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Murphiroth posted...

Automata's OST is so good that I spent like 30 minutes switching between multiple songs before settling on that one for this topic.

Oh, definitely an amazing soundtrack. I'm not entirely sure where I'd place it, as I don't usually rank soundtracks... like I know Undertale & Chrono Cross are my top two (probably CC > Undertale, if I truly had to pick), but Automata might actually be third? There are other games with individual songs I like more, but every song on Automata was great which would make it pretty hard to beat.
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Song name - The Weight of the World
Song origin - NieR: Automata OST
Song link

Nominator: Murphiroth (7/15)


I wish this had been the Japanese version of the song. Not that there's anything wrong with the English version, but I know it too well. The final song from my favorite game of last year*? Yes, I'm quite aware of it. One of the greatest games of all time with a stellar soundtrack.

Which makes this version of the song the exact opposite of new. I still like it, which is how it managed to survive being cut at the block of songs I knew too well, but... well the more I liked a song before starting this topic, the harder it was for it to get a high score, and this is exactly as far as I want to take it.



*Second favorite was Pyre ; third favorite was "Make a Good Mega Man Level 2", an unbelievably massive Mega Man fangame that is too complicated to go into here.

[FINAL NOTES: Seriously, just go download MaGMML 2. Best Mega Man game ever.

....not that I suspect any of you will actually enjoy it, but it's free, so I see no harm in suggesting it.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Alright, alright, the short version: Anyone and everyone was able to submit a stage for MaGMML 2. They were ranked by a panel of judges on a variety of criteria and ranked, but there was very little attempt at quality control. Some stages are broken messes filled with glitches ; some are created by professional game designers. The game features a mixture of the absolute best & worst Mega Man can ever be, and you never know what's waiting for you within each stage.

There's a ridiculously massive number of levels, a surprisingly long post game, hidden collectibles that unlock some interesting things, and a hub world filled with references to everything Mega Man related. It's basically the ultimate tribute to the Blue Bomber and the fanbase and it's unironically one of my favorite games of last year--possibly of all time, which speaks to just how amazing Automata and Pyre were.]

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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Oh hey, I used to listen to Smooth McGroove a lot. His channel is dead now unfortunately.

It is? Too bad. Though I can understand him needing to take a break.

...and since I'm already here, I might as well finish posting the last two songs of the night:





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Song Name: Go to Fontana
Song Origin: Kimitaka Matsumae
Song Link:
Nominator: MycroProcessor (6/10)


It's good, but too long. There are long songs I enjoy and I know 8 minutes isn't that long, but I don't think it does anything to justify the length. Which is unfortunate, because it comes really close to being in the top 30... but like LCC, I think the length just hurts it too much.

[FINAL NOTES: Another song that got hurt by repeated listens. This fell 22 spaces since the last version of the ranking.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: ...Though now that it's been a while, I kinda want to move it back up again....]

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NBIceman posted...

For the record, without going into the specifics too much, the story of the song is that the protagonist is having an opium-induced hallucination of his younger self and essentially apologizing that he's made so many mistakes in his life and doesn't see a way out of them. It's a really powerful moment because this character has been insufferably (and undeservedly) arrogant throughout the entire story and he's finally been driven to an absolute low point where he's forced to acknowledge what a disaster he's created.

It does all sound interesting and, as I said, I'm not opposed to hearing the rest of the story... there's just an awful lot of it, so it's a bit intimidating to look at.

NBIceman posted...

Short-Haired Tornado isn't even close to my favorite FtM song (that'd easily go to Greener Grass, which I didn't nominate because I was limiting myself to one super long offering)

Oooh, haven't listened to it yet, but skimming the lyrics that one looks like it has some potential... will have to try listening to it either later tonight or tomorrow.
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Song: Secret Garden
Origin: LittleBigPlanet3/Smooth McGroove
Link:

Nominator: Se7enthrust (2/10)


I've actually heard of this guy before, thanks to Spotify. I was listening to the Undertale OST on a regular basis, so it started trying to make me listen to Smooth McGroove's acapella versions & DM DOKURO's remixed versions. Which reminds me, I haven't listened to "Reality Check Through The Skull" in a while.

*proceeds to listen to said song instead of the one she's supposed to be ranking*

*and from there onto some random remixes of Chrono Trigger's Black Omen*

Ahh, that's what I wanted. Mayhaps I'll replay Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross after this ranking. Probably not, too many new games--haven't even opened Dragon Quest XI yet.

Never played anything in the LittleBig series (or even Playstation All-Stars for that matter), so there's no nostalgia here. My encounters with McGroove's music are so recent that I can't even be nostalgic for his work. And I have no real experience with acapella music; I know the two themes composed by Rockapella (Gummi Bears & the Carmen Sandiego gameshow), but that's it.

Song is nice. Happy, upbeat, and simple. Kinda nice to relax with after some other songs on this list, but not super amazing.


[FINAL NOTES: It's time for a DANGER ZONE update!

Anagram
DireKrow
BlackDra90n
Se7enthrust

Four players in danger; who will be the next elimination?]

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Song Name: Dream House
Song Origin: Deafheaven
Song Link:
Nominator: kateee (5/13)


Well, we've hit peak screaming here. No matter how many times I look at the lyrics while listening to this song, I don't think I've heard a single word. But it's interesting and experimental; the background music itself is happier than expected for this genre of music, and the lyrics would be nice if it were possible to hear them.

Well, nice probably isn't the adjective I'm looking for, with the references to alcoholism and the phrase "I'm dying", but I don't know what word I should be using instead.

...oh hey,I managed to hear the "I WANT TO DREAM!!!!!" this time. That's something, I guess. Either way for being unique and being a long song that I enjoy, it ranks surprisingly high on this list.

[FINAL NOTES: I finally heard more of the lyrics this time, though it didn't really help or hurt the song any.]

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I did miss it, sorta; I still read each writeup, but havent listened to much since #1,212 ; there was a decent stretch of time I couldnt listen to much, so I fell way behindstill going to go back and listen to all the nominated songs at least, presumably around the time I start working my way through the rest of ZALIST.

That particular writeup didnt leave much of an impressions, as I hadnt heard of the song or the band, so it was already gone from my head by the time I heard it over here.
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And our first elimination:



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Song Name: Exquisite
Song Origin: Andreas Viklund
Song Link:
Nominator: azuarc (1/2)


A fair bit better than Abandoned Hope. I rather like...whatever happens starting at 1:19, that part has gotten stuck in my head quite a bit since I first listened to this song. Unfortunately, this list has a much higher quality of songs in the top 100 than expected, and I just don't see this song making it any further. I'm sorry.

