What kind of music do you listen to?

[abitofBaileys]

fff just go to my last.fm profile you lazy bitches.
Although I reset that one this year because it was fucked up.

Currently love the Persona 3+4 Live Concert in Wel City, Tokyo. It's awesome. Can't stop listening to it. Heartful Cry, The Almighty, Heaven, When The Moon's Reaching Out Starts.

Wait. Those are all from P4

[Dark Pulse]

Hey Pulse, you have masses of old school game music right?  Do you happen to have the intro song for Ballz 3D?  I have had it stuck in my head all day, and I don't know why.

OI! YEAHHHHHHHHH! OI! YEAHHHHHHHHH UH HUH!

I actually owned that game on the Genesis. Does this make me awesome?

Anyway... Depends on what version you want. The plugins are Winamp compatible, but they should work in XMPlay too. Foobar can be done, but you'll need a different plugin or a Winamp plugin wrapper.

Sega Genesis version:

• Plugin (in_vgm 0.34)
• Soundtrack, ripped by yours truly (who also co-founded that site)

SNES version:

• Plugin (SNESAmp 3.34)
• Soundtrack, which I had nothing to do with.

Installing them should be a snap if you're able to read. Then just run the files like any other song.

[LoliSauce]

Hey Pulse, you have masses of old school game music right?  Do you happen to have the intro song for Ballz 3D?  I have had it stuck in my head all day, and I don't know why.

OI! YEAHHHHHHHHH! OI! YEAHHHHHHHHH UH HUH!

I actually owned that game on the Genesis. Does this make me awesome?

Anyway... Depends on what version you want. The plugins are Winamp compatible, but they should work in XMPlay too. Foobar can be done, but you'll need a different plugin or a Winamp plugin wrapper.

Sega Genesis version:

• Plugin (in_vgm 0.34)
• Soundtrack, ripped by yours truly (who also co-founded that site)

SNES version:

• Plugin (SNESAmp 3.34)
• Soundtrack, which I had nothing to do with.

Installing them should be a snap if you're able to read. Then just run the files like any other song.

Yeah, I own it for SNES.  lol.  Thanks for all the effort in supplying the song.  =>

[papagaio]

When Gran Turismo 5 still not out, I'm hearing the GT3 intro theme (US Version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2RR1yVmGk

Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (Gran Turismo 3 Mix)

[Dark Pulse]

Yeah, I own it for SNES.  lol.  Thanks for all the effort in supplying the song.  =>

Well, I aim to please.

Obviously if you got the plugin installed, feel free to grab other soundtracks. They even got a torrent there so you can collect the whole set, and it's updated fairly regularly.

[Ice Queen Lotus]

Psh I already upped it for him.

[Dark Pulse]

Yes, but yours is probably a MP3/Ogg soundtrack. And doesn't loop forever. Whereas the SNES version is a teeny, tiny, 105k and the Genesis version is a bit over half a megabyte.

Plus the game never had an official soundtrack so any sort of soundtrack would have had to come from the game itself, anyway.

[Ultima66]

Okay I can finally talk about this after a week of listening to this shit.

Bonnie Pink 2007-2010
Albums: 3
Songs: 42 (not counting B-side collection)
Actually good: 2 songs
Pop shit that's listenable: 6 songs
Pop shit that's listenable in her 2010 album: 5 songs
Complete j-pop garbage: everything else
Number of people I've seen actually talk about her 1999-2006 music: 0
Number of people who talk about her 2007+ music: 5 page thread on an Ai Otsuka forum
Worst offense: 鐘を鳴らして (theme from Tales of Vesperia) in an album
Even worse offense: Ring a Bell (English version of the theme) in the same album as a bonus track

This is exactly why I hate otaku shit's influence on music. I don't give a shit when people like Utada or Ayumi Hamasaki make complete garbage and get paid way too much, because I don't respect them anyways and don't care about their music, but when a respectable creative songwriter like Bonnie Pink does a single song for some sort of otaku thing that blows up, they turn into complete garbage because suddenly everyone wants to listen to the singer for that crap. Her 2010 album is better, though. At least it shows signs of her going back to stuff more like her 1999-2006 music.

This is one of the only two songs I think are well done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRghRp4awaQ&ob=av2n

Fucking music industry. Is it too much to ask for to have actual musicians not have fanbases that cross over into people that don't know shit about music? I guess if you want to find that any more, you have to look to Beethoven and Miles Davis and nothing that's been made within the last 50 years.

[abitofBaileys]

That's why I enjoy listening to Frank Sinatra alot. He's a genius. Though I can't scrobble that on last.fm since my record player doesn't support Audioscrobbler plugins.

[CPhame]

Aw man, that's terrible.  I used to love the old school Bonnie Pink albums.  I used to own Heaven's Kitchen and Evil and Flowers until they were stolen out of my car.  They were good stuff.  It's a shame what happened to her, but hey, that's why we have her old stuff to remember her by.  Times change and so do people.

