After nearly a month of sifting through the 100 songs you posted, I'm not really sure if it was a good idea or not. I did find some great new stuff, but a whole lot of awfulness. But, I don't like going back on my word, and as of the time of this post, I just finished up. Not gonna do an Ed Bellis and relisten to finalize placements, sorry. Here's the format:
Artist - Song - Score User Link
I'll probably do 25 per day. I already have write-ups done and most are pretty awful, but some people may actually enjoy them so I'll give time to both read and listen.
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Air - Alone in Kyoto Amy Holland & Giorgio Moroder - She's on Fire And So I Watch You From Afar - Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate Andrew Aversa - Sleepless:An Untamed Beast Angels and Airwaves - My Heroine Benedictum - At The Gates Bill Conti - Going the Distance Black Country Communion - The Battle For Hadrian's Wall Blink-182 - Always Bonobo - Kiara Boyce Avenue - We Found Love Brad Fiedel - Terminator Theme Broken Social Scene - Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl Bruce Faulconer - SSJ3 Ascension Carlo Maria Cordio - Troll 2 Theme Song Cloud Cult - You'll Be Bright Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy End Titles dai - Requiem (anime OST ver.) Dax Johnson - A Moment in the Life of Me David Bowie – Heroes Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened Donna Murphy - Mother Knows Best Elvenking - Miss Conception Falcom - Demon King Vespar (Arrange Ver.) Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin Forever the Sickest Kids - Men in Black fun. - Some Nights Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog Glee - Smooth Criminal Go Shiina - Trickster's Delight Hatsune Miku & Gumi – Matryoshka HIRO-X - The Meaning of Truth Hyadain - Hyadain no Joujou Yuujou Hyadain - Xmas I don't know such a thing! Infected Mushroom - Forgive Me injury - Blue Reflection Interpol - NYC Iron Maiden - Aces High Janne da Arc - Ueta Taiyou Jason Hayes, Tracy W. Bush, Derek Duke and Glenn Stafford - Legends of Azeroth Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye Jeff Johnson - Spirit Evermore JKT48 - Heavy Rotation John Linnell – Louisiana Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka Jordan Rudess -Time Crunch Kanye West - All of the Lights Kara – Step Kate Nash - We Get On LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations Lebo M - He Lives In You Linkin Park – Krwlng Lit - Quicksand Lonely Island - Motherlover Lost Horizon - Highlander (The One) Lou Reed & Metallica - The View Low Tech Son - Clash on the Big Bridge Mahi - Nico Tale!? Mai Kadowaki - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) Megadeth - Wake Up Dead Michael W. Smith - Freedom Misha Omar – Pulangkan Motoi Sakuraba - Reminiscence Nadia Gifford – Philistine Nick Drake - Pink Moon Nicki Minaj - Super Bass Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger Our Lady Peace - Whatever Overkill - Electro-Violence Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason ParagonX9 - Chaoz Airflow ParagonX9 - Red 13 Pikko3 - Non-stop Ani-son Terra-mix 2010-2011 Poets Of The Fall - Balance Slays The Demon Psychostick - We Ran Out of CD Space RainbowCrash88 - Twilight Sparkle's Stage Theme Rameses B - New Horizons VIP Rebecca Black – Friday Respighi - I Pini della Via Appia Robotaki - Tor Theme Remix Shimo - Ryuuseigun Chaos Sixto Sounds - The Skull Fortress Squarepusher - Theme From Ernest Borgnine Stan SB - Welcome Back Supralightning - The Tempest Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Tame Impala - It Is Not Meant To Be Tangerine Dream – Touchwood Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Biomusicology The Black Keys - Run Right Back The Monopoly Song The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream The Offspring – Hammerhead The Outlaws - Ghost Riders in the Sky The Rippingtons - Tourist In Paradise Two-Mix - Last Impression Tycho – Adrift Victor Vergara - Ancient Stories Walk the Moon - Anna Sun Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid
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Putting this here because I feel #99 deserves it's own post. I listened to about 8 minutes of this song and was able to conclude this is not a medley. It’s a playlist. It’s like if I took, say, DFTR, removed the lyrics, and placed something like Bohemion Rhapsody right after it. Then I made them into ****ty electronic pieces and screwed around with the end of DFTR so that it could seemingly combine into Bohemion Rhapsody. Then I post it on Youtube claiming it’s a classic rock medley. This is precisely that. Therefore I am forced to remove it from the list since it’s like, 30 different songs mashed into one overly long video. Had I been nicer and left it on the list, assuming the last 35 minutes weren’t abysmal, this probably finishes at 99. At least (most of) the others have the decency not to be the length of 2 episodes of the shows it’s based on.
