Camel = video game music
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Topic: Camel = video game music
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: Camel = video game music
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:07
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ok, sort of, not really
Maybe some of the younger posters can agree with me here. You see, I was first familiar with video game soundtracks before Camel, epecially RPGs. When I first heard Camel's Snowgoose, a few tracks really reminded me of some RPG music and if I were to ever make an RPG I would use these tracks. I am listening to Drafted off of Nude right now and I am getting the same feeling. It isnt just my, my sisters boyfriend said the same thing recently. Anyway, I think it is just kind of weird, seeing as the band was releasing these albums long before RPGs existed and speaking of Camel, Nude is f**king fantastic, honestly where did this album come from. This and Raindances are not talked about enough. I thought Breathless and I can see your house from here were both duds, but maybe I should check them out again edit: and for some reason, with Nude, I get this PFs The Wall feeling from it, anyone else so anyone else, Camel and RPG music? Aaron |
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Posted By: starofsirius
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:30
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Yeah I can really see the connection with the Snow Goose and say music from Final Fantasy. "Sanctuary" is one of those tracks that immediately come to mind, as well as "Dunkirk" and many others. ------------- "I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down." |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:36
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i can definetly see that! ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:42
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when you talk about a video game music, i'm rather thinking about pat moraz's future memories 2 album. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 15:37
| Works with Mirage, Moonmadness, Stationary Traveller and Harbour of Tears too... I never had much luck playing games with their debut as soundtrack tho' |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 16:51
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Video game music is very progressive. ------------- Sun Tsu said: To fight and conquer in your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tsu: The art of War |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 17:11
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The soundtrack to the Final Fantasy series (and anything by Nobuo Uematsu) is simply astounding, and is one of the reasons that series is so great. ------------- Sun Tsu said: To fight and conquer in your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tsu: The art of War |
Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 19:20
Well the snow goose i can see... but definetly not mirage... 
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Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 20:59
| almost always when i introduce my friends to prog they say it's like game music.... the bands i can remember were caravan and anglagard. |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 21:03
You are right on! There's something so eerie and memorable about the music to SH2. The sad & spooky theme that begins after 'Maria' gets killed at the end of the Brookhaven Hospital level is my favorite. SH2 also happens to be one of my favorite games ever... Halo2 has a good soundtrack as well (a little Steve Vai and a lot of great ambient symphonic stuff) and the soundtrack for Final Fantasy 8 includes one of my favorite female singers, Faye Wong (though I don't really like the song she does). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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frenchie wrote:Posted By: starofsirius
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 23:41
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I adore Nobuo Uematsu. His soundtracks to the final fantasy games have just amazing. I was pretty disappointed when he wasn't really involved with the music of Final Fantasy X and X-2. ------------- "I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down." |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 04 2005 at 14:02
Agreed  I own some music composed by Frank Klepacki (featured in the Command&Conquer series). Some of them are very proggish, but not all, i'm afraid. Does someone know the soundtrack from red alert 1? Lots of prog related music there |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: March 04 2005 at 14:15
yay another SH fan! their soundtracks are great! sh3 and 4 are great games with great ost's but i found number 1 very lacking ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 18:28
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Great symphonic/ambient/fusion/jazz prog in Starcraft. Very complex music.
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Posted By: Violenza
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 21:02
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Wow, I've always thought about the Final Fantasy series when I listened to Camel. It's good to see I'm not crazy as others think the same thing. Very odd. |
Posted By: The Minstrel
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 21:57
| Speaking of video game music, I always thought Gryphons Red Queen album would be a great Zelda soundtrack. |
Posted By: Gaspy Conana
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 23:40
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I once read an interview with the Japanese gentleman that composes the
Final Fantasy music and among his top influences were Camel, Focus, and
Emerson Lake & Palmer. In the International Game Developer's
Conference mag. :)
------------- i no wuts proggeir and u dont so their |
Posted By: ProgsCerebrum
Date Posted: June 21 2005 at 23:48
| YEA DUDE...snow goose sounds like zelda or something! |
Posted By: nousommedusolei
Date Posted: June 22 2005 at 01:13
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I was trying to think of what their music reminds me of. Now I know. You're absolutely right. I could turn the sound off when playing a Super Nintendo RPG (when I'm bored, usually) and just play that. I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. ------------- I don't believe in demons I don't believe in devils I only believe in you |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 00:07
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I do hear a bit of video game music in Camel ... but for me it's mainly the post-Raindances albums (Breathless up to Stationary Traveller) but some of ideal VGM comes in the form of songs like Whad'ya Say and Falling In Love on Uriah Heep's Fallen Angel album ... Hensley's keyboards on that one are the perfect arcade soundtrack ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 00:53
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Yup, can definitely see Snow Goose as RPG music. The RPG that I found
to have a great soundtrack was Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III. The themes
just kind of swell in and out as you walk around the land. Logged an
easy 100 hours into that game and never tired of the tunes. Also, excerpts from PFs Echoes would make for a great cutscene. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 01:04
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Woah...if Snow Goose sounds like OoT count me in! Better yet would be MM or LA, but beggars can't be choosers, huh?
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/FishyMonkey/?chartstyle=artists"> 
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Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 02:22
| My favorite game soundtrack is the Chrono Cross OST. Yasunori is a genius with setting and composition. |
Posted By: Shinomori
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 03:31
| Heh, I also like the Chrono Cross OST, and the music for Final Fantasy VII. Also, despite it being midi and old, who can't love the music from Chrono Trigger? I'm actually quite suprised, I would never have thought people on a prog forum would like game music. I definatly thought I was in a minority there, looks like I was quite mistaken. |
Posted By: Gloryscene
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 05:59
Camel to me sometimes sounds like lift music!!  ------------- "The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers" www.gloryscene.co.uk |
Posted By: Violenza
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:01
Lift? You must have meant to say elevator.
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Posted By: Gloryscene
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 07:11
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Errr what the hell is an elevator?!! In these dark lands of Englandshire we call em lifts mate! ------------- "The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers" www.gloryscene.co.uk |
Posted By: Mister Kick
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 13:27
This is true. Yasunori is on a level with Nobuo, perhaps even better. I'm a big fan of the Metroid soundtracks. I'm not sure who made them but he's a genius with atmosphere. ------------- Show a special amount of idiocy and you could find yourself in my signature! |
Posted By: scott.crawford
Date Posted: June 23 2005 at 15:26
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I actually posted about this on another music board a long time ago, but no one even responded. I'm a huge fan of RPG soundtracks as well, and I found that the last track of Moonmadness, Lunar Sea, is similar to the point of plagiarism to a song in The Secret of Mana. Obviously, the SoM song being the copier.
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