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PIayer_0 posted...

oh ya go my zombie girls

I hope the omission of Made in Abyss here was due to list spoilers...

the omission was due to honestly I just forgot

but WE SHALL SEE where it ranks

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NFUN posted...

this is a bad joke because you could make it essentially anywhere in the rankings and have it make equal sense

underrated clever post

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And without further ado, here are the Top 40 ranked songs, in alphabetical order by nominator! I'm just posting the titles, since I don't wanna break the page with an ocean of links that I'll just be posting myself again later (check the OP). Congratulations to everyone who has made it this far!

azuarc:
Enigma - Silence Must Be Heard
Nightwish - Last of the Wilds
Wolfmother - Where Eagles Have Been

Bane_Of_Despair:
Two Steps From Hell - Blackheart

DireKrow:
Makai Toshi Niigata - Ukiyo-e Yokochou
Kobaryo - The Lightning Sword

GameBopAdv:
Chaotrope - Jagged Journey

handsomeboy2012:
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Haste_2:
The Ninja Warriors - Daddy Mulk

Janus5k:
Galneryus - Raise My Sword
Gloryhammer - Rise of the Chaos Wizards
Pathfinder - When the Sunrise Breaks the Darkness
Symphony X - Inferno (Unleash the Fire)

NBIceman:
Blue yster Cult - Astronomy
Diablo Swing Orchestra - A Tap Dancer's Dilemma

NFUN:
Thousand Memories - Ten Saints
Zyon - Altersist

paulg235:
Kazsin - Hadou (Long Prologue Ver.)

PIayer_0:
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Lost Odyssey - Howl of the Departed/Roar of the Departed Souls
Made in Abyss - Tomorrow
Ronald McDonald - U.N. Owen Was Her?
Zombieland Saga - Atsuku Nare

Place:
Perfect Blue - Uchida's Theme

Prody Parrot:
2gou. - BV-Hurricane (smyk Remix)
Chroma - Dark Sheep

pyresword:
Noragami - Noratan

rwlh:
Annie Gosfield - The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory (Part Two)
Charles Mingus - Moanin
Deltron 3030 - Mastermind

Snake5555555555:
Theatres Des Vampires - Figlio della Luna

SuperbVEVO:
Camel - Lost and Found
Crusader: No Regret - The Traveler (Remix)

TheArkOfTurus:
Caligula's Horse - Marigold
Thank You Scientist - Life of Vermin

Toxtricity:
Cryptovolans - parralelogram
Yuzo Koshiro - 4operators

UF8:
Danmaku Shimai ~La soeur de barrage~ - Rolling Rose
RAY-KUDRYAVKA musiX - Last Resort

xarlable:
Project Cerebus - L L ~ Infinite Beating ver ~

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#41 Phantasy Star Online 2 - Seashore Probe ~ Wopai (Battle)
Rating: 7.4/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Place (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoq33Ou8oZQ

oh wow two Yuzo Koshiro songs in a row, this was completely by accident

Lame jokes aside, this sounds like a song that was originally going to be used for a very long track in an arcade racing game, but somewhere down the line that idea got scrapped and they didn't want to waste a perfectly good song so they just slapped it in here instead. Contrasting with Bitbop, for as long as this song is, it feels like I've already gotten the main gist of this within two minutes, and the rest is just extras. Still, definitely a fan of this style.

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#43 Blade Ballet - Bitbop
Rating: 7.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No (not before nominations)
Nominator: @GameBopAdv (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDLaXLrV5Zg

Hey, I can finally talk about this song now! (Even though VGMC is already long over!!) This has a bunch of techno instruments/drums/breaks and all this stuff to make me think this is TECHNO but it's actually just a cleverly disguised jazz jam! This song is very representative in the recent shift in taste on B8 these last couple years. More so that it's probably my favorite example anyways. This is another one of those very short songs that feels a lot longer with all the stuff going on in it. Lots of really "proggy" sections but it never dwells too long on them, was glad to see this in VGMC!

