Persona - Poem for Everyone's Souls & Elvis Presley - My Boy

I noticed a thing.

The melody for "Poem For Everyone's Souls" - which is the music for the Velvet Room in all the Persona games - and the chorus to the song "My Boy" by Elvis Presley really sound a lot like each other.

(listen at @1:35)


(listen at @0:31)

A bunch of Japanese video game music on Spotify

Spotify is now available in Japan, so I decided to explore it, and discovered that the entire Falcom game music library seems to be there under the artist name "Falcom Sound Team jdk". No kidding, there is decades of music in there, including - some albums have different versions for the different platforms each game was released on. Dozens upon dozens of albums. I scrolled for a good ten minutes and there was seemingly no end!

To follow up from my earlier post about the rare ANTHEM track "Xanadu" being available on Amazon, I notice that the same album "Falcom Classics" - containing that song - is out on Spotify. They also have "Falcom Special Box 90" which contains two later ANTHEM tracks - Holy Fighter and Protecters!

Then!

Then I went to "related artists" and discovered:

The entire 5 disc BAYONETTA soundtrack! I already have this on CD, it's amazing.

Yoko Shimomura (they mostly have Street Fighter music there, sadly hardly any Kingdom Hearts and no Mario & Luigi soundtracks)

Masafumi Takada - all Danganronpa soundtracks. =D

Capcom Sound Team - multiple Darkstalkers and Mega Man soundtracks, and also one Resident Evil soundtrack and a 1980s compilation which contains Ghosts & Goblins and so on...

SEGA - mostly modern Sonic soundtracks, but the Jet Set Radio soundtrack is also in there!

Akira Yamaoka - lots and lots of Silent Hill. Something about the title "The Best Of Silent Hill" feels really... no that's wrong you shouldn't do that!

Nobuo Uematsu - well, kind of expected him to be there with a lot of Final Fantasy, but it's actually mostly Distant Worlds versions of FF music, and the Blue Dragon soundtrack (which is also good .... apart from the cheesy battle theme)

Yasunori Mitsuda - a bunch of Chrono here and... "an cinniùint".

...

Also I know the Corona Blossom soundtrack is here on Spotify, yay, Momoi Halko!

...I'm sure there's going to be a ton more, but for now, I'm going to get back to listening to Falcom stuff while working. It's good! So good! :)

Random game music of the day: BB Queens singing the Afterburner song

I stumbled upon this earlier:

It's B.B. Queens singing the theme to the 1980s Sega game Afterburner. It has lyrics?!

B.B. Queens are perhaps best known for singing the ridiculously catchy Chibi Mariko-chan anime song "Odoru Ponpokorin", so this is different... :)

OST similarities: Ys IV vs Ultraman Leo

My brother and I were listening to the Super Famicon Ys IV soundtrack over the weekend, and noticed this.

Compare:

Ultraman Leo song "Hoshizora no Ballad" (from the mid 1970s)

And this is the tune we were listening to - Ys IV : Mask of the Sun - song "I Want to Be Gentle" (well, that's what YouTube calls it)

(NB: YouTube timed embed code appears to be a little dodgy, wait a few seconds for the song to start, or manually skip to 51:34)

Or, the nice FM oscillator / PC Engine version of the same Ys IV tune (also available on Amazon!):

Very similar, eh? Don't know whether this is the same composer, or based on the same folk tune or lullaby or something.... or a happy coincidence or it's just plain old plagiarism. Very similar, though!