FATALITY

In Memoriam

Lowest Ranked Song: Abandoned Hope (121st Place)
Highest Ranked Song: Exquisite (96th Place)



It's probably not a surprise to anyone else that the player with only two nominations is the first to be eliminated, but it was a surprise to me. I figured chiptunes were going to be my thing, especially considering how often in this ranking I've complained about the music not being digital enough... but neither of these two tracks clicked with me in the way I expected and hoped they would. Exquisite has gotten stuck in my head on quite a few occasions, but then, so have a lot of other songs.

So while I owe azuarc for the VGM contest and Reverse Ranking topics being the highlight of my time on Board 8, it is with a heavy heart that he is eliminated here.

[Best songs I discovered through said ranking topics, in no particular order: Transistor - The Spine, Silent Hill 3 -- Walk On Vanity Ruins, and Ace Combat Infinity - Blue Skies (Infinity Remix).]

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Song: Streets of Rage 2 Ending Improv Piano Mix
Origin: art88tum
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Nominator: Se7enthrust (3/10)


It's good, but it goes on far longer than it needs to and I have no love for the Streets of Rage series. Actually, I have very little love for the Genesis itself--the Sega CD, absolutely. Saturn, sure, I love the Saturn. Master System & Dreamcast, unconditional love. Genesis...no.

My thoughts on the Game Gear are...complicated. Never played a 32X.

Anyway, the point I was getting to was, if I like computerized sounds then taking a 16-bit song and turning it into piano music is the exact opposite of what I'd normally like ; but since I don't often care for the Genesis or its sound fonts, it actually works out here. I think this is an improvement over the original, as abnormal as that feels for me to admit.

[FINAL NOTES: Now I'm curious if there any non-Sonic Genesis games with soundtracks good enough to get past my bias against the system. One of the Phantasy Stars might have something...]

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IhatethisCPU posted...

...I am going to be honest, as much as I like the Mentos jingle myself, didn't think it'd make top 100. :o

Lotta sentiments like that this topic. </.<



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Song Name: Short-Haired Tornado
Song Origin: Fair to Midland
Song Link:
Nominator: NBIceman (12/15)


I feel like I can almost follow the meaning of this song, sorta. Kinda. Then I try to connect the title to the song itself and I'm completely lost again.

Good song, but it loses some points for not even being the best Fair to Midland song on this list.

[FINAL NOTES: If you thought reaching the top 50% meant longer or more coherent write-ups, I'm afraid I have some bad news.]

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Song Name: Dinner
Song Origin: Kacy Hill
Song Link:
Nominator: mcflubbin (9/15)


It's quite nice. Good voice, above-average lyrics, a bit of computer effects distorting her voice--not often enough for my tastes, but she does give me a neat echo effect near the end of the song--but it never really wows me. I enjoy the song, but it ends quickly and doesn't leave enough of a lasting impression.


[FINAL NOTES: I don't know why, but I can never remember anything about this song as soon as it ends. Whenever I hear it, I always feel "wow, that was a good song!" and then I can't recall any of it. It's quite odd.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: ...Though now, perhaps ironically, I'm confusing it with Flawless--the other song I could never clearly remember. This is the one with the video with her walking a lot of dogs, right? And yet, every time I try to remember this song, a different one pops into my head. Thus far, in no particular order:

Flawless
How Simple
Fake Happy
Nobody
Hunnybee
How Simple (for the third or fourth time)
Fault Line
...are we sure this song isn't How Simple because that's like the only thing coming to mind anymore?

....And after trying really, really hard to think of something I came up with: "Maybe it's that "Here I am again at the reserve to drink" song" for a minute before remembering, oh yeah, that's the outro to How Simple.

.....I feel like I should retroactively boost that song about 50 rankings higher, but that's still not helping me recall this one. I know it'd all come back to me if I had a note or a word or two from the chorus, but now I'm determined to remember at least a bit of the chorus without outside help. Especially since I actually do like this song.

*finally gives up and looks up the lyrics*

Yeah, I was never going to get that. Still a good song though!
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Ohh, that would explain things. I don't think that information would have changed the placement much, but it's nice to have some context.
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Song Name: N.M.E.
Song Origin: Set It Off
Song Link:
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (8/15)



AS tempting as it is to ramble about Kirby since the anime had the evil organization N.M.E. (or at least the dub did), I...don't actually care about Kirby. Super Star was great, but that's about it.

The song is infectiously catchy and kinda funny (worth some chuckles at least), but they forgot to explain what the girl in question actually did to deserve the hatred. There's some vague lines in the beginning about Unidentified Friend Guy being suffocated and manipulated, but without any specifics or evidence... it just feels like the singer is being an ass for the sake of being an ass.

No, seriously, if you anxiously dream about your friend getting married so that you can jump up and sing about what a bitch his fiance is in front of everyone, you're just an ass.

[FINAL NOTES: Not that I based my song placements on humor, but I'm not sure if it'd be stranger to have this song or the George Lam one be the introduction to the top 50%.]

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Seginustemple posted...

Yeah LCC's second half outstrips the first by a mile, can't disagree with that. I should have gone with a different song from them. That second half though!

I'll definitely try listening to a song or two by Snarky Puppy at some point then.

If I may make a suggestion here try "Binky"...I'm curious to see what Mycro would recommend though. Love Snarky Puppy

Yeah, I don't think I can overstate how good the second half of that song was. Added Binky to the final version of ZA'LIST.



And now... the first two cuts.





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Song Name:
Song Origin: George Lam
Song Link:

Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (6/15)

I have so many questions:

Is this song sampling Material Girl? If so, why?

Is this video parodying a variety of movies or something? Because I really have no idea what I just watched.

...Why are Genghis Khan and Alibaba in this song?

Is the part starting at 3:35 inspired by and/or sampling "Whip It"? Because I swear that sounds really familiar before returning to what I still swear is Material Girl.

I have absolutely no clue what is happening, but I can't look away from it...

[FINAL NOTES: I will never understand what's going on with this song, but it is strangely addicting as a result. ...Also this is an interesting song to open the top half of the list on.]