#42 TimmyTurnersGrandDad - Labyrinth V - The Fallen Capital of Shinjuku - Etrian Odyssey
Rating: 7.3/10
Have I heard this before?: ????
Nominator: @banshiryuu (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-_ZToncfA

Oh hey, it's TimmyTurnersGrandDad, a bait and switch mashup VGM artist just like SiIvaGunner. Okay so I know I've heard this somewhere before and it's killing me that I can't put a finger on where (no I'm not gonna cheat and look at the YT comments). Ah I give up, I don't get the joke. Anyways EO music is good (good enough to place #1 in my last topic!) even if it's "fake" remixed EO music, and this one is done well enough to where it sounds like it actually came from the game.

woop another elimination before the top 40

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#45 Platina Jazz - Sobakasu
Rating: 7.3/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes, but not this version
Nominator: @Raka_Putra (1/5)

Rurouni Kenshin (or Samurai X as it is known outside of Japan and the US) is one of those anime shows that played on Toonami back when I was a kid, and while I saw bits and pieces of the show and really enjoyed it, I never actually sat and watched it all the way through. And given that the manga author has turned out to not be such an outstanding citizen, it's kinda soured my motivation to do so. The theme song was always a hit, and I'm glad to see it got a full on jazz ensemble playing it! I feel you could play just about anything as jazz and it'll work! Not much else to say other than I really like this classic style of jazz.

#44 ARMS - VS Hedlok (Grand Prix)
Rating: 7.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @paulg235 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhWlFEx3ETQ

ARMS is a new Nintendo IP that I know basically nothing about, so it's nice to see some of its music introduced for my ranking. I actually don't even know if this specific song is in SSBU with the Min-Min DLC, I should really check. Anyways pretty standard rock intro, but its high ranking is based on (and I know this is a dumb reason) that really cool guitar solo that reminds me of some very specific Korean MMO songs that I'd nominate from time-to-time in VGMC, watch it not get any traction, then promptly forget they ever existed. Kinda short, but it at least has one really good thing going for it.

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#47 Rotteen - Ignorant to the Void
Rating: 7.2/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @DireKrow (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slze868xkPI

Hi Dire for real this time! Suggestive furry art aside, this is actually a good song! Seven and a half minutes long, and this takes advantage of all the time it has, mixing in a bunch of different electronic music styles. I LOVE the dark psytrance intro and the high speed uplifting melodic trance in the middle that makes up the bulk of the song (Umineko soundtrack -> Sora soundtrack basically lol, two of my favorite game OSTs). I feel the quality kinda tapers off in the last two minutes where it sounds like hard electro Owl City (not a dig against Owl City btw), but as a whole this is very good.

#46 Mitose Noriko - Party of Seven Witches
Rating: 7.2/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @NFUN (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOt4zCnGFsE

FUN FACT this song is actually VGMC-legal! So Noriko Mitose is one of my favorite vocalists EVER, in fact two of my three favorite VGMC champions were sung by her and one of my own perennial VGMC nominations is also by her. It's no small feat to have been responsible for three of my 10/10 VGM songs! (I love Noriko Mitose!!!) The Party of Seven Witches sadly doesn't have that epic WORLD IS ENDING chanting that those others have, but this still kicks ass and has a really catchy and danceable beat. Sounds more like something from a big cinematic anime (why am I thinking of Madoka again) rather than the VN it's from that I've never heard of outside of the context of this song. But yeah, it's cool, good song!

I think I could've probably gotten away with ranking these two a little higher looking back

why is NFUN blocked from the message boards

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paulg235 posted...

What is even still alive?

I missed the last milestone, but I'll do a Top 40 list when I get to that part of the ranking. It's been the better part of a year (whoops) since this started, so I imagine a good chunk of the people here even forgot what they nominated.

Also, I feel it prudent to mention at this point that there's someone who nominated for this project who still has all five of their songs in!

