Were the alarm-clock bells necessary in the newer version, though?

I was listening to Pandora while working today when I was distracted by this one instrumental piece that came on my mix station that really announced its presence - all bombastic drums and dramatic staccato horns and whatnot. The style seemed familiar but the piece didn't - yet it sure wanted to make itself known. "What the heck's going on with this song?", I thought, so I switched over to the tab where Pandora was playing, and lo and behold:



Man, the part where it's actually Ghaleon's theme proper (I mean, his theme from the Sega CD version, not the parts that're unique to the 32-bit remake) is really soft. The new stuff ("new" here meaning "three generations old") is really Howard Shored up and gets news-bulletin graceless near the end. I must've subconsciously recognized the opening bits in their more-tentative, less-oppressive form, but the actual theme is hard to pick out in spots even if you're listening for it.

In other news, you can listen to Noriyuki Iwadare on Pandora now.
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