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Ah, Pixel. That was the only song I actually had plans to nominate somewhere. I stumbled upon the song while trying to find something for BOST 6.
.. I'd wanted to find a very crunchy soundtrack, but also a relatively obscure one. Not out of belief that it'd get enough support to go anywhere, but in a "look at this cool thing I found" type way that might have pleasantly surprised someone who was listening to all of the nominations.

I have no idea what search terms led me to Pixel, but that was exactly the type of sound I was looking for! And... none of the rest of the songs on the OST quite worked, making it completely irrelevant for my purposes. I never did nominate anything for that topic. But I saved the song, waiting for someone who might appreciate crunchy music to make a VGM topic so I could finally show this thing to someone! It's honestly not great, but I like it well enough and I'm quite relieved that you didn't hate it.

Zelda

David Bowie - Everyone Says Hi (Metro Remix - Radio Edit):
https://youtu.be/V9M6PARAMRk

I dreamed that I nominated this, so let's just go with it and see how my subconscious pick fares.

I'll try my best to get an extra song for you tomorrow. Want to spend a bit more time thinking about it first.

Yuri
Edgeworth

rwlh posted...

From what I can tell its a Friday Night Funkin modabout Godzillabut this song is about John Madden? And not only that, its an instrumental version!

The mod is based on the NES Godzilla creepypasta. Said creepypasta had an alternate gag ending where the final boss was revealed to be John Madden all along; so the mod added Madden in an update as part of the joke. I kinda split the difference and nominated both a "serious vocal song" and a "non-serious instrumental song" from the mod since I was having trouble choosing between them.

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Nomination tally. Asterisks mark people who have used their one long song:

Nominations Remaining:

-hotdogturtle- has nominated 5 songs
azuarc has nominated 5 songs
Bane_of_Despair has nominated 5 songs
banshiryuu has nominated 5 songs
Chaeix has nominated 4 songs
DanKirby has nominated 9 songs
FL81 has nominated 5 songs
GavsEvans123 has nominated 5 songs
handsomeboy2012 has nominated 5 songs
JohnBobb has nominated 5 songs
MarkS2222222222 has nominated 5 songs
MaxGalactica has nominated 5 songs
Murphiroth has nominated 5 songs
NBIceman has nominated 5 songs
NFUN has nominated 5 songs
paulg has nominated 5 songs
Place has nominated 5 songs
Player_0 has nominated 5 songs
Raka_Putra has nominated 5 songs*
rwlh has nominated 1 song
Tked has nominated 5 songs*
ZaziGuado has nominated 5 songs

Nominations Filled:

BlackDra90n has nominated 10 songs
MacArrowny has nominated 10 songs
Mega_Mana has nominated 10 songs
redrocket has nominated 10 songs
Snake5555555555 has nominated 10 songs*
tazzyboyishere has nominated 10 songs*
TunnelScene has nominated 10 songs

TOTAL: 179/300

1: Nobody
2: Lonesome Love
3: Geyser
4: Old Friend
5: Remember My Name
6: Pink in the Night
7: Washing Machine Heart
8: Two Slow Dancers
9: Me and My Husband
10: Come Into the Water
11: Blue Light
12: Why Didn't You Stop Me?
13: A Pearl
14: A Horse Named Cold Air

Nobody: This song was nominated way back at my first ranking topic and it was a real treat (which was probably ranked too low back then, but I digress). Even years later, I still kinda love this song and it was a nice treat to run into it again & finally see what the rest of the album was like.

tazzyboyishere posted...

Actually can I change a nomination from earlier?

Sure, you and everyone else can change as much as you want until we hit 300.

BlackDra90n posted...

So we all get an extra five nominations now?

Yep. It's Saturday in parts of the world. 5 AM Eastern turned out to be the exact moment it became midnight Saturday somewhere in the world (a fact that I could have calculated, but didn't until around 4:30 AM Eastern).

BlackDra90n posted...

Is there still the four regular songs and one character theme restriction?

