Video Game Music can be very proggy
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Topic: Video Game Music can be very proggy
Posted By: desistindo
Subject: Video Game Music can be very proggy
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:06
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One of the reasons because i love prog music is maybe cause when i was kid i liked very much some musics from video game. I had a Master System and enjoyed tracks from games like Space Harrier, Rastan, Ghouls n´Ghosts, OutRun, Golden Axe etc. And now i realise that most of those tracks are very proggy... Check it out some of them: I played once a cover of this track with my brother in a party, it was very fun  Very uncommon tempo for a game... ^This one is very ecentric... |
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Posted By: Run Home Slow
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 22:07
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Well u know that Robert Fripp as done the sound in microsux windows :-) but for the games, i'm a little old school... still love Apeiron (shooting mushrooms, lol) and when you check the about it, the music credits got some big prog stars like Pink Floyd and Zappa, oops should had writen Zappa and Pink Floyd, sorry Frank, Hendrix and the doors + some others :-) (i can never figure out how to put a .jpg picture here when doing a comment, well i'm old) :-) ------------- If you got ears, you gotta listen — Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 09:03
Tim Follin made alot of great music for nes games. He listens to alot of prog I've heard. His music is very proggy  Here is a cover of the Solstice main theme Another one by Tim Follin. 2:20 and on seems to be taken from Yes's song "The Remembering high the Memory" (11:24 - 11:58) (go to 0:52 at the Yes vid) This one here is good too i think ------------- 
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 09:16
| Best. Video Game Music. Ever. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 14:55
Agreed. A very symbolic theme song too.  |
UndercoverBoy wrote:Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 16:23
| Most power metal artists cite video game music as a big influence. Make of that what you will. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 22:19
| ^^^ I trust you guys have heard the Black Mages' version of Dancing Mad... |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 22:20
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Video Game Music > Video Games
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 22:25
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 03 2010 at 23:09
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FF6 = best music ever in a game.
I'll tell you what though, I LOVED the old imuse music system Lucasarts used to use on their games though, best witnessed in Monkey Island 2. The music was continuous- whenever you changed location or scene, the music did not stop and start again with a different tune, but smoothly blended into the next piece. There were dozens and dozens of little scripted musical transitions from each piece to the next. I remember walking in and out of locations at different times to hear them all. Also, standing closer to certain objects/characters would cause the music change subtlely to reflect atmosphere, or beginning a conversation with someone would see the mix change in a way that reflected their character and so on. Brilliant and the game is 18 years old. Could be done now but people can't be bothered investing so much in their scores.
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 01:19
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Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 02:56
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 03:10
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 03:14
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^^^I love the Diablo 2 soundtrack, sets the scene perfectly every time. Here's one of my most recent favourites: ------------- 
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 03:25
| I would love to see a band do something like that Monkey Island 2 imuse thing, a set of tracks where you could switch between them at any time and they would transition into each other. Canibus tried something similar with Poet Laureate Infinity (five ten minute long rap tracks with different lyrics but you could switch between them at any time and it would still rhyme and make sense- probably the most complex thing ever attempted in the history of lyrics) but it would be cool to see a jazz fusion band or something do it. It would need to be on a special software programme that cued the transitions when you switched rather than standard track/mp3 format though. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 03:27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu - Nobuo Uematsu is a fine composer and does some great work as a video game music composer and in The Black Mages.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 04 2010 at 04:20
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This always reminds me of Gentle Giant:
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Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:15
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Of course video game music can be proggy. Ever heard of Dream Theater? *rimshot*
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:22
I see you've been playing the hell out of Kind Of Blue lately. Fabulous album.
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Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:40
| Yup, bought the remastered version today. Nice album. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:48
| ^ One case where the remastered edition is very much worth it. Some speed changes were finally corrected, and such. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:55
That was a great game. ------------- 
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 20:01
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 21:08
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I still haven't beat it. Stuck on the Shadow Queen for about two and a half years. It's a masterpiece of a game, but it's easy throughout the entire thing and then it gets crazy hard at the last level.
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 21:17
| I LOVED the original Paper Mario. A game I sailed through but still really enjoyed because it was just so lovely and fun. Haven't played the subsequent games but only because I never owned their systems. Will probably be emulating them before long. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 23:49
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:04
| King Crimson- Red, the 8 bit video game sounding version: |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:23
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/\ Nerdgasm. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:28
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:44
| Oh man, these are great. It seems there's a Windows program you can make these in simply by dropping a midi file in. I know where to get a very good midi file of a Cardiacs song which would be perfect for this kind of treatment but I'm on a mac. Wah! |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 21:58
| That 8 bit Red is genuinely awesome. Let's have an 8 bit Octavarium. |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 22:11
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That version of Red is hilarious, yet awesome. Somebody should produce King Crimson: the video game.
Myself, the only video game music I've ever really enjoyed is Sewart Copeland's soundtrack to the original Spyro the Dragon. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 22:29
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It's interesting to note that Koji Kondo (composer of a lot of the Mario and Zelda music) is actually a proggy and credits Genesis and ELP as influences.
Someone here pointed out before that Zelda's Lullyby sounds slightly similar to Hands of the Priestess Part 1 off of Voyage Of The Acolyte. It may just be a coincidence but the first few notes are quite uncanny. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs/?chartstyle=LastfmSuicjdeGirls" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 22:55
Yeah, Shadow Queen is a bitch. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:22
S'been done. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 00:10
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Posted By: Undercover Man
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 08:26
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDxvZXPHpSY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDxvZXPHpSY 8-bit Close to the Edge, sounds awesome. There's a lot of 8-bit prog there.
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Posted By: Undercover Man
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 08:27
How do i actually post videos here? 
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: September 18 2012 at 08:42
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I noticed when I bought the Wii edition of `Tetris Party' that the majority of the selectable in-game soundtracks were all very proggy! Very pleasantly surprised!
I also was playing Ozric Tentacles `Waterfall Cities' at work a while back, and someone asked `Are you listening to video game music?' lol! 
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Posted By: FunkyM
Date Posted: September 30 2012 at 12:20
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Speaking of Gentle Giant, there's one piece of music in Chrono Trigger that sounds *very* similar to "Talybont" from Free Hand, I think. |