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Hanako - Reason should be obvious, it's even one of the top comments.
Emi - I just imagine an exercise montage with Emi and Hisao when I hear this.
Lilly - Yeah, by now you should just realize I'm messing around.
Misha - Wish I could, but I can't.
Now, if I could just get two songs in similar vein to these about deafness and lack of arms, I'll have a full set!

What do you mean by music nerd anyway?

I study music at degree level at a fairly prestigious university and I don't consider myself a 'nerd'. I'm an enthusiast. It's what I love and what I live for but I don't think I'm a nerd about it. I don't think your active involvement in a hobby is what makes you a 'nerd'.

harlequin wrote:What do you mean by music nerd anyway?

I study music at degree level at a fairly prestigious university and I don't consider myself a 'nerd'. I'm an enthusiast. It's what I love and what I live for but I don't think I'm a nerd about it. I don't think your active involvement in a hobby is what makes you a 'nerd'.

I'm fine with the enthusiast moniker as well.

harlequin wrote:What do you mean by music nerd anyway?

I study music at degree level at a fairly prestigious university and I don't consider myself a 'nerd'. I'm an enthusiast. It's what I love and what I live for but I don't think I'm a nerd about it. I don't think your active involvement in a hobby is what makes you a 'nerd'.

Hmm, This is actually a better way to put me, as I plan on working on a Degree in Music Education in College.

It's quite odd, but anyway...
Before playing, I had my doubts about the nature of this visual novel. You know, people tend to have some kind of morbid curiosity towards disabled persons, like "god, what did happen to him? It must be awful" when noticing someone. I never was this morbid, but didn't have any considerate thoughts about the issue either. KS did change my way to think about it though.
This song makes me think of how marginalizing the thoughts of society can be towards disabled persons and Hanako in particular
The real meaning is far away from my interpretation, but that's the good thing about music, you can take it however you wish

Revocation - Cretin



Hail the freak
The king of the creep show
Abhorred and adored
A creature so intriguing
The crowd keeps wanting more and more
-The morbid curiosity I talked about

So come on, give 'em a show
Step right up to the pedestal of mockery
They want to see this miscreant of misery
-It's not like they have a choice, Rin wouldn't starve to death just because of people mocking her because of the only way she can eat. For her: It's a normal way to eat a meal, for onlookers: It could be straight misery. They can't hide their status to "normal" people even if they wanted to, "so come on, give 'em a show"

Chained and caged
Never to see the light of day
(Never! No, Never!)
Driven insane
Malformed and deranged
-Reminds me of Hanako's cinematic when she is crying locked up, her social issues, and her scarring

Onlookers gawk and laugh
They feed him discarded scraps
Lashed by the master's whip
Perpetual punishment
-Actually... I don't have an interpretation for this verse, damn! I don't even think the fourth sentence makes a rhyme at all

Covered with open sores
Curse the day that he was born
No creature s as freakish as he
His deformity reigns supreme
-Hanako's scarring, and his hate towards her own birthday

Tomorrow the freak awakes upon a brand new stage
He knows there is only one way to escape
The crowd is horrified as he takes his own life
The grand finale ended with a suicide
(Suicide!)
-I take this verse at a total figurative way. The disabled person finds itself surrounded by new onlookers everyday. Day after day, while doing even the most routinary task, people would look at him, whisper at his back, and wonder about his condition, just like suddenly jumping into a stage, again and again. Pretty much how Hanako felt
He doesn't end his own life, but the hopes to have a "normal" one, the hopes to be treated as an equal

Damn, I posted as a guest -.-

Fretless wrote:Hanako - Reason should be obvious, it's even one of the top comments.
Emi - I just imagine an exercise montage with Emi and Hisao when I hear this.
Lilly - Yeah, by now you should just realize I'm messing around.
Misha - Wish I could, but I can't.
Now, if I could just get two songs in similar vein to these about deafness and lack of arms, I'll have a full set!

- especially for Shizune (feel your speakers)
- Rin (who needs arms to hold you?)

Oh, and perhaps "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" for Emi?
- head to about 3:30, otherwise you probably know why.

-- Rin. I feel it suits her.
-- Shizune.
-- Lilly!
-- Hanako...
-- Emi. Funny, eh? I listened to this after I got her bad ending. It was really gut-wrenching

Elitesweets wrote: -- Rin. I feel it suits her.
-- Shizune.
-- Lilly!
-- Hanako...
-- Emi. Funny, eh? I listened to this after I got her bad ending. It was really gut-wrenching

Now you've done this, I'll never be able to think of anything else Good choices, really beautiful music.

As a single song as a whole, and for every girl, this fits very well,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqLGuRX_nLM Ellie Goulding - Lights

but i prefer this version of the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoVjSeb4aYA Ellie Goulding- Lights (Bassnectar Remix)

here are the lyrics if you need them.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/lights-lyric ... lding.html

The "what the girls would listen to" thread reminded me of this. Something actually Japanese:

Hanako: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HlWmDOPbM
This song really reminds me of Hisao and Hanako's relationship throughout her path, but not as much as:

Emi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9dhH1G5vfs
The lyrics are very reminiscent of her path more than any.

The entire game:



The legendary "Theme of Love" from Final Fantasy VI.

I'll start:


Rin Tezuka


"Where is my mind?" by The Pixies (but I like the Nada Surf version better)


Couldn't get enough of this song after playing through Rin's route, which, needless to say, hit me like a firetruck.

Hisao

"Efflictim" by WZRD



I know it's kind of an odd choice. I'm also not too sure the style of song fits the game, but he made me think about this song for some reason.