Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released in December 15, 2011 in Japan and the following month in the US, and the game is not complete without their theme song.
It was announced recently that Mai FukuiandCharice will both sing the theme song of Final Fantasy XIII-2, as for Mai Fukui; she will be singing the Japanese version for the PlayStation 3 while Charice will sing the English version for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (English and Japanese) ports. The two versions will have different lyrics and music arrangements.
How many songs do you have in your Rock Band game? twenty? thirty? or a hundred? If you say you have a hundred songs, well that’s just only 5% of Rock Band’s over two thousand songs on its library. Yep you heard it right, Rock Band has around two thousand songs.
And to honor the 2000th song, which was Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” song, Harmonix, the who developed Rock Band just released the Rock Band Music Finder Widget to help you find the songs of your favorite artist in a more organized way.
So can you collect all 2000 songs and play all of it?
If you were born in the 80′s heck even in the early 90′s, you probably got the chance to play a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or also called the Family Computer (Famicom), you would recognized the classic tunes that 8-bit gaming would created, which we now called 8-bit music.
Some people still creates 8-bit musics either as an original score or sometimes, remixes of popular songs with a use of a home made synthesizers or sometimes from program softwares in computers.
Now combine this with your favorite Anime songs and it’ll feel like a classic game being immortalize, so let’s hear some notable and popular Anime songs turned into 8-bit music.
For this episode of Faces, we’ll be focusing on the different versions of Lunar Silver Star, but for this case, it’s more on the songs.
The first Lunar Silver Star was released on 1993 on the Sega CD under the name Lunar The Silver Star, then a remake for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn entitled Lunar Silver Star Story Complete was released on 1998, a portable remake for the GameBoy Advance (Lunar Legend) in 2001 and another remake was followed on 2009 this time for the PlayStation Portable with the title Lunar Silver Star Harmony (Harmony of Silver Star in Japan)
There were two songs with vocals in the two remakes and one for the original version. The two songs were Wings (Opening song) and Nocturne of the Wind (the Boat song), the original version has a different song and it was removed from the remake versions.
Ironically, Jenny Stigile, sang both the songs of the two remakes, but the two remakes had different lyrics both the opening and the boat songs. The Japanese version still retains the PSone version songs on the PSP version.
For my personal take, I like the PSone version of Wings and the PSP version for Nocturne of the Wind.
To find out more, you can check out the songs from the different versions of Lunar Silver Star: SEGA CD
We commonly see rock music turned into acoustic music, or sometimes remixed into a techno music. But how about turning it into lounge music. That’s right folks, lounge music, music that made Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Tony Bennett famous.
But turning rock music into lounge music doesn’t seem right, well one band made it sound good
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine is a cover band and comedy act based in Los Angeles, California. Lounge singer Richard Cheese performs popular rock, rap, heavy metal, and pop songs in a swanky lounge music swing band style reminiscent of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett. The band’s name Lounge Against The Machine is a parody of the band name Rage Against the Machine.
The band specializes in playing lounge-style covers of recent popular rock, metal, rap and hip hop songs, sung in a croony traditional pop vocal style, contrasting an elegant jazz treatment of the music with often profane and ribald lyrics to create a humorous dissonance.
Members: Richard Cheese (Mark Jonathan Davis): vocals Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio): piano and keyboards Frank Feta (Brian Fishler): drums and percussion
Here’s a sample of one of the rock music they turned into lounge music. some of the tone of Richard Cheese’s version may be different from the original songs, but if you know the lyrics, you’ll easily recognize the songs.
Note: I posted the original versions with Rockband/Guitar Hero gameplay vids as some of the original videos have disabled embeded codes, and it’s hard to post it on my blog)
Guerrilla Radio (original by Rage Against The Machines)
Guerrila Radio (Richard Cheese version)
What’s My Age Again? (original by Blink 182)
What’s My Age Again (Richard Cheese version)
Down With The Sickness (original by Disturbed)
Down With The Sickness (Richard Cheese version)
Chop Suey (original by System of The Down)
Chop Suey (Richard Cheese version)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (original by Nirvana)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Richard Cheese version)
But they are not just only using rock music, they also include pop and rap from famous artist like Britney Spears, Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson and many more.
Recently, Richard Cheese just released their latest album: Viva La Vodka
