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Ready to Shave
Redial
Chocolate Missile

MARIA is my 190th favorite in the contest! as time's gone on the reasons for me hating this track have changed. I used to be more bothered specifically by it hinging on a 4 chord progression that's one I do not like, but i don't think that's quite it anymore. it's not like just because i like "complex music" that i inherently dislike "simplicity" when half my favorite music is specifically extremely minimal and simple, and i can name plenty of simple 4-chord looping songs where i love them specifically for the progression (even "common" ones, though not usually the particular one represented in this song). at this point my frustration with this song comes completely from something else. it's the same thing that makes me despise epic metal versions of christmas songs or "Pokemon - Route 1 [EPIC METAL COVER]". it's like, i mean just put simply I don't want this "epic" instrumentation applied to music that i perceive as "happy" and this sounds like fucking graduation ceremony music to me. the guitar solo sounds much like it's in the wrong place to me I hate it, but i'd like it if the music it was present within actually felt dark or something I'd be excited about it. it's maybe a stupid hangup, but i think most of why I like electric guitar when I like it is because it feels "edgy" and "cool" and when it's soaring over something i perceive as extremely not that then i lose interest

Ready to Shave is my 24th favorite in the contest! I like how this goes 4 bars of 4/4, 8 bars of 5/4, [7/4, 3/4, 5/4, 4/4]x2, 12 bars of 4/4, 8 bars of 5/4, [7/4, 3/4, 5/4, 4/4]x2, 24 bars of 4/4, 40 bars of 5/4, 1 bar of 3/4, [5/4, 4/4]x14, 4/4..........THIS is the definition of my taste in music in 2011, maybe not as much as burning force medley but it's pretty close. What I wanted most at that time was "prog rock" composition applied to "80s synth" stuff, aand that's EXACTLY what this is. IT's HARD TO FIND music that sounds like this! Prog lost popularity after the 70s ended very sharply, and the few prog bands who did continue into the 80s lost a lot of their complexity too. So whenever I'd find some prog band that had something this mixed meter that came out in the 80s and SOUNDED like it came out in the 80s, I'd be overwhelmingly excited! This is literally "more proggy" than most of my "80s synth music with prog composition" that I'd dug deep for and saved and held dear then (though a lot simpler- especially tonality-wise, than the stuff I seek out now. but this type of "stereotypical dramatic song in minor" was my favorite back then anyways). If I'd known this existed back then it'd be legit a top 10 favorite song for me ever. The instrumentation isn't quite my favorite 80s-adjacent stuff, synths are a bit more analog-y, not any FM here, and a lot of my favorite 80s production tropes aren't really here, but it's still undeniably 80s sounding! the xylophone peeking in the back sometimes alongside the synths is great. i don't perceive this as a joke at ALL mostly because i have a hard time paying attention to lyrics or having them ever influence my reaction to a track, if anything "silly lyrics" just makes me think of prog bands i like like Zappa or Bubblemath anyways. likewise I never found 80s synths "cheesy" or ""dated"", can't think anything other than EPIC SOUND when I hear them, they're just timbres I like the sound of, and I'm always happy to hear whenever they're still used in modern music (or actual 80s music of course!)

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Distorted Happiness is my 135th favorite in the contest! i'm in the smaller camp that really really wishes this were the anime version, the detuning /made/ this track for me, and even the more normal rest of it has less sharp production here than what i recall. this'd be significantly higher ranked if it were the anime version. I still like this more than all the other caligula tracks in the contest though! dissonant bits are successfully climactic in timing and really fun. I love the edgy distorted vocals and whispering. Some really cool sounds here too, the weird high pitched distorted electronic thing at 2:55 is INSANE cool sounding to me. the more melodic parts are nice and fun and dramatic, cool rhythmic playfulness in the rhythms of the melody sometimes. Dislike nothing about this, really fun listen.

Redial is my 72nd favorite in the contest! I LOVE BOMBERMAN HERO OST. i like jungle/dnb/etc as a thing and bomberman hero's probably the most raw, pure example of jungle-style music in a game soundtrack. this isn't one of my favorites in the ost (actually just skimmed through the ost and realized this is basically my least favorite track in the game lol oops, did not even realize that, if THIS is the low point of this ost for me though it shows how much I like the soundtrack!), I think maybe it's a bit too bright/hopeful/happy/melodic/catchy for my liking compared to the rest. Plenty of others in the game are weirder or darker and have more focus on just "cool chords and atmosphere", but i don't dislike this at all~! 0:32's held out chord pads are REALLY GOOD and sound ALIVE. I've talked before about how I find it hard to appreciate n64 music a lot of time, i could go into the technical reasons behind why, but in the end, this eschews my common frustrations with the system's music, definitely one of my favorite soundtracks on the n64. i think the jungle style's actually a good deal of why this gets around the problems i typically have with the system's music too. it can get around me feeling like it's not full enough by using chord samples and drum loops and things (and as a result, actively leans into the types of harmonies and chord changes i like most). definitely a fun game ost to look at the sequence data of as well.

hero. i'd likely be voting distorted happiness if it were the anime version

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Megalovania is my 53rd favorite ToC entrant! I don't want to waste my time trashing this again when I already did with the Smash version in the main bracket. I hate this version slightly less but it's still one of my least favorite Toby Fox songs- I really never think about how popular/memetic/whatever it is when making that assessment as I said last time, it's hyper-popularity is pretty out of my consciousness. My frustration with this isn't that it's "annoying because it's popular" or anything dumb like that, it's just legit probably my least favorite track compositionally in the whole ost, but at least this is my preferred version of it sound-wise. really hate how i'm probably coming across as contrarian anti-toby fox in this contest because I'm NOT, I like a lot of his music! This contest just happens to somehow have Smash Megalovania and Battle Tower BOTH which are possibly my 2 least favorite toby fox songs. Undertale version of Megalovania's maybe a bit higher but it's still not representative at all of what i like about toby's stuff.

Chocolate Missile still 14th favorite out of 56! EAST(EASY) MAtch. feel VERY strongly about matches 1 and 3.
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