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superb you jinxed it

#49 Ian Anderson - Pigeon Flying over Berlin Zoo
Rating: 7.1/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @SuperbVEVO (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZnH4rWxFOg

What I really like about this one is how different it sounds from anything else I've heard. It kinda sounds like progressive "soft" rock if that's a thing (oh no is this the PROG ROCK BLOCK??). There's a lot of cool variety in all of the instruments used here. But yeah, the rating being the same as the last few songs doesn't really reflect this, but I feel like this is another point where the songs take a real upward spike in quality!! also BIRD SONG (hi Dire)

#48 Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings - Decretum
Rating: 7.2/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @NowItsAngeTime (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDjPE9mkIo

Whenever I think to myself "huh what anime has the best soundtrack ever?" my mind instantly jumps to Madoka Magica (and also Clannad). Sayaka's theme is one of those songs where I'm always hearing something else somewhere else that sounds a lot like it (hi anime medieval tavern music), then I am reminded of it, so from its soundtrack it has always in particular stuck out for that dumb little reason. Anyways, movie version of this is more somber and has dramatic vocals fitting for the big screen. I think I like the original more, but this is going for a different feeling altogether so I like it too!

and we have our first elimination in the top 50


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#50 Vision Soft Reset - Dual Rewind
Rating: 7.1/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @GameBopAdv (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6JRuhqlGQ

Abrasive FM synth is something I've taken a liking to within the last few years and the intro here is giving me vibes of Xeno Crisis - Boss that got nominated for my last ranking topic and placed in the top 10! Both of these manage to pack in a bunch of ideas within their short durations. The brief part at 00:16 reminds me of Super Meat Boy/Binding of Isaac music with its synth lead. Overall pretty cool.

Oh, and with that we are in the TOP 50

Thoughts? Predictions? complaints about how slow this is going? >_>

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#51 Children of Nova - The Complexity of Light
Rating: 7.1/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @NBIceman (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJB2jqToa2E

Cool album cover! Interesting uhh whatever genre this is (prog rock with a '70s psychedelic rock feel to it, but also modern rock influences). Some parts I feel that this goes a bit too heavy on the echo effect, but there are also a lot of really good parts and they keep mixing it up keeping the song fresh. I enjoy the calmer parts of this song the most!

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Haste_2 posted...

That film was probably the first USA cartoon in existence to have a good soundtrack (1986)... the time window for good music for such movies was short.

Are we not counting the classic Disney films?

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#52 An American Tail - Main Title
Rating: 7.1/10
Have I heard this before?: No (?)
Nominator: @Haste_2 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZZUmIj70_Y

This movie seems very familiar, and it's probably one that I've seen as a very young child and just don't remember anything from. There's something really pretty about late 20th century animated film soundtracks that I feel has gotten lost with the newer films (it's more "pop" sounding). Much the same could be said about this one as the other orchestral/movie soundtracks, but the instrumentation is really nice (at the beginning I felt this was going to be another "gondolier song" ;>_>)

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#53 Hamilton - Satisfied
Rating: 7.1/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @TheArkOfTurus (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3774VI3cT5M

More music from a musical I haven't seen, and without any context as to what's going on! (It's about being unfaithful in a relationship??) I'm giving this one a good placement because I love how dynamic it is with mixing up the singing and vocal styles. From a purely musical standpoint, this is really catchy!

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#54 ARIA the Animation - Tenki Ame
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @NowItsAngeTime (2/5)
Link: https://soundcloud.com/s34w33d09/aria-the-animation-ost-track

I haven't seen the Aria anime and actually don't know anything at all about it. It looks pretty chill though, and this song certainly is! It starts out like most sappy anime music, but then the stringed instrument comes in and now it sounds like gondola music (I feel like I'm in the waiting lobby at the local Olive Garden ;>_>). But hey, it's a nice song.

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#55 Gustav Holst - Uranus from The Planets
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Haste_2 (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDFGmiXnLjU

Funny thing is, I was actually not familiar with this piece before it was nominated. I've heard Mars and Jupiter (who hasn't), but not Uranus. Which is to say, I'd rank either of those a little bit higher than this, but this is a fun little classical piece, and I'm always up for one of those. I should probably look more into what other stuff this composer has written!

