Here we are again with What Music Means number 2, in which I remix a song, and you pretend to listen.

Seiken Densetsu, or Final Fantasy Adventure, was the first Gameboy game I owned, given to me by a friend of my brother.  I cherished that game, and now it’s gone, lost in one of my many, many moves ’round the continent.  Everything about it was beautiful: The frantic combat, the surprisingly deep story, the lovable characters,  the gorgeous four-colour graphics, but most of all, the music.

Hearing the music on the title screen was even enough tomake my mother hate video games less.  Any time I played my big grey brick, she’d say ‘Arcy, play the one with the turkish music.’

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So here we are, the first edition (And hopefully not the last) of ‘What Music Means.’  In this series, I will remix a song and you will hopefully enjoy it.  Or not.  Sometimes it may be good, sometimes it may be bad.  You don’t know.  That’s half the fun.  It’s like opening a box of cereal for the toy.  You might get the super-rare Shredder Power Ring, or you might get your 400th Michaelangelo.  Just be glad your mother bought you 400 boxes of cereal just so you could get your toys.

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