Okay, first up, huge apologies! I actually managed to miss out a track last time. I am therefore going to include it here today above the fold to give it its deserved moment in the sun. It has also been retrospectively added to last week's post, and the numbering there has been corrected.
It's that time again! Yes, it's time for us to return to 2014, that far-off year when FiM was still less than halfway through its run and none of us (bar a few working on the show, I guess) had ever heard of Starlight Glimmer. That may be a nice memory for some of you, of course! I generally quite like Starlight, though. As always, here's the run-down of my criteria for including a track:
Rule 1: Still available in the same or (1b) similar form direct from the/an original artist.
Rule 2: Available from a third party, with reason to believe the artist is fine with this.
Rule 3: So famous that it would be plain silly to leave it out.
Rule 4: Being unlisted is not, on its own, grounds for exclusion.
I've had three weeks of being able to include every track, and wonderfully I can extend that run this time, despite the mistake I acknowledged above! Here are the five songs in this week's "Sounds of 2014":
38: Glaze – Tough Luck
34: OhPonyBoy – The Blob Symphony [Blobs are cute]
33: PrinceWhateverer ft. Dreamchan – It'll Be OK (cover)
32: Aviators – Revenge
31: Black Gryph0n & Baasik – Tell Me
I'm sure you know how this bit goes by now. Under the jump break (does that even work on mobile?) you'll see YouTube embeds, a few historical details and Logan's vague waffling
I suppose it's rather appropriate that a song that was unfairly missed out last time has a title like this! Glaze is of course also known as WoodenToaster, and this was a song he entered for a 24-hour challenge. Mind you, he states in the description that he only actually had four hours to make this, which makes the result fairly impressive. I don't really know what it's actually about, as the cover art doesn't make a whole lot of sense and the lyrics only give hints. Maybe it was written for a story or something? On Bandcamp, for some incomprehensible reason the single track costs £1,000 [sic], so instead acquire the 24 Hours of Pain album which contains it as a name-your-price offering.
Rule 1: uploaded to YouTube 13 Jul 2014
Running across ancient memes is always a little disorientating. Who now rememers the chibi Blob Pony craze? Yet a decade ago, it was quite a thing, and OhPonyBoy took it and ran with it. OhPonyBoy is from France, and has YT videos from as recently as last year. The sound is very much "catchy meme tune" and in truth this could easily have been made two or three years earlier. The main attraction is probably the cute animation that goes with the song, featuring Derpy in a highly vital role! But it's still a cute track to listen to. It only runs for a bit over two minutes, and you can pick it up in HQ for €0.99 on OhPonyBoy's Bandcamp.
Rules 1 and 4: uploaded to YouTube 12 Apr 2014; unlisted
The original "It'll be OK" by Sherclop Pones comes from Friendship is Witchcraft, one of the best known abridged series and one generally considered to have the best original songs. If you haven't seen that, the story for this immensely catchy little ditty will make little sense, but oh well. This cover by PrinceWhateverer features Dreamchan on Twilight's vocals. It doesn't change much, mostly just adding a bit of trademark PrinceW rockiness. You can buy this version of the track for £1 on PrinceWhateverer's Bandcamp. It's not creepy.
Oh, excellent, it's time for another Aviators banger! This is a Tirek song, in which he plots his revenge after his escape from Tartarus. As befits its subject matter, this is definitely dark-tinged, more so than most of Aviators' songs had been up to that point in his career. (Of course, his post-Pony oeuvre is another matter!) This song does an excellent job at showing Tirek as a real, serious threat. Which, of course, he absolutely was. Don't miss the guitar solo near the end! If you want this song in higher quality, head over and pay $1 at Aviators' Bandcamp.
Here's another very polished track from brothers Black Gryph0n and Baasik. This is a Derpy song! You can probably tell that from the picture of Ponyville Town Hall on the record cover, but it's stated in the video description anyway. "Lots of symbolism" here, according to Black Gryph0n. It's quite short for a song from these two, edging only a little past the three-minute mark, but it packs a lot of catchy rock into that running time. The HQ version is on sale for 99¢ at Black Gryph0n's Bandcamp.
while it likely isn't true, I feel like I haven't heard any of these before besides the It'll be OK cover <_< and the first two are pretty dire, if you ask me! I'll never understand how these songs get rated the way they do lol
ReplyDeleteI think the blob one really needs the animation to work; it's not a particularly interesting tune on its own. I'm not really sure about the ratings either. The Top 100s are just a convenient way to find songs from the past!
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