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#56 Gram VS HiTECH NINJA - Sa Maichi
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @banshiryuu (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrLp6tI4JsI

More FAST ELECTRONIC music from Deo! (As expected of Deo!) This one has a lot of neat stuff going on in the background too. Parts of this song of particular note are the intro (only now noticed that that little part 25 seconds in is giving me Dariusburst - The world of spirit vibes), and the fast melodic part around 4 minutes in. There's a lot of stuff under the surface and it's not just "fast beats".

Anyways, with VGMC coming to a close, hopefully I'll be able to pick up the pace! probably not though, been busy playing trails no kiseki

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#57 xclassicalcatx (Spirited Away) - One Summer's Day
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes, but not this cover
Nominator: @pyresword (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPYfdCQA_yE

If there's one thing to be said about Studio Ghibli films, it's that they all have stellar soundtracks. Spirited Away is the first Miyazaki work I've seen, and still one of my favorites. Very nice violin cover of this beautiful song. If I had to nitpick at anything, it's that this is a cover and doesn't have the studio quality mixing of the original, but the playing here is on point.

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#58 DV-i - Dream Navigator
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @cakophon (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsgdS06LT0

More DV-i space synth music! Hearing this sort of synth reminds me of all those GameCube soundtracks I love (specifically Super Monkey Ball 2 - Space Colony). Huzzah for nostalgia points on a song I never heard before! Gotta throw in that cheesy computerized woman's voice in at 37 seconds to really drive it home lol. Also enjoying that synthy piano towards the end. Man, I miss this sort of stuff ;_;

and there we have it, two back-to-back eliminations

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#59 Nas - The Message
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Dragon66116 (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh9TIYXKSFk

As previously stated, rap isn't really my favorite genre, but I've been pleasantly surprised by what's been nominated for this topic (and hey, there's still one more!!). I can definitely say I have a preference for the '90s stuff. I don't have too much more to say about this, but I like the lyrical flow.

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whoops, meant to say "No" for whether I've heard the last song, not just post the URL twice

#60 Toehider - This Conversation is Over
Rating: 7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @TheArkOfTurus (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSc3FOoecuM

This video is sending me mixed signals, there's this prog rock song but the music video looks like it belong to some sort of hipster indie rock band. The vocals here have a bit too much of a Pop Rock feel to them, but the instruments here are really on point. When it gets going, the song is really good though so I feel a good 7/10 is fair. Also, apparently these guys are in some way connected to Ayreon, and they're one of my favorite bands as of late!

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#62 TesseracT - Nocturne (Cover by Metal_Viking _1991_)
Rating: 6.9/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Toxtricity (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcsHwu3yXps

What we have here is a Sega Genesis FM synth cover of a prog metal song. I hadn't heard either of these before, so I went ahead and listened to the original too just in case. Comparing the two, I'd probably rank the original one a little higher, but this cover manages to be original and capture a completely different vibe here. It's very well made, you can tell whoever made this put in a lot of effort and didn't just plug in some MIDI they found online into their software and slapped on a soundfont. Sonic isn't really the first thing that comes to mind when I listen to this, but it does have that Genesis feel.

#61 NieR: Automata Unreleased and Arranged Tracks - Pascal
Rating: 6.9/10
Have I heard this before?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DifFysrKoDU
Nominator: @Place (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DifFysrKoDU

Ah yes, another one of those songs made by just slapping a whole bunch of different sound effects together until it forms something coherent. When it actually ends up working out (like here), you get something really unique and cool, and I'd probably take this over a lot of similar stuff I've seen in VGMC recently. I still haven't really listened to the NieR Automata soundtrack in its entirety, so there's always new neat little pieces I keep discovering.

everything after this point is at least a 7/10

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#63 Suikoden 3 - Exceeding Love
Rating: 6.9/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @Raka_Putra (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijYRD_KsQE

I only very vaguely remember this song from a VGMC many years ago. It's strange that this hasn't been in more contests, since it isn't a bad song, and definitely has those world music vibes that B8 seems to really love. I have a thing for this sort of chanting, and the instrumental aspect of it is pretty chill. The video is one of those classic anime openings they would throw into JRPGs in the late-'90s/early-'00s, and actually fully animated and not just a slideshow. I do find it funny that this is labeled High Quality, even though it's in 240p and looks like a 2006 YouTube video.

