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Suntory Nomu (song in post #35): 7; better vocal performance and I like the backing music.

Aoi (post #36): 6-ish; I like Alice more, but that's admittedly just because I find her cuter.

Fukuyamaster (#36): ...I really want to give it a 7. I know it's ridiculous and probably wouldn't hold up on repeat listens, but he always makes me smile.
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Ace Combat X - Credits Roll - 5.2

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Weapons Factory - 2

Cadence of Hyrule - Wizzroboe - 2

Backlog:

Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles - Sorrow - 1.8

The King of Fighters 2000 - Goodbye Esaka - 5.2

Off-Peak - Panopticon - 4.7

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter - Music - 8

Sonic Forces - Infinite - 7

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Opus 13 - 6.7
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Super Smash Bros. Melee - Kongo Jungle - 7.5

Genetos - Origin - 6

Ripple Dot Zero - Like You Just Woke Up - 5.6



Kongo Jungle is somewhat interesting. I strongly disliked the first two verses, but the third (starting at close to the two minute mark) is a highlight of this topic. I don't even know what genre of music that is, but that loud distorted voice makes me want to give it a nine... but then I can't go quite that high on a song that I only really loved 1/4th of, so I went with seven & a half with an explanation. Seemed to make sense at the time I'm posting this.

Also, a thank you to everyone involved in this; those nominating songs and a double thank you to whoever is stuck with the unfortunate task of updating the sheet... my posting so many ratings at once is rather inconvenient and I never took the time to apologize or properly thank you, so... yeah.

Backlog:

Atelier Sophie - Thistle Lotus - 5.5

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Sewer Surfin' - 5

Brainbots - plastic - 3.7

Mario Kart Wii - Moonview Highway - 6

Sword Art Online: Lost Song - Dance - 4.8

The Messenger - Civilization in the Sky - 5.4

Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country - Battle!! (Torna) - 6.5

Age of Empires II - T Station - 2

Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP - Under a Tree - 8

Langrisser II - No Surrender - 7

Starbound - Atlas - 5.7

Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - Broken Moon - 7
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YuNi - Dadadada Tenshi: 5-ish. As usual it's fine, but a lot of these songs are starting to run together in my mind and nothing in it really stood out.

AZKi - Shinzo to karakuri: Not sure if I like her performance here any more or less than Kaf's, so let's just give it an 8 too.

AZKi - Ito: 4. Don't know why, but I don't think her voice compares favorably against Kaf on this track. Not sure when I'd listen to this when I could go with the original, which hurts the score even if it's probably worth more than a 4 objectively.

AZKi - Asagao no Uta: 7-ish. It's pretty.

NoA - Hated By Life Itself: 8. Good voice, though I think I prefer the version you nominated at the actual topic over this one.

Emma Hazy - Hated By Life Itself: 7. It's an interesting take on the song. Really like the backing piano and appreciate that the slowed-down take on the song helps it stand apart from the other linked covers.
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Roman Tam - Ji Guang Zhong: 6. I like the video, the disco with the flashing neon lights and the smoke machine is apparently my type of thing (which is odd as I'm rather neutral to disco music in general, but apparently I like the colors and general atmosphere?) and the visor he occasionally wears reminds me of Cyclops--which is ridiculous, but reminding me of the X-Men certainly doesn't hurt anything.

Song seems like the type of thing that would get stuck in my head frequently if I listened to it a few more times.



duvet cyberia reMIX: 5.Something (leaning towards .4 at the moment). It runs into the same problem that Kaf's songs hit--you don't want to wind up being directly compared against one of my favorite songs. Since the regular duvet has gotten a lot of play from me since the ranking started and was in consideration for first place, there's not a lot that can hope to compete against it. Most of this remix feels like they just took a song I loved and slapped a beat I don't really care for on top of it; there's a brief instrumental portion between verses that works quite well & the whispered bit was unexpected (and very welcome), but most of the song just leaves me wishing I was listening to the original.

I don't usually mess with playback speed, but I think I like this one a bit better at 1.5x speed. The beat feels...not Sonic-like exactly, but like the type of beat one might expect from a high-speed platformer and it sets it even further apart from the original.



That newest song UF8 posted: 7? It's cute, whatever it is. Always nice to see Bunny Hat Girl again (yes, I know her actual name), though I'm more curious about Alice... she's got a cute voice and I don't think I've seen her in any of the videos you posted thus far? Or if I did, she didn't leave much of an impression at the time.

*clicks around her channel randomly*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az22NOebfRk

How bad is it that I kinda liked this one? I know it's simple and devolves into high-pitched shrieking by the end, but it's cute & funny so I don't think I could give it less than a 7.



And that's it for tonight. Sorry; last night I marathoned a bunch of songs at the rating topic and I didn't have much time to spend on either topic today. Will try to find time to make more progress on this tomorrow, hopefully.
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The Curse of Monkey Island - A Pirate I Was Meant to Be - 4

Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden - Johnathan Taylor Thomas - 6.5

Jurassic Park - Jungle (Raptor Rap) - 3

No backlog tonight. Didn't have much time.
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Cannon Fodder - Intro - 6

Sonic Unleashed - Jungle Joyride (Night) - 5.5

Final Fantasy VIII - Don't Be Afraid - 5.5



I forgot about Cannon Fodder since I never played the game and think I only heard about it through a Cracked article quite some time ago. I somehow confused the game with Cannon Spike, so I was expecting something quite different--not better, mind you, as I don't think I was ever very fond of the Cannon Spike soundtrack... just... very different.

And because I had way too much free time this entire day, I apparently went through every remaining song on Page 7... in my defense, each day of songs had at least one song I was excited to click, so it was easy to keep saying "just one more set of songs" without realizing exactly how many I'd gone through...



