k that makes sense. I think the Mekong Delta one does a good job personally (although they do make it quite a bit heavier than the original but I personally kind of like that). But I do agree that too often they just take the melody and throw it into a guitar riff. also I'm assuming you meant heavy handed and not heaven handed
No, I mean the drummer puts on a white gloves that have been soaked in holy water and uses as drumsticks parts of the True Cross so that when he strikes the instrument created by stretching the Shroud of Turin over the Crown of Thorns, an angelic choir sings out "Hosanna in the highest" and the entire band ascends into the highest spheres of the celestial empyrean and merges into one entity with the love that moves the stars.
k that makes sense. I think the Mekong Delta one does a good job personally (although they do make it quite a bit heavier than the original but I personally kind of like that). But I do agree that too often they just take the melody and throw it into a guitar riff. also I'm assuming you meant heavy handed and not heaven handed
No, I mean the drummer puts on a white gloves that have been soaked in holy water and uses as drumsticks parts of the True Cross so that when he strikes the instrument created by stretching the Shroud of Turin over the Crown of Thorns, an angelic choir sings out "Hosanna in the highest" and the entire band ascends into the highest spheres of the celestial empyrean and merges into one entity with the love that moves the stars.
k that makes sense. I think the Mekong Delta one does a good job personally (although they do make it quite a bit heavier than the original but I personally kind of like that). But I do agree that too often they just take the melody and throw it into a guitar riff. also I'm assuming you meant heavy handed and not heaven handed
No, I mean the drummer puts on a white gloves that have been soaked in holy water and uses as drumsticks parts of the True Cross so that when he strikes the instrument created by stretching the Shroud of Turin over the Crown of Thorns, an angelic choir sings out "Hosanna in the highest" and the entire band ascends into the highest spheres of the celestial empyrean and merges into one entity with the love that moves the stars.
Hm, so, when do people in here play the lottery? Like, what does the pot need to be for you to throw $2-3 at it? Personally, around $200m is my cutoff, anything lower and I don't care enough, but 180-200 it's just why not.
On June 04 2015 07:51 Crusnik wrote: Hm, so, when do people in here play the lottery? Like, what does the pot need to be for you to throw $2-3 at it? Personally, around $200m is my cutoff, anything lower and I don't care enough, but 180-200 it's just why not.
On June 04 2015 07:51 Crusnik wrote: Hm, so, when do people in here play the lottery? Like, what does the pot need to be for you to throw $2-3 at it? Personally, around $200m is my cutoff, anything lower and I don't care enough, but 180-200 it's just why not.
my dad buys a lottery ticket whenever he travels but I personally never do.
On June 04 2015 07:51 Crusnik wrote: Hm, so, when do people in here play the lottery? Like, what does the pot need to be for you to throw $2-3 at it? Personally, around $200m is my cutoff, anything lower and I don't care enough, but 180-200 it's just why not.
It'd have to have +EV without a massive deviation which it never does, sadness.
The use of "derivative" sounded derogatory, dunno if that was intended, but I'm fine with it—ZUN tries to draw inspiration from "typical" tunes to give specific vibes to his themes, so it's pretty much all assumed, and he's self-taught as far as I know.
The issue I have with most of the metal stuff is that I have a hard time actually calling it a "cover": it takes your most generic metal stuff, then slaps some bits of the actual melody (the most easily recognisable ones) at a few intervals to make you think it's covering that, despite the vast majority of the melody having nothing to do with it. The fact that it's also almost all subgenres I dislike (my references in metal are Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and hard rock stuff like Deep Purple or BÖC, so magnitudes more melodic than a lot of what developed since) and it sounds like people bashing their instruments to me doesn't help, of course.
There's some very generic covers—hell, Tutti Sound did a whole album called "Touhou Film Music Selection" that is basically covers arranged in a way to sound like your most stereotypical "epic" movie soundtracks of recent years. It's sometimes uninspired or even bland, kinda hit or miss (same with Two Steps from Hell which does super generic "epic" music), but on average it's efficient and still something you'd hear without cringing. Most metal covers have me closing them less than 30s after the intro is over, telling myself "Well, that was noise".
