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Think of it as -independence day-the comedy

Thats right a high school magic club defending the earth from alien invasion...

Well... a bit, I guess.
The alien invasion is almost the least important part of the series.

Its much more standard japanese anime high schooler highjinks plus a with a focus on the 'character that is super incompetent but super powerful, but cute and innocent and etc'

If someone goes in expecting intense magic vs alien battles, they'll be fairly disappointed. Its good for fans of cherry trees, however.

I think the alien invasion side was more prevalent in the OVAs the TV series had more focus on the interpersonal relationships....but still such a great series.


In chronological in universe order

After macross zero we have my first ever exposure to yoko kanno's works on macross plus( i was obviously a fan after that).

Trying her hand at a bit of techno-ish music (sharon apple AI singer) as well as her well established orchestral arrangements among other things.

More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.

 Adrassil wrote:
More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.

As a heavy metal guy that really isn't my speed, but it was only underrated if you are looking at the mainstream offerings

just off the top of my head albums that were great (that i own) in the 2000's

.Helloween – The Dark Ride
. Iron Maiden – Brave New World
. HammerFall – Renegade, crimson thunder, chapter V, threshold, no sacrifice no victory
.Demons And Wizards – s/t, touch of the crimson king
.alestorm-captain morgans revenge
.nightwish-wishmaster, century child, once, dark passion play
.blind guardian-a night at the opera, twist in the mist, at the edge of time
.edguy-savage poetry, hellfire club, mandrake, rocket ride, tinnitus sanctus
.dark tranquility- haven, damage done, character, fiction, we are void
.arch enemy-wages of sin, anthems of rebellion, doomsday machine, rise of the tyrant
.saxon-killing ground, lion heart, the inner sanctum, into the labyrinth
.immortal-damned in black, sons of northern darkness, all shall fall
.sabaton-primo victoria, attero dominatus, metalizer, the art of war, coat of arms
.power wolf-return in blood red, lupus dei, bible of the beast
.dio-killing the dragon, master of the moon
.judas priest-angel of retribution, nostradamus
.airbourne-running wild
.iced earth-horror show, the glorious burden, framing armageddon, the crucible of man
.king diamond-house of god, the puppet master, give me your soul please

I could go on for a while but i will stop there.

So being the macross fanboy that i am i also have the VFX soundtracks and the M3 soundtrack for the playstation games.

They came out around the time the macross 7 TV series was running so they included original songs from fire bomber (hummingbird-the band that was fire bomber in the anime)

VFX




VFX 2




M3

My favorite of the games...but then it was focused on my favorite characters from the original series- max & millia so no surprise there.

As i noted in my previous post the macross video games came out around the same time that the macross TV series macross 7 and OVA series dynamite 7 were in production. while they used some of the macross plus BGM the main focus was on the fictional band "fire bomber" performed by the band hummingbird in japan.

As such the soundtracks were effectively fire bomber albums.

a couple of my favorite tracks

Came across this on Spotify a few days ago.




Rather lovely song. This is coming from someone who normally doesn’t like rap music. This guy’s stuff stuff doesn’t seem to get a lot of traffic (by which I mean the views for this song are in the single-digits) so thought I’d throw it up here.

Attended a wedding this summer in Russia, where both bride and groom were from the Caucasus, and got to see a performance of the Cossak saber dance. I got a FB memory pop up today, and thus I needed to find myself some Cossak & Sabre music.

Hmm, this Thread asks "What Are You Listening To Right Now!?" And so it does not require that it HAS to be music. So right now I'm listening to the audiobook of Hereticus the 3rd novel of the excellent Eisenhorn Trilogy. This might be the...fifth time I've listened to it? I'm not old, but it seems like a series which seems to get better and better as I age. Eisenhorn is one of my favourite characters in 40k and Dan Abnett's subtle character development of his is weaved so well and subtly throughout the novels. To say the Eisenhorn Trilogy and the Ravenor Trilogy are influential on me as a writer is a huge understatement, perhaps even more than the Gaunt's Ghosts series. I've just finished with Malleus, which is great too. And realised that the daemonic artefact The Lith introduced in what could be seen almost as a "filler arc" halfway through the novel is VERY similar to the Marker from Dead Space. The Wyrm it creates with the bodies of its worshippers reminds me of the Hive Mind from the end of the 1st Dead Space. In fact, the whole scenario is somewhat similar, could the production staff of Dead Space taken some inspiration from Malleus? It is a huge mishmash of many Sci fi horror works, so it isn't without the realms of reality. Messaged Dan on Facebook about it and he agreed lol

Now, I'm listening to the Audio Drama version of Thorn and Talon by Dan Abnett which contains Master Imus's Transgression, Regia Occulta and Thorn Wishes Talon. Helping inspire my writing during NaNoWriMo!

