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Memories Rushing By
Discovery
Battle!!

Final Boss Theme is my 117th favorite in the contest! i talked about this enough last time it was in i think, i both like it more than i used to and less than i used to at the SAME Time which averages about to the same level as it started. I'm even more bothered by the forcefulness of the cheesy blues scale's ever-presence here, just way too viscerally repulsed by that scale almost always; also less fond of the instrumentation than i used to be, i still love vrc7 and n163 but the more i listen to this the more i just think about how much i prefer other uses of those chips. but I'm also much more fond of everything else than i was before ! the chord changes and individual harmonies i still find really cool. the progression is yasui-adjacent but actually even cooler somehow, and I think every layer is pretty expressive. stuff feels like live solos but it's inside a computer. lots of detail was clearly put into this and i absolutely respect that.

Memories Rushing By is my 77th favorite in the contest! I like fluffy piano stuff like this! cool minimalist-adjacent stuff(not really that's not what it is or maybe it is who careS). The way this spends so much of its composition in terms of constant 16ths brings a lot of attention to "which harmonies are interesting?" "which chord changes stand out?" "which accent patterns are distinct?" and maybe most importantly "what organic deviations from the constant 16ths stream feel most effective". rubato slowdowns feel a lot more powerful than they would in something more "rhythmic" or "melodic" because of that initial style of constant even spaced stuff. I think all of those factors are things i care about a lot and even if subtle, it places focus on them because of the nature of this style and that makes me happy! So pretty! Listening to this makes me happy! the sprinkled unexpected chord changes are subtle and i only notice them if i'm paying a lot of attention, but when i am there's a pretty powerful emotion evoked and i'm GLAD that there is! there's lots of stuff i could say about this and i could be more clear about what i mean by tagging specific moments, etc, but this is a Very hectic time for me out of nowhere so I Will Not Do That but i like this song and that is all you need to : ) know

77 and 117 if you replace the 11 with the 77 from the 77ths place then you get 777th plaace which is good luck happy sand patrick's day

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Discovery is my 76th favorite in the contest! like I said on solitude i'm still amazed this actually caame out in the 90s like HOW is it not "moderrn thing imitating the 90s". i listen to so much music from that decade and so little of it feels this "modern." this has traits distinct to the era, but it also is just really ahead of its time i guess. this is full of warpy filter manipulation stuff, fading between distant/muffled vs sharp/clean. i love that feeling of sounds transforming from one to another. the way some of these patches are layered gives the illusion of one sound morphing into another and that's just one of my favorite effects. exciting stereo panning stuff is almost always a plus to me. this has a very wide l/r spatial range and i dig that. . rapid descents into breakbeat AAAah. funky epiano. my favorite sounds here are all the manipulations to the chimes, all the "unnatural" stuff done to such a familiar natural instrument: the feeling that they're reversed, or the downward pitch bending on them, just in general the presence of anything with the chimes for SOME REASON helps make this to me. cool chord changes going up and down a half step. love the synth solo stuff. Every time this ends I get sad because I like it too much!!!! and then i just listen again!! HELP I CANT STOP LISTENINg. wow I ranked this way too low wtf 76 what was i thinking. I mean it's definitely "not memorable" to me compared to a lot of the stuff above it but i also don't consider that as bad a trait as most others do, still i'd definitely rank this notably higher than 76th if i did a reranking.

Rave On is my 156th favorite in the contest! this is a track i liked whenever it was thrown around during my earlier presence on board 8. it fit with my tastes then which were far more centric around timbre than composition compared to now, and cliche minor-key stuff was much my thing. i mean it's probably not surprising when i'm unironically excited about the instrumentation that's considered cheesy in ready to shave and stuff for how adjacent to my older taste it was, i don't really consider this cheesy instrumentally for the same reason i didn't consider that cheesy BUT i do think this in particular...extremely Not what i want composition-wise anymore. almost everything about this composition-wise to me is a negative to me other than "i like minor because it is not happy", i guess i kinda like the constant 16ths fast synth bits and some of the harmonies are neat. but really the only thing saving this from being super low is older board 8 nostalgia and adoration of artificial sounds (some of which i actually think are really cool! the faake choir, and pulsating shiny glimmer at like :28). my qualms with this are especially frustrating now that i know the whole killer7 ost and realize this is probably my least favorite song in the game, would've gotten really into the soundtrack had i known the rest of it was so much more my thing than this. still some fun stuff going on, the level of chaos at the later parts is pretty fun, and

hot air balloon!!!!!!!!!!

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Servants of the Scourge (11th/56) vs. Battle!! (5th/56). close numerically, but i do not have any issue choosing battle here because i am the largest fan in the graph system of "polymetric soloistic/improvized elements in 'jazz' genre" and all the post-tonal stuff that sounds like music i like. scourge is pretty great but my favorite elements take up less than 1/3 of the track so i don't get to go to the franklin the turtle high school reunion shell epic dm donkey chord changes i'm happy that dm dokuro is making smart mental health decisions unlike me and i wish the best for him because his spontaneous tonal center changes for 2 seconds that make me fall over have enriched my experience of being alive when you
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