I guess I can see why people like Demetori, but that's not really my style of metal, and they often add vocals which I'm not a fan of.
On June 04 2015 07:51 Crusnik wrote: Hm, so, when do people in here play the lottery? Like, what does the pot need to be for you to throw $2-3 at it? Personally, around $200m is my cutoff, anything lower and I don't care enough, but 180-200 it's just why not.
wtf? whats the difference between 100 mil and 200 mil and like 10 mil for someone making a regular wage, id much prefer a 200x more likely chance to win 1 mil$ and can pretty much live off that that said, its obviously still not worth it
I don't have a reason for it, that's just normally when it catches my eye.
And I forgot to kill Kirk in the Depths, fuck, not sure I can get his equipment now or not, not that I would use it, most armor in dark souls is pointless anyway aside from giving you some poise, which is all that matters.
On June 04 2015 08:01 Alaric wrote: The use of "derivative" sounded derogatory, dunno if that was intended, but I'm fine with it—ZUN tries to draw inspiration from "typical" tunes to give specific vibes to his themes, so it's pretty much all assumed, and he's self-taught as far as I know.
The issue I have with most of the metal stuff is that I have a hard time actually calling it a "cover": it takes your most generic metal stuff, then slaps some bits of the actual melody (the most easily recognisable ones) at a few intervals to make you think it's covering that, despite the vast majority of the melody having nothing to do with it. The fact that it's also almost all subgenres I dislike (my references in metal are Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and hard rock stuff like Deep Purple or BÖC, so magnitudes more melodic than a lot of what developed since) and it sounds like people bashing their instruments to me doesn't help, of course.
There's some very generic covers—hell, Tutti Sound did a whole album called "Touhou Film Music Selection" that is basically covers arranged in a way to sound like your most stereotypical "epic" movie soundtracks of recent years. It's sometimes uninspired or even bland, kinda hit or miss (same with Two Steps from Hell which does super generic "epic" music), but on average it's efficient and still something you'd hear without cringing. Most metal covers have me closing them less than 30s after the intro is over, telling myself "Well, that was noise".
I guess I can see why people like Demetori, but that's not really my style of metal, and they often add vocals which I'm not a fan of.
That's part of the appeal of ZUN's music. It's extremely simple, typical, but imaginative and just works. Also considering that he's just a drunk Japanese guy at a synthesizer, he does make some pretty damn good music.
Because of how simple it is, people just took the next step in remixing it to make it sound "cool" or whatever. It, like everything else related to Touhou, just spiraled out of control. Look at all of the U.N. Owen was Her? remixes. Only a third of them sound anything as good as the original bit on a synthesizer.
The problem with most Touhou music is that most people are amateurs and the music sounds just ok, so quality is really hit or miss. I'd probably get crucified by Touhou music fanatics but most Touhou music just is kinda meh. Most of the time ZUN does a better job with less. It's just that the really good Touhou music does the job really well, because the source is so good most of the time.
Also because of the nature of Touhou music it is the ultimate hipster music. Pretty much all doujin works by doujin circles There is no single genre of music that encompasses hipsterdom as much as Touhou does.
Most arranges, while pleasant to listen to, aren't that unique or fantastic. Metal in Touhou, however, is generally poor. I agree that most metal bands just bash around and add in Touhou melody. (*COUGHIRONATTACKCOUGH*)
Also, speaking of ZUN, I find his very first arrange ever to be his best. Even though it's 8 bit.
When I started playing osu!, i noticed all music i liked a little bit had the tag touhou. I didn't even know what touhou was back then. The music isn't good compared to what i'd listen to normally, but it's great as gaming background music and has some very catchy melodies. The only touhou music 'covers' i liked were by IOSYS, but one can hardly call that music anymore Bad apple's melody appeals the most to me, although I never heard the original (if there even is one lol).
If there are people who played osu quite some time ago, lybydose has mapped some touhou music i really liked.
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