Nah, just standard nominations that you can do whatever you want with. You certainly can add more characters if you want though.

Castaway: I didn't think I liked this type of dubstep sound, but that is an addictive beat here. I could see myself loving this song after a few more listens.

Shine: I dig their voices and the lyrics about embracing your darkness are definitely the type of thing I love, so this was an unexpected treat.

Why You Wanna Break My Heart?: My nostalgia pick. The first four nominations were easy selections: My top three songs of 2023 and then a wildcard option that I just wanted to show off & was determined to nominate the first time it was eligible anywhere because my bizarre love/hate relationship with it might produce some interesting rankings. For the fifth slot, I just asked myself "what song do I have a lot of nostalgia for, but haven't listened to so often that I've become sick of it--and ideally haven't heard it at all in a couple years?" & this track is the one that came to mind. I feel it's a slot that could be a radically different song depending on what day you asked. tazzy got "Winger - Battle Stations" when I asked the same question for his ranking. Today, I think I'd wind up with

Elvis Costello - Alison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtopI620ZU

...Not that it matters, just a quick illustration of how this nomination slot could have wound up on basically anything. Aaaanywho, back to the song that actually was nominated. It's a simple song, a bit too basic and repetitive to be something that I'd love if I were just discovering it for the first time these days, but there's a lot of nostalgia attached that makes me kinda love it still. My mother never listened to much music, so I really didn't either growing up... but for reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, we borrowed the Wayne's World soundtrack from the library and spent quite a bit of time to listening to it. It's odd; of all the albums in the universe, why would this have been the one we went with? It's not as though this was a thing we did, I can only name two albums we ever borrowed to listen to in this way (I'll refrain from discussing the second for personal reasons & because I'm spending way too much time talking about my own life here as it is), but... well, we did, and it's given me a lasting attachment to Tia Carerre. Also for a very specific era of Alice Cooper--"Feed My Frankenstein" may not be his biggest hit, but I love it and the entire album it came from because that's *my* Alice... but I suppose that's a story for another topic.

Thank you very much! I considered staying up until five AM my time to post right when it hit Saturday in that timezone, but I was tired & not-so-secretly hoping someone would post some more songs before I woke up.

141/300 nominations.

Tidus
Waluigi

Blegh. 15 minutes into typing up a response the browser crashed and deleted everything. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow, I need to listen to the other eliminations anyway.

I'm not sure I even know ten remaining songs... actually, I think I know exactly ten, so I guess them by default.

Always Look
Astronomy
Chicago
Dark Come Soon
Just a Ride
King of Swords (Reversed)
Knocked Down, Made Small
Light Up the Night
Pink Dazzled 45
Sexual Healing

Name Entry was just something that was stuck in my head for a few days. I had low expectations, but I figured 40 seconds of an odd voice sample would likely play better for you than GBA Care Bears music. Also, since Care Quest's title theme is an unlicensed cover of the Care Bears Countdown intro, I can't be 100% certain that the Credits theme isn't directly based on an existing song and didn't feel right nominating it here. I think it's an original song, but there's no way to be sure.

So, yeah, just a song I thought was neat. Also, it was at least on YouTube, unlike some other songs I was considering which helped.

Fair enough. Then I have nothing to really contribute here; I'll try to support whatever the new format is for a while, though I may take little breaks as I don't usually listen to albums... going from listening to less than one album per year to one every week for years has certainly been an experience and I'm incredibly thankful for it, but I think I may be getting a bit burnt out & it'll be healthier if I stop clinging to my perfect attendance and skip some here & there.

FoolFantastic posted...

I would prefer to make this change now, but we have already determined the next two albums; how do others feel? Should we go through the next cycle and put off the change for half a year? Or should we make the change now?

I won't take it personally if you make the changes immediately and skip Dawn FM as a result. The cycle works better for me personally, but I think everyone else has wanted a change for a while now, so I think the writing's been on the wall for a while; you want to change, the majority of voters seem to want to change, and I used Dawn FM as a popular compromise instead of something I was super passionate about (though I do really enjoy it) so...I understand and accept it being cut to get to the new rules quicker.

