Wow, a joke about a joke gets nitpicked and is turned into defending the English language. I would say LMAO, but I'm not actually laughing my ass off, and I'd hate to start another quote-quote-quote derailment.

Oh, and also: Shimomura, Live A Live, Kingdom Hearts, arrange album.

as a joke, it was lame, as is your LMAO snark.

They're called English professors; let them do their job.

As for anyone else, I don't hold the crap written on an internet message board to the same standard as the writing from other outlets.

I'm beginning to think we should all just pretend I never said anything at all.

SO HOW ABOUT THAT YOKO SHIMOMURA.

While I'm happy for her, I can't help but think there really aren't any Shimomura pieces I really care for that would work best in an orchestral setting...Darkness Nova would make a killer guest spot for Black Mages III though.

I'm pretty sure she sucks at English too

She's cute.

Well, it wasn't that bad.  It wasn't mindblowing by any means, but there were a couple of decent tracks on there.

So, even though I'm arriving kinda late to this thread, let's recap:

Shimomura arrange album? OHMIGOSH!

Theoretical tracklist of glory:

1.  Primal Eyes
2.  Missing Perspective (FTMFW)
3.  Pain the Universe
4 - 6.  Super Mario RPG
8.  Front Mission
9.  Something else from LOM
10.  Hand in Hand (done right DAMMIT)
11.  Hollow Bastion
12.  FFXIII whatever.

Well, y'know, there's both an orchestral and death metal version of it on the Dawn of Mana soundtrack...see Disc 4.

Umm, umm... Way far away from death metal mate. More a bit rocking with weirdy vocals in it, but still, good arrange. ~

Well, good news - it looks like they're really digging deep for the material on this album...

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/cd/cd_060/

Unfortunately, no LOM or PE... but at least it's not just one big KH/FFXIII arrange album.

Legend of Mana is there, open your eyes.

Kinda sucks there's no Parasite Eve, but overall I'm pretty satisfied with the game selection and I'm shocked Live A Live actually made it on here.  *eagerly awaits a tracklist*

-Mike

Ah, boy. I should know better than to try to make informative forum posts this early in the morning after a late karaoke night.

PS: Miker, Sam Winter says hello (not this one).

Here's one:

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e77432577

Have fun paying 113 bucks for it though.

-Mike

There's probably idiotic "rights issues" with Mario RPG at least...

No PE really sucks though.

There's still nothing about if it's a true arranged album or just a compilation with a single arranged bonus track, is there?

-Joshua

Nothing concrete that I've seen, but PV was the one that put the GMR entry in, which means it's trustworthy. It says "Contains rearranged music for full orchestra.  Includes music from Final Fantasy Versus XIII."

Crazy awesome that LiveaLive and Front Mission are on there.

I'd guesstimate that this is why there's no Parasite Eve on the disc, since the music had a strong electronic component that'd be really hard to arrange for live orchestral performance.

I was hoping for a Mario & Luigi series track or two, but I suppose there are "rights issues" with that as well...

The Mario & Luigi games weren't made by Square....SM Rpg was. Otherwise people might be talking about wanting a Street Fighter II track or whatnot...

-Joshua

If they had swapped out Kingdom Hearts for Parasite Eve I would have been much happier with the selection.

Oh? I thought they had some involvement, given that Geno was in the games and at least one song was directly lifted from SMRPG. But looking at the production credits, it looks like they just licensed them after all.

Still looking forward to the album, though. Shimomura's easily one of my favorite composers.

Super Mario RPG and the Mario & Luigi RPGs are made by essentially the same team. The difference is that the team used to be part of Square and are now the Nintendo second-party developer AlphaDream. Interestingly, one of the major forces there is Chihiro Fujioka, previously the composer of SaGa 3 and some other titles.

Anyway, I'm definitely inclined to agree that there are rights issues with Super Mario RPG music especially given it was published by Nintendo. That's probably why the soundtrack has never been reprinted and now sells for a bomb on eBay as well.

Not to be a troll, but am I the only one not really excited about this being an orchestral album? Sometimes I feel people think having something orchestrated or performed by an orchestra automatically makes it "good" or better than what it's based on.

Not trying to kill anyone's buzz or pass judgment before hearing but I can't say I'm really excited.

Edit:

Sorry, I can't really get excited about anything - I'm in a real musical rut right now.

Sounds like you need something funky. I'll have to send a few dubs your way.

That's one thing that rules about VGM.  Even when you think you're in a listening rut, there's ALWAYS something new out there that you've never heard that will put you right back in the game.  Even if you can't find anything new to listen to, try re-discovering something you already have.  Always works for me.

Either that or get Zane to send you some hot Masafumi Takada dubs.

And just to keep this post on topic..

I couldn't agree more.  I'll go one step further and say if KH was taken out and PE put in it's place, it would be a perfect selection, well, aside from the missing Mario RPG.

-Mike