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Most people will be able to tell you that I’m a fan of video games and anime. More so, in fact, than most people in this country. Yet with nearly 14 minutes of musical tribute to two of Japan’s most notable culture traits, I am at a loss of words for how inexplicably bad this medley is. I love Japan. It’s so lovably awkward because it does so many things differently. However, this Shimo fellow, whether he be Japanese, American, or of some other ethnicity, has done an absolute injustice to not only Japan, but any country in which this so-called music video is accessible. Keep in mind, this song appeared fairly early in my listening, and I had already reached songs of such low quality that I couldn’t even fathom the idea of someone having the indecency to post something even worse. But Pram comes along and defiles my expectations by presenting what may be the worst song ever made. But enough with what I think about it, here’s why. First of all, let’s not beat around the bush. It’s a 14-minute medley. 14 ****ing minutes for a medley of songs with no relation outside of the fact that they’re used inside video games and anime. A hodgepodge of different composers and styles. It starts off seemingly capable in that it could actually work out in the end, but it soon throws itself off a cliff, filling itself with horribly done transitions and annoying remixes. This isn’t so bad though. It doesn’t warrant an easy last place, though it does put it at an extreme low. The reason for it’s abysmally low ranking on my list is almost entirely due to the fact that through nearly every song, there’s an annoying voice track, which I assume is supposed to complement the song by going with the rhythm, but doesn’t actually do either. I’m not really sure what the hell this choice in direction is supposed to add to the song. Whether it’s an embarrassing attempt at humor or if Shimo literally believed it was a catchy addition, it doesn’t work. At all. The last area of complaint is about the defiling of the songs included. A lot of the songs actually seem like they’d be good on their own, or at least would work in context (And a good amount I know for a fact are), but this medley just throws the quality they have out the window, usually through either remixing it to a gruesome, unrecognizable form, or throwing in random voice tracks that rarely have any actual coherence to the song, or both. I can never see myself enjoying this. Maybe if I smoked a bunch of pot. Even then it’d have to be the greatest pot in the world. And even then I’d just assume do something like watch Cencoroll. They both take more or less the same chunk of time out of my schedule and are weird as ****. With only 4,096 characters to voice my hatred for this song, I can’t possibly do so properly. I literally had to take a break from listening after this and watch a movie. “This has to be the national anthem of Japan” - XxFaKyouxX, Youtuber. Not even WWII veterans would want this.
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98. Mai Kadowaki - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) – 0.5 FL81
The badness of this song is amplified by the fact that even though I actually like the original, it’s a pretty awful song. This is just absolutely indescribable. Mai Kadowaki is even less comprehensible than other engrish singers. It’s like she got her tongue cut out or something. She also sounds like a 10-year old, which Japanese people love for some reason. But yeah, this was just painful.
What kind of joke is this? The musical work is ****ing awful and the singer sounds constipated. I realize hardcore metalheads are normally terrible people (hello 235), but I can’t honestly see how this kind of song can be heralded as anything other than a disaster.
96. Infected Mushroom - Forgive Me – 1.1 Kazbar
When a heavy electronic song uses horrid samples throughout the entire song, you’ve got a pile of ****. Nothing in this was left untainted by the cringeworthy samples, not even the vocals. It’s honestly painful just to think about.