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#65 He Is Legend - Burn All Your Rock Records
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Bane_Of_Despair (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcYhrZvddw

Woah, sick opening riff. Some hard rock here, with a sprinkle of hardcore punk mixed in, overall this reminds me of a lot of the stuff found in the Guitar Hero 2 soundtrack (my favorite game in the series). Lots of cool stuff in here, with a few parts that feel like they drag on for a bit, but overall this is energetic and fun.

#64 System of a Down - Sad Statue
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @pyresword (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IH1JFoiGqU

SOAD is the one nu metal group that I've always actually kinda liked. I haven't listened to this one before it was nominated, but it's above-average as far as their stuff goes. Another song with cool guitar riffs. (Lots of talk in the comments of PS2 games? Definitely sounds like music of that time period lol)

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#66 Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @Dragon66116 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4qdefD2To

Okay, lemme start off by saying that my whole life I thought this song was by Matchbox Twenty (or Third Eye Blind, I always get them all mixed up). This kind of music defined the sound of the late '90s, and my enjoyment of this basically just stems from nostalgia of a better time. It's one of those songs that you hear every day on the radio and you don't really like it that much until 10 years later, when all of a sudden you look back on it thinking huh this was pretty good.

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#67 recognize m. - A BEAUTIFUL SKY
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @UF8 (3/5)
Link: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm8151766

This one isn't too flowery or overly complicated, but I find it enjoyable anyways because it is melodic and upbeat. This song is strongly reminiscent of the Suguri soundtrack. It's kinda long though, would work well as background music. I guess the word that best overall describes this is charming.

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#68 -
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @handsomeboy2012 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vms3Eokz0

A 6.8 at number 68, wow this was totally not planned! We have another one of handsomeboy2012's Chinese '80s rock songs, which honestly I've been enjoying. My favorite thing about this is the music video where it's just two guys dressed in black walking around the city trying to look cool LOL. Anyways the tune is fun and catchy, and more loveable '80s cheese.

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#69 Eric Whitacre - October
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Haste_2 (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EoUAbODO34

This reminds me very strongly of sad war music, or more specifically, the theme song to Saving Private Ryan or the first Medal of Honor game. This is certainly movie soundtrack music, even though I don't even know if this is from a movie! Very somber, with the primary focus being on the tone. Maybe a bit long, but this wouldn't get in the way of whichever movie (which may or may not actually exist) is playing this in the background. Also, there's lots of peoples' sad high school band stories in the YouTube comments.

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#70 Darius the Omnibus -Generation- - Boss 7
Rating: 6.8/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes, but not this version
Nominator: @UF8 (4/5)
Link: https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/darius-the-omnibus-sedai/09%2520Boss7%2520%255BDARIUS%255D.mp3

Starting off the upper half, we have a remix of Boss 7 from Darius. This is a pretty different take on the tune I am familiar with, and while I like it, it feels like it's missing a lot of the oomph from the original. The original (or remix from G-Darius) is easily in the 9s ranking and would probably place top 15 in this list. Still, it makes up for a lot of what it lost with overall general weirdness you'd expect from Zuntata, so it's still good enough to place in the top 70!

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PIayer_0 posted...

In that case, shame on Gavs for associating death metal with power metal which I definitely did not also do when the topic started also wow did not expect a prototypical power metal song to drop that early

For what it's worth, there's a lot of overlap between metal subgenres (less so between something like death and power, but it's still there from time to time).

Also there was that power metal cover of the Titanic theme earlier >_>

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PIayer_0 posted...

Funny how this aged, it's the only one of his songs still left!

It already showed up, rank 75

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#71 The Dear Hunter - The Old Haunt
Rating: 6.7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @NBIceman (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qI_LBCofHM

There are some interesting things going on in this song. We have the pop-style choir vocals in the background, while being built upon a very prog rock base. The guitar at some points even reminds me of surf rock oddly enough. This syncretic approach is the most notable thing about the song, but it works well at some points but not as much at others. With that being said, I have a lot of respect for this song's overall approach to what it was going for, definitely fun!