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Snake5555555555 has 6 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Up and Away
Song Origin: Can't Stop, Won't Stop
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Song Name: So Far Under
Song Origin: Alice in Chains
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Song Name: I Know Places
Song Origin: Taylor Swift
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Song Name: The Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide
Song Origin: The Kings
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Song Name: Either Way
Song Origin: The Twang
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Song Name: Numb
Song Origin: Witt Lowry
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TheArkOfTurus has 6 of 10 songs remaining:

Song Name: Kinetic
Song Origin: Arcturus
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Song Name: Iter Impius
Song Origin: Pain of Salvation
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Song Name: The Spark of the Archon
Song Origin: Native Construct
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Song Name: Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
Song Origin: Hamilton
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Song Name: Blindfolds Aside
Song Origin: Protest the Hero
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Song Name: Gethsemane
Song Origin: Jesus Christ Superstar
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woodman / NFUN has 5 of 9 songs remaining:

Song Name: Servants of the Scourge
Song Origin: Terraria Calamity Mod
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Song Name: Transformer Robot Sing Wheels on the Bus
Song Origin: Charge Cycles
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Song Name: Nanmushi's/Nimeoseudok's Theme
Song Origin: Violent Vengeance
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Song Name: Lateralus
Song Origin: Tool
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Song Name: Empty Walls
Song Origin: Serj Tankian
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Out of the participants that nominated the full 15 songs, Iceman is still in the best position with 12 still in the game--though he did just lose two songs in rapid succession. Snake & Handsomeboy are the worst off from that group, each with 6 of 15 remaining.

Out of those that nominated 10, Ark & Mycro are tied with 6/10 remaining. Seginus is down to 2/10.

Four participants are down to their last song. Anagram was the first to fall into the danger zone, losing his next to last song at #134. Of course, you only need one song to claim first place, so anything can happen.

...Probably other more relevant stats to compile, but that's all I can think of right now and don't really want to spend more time calculating things anyway.
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MycroProcessor has 6 of 10 songs remaining:

Song Name: Mothball
Song Origin: Tawny Ant
Song Link: https://tawnyant.bandcamp.com/track/mothball

Song Name: focus tous
Song Origin: bunbleman
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Song Name: Gym Training Montage
Song Origin: Virt
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Song Name: Maclir
Song Origin: PeriTune
Song Link: https://soundcloud.com/sei_peridot/maclir

Song Name: Americans
Song Origin: Oneohtrix Point Never
Song Link: https://open.spotify.com/track/3fPqgONMLh8tIO2ndpqdXT

Song Name: Go to Fontana
Song Origin: Kimitaka Matsumae
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NBIceman has 12 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Astronomy
Song Origin: Blue yster Cult
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Song Name: Violet Hill
Song Origin: Coldplay
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Song Name: A Tap Dancer's Dilemma
Song Origin: Diablo Swing Orchestra
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Song Name: Graves
Song Origin: Caligula's Horse
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(This is the long one - ~15 minutes)

Song Name: Point/Counterpoint
Song Origin: Streetlight Manifesto
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Song Name: Short-Haired Tornado
Song Origin: Fair to Midland
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Song Name: Just a Ride
Song Origin: Rishloo
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Song Name: The Moments in Between
Song Origin: The Reign of Kindo
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Song Name: The Complexity of Light
Song Origin: Children of Nova
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Song Name: Godspeed
Song Origin: The Contortionist
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Song Name: Last Ride of the Day
Song Origin: Nightwish
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Song Name: Thunder Road
Song Origin: Bruce Springsteen
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Seginustemple has 2 of 10 songs remaining:

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'

Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes

Se7enthrust has 3 of 10 songs remaining:

Song: Secret Garden
Origin: LittleBigPlanet3/Smooth McGroove
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Song: Streets of Rage 2 Ending Improv Piano Mix
Origin: art88tum
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Song: Guile's Theme
Origin: Street Fighter II
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kateee has 5 of 13 songs remaining:

Song Name: I Love You, Honeybear
Song Origin: Father John Misty
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Song Name: Leaving the City
Song Origin: Joanna Newsom
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Song Name: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Song Origin: Against Me!
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Song Name: Dream House
Song Origin: Deafheaven
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Song Name: Just friends
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mcflubbin has 9 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Nobody
Song Origin: Mitski
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Song Name: Hunnybee
Song Origin: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
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Song Name: Falling Into Me
Song Origin: Lets Eat Grandma
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Song Name: Road Head
Song Origin: Japanese Breakfast
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Song Name: Golden Chords
Song Origin: Deakin
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Song Name: Unfucktheworld
Song Origin: Angel Olsen
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Song Name: Dinner
Song Origin: Kacy Hill
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Song Name: Futile Devices
Song Origin: Sufjan Stevens
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Song Name: Cato as a Pun
Song Origin: of Montreal
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MC_XD / DireKrow has 1 of 3 songs remaining:

Song Name: Canvas
Song Origin: Rezonate
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Mega Mana has 3 of 5 songs remaining:

Song Name: T.I.M.E.
Song Origin: Neil Cicierga, "Mouth Moods"
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Song Name: Motorcycle Drive By
Song Origin: Third Eye Blind, "Third Eye Blind"
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Song Name: Calling to the Night
Song Origin: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
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Murphiroth has 7 of 15 songs remaining:

Song name - Loud Twin Stars
Song origin - DOLL$BOXX
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Song name - Light of Sword
Song origin - Unlucky Morpheus

Song name - A Wolf Descends Upon the Spanish Sahara
Song origin - Fair to Midland
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Song name - Devil Trigger
Song origin - DMC5 OST - Casey Edwards f/Ali Edwards
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Song name - Rivers in the Desert
Song origin - Persona 5 OST
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That Dragon guy with some amount of 6s and 1s after his name has 8 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Give Me Novacaine
Song Origin: Green Day
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Song Name: They.Resurrect.Over.New.
Song Origin: Lupe Fiasco ft. Ab-Soul & Troi
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Song Name: It Ain't Hard To Tell
Song Origin: Nas
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Song Name: Shadows
Song Origin: Childish Gambino
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Song Name: New Man Theme
Song Origin: Mr. Lif
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Song Name: Real World
Song Origin: Matchbox Twenty
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Song Name: Radio Ga Ga
Song Origin: Queen
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Song Name: Big Empty
Song Origin: Stone Temple Pilots
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handsomeboy2012 has 6 of 15 songs remaining:

