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R#2: FRESH GOES BETTER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYluaWIpoX8

Nominator: Mega_Mana (18/18)
Source: Mega_Manas Extra Songs (5/5)

Initial Score: 100 [R#1]
Revised Score: 100 [R#2]
Final Score: 100 [R#2]

(First Thoughts: Ah, I needed this song. It came somewhere in the top 5 (I forget if it was 4th or 5th) at the first ranking topic and was still ranked too low. It was never going to win there, but it should have taken third place easily.

Its one of those songs that I dont shut up about and I find it far more inspirational than it should be. Like, inspirational music doesnt usually work for me, but this doeswhenever I had trouble at the first ranking topic, Id fire this up to get my energy and motivation back. I listened to it so many times (which probably means it should have won, but... lets not get into that). And with some of the songs this year, I know Ill need the support of this song again.)

Once again this song gets almost to the top of a list, only to fall at the last moment. And now to fill time, Im just going to copy my writeup from the first topic:

4th Place:

This song really helped me get through the ranking. It's probably the one I've listened to the most often, turning to it whenever I needed a pick-me-up. Songs reminding you of suicide, genocide, [redacted], or [redacted]? It's easy when you're full of life!

Part of me really wants to give this song first place... but then this song isn't exactly new to me. I've seen the commercials often enough that I knew it reasonably well; didn't know you could find a full length version on YouTube, but it's still not new.

...then again there are no rules and I can place any song anywhere I want... but... yeah, I think I want to have the other three remaining songs above it. It's a tough call, but the last songs are so totally amazing that I can't move them down any further. I'm sorry.

[FINAL-ER NOTES: This hits a lot of the same notes as Dagothwave, but while Dagothwave is funny, the Mentos theme is strangely inspirational. Getting through the ranking would have been much, much more difficult without the Mentos theme keeping me happy and motivated. Don't care how absurd that sounds, I'm an absurd creature, deal with it.]

Really should have had it in third place that year... oh well. Song was great then, is still great now, and still not quite first place in its category.

[Final Thoughts: Or perhaps I should have just had a three way tie between Mentos, maclir, and focus tous; three completely great songs that cant be directly compared to each other.

...of course I refused to allow ties at the first topic and a three-way tie for first would be incredibly anticlimactic, so maybe not. Either way, this was a lot closer to winning the first topic than it seemed like it was.]

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R#1: JUST COMMUNICATION:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xbIkI3vcgU

Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (14/15)

Initial Score: 52.00 [R#28]
Revised Score: 100 [R#1]
Final Score: 100 [R#1]

(First Thoughts: I have a lot of nostalgia for Gundam Wing, but Ive honestly never been much a fan of this song. Ive tried listening to it a lot since I like being reminded of Wing, but Im just not into it.

Best version of the song is the Saturn version of Super Robot Wars F, followed by the beep-y rendition from SRW Link Battlerits so low quality, but the Game Boy Color chipset makes it rather cute. (Though neither of those would have likely gone beyond the 60s anyway.))

Super Robot Wars F Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V714O8BEASE

Link Battler Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1mrmuCMBCk

Aaanywho..., you ever suddenly click with a song that you never really cared about before? Tonight, it works for meparticularly the lines about being in the rain because, as usual, anything dealing with rain is usually worth a bunch of points.

So the song has a lot going for it: Gundam memories (points), rain (major points), I dont know what to classify the unexpected RED ALERT! as but I like it (more points), its a reasonably well-performed J-Pop songs (Japanese songs usually do well), its surprising that I was usually biased against the song. I think there were two main points working against it:

1.Ive never liked Relena as a character. Falling in love with someone who openly declares his intention to murder you is just stupid. Actually, just about everything said by any character on Gundam Wing is stupid, but this is just....on a whole other level of stupidity. I typically cant get into a Relena & Heero love song because I very much dont like the idea of them in a relationship in the first place.

2.Most translations are a little too explicit. I want to express this unfading passion with my entire body! Is...not exactly something that leaves room for other interpretations. You certainly can find alternate translations of that line that are less Imma have sex with Heero in the middle of this rainstorm while sirens are blaring at us because I only make terrible, terrible decisionss, but you usually have to go looking for them.

But tonight... tonight I actually want a song about confessing forbidden love in the rain and like what the song is doing. Who knows, perhaps by the time the rankings start Ill be back to not really liking it. But for now, this has a pretty good chance of getting first place among the R#s.

[Final Thoughts: I was this close to moving this to second and letting Mentos win the R# category, but I think I prefer this. Also, it feels like a more appropriate winnerlike Gamma Unchained, I already knew that Mentos was one of my favorite songs ever. This song I did not care about at all and wouldnt have given it much thought without it being nominated, so there needs to be some special commendation for getting me to see a song I never cared about in a new light.

...Of course, if my opinion on an R# song can change so drastically, it kinda proves that the R# category was ultimately pointless. If even the songs Ive heard an infinite number of times over many years can have their scores change so drastically, then it kinda disproves the whole these are songs I know so well that I probably dont need to listen to them point...

...welp, whats done is done.]

[Final-er Thoughts: ...Also, I see I messed up the numbering at least once. Two songs from History Repeating Red are listed as being 4/10 on the album. If I cant keep the numbering straight on this small of a list, the full one is going to be...interesting... ]

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