We have now reached the HALFWAY POINT!! Congratulations to everyone who has made it this far! Thoughts/observations/predictions going forward?

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#73 Dance with the Dead - Riot
Rating: 6.7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @DireKrow (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_5unoZTpoQ

Ooh, heavy metal drum intro leading into dark techno. I'm getting vibes of that Furi - You're Mine song that was in VGMC a few years ago. This is another Man, I feel guilty for not having this ranked higher songs because I feel like this should be in the top half. The electronic loops are pretty cool, but I feel like it had more potential that it didn't really end up running with, and this could've placed into the mid-7s if it did. Nonetheless, I like the heavy electronic instrumentation!

#72 Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler - END TITLE
Rating: 6.7/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot (3/4)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpCzcSLx5wo

I'm guessing this is from a live action movie based off of the anime/manga Kaiji? Never seen that one, but I hear it's good. I have a thing for this sort of movie music lol, alternating between its powerful cinema chords and tense sections. This is better than a lot of stuff that comes out of Hollywood these days.

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#74 Yakuza 0 - Firelight
Rating: 6.6/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @NFUN (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7u0_Wphs0g

From what I've heard from the Yakuza series, the soundtrack has this very self-consistent style of electro mixed with rock, sort of similar to a lot of stuff in the Ace Combat series. Most of its music would be ranked somewhere in this range (with a few great standout tracks, like Bodhisattva Kill). This is pretty a'ight, neat sound design with the background instruments.

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#75 Sabaton - The Last Stand
Rating: 6.6/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @GavsEvans123 (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9BupglHdtM

You're going to be seeing a lot of Yeses for Have I heard this before when I get to all the rest of the Power Metal nominations. It's like, the one non-VGM genre I have a pretty extensive knowledge of lol. I bring this up because my roommate whose musical tastes change every week recently discovered this genre and has been playing Sabaton non-stop, and while they're good, I can only listen to their songs so many times before it starts getting old, especially taking into consideration groups with very self-consistent styles. That being said, I love history-themed music, or really anything that tells a story. Gotta have my lore.

This brings us to our third ELIMINATION!! So many right before 70 lol (thank you for playing!!)

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#76 Seajeff - Preschtale, Pt. 6
Rating: 6.6/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Toxtricity (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK8xiZEJUP0

Man, just imagine, this is how Doom 32X could have sounded. Doom and Xeno Crisis are the biggest vibes I'm getting from this, lots of cool FM synth going on here. The lead synth kinda rubs me the wrong way, I dunno maybe it's not harsh enough, but the rest of the background instruments all sound really great. It also falls into the prog rock trap of overstaying its welcome in overly technical sections that could benefit from being half the length. Still this is really good.

I kinda feel like I've already passed the halfway mark even though I've yet to hit Rank 70. 6.5 and up is all stuff I like (using 5/10 for average ofc), and I'm getting to the point where I feel like I should've ranked some of these higher (notably this one and the previous), but then I look at the rest of the list and realize they're quite good too. Very competitive tier around this point.


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Vaporwave is one of those things that I don't think I'll ever understand.

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#77 Celldweller - Lost in Time
Rating: 6.5/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @DireKrow (5/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr43fE59s8Q

Industrial electro-metal here, sort of like the MGRR soundtrack, except this one is better because it has laser dinosaurs. This genre as a whole continues to grow on me little-by-little, a couple years ago I wouldn't have ranked this so high. I almost want to rank this one higher just because of how crazy-awesome this music video is, but the music here is good too. Cheesiness is generally a positive factor in my evaluation of things.

Also, I wanted to add that in the related videos, this has an Anti Nightcore remix. Since when was that a thing?

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We're into the 6.5s now, stuff I can safely say I like.