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Song Origin: Sam Hui
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Song Origin: George Lam
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Song Name: National Anthem of USSR
Song Origin: The Red Army Choir
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Song Name: Sparkle
Song Origin: RADWIMPS
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Song Name: Like a Butterfly
Song Origin: Yakuza 6
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Song Name: The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Song Origin: Gustav Holst
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IhatethisCPU has 10 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Mentos the Freshmaker(?)
Song Origin: Advertising Jingle (Not Sure Who Wrote/Performed it)
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Song Name: Like a Prayer
Song Origin: Madonna
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Song Name: Night Witches
Song Origin: Sabaton
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Song Name: The Rising Sun (Orchestral Version)
Song Origin: Dillon Spears
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Song Name: Hellfire (Metal Cover)
Song Origin: Jonathon Young (Original by Tony Jay)
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Song Name: Adequate
Song Origin: [A-One] (Original by ZUN)
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Song Name: Room of Angel
Song Origin: Akira Yamaoka feat Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
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Song Name: Super Mario World Castle Theme Remix (Electric House)
Song Origin: MegaNeko
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Song Name: Hard Habit to Break
Song Origin: Chicago
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Now presenting your TOP ONE HUNDRED!!!!!



Anagram has 1 of 3 songs remaining:

Dagothwave (I don't know who made this)

azuarc has 1 of 2 songs remaining:

Song Name: Exquisite
Song Origin: Andreas Viklund
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Bane_Of_Despair has 8 of 15 songs remaining:

Song Name: Cry
Son Origin: Marmozets
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Song Name: shira
Song Origin: Glassjaw
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Song Name: Phoenix I. Rising II. Falling (yea this one is my long one, sorry)
Song Origin: Night Verses
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Song Name: Number City
Song Origin: Coheed and Cambria
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Song Name: N.M.E.
Song Origin: Set It Off
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Song Name: Dixie Wolf (The Seduction Of...)
Song Origin: He Is Legend
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Song Name: Fake Happy
Song Origin: Paramore
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Song Name: Dark Come Soon
Song Origin: Tegan and Sara
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BlackDra90n has 1 of 5 songs remaining:

Song Name: Sorrow
Song Origin: Lynch
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NBIceman posted...

Spock's Beard and 3, on the other hand, are pretty great.

...Fine, I'll just add all of them to the ZA'LIST, and worry about it after the ranking ends.

"Let's just throw everyone from Thank You Scientist's write-up: Spock's Beard, The Three Band, Snarky Puppy, Oi Va Voi" added to the final version of said list which will be posted whenever we get that far.

And our last two songs to just barely miss the 50% are...

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102:

Song Name: Hrafntinna
Song Origin: Sigur Rs
Song Link:
Nominator: kateee (6/13)


The song title and lyrics made me expect death metal, but this is...far, far quieter and emotional than expected. Bit of a lyrical dissonance thing, but I think I'd prefer a song that opens with the Apocalypse to be more intense than this.

Certainly nothing wrong with any aspect of the song; intruments, singers, lyrics, everything is quite good. I just feel the singers would either work better with more beautiful lyrics, or the Apocalyptic lyrics would work better with a more intense band.

[FINAL NOTES: Certainly one of the most unique songs on this list and I hate cutting it before the top half as a result... but again, I don't see any songs that I actively want to move down the list to make room for it.]

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101:

Song Name: The Moon/Awake
Song Origin: The Dear Hunter
Song Link:
Nominator: NBIceman (13/15)


Oof... first time I'm even hearing of this band and we're starting at Act V. Yet another concept album song I won't be able to fully appreciate because I don't have time to listen and study to so many different albums.

On the plus side I do like the song and wouldn't exactly be opposed to listening to the other albums, but it feels like a massive undertaking to try following the plot at this point.

[FINAL NOTES: Song would likely do better without the Awake portion. That weird outro might be unique, but it's not doing the song any favors in terms of placement.

And so we officially reach the halfway point of the ranking! And while a lot of participants are on their last nomination, everyone managed to get at least one song in the top 50%!]

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MycroProcessor posted...

really the only ones in that list that I /actually/ know/like and haven't just like "oh yeah i've heard of that and know some songs" are spock's beard/mars volta and snarky puppy. Especially snarky puppy. don't know if you'd actually like them but i've nominated stuff from them for these kinds of ranking lists before iirc

Ah. Well, I'll definitely try listening to a song or two by Snarky Puppy at some point then.
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

This song is a hybrid of The Mars Volta and Spock's Beard? Or perhaps a combination of "3 (The Three Band)", "Snarky Puppy", and "Oi Va Voi"?

it's funny that when you act like you've never heard any of these bands it's suddenly a list of bands i actually listen to (though not surprising because I like thank you scientist too)

Not an act, I hadn't heard of any of those... with the possible exception of Mars Volta because as I alluded to, every other band on this list gets compared to Mars Volta. Honestly can't recall which song was the first to get such a comparison though.

I want to believe this song was the first though; at the very least, it was typing the band's name in this writeup that caused me to be more aware whenever Mars Volta was mentioned again (though I didn't bother noting any other occurrences ).

Either way, that's some high praise for these groups... I may just throw all of them onto ZA'LIST later.
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Song Name: Broken Promise [Dreams]
Song Origin: Toonami
Song Link:
Nominator: Mega Mana (4/5)


On the one hand, I don't think this works as well without the visuals and at least some knowledge of the anime shown. It's also a bit overly reliant on Outlaw Star footage.

On the other, it's one of the rare videos on this list to hit me with positive memories & nostalgia, and I can't downvote anything Gundam Wing related... even if it is just a two and a half second shot of Heero's face.

[FINAL NOTES: Seriously, list needs more Gundam.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I didn't even mention the use of Jet's voice actor. Everything about this video is nostalgia cranked up to 11; the choice of voice, the choice of anime, the timeframe this commercial is from. I don't think any nomination on the list triggered as many positive memories as this one.]

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And two more, as we draw ever closer to the top 100.

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Song Name: A Salesman's Guide to Non-Existence
Song Origin: Thank You Scientist
Song Link:
Nominator: NBIceman (14/15)


I like how most of the comments are comparing this song to bands I've never heard of. This song is a hybrid of The Mars Volta and Spock's Beard? Or perhaps a combination of "3 (The Three Band)", "Snarky Puppy", and "Oi Va Voi"?