Now i return once again to Yoko Kanno and her masterful work on macross frontier (TV series and movies)

There is of course the iconic singer aspect that is present in all of macross with Sheryl Nome (and Ranka)
And true to form kanno delivers another iconic piece to rival voices from macross plus with the song aimo along with all the Sheryl pieces




Then she goes on to do stuff that rivals the work the likes of what john williams did for star wars.




The problem with work this good is that it spoils you for other shows. i liked the story in macross delta for example, but i was sad to find out that kanno didn't come back for the soundtrack so i wasn't motivated to get it.

Now we go back to the past for some of my older titles (i've been collecting for a long time like i said)

Back before macross plus revitalized the saga the only thing new macross related was the alternate universe macross II OVAs.

As a macross fanboy i was buying everything macross related so this soundtrack ended up in my collection although it pales in comparison to everything that came after it.





Another blast from the 80s in my rotation is MOSPEADA (as some may recognize as robotech-the next generation) i liked the original show enough to pick up the soundtrack.
The music might have a recognizable sound because it was done by none other than Joe Hisaishi of studio ghibli fame.

Today's update

The last of the "M"s
mononoke hime (princess mononoke)

 Adrassil wrote:

More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.

That was a cracking album.]

But remember! We do tend to cherry pick older music.

For instance, I absolutely adore any rock’n’roll from the periods of Glam to Britpop. Glam, Shoegaze, DarkWave, Punk, Post Punk. All of it. To me it seems like such a period (25 or so years?) of unbridled creativity, in the public eye. This is probably down to then emerging technology rather than some nebulous, lost human drive. They created new sounds because they had new toys to play with.

Yet, for every X-Ray Spex (a band which for me best encapsulates the punk ethos)

Flashing screen warning, just in case




There was utter, objective drivel such as Agadoo....




And in terms of personal favourites of frankly dubious taste?

For every Sigue Sigue Sputnik (who really were only, and unabashedly In It For The Money, but really introduced sampling to the wider world)




There was 5star (a bargain basement knock off Jackson 5, and victims of a now truly legendary kids show call in)




TL/DR - only the classics tend to be remembered years later (so I’d wager Taylor Swift will still be remembered fondly, but stuff like Call Me Maybe will be largely forgotten.

Oh, and bonus video because it’s great?




Whoa-oh!

I listen to way more Radiohead than is healthy. i can't help it though, always find something new to like, no matter how many times I've heard the albums before.

Into the Ns takes us back to the 90s and the show within a show

martian successor nadesico

the space adventure built around a fictional super hero robot show-gekiganger





of course it has it's own soundtrack aside from that




I am not a huge fan of Goto's art syle (the animation art director) and it annoyed me somewhat when one of my favorite manga artists kia asamiya (silent mobius, dark angel, steam detective etc..) started copying it when he did the official manga for the series..... but it also had a soundtrack that was even better than the TV series.

Finished The Sandman audio dramatization, pretty good some of the voices didn't quite work for me, but overall a decent cast mostly nailing it, fingers crossed for some more

Another 90s series a buddy of mine got me into

Natsuki crisis

It was in the martial arts high school genre with the main characters being in karate and wrestling.

The music was very much a sort of "carry on my wayward son" kind of rock
This is one of my favorite tracks, starts out slow but adds in some time changes that really pick up.

Listening to The Guns of Tanith audiobook after just finishing Hereticus. Enjoying it a lot, but I know what's going to happen which makes me go nyoooo.

Before that, been listening to a bit of Flight of the Concords most particularly.




And...




Also...




Bowie's in Space is great, it's also neat being a Kiwi and knowing how well these guys did in the day. I've even seen Bret Mckenzie a couple of times in my home city of Wellington, too.

Oh my frigging Emperor this is amayzaaang. Just stumbled over this on the YouTubes!

Been a while since my last update..holiday break and all

in the play list

nausicaa of the valley of the wind (kaze no tani no nausicaa) soundtrack and symphony collections from studio ghibli/myazaki's first original movie circa 1984





Plastic little- the one shot anime based on the manga from from the master of nipple topography Satoshi Urushihara
it actually had a decent soundtrack.




and another 80's visitor-the one shot OVA based on the outlanders manga

The outlanders anime

Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...

