and it grew on me.
Pendulum - Propane Nightmares (CellDweller Remix Rock dubstep, I love this song.
Blackmill - Home NICE.

Current favorite Japanese/anime tracks

Wotamin - Gigantic OTN Self-explanatory
Teddyloid ft. Daoko - Me!Me!Me! Potentially WTF video, but I actually love the video. Starts out like a generic anime opening, but it turns on you rather fast with Daoko's deceivingly innocent voice.
syrufit - monochrome (Babbe Remix) This one is actually made by a German, but the lyrics are in Japanese. Very calm EDM. Better with good headphones.
Foreground Eclipse - Oath of Allegiance Metal/rock, I love the game series it came from (Touhou Project)
Coda - Bloody Stream From my favorite season of the anime rendition of one of the most influential and popular mangas in Japan; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Babbe - Unknown Insanity Same guy who made the monochrome remix, but this one is in German and is a remix of a song from the same series as the last. It's a remix of U.N. Owen was Her?
Triple-Kyun - Amagi Linkin Park LMFAO!!! A guilty pleasure.
Jam Project - GONG Sound the gong!!! Pure old-school awesomeness anime themed track.

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Been listening to a bunch of reggae recently. This is one of the more interesting things I've happened across. Also oddly furry-relevant, in a way.

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multiple genres/aliases anyone? i've been keeping up with renard's music off and on since back when it was called vulpvibe. think i first came across this artist way back in '06 when he had some kind of "name your price" thing in a journal over at FA. all i really remember was he hadn't set a minimum price so i managed to get and print out like 5 or pages of download links for albums (at least 20-30+ links i'm sure) which have all been lost to time unfortunately (and when i lost 1-2 old computers >.>) but theres always that lapfox trax site and he even still has some old vulpvibe albums in the "free stuff" section if anyone wants that old stuff as well as the newer stuff you can find on that linked page.

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Clawdragons said:
Probably not his best, but the name of the album and song both amuse me, as does the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvpWvvdp2U

lol yeah, still got that one. oh and i just remembered 4 huge mix tracks he did that i still have. Painajainen (42 minutes long), Summer Jam 08 (55 minutes), Sweet-Ass Hardcore Mix (36 minute), and Trauma Megamix (50 minutes). if anyone wants i could add them as well as the cover art to my google drive then link it here. its pretty convenient how easy google has made sharing stuff like that.

edit: ah, why not? i think i'll just go ahead and dump my whole lapfox folder there. lol got a lot of stuff i could put on that drive as a backup. can't put my whole music folder on that drive though, that'd be 56.2gb and the drive only has 15gb free space. :/

edit 2: vulpvibe - lapfoxtrax music oh yeah, note: while i i don't think renard is totally against piracy... something to consider about any albums i add that are currently for sale on his site would of course be buying them yourself. >.>

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treos said:
"there ~is~ such a thing as good rap music."

Yes... Greydon Square, Adil Omar, Johnny Hoax, Syqnys, B. Dolan, Non-Prophets, Sage Francis. Not all rap music is about fast cars, selling drugs and gang shootings, just like not all country music is about 'Murrica and pick up trucks.

Oh, and Mega Ran is alright.

D4rk said:
Depends on the song, but mostly Metal, Industrial, Rock.

Japanese:
Dir en grey, Mucc, The Gazette.

German:
Rammstein, OOMPH!, Blutengel

English:
Eluvietie (okay, sometimes they sing in Gaelic)
KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson,
A Perfect Circle, Tool, Fear Factory
Zeromancer, SexyDeath, Razed In Black

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IngloriousBastard said:
Yes... Greydon Square, Adil Omar, B. Dolan, Non-Prophets, Sage Francis.
Not all rap music is about fast cars, selling drugs and gang shootings,
just like not all country music is about 'Murrica and pick up trucks.

Going to have to check these out. I like rap sometimes, but it is very hard to find rap that has... actually good lyrics.

Also, to add to your list of various language metal (well others too, but my additions are metal):

Arkona / Аркона (Russian)

Also their song Na Moey Zemle which is part Russian, part Dutch, part Swedish, part German, part Latvian, part Lithuanian.

Heidevolk (Dutch)

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Clawdragons said:
Going to have to check these out. I like rap sometimes, but it is very hard to find rap that has... actually good lyrics.

Thankies, I will check those out. Also, I totally forgot to include Turmion Katilot and Rusoka (finnish industrial) and Verjnuarmu.

And yeah, pretty much everything coming out of Grand Unified (Greydon's sort of... "camp" of likeminded emcees) is awesome.