...I honestly can't tell if those are real bands or not. Yeah, this band is exactly like Arbitrary Number & Adjective Animal! </sarcasm>

...Man, I was being sarcastic, but I'd totally buy an album from bands with those names. </.<


[FINAL NOTES: Like the Post Hardcore joke, a lot of bands wind up getting compared to The Mars Volta. I should listen to one of their songs eventually.]

[[ZA'LIST

1.Alice Cooper

2.OSTs from games published by Ocean Software.

3.Something by The Mars Volta.]]


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Song Name: Pentaly Shootout
Song Origin: Shnabubula
Song Link: https://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/track/pentaly-shootout
Nominator: MycroProcessor (7/10)


Ooh, music from an alternate reality. The song gets a slight boost due to the album's description: the soundtrack to a game that doesn't actually exist which was only released on Jupiter? Yes. More stories like that please.

Song is nifty and different.

[FINAL NOTES: I feel like I should have this song higher on the list, but don't see any songs that I actually want to move down the list to accommodate it.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: In a certain sense, the Nekrogoblin Gimmick song appeals to me in the same way. I tend to be a sucker for bands and songs with elaborate fantasy backstories.]

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Song Name: Your Honor
Song Origin: Regina Spektor
Song Link:
Nominator: kateee (7/13)

It's quirky, funny, and not like anything else on the list. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the song. but it's definitely different.

[FINAL NOTES:...I still have no idea how I feel about this song.]





[FINAL-ER NOTES: I think I like it. Mostly.]

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Mettaton (Undertale)
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MATCH 2:

Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
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And back on topic with one short writeup; since the earlier mix up had too many posted, I'm just doing one now to get us back to an even number.

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Song name - DICE
Song origin - BAND-MAID
Song link

Nominator: Murphiroth (8/15)


Not really a fan of the BDSM type lyrics (though I think I appreciate how clean they kept the lyrics in spite of the subject matter), but the song itself is good.

[FINAL NOTES: Nothing to add here.]

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Song Name: The Void
Song Origin: Whitechapel
Nominator: BlackDra90n (2/5)

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Song Name: Barbie Girl (Metal Cover)
Song Origin: Alex Terrible
Nominator: BlackDra90n (3/5)

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Barbie Girl was moved up the list rather shortly before the topic started and I forgot to correct the numbers. Either way, BlackDra90n is still down to only one song left, I just announced that too early.

EDIT: ...Also I seem to just put a random string of numbers after Dragon6's name, having referred to him as "Dragon66116" and "Dragon6616", and I'm...not entirely sure which of those numbers is correct, if either.
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Murphiroth posted...

Oh yeah and the Underoath vocalist is 100% better than Nicky from Nekrogoblikon. Vocals were the hardest sell for me with the Goblins but they're just so entertaining instrumentally that the goblin voice gimmick eventually grabbed me. Even his cleans aren't as good as a lot of other singers, but they're so dedicated to the gimmick that I'm ok with it.

Clean and a quite literal admission of the gimmick...

That was pretty great.

handsomeboy2012 posted...

Rank 110 isn't here

...Oops. Edited the post with 109 so that they're both in it. Thanks for pointing that out quickly enough that I could still edit the post!
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Song Name: In Division
Song Origin: Underoath
Song Link:
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (9/15)


This feels like a much improved version of "The Many Faces of Dr. Hubert Malbec".

Underoath have been labeled as...post-hardcore..

Well, well, well.
Welly well well.
Well welly well well, well well welly.

[FINAL NOTES: Joke writeup aside, I think that actually did cover all my thoughts on it. It's a decent metal song, the lyrics are rather comparable to the Goblin one ("My mind is starting to turn on me" VS "How long have I held on to this goddamned state of mind"), and said Goblin song was hurt slightly because the singer isn't as good as the one here.]


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Two more for the morning:

EDIT: ...or three, sure, I meant three.

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Joey Dosik - Past the Point

Nominator: Seginustemple (3/10)

He's a good singer, but it feels a bit generic and too similar to the type of thing I'd hear on the radio. Which isn't exactly a complaint--he should be more famous and his music shoudl be playing on the radio, It's just...not different enough to reallly stand out on this list.

[FINAL NOTES: Nothing further to add.]

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Song Name: DJ's Got Us Fallin' In Love
Song Origin: Usher (Unfortunately Featuring Pitbull)
Song Link:
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (11/15)

It's a good song and I do like listening to it, but it doesn't offer anything to think about or have any reaction to at all. It exists in the background, doing its best to be pleasing without making any statement or including a single line that would require its audience to think at all. +36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36
+36

My cat jumped on the keyboard. I was going to delete the text, then decided that it was probably more interesting than anything I typed or anything in the song itself for that matter.

[FINAL NOTES: Another song that started with a high score and kept dropping on repeat listens. By the fourth trip through, I knew the song way too well to get into it again.]

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Song Name: Homemade Dynamite
Song Origin: Lorde
Song Link:
Nominator: mcflubbin (10/15)


Everytime I see this song placed anywhere outside of the bottom 10%, I wonder how I could possibly have a song so repetitive above so many other songs that I highly enjoyed.

Then I play the song again, laugh at her little explosion noise, and wonder how I can possibly have the song so low. This song's placement could easily fluctuate 100 places depending on my mood.

[FINAL NOTES: If I judged only on first impressions, this song would have gotten a large boost. Unfortunately, the joke isn't nearly as funny if you expect it, so it lost something on repeated listens.]

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Song Name: Night Court Theme
Song Origin: Night Court (TV Show)
Song Link:
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (12/15)


Another interesting choice. Even if you wanted to avoid anything animated and were going to stick with 80s sitcoms, I would have expected Cheers (thank you for not nominating that one, by the way), Perfect Strangers, or Who's The Boss.

Or possibly even the end credits of WKRP In Cincinatti, which may or may not even be words. Legend has it that there are no true lyrics to the song, that the singer just sang random words or syllables as an example of how the song should probably sound, and they approved the nonsensical version as a commentary on how no one really understood rock music lyrics anyway.

No one knows if that's true, but everyone hears something different when they listen to it.



