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#204: I am Setsuna - Dance of Death
Nominator: Kaonashi1 (5/6)
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4k42KWxbBU" data-time="

Piano! One of my favourite instruments. I like melodies and I like (most) percussive sounds, so it's a match made in heaven. I don't like I am Setsuna's soundtrack as much as I probably should though, considering that it's almost entirely piano. This song is good, but lacks ambition in my eyes... which is how I feel about most of the OST. The piano section is the best part for sure, especially in the second half of the song, but the backing lets it down by being so utterly plain and one-note. So in the end it's a pretty good song, one I still enjoy, but one that also represents a clear missed opportunity. Could have easily been a lot better.

#203: Mighty Switch Force! 2 - Exothermic
Nominator: Nameless2000 (8/10)
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPJUzunUJVc" data-time="

I mentioned during #206 that there was two songs left that were awesome but dragged down by how they sounded. This is the other one. The whole song is mastered in such a way that it kinda blends together and turns into a wall of muddy noise. The bass and drums are probably the main cause - they're dreadfully loud. But where as something like this would normally have ranked much lower, the song itself is SO GOOD that I just couldn't bring myself to crap on it quite so hard. Seriously, this could have been a top 100 song. It's the Jake Kaufman we know and love, rocking the heck out. It's hard, fast and driving, with catchy melodic components and just enough variation to keep things interesting. Great stuff, just... make it less of a headache to listen to.

And with that, we've finally hit a milestone! I'm officially 1/3 done; 101 of 303 rankings have been posted. Sorry it's taking so long for me to get through this project.

Ranking from here on out gets a lot harder. Songs that are next to each other are pretty interchangeable.
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