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Aaron 
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 Topic: Camel = video game music
Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:07 |
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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starofsirius
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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.
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"I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down."
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frenchie
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 14:36 |
i can definetly see that!
my fave game soundtrack is silent hill 2. i have all 4 ost's and bonus ambience albums and they are amazing
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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.
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 15:37 |
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Works with Mirage, Moonmadness, Stationary Traveller and Harbour of Tears too... I never had much luck playing games with their debut as soundtrack tho'
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Glass-Prison
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 16:51 |
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Video game music is very progressive.
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Glass-Prison
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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.
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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
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 19:20 |
Well the snow goose i can see... but definetly not mirage... 
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 20:59 |
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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.
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 21:03 |
 frenchie wrote:
i can definetly see that!
my fave game soundtrack is silent hill 2. i have all 4 ost's and bonus ambience albums and they are amazing
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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).
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starofsirius
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Posted: March 03 2005 at 23:41 |
Glass-Prison wrote:
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. |
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.
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"I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down."
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Posted: March 04 2005 at 14:02 |
Glass-Prison wrote:
Video game music is very progressive. |
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
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frenchie
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Posted: March 04 2005 at 14:15 |
James Lee wrote:
frenchie wrote:
i can definetly see that!
my fave game soundtrack is silent hill 2. i have all 4 ost's and bonus ambience albums and they are amazing
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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). |
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
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Posted: June 21 2005 at 18:28 |
Great symphonic/ambient/fusion/jazz prog in Starcraft. Very complex music.
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Violenza
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Posted: June 21 2005 at 21:02 |
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.
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Posted: June 21 2005 at 21:57 |
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Speaking of video game music, I always thought Gryphons Red Queen album would be a great Zelda soundtrack.
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Gaspy Conana
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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. :)
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i no wuts proggeir and u dont so their
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ProgsCerebrum
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Posted: June 21 2005 at 23:48 |
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YEA DUDE...snow goose sounds like zelda or something!
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Posted: June 22 2005 at 01:13 |
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.
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Posted: June 23 2005 at 00:07 |
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 ...
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