66. Amplitude - Shades of Blue
Rating: 16/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 49
Comments:
(Kenri) I forget where I heard this first... OST contest maybe? But anyway, I think I have you to thank for it because I think it's a fantastic song and I like pretty much every part of it.
(xp1337) Shades of Blue is better than okay.
(Ed Bellis) Shades of Blue was a really pleasant surprise.
(MycroProcessor) Trance is nice but this actually sounds kind of "fake" in a way that I don't think is the Best Way at some parts. Still some col sounds thoguh and generally _appealing sound design.
I'm left wondering how it is that out of four commentors, the one who comes across as most negative is Mycro, who "never hates anything." I'm also wondering how with three decent reviews, it comes in at only 66th, but the other three people gave it a collective four points. Still, I love me some Amplitude. Yeah, a lot of it is licensed, but there's a fair bit that's written for the game as well, and although I have no idea if Chris Child is a legitimate artist or simply an in-house alias like "DJ HMX," I've always had a particular fondness for this track. Negative comments scared me off of using it as the track 1 for Amplitude in Best OST, but the game not only reached where I had sunk the track to, but also won with it. (This was in the JFF.) So I think it's safe to say that at least some peple like it decently well. It did better than Stigmata, anyway.
65. Excitebike - Victory Stand
Rating: 17/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 80
Comments:
(Jeff Zero) must I give this two points? Must I?
(TheArkOfTurus) A 9 second song, but at least it isn't obnoxious. I'd rank this above songs I hate.
(Vengeful_KBM) Overrating the s*** out of this because I love it.
I think it's absolutely hilarious that 35 songs came in behind a seven-second jingle. I mean, yeah, it's awesome for what it is, but I can't believe that not once did this song pull a 1. In fact, it got better as we went along -- 2-2-3-3-3-4! Pity nobody jumped on board with me in trying to get this into VGMC6 as a joke nom. Still, I can't help but think that this is the marker for where the fodder line is, because, really, any song of quality should come out ahead of Victory Stand.
64. Final Fantasy VII - Hurry!
Rating: 17/30
Azuarc's Ranking: 67
Comments:
(Kenri) Like most of FFVII's OST, Hurry! is... at least competent. I don't think of it as being much more than that, though, especially in comparison to a lot of FFVII's music which is far beyond competent. I also feel like it's way too ambient for a song called "Hurry!" but it does work pretty well in-game so eh.
(Ed Bellis) zzz
Not sure what I can say about Hurry! other than that there's no mistaking it as coming from any game other than FF7. The style Oematsu uses in his first PS1 game is very distinctive, and the track does get used about 8 billion times during the course of the story. Maybe I like it more because I've heard it so much, but I think it rates favorably compared to the rest of its OST.