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Topic	Haste2 ranks all 180 VGMC Retirees.
Haste_2 09/16/20 10:45:56 PM #383:	In other words, Reset ~ Thank You is a loser no matter what. 88) maimai MiLK - Credits https://youtu.be/5Z6gGfplhpk Rating: 8.4/10 (Excellent) Composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi VGMC History: VGMC 14 (Lost R2 to Dungeon - Geofront 4, then Lost R5 as a wildcard to, er, Dungeon - Geofront 4) Favorite part: https://youtu.be/5Z6gGfplhpk?t=188 Can you fill a bottle up with Maimai MiLK for Link? I dunno, but even my least favorite R5+ track from VGMC XIV is still pretty good! It also happened to be the only wildcard to retire, even though it had possibly the easiest path to retirement of the sixteen retirees. Fun fact: I was going to vote Akeldama over Credits in round 4 because I like it more, but I ended up abstaining because I thought Credits was far more deserving of retiring. The match was close, so I didnt want to risk it. Now to talk about the actual music. How interesting it is. This might be the most hip-hop of any music on the list. It starts with some radio weather announcing on top of some buttery, somber electronic piano chords. Then it becomes more like hipoff with that beat coming in, okay, whatever. Then at 0:38 comes some mechanical stuff thats hard to describe. It sounds like. a conveyor belt or tape recorder or SOMETHING thats spinning really fast. Then it becomes the central ostinato of the whole track, how very interesting. But its cool! So very hippy and catchy. But they have actual pitches to them, too, also cool, and actually thats VERY important, imo. More radio announcing, but it goes WILD and twisted and warped. Funding for this program is made possible dah-you dah-you! 1:42 gets super rhythmic and off-beat focused honestly this part is pretty groovy! Piano comes back but its not the buttery chords like before :[, even though actually they do come back a bit later! 3:08 the ostinato comes back, but this time the piano gets mixed in, yummmm! False ending at 3:50, but then the music says hey the coolness is not over yet. It starts fragmenting the rap announcing, an artsy way to end it. I LOVE how the way the fast spinning things shuts off at the end, its my favorite thing of all! And then theres, uh, another drum hit? (Lets pretend that doesnt exist because if that was intended to be there, it RUINS the end) Overall, its really cool and artsy and original, but its not exactly my cup of tea, or at least, it didnt used to be. Its grown on me a lot. However, the more I listen to it the more I like it. Still, it makes me mad it had to beat Ar-ciel-ar-manaf, one of my favorite Exa Pico songs. :[ 87) Ys: Memories of Celceta - False God of Causality Series rank: 1 of 4 ELIMINATED: Ys https://youtu.be/L4cC7CyaIm4 Composer: Yukihiro Jindo Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 8 (Lost R5 to White Devil) Favorite Part: Dat intro! Holy WOW, that intro. Its the best intro for a battle theme Ive ever heard! (oh, wait, actually no, but its up there for sure) WHAT KILLER-intense (literally? ) dissonant chords, and I love the pauses between them. Then you got these foreboding trumpet fanfares from way out in the distance (perfect fifth intervals), WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW! Chimes on top of that, too! Talk about a premonition! This intros the hellish darkness of evil itself! Okay, time to continue. Yummy brass writing ( 0:18) leading into the main music. Im liking the horns tearing it up in the first main section..intense. (horns playing the tritone on the bII low brass chord at 0:24 sticks out to me) Got some spooky ascents after. Then the electric guitar gets added...yeah, it might be stereotypical for Ys music to set practically EVERYTHING to metal - for example, at 0:58- but I like the harsh electric guitar sounds juxtaposed against the rather mellow orchestral/choral sound here! Compositionally its not top tier here, through. At 1:50 you get more of the stuff like at the intro! (except not quite as intense, but I like the tapping) After that, you got a pretty nice concluding section that does its job chorus and trumpet (interesting surprise high note at 2:49), yay. At 2:58 the chorus isnt quite done, so they decide to really hammer an intense finale on you, and hey, some of those cool string chords (F, Ab, C, Eb,G, key of C). yeah. All in all, a very Ys-sounding battle theme. Overall, Im a little disappointed with the Ys retirees, though. