Looking down from ethereal skies Silent crystalline tears I cry For all must say their last goodbye To paradise
Bands I've seen: Dream Theater (x2) Queensryche Metallica Godsmack Slayer Judas Priest (x3) Iron Maiden Black Sabbath Kiss Into Eternity Bigelf Zappa Plays Zappa Buckcherry Motor head Heaven and Hell Testament
I almost gave up playing the guitar because of John ... I thought that I could play everything I was listening to .... I spent countless hours trying to learn licks, I didn't stop playing to spend time with my kids and then one day I just realized there is very HARD work to get this level, but also a HUGE part of natural talent. I feel better now that I have lowered my aims a little bit, I can play Clapton stuff, Gary Moore and Santana stuff, Metallica tracks, and as such ... but I gave up Dream Theater, but I have all of their records !
Anyone else get to the brink of tears hearing the mourning tones in this? Then the ascending chord progressions with the chorus. Is this frisson, or some other thing since there aren’t actual goosebumps
Ive never been a fan of metal and cant enjoy Metallica songs for example, and i kinda overlooked DT for some years. But now i realized they are essentially what i would like to hear in a “metal” song.
When you think about it, on paper, this show should not have worked. It should have been an utter mess. Theme song homaging Queen, titles homaging one of the Ultraman shows, this series homaging Batman, film noir, giant mecha anime, James Bond, heck, R. Dorothy Wainwright can be seen as a love letter to Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick, but…it did. Those absolute madlads did it. It worked. They made an incredible series out of it. Amazing.
People in their early twenties might not catch those references right away- but whether they do or don't seem unimportant at this point. This OP is amazing on its own. Actually, there' something erotic about the "Big O" title (an allusion to "the Story of O" perhaps?) I just wish the uploader labeled this as "anime" rather than "cartoon" since the origins of this fiction is Japan, not the West. In any case, the comments in the threads below are gold. They shouldn't be the reason for listening to this piece- but the context is enough to drive discussions forward so that this anime can be given a second, third, etc. chance to shine again.
@@peppermillers8361 I know. It's just that anime is the Japanese (and Japan "cartoons" fans) way of labeling the same thing to distinguish it from Western and non-Japan-based production.
4:32 to 5:52 is the "shrink and grow" section. It took me 24 years (since 1999) to realize that this section was most probably inspired by Metallica's AJFA song Blackened's post-guitar solo bridge section, where the music "shrinks" with each iteration before going back to the last verse/pre-chorus.