If you wanna have some fun, try finding a rerun and watching it with closed captioning. Sometimes people attempt to transcribe what they heard and you get...interesting results. Including, occasionally, people giving the exact opposite lyrics: I've seen a lot of subtitles say the singer is talking to a bartender about it being the best that he's ever had; but sometimes you can find lyrics in which the singer is leaving and didn't enjoy the drinks. Then there are the interpretations involving farting dogs and poodles with lids on their head, to say nothing of "whack-a-mole ditto, uh-huh!".

As for Night Court, I think I'm actually quite happy with this nomination. It's something I've heard a lot as I've seen most of the series, but I never actually thought about the theme before. It's pretty good, actually! And this list is rather lacking in saxophone music... but it's also quite short.

[FINAL NOTES: I'm running out of random sound-effects to make when I have nothing to add...umm..."Kuweeekeee!!"?]

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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Still don't have time to listen to that Mandela tribute

Since you're interested, I found a translation so you don't have to go look for it http://shintasword.blogspot.com/2014/06/glorious-years-beyond.html?m=1

Thank you. For the translation, the song itself, and the reminderI was busy with other things and didnt have time until right now. That was everything I wanted it to be and would have scored quite highly... leaning towards top 30, but thats just a guess off a first impression.
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Song Name: Do You See the Light (Snap Vs. Plaything 2002 Remix)
Song Origin: SNAP!
Song Link:
Nominator: MycroProcessor (8/10)



I like it, but I think it could use a second verse with some new lyrics. It feels like the song ends at 3:10 when it fades out and has no new lyrics to offer, but the song picks back up and just keeps repeating "Do You See The Light???" over and over.... only for a minute, but it somehow feels much longer than that each time I listen to it.

[FINAL NOTES: Wark.]

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Autechre - LCC

Nominator: Seginustemple (4/10)


This song comes really close to greatness, but it takes too long to get started. I don't really care about the song until 3:17, with it not hitting greatness until close to the five minute mark. I'm sure people who know what they are talking about will go on about how you need the slow build-up because blah blah blah, but I don't really care; as amazing as the last part of the song is, you're asking me to endure an entire song's worth of build-up just to reach it.

Get to the good parts sooner and this is an easy top 10 song.

[FINAL NOTES: Hard song to place anywhere due to the variance in quality. Over the course over its over seven minute runtime, it goes from being not particularly good to one of the best. Ultimately, it fails to even break into the top 50% by just taking too long to reach the parts I want to hear.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: ...Oof, I don't think I like dropping this so soon. The end is so good...]

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Song Name: Nothing is Something Worth Doing
Song Origin: Sphongle
Song Link:
Nominator: TheArkOfTurus (7/10)



Somehow, this reminds me of a more energetic version of the Battlemorph soundtrack:





I'm sure that's just me, but there's just something there that I can't put into words. It's this sort of alien-esque environmental music that's both relaxing and unsettling at the same time. In a way, I wish you had nominated "I Am You", which doesn't invite any comparisons to anything.

...Not that I'm sure I like the latter song, as 11 minutes is just too much for what it is, but it's so totally unique that "Nothing" seems rather dull in comparison. If you're going to go with a psychadelic nomination, go all the way.

[FINAL NOTES: Parts of this vaguely remind me of two songs from Mega Man 8, particularly Aqua Man & Credits. Unfortunately I listen to those two songs on such a regular basis that there's not really room for this song, even if there are no actual similarities and it's all in my head.]

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Song name - Merrymaker
Song origin - Light Bringer
Song link

Nominator: Murphiroth (9/15)

Is that a keytar at 2:53? Either way, the song makes it this far due to the instrumental section. I liked it, less enthusiastic about the singer (not that I dislike her)--a purely instrumental version would get a bit higher and the ranking would tank completely without the instrumental section.

[FINAL NOTES: Wow, I was really harsh on the singer for no apparent reason. I don't know what kind of mood I was in at the time I wrote that.]

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Song Name: Don't Wanna Lie
Song Origin: B'z
Song Link:

Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (7/15)



I do enjoy this song, though I'm having trouble deciding exactly why. It's certainly not nostalgia for Detective Conan/Case Closed--its run on Adult Swim was far too short for me to have any real memories associated with it. I recall Bonus Stage having a somewhat amusing parody of Detective Conan in one episode, but trying to explain an early 2000s webtoon that I haven't seen in over a decade to an audience that has presumably never heard of it and doesn't care, is beyond my capabilities at the moment.

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Song Name: Barbie Girl (Metal Cover)
Song Origin: Alex Terrible
Song Link:
Nominator: BlackDra90n (3/5)

The first of the two Metal Covers to drop. I actually like Barbie Girl (I like terrible things) and parodies, so this is right up my alley.... but I feel like it doesn't go far enough in distinguishing itself from the original. His death metal screaming actually isn't that much of a focus, so a lot of the song is left the same as it ever was.

[FINAL NOTES: Funny, but not significantly funnier than the original song.]

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Still don't have time to listen to that Mandela tribute, but there's always time to post two quick writeups on the way out the door:

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120:

Song Name: She's Kerosene
Song Origin: The Interrupters
Song Link:
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (7/15)


I can't tell if it's just me, but this song heavily reminds me of "Point/Counterpoint". Just, ya know, not as good. </.<

[FINAL NOTES: Nya.]

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Song Name: Beautiful Disaster
Song Origin: 311
Song Link:
Nominator: Dragon66116 (9/15)


The name always makes me think of the completely unrelated Kelly Clarkson song, since I had that on an mp3 player for a while for...some reason, I don't really know. This song is considerably better.

It's really rare for me to actually understand a song on the first listen (or ever without looking up other people's thoughts, truthfully), but this song is strangely straightforward. It doesn't waste any time establishing that it's about cutting ties with someone because they're too self-destructive to associate with, gives enough examples on why the singer feels that way, then ends quietly. There's nothing to decipher or think about; it's all right there on the surface, sung by someone with a pleasing, easy to understand voice.

...I'm still not sure if I'm counting that as a point for or against the song.

[FINAL NOTES: ...Kweh.]

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Song Name: Abandoned Hope
Song Origin: RibinaBJ
Song Link:
Nominator: azuarc (2/2)


I like chiptunes, hate cutting one this early, & it would make very nice background music while I was doing other things... but it's not something I'd go out of my way to listen to and it's not really getting stuck in my head or anything.

[FINAL NOTES: It's actually a coincidence that someone falls into the DANGER ZONE immediately after the last song, but here we are.

Anagram
DireKrow
BlackDra90n
azuarc

Will any of them fall or can they hold on until a fifth party joins them?]

