Dancing Mad

[bladespark]

Someday somebody needs to do a full orchestral version of Dancing mad. With a real pipe organ and a choir and the whole nine yards.

Also, someday somebody needs to do a good rock version, with some real guitar and some better synth.

As is the best version I've found so far is... well, the first 9 minutes are half-baked synth with some instrumentation choices that I just don't agree with, and then the final 3 minutes are electric guitar awesome. I can kind of understand why the guitar wasn't through the whole piece, but they could have done a lot more with it. (This is the Black Mages version.)

Every other version of it I've seen is either techno (no, just no) or crappy.

If anybody knows of a good version of Dancing Mad that I might not have heard, feel free to pass it along to me. :)

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Have you checked on OCRemix? If anyone has a good version, it'll be them, I think.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yup. I have the entire OCR final fantasy collection, and the Chrono Trigger, and Zelda, and... er, lots of stuff. They have one version of it, but it's not terribly good. And OCRs are all fake-y midi anyhow. Some of them are very nice, but they're not the same as real performers playing real instruments.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, unfortunately, there really aren't that many bands or orchestras playing video game music out there, at least not here in America. I imagine there's more of that going on in Japan, but that's not helpful to those of us who can't read kanji. ;)

[silveradept]

There was an attempt made at the Play! Concert in Stockholm this year, but it did not turn out well and requires a lot more practice, according to Arnie Roth. So it's been written, but we have not yet managed to create the combination of awesome that is the orchestra, choir, and metal rock band needed to pull it off.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to a recording of that right now. It's not half bad, really. (I can see it's a little rough around the edges, but it's not exactly easy music.)

[silveradept]

No, it's not easy. The recording I heard of it was in Stockholm, and it was a really rough cut of the piece. The Sydney one on the Youtube linked is much more polished, but there are still some parts of it that make me go "Aie!", but most of them sound like they were written in deliberately, and probably to be different from the original.

[palshife-sakura.livejournal.com]

This is the only other one I knew of and could find, done as part of the Play! concert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BK7ROzLVl8&feature=related