We seem to be facing another heatwave here in Britain – which, don't laugh if you're from Miami or somewhere, means temperatures nudging into the low 30s °C. I'm not really looking forward to it, especially not the warm nights that are humid and uncomfortable for sleeping. (Only about 5% of British homes have air-con.) What I am looking forward to is bringing you all a bit more of the Equestrian Trot 100 chart from 2016! Here's the usual refresher regarding inclusion rules:
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.
For two weeks now, I've been able to feature all five of the tracks in the relevant segment of the chart. I'm sorry to have to tell you that I can't make it three weeks on the trot. Ah well. Here's what I do have:
65: Aurelleah – Harmony
64: Vylet Pony – Little Dreams
63: skipped
62: Eurobeat Brony – Discord 2015
61: Silva Hound & UndreamedPanic ft. Synthis – The Storm
Rule 1: uploaded to YouTube 26 Jun 2016
Number 66 in the chart this time was an Aurelleah track – and guess what? So is number 65! An orchestral suite in seven short movements, inspired by the Friendship is Magic theme, this tells the story of each of the Mane Six, with the seventh and final movement bringing them together in, well, harmony. Orchestral reimaginings of the FiM tune are not unheard of – perhaps the most famous being Marcus Warner (Evening Star)'s version – but Aurelleah's has a very appealing, bright, clean sound to it that makes it distinctive. I think I still prefer Warner's track, but that bar is incredibly high. The high-quality track is available for $1 on Aurelleah's Bandcamp.
A pretty heavyweight collaboration to round off this week. The still-active Silva Hound needs very little introduction to most Pony music fans, and here he's joined by UndreamedPanic, with support from Synthis, to bring us all a song about Chrysalis and her loyal changelings preparing for another attack. As regular readers will know, I'm often a bit ambivalent about distorted vocals, but when it's Chryssy at the centre of things I have no complaints! You keep thinking it's going to explode, but it never quite does – which makes sense, because the actual attack hasn't happened yet! The song was released as a pre-BronyCon freebie, and in that spirit it's name-your-price on Silva Hound's Bandcamp.
wow, "Little Dreams" really makes me long for when Vylet made music that was actually good :(
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