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handsomeboy2012 posted...

Wikipedia is wrong on that. This one is the Mandela tribute:

Huh. Well remind me to listen to that one tomorrow then, that is a topic I'm highly interested in.

Se7enthrust posted...

Raetsel_Lapin posted...

UMC tirade

Yeah that's what it is. Out of the 1,300 songs on my list I've had to find a couple hundred new links in the last year because of these a***hats. >_>

Hey, someone knows my fury! Text-based high five!



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122:

Song Name: The Void
Song Origin: Whitechapel
Song Link:
Nominator: BlackDra90n (2/5)


I want to like this more than I actually do. I did want to hear some more metal and I enjoy the lyrics--really, I'm a sucker for anything villainous or related to watching the world burn--but I don't think the deep throated growling type of singing works with the lyrics.

Take my hand and we'll watch the world burn

You need someone more charismatic and enchanting to speak the words. Someone that, while you know you're following them on the road to hell, their words are too sweet and enticing. Who the heck would choose to go with Screamo McGee here?

[FINAL NOTES: And our third competitor drops to the DANGER ZONE with only one song remaining! Anagram, DireKrow, and BlackDra90n... who will fall first?]

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handsomeboy2012 posted...

This one is particularly sad and ironic for me. The lyrics are about freedom and dreams and whatever, but the lead singer died in an accident just a few months after the song's release.

...oof, I probably should have done a bit more research on that song. Besides tragic irony, the fact that it was (according to Wikipedia) a tribute to Nelson Mandela would have helped it dramatically. Its too late to do anything now, but I do regret this placement now.

EDIT: With added context, I think I may have bumped (Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies) up to...69th place?

MORE EDITS: ...Eh, I don't have to be objective and the bias in its favor is overwhelming, and we're dealing with hypotheticals anyway. Let's say somewhere in the top 40, maybe top 30.
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Song Name: (Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies)
Song Origin: Beyond
Song Link:

Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (8/15)


It's good, but it doesn't do enough to stand out as anything more than a good soft rock song. It feels like something that I would hear on the radio, pleasing but not very unique.

[FINAL NOTES: It's another song that I feel like I should love, but it's just not grabbing me.]

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Song Name:
Song Origin: Lo Ta-yu, Ram Chiang
Song Link:

Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (9/15)


Another song that seems to just stop in the middle of a note. As I knew absolutely nothing about Hong Kong or its history, this song was basically impossible to decipher even with a translation of the lyrics...eventually I found a guide that explained the lines of the song in addition to offering a translation, which helped quite a bit.

Though before this explanation I don't think I'd even heard that Hong Kong was once a British colony, so there's only so much history an explanation of a pop song can cram into one page. Still, I am grateful for it.

[FINAL NOTES: Sploink.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: If anyone wanted the previously referenced translation guide for this song:

https://sites.google.com/site/cmhubertchen/html/queens_road_east

I really wouldn't have gotten anywhere on this song without it.]

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Song Name: Little Girl Blue and The Battle Envy
Song Origin: Skating Polly
Song Link:
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (8/15)


Emma Wilson posted:

"It's like Hermione Granger and Cyndi Lauper had a child, who then ate mushrooms and screamed at the rocks on the beach for an hour."

Well nothing I can say is going to top that, so I guess we're done here.

[FINAL NOTES: ...Still don't have a better response than that, no.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I'm aware that this is a good song and deserves an actual write-up, but nothing immediately comes to mind.

...also I wasn't trying to be funny by having this short write-up follow the excessively long one for a 5 second song, but here we are.]

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Song: Gamecube Startup Logo
Origin: Nintendo Gamecube
Link:

Nominator: Se7enthrust (4/10)


I never really cared about the Gamecube, so there's no nostalgia here. That probably helps its ranking, since if I did have a lot of nostalgia for it, it might have dropped back at the "block of songs I already liked" part of the list.

While it's only five seconds long, it's absolutely perfect for what it is. I can think of no better jingle to accompany the little startup animation, it's catchy, and it's unlike anything else on the list. That's enough to carry it further than I expected when I first saw the nomination.

And now to ramble about a different system startup, just because I want to:



It would have lost points for being something I already loved, but I was obsessed with the Sega CD BIOS when the system was new:





No idea why, but that song alone was enough to sell me on the system. I had to have a Sega CD, just so I could listen to this song. That was really stupid as the system had very few things worth playing, but I still enjoy the music. Someone actually converted the startup screen to a MUGEN stage and I still use it on a regular basis just for the song... though after over two decades of loving it, I'm not nearly as into it as I once was.

Not related to anything, but since I'm talking about Sega CDs, let's look at some hidden tracks that you could find by trying to play the games like music CDs. First, a message that scared me so much that I had trouble sleeping for days:



Of course, back then I had no idea what backmasking was, much less a way to reverse it to hear the hidden message. All I knew was that if you pushed the wrong buttons when turning that game on, someone would receive a call from hell as monstrous demons chant ominously. EVIL GAME! EVIL!!!!


And second, Sega's standard warning message, which is ridiculously awesome:




That distorted electric guitar... ohh, you have no idea how I wish this led into an entire song or even an entire album. Truthfully, I'm not sure what would have happened if you tried nominating Sega CD Warning--it's incredibly nostalgic and has A+++ instrumentation, but is incredibly short and not really a song, so I think I would have imploded.

...Perhaps we should be thankful you didn't nominate it then.

[FINAL NOTES: I think that covered everything I wanted to cover.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Between the arguments for this song coming in last place and getting a very high placement, I think I may have inadvertantly placed this song in a spot that pleases no one. </.<]

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Song Name: A Jagged Gorgeous Winter
Song Origin: The Main Drag
Song Link:
Nominator: mcflubbin (11/15)

1: The short, rapid drumming reminds me of a gun firing a three-shot burst. It feels wasted on this song; I keep waiting for it to turn incredibly dark and violent, but no one ever gets shot. It's...oddly stressful, even though I know it shouldn't be and that's just my own fault.

2: You really should have nominated the music video version of this song, which would have jumped the song into the top 30 at least.



A: Having a goofy, fun video helps take the edge off the drumming. Like, if they're cosplaying as Calvin and Hobbes without any guns around, it eases my mind enough to actually focus on the song.

B: I am the bad type of furry. Do you know how jealous I am that he both has a tiger outfit and is confident enough to pull it off?!

