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Live & Learn ...Main Theme of "Sonic Adventure 2"
New Battle certainly has the verve, but I find it about as cliche and tired as it gets. This kinda jazzy anime rock needs to do something a little more than this to get my attention. I just found it kind of cheesy - I really gagged at the part where it's like 'oh yeah time to do the BIG CLIMAX AND TURN IT UP TO 11' and it achieves that by going up a key. It's the corniest thing you can do in a song! Don't do it! This also had like two different breakdown sections that almost made me laugh with their predictability, especially the piano one. Any given moment of the song is a crowdpleaser but it brings nothing new for me.
4/10
It only took two songs to get some incomprehensibly named song from a game I've never heard of that has anime girls singing in it and here we are! The vocals are too little-girl for my tastes but it's alright. The dubsteppy section is fun. I don't hate it.
6.5/10
Donk the Samurai Duck is... uh, very silly, but not the kind of silliness I was expecting! This is some really vintage 90's house which makes this one a really strange time capsule - the fact that it's not meant to *sound* like 90's dance music, it IS 90's dance music. I thought it was a bit trite my first listen through but it's kinda grown on me. The harmonization in the chorus makes it an earworm.
7/10
I keep thinking this game is called Euthanasia and that might as well describe how I feel about it. It's long and boring. It's not really sit-down-and-listen-to music, it's elevator music, and as a background theme it works completely fine. It's built for a purpose. I can't really think of anything to comment on here. It sounds like background music to a SummoningSalt video which is probably the highest compliment I can pay it.
5.5/10
Live & Learn, like most Sonic Adventure music and like most Crush 40 songs, is simply a cultural treasure - something so *absurdly* lame that it wraps around to being awesome and hilarious. I uh, am sometimes surprised to find I'm in the minority on this and people unironically like it! I IRONICALLY like it. It's so fucking dumb lol and it suits its game perfectly. It rules. I can't imagine this era of Sonic sounding like anything else.
7.5/10?????
but it truly defies a ranking out of 10
I went back and forth on my vote here. New Bodhum's good. But fuck it, I just can't resist voting for Live & Learn. I don't remember the sound of the ocean waves but I do want to HANG ONTO THE EDGE OF TOMORROW.
7/10