Yoshi's Woolly World - Vs Bunson the Hot Dog - 6

Shin Megami Tensei IV - Reverse Hills - 9

Madden NFL 13 - Bring the Pain - 4.5

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Grassland Groove - 2

The Adventures of Batman & Robin - Dark Studio?? - 8

Let It Die - Let It Die ~ My First Story - 6.2

Armored Core: Master of Arena - Junk Mail KHmix - 6.1

Christmas Tina - Toshi no Uta ~Machi no Uta~ - 4

League of Legends - Login Screen (ARCADE 2019: ULTRACOMBO) - 8

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - Beyond the Bounds - 7

Age of Empires II - Shamburger - 6

Tomodachi Life - Mii Editor - 3

Guilty Gear X2 - Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead) - 6.2

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure - Banson's Aria - 3.5

Chrono Cross - Star-Stealing Girl - 9.8

Zwei!! - Klopp Caverns - 6

River City Girls - Payday - 5

Subarashiki Hibi - Les Enfants du Paradis - 4

Fight Crab - Knight Crab - 5.6

No Heroes Allowed! - World to Come - 2

Daytona USA - Lets Go Away - 5.1

Gitaroo Man - The Legendary Theme - 7

Super Smash Bros. - Final Destination - 5.1

Vision Soft Reset - Augur of Darkness - 5

Space Manbow - Battle Ship - 5

Persona 3 - During the Test - 3.5

Fire Emblem Fates - Alight (Storm) - 2.9

Ape Escape: SaruSaru Big Mission - Final Battle with Specter! - 5

Sonic CD - D.A. Garden (JP/EU) - 5

Violent Vengeance: The Universe Hero - Nanmushi/Nimeoseudok Theme - 8

Granado Espada - Rhapsody - 4

Rhythm Heaven - Struck by the Rain - 6.1

Tekken 4 - Touch and Go - 2

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- - Birthday Train - 7

Kirby Planet Robobot - L86 - 4

pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET - Apple Butter - 3

Mario Kart 8 - 3DS Piranha Plant Slide - 2

Super Robot Wars D - Desire - 5.2

Awesomenauts - Ted McPain's Theme - 9

Crypt of the Necrodancer Amplified - Power Cords - 5.1

SimCity 4 - Electric City - 3

Spark the Electric Jester - Special Boss - 5.2

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven - Johnny Joestar - 5

Earthbound - Pokey Means Business! - 3

MariObama - Please Perform an Eight - 4.5

CrossCode - CrossCounter! - 6

Eliminator (C64) - Title Theme - 5.6

League of Legends - Kindred, the Eternal Hunters - 3

Evoland 2 - Ceres Battle - 4.5

Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider - Track 7 - 5

Mega Man Unlimited - Cyclical Rampage - 6.3

Project Cerberus - L L ~Infinite Beating ver~ - 6

Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum n Fun! - Furifuri Norinori - 5.5

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 - Trunks Theme - 5.1
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Just two songs tonight; got a very late start working on things and new episodes of She-Ra are out, so I'm probably going to watch at least the first episode tonight. More songs tomorrow.



Takanashi Metro: Very cute voice, but the song isn't one of my favorites. I'll go with a 6 for now. Feel kinda bad that the song only has 15 views... like, I know it's a new release, but oof.

Mituki Neu: Too happy for me at the moment, but I'll go with a 6 here too.



I know it's a false sense of accomplishment, but since a post only had those two songs in it, I can say "I ranked every song in a post" and pretend that was more significant than it actually was.
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Kantai Collection - No Going Back - 7.5

pop'n music 18 Sengoku Retsuden - Byakuya Gentou - 5

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey - An Honor Befitting That Name - 4



Backlog:



The Unfinished Swan - The Deluge - 3.2

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (GBC) - Scroll Stage - 7

de Blob - Defiant - 5.6

Taiko no Tatsujin: Dokodon! Mystery Adventure - Crazy Beauty - 5.4

Wild Arms - Town - 6.2

Sonic & Knuckles Collection - Flying Battery Zone Act 1 (General MIDI) - 7.5

Katamari Damacy - Roll Me In - 3

Pokemon Platinum - Distortion World - 3.5

Final Fantasy XIV Online - Metal - Brute Justice Mode - 2.5
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Divide - 5.2

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - Mikazuchi - 5.5

Burning Rangers - I Just Smile (English) - 10



I'm not sure what I'd put as my favorite VGM of all time, but I Just Smile is a definite contender. It feels like the exact opposite of what I'm supposed to love (I don't want to know how many times I've complained about songs being too happy in recent memory), but everything about the song just works for me. From the choice of imagery to the rather imperfect English translation which makes it feel like it's being sung by someone who has some difficulty with her word choices, it just works for me completely.

Going to the backlog for a minute, "Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth - CORROSION"'s link is broken as the account was closed. Song isn't hard to find, so I just used this link instead for rating purposes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjRKErOYu6c

If there's anything wrong with that link or someone has a better one, let me know and I'll re-rate it.

On a related note, is "Dreamfall - Faith" supposed to have such a ridiculously long stretch of silence there? The outro was worth waiting for, but I'd give the song so many more points if the wait wasn't so ludicrously long...



Bastion - Build That Wall (Zia's Theme) - 7.2

Dariusburst Another Chronicle - Suite Photoconductivity -Third Tune Lightning and Sword- - 6.1

Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth - CORROSION - 6

Alien Sky - They're Approaching / Low on Ammo - 5.2

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Eyes of Heaven - Old Joseph Joestar Theme - 5

Dreamfall - Faith - 5.5

[I was going to give it a 0, but that outro would be worth a 10 and I guess I'll give the song some credit for the surprise twist ending... but that was still a long wait, so I can't give it a terribly great score, no matter how far my personal bias wants to push things.]
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Did a lot of VGM at the other topic last night, so back over to this one for a bit.



YuNi - Color of a Clear Voice: 6. There are some lyrics I like and she still has a decent voice, but something about the backing music isn't working for me at all tonight. Not sure what.

YuNi - Winter Berry: 5.6. Well I don't particularly like winter (I love rain and dislike the cold, so a season where it is too cold to have rain is kinda antithetical to my existence), or overly happy songs, so a bouncy song about happiness and winter is...not likely to get a higher score than this one did. It's fine, I don't dislike it or anything, but...yeah.

YuNi - Utaoyo, Utaoyo: 6. Not bad, would probably grow on me with a few more listens.

YuNi & Hibiki - Karakuri Pierrot: 6, though I found myself wanting YuNi to go away because I prefer Bunny Hat Girl. </.<

YuNi - Destination: 5.3-ish. It's fine, no particular reaction to any aspect of the song or lyrics.

Fukuyamaster - Winter Berry: 5.61. I don't normally like adding an extra digit to ratings, but I needed a way to accurately convey "I like him more than YuNi" while also conveying "but not to a point that it has much of an effect on the score, this song isn't really going anywhere no matter who performs it" and that little number was the fastest way of saying it....though I still explained it anyway...

Fukuyamaster - Sugar Song and Bitter Step: 5.5. I still like his voice, but didn't get much out of the song on a first listen.
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Lords of Thunder - Aqual - 6

Yakuza 5 - Baka Mitai (Kiryu) - 7.4

Devilish - Stage 2 - Clock Tower - 5.8



And more backlog that I took care of last night and just waited for the new songs before posting. This gets me up through the end of Page 6. Still a lot of songs to go through if I want to fully catch up, but that's a milestone where it feels like I made some progress on the list.



