Music from 'Muse', ANGELA and the animes .hack//, LOVELESS and Fullmetal Alchemist
MY MUSIC DOWNLOADS ACTUALLY WORK THIS TIME!
So go ahead, loot my music! I'm going to try my best to keep this consistant, since I'm actually able to do this using webspace rather than simply using YSI. I'm going for five songs a week- so you have between now and next Sunday to nab these songs before they're replaced by new ones. Please comment if you download. I mean, it's not strictly necessary, but it'd be nice. And, furthermore, please enjoy! ^___^
Stolckholm Syndrom * Muse
Ashley mentioned once that the only Muse song that people seemed to know was 'Butterflies and Hurricanes'. While 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' is a righteously AWESOME song that's uberness it well nigh incomparable to normal music, it is in no way or form the only inexplicably kick ass song Muse has done. Tonight (or, y'know, this morning) I want to introduce you all to 'Stolckholm Syndrome'. This song takes you on a trip with it's dizzying, hurtling unstoppable pace. Their is a real sense of melodrama in Muse's music- it's in the way they use their piano, in the way their music shifts from heavy to calm seamlessly, it's especially in the way the lead singer drags his voice as if his heart is breaking while singing each line. XD Oh, 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' may be the Muse song for everyone what with it's near operatic ambitiousness, but this is a song for anyone who wants a desperate love sogn with a unique flavour.
Kikou * Yuki Kaijura
So Yuki Kaijura's done music for high-profile series such as Xenosaga II, Gundam Seed and TSUBASA Reservoir Chronicle since penning the various .hack// scores, however I still feel that her .hack// music is her finest yet. I mean, gah- how can anime bakcground music possibly GET ANY BETTER!? There's something intensely powerful in the way the .hack// score mixes heavily synthesized ambient style music with celtic instruments and singing that is very nearly tribal chanting. Also, I find the .hack// score has this incredibly unique bittersweet quality- the songs make you FEEL the things that the story is about. They make you feel that disconnected isolation and lonliness of the technological age, the digitalization of all emotion and... well, yeah. A lot of things. The .hack// song I present you with today is the opening theme of the final episode of .hack//LIMINALITY. There is a certain monotone rythym and subdued power to this particular piece that makes me think of spinning, spinning and... I don't know. .hack// music makes me feel very peculiar. I can't quite describe it, but nevertheless, this song is really, REALLY good.
KELAS (Let's Dance) * Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala OST
FMA seriously wants to be my favorite anime. It's all like: "Hey, look. Aside from the awesome plot, awesome characters and awesome stuff, we're going to throw European History and GYPSY music at you as well!" I mean, hell, GYPSIES. This is totally awesome gypsy music. Bittersweet and heart rending at the beginning, and then halfway through it's all like: "LET'S DANCE, YO!" My inner gypsy is very pleased with this song. If you too have an inner gypsy too, I recommend you download this song immediately. ^___^
Tradgadies * LOVELESS OST
Loveless has an absolutely gorgeous soundtrack. Despite the fact that it's got cat ears, romantic foibles and quasi-shota, there is still something very etheral, abstract and... well, beautiful about the anime. This song starts off as just voice and a pipe and slowly, bells and rain sticks are added, and finally the piano, percussion and guitar. This piece is simple and it doesn't really go anywheres, but it's very, very pretty. It's like... you know how a lot of anime has that nice, piano bacgkround music that wants to impart a sort of quiet, romantic tone and just ends up being boring taken out of context? Well, those piano pieces all want to be THIS song.
Shangri-La * ANGELA
And I'm totally giving you a cheesy J-Pop song because I saw these folks live when I went to CNAnime. And their guitarist expressed joy at my cosplay when I went to get his signature. o__O Uh, anyways, this is totally an anime opening in that it sounds like one. What I mean is that it's curiously epic Japanese pop- there's a lot of that mechanical "swishing" sound, random chanting and a catchy tune. Now, I'm really picky about my J-Pop these days and I've never actually SEEN the anime this song is from, however I'm going to tell you what makes this song stand out from the crowd. First of all, their use of acoustic guiitar in the middle of the song. WTF? And: awesome. ^__^ Also, Atsuko's voice (I do believe that is her name?) is not something you typically hear in J-Pop. It's much deeper and throatier than most Japanese girls sing, and the way she soars up on notes is absolutely awesome. I love her voice, and I really randomly love this song.
