Best songs/artist discovered through watching AMV's

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:44 pm

No love for the 80's music ;_;

I think Vlad and I are the only two human beings on Earth who like Peter Cetera/Chicago music

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:46 pm

I like Chicago, but I don't think I have any of their CDs nowadays. When you grow up listening to them, you don't really think about it. It's just, like...there.

But I do like them, I just haven't listened to them in a long time. I have a soft spot for big cheesy 80s power ballads.

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:51 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:I have a soft spot for big cheesy 80s power ballads.

SCORE!

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:52 pm

dwchang wrote:No love for the 80's music ;_;

I think Vlad and I are the only two human beings on Earth who like Peter Cetera/Chicago music

I do! I do! And I can't help thinking that "Will You Still Love Me" would make a great AMV song for some series (yes, I know it's post-Cetera Chicago, but I like it anyway)...

I discovered "Shimmer" by Fuel from Onegai Studios' FLCL vid "Fade", and "When I Grow Up" by Garbage from Mighty Mighty Mega Studios' FLCL vid... can't think of any others.

I actually already knew "True Faith" by New Order, but I deleted the first vid I got to that song because it was just a well-synched recap of the first Pokémon movie, and I deleted the second because it was to the Rurouni Kenshin OAVs and it was so bloody I couldn't even watch past the first minute or so.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:53 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Too bad I actually have the song for the "official" AMV project... All the rest of you have used the song in and "unofficial" capacity

Hey, I "let" you have that track.

Brad said he'd use my video if I wanted, but I didn't want to sidestep the actual selection process. (And I got to do Drop The Bomb

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Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:57 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote: Chumbawamba - Amnesia
Savatage - TIWWM

If you haven't already, check out the other songs on these discs- they've both excellent CDs- and probably ones you can pick up decently cheap second hand. (just about all my CD purchases these days are used)

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:58 pm

Scintilla wrote:
dwchang wrote:No love for the 80's music ;_;

I think Vlad and I are the only two human beings on Earth who like Peter Cetera/Chicago music
I do! I do! And I can't help thinking that "Will You Still Love Me" would make a great AMV song for some series (yes, I know it's post-Cetera Chicago, but I like it anyway)...

Well don't look at me. I don't imagine myself doing another Chicago/Peter Cetera song for awhile. Hell, I don't imagine myself doing a sappy video for awhile since that's what everyone expects

dokidoki wrote:Hey, I "let" you have that track. Brad said he'd use my video if I wanted, but I didn't want to sidestep the actual selection process. (And I got to do Drop The Bomb )

Well I think someone needs to do that evil idea discussed at Otakon to "Drop the Bomb." Given, I already know you're finished and have seen the track...no such luck ;_;. Redo it

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MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:02 pm

I discovered Jim's Big Ego off an amv in the Otakon contest from 2001. I have heard more original and great work in my 4 years of Otakon amv watching, than in the rest of my life put together. But it was not olny a gateway but a wake up call.

It's nice not being chained to the drowning man that is label manufactured music. Even though I had put myself there by not looking by myself in the first place...

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:24 pm

Ashyukun wrote:
SarahtheBoring wrote: Chumbawamba - Amnesia
Savatage - TIWWM
If you haven't already, check out the other songs on these discs- they've both excellent CDs- and probably ones you can pick up decently cheap second hand. (just about all my CD purchases these days are used)

Ah, cool. Thanks for the recommend, I'll have to look into those.

Used is indeed good; I try to buy both books and CDs used lately, unless it's something off-the-wall like an import CD.

And now you guys have "Will You Still Love Me" stuck in my head. Arg.

BogoSort · Post by **BogoSort** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:02 pm

MistyCaldwell wrote:I discovered Jim's Big Ego off an amv in the Otakon contest from 2001. I have heard more original and great work in my 4 years of Otakon amv watching, than in the rest of my life put together. But it was not olny a gateway but a wake up call.

Wow, as many CD sales for Jim's Big Ego as my vid might have generated, I still can't believe that what I'm using is the freely downloadable mp3 of the song. Maybe I shall go and support the artist now, and actually buy the CD(and possibly give myself the justification to remaster the video in better quality...