#26. Song: Land of the Free
Artist: Gamma Ray
Link:
Nominated by FL81
- Some cool power rock. That's pretty mcuh all there is to it. It was kickass and burned hot.
#25. Song: Sensation
Game: Salamander 2
Link:
Nominated by Ace_Killjoy
- This music kicks ass! I feel like I'm just streaming through the cosmos. Love it!
#24. Song: I Sing, I Swim
Artist: Seabear
Link:
Nominated by ZaziGuado
- It was tough to get a handle on this early on. My first few listens put into the "Meh" column, but it's been quite nice and refreshing to hear amongst its fellow candidates. In my heart, in my mind, it's a wonderful song.
BONUS RANKING
~23.5 Song: Lagu Untukmu
Artist: Meet Uncle Hussain
Link:
Nominated by NioraptH, Last Year, For TV Music Rankings
Placed ~24/47
- I think only Nio and maybe azuarc would understand why this song is here, and as it's been almost a month since I mentioned it in chat, they probably don't recall at all.
Last year, I tried doing a list in the midst of ranking my favorite one-hundred television shows. It only got forty-seven nominations. Lagu Untukmu was the midpoint of the list, ranking highest of all the mid-level songs. Twenty-three "Excellent" and "Great" songs ranked above it and twenty-three "Good," "Meh," and "Bad" songs below. With how high up it is on this list, it's a good indicator of what I feel really separates the best from the rest. Everything above Lagu Untukmu is great, absolutely amazing. The reason that it's here at all is to point out just how much else I thought was just good or meh or bad or, even worse, awful, a category that only co-existed with 'bad' for one song.
I made mention to Nio and maybe azu in chat, about halfway through listening to these nominations, that Lagu Untukmu would beat almost everything nominated thus far. For the most part, I'm surprised it isn't higher. Initial impressions were really sour in the middle of it all. Though my frustration's lessened considerably and I've come to enjoy most of these songs in some way or another, Lagu Untukmu and the twenty-three songs above it rank above everything below this point.
Songs like:
~15. New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, "Intro Theme"
Nominated by ZaziGuado
~6. Bis, "Powerpuff Girls Closing Theme"
Nominated by RakaPutra
~1. Peter Gabriel, "Book of Love"
Nominated by SomeKindOfJoke
Again, the last fifty-plus songs I've quite enjoyed. They just haven't stood out as songs I would listen to again all that often. And it's a complete coincidence it ranks at about the same spot.
Also, said Bad/Terrible song?
And it would rank #91.5, between Ladi Dadi & Spyro.
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