Let's Tap - Tap De Papapaya - 7.3

Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - B7R - 2

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World - Fate - 6

Spanky's Quest - Underwater - 5.6

Street Fighter EX3 - Strange Sunset - 6

Portal 2 - Bombs For Throwing At You - 2

Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen - Battle! (Deoxys) - 2

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Sound Test - 4

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Secunda - 5

Ikaruga - Final Chapter ~ The Stone-like - 5.5

Sega Rally 2: Championship - Searchin' for My Dreams - 3

Mario Party - Let's Go Lightly - 3

The Fruit of Grisaia - When flowers bloom - 5.5

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - The Stains of Time (Maniac Agenda Mix) - 2.5

SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - Preserved Valkyria - 7

Game Title - First Area (6 minutes) - 1

Rhythm Heaven Fever - Air Rally - 1.3

Grass Simulator - Brovine - 4.9

Undertale - It's Raining Somewhere Else - 5.1

Ridge Racers - Pulse Phaze - 4

My Singing Monsters - Ethereal Island - 4

Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen - Untrue Crystal - 5

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Coin Launcher - 5

SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- - Yuusha no natsuyasumi - 5.2

Tetris Worlds - BGM02 - 5

Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries - Levels 1 & 11-20 - 5.6

Final Fantasy XIV - Fat Chocobo Theme ( Big-Boned ) - 3

Persona 5 - Our Beginning - 5.2

G-Senjou no Maou - No Escape - 5.5

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Laboratory Level - 6

Eiyuu Densetsu: Zero no Kiseki Evolution - Intense Chase - 5.5

Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge - The Land of Lost Things, Clearing (3) - 5

Tears to Tiara - Until - 8

F-Zero GX - Feel Our Pain - 6.1

Pac-In-Time - The Mountains - 5

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle - It's Kill or Be Killed - 4.8



I was so excited to see that Street Fighter EX song--I nominated the EX + Alpha soundtrack at the last Reverse Ranking and that's a song that appeared in both 3 and +--but I guess I'm just not as into that song now as I was last year.
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Frums - Turnstile Jumper: 4.3-ish. I can definitely hear what they were going for, but what they were going for is less interesting to me than their more chaotic offerings.

Frums - XNOR XNOR XNOR: 7. The issue with long songs divided into multiple distinct parts is that I'll inevitably like certain parts more than others, which messes with the whole scoring system.

Favorite part is probably a 30 second stretch starting at the six minute mark. It's all buzzy and staticy and beepy; then some other instruments come in and it loses much of its effect on me, for whatever reason, but those 30 seconds were almost perfect.



Frums - UMBRA, RADIOLOGOS.: 6.8 ; it's good, naturally, but doesn't feel quite...unsettling enough for Gaster.

Best part comes in around 3:21. It feels like falling into an ocean of darkness... love the atmosphere it creates, but it doesn't stick with that vibe for very long.



Frums - ultra-blazures: Somewhere between 6 and 7. Good, but no specific moments really jumped out to me. It was like "yes, I am listening to another Frums song alright, that is a thing I am doing tonight". Which is more enjoyable than how I spend most nights, but didn't inspire much of a write-up or reaction.



Let's see where I left off on the VTuber Snubs section of the topic...



Hoshimiya Gumi - : Probably around an 8. Cute song, cute voice.

Hoshimiya Gumi - : 2. I know, I know: "But you love cute characters and cats, you are obligated to like this!!"...but...it's just so slow and sleepy. Like a lullaby, only not as cute as an actual lullaby. It's like an overflow error--you know when you raise a value above its max and it resets to 0? This song is like that; cute voice, cute song, cute concept, cute musical style, and at some point it exceeds 255 and reverts to a negative value of cuteness.

Sophia Code and Lyra Editor's last song: 7; nice song in all aspects. I have no complaints about the singers, the music, or the lyrics. Just not one of my absolute favorites, so it probably falls at a "notably above average" level like a 7.
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No Man's Sky - Monolith - 4.5

Max Anarchy - Venom - 2

Cadence of Hyrule - Lost Swamp (Combat) - 2



Monolith seems like the type of song I should love, but most of the song feels like a standard atmospheric track.

And a few more backlog ratings:



Dragalia Lost - BANG! (Summoning Remix) - 6

Melty Blood Actress Again - Fairy Tale Transparently - 4

Pokemon Art Academy - Main Menu - 3.5

Tekken 5 - Ground Zero Funk - 2.9

Metroid II: Return of Samus - Metroid Nest - 5

Final Fantasy V - Fate in Haze - 6

Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender - The Curdling Gulf - 5

BTS World - Dream Glow - 4

Sonic Mania - Titanic Monarch Zone Act 1 (Built to Rule) - 4
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Sorry for posting twice in a row, but I had a bit of extra time and decided to take a few more days worth of songs off of the backlog:



The Great Ace Attorney/Dai Gyakuten Saiban - Pursuit ~ The Great Turnabout - 5

Hyper Light Drifter - The Midnight Wood - 4

Final Fantasy XIV Online - The Tycoon - 6.5

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- - Ride the Fire! - 2

Super Paper Mario - Francis Battle - 4

SimCity 4 - Floating Population - 3

Sonic's Schoolhouse - H - 2.5

iS Internal Section - select What's the deal? - 4

Toy Story 2 (GBC) - Stage 1 - 5.2
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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Normal Battle ~ Town - 8

Tearaway - Between the Pages - Page One - 5.5

Madden NFL '96 - Title Music - 6



And back to the backlog:

A Hat in Time - Rhythm Jump Studio - 5.2

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Sandwich Driving 101 - 3

Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad - 5.1



I'll admit Dancing Mad's quality, but there is roughly 0% chance I'll ever voluntarily listen to the entire thing outside of ranking or rating topics. 5.1 feels a bit generous, but there's enough quality here that I don't want to give it a below average score (or literal average score for that matter) either.