 Just Tony wrote:
Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...

Well music much like art is a matter of preference. as somebody who grew up in the seattle area i would rather listen to motorhead than many of the acclaimed bands from my locality that i despise like pearl jam and nirvana or other bands i never thought were any good like tool.

But then again my metal head addicition runs the gambit of styles from operatic power metal that run the likes of blind guardian, and nightwish, growly melodic death metal like arch enemy and dark tranquility, classic heavy metal such as manOwar, maiden and priest to the ocassional dark pro's of black metal in the form of immortal or dimmu borgir


Then again my anime soundtrack collections also have a large dose of classical and other forms of folk and instrumentals

Todays update include another of my favorite myazaki films-

kurenai no buta (porco rosso)




Then we jump back to the 80s soundtracks with project Ako and all the parodies there in.

This track starts out slow but it ends with a bang

 Just Tony wrote:
Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...

This is sorta my thoughts when I played Kiss's Rock and Roll All Nite on Guitar Hero 3 as about halfway through the song I'm like "People actually like this crap?" And swore I'd never play it ever again.


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This literally right now.




Say what you will about Advent Children (and there's a lot to say) This version is pretty epic. That guitar solo. As a foolish teenager, I bought Advent Children before ever playing 7 and I liked it, mostly for the insane spectacle of the fight scenes, but by the Emperor, it took me like...I don't know how many watches to somewhat decipher what the frig was going on. Then I borrowed FF7 off a friend and I really liked it. Although, the discs were scratched to hell and back got to the end of the first disc and it'd just die on me in the middle of "that" cut scene, so couldn't progress. Bought on PS3 network, but haven't gotten past Midgar. I'm looking forward to if/when they release the remake on PC. Still got a video game backlog as long as Mount Everest is tall, though.

The advent children soundtrack is fantastic. had to add it to my collection after i saw the movie.

although the wife is more the final fantasy fan than i am.



Next up is the fantasy offering from the famous female manga group CLAMP

in anime form-magic knights rayearth

Where being the hero that saves the princess requires killing her...the "normal" kind of twists that CLAMP likes to put into their stories.





they also have a song collection that i have as well as the soundtrack.

Found this Indian metal band some time ago called Bloodywood. I used to listen to them for their covers of pop songs, but it seems as though they've been using their music in recent years as a platform for positive messages. It's kind of nice though. They keep the kick metal vibe while still promoting stuff like forgiveness and diversity.

Seems a bit to much NU"metal" to my ears. i have about as much tolerance for rap as i do getting kicked in the balls repeatedly


Something amazing i found was this guy

Denis Pauna

he looks like lemmy plays all the instruments and does covers of well known metal songs as if they were done by other bands.......My mind was blown when he started doing these covers of good metallica songs (read everything prior to load) by various artists specifically type O negative. he absolutely nails the sound and is a dead ringer for Peter Steele's vocals.









Now for my normal update-back to the soundtracks

I am almost embarrassed i have this gem, but considering how hard it was to find actual anime soundtrack in the mid 1980s when i bought it....





I won't torment your ears with it this time.

Then we get into my game soundtracks. back in the late 90s i had a friend who was big into console fighting games and he turned me onto these fantastic samurai showdown image albums called samurai spirits there were 2 albums this is the first. it is a mix of traditional instruments and some tracks include modern guitar/heavy metal fusion similar to the wagakki band.




Next up is an album i bought on a whim at the local japanese bookstore because i loved the cover art..turns out it was a fantastic purchase it is an earlier work of the famous game music composer Hiroki Kikuta

Soukaigi

this is one of my favorite tracks (the entire album is there from this channel if you want more)

Time for something, festive

WOW!

Denis just put up a type O negative tribute medley.....






Back to my soundtracks

This is one of those more obscure titles but still a fantastic high quality show

Shamanic princess. it has a very victorian era feel to the setting and all the hallmarks of a "magical girl" show, but with a far darker and much more serious atmosphere.





The next bit of the catalog will be working through the many silent mobius soundtracks i have. i have long been a fan of Kia Asamya's manga and back in the early 90s kodokawa publishing started funding animation projects related to it.

The show does a vary obvious nod to blade runner with a sort of monster/alien invasion feel. dealing with a special police unit tasked with stopping beings known as lucifer hawks from a parallel universe from invading our reality.

The first set of soundtracks is from the movies




The music may have a familiar sound to it as the composer (kaoru wada) has worked on other well known titles like ninja scroll.

Has been played a lot these past days here in the household