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Adam Corn Sep 30, 2013
This just came up in the VGM on Pandora Radio thread but I think it warrants its own thread.
Uematsu is also a big fan of Deep Purple, I don't find the two THAT similar but I really like the melodic sense that Purple has to their music. Probably Jon Lord's organ reminds me slightly of Uematsu's Black Mages stuff, but on a whole other level. Machine Head and Perfect Strangers are my main two Purple albums.
I think there was one Deep Purple song in particular (and I think it may have been featured in Rock 'n Roll Racing on SNES) that sounds exactly like the type of organ'y, bouncy rock that surfaces as a battle theme at least once in nearly every Uematsu Final Fantasy soundtrack.
...and having just Googled and Youtube'd it apparently it's "Highway Star". I can definitely hear some resemblance though not quite as much as I remembered. Anybody got any better examples?