NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

So I think with this song FF6 is officially my most remixed game. The title is “Phantom Snake” because I arranged the song in the style of a James Bond or Metal Gear Solid secret agent man sneaking espionage type dealie. Solid Snake is the main character from many of the MGS games.

NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

I’m a closet Pokemon fan. I own a Game Boy Color, and all I have for it is Pokemon games. Seriously. I got all 151 Pokemon on my Red cartridge…and then the save file mysteriously got erased. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…

NOTES: So SnappleMan challenged me in DoD for June 2010, right? Well, I needed an epic, extraordinarily ambitious arrangement to ensure a victory. I’ve been wanting to arrange Dancing Mad for quite a long time, because pretty much all of the arrangements I’ve heard don’t deviate away from the source enough. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I always felt that there was so much that could be done with the church organ solo sections.

The other thing is that I’ve always wanted to do a One-Winged Angel arrangement. I did one a while back and I posted it here, but time has passed and I realized it blows and really had nothing special about it (straight Advent Children version cover? C’MAAAWWWNNN!!!!). The other problem was that by itself, I had NO original ideas on how to arrange the song. Between the Advent Children and OCR’s Voices of the Lifestream “Black-Winged Metamorphosis” versions, I couldn’t do anything with it. But as I was arranging this I had the idea to slip some One-Winged Angel sections in here, and it worked great! If I remember right, One-Winged Angel was actually a leftover from FF6 anyway. The styles meshed very well, so that’s great. I’m a little disappointed that I couldn’t slip in more of One-Winged Angel into the remix, but that’s alright. Anything that’s missing is in the first parts of the song, and Dancing Mad has a ridiculously epic opening statement as it is. Plus, the cheesy anvil’d, bass drop’d half time breakdown is just too sweet as the first OWA statement.

Also in the song are several references to certain prog bands that you may or may know. If you know who they are, then that’s an easter egg you can laugh at and enjoy. If you don’t recognize them all, then stop being a damn noob and get edumacated on your prog rock!

By the way, this song does have lyrics, and I know they’re hardly decipherable. The way Symphonic Choirs was made makes it very difficult to cut through the thick horrible mass of noise in this song.

SnappleMan, Going Down (x2)

Don’t let your pubic fat
Get in the way

You’re fucked (x4)

SnappleMan is fat and greek
He masturbates with feta cheese
He thinks he can win DoD
But he will never beat me

He’s crazy
Fat and lazy
Pussied out
Last time around

SnappleMan, Going Down (x2)

He does not know what he got into
Thinking his only threat was that Jew
I think that the time has come to pass
To open up this can of whoop-ass
He thinks he can win this fight using wank
Unaware how much he’s gonna get spanked

You’re fucked, you are fucked (x3)
You’re fucked, fucked fucked fucked fucked!

SnappleMan is fat and greek, masturbates with feta cheese (x8)
(He is crazy, fat and lazy) (x4)

NOTES: Yes, this is a straight cover of SnappleMan’s “Dead Batteries” remix from the OCR Project Chaos album. Early in June 2010, SnappleMan challenged me to a DoD duel. Since he backed out the previous February (SnappleMann/Paragon is an Asshole (part 1)) he decided he had unfinished business to attend.

Well, so did I.

That’s how Prancing Dad and this song came about. This song however, is the result of me killing time a couple days before the deadline. I made this straight cover to add to the mockery, hence the name. Plus, I’ve been wanting to do live bass on that song for a while now, but I figured why not do it myself?