Current/Last Thing You Listened To?

[Dragon Lord]

Comatose - Skillet

[Moonface]

Endless Summer (Album) - The Midnight

Never heard of this band before, but I learned last night that one of the streamers I watch at night plays one of the songs from this album during their opening waiting room countdown, and I always liked the song but assumed it wasn't by a label artist because of DMCA so assumed I wouldn't find the actual song itself. Last night though I just decided to check the song with Shazam and was surprised it gave me a result. I didn't finish this album yet but I've enjoyed it so far and I'm definitely checking out their other stuff after this one.

[Maniakkid25]

Panic Attack -- Dream Theater

...Well, not really. I was listening to the isolated bass part of Panic Attack. Now, I'm no sound engineer, but I am a musician, and I take two things away from listening to this bass.

1. He's attacking the strings HARD because
2. He's playing REALLY fast.

I know, 7 years of music training well spent. But seriously, knowing a little bit of guitar mechanics, its impressive that the bassline is intelligible. See, John Myung is largely a fingerstyle player. That means that he strums the strings with his fingers rather than a guitar pick. This puts him WAY at a disadvantage playing fast metal lines, because there's so much more movement and coordination going into it. That's not to say it can't be done (just ask Iron Maiden), just that it's harder. This is why, when you see him live, he's often playing the faster parts with three fingers rather than the standard two; it's the only way he can keep the speed up.

Panic Attack is a relentless song that storms in with constant 16th note rhythms at 126 BPM. He's playing 8.4 notes a second in the intro alone. At those speeds, you're goddamn right he's gonna be attacking those strings! He needs to in order to get any note at all to register to your ear. And yet, when you hear the isolated bass part, it sounds sloppy to a layman. There is a LOT of string buzz in this part, specifically in the midrange of the instrument. But, clearly, the professionals thought it was fine, because that's the studio recording take. And knowing the small amounts I do, I think its a very impressive part.

[Dragon Lord]

Two Is Better Than One - Boys Like Girls

[Maniakkid25]

Fearless -- PRESIDENT [sic]

This is a weird one. And not for the usual reasons.

See, PRESIDENT has a pretty extensive Wikipedia page. Which is strange, because they only started publicly playing events about six months ago. But they wouldn't even be on my radar if I hadn't been watching Drumeo, because Drumeo did the "Drummer plays a song he doesn't know" video with this song.

It's actually really good. Apparently there's an entire narrative to the EP, based on the annotations to the songs Genius page, but I would have to listen to the EP to know, which I haven't done yet. Still, good tune.

[Maniakkid25]

Operation Bunker Shot -- Keiki Kobayashi

So, I just found out most of the Ace Combat OSTs are available on Spotify! Ace Combat has some glorious tunage, really befitting the drama that goes on in the games. Problem? They have all the mainline OSTs... except Ace Combat 4. And this song is from Ace Combat 4. So, no original Blue Skies, no original Operation Bunker Shot (which I must tell you is one of THE most iconic songs in all of Ace Combat), no nothing! Cowards! Release the OST!

[Moonface]

@Maniakkid25: Was Ace Combat 4's OST done by a different artist? My immediate thought was how Ape Escape 2 doesn't have its OST on Spotify because it was the only game to use a different artist than every other entry. 


Smile (Album) - Skindred

Opted to give this a go after managing to pick out the lead singers voice in a song used at a performance I watched at Halloween Horror Nights, which is from this album and is why I picked this particular one. First half of the album is decent, but not too sure about the second half. I can't say I've listened to an album before where it felt like the genre completely shifted halfway through but stayed that way rather than just being for a single song.

[Maniakkid25]

Each of the games have different composers tied to them, but that doesn't matter anyway, because the game OSTs on spotify are all attributed to Project Aces, the team behind the Ace Combat series. So there is no good reason why Ace Combat 4 is not on the list.

[Moonface]

Each of the games have different composers tied to them, but that doesn't matter anyway, because the game OSTs on spotify are all attributed to Project Aces, the team behind the Ace Combat series. So there is no good reason why Ace Combat 4 is not on the list.

I don't know if it's fixed now, but I went looking up about the AC4 OST for Spotify to see if maybe there was any info on why it isn't on Spotify and while I didn't find anything, I did see people commenting that not all of the current OST's on Spotify are actually complete?