**looks up Arkona and listens to Liki Bessmertnykh Bogov**
Okay, I definitely like this...

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IngloriousBastard said:
Oh, and Mega Ran is alright.

Japanese:
Dir en grey

German:
Rammstein

only thing by mega ran i have is a track or 2 in the album: MM25 Mega Man Rocks. pretty good, i just haven't bothered to check his music out much yet, might look into that later.

as for the other 2, i know Dir en Grey from they're OP themes for the Grappler Baki anime (great martial arts anime. one of my faves of that type.). as for rammstein, i have several of they're albums downloaded.

all good artists/bands. :)

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IngloriousBastard said:
Thankies, I will check those out. Also, I totally forgot to include Turmion Katilot and Rusoka (finnish industrial) and Verjnuarmu.

And yeah, pretty much everything coming out of Grand Unified (Greydon's sort of... "camp" of likeminded emcees) is awesome.

**looks up Arkona and listens to Liki Bessmertnykh Bogov**
Okay, I definitely like this...

My favorite by Arkona (besides Na Moey Zemle, because that's sort of a six-band collaboration and I don't know if it should count) is probably Duren'. Glad I introduced you to something you like though!

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i just remembered an album i have from 5 years ago? wow, wonder how that survived time on my laptop for so long (guess it must've had at least 1 or 2tracks i liked or something).

Furry Fantasies II and now i've remembered something else i had called the furry song lol i don't even remember WHY i ever downloaded that one. curiosity maybe? no, wait, i actually happen to have all 3 versions of that song (2001, 2004, and 2010)

but yeah, apparently i have a 5 year old album and some old song by furry musicians.

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Harmony of Heroes its a super smash bros. fan album. pretty much done in the way they release albums over at ocremix. its own website, nice art, and great music.

2 tracks in particular that i like and would suggest checking out are, A K.Rool Pub Crawl and M.O.T.H.E.R.F.U.o.O.E.R! (thats the actual track name lol). the first of these 2 is based on the final boss tracks for the first donkey kong country and i think the 2nd is based on either Mother 2 or the series in general but i'm not sure. the 2nd of these tracks also has that song from Mother 2 (i think its the tune you play against the final boss) starting at the 2:05 mark.

never played any of the mother games myself (1. they're rather freaky in general from what i've seen of them and 2. mother 2's final boss...do i really want to play through an rpg only to wind up basically doing an alien abortion at the end? thats kinda a disturbing idea for a final boss fight imo.) but that is a rather nice tune.

theres also an extra album with tracks not included in the main one on that site too, its called final smash.

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Not sure what else to call it, but "video game music", specifically instrumentals and/or opera-esque pieces. I just love the feel of these kinds of tracks, whether they be "sad" or "climatic". Vocals and such are nice and all, but overall I listen to music for the "music". Standard instrumentals, classical, and alike are just as good, but the video game variations tend to go the extra step. And when those few games are bold enough to make these tracks for their final boss fights, it becomes godlike...

Like these for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9zxXN1rx0 (Bloodborne final boss music spoilers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOaYyeu78s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug6B7c_Xut8 (Xenoblade Chronicles final boss music spoilers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLBybw-IJ5U (Dark Souls final boss music spoilers)

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SirBrownBear said:
Not sure what else to call it, but "video game music", specifically instrumentals and/or opera-esque pieces. I just love the feel of these kinds of tracks, whether they be "sad" or "climatic". Vocals and such are nice and all, but overall I listen to music for the "music". Standard instrumentals, classical, and alike are just as good, but the video game variations tend to go the extra step. And when those few games are bold enough to make these tracks for their final boss fights, it becomes godlike...

I'm surprised FF8's Liberi Fatali wasn't in the list - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IkmZLFkFw

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Rampancy said:
games r 4 lozers

not really

well, depending on the community, maybe >.> (i have nothing good to say of the pay-to-win garbage plaguing the video game market or the MOBA community asi've heard of little more than toxicity from that one.)

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treos said:
Harmony of Heroes its a super smash bros. fan album. pretty much done in the way they release albums over at ocremix. its own website, nice art, and great music.

2 tracks in particular that i like and would suggest checking out are, A K.Rool Pub Crawl and M.O.T.H.E.R.F.U.o.O.E.R! (thats the actual track name lol). the first of these 2 is based on the final boss tracks for the first donkey kong country and i think the 2nd is based on either Mother 2 or the series in general but i'm not sure. the 2nd of these tracks also has that song from Mother 2 (i think its the tune you play against the final boss) starting at the 2:05 mark.

never played any of the mother games myself (1. they're rather freaky in general from what i've seen of them and 2. mother 2's final boss...do i really want to play through an rpg only to wind up basically doing an alien abortion at the end? thats kinda a disturbing idea for a final boss fight imo.) but that is a rather nice tune.

theres also an extra album with tracks not included in the main one on that site too, its called final smash.

