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Fire Island Volcano
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Rapal

In VGMC13 on the day I had decided to join in and do nominations I saw Fire Island Volcano, and decided I just had to support it because technically that very day I had already been listening to it in a way, because I actually once made a little animation project for college that used a bit of that song as backing because that's what I was listening to while making it, and so on that very day I had apparently decided to rewatch that animation before checking the nominations and then I saw it wow! Then apparently during the last minute voterush someone de-nommed it and I didn't catch it, and it ended up being the only 1 of my 20 nominations (which were really all supports) to not get in that year. This year I didn't face as well results ! I think it was more like 16 I got in this year, maybe less. Maybe that's still like above average or something or maybe not. Maybe it's average. I dunno. Anyway this song got put in my ranking topic, maybe because I had supported it! But I'm not gonna say much here yet because I WILL SOON I wonder if during set 2 would be a good time to get it up & running or so... Anyway as for the other song here, the y'know swear song, it's a fairly weird song. It reminds me a ton of a soundtrack I found & wanted to nominate for Place's theoretical "weird vgm song" ranking topic if/when that becomes a thing so I will be vague about it. It reminds me a bunch about it for better & for worse, often for worse actually. Because said soundtrack also does a ton of "repeat sections 4 times with little variance before moving onto another section to repeat" that also have this weird voice talking through it, and ultimately thus they both have this weird feel to them. Hence why I want to nominate something like that for the topic! Anyway I do like weird! But I also clearly like FIV on some level, and ultimately I like it more so that's my vote thanks.

I think at some point I got MAIN MENU song confused in my mind with the swear song of the previous match that I just listened to, probably because these are both somewhat "meme"ish songs that come from racing games. Maybe the way they are placed directly next to each other on the bracket contributed to that too or maybe that was a coincidence. Anyway I'm not really feeling this one that much, I kind of like the retro feel a lot of the audio quality has but the moody piano turns me away. Buuuuuuut, it's up against vocal focus. Hrm.... I mean obviously by now I've shown I'm not against voting vocals when a vocal song has more for me than the non vocal song, which, is kind of what's going on here. I really like a lot of the fast paced little synth notes going on giving the song a real neat atmosphere. I kind of really like the sort of key tune going on at 1:54-1:56 that I will probably never know how to explain. Additionally these vocals aren't the worst. I really feel like OtocaHEARTd'or has more to offer for me. Heck the piano in MAIN MENU is probably more of a detriment to me than the vocals here.

The piano is far less of a detriment in Rapal than it is in MAIN MENU. Meanwhile the vocals are far more of a detriment in Skyclad Observer than they are in Otaca<3D'or. How does the world work. The piano issue may have to do with the general moody sad vibe the song of MAIN MENU feels. Anyway I think I've written about these toc songs before.

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