On another note: I just watched all of LOVELESS and now feel an urge to read the manga because I wish to know all the reasons Soubi is so deeply fucked up. I mean, when you're asking a twelve year old to boss you around all kinky like, you know you have problems. o__O
So go ahead, loot my music! I'm going to try my best to keep this consistant, since I'm actually able to do this using webspace rather than simply using YSI. I'm going for five songs a week- so you have between now and next Sunday to nab these songs before they're replaced by new ones. Please comment if you download. I mean, it's not strictly necessary, but it'd be nice. And, furthermore, please enjoy! ^___^
Stolckholm Syndrom * Muse
Ashley mentioned once that the only Muse song that people seemed to know was 'Butterflies and Hurricanes'. While 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' is a righteously AWESOME song that's uberness it well nigh incomparable to normal music, it is in no way or form the only inexplicably kick ass song Muse has done. Tonight (or, y'know, this morning) I want to introduce you all to 'Stolckholm Syndrome'. This song takes you on a trip with it's dizzying, hurtling unstoppable pace. Their is a real sense of melodrama in Muse's music- it's in the way they use their piano, in the way their music shifts from heavy to calm seamlessly, it's especially in the way the lead singer drags his voice as if his heart is breaking while singing each line. XD Oh, 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' may be the Muse song for everyone what with it's near operatic ambitiousness, but this is a song for anyone who wants a desperate love sogn with a unique flavour.
Kikou * Yuki Kaijura
So Yuki Kaijura's done music for high-profile series such as Xenosaga II, Gundam Seed and TSUBASA Reservoir Chronicle since penning the various .hack// scores, however I still feel that her .hack// music is her finest yet. I mean, gah- how can anime bakcground music possibly GET ANY BETTER!? There's something intensely powerful in the way the .hack// score mixes heavily synthesized ambient style music with celtic instruments and singing that is very nearly tribal chanting. Also, I find the .hack// score has this incredibly unique bittersweet quality- the songs make you FEEL the things that the story is about. They make you feel that disconnected isolation and lonliness of the technological age, the digitalization of all emotion and... well, yeah. A lot of things. The .hack// song I present you with today is the opening theme of the final episode of .hack//LIMINALITY. There is a certain monotone rythym and subdued power to this particular piece that makes me think of spinning, spinning and... I don't know. .hack// music makes me feel very peculiar. I can't quite describe it, but nevertheless, this song is really, REALLY good.
KELAS (Let's Dance) * Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala OST
FMA seriously wants to be my favorite anime. It's all like: "Hey, look. Aside from the awesome plot, awesome characters and awesome stuff, we're going to throw European History and GYPSY music at you as well!" I mean, hell, GYPSIES. This is totally awesome gypsy music. Bittersweet and heart rending at the beginning, and then halfway through it's all like: "LET'S DANCE, YO!" My inner gypsy is very pleased with this song. If you too have an inner gypsy too, I recommend you download this song immediately. ^___^
Tradgadies * LOVELESS OST
Loveless has an absolutely gorgeous soundtrack. Despite the fact that it's got cat ears, romantic foibles and quasi-shota, there is still something very etheral, abstract and... well, beautiful about the anime. This song starts off as just voice and a pipe and slowly, bells and rain sticks are added, and finally the piano, percussion and guitar. This piece is simple and it doesn't really go anywheres, but it's very, very pretty. It's like... you know how a lot of anime has that nice, piano bacgkround music that wants to impart a sort of quiet, romantic tone and just ends up being boring taken out of context? Well, those piano pieces all want to be THIS song.
Shangri-La * ANGELA
And I'm totally giving you a cheesy J-Pop song because I saw these folks live when I went to CNAnime. And their guitarist expressed joy at my cosplay when I went to get his signature. o__O Uh, anyways, this is totally an anime opening in that it sounds like one. What I mean is that it's curiously epic Japanese pop- there's a lot of that mechanical "swishing" sound, random chanting and a catchy tune. Now, I'm really picky about my J-Pop these days and I've never actually SEEN the anime this song is from, however I'm going to tell you what makes this song stand out from the crowd. First of all, their use of acoustic guiitar in the middle of the song. WTF? And: awesome. ^__^ Also, Atsuko's voice (I do believe that is her name?) is not something you typically hear in J-Pop. It's much deeper and throatier than most Japanese girls sing, and the way she soars up on notes is absolutely awesome. I love her voice, and I really randomly love this song.
On another note: I just watched all of LOVELESS and now feel an urge to read the manga because I wish to know all the reasons Soubi is so deeply fucked up. I mean, when you're asking a twelve year old to boss you around all kinky like, you know you have problems. o__O