That album is amazing. It is also how I found SteamPianist, who helped with that album, and made the song I posted earlier on this post.

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Garrett said:
That album is amazing. It is also how I found SteamPianist, who helped with that album, and made the song I posted earlier on this post.

yeah, aside from that i usually grab any free album i want from ocremix soon as they release it. i've got around 30 of the 93 albums they've released, including a few of the older ones they no long have torrents of such as Bad Dudes & Friends - Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Resurrection.

coming soon: final fantasy II: rebellion. yay, another new album to check out.

as for the musicians there...snappleman, by far my favorite. :) of course, they're all pretty good for the most part.

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treos said:
yeah, aside from that i usually grab any free album i want from ocremix soon as they release it. i've got around 30 of the 93 albums they've released, including a few of the older ones they no long have torrents of such as Bad Dudes & Friends - Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Resurrection.

coming soon: final fantasy II: rebellion. yay, another new album to check out.

as for the musicians there...snappleman, by far my favorite. :) of course, they're all pretty good for the most part.

I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

treos said:
yeah, aside from that i usually grab any free album i want from ocremix soon as they release it. i've got around 30 of the 93 albums they've released, including a few of the older ones they no long have torrents of such as Bad Dudes & Friends - Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Resurrection.

coming soon: final fantasy II: rebellion. yay, another new album to check out.

as for the musicians there...snappleman, by far my favorite. :) of course, they're all pretty good for the most part.

I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

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Garrett said:
Why the heck did that happen?

I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

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Rampancy said:
I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

Why the heck did that happen?

(On a serious note though, it's probably because you hit "respond" twice, so it quoted the message twice? I don't know.)

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Rampancy said:
I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

Hur hur hur.

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Rampancy said:
I only found Harmony of Heroes because of Theophany and his Time's End album.

I have all of them, and I'm hoping the next one they do (if they decide to continue) is Kingdom Hearts related.

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Rampancy said:
The best video game song in history, full stop.

i'm not sure if i would agree with that opinion.

i'd say Clash on the Big Bridge is best but then again, i'm a bit biased when it comes to FF music as Gilgamesh has always been, by far, one of my favorite recurring bosses. ^.^

hes gone from a potential 1-hit victory (FFV: eat X-Zone ya dumb noob! lol) to being somewhat ridiculous when it comes to intro scenes (FFXII: *enkidou appears* ... *gilgamesh...over jumps the bridge entirely* *facepalm* lol) then later becoming quite the impressive foe in his 2nd fight of FFXII. i'd comment on his appearance in XIII-2 but after the first XIII game i'm still not entirely sure if i should give it a try. :/ having a fight with him as dlc does make it tempting though (as does his newest battle theme).

FFII: Rebellion

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Someone mentioned space songs, and especially the Major Tom song, so I thought there might be some appreciation for this maybe.

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anyone here like those old Sega Tunes music CD's that SEGA sometimes released with some old genesis games? i don't have the CD nor do i remember where i downloaded them from BUT i do have the music from a couple of the Sega Tunes CD's.

first up is Roadkill--Comix Zone

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there was also a different "bonus CD" released with this game here in the US but after hearing some of it myself...i wouldn't recommend it. imo, with less tracks, Howard Drossin does FAR better.

uh, whoops, guess that's the only sega tunes cd i had, this other one is actually Sega Power Cuts 1.

Sega Power Cuts 1

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o.O wait, that's the ONLY sega power cuts album? at least as listed on that site. strange, then what's with the 1? oh well, i also just checked there and it looks like i have a few more sega tunes albums to try and find to check out. heres hoping at least some of the other ones are good as well.

edit: just checked out ocremix newest album (another one for one of those fighting game tournaments), CEO 2015: Champion, and...ew, NO! i could tell from the first track, DO. NOT. WANT! it was slow rap music. why are all the tracks slow music? this one is nothing like the 3 apex albums they did. it's all slow, not very energetic overall imo.

oh well, to each they're own i suppose, i'm sure some people may enjoy it. i like rap when it's not constant profanity (some is ok, depending on the song, but not the whole song) but not slow rap. at least, not as slow as seen in this album anyway.

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Hi everyone!

I like all kinds of music and genres and my favorite songs change every day depending on my mood.
Though I tend to avoid music from the current millennium.

