R: [EVA] S^2 was: What's happening?

[Ernest_Ng at proctors.com.au]

Christopher Michael Bourke wrote:
>What is your takeo n the S2 collection?  I personally don't think it is
that
>great, not complete, even though that seemed to be its purpose.

In what sense do you mean it's not complete?  The set is named "S^2 Works";
if you take the S^2 to mean Shiro Sagisu, then presumably the box set does
contain the complete BGM for the series and movies composed by Shiro (there
are one or two variations of tracks I noted on some of the Japanese LDs
which don't seem to appear in the box set, but I don't know if they appear
under a different name in the box set and I've never bothered to check).

IIRC the only other BGM (not counting the OP and ED) in the series and
movies is classical music (some of which appears in the box set), a couple
of seconds of that "ladybug" song (an extract of which can be found on the
Addition CD) and songs from the Gyuu CD (by Masami Okui) and the Lilia
~from Ys~ CD (by Mitsuishi Kotono - VA for Misato).

It didn't
>arrange anything in any listenable manner, just put everything in there in
>listing order;  Put similar tracks next to each other, tideous to listen
to
>for hours on end...

Depends on if you like the track or not  ^_^  I generally don't mind it
except all those variations of Borderline Case.  Overall, I like the box
set - I find that when I feel like listening the Eva music, I reach for the
box set (especially the 2nd CD) rather than the earlier releases.

Ebj wrote:
>George posted some months ago his review and said something about the song
listing by
>Sagisu and another one by Anno (more complex, with reasons for the names),
and then that

I don't think there are any explanations for names.  However the first
section gives the designations like "E-13" only and a later section of the
booklet gives more descriptive title to the track eg "Instrumentality
Project".  One of the unused A tracks (themes) has the word "Alundra" in
its title IIRC, in reference to the original plot for the series.

I like some of the discarded versions of some
>songs as much as the original ones, and recognized some versions of the
songs in the
>series that I couldn't find in the other albums (ie. the songs during
manual prepping of

Some of the unused music (found only in the box set) can be quite good
(although some of that sounds quite Nadia-esque) or just
bizarre/interesting.   There's also a couple of tracks from the TV series
which can be found only on the box set, both of which I like:
B-5: Requiem (used in episode 22 for the flashback when little Asuka stands
before her mother's grave); and
B-17 (used in episode 17 when Touji and Hikari are in class after school).

E

BTW, I've heard a rumour that KareKano has been picked up.