95. Nick Drake - Pink Moon – 1.2 WingedInsignia
Well that was awful. If the bland melody and boring choice of instruments weren’t enough, the singer being one of the worst I’ve ever heard hurts it even more. Pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink…
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This is a long string of nothing. For a 6-minute song, you’d expect at least something to happen. However, it can’t pull anything out of it’s boring ass. I feel like I’ve legitimately wasted time with this song, which can’t honestly be said about anything else on this list (at the time of this write-up). Just an overall stupid song. Also, I swear to God those are the Giants from Majora’s Mask at the beginning.
93. Kate Nash - We Get On – 1.7 Blindhobo
A British accent should not be that prevalent in a song. Maybe it’s because I’m not British, but I find it eargrating and awful by all means. She has a ridiculously bad voice, which sort of worsens the value of this already repetitive as hell song.
92. Jordan Rudess -Time Crunch – 1.9 MycroProcessor
This literally sounds like background music in a 3D Sonic. The samples used are terrible and the heavy guitar clashes horribly, creating a very cringe-worthy song. It feels overly cheesy yet at the same time I get the feeling the grungy guitars and random smooth jams were meant to have some quality beyond that. The true embarrassment of this song is the length, because apparently the people listening need to thrash out for six whole minutes. Unpleasant is the best word to describe this.
91. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl – 2.2 Zazi
And now I present to you the most repetitive song ever made. You’d think that after the singer repeats herself around 50 times, you’d figure out what the hell she’s saying, but she slurs her words so damn badly that I thought it was in some foreign language until I looked at the description. To add onto the slurring, she either sounds insanely bored or stoned out of her mind. And honestly who the hell wouldn’t be bored if they had to say, “Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me” repeatedly for well over a minute. The singer is just so obnoxiously bad and the song pisses me off. It’s sort of saved by the somewhat capable melody, though the choice to use a banjo was sort of…random. Even then, it does get boring after a while.
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Well that was awful. If the bland melody and boring choice of instruments weren’t enough, the singer being one of the worst I’ve ever heard hurts it even more. Pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink…
This song fits the ambient bill very well. It has some decent moments and even reminds me of a Spore vehicle editor with how peaceful and slow the song is. I'd place this a bit higher, but that's me.
Original link is dead. This looks to be the same, sadly. I only recently became a fan of rap, maybe about a year and a half ago, and I’ve made an effort to try out as many rappers as I could. However, this is my first trek into Ghostface Killah’s discography, and I feel the need to abandon it instantly. I know rap isn’t supposed to be about amazing vocal range and all that, but Killah’s voice is just dull and lacking. Aside from that, the instrumentation used is pretty bad and the screaming in the background is distracting. This was an abysmal song. Even the lyrics sucked.
89. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass – 2.4 Raka
I find it really hard to turn on the radio and listen to today’s hit music. There’s bound to be some pretty good stuff on it, but you also have to sift through crap like this. Super Bass is about some whore or something, which is kind of like most songs these days. But the lyrics aren’t even the start of how bad this is. Nicki Minaj’s rapping is some of the most unintentionally hilarious talent I’ve seen or heard. I can’t tell if the stupid accent is supposed to be cute or artistic or what, but it’s funny as hell. The stereotype of women being unable to rap well is probably true for all, so Nicki Minaj just needs to shut the hell up, because her actual singing isn’t too bad, and is surprisingly the saving grace of this song. It also pisses me off when people use their own names in the lyrics. Don’t know why.
88. Low Tech Son - Clash on the Big Bridge – 2.5 FL81
This is just a really poorly done remix. The main trumpeter doesn’t even sound like he can properly play a trumpet. Not to mention the pan flute doesn’t even like it’s replicating the actual song. The whole thing is just a cluttered mess of incompetence. The worst part is that it got applauded.
This funk groove is not my style at all. All of the choices made in direction just annoyed the hell out of me. When it wasn’t annoying me, it was usually just boring. This is about where my write-ups start getting lazy by the way.
86. Squarepusher - Theme From Ernest Borgnine – 2.9 WingedInsignia
The first 6 minutes were repetitive and mediocre. The last two minutes were some of the worst minutes I’ve ever experienced. Good job Squarepusher.
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The title of the song is pretty fitting for a good portion of the song. The part with vocals isn’t too great, so when it drone on forever afterwards it’s not winning any points. There’s also a lot of electricity, which kind of gets in the way of the miniscule amount of quality it actually has.
