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I was trying to decide what my first ILTS of 2011 was gonna be, then I remembered this old favorite from OLR's heyday. Back when the hosts had their own station on Live365, occaisonally they'd hijack their own stream to do a 'fuck-off' show and just play whatever they felt like. This was one of the selections that got playtime randomly during these 'fuck-off' shows.
Anyway, while personally I'm not the biggest rap music fan on the planet, I'll happily make special exceptions for any that are well done and/or set to videogame music, as this one was. Also like most rap songs, this one contains explicit lyrics! So just a forewarning before you hit play... (And I realize the show itself gets explicit, but I wanted to use that warning sticker on this entry anyway.)
I wonder it time traveling will truly leave you scars...
Today's track is Scars of Time from Chrono Cross
Please note due to copyright issues I can not make this song available for you to download directly
We have talked about Chrono Trigger before and it's pretty awesome. And it also has a sequel! Not a direct sequel but Chrono Cross happens on the same universe as its predecesor. The game is kind of different than Chrono Trigger, but it offers the same gameplay elements you are already familiar with. Though, like it sometimes tends to happen, this sequel didn't please most fans since it offers little to no relation at to Chrono Trigger and the battle mechanics aren't that good either. But something that most people say it surpasses Chrono Trigger on is the soundtrack. If the first game had awesome music, Chrono Cross is like 10 times better! And how do we know? The moment you start the game and the intro plays, you get this wonderful song called "Scars of Time". It is pretty much telling you how awesome the soundtrack is with just the first song alone.
"Scars of Time" is pretty and a strong song at the same time, it captures you with its tune, then it builds up to a more epic song, worth of an orchestra playlist set.
If you have suggestions or recommendations for future "I love that song" segments or just wanna comment about the song please click the "Add new comment" link or contact us via Twitter: @Darktetsuya or me, @act_deft!
Okay, when I said I was going to try and have one more article up for 2010, this isn't really what I was hoping it would be about. For those of you that know about OLR's long history with Konami's BEMANI series, you've probably heard us talk about this amazing arcade in Southern California called Arcade Infinity.
Sadly I'd never been there myself, but they always had the latest and greatest in BEMANI releases, almost any game you can imagine, they probably had it. And not to mention lots of other great arcade games, including the arcade version of Street Fighter IV (Not sure if they got the 'SSFIV: AE' upgrade, though.) as well as all the great arcade racing games like Initial D V4 and Wangan Midnight: MAXIMUM TUNE. (EDIT: here is a more complete listing of the games you can find at AI.)
But alas, all these games will have to find a new home, as a story was recently published online that AI will be closing its doors early next year. So if you're in the area, you should stop by and play one more round of your favorite BEMANI game, before it all goes away on January 15th!
(shoutout to ryc3 for helping me fill in the games that were at AI, like I said I've never been so thanks for your help!!)
Update 1/1/11 - I just got confirmation one of our SoCal listeners, DJ Tyrant will be in attendance for the 'last hurrah' during the last weekend AI will be in business. So you can expect to see pics, video and a writeup about the final days of Arcade Infinity, here on OLR!!
Okay so rewind.... back before the original Orange Lounge Revolution came out, I was randomly picking songs that I was either into (like the Dancemania licensed stuff) or songs that were in-jokes like this song. Inspired by the 'ketchup song promo' featured above, I included it in the original way back in 2007.
I hope you enjoyed my look back at some of the songs featured in this epic fan-project. More than likely this'll be the last update from me for 2010, though I may do one more song/article before the year's out.... stay tuned to the site to see what happens!
