I am going mad

Jul 2, 2005

I'm watching a movie of a speed attack on the original Final Fantasy (why?  Fuck you, that's why), and it occurred to me that the beginning of the overworld music is highly reminiscent of a particular Sufjan Stevens song, or maybe a song Sufjan Stevens is likely to write.  But probably the former, because it maps tolerably well onto the melody of the line "it's been a long long time", up to and including the first "long"—but I can't remember which song that line's from, and I don't have the patience to listen to 190 minutes of mallet percussion and banjo to figure it out.  Is it "He Woke Me Up Again", which I initially thought?  Is it "Romulus"?  "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands"?  Am I on crack?

Also, the music for the second dungeon, the one after you get the ship?  Prog as fuck.  Just sayin'.

Comments

on 2005-07-02 14:47:53.0, bitchphd commented:

It's not "Rocket Man"?

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 15:04:23.0, ben wolfson commented:

It was "In the Devil's Territory", and the line is in fact "we stayed a long long time". Success0rs!

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 15:06:45.0, tammy commented:

"in the devil's territory."

didn't this same thing happen to me in Lula Cafe?

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 15:07:24.0, tammy commented:

crap, you win.

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 15:12:57.0, ben wolfson commented:

I had to find out by listening to the album, so I think you win anyway.

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 16:36:30.0, tammy commented:

I think there's a lesson in here about all his songs sounding the same. You should hear the new album.

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 17:01:13.0, ben wolfson commented:

It's true, I should. I didn't know it was out yet, though I guess the power of the intarweb changes things...

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and, further, on 2005-07-02 18:15:40.0, tammy commented:

It's not out, but as you know, the power of working at a radio station changes things.

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