Virtue's Last Reward - Lounge - 2

Etrian Odyssey IV - Labyrinth I - Cerulean Woodlands - 6

Touhou: Concealed the Conclusion - Eastern Judgment in the Sixtieth Year - Fate of Sixty Years - 5

Devil May Cry 5 - Devil Trigger - 9.7

Rhythm Heaven - Lockstep 2 - 6

Octopath Traveler - Cyrus, the Scholar - 4

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Targets! - 5.1

Anarchy Reigns - Play for Keeps - 9

A High Fiber, Japanese Empire Cereal - Elegy For Old Identities and Nostalgia - 5.2

Wario's Woods - Time Attack - 4

Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX+ - Still Alive - 4.4

Waterworld - Diving - 4.6



I recall liking Diving, but I'm just not really into it tonight.
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Ultimate Weapon Girl (Trance Bootleg) - 5. I love the original version of the song, but I don't know if I like trance music... can't say I've heard much of it (that I know of), but this is taking a very cute song and making it more dance like; song I love converted to a style I don't care much for kinda evens out to average values.

(the song that just came out) - 6? It's nice, but it doesn't inspire a reaction beyond "above average anime type song".

And now, let's go over to...Kaf's songs for a bit. I've been rather dreading this part, as I'm going to inevitably compare to the song that won and there's not much hope of anything standing at that level. Still, there's always a chance of finding something?

Kaf - Ito: Unscored. I don't know right now... it's a bit too angry in general, but that last verse could hit me pretty hard if I was in the right mood... I'll try to come back to this after listening to the others.

...YouTube wants to play Devour the Past next and I like that title, so I'm going to bounce to it first.


Kaf - Devour the Past: 8.4, though I think we're all better off if I don't explain right now.



Kaf - First, Second, and Sixteenth Video: It is a bit nice to see the buildup to Baby Bird, but after listening to the whole song so many times, going back to 11 second teasers...doesn't have quite the same impact it would have if I'd been around from the beginning.

Kaf - Shinzo to karakuri: 8 and I'm getting the feeling I shouldn't be marathoning these types of songs in rapid succession like this...

Kaf - The Witch: 5; not entirely sure why, but I didn't feel much of anything from this song.

Kaf - Just forget about it: 7. I wish the song ended with the black screen at 2:47. That bit was, by far, the most impactful moment of the song--probably of any of the Kaf videos I've watched tonight to be honest.

"You wouldn't understand "love" yourself. Afterall, you're the one who killed it for us." *silence*

I really don't think the song needed to continue after that. Just leave it on the black screen for a while, give time for the weight of that line to properly crush the listener. Still...good song either way, I suppose.



Kaf - Yoru Ga Furiyamu Maeni: Dunno. Somewhere in the 8 to 9 range, probably.



Kaf - Hated by Life Itself (Prayer ver.): Probably in that same 8 to 9 range.

I should say more on some of these songs (and go back to that first one, but I'll do that another night), but my head's all fuzzy now and I'm gonna...go listen to Dancing Mad for 17 minutes at the other topic, apparently.

Will finish the FRUMS songs tomorrow for a change of pace.
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Sonic Adventure 2 - Kick the Rock! (Wild Canyon) - 7

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Run - 5.2

Scooby Doo: Unmasked - Chinatown Sewers - 5



Have a little extra time today, so I'll catch up a little on the backlog.

beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle - SHADE - 4.5

Irisu Syndrome! - I Didn't Talk to Anyone Today - 5.6

Terraria Calamity Mod - Murderswarm - Theme of Bumblebirb - 5.5

Hollow Knight - Sealed Vessel - 4

Mega Man 3 - Top Man Stage - 7

Final Fantasy XIV Online - eScape - 0.5

...I'd keep going, but there is no physical way I could endure the full length Dancing Mad so soon after eScape, so I'll just break here.
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...eh, fine, we'll go with the not-actually-rabbit-related song. We have to get it out of the way eventually, right?

Sleeping With Sirens - Scene 2: Roger Rabbit: Somewhere between 8 and 9. This is actually really close to greatness.

So listen close to the sound of your soul
Take back a life we lived once before

That line is pushing some buttons of mine that nothing else in either topic has... (well, actually, I suppose "Past Lives" kinda did). I have a bit of a thing about reclaiming who you once were and what not... though this is more about rekindling love than actually being about that, the line is just close enough...

...fine, take the full 9.



Okay, now to go catch up at the VGM topic.
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Celeste - Confronting Myself: 9. As soon as I saw the Celeste thumbnail, I thought "Wow, I hope this is either Confronting Myself or something similar to it". And it was! This song hits a lot of the right notes for me; it's got that computerized and artificial type sound I like, there's static in places, some vocal distortions (yes, I know I don't usually like vocalizations that aren't lyrics; my love of static & distortions like skipping audio trump any negative feelings about the repeated hey-ya vocals), very much my thing.

I feel it's been popping up in a lot of VGM related contests lately though. I'm not burned out on the song yet, obviously as I was happy to see it again, but it's definitely not new.



Phyrnna - dU5k M3Igb VkgN Wsxbg: I don't know. My reaction to this is so all over the place that I feel like awarding it a non-numerical score of some type. Something starting with an "Sp" sound...Spartchy? Splotchy? Splorky? Something like that.

The intro sounds slightly glitchy--not glitchy enough for my tastes, but a good attempt--but then it kinda goes to that thumping sorta dance music style that I rarely like, then it becomes retro-gaming at 2:18, then back to dance-y, then back to an outro that is more like what I wanted to hear when the song started.

...Yes, splotchy. This is a very splotchy song. I'm not entirely sure what that translates to.



Let's see...I think I'll save the remaining Virtual Idols for another day (I enjoy them, but 12 in one sitting--14 if we're counting my revisiting Ruri's ECHO and the original version of that one song--is enough for one day). I also marathoned a bunch of game music yesterday (and plan on going back to the rating topic after I post this), so I think I'll hold off on instrumental tracks... that puts Yasuhisa Watanabe & FRUMS on hold.

I suppose random Sleeping With Sirens songs are next then?

*checks the top songs on Spotify*

"Better Off Dead", huh? Probably another suicide track, but it might be the right level of sadness.

Sleeping With Sirens - Better Off Dead: 7; yeah, suicide is a bit too far on the sadness scale. Catchy song though, will likely get stuck in my head and it's close to what I wanted.

Sleeping With Sirens - If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn: 6.5 to 7. Metal love song...good, but I don't feel it does enough to really distinguish itself from other love songs and it kinda pales in comparison to "You Kill Me (In a Good Way)".

Ehh...don't really feel like an acoustic ballad, so let's skip the song named after Roger Rabbit (also, you don't want to promise me cartoon bunnies in a title and then not have anything to do with them in the song, so let's just not even waste our time clicking on it. Or at least save for it a different day, if nothing else).

Well, might as well go for the #1 ranked song on Spotify.

