OCR02335 - *YES* Final Fantasy 7 'The Planet Is Dead'

[OceansAndrew]

* Nekofrog

* Justin Jones

FYI, the name of the song is "The Planet is Dead"

* Final Fantasy 7

* You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet, Off The Edge of Despair,

Main Theme

*Finished up production of this one in March of 2010, but sat

on it for quite a while after that due to the fact that I intend for

it to be a track on the Final Fantasy remix album I'm doing solo (a

couple tracks from each mainline game). Finally decided the hell with

it, and here it is. "You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet" has always

been one of my favorite tracks from the FF7 OST, and when I started

jamming along to it, the main riff for this pretty much wrote itself

in mere minutes. It has a dash of Sephiroth in it, a pinch of the main

theme (overworld), and a hefty helping of Off The Edge of Despair. I'm

not very knowledgeable when it comes to music, but I wanted to throw

something jarring in to avoid a straight up 4/4 time sig, so when

OTEOD kicks in I decided to just play a random time sig that I made up

on the spot (again, not musically knowledgeable so maybe you can tell

me what the fudge it is). I just knew that it sounded pretty sweet, so

I kept it.

Keep an ear out for a quick cameo from injury/starla who recites

Aeris' final line of dialogue in the game.

[halc]

not much to say. takes the conservative-expansive route, with some well placed cameos. excellent production, good transitions. maybe a touch hot on the highs, but its probably a personal gripe. no qualms here.

as for the time-sig, the whole song is in 3/4, save for a few spots where it switches to 5/4 for just a measure. wasn't hearing any 4/4, so it looks like you succeeded.

YES

[Fishy]

Rockin'! Hairta's ftw.

This is pretty solid all around. Really not much criticism to be had here. Bit of cymbal fudge due to compression but otherwise fine production. It's always kinda heavy, even during the quiet bits which is fun. Very foreboding. I like it.

YES

[OceansAndrew]

Really cool sortof reverse water sounding counter melody in the intro, I dig that. I think the rhythm guitars are a little upfront and pushed a bit much, but otherwise the production is feeling really nice to me.

Those snare rolls sound ridiculously fakey but at the same time super cool, so i'm not sure what to think of them. It sounds like a planned glitch, but when the rest of the song is pretty analogue, it doesn't quite fit. Gives the song some interesting character that would otherwise be pretty straightforward metahlz. Cool vocal part leads to a new section, and some cool gallops finish things off.

Diggin' it.

Yes

[DragonAvenger]

Nothing new to add here. I like the combination of themes here. As Halc said, this follows a more conservative route, but there is plenty of expansion and metalz for all. Dig it.

YES