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26. Flash Man (Mega Man 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncC6OhrpcTc

Truly, will the sacrilege never end? Something had to be #26 and just barely miss out on the top 25 and it wasn't an easy pick, believe me, since I arbitrarily decided that the top 25 was sacred, somehow. So here's another Mega Man 2 track, which consistently somehow places lower on the list than I expect it to, maybe because my brain is trying to be a contrarian and get me to like different things instead of just placing everything from 2 at the top and calling it a day because hearing Mega Man 2 music gives me the good brain juices and makes me feel happy things. Flash Man is a classic - it's usually the first track I hear in Mega Man 2 since I usually start with this stage, so it holds a particularly special place in my heart, and it's also the first video game track I ever tried to write an arrangement of! Well, a transcription. I made a really crappy sounding MIDI of it back when I was like 15, and I was pretty proud of it because it did more or less sound like the song I was trying to make. That MIDI is still probably around, somewhere, but I'm too lazy to go looking for it. Anyway, I do have particularly fond memories of this track because of that. And it's a damn good track! All of the hooks in this one are cool... if a mite repetitive. I mean, yeah, that opening hook is awesome, but it does lose its shine a bit by the fourth repetition.