83. Megadeth - Wake Up Dead – 3.2 Psycho Kenshin
I like Megadeth. I really do. But this song is just a bland, forgettable metal thrashing, and that’s all there really is to it. It doesn’t outright offend me like some of the songs have done, but it’s still pretty bad.
82. Glee - Smooth Criminal – 3.4 Raka
I hate Glee. Not because I bothered to watch it and didn’t enjoy it, but because all of their renditions are terrible. Please point me to a song that they don’t obligatory worsen and I may actually like the show. Any Michael Jackson song is gonna be tough to replicate, because MJ has a pretty unique, difficult style. The male singer in this just sounds moronic, and the girl, while better, doesn’t really add anything to the song. Plus, the background music is just boring and uneventful. LMAO Glee.
81. Interpol – NYC – 3.5 Blindhobo
Woah there, Paul Banks! Don’t get so excited! I used sarcasm there because the singer actually sounds like he’s half-asleep throughout the entire song, and when he goes into his bellowing thing, it’s kind of laughable. The song isn’t bad, just incredibly lazy on all fronts.
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80. Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy End Titles – 4.0 Ytterbium
For shame Daft Punk. When a great band gets the chance to compose the soundtrack for a high-budget feature length film, you’d think they’d take full advantage of the opportunity. However, the Credits theme from this movie just appears to be a repetitive techno beat. It fails to actually do anything remarkable while only succeeding to bore the hell out of me. Much better from the band.
79. Rebecca Black – Friday – 4.1 Ytterbium
The infamous song that defines a generation of stardom-obsessed preteens is a bit tough to actually place. If it weren’t for the fact that this was overly auto tuned, Ms. Rebecca Black probably has a decent voice. Even then, other than the nasaly pitch, she isn’t really as bad as high schools all over America liked to make her out to be. The lyrics are really the only bad part of this song, but the humor value they contain makes up for it. Overall, Friday is just the result of ridiculous hype that doesn’t actually live up to it, despite the fact that it was the other way around than what hype normally is.
This song is so bad that it’s hilarious. And speaking in terms of actual quality, it’s still better than the songs below it (which is depressing). Lou Reed is like, the least metal singer ever based on this song alone, and the lyrics are just hilarious coming out of him. The melody is a failure of an attempt at being edgy and dark, only coming off as a part of this comical disaster. Really, unintentional humor is the only reason it’s so high.
77. Hyadain - Xmas I don't know such a thing! – 4.2 Pram
Not gonna lie, this video is stupid. As for the song, well, it’s also stupid. It seems to be about a loser who can’t get a date around Christmas time, and that’s really it. Maybe if he didn’t dress like a prohibition-era mobster, he’d have better luck. Honestly, this may as well be Jingle Bells sung in Japanese, since I don’t really care about lyrics. Christmas songs, especially in the middle of March, aren’t very good. Thus, this is not a very good song.
76. Respighi - I Pini della Via Appia – 4.3 Ace Killjoy
Well this is boring as hell. Even when it reaches it’s climax, it just becomes loud and nothing more. Generic and boring are the only words I can think to call this.
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I'm surprised that The View placed that high. I'll agree with you in that while the Lulu album is pretty bad quality wise, it's so unintentionally hilarious that I actually listen to it regularly (some of it, anyway). I also would have picked either Brandenburg Gate or Pumping Blood instead because they're even worse, but The View was the only one with a link that didn't have its sound quality butchered due to copyright police.
There are plenty of older VG songs that would probably work well with vocals added in (A lot of them from Sonic), but Whistle Concert is not one of them. The parts WITHOUT vocals are pretty cool. It keeps the nice, melancholic melody from the original while modernizing it, which, with the right instruments, seems fairly simple. It’s good that it worked out though. However, once the singer brings her slow, monotone, boring voice into the equation, the quality drops like Capcom dropped Mega Man (Quickly and in a hilariously bad fashion). If this song is some sort of ironic joke towards Capcom, then I have to give it some credit. However, since that is likely not the case, the song remains bad.