Love the mini stats you posted, lol.  Good stuff, man.  Do more reviews!

(Btw, my favorite Bonnie Pink songs include Orange, You are Blue So am I, and Inu to Tsuki)

[BlueBlueAquamarine]

All of us listen to Melty background music, of course, while playing the frigging game. MBAA music is on decent side, you gotta admit.

My taste in music is quite random, kind of shows how different I can be under different moods.

First of all, real Asians from Asia can't really be weeaboos (perversion of wapanese = white japanese), so I won't refer to myself as such  . I don't really listen all that much to anime themes anyway. Most of them are pretty overrated (applies to many music pop celebrities, ugh. What Ultima66 wrote has A LOT of truth).

Japanese artists that I do actually like:
kalafina (did music for Kara no Kyoukai and other animes, unique and great harmony), YUI (I like her strong yet clear voice)

Other than these, I listen to classical, techno, German rock, and retro video game musics (for nostalgia values).

[Ultima66]

Do more reviews!

Listen to anything by Onitsuka Chihiro.

Also it doesn't really matter what weeaboos like or don't like. It's just the whole "pop music" thing (in Japan and America) causes tons of people to say singers are good just because they're popular. It's the same problem with people who think Melty Blood/Guilty Gear/Blazblue are amazing because of storyline, every fighting game except for Street Fighter 4 is bad just because SF4 is so popular, CoD:MW2 is the best FPS of all time, etc. The companies that make those games are fine doing what they do, but it becomes a problem if say Blizzard just stopped making SC2 and Diablo III entirely to work on WoW more just because it has more players, which is what happens to Japanese artists that make some popular otaku thing and suddenly make a lot of money.

[abitofBaileys]

Do more reviews!

Listen to anything by Onitsuka Chihiro.

Quoted for truth.

[...]German rock[...]

Like? I'm curious now. Aside from the obvious Rammstein.

[LoliSauce]

First of all, real Asians from Asia can't really be weeaboos (perversion of wapanese = white japanese), so I won't refer to myself as such  . I don't really listen all that much to anime themes anyway. Most of them are pretty overrated (applies to many music pop celebrities, ugh. What Ultima66 wrote has A LOT of truth).

I'd call Karp a weeaboo, and he's born and raised in Hongkong.  If you aren't Japanese, but you are mad into Japanese stuff, that's weeaboo to me.

Plus it's funny calling an asian person weeaboo and seeing them get flustered over it.

[MrMotivational]

Mostly acoustic stuff, including singing like this and this. To just guitarists playing solo like this and perhaps my most favourite being this as it shows what a guitarist is capable of performing with his hands. Superb stuff.

[Ice Queen Lotus]

Fuck shit damn I can't stop listening to the new Girugamesh single. Also, new album January 26th. Fuck yes.

However, fuck them for touring in Europe AGAIN and not the US. RAEG.

Though we did produce "Girugamesh guy", so I guess I can understand.



Also what the fuck is this: www.jinakanishi.us? Since when do Japanese boyband members tour solo in the US? (Also lol tickets are $50-$120 for a relatively unknown person, what.)

How this shit came into my realm of knowledge: was eating at Curry House with Eric and he's like, "hey, there's a poster of Jin over there". So I'm thinking BlazBlue Jin. Then I look and see it's KAT-TUN Jin. First thought is "what how does he know this guy?" then I remember we were talking about masturbatory material and I probably linked him a photo of Jin in some various state of undress.

SO TO ALL YOU JUDGMENTAL FUCKS: HEY I DON'T LISTEN TO THE MUSIC I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

[Dark Pulse]

HEY I DON'T LISTEN TO THE MUSIC I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

I JUST FAP TO THE PRETTY BOYS, OKAY?

[Ice Queen Lotus]

I see no problem here.

[Dark Pulse]

You're biased.

[Ice Queen Lotus]

Yes, well. It's not my fault, okay? These things happen.

[abitofBaileys]

I just fap to the pretty girls. But I fap to Arisato, too.

[Ice Queen Lotus]

Hey. Hey Rowan. Hey.



(Yes, yes, I know, I don't have the headset/MP3 player on. I had left it in my office when that photo was taken.)

[abitofBaileys]

Goddamnit, I'd wear this outfit all the time.

But I would be arrested here because of the S.E.E.D. arm band an the Gekkoukan High School logo pin.

edit: damn typos

[Ice Queen Lotus]

Last year when I wore it for Halloween at work, the VP of engineering gave me a sieg heil when I walked into his office. Cue blank "buh?" stare on my part. Best thing is the guy is middle eastern.

[Komidol]

Right now I'm listening to this.  

I have been for the last 8 hours.  Knowing this, you may no longer need to question my logic.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oOmI-DAZA

If you never heard the original remix, you might want to do that first, it'll make more sense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAbhJk4YJns

By the way I spent 8 hours of my life learning how to count like she does in that video.  Index finger, than thumb, than middle.  1-2-3.  I bet you can't do it.