Sleeping With Sirens - Leave It All Behind: 7-ish? It feels a lot like a slightly worse version You Kill Me; like "I'll be your hope when you are hopeless, together we are not alone" is just a more basic version of "I'll hold you close and show you you're not broken".

Of course I like it; I mean, it's a band I apparently like delivering the messages I like in the musical style that I like, but it feels like it's covering a lot of the same ground.
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Lee Shion - Aurora: 8, maybe an 8.5. There's a lot to like about the song; it's pretty, it hits about the right amount of sadness ("I'm sinking away into a deep dark emptiness" is rather Duvet-esque in its bluntness), but I don't connect with this quite as much as I did with Ordinary (or Duvet, or Baby Bird). Still a good song that would be assured a decent placement, but not likely to win any contests.

Else - To Your City: 6, maybe 7. I like her voice, the underwater gimmick, the shark, and the video (puppets!) but I'm not fully drawn into the music. Having trouble finding any trace of the lyrics; not a dealbreaker, but they'd probably help a song like this that I'm not fully connecting with based only on the music itself.

Vtubermana: 2 or 3. She's got a nice design, but the song really isn't my type of thing. I don't usually like non-lyric vocalizations and while I can somewhat appreciate how different the song is from every other one you've submitted, it's...just not for me, sorry.

Virtual Butler Cecilia - Disco Necropolis: 1. It's like the last song, only more than twice as long and about half as good.

Cecilia (second link) - Probably a 1 or a 2 too.

Virtual Butler Cecilia - Luna Ascension: Easily the best of the three, but acapella still rarely works for me... leaning towards a 4 here?

Suntory Nomu & YuNi - That's Why I Gave Up on Music: Probably a 5, maybe a 6. It's a great video and a good story, but I don't feel any connection with Nomu at all--and having listened to the original version, I at least feel something from Yorushika, so I feel comfortable saying I just don't like Nomu. The original is a 6, maybe a 6.Something...this one feels like a step below it, but I could see myself giving it the same score anyway.

Suntory Nomu Second Link - 3; it was fine, but inspired no feeling or any interest in typing anything, nor did it leave any lasting impression. It played for a minute and was quickly forgotten.

Fuji Aoi - Get Wild: Leaning towards something like 4.8; it's close to an average score of 5, but I don't really feel like giving it the full 5 points. It's fine, but...I dunno. Chorus repeats a bit too often?

Milky Queen - ECHO: 7 or 8; it's good and I enjoy hearing another version of this song, but I'm still partial to Ruri's version (which I think I'm going to retroactively increase to 9 points, after going back and listening to it again I like Ruri's ECHO even more than I thought I did) her voice feels more artificial and I have an easier time connecting with her version of the song. Of course, Ruri's has the advantage of being the version I heard first, so it's possible Milky Queen's is just under a natural disadvantage...

RukiRoki - Lucky: 6; they're adorable, but the song is a bit too happy for me right now.

RukiRoki Second Song: 6; they're still adorable and the song is still too happy.



And I need a break here... will try to get a few more songs in before I go to sleep tonight, if possible.
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My apologies; I wasn't feeling up to this two days ago and I let myself get distracted at the VGM ranking topic tonight... didn't want to miss the nomination period again and apparently spent a few hours scrolling through songs. Going over songs I already loved, clicking randomly through soundtracks of whatever game name randomly popped into my head, and aimlessly clicking things on assorted playlists in an attempt to find three songs I actually wanted to post.

I hope Mycro doesn't mind my posting one of his Unlisted videos to that topic, but after searching forever for what I wanted to submit, that's the song I fixated on.

Since it's from a public blog, it's probably fine.

Rating resumes tomorrow.
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NOMINATIONS

Vib-Ribbon - Overflowing Emotions


Burning Rangers - I Just Smile (English)


dreeps - Rotting World

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Kirby Triple Deluxe - Moonstruck Blossom - 7.5

Persona Q - Laser Beam - 7

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - Train Stage - 2

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Dark Groove - 5

beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS - Turii ~Panta Rhei~ - 6

Supaplex - Main Theme - 2.1
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That is the greatest picture in the history of this planet.

...the others were also great, of course.
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VTuber stuff

I could use something lighter after that marathon, so let's see what's left over in this list o' songs.



Twinkle Night: Full disclosure, I had forgotten who Somunia was and had to go back to the other topic to get context for this. I definitely prefer the nominated track, but this isn't bad and it's kinda nice to hear some new singers with her... probably somewhere between 6 & 7.

Osanai Mei poemcore cover: *before listening* Well this is either going to be a trainwreck that hits last place or an 11/10 best song of the topic. There can be no middleground with this crossover.

*later* Midnight Mei-chan Dream: This is wonderful, but I don't think it would have worked without the context of having heard the original version of the song earlier (so thank you for that). I kinda love it, but I think I prefer the original... so this is probably only an 8. Still, quite nice and exactly what I wanted at the moment.



Virtual Neko: ...I have no idea what that was.



And that feels like a good place to take a break. 8 songs here, 9 songs from the VGM rating topic, I feel content with the progress I made in both topics tonight.
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Dirt Poor Robins

Welcome to Lady Hell: It's well performed in all respects, but I'm not crazy about the lyrics or the story. It's somehow both very close to what I want and very far away at the same time? Hell Prison seems like what I want--despair, potentially supernatural if we're assuming it's literal hell instead of figurative hell (and I don't know enough about the story to be particularly sure, so I'm presently free to interpret it however I wish), yadda yadda yadda, but like The Dark Sentencer this kinda...left out the despair? It's so upbeat that it can't really work on that level; but it's also...ya know...not happy enough to work on that level either? Not sure what I'd want to score it as... probably around a 7 out of respect for the group's talent and for it being in the vacinity of what I wanted.

Furthest Star: I know this isn't one of the four songs I was supposed to listen, but it started immediately after the last one and I was drawn into it by the opening notes. This is one of those songs where as soon as the intro started, I was like 'yeah, we're dropping everything to listen to this right now'. There's a dark edge to the music and his voice that I find irrestible... this would likely get "9.Something" for a score, with the Something to be determined at a later point when I had more data points on nominated songs to better decide exactly where I'd want to place it.

Maximilian Von Spee: ...Huh. Going directly from the last two songs to an incredibly retro song about a WW1 General...brain...melting...

It's good, but I'd prefer something a bit more modern and I'm not really in the mood for a history lesson right now, though there are definitely days I'd be more appreciative of this song serving as a jumping on point to learning something. Probably around a 6 at the moment, with a note that it'd likely rise to an 8 if you caught me in a more academic mood.

