Good Music 7.0:

http://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2017/08/good-music.html

My good music permapost has been improved yet again.  The names of many songs have been shortened and simplified, a remix was found and eliminated, artists posing as multiple names (Go Shiina and Masaru Shiina, for instance) have been solidified into their single true form, capitalization was standardized, and so on.  Lots of minor clerical improvements.

But the biggest change was all about overcoming the custom in Japan of putting peoples' last names first, and first names last.  Since this is America and we speak English, my good music post had to go through all the artist names and set them right again -- first names first, last names last.

This cleared up a lot of confusion.  Sometimes artists had their first names first, and other times their last names last, and it was thought they were even different people.  Just by putting everyone's names in their proper order, I discovered three new composers who were responsible for at least two good songs on my hall of fame list that had previously been thought to be minor figures with only one song to their name.  Now their names are properly memorialized in the beginning section when before they were lost to the winds of time.

Other artists were discovered to be responsible for 13 good songs instead of 9, and so on.  All sorts of problems were due to these names being out of order, and all these problems are now solved.

The remix was bizarrely difficult to discover.  Oujo no Yuuwaku is a song from Final Fantasy 1, but it's actually a complete ripoff of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Op20. - Sc. 10, which is already on my list.  The flash of inspiration it took for me to check out Swan Lake and see if the songs matched was unearthly.  This is actually a good thing.  If I'm discovering even difficult and hidden remixes like these, there must not be many more blatant and obvious ones left.

Sarah Brightman's song 'Jesu, Joy of Men's Desiring' was actually composed by Bach, so I gave credit for that one to Bach instead of Brightman.  The poor guy only has 3 songs in my hall of fame so he needs all the credit he can get.

For a lot of classical music songs, previously the artist was listed as the people playing the song, instead of the actual composer who did the important work of making the song.  That's been fixed, and now the artist properly refers to the composer.  Another vital change from 6.0.

The new total is 4228 songs and 197 eminent composers.  But as you can see these number are ever changing.

Meanwhile, the Card Captor Sakura ova setting up the Clear Card Hen for next year came out, and it was really good.  (Better than the entire 2nd season of Tales of Zestiria the X, just to put things in perspective).  This is the 28th great anime franchise to release something in 2017.  The 29th will be SAO's Ordinal Scale movie, set to release later this month.  Let's hope the fall season pitches in to raise that number some more before year's end.