74. JKT48 - Heavy Rotation – 4.4 Raka
I hate music videos with sound effects thrown in. And when it decides to put crap in before the actual song. This isn’t Rate the Music Video but I feel compelled to do so when it was the link provided. But the song really isn’t very good. Bland and kinda draggy.
73. Stan SB - Welcome Back – 4.5 SSBDarren64
Once vocals are heavily autotuned, the son is more or less guaranteed to be bad. Welcome Back does what it can to make the statement hold true. The generic beat does little to help it too.
72. Mahi - Nico Tale!? – 4.5 Pram
Remember that really really bad medley that Pram posted that came in last? This medley is basically the same thing except with a capable mixer. But even with the fact that Mahi has more sense to use songs that will actually work well when put together, it’s still not very good. There are so many areas where the singers sound like they’re on helium, which is supposed to be cute or something. But it’s not ****ing cute. You may be wondering how this managed to be so much higher despite being the same thing. Well, this one tacked on an extra four minutes, and honestly, I really enjoyed the last three. You could look at it as if the first 14 minutes are just buildup, but 14 minutes of terrible buildup doesn’t do much.
71. Tame Impala - It Is Not Meant To Be – 4.7 WalrusJump
The singer sounds like he literally doesn’t give a ****. Almost as if he wasn’t meant to be a singer. Bad puns aside, this is a pretty boring song.
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Some songs work well outside of their material while others only work in it. Mother Knows Best doesn’t really have much quality in either. It’s a fine villain song, but it’s not exactly a fine song. Donna Murphey just isn’t a very good singer to me, and it’s not as if it provides anything memorable in the melody.
69. Misha Omar – Pulangkan – 4.8 Nio
This is meant to be a calm, soothing song, and it succeeds to being a calm, soothing song. However, when listening to calm, soothing songs, the overall enjoyability that a good song should contain is lost due to the fact that it just wants to be calm and soothing. Not saying calm, soothing songs can’t be good, but they’re normally just boring as hell. This one really isn’t different from most other calm, soothing songs.
68. Black Country Communion - The Battle For Hadrian's Wall – 4.8 Chinballz
This is just a really boring uneventful song. How do you guys like these write-ups?
67. Kara – Step – 5.0 Nio
Oh hey, it’s the Korean Spice Girls. This is certainly not a bad song by any means, but it’s not really any good at all either. Hard to really explain, but I just went into it with no expectations and came out with barely any opinion on it. The singers aren’t too bad, which is a nice addition to their stripper-like movements. The most memorable section is the part where one of them busts into some sick rhymes. That part was actually really terrible. Still, it didn’t last long enough for me to care any more or less about this song.
66. Amy Holland & Giorgio Moroder - She's on Fire – 5.0 Psycho Kenshin
This is a pretty typical 80’s pop song. Not very interesting.
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This song is pretty damn boring. It does absolutely nothing to make itself either stand out or make me dislike it. I honestly don’t know what to write about it. 64. Cloud Cult - You'll Be Bright – 5.1 Zazi
Another song that would be pretty indistinguishable in a group of other alternative songs. It’s just really bland overall.
63. The Monopoly Song – 5.2 Kazbar
No artist was listed and I couldn’t find one either. Shame. The Monopoly Song isn’t actually that bad for an advertisement song. It is, however, still an advertisement song and will doubtfully ever be listened to for mere enjoyment (by me at least). I do have to give it credit for being so short though.
62. Jeff Johnson - Spirit Evermore – 5.2 Ace Killjoy
This starts off kinda nice and then…doesn’t really do anything else. It’s got a nice melody I guess, but that isn’t much when there’s almost nothing done with it.
61. Bruce Faulconer - SSJ3 Ascension – 5.2 Mega Mana
That had some pretty cool effects and stuff, but then it just kind of ended. Shame since it had some good potential.
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This theme starts off with a cool beat that lasts all but ten seconds. It suggests a possible transition into a fast-paced and intense song, but instead becomes an ominous and foreboding tune. Woks well for the film in question, but not entirely out of context. It redeems itself when the cool percussion effects come in, but they sadly can’t make up for the first half being a snooze fest.