Scarecrows: You know how a lot of high ranking songs tended to get generic messages of "[*insert large number here* Nothing to say tonight, I'll try to find something when I have to talk about this a few months from now]"? This would be one of those. 9-ish, good, but I can't find any specific words that I want to put down here tonight.

But Never a Key: I'm surprised by how many of the YouTube comments are people that fail to understand the Algernon reference. Like, even if you never read the story, then surely you have to be aware of it, right? It's been retold and parodied in everything from Spider-Man to Newsradio. Not that I'm in a position to judge anyone, I just kinda thought everyone at least knew the name and gist of the story.

Aaanywho, the song is...depressing, obviously. Which is rather what I asked for, I suppose. I like it, but it's very slow and somber... probably start at an 8, then steadily increase overtime as I have to admit how much I was undervaluing it. It feels inevitable that this would ultimately go up to a 9.5, but we're not at that point yet.
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Banjo-Kazooie - Bubblegloop Swamp - 3

Neo Turf Masters - BADEN National Golf Course (Germany) - 5

MadWorld - Ain't That Funny - 4

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven - Funny Valentine Theme - 6

Civilization IV - Baba Yetu - 4.5

Pokmon Colosseum - The Under - 3.9



I'm developing more of a tolerance for Baba Yetu and similar songs, but I still wouldn't call myself a fan.
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Saturn Bomberman - Staff Roll - 6.3

SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN - iLLness LiLin - 6

Dog's Life - Peeing Challenge - 4



Bomberman track is interesting. It's very unique and mesmerizing, and I want to love it, but something is keeping me from giving it a very high score and I don't know what.

iLLness does a lot of things I love, but I'm also not feeling it as much as I should. It's good, just nothing I want to really rave about.
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: I like this quite a bit. The backing music feels very 80s--particularly the brief guitar in the intro, which in only a few notes managed to be the most 80s guitar I've ever heard--and I think I like his voice. I'm not as into Sarah's performance, but it might grow on me with more listens. Think I'd probably start this one's score at a 9, with a note that I want to try another one or two songs of his later. [Later Edit: Oh, let's make it a 9.3.]

Options EX: It's quite good, but it's not nearly as chaotic as Credits EX and I don't know that it needed to be over seven minutes long for what it was... though still good and I'm always looking for things in this sort of style. Leaning towards an 8.1? Somewhere between 8.1 and 8.4 at any rate.

Pictured as Perfect and Plus: Well, seeing as I just attacked Options for not going hard enough, it felt like a good time to go for one you said was "more intense". It was and I did love it more as a result! That stretch starting around the four minute mark was marvelous--quiet with static and beeping, that then ramps up in intensity to eventual screaming... very, very nice. It's an easy 10.

Pictured as Perfect (video): It was easy enough to find, but you accidentally linked the Credits BMA a second time instead of this one. Song is still great; it's missing my favorite part, but the addition of the video and creepy hidden messages makes up for it? Or possibly more than makes up for it. I'm not entirely sure which version I'd rank highest, so let's just presume it's a tie.

Options BMA: I like this more than the full length version--this one stops at the point that I wanted it to end at; it just feels more natural stopping the song after that message instead of resuming. Leaning towards...say an 8.7? A few pegs above the extended one, but not such a drastic improvement that it jumps a whole number.

caprice for it: *looks at the adorable pink bunny girl on the cover*

...Obvious pandering is obvious. </.<

I do like it quite a bit, but it feels a bit too obvious. I like Frums, I like chiptunes, I like adorable furry characters, this link is very "here's a bunch of stuff you like" which...well yes, of course I like it, but it's not new or surprising and there's not a lot to say about it as a result. 9.



Also, I didn't entirely forget about the Dirt Poor Robins songs, though I did forget to copy the names over to this topic. I shall listen to them tomorrow.
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Only two songs & a non-music video tonight, all VTuber related as I continue working my way through that backlog:

Optional video with Asamiya Yuri, Hibiki Ao, Nanase Taku and Fukuyamaster: Well, it is interesting to see the two girls together, but without understanding Japanese I can't make much sense out of it... still like her bunny hat though, so it's always worth clicking her videos just to look at the cute hat for a few minutes.

Midnight Fighting Brief (poemcore tokyo #2): I really like his voice and the vibe his videos give off, but I have the distinct impression that I don't ever want to know what the actual lyrics to this song are. Let's say it'd be somewhere between 8 & 9, probably? Provided I never definitively learn what the lyrics are.

poemcore tokyo #3: Ohh, now this is exactly what I was looking for. The absolute despair from the video itself, watching him running forever in a twisted city of burning embers under a blood red sky, the demonic screaming that is somehow both shouted and whispered, the instrumental portions that are just off enough to feel slightly unsettling while still being nice to listen to (that bit starting around 2:30 is magical in the strangest way)...

Also it makes me feel like an anthropomorphic cat for some unexplained reason, which is a new experience. This song is a pretty easy 10.



And I'm afraid I should leave it at only three songs tonight. Nothing is going to top that song (which I've already gone back and listened to multiple times), so let's give some time before coming back to this. Rest a bit, listen to some non-suggested songs, and what not.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Bomb Rush Blush [Remix] - 6

Drakengard 3 - Raphael - 2

Silent Hill 2 - Theme of Laura - 4
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Quinton, got it. And thanks.
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Hello to you too!

Umm...would you prefer I call you by your username or Quinton? I don't want to bother you by acting too familiar, but I also don't want to be the type of person that openly ignores what someone wants to be called...

(On a related note, you can call me whatever; Raetsel seems to be the default as that's sort of my main account? But then I used the Fluttershy account for, like, three months straight and it wasn't exactly unpleasant being referred to as such... of course being literally referred to as "whatever" also has its appeal, so ya know, you kinda can't go wrong.)
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SaveEstelle posted...

I don't know who you are

I'm reasonably certain we've never interacted, so I'd be confused if you did. I'm just a lurker who pops up randomly from time-to-time... these days, I typically stick to the assorted music ranking topics that come up.
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Night one songs:

Songs from UF8:

Merry Halloween: Still not as cute as some of her other songs and not really my thing. Party/Dance music tends to be at an automatic disadvantage with me and this isn't an exception. Probably around a 4 or a 5, so let's just go with 4.5 to start.

Start Signal: Yay, bunny hat girl's back!

If this song has not been played one million times, she will be discontinued radio program.