C: The additional guitar playing improves the song quite a bit over the album version. The album one feels like an unfinished demo in comparison ; not that some demos aren't better than the final product (the demo version of "Doctor My Eyes" would never have seen the success of the studio release, but I think it may be better), but...uhh...this one isn't?

...man forget top 30, listening to the video version again, it's definitely in the top 20. Unfortunately that's not the version I'm supposed to be ranking, so here we are.

[FINAL NOTES: I was so tempted to disqualify this version of the song and just replace it with the good one myself, but that would be cheating. This joins the Jeopardy Theme as being the wrong version of an otherwise high scoring song.]

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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown

Also, my apologies for not properly thanking Seginus and Mycro earlier, I overslept and barely had time to post anything before running out the door.



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128:

Song: The Song That Doesn't End
Origin: Lambchop's Playalong
Link:

Nominator: Se7enthrust (5/10)


Well, this brought back memories, but that's as specific as I'm willing to get.

[FINAL-ER NOTES: It's interesting that I associate this show with a very specific time and place. There were a lot of games and shows I played and watched around that time (Final Fantasy Adventure, Tiny Toon Adventures (NES), Battletoads, Dr. Wily's Revenge ; the Carmen Sandiego game show), but none trigger the flood of memories like this.

It's likely because I haven't seen this show since then. The games I've played at least a few times over the years (I never got anywhere in Dr. Wily's Revenge until around '07), I knew Carmen Sandiego from the Master System game before the show, so those aren't as associated with any one specific moment.

...of course, like that first song about suicide, the memories this stirs are not good ones; but... well, there is some value in music capable of triggering such strong flashbacks, even if they are things I don't wish to remember.]

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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown

Huh. That does sound really neat!

Two more short ones this morning:



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130:

Song Name: Watching
Song Origin: Summer Was Fun (feat. Colordrive)
Song Link:
Nominator: MC_XD / DireKrow (2/3)

I wish this was an instrumental. I love the music, but the singer & the lyrics drag it way down for me. It would likely be an easy Top 30 if we removed him.

Cats staring out the window, taking over the town
Hovering like vultures with frantic wings

That mixed metaphor bothers me. People that are like cats that are like vultures?

...if I believed for half a second that he meant literal cats taking over the town, this song would probably jump into the top 30. Bonus points if said cats were cosplaying as Marvel's Vulture at the time.

[FINAL NOTES: And now the other entrant with only three songs enters the Danger Zone with only one song remaining.]

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129:

Song Name:
Song Origin: Dir en grey
Song Link:
Nominator: kateee (8/13)


This is so far removed from the other nominated song by this band that I can barely believe they're from the same group. This certainly isn't a happy song, but... well in comparison to that other song...

[FINAL NOTES: The singer's voice gets a bit too high-pitched for my tastes in a few places. It knocks the song down several pegs.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Everything about this song--from the intensity of the lyrics to the way they are sung--is heavily toned down from Ningen wo Kaburu. I didn't even notice it was the same band on my first trip through the nominations.]
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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown

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131:

Song Name: Dynamite RavEMIYA
Song Origin: Mashup/Rave.DJ transferred to Youtube >_>'
Song Link:
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (13/15)


One of the only two mashups on the list, though both songs are so radically different that they can scarecly be considered the same genre. I wasn't a fan of this at first, but it's definitely been moving further up my rankings with each listen. If I had any nostalgia for DDR or knew much about Fate/Stay Night (my only knowledge of the latter comes from lurking in Mercs and Strongest Character Tournament topics), it may have risen even further.

[FINAL NOTES: I originally had this pegged near the bottom of the list (possibly bottom 20?), but after liking it more with each listen, it made a pretty big jump up the list. It's probably the second most improved song--the song with the largest gap between initial placement and final ranking still hasn't come up.]

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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown

MycroProcessor posted...

(insert needlessly dense writeup from me here, something about quartals and liking crunchy maj 2nd harmonies and also mallet percussion instruments like xylophone are my favorite instruments that are not a synth especially if they are doing angular quartal runs like that and then cue me saying that all over and over in 50 different ways)

I'm always interested in your writeups, though I have no knowledge of musical terms so I rarely understand much. Like I don't think I've heard angular used to describe music before and I don't think I've ever heard the word quartal, in any context.

...not that I'm asking for a lesson, it's just always incredibly fascinating to run into a topic I can't even begin to grasp the language of.



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132:

Song Name: Fault Line
Song Origin: Michelle Branch
Song Link:
Nominator: Dragon66116 (10/15)


"Due to a publisher block, we are not authorized to display these lyrics."

It's cute that UMC thinks they can keep the lyrics off the internet, considering how many other sites you can find these lyrics at. And it's not like this is the first time I've run into similar messages, as different sites are blocked from different songs. It's just such completely irrelevant garbage; exactly what the heck does UMC hope to accomplish? I had to look at two websites to make sure I correctly understood the lyrics, that sure helped them make money! </sarcasm>

...that's not even an inconvenience. I always try to check two websites anyway, due to the problem of frequently misquoted lyrics and to see if anyone's providing information I should know in the comments sections. It accomplished nothing other than mild annoyance.

This isn't just greedy, but incompetent. Captain Planet villains would laugh at this. Verminous Skumm's plan to spread misinformation about HIV & AIDS to ruin a basketball playing Neil Patrick Harris' life may have been pointlessly evil, but you can kinda spin it into making sense... like if NPH life got so miserable that he ran away from home, perhaps he would have to live in the sewer with the mutant rats or something. Or maybe Skumm's trying to prove that he should be in charge of the Hate ring to summon Captain Pollution, by doing his best to embody the concept of Hate itself unlike that smug Dr. Blight. Or maybe the rat just really, really hates Neil Patrick Harris.

Either way, even Skumm would take one look at Universal Music Group North America's plan to censor one page of one website and laugh in their faces.

...

Yes, I did just connect a song about dysfunctional relationships to the Captain Planet AIDS episode. Just one of the many exciting things that may happen when you ask a deranged rabbit to comment on your song choices!

[FINAL NOTES: If it matters, that whole UMC tirade had no impact on the song's placement.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I planned on saying that I regretted having this song so low, but looking at what's coming up, I... don't know that I'd take this over any of the songs dropping tomorrow, so this may actually be exactly where I want it to be.]

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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown