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Got five more in me tonight.

155. Dr. Wily 2 (Mega Man 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNIrDQC9q0

Alas, my first elimination from Mega Man 1-6 is here. I mean, there's nothing wrong with this track, but it's another one of those late Wily stage themes that largely exists just to ramp up the tension of the coming battle more than to show off its musical chops. Strangely un-iconic for a music track that appears in the very first game though that pedigree alone is enough to earn a good 40 places on my list.

154. Dr. Wily 3 (Mega Man: The Wily Wars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iRXkYRAC6U

Here's some more fun Kinuyo Yamashita trivia for you! Did you know she also wrote Mega Man X3? Yeah, this is weird news for me too - Castlevania 1, Wily Wars, and X3 are all the same composer, despite the fact that I honestly can't name any commonalities among any of these three. But yeah, credit Vampire Killer, Gravity Beetle, and... whatever this track is, to the same person. Most of the Dr. Wily tracks in this game feel awfully out of place and this one's no exception. For some reason, the dumb first couple of lines got really stuck in my head years ago and I actually couldn't remember what they were from until I started doing this again. I guess this track did something right if I remembered it for that long - the rest of the track is pretty meandering though. The penultimate stage is not the one where you want to run short on ideas and lose momentum! Come on, you wrote Wicked Child, I know you're holding out!

153. Fire Man (Mega Man Soccer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6mx-4d2rMk

It's like they composed this by having someone explain the concept of Grease, the musical, to them, but they couldn't understand english and they were also underwater at the time. I am fully expecting Fire Man to dress up like a 50's greaser and come at me with a switchblade.

152. Acid Man (Mega Man 11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U57riYrie74

I let this one slip by for as long as it did only because I do like the kind of groovy, sinister opening, which gives this one some much needed flavor. For like... forty seconds... then it devolves into the same old schtick that Mega Man 11 songs always do. Is there anything about this song's C section that would make it out of place in any other stage's theme? It's 2018 and you have any instrument at your disposal that you can think of - I don't know why this game is less clever about its instrumentation than games made nearly 30 years ago.

151. Grenade Man (Mega Man 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRlkVGcoY0w

I'm a little bit torn on what to make of this one, truth be told. What's the more appropriate word to use to describe the first 8 bars of the melody; "creative" or "off-kilter?" The melody has a sort of 'lurching' quality to it that makes me feel like I'm not really arriving at home until the C section at earliest. For a relatively low-key track (albeit energetic by MM8's standards) there's a lot going on here and it's all kind of happening without a whole lot of structure to it - the bass and percussion are just sorta doing their own thing, like a jam band. I can never really get a sense for this one.