Views: 57,415

A million views seems like a completely absurd amount to have hoped for, but not even hitting 60k must have been depressing. Song is fun enough, but I'm not really in the mood for something so...bouncy tonight. 6.



Let's skip ahead to poemcore tokyo's first link. Tonight seems like a good time to go for something DARK.

poemcore tokyo song #1: I have no idea what I just watched. So much of it is just spoken words that I have trouble even parsing it as a song, but I really dig the discordant horror vibe the background music has when it's playing. Would probably leave it as an "Unscored, will try to assign a number to this at a later date"--if forced to give it a number, then 8-ish? I enjoyed it, whatever "it" was.

Songs from cakophon:

Bouncing around, let's go for something familiar after that, with the short version of Credits EX.

Credits: Neat! The video is fun, particularly that it inexplicably has subtitles. I prefer the full version, but even in its abridged form it's worth at least a 9.

And let's end the night with one of the Underveil remixes.

(Quiet Water Remix): Well taking 30 seconds of peace and making it that loud was certainly a unique take on the song. I think I enjoyed it for the most part? Let's say a 7 for first impressions.

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UF8 posted...

A pretty song to end the topic on. It's not really my type of thing--it feels like a lounge song, created for couples to stare lovingly into each others eyes while sipping martinis. Nice ambiance, just not my kinda ambiance. Let's say it's worth a...6.5?

Continuation where I work my way through the backlog of posted songs (and whatever other songs get posted while I'm working on those) can be found over here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78111263
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I will quite happily look at all those links when I get a chance (and hopefully get the continuation topic up tomorrow as we're about out of posts here).

I planned on asking about those acronyms, but they were easy to Google than expected, so I think I get the gist. Well, I mean "rhythm games" was the gist, so you did explain it as well as it needed to be...
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Tat Ming Pair (Happy Song): It's interesting. I can't make out a lot on a first pass, but it looks like this track contains a lot of references to their earlier work? The firefighting reference is easy enough, the section about forbidden fruit is probably a callback to ""? At least, Googling 'Tat Ming Pair Forbidden Fruit' sends me to that song, so that would be my first guess.

Song probably starts around a 6, with a decent chance of increasing when I have more time to try to research information about the song and all the other references in it.



Tat Ming Pair (Tian Wen): Well when I tried searching for information on this track, I was immediately directed to a live performance:



And the difference between the linked album version and the live performance is staggering, to a point that I'm still not fully convinced they're the same song. (They...they are the same song, right?). While the album one is rather sad and restrained, the live one feels rather angry. Like they're just really pissed off now--listen to that squealing guitar in places, this version is significantly heavier than any of the other Tat Ming Pair songs I've heard. I'm completely sold on the Live version, that one's an easy 9.

Album version...ehh...it's hitting the same problem a few other songs have where it's like "I'd rather be listening to the other version of this song and am finding it impossible to objective as a result". Not bad, just not as immediately great as the live one.



Tat Ming Pair (the third song that was posted): A+ music video. Possibly my favorite music video ever, which would probably mean more if I could think of another music video I enjoyed enough to bother comparing to this song.

Song is also good, let's just give it a 9 too.
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Beatmania IIDX 17 Sirius - Raison d'Etre - 7

Jumping Flash! 2 - World 6-2 - 6

100% Orange Juice - Ultimate Weapon Girl (Bonus Track) - 8
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Sorry everyone. I haven't forgotten about this, but I was busy for a couple days and didn't have enough time to really get into anything; to be fair, I could have probably done a song over here instead of keeping up with the VGM ranking topic, but since I don't have to comment on the songs there it's easier to work with when on limited time.
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R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 - Move Me - 6

Pyongyang Racer - My Country Is the Best - 5

MadWorld - So Cold - 3
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Devil Engine - Jazzy NNYC (STAGE 2) - 5.4

Lost Technology - OST 51 - 5

Raw Recruit - Title - 9

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 - Stimulation - 5.7

VA-11 HALL-A - Base of the Titans - 6

Wii Fit - Basic Step - 5



I love static-y & buzz-y sorts of sounds, so Raw Recruit Title is very much my type of thing.
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Best Kept Secret - Bare:


And that makes five.
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Beautiful - Ordinary Days
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YUVkJ58QEamAtk7LOrxVP?si=Dab0IdGoTrCKeCdPhEH8Hg

Barbara 2.0 - Beetlejuice the Musical
https://open.spotify.com/track/7whkc1c9c7O2JJZt4no80u?si=d-2j3EbPSvKdqCxgSQv5SQ

Devil Take the Hindmost - Love Never Dies

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Terraria - Underground Corruption - 4.5

Madden NFL 2001 - The Mad in Game - 1

Final Fantasy Tactics - Tension 1 - 0.3

Jet Set Radio Future - Birthday Cake - 2

Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea - Octopunch - 4

GG Aleste II - Bionic City - 5.3
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Thank you! I'll add those VOLA & DPR tracks to the list and will get to them soon-ish (well VOLA in this post because I'm just rather clicking whatever I feel like at the time and I wanted to hear that one immediately).

Heavy Fruit: Aka."China White 4". I kinda like that it took them a while to confirm this was part of the series and let their fans debate it, but I'm not really into the actual song. Just one of those songs where I had no reaction to anything about it (though I said the same thing about Mighty Echo and that song finally clicked on the third listen)--probably around a 4 for an initial impression.

The Garden: Aka."China White 5". The last confirmed song in the series, though at least some people believe Boogiewoman is part 6 (which is what led to this detour).

It's not as immediately great as "China White 2" (which is thus far the best song I've listened to in this Post Topic listening thing), but it has potential. Far from the best lyrics about embracing darkness ("The darkness inside of me Is all that I ever need" is too blunt, even for my tastes), but it tries. Probably a low 7, with decent odds of growing on me.

2 > Boogiewoman > Garden > 1. Don't have enough opinion on 3 or Heavy Fruit to feel comfortable ranking them.



We Are Thin Air: Skipping around the suggestions a bit. I'm in the mood for VOLA, so I chose to start here. The instrumentation in this song is very, very much my thing (that guitar [I think] that comes in just before the 15 second mark is perfection), I'm pretty sure I like this singer, and the lyrics are metaphorical enough to be interesting without being overwhelmingly complicated like Twyncyn.

[EDIT: ...Alright so the Bridge goes completely over my head to be quite honest...]

Score probably starts around 8.1, but I have a feeling this would be one of those songs that kept getting moved up the list as I refused to cut it. It just has that sort of potential. That also lets it nudge China White 2 out of first place (not that there are real rankings).

