Comments on: CD Shopping List: May 2012

By: omo

omo — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:35:02 +0000

I think there are no reason why you can’t get those along with the soundtracks. Jazz standards also go on sale at various places all the time, and you can score them used for even less. For the record all the tracks I like off the OST are “originals.” A couple of them are improvs–coon music and all.

By: DiGiKerot

DiGiKerot — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:34:41 +0000

Yeah, the Cinderella Girls CDs dive a little too far into the generic Akiba-kei/anisong for my tastes, to the point where you can pretty much tell which artists/producers they were intending to mimick for each CD. They sold well due to the Cinderella Girls unlock codes more than the actual quality of the music.

I don’t actually think the Animation Master CDs are that bad in terms of value, though at the same time, there’s generally only three or four songs I like on each one. Well, maybe that’d be more if I didn’t already have the character CDs they pulled a lot of the tracks from, though that’s a problem in itself – for the 765Pro Allstars tracks, the older releases tend to have far better vocal arrangements than the versions used in the show. I kind of think they killed i by throwing too many simultaneous voicetracks on it compared to the version on the old Kotori single.

The Animation Master Special CDs are really just stealth character singles based around the fact that they’ve not released any of the iM@S2 DLC songs on CD yet, as opposed to anything from the actual show. They might be a bit more interesting if they pick good cover songs, though.

(This post makes me feel bad about the fact that about 80% of what I listen to at the moment is iM@S music, though even then my general playlist is only about 50 tracks long…)

By: dm00

dm00 — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:34:00 +0000

For Sakamichi no Apollon just cut out the middleman. Didn't catch episode two. And I'm only just starting episode four now. Ah, doesn't have the song, but has the critical cover (for the song, just look for "Bill Evans But not for me" --- a good title for the situation in the show, I think). Also.

By: omo

omo — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:21:20 +0000

There are way too many, yea. The Animation Master CDs are good buys if they released a trim-down version and just bundle them together, but I guess it works as a complete collection sort of thing as well as is.

By: chikorita157

chikorita157 — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:51:46 +0000

Talking about Idolmaster CDs, I brought three of them several months ago, in particular the Animation Master ones. Most of the songs are good, but there are so many CDs they release that it’s hard to keep track. Now they are apparently releasing the Specials for the Animation Masters… Not sure I’m going to get them since I haven’t gotten SP Missing Moon yet and I spent money on Pokemon Back 2.

As for the Cinderella Girls CDs, they aren’t my thing… but I can’t let spending drain my wallet though.