Tickets for next year's Griffish Isles convention went on sale yesterday, but I haven't had the time to look up a few things I'll need to check before making a post about it. That should happen within the next week. Today, therefore, it's back to the Everfree Radio chart for 2011.
Yes, it's another Super Ponybeat song, by the artist generally known these days as Odyssey Eurobeat. It's a cheerful, bouncy Eurobeat (amazingly) remix of the most famous of all G1 MLP songs: this all-time classic from "Rescue at Midnight Castle". There isn't really a great deal more than that to it, and there really doesn't need to be. It's just fun. If you're still sad that the 2017 movie didn't have any shoo-be-dooing, then this may help. For HQ goodness it's a name-your-price download on Odyssey's Bandcamp, and as it's CC by, you can even remix it yourself if you like!
We move into the seventies with a track by another fandom big name – and another who's moved on from brony music, the odd Hallowe'en special aside. Find him now at Mumble Etc. This is more accessible a song than I'd been expecting, with a cool piano intro and then a repetitive but immensely catchy synth section. The piano reappears just after the 2:30 mark, after which the Pinkie voice sample that gives the song its title (from S2E06, "The Cutie Pox") kicks back in. The Mediafire link in the description doesn't seem to work, but you can buy an HQ copy for £1 on Mumble's Bandcamp.
Here we have a real oddity: an official piece of FiM music in a countdown of fan-made tracks! I'm not sure why it's here, but my guess would be that the rules excluded only songs made by Daniel Ingram – which of course this piece by William Anderson was not. It's the fun synthy track that plays in the background as the CMC try all sorts of ways to get their cutie marks, way back in Season 1's "The Show Stoppers". I've heard it said that Anderson doesn't particularly like this tune, but if so I think he sells himself short. I think it fits the sequence's animation very nicely. The track has never been officially released; this is a version ripped by Senn555 and stripped of nearly all sound effects. There's a Mediafire link for a 210kpbs MP3 in the video description.
Next time: three more tracks, including an early effort by one of the fandom's best known bands.
I can't hear Crusaders Go Crusading without recalling half-remembered snatches of the lyrics someone wrote for it years ago.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean deadmare5's version? Still up on their account, so yay. :)
Delete"Crusaders Go Crusading" always reminds me of the music in the old Spyro the Dragon games, i.e. the soundtrack provided by Stewart Copeland.
DeleteSorry, that was me. I was on my Google account for a moment.
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