Welcome to National Ed Bellis Day, folks. Be sure to celebrate your Ed Bellis.
100. Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith - Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall
Uploader: Ed Bellis (484)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Ed Bellis upload of the day #1. Ugh, what a way to start our top 100 -- with me having a difference of opinion with my previous self. I know not every song in the top 100 will be absolutely transcendent, but after some of the songs I panned, I'm trying to figure out how this cracked the 80th percentile. It's good, but it's also a bit boring, TBQH.
99. Kamaitachi no Yoru - Visions of a Distant Day
Uploader: Ed Bellis (498)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Ed Bellis upload of the day #2. Loved the background, and the pitch-bending dissonance actually worked. I don't know if it would get this rating again if I relistened, but I went for it today. (That was the old comment. Nope, it's still good!)
98. The Bouncer - Volt Kreuger
Uploader: Harmonica (354)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Starts off with driving rock, but gives way to more stratospheric sounds. The rock drifts in and out without fully regaining control, but it doesn't matter. Both aspects of the song are good, and they play off each other well.
97. Ever17 - LeMu ~the far away land of Lemuria~
Uploader: superangelo128 (068)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Great sound, particularly the back-up singers. The lead is mostly solid, but there are a couple places where she seems to falter a little. (I say this with the realization that probably all the vocal tracks are the same person.) The bridge, in particular, is weak, but I liked the rest of the song.
96. Guilty Gear X (NAOMI Arcade) - The Original
Uploader: superangelo128 (012)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: The sax part of The Original is great. (I say this with absolutely no bias whatsoever.) This isn't the version of the song I've heard before, and at times the backdrop is severely muddled. It's still really good, but a different Guilty Gear's rendition would have been preferable.
95. Wild Arms 3 - Flying in the Midst of the Storm
Uploader: TheKnightOfNee (475)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: The spiritual at the beginning that reprises Into the Wilderness is absolutely amazing, but sadly the rest can't maintain that level of incredible. Even the whistling part can't relive the magic of the original song. I may have underrated this one a bit, since it is still really good, but I was just so disappointed after the first 30 seconds.
94. Ragnarok Online - Dream of a Whale
Uploader: Harmonica (088)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Spanish guitar++. This starts off with a feel that doesn't make you expect it, but the guitar part fits that background beautifully. Yeah, about that earlier comment about Korean games...maybe I need to play (or at least listen to) more of them. And I don't mean Starcraft!
93. Ys: The Oath in Felghana - Sealed Time
Uploader: Pikachu025 (087)
Rating: 7.0
Comment: Really reminds me of old sequenced titles made on FastTracker and the like. (Example: http://chiptunes.emor3j.fr.eu.org/tunes/modarchive.org/R/rba-abhp.xm -- Sealed Time is slightly faster and somewhat busier, but you can probably see the resemblance.)