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." <cite>Haste_2 posted [p:944704366] in Haste2 ran... [t:78392394]...</cite> <quote>In other words, Reset ~ Thank You is a loser no matter what. 88) maimai MiLK - Credits https://youtu.be/5Z6gGfplhpk Rating: 8.4/10 (Excellent) Composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi VGMC History: VGMC 14 (Lost R2 to Dungeon - Geofront 4, then Lost R5 as a wildcard to, er, Dungeon - Geofront 4) Favorite part: https://youtu.be/5Z6gGfplhpk?t=188 Can you fill a bottle up with Maimai MiLK for Link? I dunno, but even my least favorite R5+ track from VGMC XIV is still pretty good! It also happened to be the only wildcard to retire, even though it had possibly the easiest path to retirement of the sixteen retirees. Fun fact: I was going to vote Akeldama over Credits in round 4 because I like it more, but I ended up abstaining because I thought Credits was far more deserving of retiring. The match was close, so I didnt want to risk it. Now to talk about the actual music. How interesting it is. This might be the most hip-hop of any music on the list. It starts with some radio weather announcing on top of some buttery, somber electronic piano chords. Then it becomes more like hipoff with that beat coming in, okay, whatever. Then at 0:38 comes some mechanical stuff thats hard to describe. It sounds like. a conveyor belt or tape recorder or SOMETHING thats spinning really fast. Then it becomes the central ostinato of the whole track, how very interesting. But its cool! So very hippy and catchy. But they have actual pitches to them, too, also cool, and actually thats VERY important, imo. More radio announcing, but it goes WILD and twisted and warped. Funding for this program is made possible dah-you dah-you! 1:42 gets super rhythmic and off-beat focused honestly this part is pretty groovy! Piano comes back but its not the buttery chords like before :[, even though actually they do come back a bit later! 3:08 the ostinato comes back, but this time the piano gets mixed in, yummmm! False ending at 3:50, but then the music says hey the coolness is not over yet. It starts fragmenting the rap announcing, an artsy way to end it. I LOVE how the way the fast spinning things shuts off at the end, its my favorite thing of all! And then theres, uh, another drum hit? (Lets pretend that doesnt exist because if that was intended to be there, it RUINS the end) Overall, its really cool and artsy and original, but its not exactly my cup of tea, or at least, it didnt used to be. Its grown on me a lot. However, the more I listen to it the more I like it. Still, it makes me mad it had to beat Ar-ciel-ar-manaf, one of my favorite Exa Pico songs. :[ 87) Ys: Memories of Celceta - False God of Causality Series rank: 1 of 4 ELIMINATED: Ys https://youtu.be/L4cC7CyaIm4 Composer: Yukihiro Jindo Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 8 (Lost R5 to White Devil) Favorite Part: Dat intro! Holy WOW, that intro. Its the best intro for a battle theme Ive ever heard! (oh, wait, actually no, but its up there for sure) WHAT KILLER-intense (literally? ) dissonant chords, and I love the pauses between them. Then you got these foreboding trumpet fanfares from way out in the distance (perfect fifth intervals), WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW! Chimes on top of that, too! Talk about a premonition! This intros the hellish darkness of evil itself! Okay, time to continue. Yummy brass writing ( 0:18) leading into the main music. Im liking the horns tearing it up in the first main section..intense. (horns playing the tritone on the bII low brass chord at 0:24 sticks out to me) Got some spooky ascents after. Then the electric guitar gets added...yeah, it might be stereotypical for Ys music to set practically EVERYTHING to metal - for example, at 0:58- but I like the harsh electric guitar sounds juxtaposed against the rather mellow orchestral/choral sound here! Compositionally its not top tier here, through. At 1:50 you get more of the stuff like at the intro! (except not quite as intense, but I like the tapping) After that, you got a pretty nice concluding section that does its job chorus and trumpet (interesting surprise high note at 2:49), yay. At 2:58 the chorus isnt quite done, so they decide to really hammer an intense finale on you, and hey, some of those cool string chords (F, Ab, C, Eb,G, key of C). yeah. All in all, a very Ys-sounding battle theme. Overall, Im a little disappointed with the Ys retirees, though. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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