#79 Chino - Espresso Shots
Rating: 6.5/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @banshiryuu (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n1iyxB-hu4

Oh hey the thumbnail is Chino from GochiUsa, that was a good show. The title is Espresso Shots and here I am drinking my coffee in the morning (it's after noon but my day off so it's morning) so this is fitting I guess. Short and simple techno beat here that's fast and fun, pretty standard EDM thing going on here, but it's not bad, not much else to say here.

#78 Leonard Cohen - It Seemed the Better Way
Rating: 6.5/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Fluttershy_Pony (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyMrjGX2vk

I've never heard this before prior to it being nominated, but this does very strongly remind me of Johnny Cash, both in the singing style and in the melancholy lyrical content. More specifically, the last road trip I had was 8 hours long and we spent the entire drive listening to the Johnny Cash discography while looking at the countryside; anyways this song gives off that same vibe. Very somber and powerful.

And already we have another elimination! Thank you for playing.

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#80 Shrek 2 - Holding Out for a Hero (Remix)
Rating: 6.4/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @Anagram (1/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EasWdq7Njgo

Shrek and Shrek 2 were such good movies, it's a shame they never did anything else with the franchise. Anyways, this is catchy even without the context of a good movie. Apparently this is a remix, but I've never listened to the original, so I only know this from Shrek 2 >_>. I have a thing for cheesy '80s dance music, and it fit in with the goofiness of the movie pretty well (though I shouldn't be ranking on context <_<), but yeah this isn't bad.

Being just ten songs short of the halfway mark, we now have our first ELIMINATION!!
Thank you for playing, Anagram! In the end, going all in on movie/TV nominations didn't pay off in terms of scoring, but it wasn't necessarily a bad idea since I basically live under a rock and these were new to me anyways. One day I will watch Lord of the Rings maybe

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#81 pop'n music -
Rating: 6.4/10
Have I heard this before?: No (as of the time it was nominated for my topic)
Nominator: @NFUN (5/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nkSUn1aU34

Oh hello VGMC song that broke azuarc's nomination script. Here we have another high-tempo two-minute long rhythm game song, but this one stands out with its cool vocal thing going on. Might've ranked this one too low (will probably be voting for it when it gets to its match fwiw), it's pretty nice; just short. Cool usage of the Japanese-style instruments here. I'd probably see this getting closer to a 6.8 if it was longer.

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#83 sun3 FielD - Casket of Star ~ STAR OF ANDROMEDA
Rating: 6.4/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes, but not this version
Nominator: @banshiryuu (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou4Qzg1p9SQ

This is an arrangement of Casket of Star from Touhou 4, but I might not have noticed that had it not been written in the song's title. It's there, but not very prominently. I used to be really big into Touhou doujin circles and the like, but I've actually never heard of these guys before, so this is all new to me. This starts off with a groovy electro beat, then gets to the main melody 1:39 into the song. The production value could use some improvement though, and I don't really like how the electronic sounds drown out the melody at parts of this. The original or SWR version of this song would probably get at least an 8/10. Also what is up with that album art

#82 -
Rating: 6.4/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @handsomeboy2012 (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrXSaLW8Wg

With this placement begins handsomeboy2012's series of '80s Chinese rock music. As I do not know any Chinese, I will make no attempt to translate the titles (although YouTube's automatic detection has this listed as
Roman Tam - Ji Guang Zhong). Really the best part of this nomination is the cheesy music video that goes along with it. I've always liked the confident over-the-top style of this era of music and its crazy fashion sense. This is a pretty catchy and enjoyable little jingle, makes me think of a nightclub scene from a Kung Fu movie.

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#85 Bring Me the Horizon - nihilist blues (ft. Grimes)
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Bane_Of_Despair (3/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzfR7-33Wc

I never really got into '00s Nu Metal or Metalcore bands back when it was the popular genre (like I said back on the Sevendust song writeup, even Linkin Park I didn't get into until recently). So when I saw BMTH for this song, I was pleasantly surprised when listening to this. The electronic music here with the low chords gives this a dark sound to something I might not have liked as much otherwise. I'm not even entirely sure what genre I'd classify this as actually.

