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#147 [#64]:

Name: Sweet Victory
Origin: David Glen Eisley
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fnlJ60RO8" data-time="

Nominator: paulg (6/15)

(7, 8, 6.7)

[There are a lot of memories associated with this song. Score fluctuates wildly based on how willing I am to confront those memories at the time.]

Let's just leave it at "good song that cannot be given a writeup due to triggering multiple flashbacks that the current author does not wish to discuss".

[Final Thoughts: You know how some songs kinda get frozen in time in your mind? You always remember exactly when and where you were when you first heard it, along with who was there with you? This is one of those songs.

Anyway, if I had to actually make an attempt at discussing the song, I'd point out that the episode it featured in (Band Geeks) is probably the best episode of SpongeBob--I haven't seen any new episodes in several years as I accepted the first film as the true ending of the series and had no interest in it continuing, so I'll admit to not being able to decisively say that there hasn't been a better episode produced in all this time--and this song was largely responsible for that.

Sure, it has some of the more memorable quotes of the series, but the real joy comes from Squidward finally getting to be happy for once in his miserable life. And this song, this ridiculously cheesy victory anthem, is the perfect celebration song to go with it. Simple, but infectiously catchy, and it was kinda mysterious back in the day--it felt like no one knew who performed the song or what it was called.

It was somehow incredibly fitting for the scene, so random that it was hilarious, so mysterious that we didn't even know what it was, profesionally sung, instantly memorable, and fun--sometimes you just want a cheesy victory celebration song and there aren't many better than Sweet Victory.]

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#146 [#186]:

Name: Hope
Origin: Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTAcJ0ZcUkI" data-time="

Nominator: Raka (10/15)

(4.5, 5, 6.7)

[Im sure this song would emotionally cripple me if I had context, but without it, its just a nice piano song. Half a point bonus for seagulls.]

Very nice piano song that doesn't make me think of anything specific.

[Final Thoughts: This was a tough one to place. It's pretty, has seagulls, and its old score (6.2) marked it as being a notable step-up from all the songs eliminated before it.

On the other hand, instrumental songs usually have to either strongly resonate me with me emotionally, offer a particularly nice dream sequence when I'm listening to it, or feature an overwhelming amount of chaos. This song has none of those things; it's...sad, yes, but it doesn't inspire any particular memories or feelings of sadness. It's like, "yep, that's a sad VN song, alright".

But then it is the prettiest song to be eliminated thus far... this seems to be where it wound up for now, but its placement could shift drastically if I ever re-ranked all the songs.]

[Even Later Thoughts: This song won a VGMC? I can't say it's not pretty enough to deserve it, but I wouldn't have thought there'd be enough consensus on its quality to let it win a large contest like that.]

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