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▌ The Advantage - The Advantage ▐
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█▌ Artist.: The Advantage Tracks..: 26 ▐█
█ Album...: The Advantage Size....: 57,7 MB █
▌ Genre...: Game Time....: 41:46 min ▐
▌ Type....: Album Label...: GER028 5 Rue Christine ▐
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▌ Grabber: Audiograbber Supplier: HSMp3 ▐
▌ Encoder: Lame ▐
▌ Quality: Full Stereo ▐
▌ 192 kbps enjoy this nice rls / Team HSMp3 ▐
▌ 44,1 Hz ▐
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█▌ Releasedate: May-22-2004 - Storedate: 000-00-0000 ▐█
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▌ +01+ Megaman 2 - Flashman 02:08 ▐
▌ +02+ Double Dragon 2 - Stage 2 01:45 ▐
▌ +03+ Goonies 2 - Goonies 2 02:19 ▐
▌ +04+ Bubble Bobble - Bubble Bobble 01:45 ▐
▌ +05+ Bubble Bobble - Shark Skeleton 00:32 ▐
▌ +06+ Wizards and Warriors - Intro 01:09 ▐
▌ +07+ Bomberman 2 - Bomberman 2 02:29 ▐
▌ +08+ Bionic Commando - P.O.W. Camp 01:09 ▐
▌ +09+ Super Mario Bros. 2 - Underworld 00:38 ▐
▌ +10+ Super Mario Bros. 2 - Overworld 01:41 ▐
▌ +11+ Contra - Snowfields 01:10 ▐
▌ +12+ Zelda - Fortress 01:08 ▐
▌ +13+ Batman 2 - Batman 2 02:36 ▐
▌ +14+ Megaman 3 - Dr. Wiley Stage 02:00 ▐
▌ +15+ Double Dragon 2 - Double Dragon 2 01:59 ▐
▌ (story, and boss music) ▐
▌ +16+ Castlevania 3 - Epitaph 02:04 ▐
▌ +17+ Ninja Gaiden - Mine Shaft 01:51 ▐
▌ +18+ Mario 3 - Underworld 00:55 ▐
▌ +19+ Blastermaster - Stage 2 01:04 ▐
▌ +20+ Ghosts 'n' Goblins - Intro 00:04 ▐
▌ +21+ Ghosts 'n' Goblins - Ghosts 'n' Goblins 01:07 ▐
▌ +22+ Castlevania - Stage 3 02:14 ▐
▌ +23+ Marble Madness - Marble Madness 01:22 ▐
▌ +24+ Metal Gear - Jungle 02:20 ▐
▌ +25+ Contra - Boss Music 02:18 ▐
▌ +26+ Castlevania 3 - Evergreen 01:59 ▐
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█▌ 57,7 MB 41:46 Min ▐█
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▌ At first glance, this is the most necessary album of all ▐
▌ time. On the cover, a small nondescript grey box orbits Earth ▐
▌ trailing a rainbow of music, while coming in on a direct ▐
▌ intercept course is an electric guitar; yes, The Advantage is ▐
▌ a Nintendo cover band. Simple, sure; but come on, Nintendo ▐
▌ had like some of the best music ever piped through tiny TV ▐
▌ speakers in eight-bit bleeps. The Bubble Bobble theme, the ▐
▌ Bomberman theme, and the more renowned classics like Zelda ▐
▌ and Super Mario; here, from this box of unfeeling circuits ▐
▌ and wires, the art of nonoffensive novelty background music ▐
▌ transcended its limitations, reached out and touched the face ▐
▌ of God. And then there's that the Advantage shares a band ▐
▌ member with Hella, guitarist Spencer Seim, here on drums, and ▐
▌ that they're released on 5RC, and how goddamn awesome will ▐
▌ this be? ▐
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▌ But then we stop, and we think. However good these songs ▐
▌ were, the fact is, they just aren't meant to be standalone ▐
▌ songs, and this fact, as we are slapped with it for forty ▐
▌ minutes, is pretty detrimental to the album's awesomeness. In ▐
▌ the games, phrases would loop indefinitely until you passed ▐
▌ the stage, with no distinguishable beginning or end; shorten ▐
▌ that to twenty-six two-minute tracks and what you have is you ▐
▌ have an album chock full of middle. Phrase one, phrase two, ▐
▌ repeat phrase one, repeat phrase two - next. The songs just ▐
▌ sort of stop. Which is fine for a few songs, but twenty-six ▐
▌ and the songs start to just stop mattering. ▐
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▌ But what, really, can I fault? The idea? Certainly not. The ▐
▌ performances? Why, they're completely without error, since ▐
▌ they're transcribed more or less verbatim, and even the ▐
▌ guitars seem to be trying their hardest to sound like they're ▐
▌ beeping from tiny mono speakers. You just don't mess with the ▐
▌ classics - but on the other hand, you can do a lot more with ▐
▌ guitars than you can with a 1985 mini-computer; while they ▐
▌ almost certainly shouldn't have, it's kind of a shame that ▐
▌ they didn't. The songwriting? Is, we know, straight-up boss, ▐
▌ however often it's labeled as a novelty. And their hearts, we ▐
▌ can tell, are firmly in the right place, god bless 'em. ▐
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▌ It's a collection of songs, is all it is. As this, it ▐
▌ succeeds wildly; otherwise we're stuck with the fact that the ▐
▌ most necessary album we've ever heard, however perfectly ▐
▌ carried out, just downright doesn't work. And this sucks. But ▐
▌ then we can just go back to playing the actual games and hear ▐
▌ this stuff as it was meant to be heard: in the background. ▐
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▌ Marble Madness had the best theme ever. ▐
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