Also, the band says this song draws inspiration from the Danish band "Mew". So I'm now obligated to drop everything I'm doing to go play one of their songs.



Apocalypso (Mew): It had the most appealing title, so I chose to start with it.

...I'm not sure what to make of this track. If we had this conversation before FL81's nomination period, I would have just thrown it at him to see how someone else reacted. C'est la vie. Song would start Unscored (though with generally positive feelings) while I tried to determine exactly how I felt about it or what any of that meant. May try another random song from them in the future, if I remember them later.



I'll come back to Dirt Poor Robins later.



MycroProcessor posted...

it's actually kind of hilarious that both Dark Tube and Pure Data wound up ranking high, since technically they're in the same game! Here's a video of the part with that song sampled lol:

Ooh, I like that usage. Somehow Pure Data is so much more unsettling with whatever other track is going in the background. 10/10.

...I can give 30 second snippets of pointing & clicking 10s if I want to and I want to.



Recursive Dolls (QKiki): She's got a good design and voice, but I'm not as into the style of the song. Very...swing or big band like, which doesn't usually go over too well with me. First reaction would be "6, with a note about being interested in trying a different song from her".

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Good news: Found a few others

Skindred, in general

Ancient Arrows

Vaporwave Is Dead

The Electric Lady (at least one or two songs from it)

Probably should give another listen to the Janelle song from last topic I've forgotten while I'm at it.

And a few quick comments:

Sophisticated Fight MIDI: Slightly better than the original, but not different enough to get a great score. Probably around a 5, probably less when Im bored of hearing remixes of the song.

Sacred Fire: Again, I feel like this is the type of song Im supposed to like, but it never really clicks for me. I dunno why; the band is good, the singer is decent enough (he reminds me of a slightly weaker version of Coheed & Cambria, but I like them enough that slightly weaker should still translate to above average), the suggested songs are all in that metal, but not too metal style I like, and the lyrics are intriguing... but Im quite sure that I preferred Sophisticated Fight MIDI to this song and Im confused by that. Lets say a 5 for initial impressions.

Ancient Arrows: About the same reaction, Im afraid. I like the instrumental sections a fair amount, but it leaves me wishing this were an instrumental track. 5.1 to establish it as a step above Sacred Fire, but I like Zelos more than either of them. ...Though Ive also heard Zelos a lot more, so it might not be the fairest comparison.

China White 1: Most of the song is more subdued than Ive come to expect from this band. Its interesting, though the outro comes off more comedic than I think they wanted; no matter how loudly or angrily you shout I AM YOUR GARDENER!!, its just not...menacing, or intense, or anything but comical. Though this is the first song I immediately listened to a second time to try to find more to say about it, so its definitely a peg or two above the previous songs. Lets start it around a 7?

China White 2: I know part 1 was also a villain song, but this one is more explicit with the evil and still avoids any particular vulgarity. Id probably start the score around a 7.3; its tempting to jump right to an 8, but Id want to see how it holds up on later listens before going that far. Has a lot of promise though.

(Slightly later: Nah, lets just give it the 8. It pushes the darkness exactly as far as Id want it to goyeah, its dark and murder-y, but its like PG-13 murder. Dark enough to be unsettling without overwhelming horror or bloodshed.)

China White 3: And I thought the early parts of 1 were subdued... I know hes exhausted, but nothing seems to really happen in this song. Leaning towards a 4, but it could be negatively impacted by part 2 being so much better.

Will go for parts 4 and 5 later. Im enjoying my time with these, but dont want to go for all 5 in a row right now.

Parade (Original): Its fine, but I dont have any real preference between this or the cover. This has the better video and I like seeing her play the instruments, but its not enough of a difference to leave any more of a lasting impression. Just give it whatever score I gave the cover.

ECHO (Ver.YUGAREY): It is kinda charming how much he struggles with the English sections, but its not going to compare favorably to Ruris.
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Well, tried gathering up the other songs that I was supposed to be listening to, but definitely missed some. I figured it would be easiest to just use an alt account and ignore Fluttershy, so I could skip all the ranking posts and just get to everyone else's comments.

...Only to now remember that things have changed so that you automatically ignore any post quoting someone you ignored, so instead of just skipping my posts, I also wound up skipping most of everyone else's posts. -.-'

Well... found a few things at least:

Sacred Fire (Mandroid Echostar)

Sophisticated Fight MIDI:

Tat Ming Pair:

It's rare, but they did do happy songs!

Speaking of which, I found their song about Tiananmen Square

As a bonus, a song marking its 30th anniversary

China White (at least the first part or two, for added context on Boogiewoman)

Sleeping With Sirens & Yasuhisa Watanabe, no specific songs, just...like in general.

Duvet Remix--and probably a bunch of things from FL81's topic

UF8 already gathered his links, so I didn't re-gather them. Tomorrow, will have to go back through the topic without an ignore function to try to find whatever I missed this trip.
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Ruri

Tsumi no Namae: Not bad. I don't think I like it as much as the nominated song or one of the latter songs to come up, but it's nice enough.

Some of the lines are close to getting to me... it's hardly a complicated story or even a very original one, but as we've established, I can be rather easily manipulated... I'd probably give it a 6 for a first impression, with a note that it could hit an 8 or higher if you catch me on a more emotional day.



: (I hope that part is the name of the song) Having a harder time finding lyrics to this one, not that that's always a bad thing. Unfortunately, this one didn't leave much lasting impression? I don't recall particularly liking or disliking any part of it.

Probably around a 5, for a first impression anyway (reminder that one of the top 10 started with a 1, so first impressions are notoriously irrelevant).

This song (or rather commenting on it) reminds me that I'm doing things differently than I did before... for my initial first impressions, I typed things up on an iPad while listening to the songs on the phone, so I could watch/listen/type simultaneously. Trying to listen and then type is significantly less efficient... this method worked when I was on my fourth (or more) listen to a song to find Final Thoughts, since I generally knew the songs well enough by then, but I find myself forgetting what I wanted to say by the time the song ends and I'm somewhere to type.

...Need to find my iPad charger tonight if I want to listen to things properly.



Tell Your World: Too happy with more of a pulsing beat than the other songs from her that you've shown me. It's not bad, but I think it's probably the lowest of these songs. Probably around a 4 to start with.



ECHO...: Her voice sounds more artificial (points), a large portion of the song is in English which sets it apart from all the other songs (points), and I find it intriguing (more points). Would probably start it at an 8 and go from there.

More tomorrow, hopefully with a second device for typing purposes.
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