Ah. I think I just wound up with the Steam Discussion board for the information I needed; never thought about the Discord, though I suppose that one's on me.

I loved and hated Void Stranger. I rage quit a lot, but I always came back to it and felt it was worth the effort... though I did wind up spoiling way too much, as there's no way to look up an answer to certain things without getting more information than you want. Wouldn't recommend the game to anyone because it's so frustrating, but I did love it. Mostly.

Gordon

Yuna
Raiden

126/300

Already a good amount of songs, with quite a bit of variety. I'm feeling good about this. ...I feel less good about using the same adjective twice in a row like that, but still, generally good.

I think "Forward to the Past" might have the quietest screamed vocals I've ever heard. Not a complaint--it's an interesting technique--just... unexpected.

Blind

I prefer 3 in Three.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/96b76eef.jpg

rwlh posted...

Wow that is obnoxiously not even close to the format you wanted.

It's fine, I'm not really a stickler for formats and I already copied that song over to the spreadsheet. Thank you for being considerate though!

Milli Vanilli

The only guest stars on the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon & Princess Toadstool's favorite band.

Besso0 x GonZealous | File Select (From "Super Mario 64") (Lo-fi Edit):
https://youtu.be/LVqDBCxnHZ0

Thomas Brtschi | Care Bears: Care Quest Credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svuj_9kqZis

Lupe Fiasco | American Terrorist III:
https://youtu.be/CVhol0iAQ1s

Winger | Battle Stations:
https://youtu.be/oP5eeF9yedY

Huey Lewis & The News | If This Is It:
https://youtu.be/OoHO2OAlqFw

NBIceman posted...

This is probably a dumb question and just me being obtuse, but does a character theme need to be explicitly identified as a theme specifically for that character to qualify? Or is it okay if it's just, like, very obviously implied?

Implications are fine. I really have no interest in arguing over what is or isn't a theme, so there aren't any traps. If it's performed by a character, about a character, or represents a character in some way then it's fine. Also, I approved the Too Cool theme, so teams/groups/organizations also work?

As long as there's some connection, no matter how tenuous, to a character than we're cool.

Sam

...My first thought was "Son Goku", but that was backward. Then "Son Gohan", which was also backward. Then "Samsung", which doesn't even fit, but did cause me to realize that Samson is a name which works here.

Raka_Putra posted...

Oh right, I have a question. I tend to nominate a lot of musical theater songs, sung by characters. But they're not always necessarily about the character that sung it (i.e. their character theme). Would you like me to label those as well?

Also, would you prefer the songs and artists in uppercase?

I was going to label everything, but I'm not sure there's a reason to; I thought I'd be likely to talk about each character at least briefly, but I'm getting the feeling my focus on music makes that both unlikely & impractical. So... probably not, I suppose? Unless you want to. You certainly can label such songs with the subject's name or any of the performers', but I don't think the data will likely be used for anything. So as long as one nomination is marked to fill the slot requirement it's fine either way.

And... well in retrospect, standard capitalization probably makes more sense. The intent was CAPS LOCK because I thought that would look better when posting song eliminations... but the spreadsheet would be unreadable in all caps & it's actually really nice being able to just copy/paste info directly to the sheet instead of having to retype everything. So asking for all caps was not the wisest decision... so, let's just say it's fine either way? Normal formatting would be easier--especially with longer titles--but I did ask for all caps, so I certainly won't complain about people following directions. Or to put it another way: "...Yes, but it'd be easier on us both if you saved me from my idiocy by not doing so. <./<"

100/300. Yay! This is filling up quite nicely.

tazzyboyishere posted...

Second edit: Didn't read the rules because I suck. I'll think of a character theme later

Don't be hard on yourself, it's a really weird request for me to have made & I probably wouldn't have said anything--I'd have to listen to all the songs to confirm that none of them were a character theme that just wasn't labeled... and by that point it'd be less work to just rank them. Also, azuarc was nice enough to nominate extra character themes, so I could make an argument that one of his picks would functionally fill the slot of someone who skipped the character requirement.

