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7. Air Man (Mega Man 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieaaCWE0Vig

These writeups are getting really fucking hard to write, I tell you. What do I need to say about Air Man? It's Air Man. Everyone already knows this song is an all-time great, I don't need to sit here and make a spirited defense of this theme. Even moreso than MM2 Wily 1 I think it's like, the platonic ideal of MM2 music - this is what MM2 music just sounds like. Given my long history with the game in my childhood, hearing this theme just instantly transports me back to a particular time and place. It's like the aural version of a homecooked meal for me. Okay, a little bit about the song. It's striking to me just how well constructed the melody is that the song gets away with barely having any accompanying lines or even harmonies, mostly just using the second square wave to achieve an echo, and that singular melody and the solo-like riffing on it carries the whole theme. Legend has it that Manami Matsumae wrote part of the melody, and if so, it was her best contribution to the series, and she wrote Mega Man. Another thing I like to note in this theme is that distinctive tom sound (that little 'pew!' percussive noise) is created using the triangle wave, which is also used for the bass - so the bass basically has to play 'around' the tom and it's done really seamlessly and I always thought that was really neat. Okay that's all I've got for you, Air Man's theme is just really good, okay.