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I'm raising the bar a little bit more for 9.0. Flash Frost is the new benchmark, and I'm pretty sure this is the last time I'm raising the bar! Stuff before that will have their ratings dropped slightly as a result.

32) Umineko no Naku Koro ni 4 - Endless Nine
Series ranking: 2 of 15
https://youtu.be/6Qs9EiK_JJE
Composer: dai
Prelim score: 9.1/10
Score: 9.0/10 (Amazing)
VGMC History: VGMC 4 (Lost R4), VGMC 7 (Lost R2), VGMC 9 (Lost R5 to Seize the Truth)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/6Qs9EiK_JJE?t=123

Interesting how early this one appeared in VGMC and to think that it was in a match just last year in the ToC. This ones cool! It has a very serious tone, in a unique way. Its full of good melodies, emotionally it reaches out to me, and it doesnt have long boring edm trance segments that have hardly anything going on! Funny how this ended up exactly at 9/10 given its name.

Im liking those harmonies and xylophone rhythms (SO FUN) near the start. as well as how the flute gets put on top (I like the chromatic parts of it!). Then the big chimes come in, one epic strike at a time! Then the violins take the theme, which is good stuffl, but I like some parts more than others. theres that dissonant chord at 0:41, a good thing! I LOVE the note choices at 0:57 - 1:01...so quirky how it does a sort of chromatic neighbor-type king!!!! Then come the chords at 1:14. Its simple, but surprisingly fun. Such a graceful bounce to it! And perfectly placed, too! But the best part has to be at the two minute mark such great harmonies, such great melodies! Oh, the FEELINGS from this section! Also, at 2:16 the amazing 1:15 piano chords are now in the background, OMG HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS UNTIL [when I made this writeup]?! For the next couple of minutes its mostly familiar repetitions. 4:31 gives us a new cool piano idea, and HEY, those 1:15 piano chords at 4:43 again, aw yeah! Except I actually dont really like all the strings being added it doesnt mix very well.

I wonder what those words spoken are about something about Satan? =O

31) Civilization IV - Baba Yetu
Translation: Our Father
https://youtu.be/5e0Qelqp-Cc
Composer: Christopher Tin
Other credits: Soweto Gospel Choir
Prelim score: 9.4/10
Score: 9.1/10 (Amazing)
VGMC History: VGMC 1 (Lost R7 to Scars of Time)
Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/5e0Qelqp-Cc?t=76

Finally we're moving up the Amazing Tier ladder! Yay for grammy-winning vgm! (But everything ranked above this should also win a grammy) This is, like, the ULTIMATE feel good music. This is pure, unadulterated, African folk dance music at its best (well maybe not exactly, but I like to think it is!). More specifically, it is in the Swahili language (Hakuna Matata, yo). Music is so ridiculously charming.

Nice open pure sound in the intro. Then you got the timeless melody!! And the timeless choral chords. Charming harmonic progressions (for example, the way it moves between I and vi). Gotta love those male solos with those catchy off-beat rhythms and the sudden crescendos at the peaks. African mallet percussion, aw, yeah (reminds me of Lion King again, which is my favorite movie soundtrack by the way!). At 1:17 it gets more cinematic with the way the harmonies change IV,V,vi,V(G major), ii,I (F major), vi,V (Db major), vi (E major)... hugh. All that sounds AMAZING! BIG horn rip near the end there is BIG. 1:39 uses one THAT chord progression so annoyingly overused in popular music these days, but it works SO WELL here I didn't even notice it for a long time! At 1:58 we get another cinematic intermediate section epic horns! Strings and horns make some nice patterns and countermelodies at 2:19. Relatively calm ending makes me feel SO GOOD.


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