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(04-09-2016, 04:53 PM)CBM97 Wrote: Mmh… speaking about inspiring music, what kind of music inspires you the most?

My parents were punk rockers, so I was raised on a steady diet of Ramones, Violent Femmes, MC5 and The Pretenders (my mother's singing is a dead ringer for Chrissie Hynde's), and I still love hearing them.

Even today, twice the age of other bass players, my mother still kicks twice as much ass.

Of course even though I'll listen to just about anything, I rebelled and focused on classical music and video game music in particular. There was one game called Lunar: The Silver Star for the Sega-CD/Mega-CD which got my sister interested in graphic design, and the sequel -- Eternal Blue -- got me interested in writing music. Unfortunately, the games are almost unknown outside Japan and the US (Working Designs was never a particularly large US developer), but Eternal Blue Complete is worth tracking down the soundtrack to, especially if you liked the music to composer Noriyuki Iwadare's other work.

He was and still is one of my favorite musicians of any genre. So much so that even a tune like this, in which I later learned from better Portuguese speakers that the lyrics were badly mangled, still transports me to somewhere ethereal. Worst comes to worst, just skip to 1:27 and close your eyes for the next 50 seconds.