This #TuneTuesday 's theme is #MyGoldenOldie - the oldest song on your personal playlist.

Shamefully, even I can't weeb this one up!

I am going to count "things that there could have been an album of when they came out" because otherwise I'd have to spend a lot of time chasing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era 😝

Considering when the phonograph came out and commercial recordings could start being sold, it seems likely to be a John Philip Sousa or Scott Joplin?

I'll give it here, as I used to listen to Joplin basically on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2rMET4MVw&list=RDND2rMET4MVw

Apparently this #TuneTuesday theme is #NonLexicalVocals

Oh no! Another excuse to post Yoko Kanno and a track from some of the best OST of all time in Macross Plus? Heaven forfend!

https://youtu.be/gywJOEBpsuc?si=Zdwm4718G7AWCefS

For a #TuneTuesday that is #WideOpenSpaces I, for once, am compelled to start non-weebishly. (Which does not mean I will ONLY...)

A composer I leaned into heavily as a young'in, and basically "equates to wide open landscapes" is Aaron Copland. And while everyone knows at least a little from cultural osmosis (like Fanfare for the Common Man), I'm here to convince you to take in a ballet. (Well, the orchestral arrangement of a ballet he composed.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Qt0AIRK-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxd1cmenki8

It's only 25 minutes, what else you got going on? 😝

First link has marvelous wide-open imagery, and the second has Copland conducting, which is super-cool.

It is overall... a lot to take in. Mountains' worth! And well worth it.

Holy shnikes, with #TuneTuesday being #BigCrescendos it has happened upon one of my very favorite things, which I was recently discussing with a friend.

My form is not "volume" related, so much as "start out slow and soft, keep adding instruments and phrases, and top out right before the end of the song magnificently" and my first example of this is just a simple background track from Kimagure Orange Road

https://youtu.be/lwn-2ao472Y

One others may have heard before is the ending music of Gundam F91, Eternal Wind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPw7lvzTY8Q (Movie version)
https://youtu.be/bPXS-74Vpnk (Kickin' Orchestral version)

...and the most-popular IP but probably a relatively-unknown album, Pray from Final Fantasy: https://youtu.be/glz2S-qWBZ8?si=vQ3bO5RCSGgOCuR5

I'll go hunt for more later, but these are my Big Three

A #BlackMagic #TuneTuesday you say?

Looks like I can not resist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIb7Zc-4Xrk

"Finaly: Street Dancer ni Ai wo Komete (FINALY~ストリート・ダンサーに愛をこめて)" by Yuuki Kitahara

Credits music, ending the anime OAV Black Magic M-66

Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #SteppingStonesSongs (or #SteppingStoneSongs) - songs that introduce you to a specific (sub(sub(sub)))genre of music.

This will require a bit more thought than "throwing something up right before I head to work" so to start, I will toss out for #AniSong specifically--anime theme songs, which are usually their own takes within and around #JPop or #JRock or otherwise.

And the one that looms largest for me is "Konya we Hurricane"
from Bubblegum Crisis (1987) - by Kinuko Oomori

It does a marvelous job linking "the MTV Generation" to anime, including titillation and action and sci-fi horror aspects in the opening scenes of BGC, and a fully 80's-captured style in the music video.

For today's #TuneTuesday we are supposed to #RipAndTear and I have just the thing!

Just check out these tears! True! Shining! Secret! Infected! In...... a tiara? We have all the tears!

https://animethemes.moe/anime/true_tears/OP1-NCBDLyrics

https://animethemes.moe/anime/shining_tears_x_wind/OP1-Lyrics

https://animethemes.moe/anime/tears_to_tiara/OP1-NCBD

https://animethemes.moe/anime/itsuka_tenma_no_kuro_usagi/ED4-NCBD

https://animethemes.moe/anime/myself_yourself/OP1-NCDVD480

(It is possible I have misconstrued the assignment.)