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#41

I love that song, it’s super catchy and easy to sing along with.

Philosophyz[Rewrite] is straight up one of my favorite songs of all time, I never get tired of that thing.
I think Aozora[Air] is the best “tearjerker” song. The song is beautiful with powerful vocals, but what impressed me more is how they used it in the story. They soften you up by playing the instrumental version the when Misuzu reaches Haruko they throw the real deal at you, and that shit hits like a truck. The lyric are also pretty much spoiler free unlike Haruka Kanata[LB!] for example.
For vocal songs my favorite game is Little Busters! with Saya’s Song and Clear Weather After the Rain. Rewrite wins instrumental because of the violins in the forest theme and Scene Shifts There, I really like violins, there are of course other good tracks in Rewrite as well like Journey.

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#42

Aozora is a really good song and I actually like it more than Tori no Uta (despite the latter being much more popular).

Aozora is actually one of the songs that I make sure to sing whenever I go to a Japanese Karaoke. Well, it’s mostly because its slow and I can actually catch up with the pacing of the hiragana on-screen xP

#43

Yeah I gotta agree, GDM music is the best. The singers, LiSa and Marina, both their careers in singing were kickstarted by their appearance and success of the Keep the Beats! album. It even got 6th on Oricon (the billboard of Japan).

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#44

If anyone’s wondering about the vocal list, there’s a Japanese one here
Although not everything in the list is by Key, like there are some which was a self-published work or for other VNs or anime, but still from the staff of Key. (example would be Love Song from the Ruined Planet by Flaming June)

Now waiting if someone’s gonna translate them all…
If anything, I actually want to make a full list for the link to the lyrics (and translation if possible)

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#45

THANK
YOU
SO
MUCH

Been trying to find something like this before!

#46

Guys, I forgot how good and heartbreaking Aozora is. Especially when it was played in the part where Misuzu breathes her last.

Just be careful not to cry. :stuck_out_tongue:

#47

LOL Apsi turned the emotes off! :laughing:

#48

How could he? :furiousmasturbation:

#49

On the topic of KSL-
Iwasawa x Hisako tracks CD from C87 is going to be my muse for quite a while.
It sounds like heaven.

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#50

Yeah, I am so hyped for those tracks. I’m curious on whether these were tracks that were recorded years ago and just not released or they brought Iwasawa and Hisako to the music studio and recorded it recently. Too bad it’s on the reliance of Pepe at C87.

#51

Plot twist it’s just 10 minutes of them playing table tennis.

Up yours Biz.

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#52

They played it during their swag stream behind Baba and the HOLY BREAKER! ost guy talking. It’s new. It’s amazing.

#53

I guess Vivid Colors by MintJam is not part of KSL, right?

Anyway, I really like Song of Friends remix in Semicrystalline album (title : tomorrow (so artificial))


I like the Semicrystalline album but it’s just not that popular, it seems…

#54

It’s an extremely weird album, but I do like some aspects of it.

#55

Oooh, let’s take a moment to talk about semicrystalline and ontology!

At first I kinda dismissed them as really weird music that I couldn’t get into no matter how I tried. But then after speaking to a friend, I begun looking at the albums in a different light. This analysis is gonna delve into heavy LB spoilers, so don’t look unless you know the secret of the world.

As a contrast to all of the comparatively upbeat Little Busters! albums, these two paint the exact opposite picture. Like comparing the common route to refrain, they’re both two sides of the Little Busters! world. Specifically, I think ontology and semicrystaline were trying to portray a message of a “fake world”, filled with despair. Try listeningto the opening track of Semicrystaline, Tonica, followed by the Little Busters! remix.

It starts with some distorted effects, and a lot of happy voice samples from the common route calling out to Riki. Then it cuts out “This world has a secret.” It’s as if it’s recalling happier times, before the truth of the world became apparent. The track progresses and the dialogue in the background gets increasingly serious, until Rin is crying out about how she can’t deal with the reality. And it ends with Riki promising to become stronger. (now that I think about it, those lines by Riki, I don’t think they were actually spoken in the VN. Did they get some extra samples from Tamiyasu for this album?) And then, cue the semicrystaline remix of Little Busters! It sounds familiar, but the way it’s remixed feels somehow perverted, like it’s not quite right. To me, this is like an opening to Refrain. Then the rest of the tracks that follow in the album depict a fake world that’s lost it’s warmth. After adopting this interpretation, I really started to appreciate the semicrystaline album for what it is. I’ve found it’s great cathartic listening when you’re in a dark place. Ontology expands on the theme of a ‘fake world’, and has some interesting remixes, but Semicrystaline definitely feels like it has a lot more integrity and meaning in its composition.

Wow, I’ve never really analysed music at such depth before :stuck_out_tongue:

If you check out this MAD here, it perfectly conveys what I’m getting at with the whole semicrystaline album. (Spoilers inside, I only unspoiled it because you can’t spoiler tag links properly.)

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#56

Wow, that’s one serious MAD over there. Tonica is actually one of my favorite track, although when I first heard it, it was a weird experience for me too. That’s a great interpretation of the two albums. Ontology is much more weird in my opinion, though. Like they were using unusual instruments for that album.

#57

This is really pissing me off:
First it was, “Darn, he beat me to talking about Semicrystalline and Ontology. Oh well.” So I was just gonna reply, but then I remembered the reason I hadn’t posted anything yet in the first place: I haven’t finished LB yet. So then I was like, “Oh well, I will be finished within two weeks, I can wait that long.”
But then @Aspirety had to come along and be like:
“OMGspoilersspoilersspoilersTonicaspoilersspoilersspoilersRepilcatospoilersspoilersspoilersMADspoilers”
So now I want to talk about this music so bad, but at the same time I can’t because I won’t even know what I’m talking about until I’ve finished.
TL;DR Semicrystalline and Ontology are amazing, but I can’t talk about why until I actually know stuff and am not just going off the feeling I get from the music. Sorry for pointlessly ranting.

I finished

#58

I think all you guys just got me introduced into this album. I’ve honestly never heard of it until today (a lot of KSLA albums go under my radar) and I like “weird” music. Listening to the previews you guys have posted so far makes it sound like it’s something I would enjoy :smiley:

#59

There’s no reason why you can’t attempt to give your opinion before having finished the VN.

#60

Yeah, now that I think about it I guess I could. That post was written in the midst of “I-need-to-finish-this-VN-right-now-I’m-going-crazy” mindset. And all the spoiler tags threw me off. I had kinda already decided that I wanted to wait until after I finished, because I wanted to have the full meaning and emotion in all the songs before post any my feelings about any of the Little Busters albums. I know thats not necessary (I think its good music just by itself), but its what I want to do. Like I said, it was a pointless rant.