#84 Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll - Boss Battle
Rating: 6.4/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @GameBopAdv (4/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwwV0W5Blhs

Woah, cool intro. That alone is enough to put this decently high on the list. It jumps off and gets a bit goofy (honestly it reminds me of The Simpsons >_>), so I dunno about the mood whiplash. All in all, it works as a solid Nintendo handheld boss theme.

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#86 Frank Tichelli - Blue Shades
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Haste_2 (5/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbkR_y_QMnw

We got some really jazzy orchestral/band music here, with a bit of swing. This sort of thing is really cool, makes me feel like I'm watching an old American cartoon (or maybe just playing SimCity 3000 >_>). I'm getting some real George Gershwin vibes here. Like a lot of jazz (and prog rock/metal too for that matter), it sticks around maybe a little bit too long, getting into really technical playstyles and kinda forgetting what it was ever primarily going for in the first place, but as a whole it pulls together and is not bad.

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I thought so about DV-i but I wasn't sure, I think it was brought up before.

And okie dokie

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#88 jellyfish - ignorance is bliss
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot (4/4)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVeto3LQxg

Here's a weird little Mario song I never knew existed! If this is from the movie, I've never seen that either. If not, it totally could work in a Mario movie (or maybe even a Mario musical?). Another song scoring decently off of its novelty factor more than anything else, but it is a fun tune. (Reading the YouTube comments, this is in some way official??)

#87 DV-i - Emotion Engine
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @MycroProcessor (5/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYNduuO8Mo

(psst hey, if you're reading this would you rather I ping you on your new account?)

Whenever I listen to these DV-i tracks I think of the Aurora Memoria soundtrack, are they by the same composer? It has that same very distinct vibe. Like the others, it has that very spacey computery sound to it, complete with the sound of someone even typing on a keyboard in the background at the beginning. I've always found it cool just how many different sounds this composer likes to make use of. My favorite part is that little melodic section starting around 2:30 in, and the way it fades out in the outro.

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#90 Brand New - 451
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Snake5555555555 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc2B-PS5k8

This sounds like it could be the opening theme to a cult classic Netflix original mini-series, loved by many but seen by few. We've got Rock 'n Roll with a heavy Blues influence here. I've never actually cared much for Blues, but a lot of that is in its tendency to have poor production value, but this avoids that problem and actually manages to stand up pretty well. This manages to be pretty good despite not being a genre I typically listen to very often.

#89 Clamavi De Profundis - When the Hammer Falls
Rating: 6.3/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @Anagram (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm96Cqu4Ils

Everything I've said about the previous Clamavi De Profundis song also applies to this one, and I feel about the same. I like the energy in this one a bit more, and the whole aspect of it being battle music is neat. Again though, I can see this being better knowing the LotR context and whatnot.

Two more onto the chopping block! Who will be our first ELIMINATION?? who knows....

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#92 Pokmon 2000 - Lugia's Song
Rating: 6.2/10
Have I heard this before?: Yes
Nominator: @GavsEvans123 (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpXrDuLqE0

Another Pokmon song! Of all the early Pokmon movies, this one I've always felt was sort of a disappointment, never really living up to the hype. A year back or so, I started rewatching the Pokmon movies in order with my two roommates, and unfortunately it turns out I liked this movie even less than I had previously thought. Anyways, the song itself works for the movie, but it doesn't feel as impactful as a lot of other music from the Pokmon anime, nor as enjoyable as the super-cheesy soundtrack from The First Movie. But, it's still pretty nice, and I feel it fits for Lugia (who has always been one of my favorite legendaries).

#91 R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 - Pearl Blue Soul
Rating: 6.2/10
Have I heard this before?: No
Nominator: @cakophon (2/5)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7qFf6jF5WQ

I've seen a lot of Ridge Racer music been thrown around B8 and the B8 VGM Discord channel as of late. In general, it's all pretty decent, and I feel the same about this one. This track is a bit repetitive, but makes up for it with all the cool sounds being sampled. In particular, I quite like the jazzy flute that shows up from time to time.

And with that, that puts two of our nominators in the DANGER ZONE

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