As for video game music, I grew up playing Rayman 2 and enjoying its funky soundtrack as well as tracks from the earlier Command and Conquer game series. Oh the memories. :)

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Azarion said:
Hi everyone!

I like all kinds of music and genres and my favorite songs change every day depending on my mood.

As for video game music, I grew up playing Rayman 2 and enjoying its funky soundtrack as well as tracks from the earlier Command and Conquer game series. Oh the memories. :)

same here and as for the C&C music, the red alert games have a nice theme. i think it was C&C Red Alert 2 music (Hell March 2)

come to think of it, that reminds me of this album i found called dark rock back while i was playing the mmo, warframe (the game got to the point eventually that the graphics were too much for my laptop. sad that, it was like a hybrid of ninja gaiden + first person shooter, a real fun mix.). >.> it's one of those albums i had a hard time tracking down (the game had, i think, 1 track from the album) but it's pretty good.

ty google for google drive and easy file sharing through it. ;)

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got C&C Generals: Zero Hour here. :) thats certainly a good RTS series. that generals challenge in zero hour gets quite lengthy after a while though. you pick one general to play as (basically choosing your specialty...i typically go for the tank general and those emperor tanks. lol bring on the slow yet VERY powerful tanks.) then fight through the rest of them all leading up to the 5-star Tibetan general wielding all the powers of the lesser generals. man, it can take over 3-5 hours on that one fight alone but it sure is fun.

another game you might like is AI War by Arcen Games

warning, AI War can literally make your computer weep if left unchecked. a single campaign on easiest difficulty can also easily last you a week or so. lol you can easily reach over 10k units across the universe map eventually if things get dragged out long enough. especially if you come across this one AI building. i don't remember it's name but if you get near it and attack and/or try hacking the building it'll start spawning non-stop waves of AI controlled ships with each wave stronger than the last. if that building isn't destroyed immediately upon being discovered it can easily wind up spawning enough units to crash the game. iirc that even happened to one of the devs computers one time so beware.

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treos said:
got C&C Generals: Zero Hour here. :) thats certainly a good RTS series. that generals challenge in zero hour gets quite lengthy after a while though. you pick one general to play as (basically choosing your specialty...i typically go for the tank general and those emperor tanks. lol bring on the slow yet VERY powerful tanks.) then fight through the rest of them all leading up to the 5-star Tibetan general wielding all the powers of the lesser generals. man, it can take over 3-5 hours on that one fight alone but it sure is fun.

another game you might like is AI War by Arcen Games

warning, AI War can literally make your computer weep if left unchecked. a single campaign on easiest difficulty can also easily last you a week or so. lol you can easily reach over 10k units across the universe map eventually if things get dragged out long enough. especially if you come across this one AI building. i don't remember it's name but if you get near it and attack and/or try hacking the building it'll start spawning non-stop waves of AI controlled ships with each wave stronger than the last. if that building isn't destroyed immediately upon being discovered it can easily wind up spawning enough units to crash the game. iirc that even happened to one of the devs computers one time so beware.

Loved C&C Generals as well. Trying out the differnet abilities of the generals was always a lot of fun. I usually go for the 'Turtle' strategy: Sit tight, build a huge army and then strike once to win. xD

Thanks for your suggestion on AI War. I will definitely check it out. Hopefully the game won't crash on my work-oriented laptop. XD

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Azarion said:
Loved C&C Generals as well. Trying out the differnet abilities of the generals was always a lot of fun. I usually go for the 'Turtle' strategy: Sit tight, build a huge army and then strike once to win. xD

Thanks for your suggestion on AI War. I will definitely check it out. Hopefully the game won't crash on my work-oriented laptop. XD

hmmm...how does that "turtle strategy" work vs a nuke? oh wait, that just reminded me of something else. curse you, nuke general, stop leaving you're spare warheads in dumptrucks you lazy *insert profanity here*. wouldn't be the first time my tanks go to attack his base only to shoot or run over a dump truck and *boom* nuclear warhead.

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treos said:
hmmm...how does that "turtle strategy" work vs a nuke? oh wait, that just reminded me of something else. curse you, nuke general, stop leaving you're spare warheads in dumptrucks you lazy *insert profanity here*. wouldn't be the first time my tanks go to attack his base only to shoot or run over a dump truck and *boom* nuclear warhead.

Haha. So true. :) The games also made learning English as a second language more fun than any English class in school.
Have all the C&C games up to Generals on one CD and I think I will play through some of them again for nostalgia thanks to you. xD
I miss the glory days of RTS's. Seems like everyone is into FPS's these days.

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