That being said, it was very nice of you to notice & fix things yourself, so thank you!

Mega_Mana posted...

#69. Hors D'uvre
Artist: Made in Heights
Nominator: ZaziGuado (3/5)
Time: 3:25
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvbOJRlKK
Initial Rankings: Batch 5 - 6/15 (C+) & Rubric 7

The last letter of the link was accidentally deleted:

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

Mega_Mana posted...

#68. Shakticat

Ah, my wildcard song. I really thought that one would be my highest scoring. Anyway, I love the way the song opens--it's so deep and beautiful that it's absolutely one of my favorite songs ever... and then it kinda transitions into a more standard pop song which is nice enough. The only real problem is the song refusing to end! It gets to a natural stopping point, kinda fades a bit, and then resumes in full. It doesn't do anything different with the second half, it just... forgets to stop? It makes it so I have no idea what score I want to give the song; I still like it, but I have no idea why it's so arbitrarily extended.

(This is a problem with every song on the album... none of them seem to know when to end.)

HBJDubs posted...

the transition between tracks is broken

Is there any other source you'd suggest over Spotify? I wouldn't mind giving the album another chance.

I forgot to mention that, as always, any song link that will play on my phone is valid. So you can use YouTube, but also Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, or whatever. I'm really not picky when it comes to links.

GLaDOS
Vivi

NFUN posted...

hey, I still remember it extremely well. That counts for something!

It really does, considering how many songs there were. Thank you!

I like Dear My Friend.

rwlh posted...

I gave it a 6.5 but it's been a while.

Woohoo! I'm not entirely sure why I uploaded that song just for NFUN's ranking, but hearing that you didn't hate it at the time makes it feel strangely worthwhile.

Thank you all very much! All current noms are added to my spreadsheet.

75/300 slots filled.

Snow

Seanchan posted...

There was a point during that first listen that I would have just called this moody teenager shit.

Seanchan posted...

It's got such a depressing mood

Now, see, I love depressing songs--just take a look at Mega Mana's song ranking and see how often I praise sad lyrics because I can't shut up about them even at other people's topics. The way you speak of this album, it feels like something I should love... but it didn't work for me either. At no point did I feel any sadness or depression from anything. I wouldn't call them happy songs, but as someone who loves sadness and angsty teen music, I never felt like I got any of that from this album.

To be fair, I find the album more mid-tier and forgettable than something I actively dislike, but it's weird how this is somehow too depressing for some people & not nearly depressing enough for me.

I like Mago City Part 2 & Cross Examination.

rwlh posted...

Ballz 3D - Title Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPz-uG-qXM

Waveshine purposefully gave me several songs she thought of as bad VGM. How did this pan out for her? Stay tuned to find out! In lieu of a writeup, I will quote a comment on the video that I find very fitting: Grandpa just learned what samples are and hes gonna use them all! I mean, I love weird samples in music, but these samples arent doing the song any favors, especially coupled with a pretty bland backing track. Mission accomplished, Fox! (I think?)

Woo, Name Entry officially not the worst vocal sample spamming song! ...Though now I'm curious how Trivial Pursuit's Credits theme compared to Ballz 3D's Title Theme since the spreadsheet didn't give scores (other than 9+).

...Okay, I know the answer is "not well", but as that song was my obscure and terrible barrage of arbitrary samples, I can't help but wonder.

Garrus
Pyramid

Tag.

Crash Into Me: It's a nifty idea, but I don't think I connect with instrumental lullabies. Which is something I never thought about before hearing this song.

GHOST: Great lyrics, but I wish the music itself had a sadder or more desperate sound to it:

Can you see me?
Are these voices of mine reaching you?
[...]
I'm screaming, struggling, running barefoot
Hey, please notice me

It never feels like she's screaming or struggling, so there's a slight disconnect.

Raisin' Me Up: I dig the lo-fi type sound.

Pepperoni
Sausage
Extra Cheese
Mushrooms