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Four songs before I change my mind; I... really don't know exactly what's going to end up in the top ten by the time I'm done shuffling things around. But apparently it's not any of these four songs. At this exact moment in time.

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#20: Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty Gear Strive OST) - Drift (5:42):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-h-h7hoQxg

Nominator: Ark [1/17 Remaining]

Initial Score: 59.59
Revised Score: 63.14
Final Score: 60.158 [Upgraded to 63.147] [Upgraded to 66.73] [Upgraded to 71.29] [Upgraded to 72.31] [Upgraded to 85.9067] [Upgraded to 90.68] [Upgraded to 91.53] [Upgraded to 93.23] [Upgraded to 93.58 (upgraded to 97.01 moments later)] [Upgraded to 98.74]

(First Reaction: I have no idea what I just listened to, but I'm pretty sure I liked it. As befits someone named Chaos, the song flips between genres a few times, ranging from the metal inspired sound one expects from the series to happy, theatrical musical which is certainly something, and then an unexpected shift to operatic near the end? I'm not totally sold on the idea of making it a 60 point song right now, I think it's a bit below the songs in the CLUMP, but I like it and I'm glad it was nominated. It also makes me interested in the character of Happy Chaos, so it's doing a fine job of hyping up the character and the game.)

!The song goes a bit harder than I'd like at times, but it's strange and compelling enough that I feel good about moving it up to the "I like this" tier.

[Final Thoughts: A fun, chaotic song. I'd prefer more of the theatrical parts, but I do like it.]

[Later: I'm surprised this song got moved so far down the list. I'm tempted to move it up quite a ways, but I'll start by moving it back towards the Revised Score.]

[Later: And another three points.]

[Later: Song is perhaps a bit too intense for me in places, but this type of insanity is something I find quite appealing... going to move it up a tier.]

[Later: One more point?]

[Later: Actually, I think I kinda love this song at the moment... moving this to the mid-to-high 80s.]

[Later: And one, most likely final boost, to the early 90s. I do love this song. It's completely over-the-top, ludicrous, and chaotic & it belongs up at the final tier.]

[Later: One more point, actually.]

[Later: Eh, let's go up to 93 points.]

[Later: And a slight upgrade again. There's a lot to love here; besides the lovely theatrical flair to everything, we've got some very non-human metaphors ("I will just be a black sea", "I will be a vast universe") which offer some intriguing things to imagine. "There's a hundred of me" is also quite relevant to me... though he means it more literal with clones, there's a lot I can work with here.

...actually, take a few more points while I'm at it. I like where this is going.]

[Later: And a final, small boost. Love the lyrics, the metaphors, and the chaos in this track.]

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And at this point, I jump everything left to 100 points. Songs are not considered to be tied, unless specifically stated. Let's just say we're functionally beyond numbers at this point.

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#19: Jeffrey Tonsend - Gracie Films Logo (0:04):
https://youtu.be/q_slAJmZBeQ

Nominator: Mega_Mana [0/38 Remaining]

Initial Score: 100
Revised Score: 94.83
Final Score: 100

(First Reaction: *legitimately becomes moved to tears from the overwhelming nostalgia related to The Critic*

...There is a very real chance that I let this song win.)

!Ehhhhh... the emotions attached to this are so overwhelming that it would make a good victor, but I'm feeling a bit more drawn to the full-length songs at this level tonight. It's definitely still in the conversation for first place though.

[Final Thoughts: There are a lot of powerful memories associated with this little jingle. Not of The Simpsons, as great as the earlier seasons were I cannot be nostalgic for that which has never left, but for The Critic. While Duckman reruns may have had a tremendous impact on making me what I am, Comedy Central had an entire block of adult animation reruns back in the day. The Critic, Duckman, Undergrads... possibly others, was Clone High part of the block? Well, whatever. The point is The Critic was also something that I watched on repeat during a rather formational part of my past.

While Duckman was far more influential, The Critic has held up much better over time. I remember watching it way back when it premiered on Fox (I wouldn't see its original run from.... whichever network originaly had it until repeats in the future), then on Comedy Central during some important times, reruns later again during the best year of my life, and occasionally to this day. It's one of the best animated comedies that I've ever seen and I always find something to enjoy in it, no matter which stage of my life I'm at. Which causes this tiny, insignificant jingle to have tremendously powerful memories associated with it.

I shouldn't let it win... I'm definitely being emotionally manipulated by the memories around the song rather than the song itself. And yet, I cannot discount the possibility of its victory just yet.]

[Later: While this song was tied for first place after the "Final" scores, I think I'll be rearranging the list so that it's down here... I'm afraid that I'm not quite getting crippled by emotional flashbacks looking at this right now & there's always a point where the nostalgic songs are culled in favor of new songs. In theory, that's what the R# section would prevent as i then wouldn't need to directly compare the new & the old. But inexplicably, it was this nomination that led me to change my mind about having an R# category at all... you see way, way, way back before nominations even finished, as soon as I heard this, I was so overwhelmed that I felt it absolutely had to win the main ranking & flatly refused to have this sent away to some sub-category of ranking.

...and then when we finally got here, I wound up cutting it early in favor of new things anyway, thus demonstrating why we needed the R# category in the first place. Ah well. As this is the highest ranking of all nostalgic songs, you can consider it the winner of that sub-category, even if there was no official division this time around.]

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Elimination #18: Mega Mana

Lowest Scoring Song

Run D.M.C. & Guns N' Roses (Mash-Up) - Tricky Child o' Mine [39.77]

Highest Scoring Song

Jeffrey Tonsend - Gracie Films Logo [100]

Average Score: 67.30

I think you may have hit the most tiers? 30, 40, 50, 55, Above 60, 70, 80, 95+, and one may wish to count 100 as a tier of its own. ...Actually, nevermind, I decided to check and Bane has more if you count the Wall & The Clump as tiers onto themselves, so... well, it's still a very wide spread of scores either way.

"Hybrid Theory" was quite a good album, Six songs above 70 points (one of which was at 90) is quite an accomplishment! I think I preferred Meteora, but this was more of a band I like doing the things I like them for, so it was a nice addition to the topic. Your wildcard picks also had a fair number of high-scoring songs; looks like, combined, you wound up with 6 "kinda loves" and 4 "loves", which is a pretty significant number. Thank you.

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