I saw this before but never really checked it out. Now that I did, I felt that I should share as well. The Linkin Park song ‘Not Alone’ is really nice and the video (on Youtube) is heartbreaking.
The embedded player is a little big and I don’t know how to shrink it properly, so please ‘Read more’ to view it.
I just learned about it from a topic in my most frequently visited forum and I have a feeling I might have heard a few pieces before, without knowing they are OCR pieces. And I regret not knowing about it earlier.
Here are some pretty nice pieces, recommended by a forumer and I quite like a few of them too. Like the Metal Gear Solid remix, both linked Chrono Trigger ones, etc.
Okay, it happened a few days ago (22th May 2009) but I went to the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds Orchestra Concert! It was teh love! I have always had a weakness for full blown orchestra pieces, and now that the pieces are some of my favorite game soundtrack, I don’t think I’ll forget this ever. Even with my crappy memory.
This is a combined version of the two songs, Rin’s ‘Daughter of Evil’ (悪ノ娘) and it’s alternate side, Len’s ‘Servant of Evil’ (悪の召使い). There’s a story sequel, ‘Message of Regret’ (リグレットメッセージ) by Rin.
Actually, this is not the versions I first saw, but it puts the story together the best, although sometimes the graphics isn’t that great.
The first one I saw for Daughter of Evil is Rin’s “悪ノ娘 PV” with English Lyric, which kind of weirded me out.
As for Servant of Evil, it’s Len’s “悪の召使い” with English Lyric, which had me crying and re-watching it.
For Message of Regret, it’s Rin’s “リグレットメッセージ” with English Lyric Cleaned up, which is a version sequel to the Servant of Evil one. I also cried through this entire video. I can’t find the version prequel, or it would be lovely.
I think the videos themselves should explain the stories well enough, so I won’t touch on them. Go watch them, if you haven’t.
I actually listened to Gakupo and Kaito duet version first (the embedded video here), then proceeded to hear the four Vocaloid version (Miku, Rin, Kaito and Len), then the rest of the versions. Surprisingly, I like almost all of them (forgot which one I didn’t like as much). Click on the link if you want to know more, but don’t say I didn’t warn you, it’s a Japanese site. ^^;
http://www5.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/383.html
Maybe I’ll touch on a few more of the other Vocaloid songs that I like sometimes. xD
What’s more hilarious is I saw this on a cross-posted entry at my Livejournal and noticed, for the very first time, that it features Apocalyptica. And I found this song way before I got into Apo, lol. The world works in damn weird ways.
初音ミクオリジナル曲 「初音ミクの消失（LONG VERSION）」
For the Japanese lyrics and more information (also in Japanese), go here.
Credits of the translated English lyrics to Taesarra who posted all of it in the comments (5th page, at the time of this post).
Lol, I couldn’t wait until I get a live site up before I write this. I’m so freaking hooked on Apocalyptica right now, I can’t stop listening to their music. In fact, I can’t stop watching their videos on youtube, and the minute I find a music store with their albums, I’m going to buy at least one. Gods, addiction at its best.
It doesn’t really help that the guys who make up the band are so freaking cute/hawt in their own way. Eicca and Perttu are my favorites now (can’t really help it, the bishounen lover in me wants me to see nice looking guys more often). Eicca has the cutest laughter, Perttu seems to like having his shirts off and his tongue sticking out of his mouth quite a bit (it almost looks like he’s going to lick his cello in Somewhere Around Nothing video). Their hair flies a lot during the videos. I love Perttu’s look (he has too many while Eicca and Paavo barely changes) when in the Hope Vol. 2 video… actually I think the band looks the best in that video (especially Eicca, who looks almost pretty).
Most of all, I like the way they love what they are doing. It’s wonderful. And I can’t really resist modern music done with classical instrument, especially the strings type with deep melancholic sounds.
