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I love the soundtracks to Miyazaki's films (Spirited Away' date=' Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle)[/quote'] I have to second this. Being a huge Miyazake / Studio Ghibli fan. Joe Hisaishi's music is haunting, touching and just beautiful to listen to. My favorite soundrack of all time though has to be the Elder Scrolls - Oblivion soundrack by Jeremy Soule. It's been on permanent rotation in my music list since the game came out. Which is a LONG time ago. (god where does the time go?)
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Nevertanezra doesn't need a drummer... apparently he's going to take up tap dancing at their shows' date=' to provide the "element of danger". It's tough playing guitar while doing doom tap dancing, but I'm confident he can pull it off.[/quote'] If only you knew how true this was. NTNR does what I like to call "the gnome dance" while playing, which is actually hilarious. We told him to keep doing it because it was good practice for keeping with the music, despite whatever distractions (especially playing live) may arise. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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If only you knew how true this was. NTNR does what I like to call "the gnome dance" while playing, which is actually hilarious. We told him to keep doing it because it was good practice for keeping with the music, despite whatever distractions (especially playing live) may arise. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
That's fucking ridiculous! In a good way. I always had trouble acting energetic when I played live, till I started playing out with the grind band. No gnome dances for us...
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That's fucking ridiculous! In a good way. I always had trouble acting energetic when I played live' date=' till I started playing out with the grind band. No gnome dances for us...[/quote'] He's the opposite on stage, mostly just headbanging, but it's hilarious at practice. It's tough to do it while playing, so when I try to mock him I usually fuck up. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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My people have strange ways and the dance of dances can only be done by fully sanctioned dancers of which you are not. Mock not the troll dance as it is. Revel in it's fluidity, technicality and it's reverence lest you always be the runner up at the talent shows. It's always good to joke around while practicing because anything can happen on stage and you need to have all your giggles out or at least be able to keep a straight face in the face of something funny. Like Rick (our former singer) told me years ago. He always sings with his eyes closed because back in the day he was in the middle of a set and happened to look off stage and see a guy who looked like Peter Griffin lying on the floor gazing up at him. This was several years before Family Guy btw. He said he just started laughing at the guy and had to force himself to focus. He began closing his eyes from that day forward.

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I think the Pirates Of The Caribbean score is particularly good, too good for such rubbish movies, the Harry Potter score is pretty good as well though I don't much care for those movies either. There's also a piece from Doctor Who I found particularly nice ZeWQr3scW-s
Doctor who soundtracks are my favourite but what's funny about this one is that at the beginning it sounds like there saying "Ooh a chair!!!" :P Here's one of my favourites...... w2nMwMOUIos
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