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'.
It's not "Rocket Man"?
Posted by: bitchphd | July 02, 2005 at 02:47 PM
It was "In the Devil's Territory", and the line is in fact "we stayed a long long time". Success0rs!
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 02, 2005 at 03:04 PM
"in the devil's territory."
didn't this same thing happen to me in Lula Cafe?
Posted by: tammy | July 02, 2005 at 03:06 PM
crap, you win.
Posted by: tammy | July 02, 2005 at 03:07 PM
I had to find out by listening to the album, so I think you win anyway.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 02, 2005 at 03:12 PM
I think there's a lesson in here about all his songs sounding the same. You should hear the new album.
Posted by: tammy | July 02, 2005 at 04:36 PM
It's true, I should. I didn't know it was out yet, though I guess the power of the intarweb changes things...
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 02, 2005 at 05:01 PM
It's not out, but as you know, the power of working at a radio station changes things.
Posted by: tammy | July 02, 2005 at 06:15 PM