59. Benedictum - At The Gates – 5.3 Chinballz
This is a pretty generic thrash metal song. Doesn’t do anything to stick out. 58. Jason Hayes, Tracy W. Bush, Derek Duke and Glenn Stafford - Legends of Azeroth – 5.5 Justin
No idea who the actual composer is, so I just listed everyone who composed for WoW. Damn you, Justin! This is actually better than most WoW songs I’ve heard. Still, heavy brass orchestra isn’t exactly a type of music I find myself wanting to listen to ever. It’s good for creating atmosphere, and I imagine it works well wherever it plays in the game, but outside, it’s just flat out dull. 57. Angels and Airwaves - My Heroine – 5.5 20three
This is just boring as hell. Shame considering how much I like Blink-182. A&A has never been a band I care about.
56. David Bowie – Heroes – 5.5 WalrusJump
Never been a fan of Bowie, and this isn’t an exception. His voice just bores the hell out of me and his melodies are forgettable. This is exactly the same.
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55. Andrew Aversa - Sleepless: An Untamed Beast – 5.6 Nio
This isn’t a bad song, so much as it sounds like overworld music in some random JRPG. It’s from SoulCalibur, a fighting game, yet I can’t see how this would put anyone in the mood to fight. It just has a sort of adventurous feel. It’s also forgettable as hell, so that doesn’t give it any points.
54. Go Shiina - Trickster's Delight – 5.6 Nio
Hey Nio! It’s been a while! Trickster’s Delight suffers from trying to be this epic song on an immense scale while only being two and a half minutes long. It throws so much energy at you that it completely forgets how to actually formulate a good melody. Sure it’s not a bad song, but it’s more or less standard Ace Combat music. Not the awesome kind though. 53. The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream – 5.9 Justin
This song is just plain mediocre. It’s got a decent melody and all, but nothing actually carries it anywhere. The singer gets on my nerves with her shrill voice too. Honestly, this sounds like some random song I’d here on a hit music radio station, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but in this case it is.
52. Lonely Island – Motherlover – 5.9 20three
Lonely Island does have a few funny songs. Sadly, this one just falls flat for me, so it has to rely on it’s actual quality as a song. Sadly, songs that rely on humor typically aren’t for anything other than to make you laugh, and quality tends to get lost, such as what happened to this song.
51. Michael W. Smith – Freedom – 6.0 Ace Killjoy
This is pretty standard orchestra. It’s only really good once it climaxes. Everything else is pretty meh.
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tazzyboyishere posted... 85. The Rippingtons - Tourist In Paradise – 2.9 Ace Killjoy
I feel I should note that I hate jazz. So a combination of jazz and synthpop is definitely not my thing. That’s all there really is to it.
At first I was like, "wut." And then you said that jazz isn't your thing. That's acceptable, then.
tazzyboyishere posted... 76. Respighi - I Pini della Via Appia – 4.3 Ace Killjoy
Well this is boring as hell. Even when it reaches it’s climax, it just becomes loud and nothing more. Generic and boring are the only words I can think to call this.
The first half, maybe. The last half, no. The last half happens to be quite amazing, but I guess you half to kind of appreciat the sound of classical music to some extent.
tazzyboyishere posted... 62. Jeff Johnson - Spirit Evermore – 5.2 Ace Killjoy
This starts off kinda nice and then…doesn’t really do anything else. It’s got a nice melody I guess, but that isn’t much when there’s almost nothing done with it.
That's because it's a more relaxing, quiet song. Not everything needs to be complex. But I agree. The melody is probably the best part.
tazzyboyishere posted... 51. Michael W. Smith – Freedom – 6.0 Ace Killjoy
This is pretty standard orchestra. It’s only really good once it climaxes. Everything else is pretty meh.
...Can I ask what you consider non-standard orchestra? As far as orchestral songs go, I'd say this one stood out pretty well to me. It has a great melody, a great mood, and a great sound overall.
Buuuut, I understand that these are just your opinions. Sorry my songs weren't more interesting. (Trying to remember what my last one was.)
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50. Dax Johnson - A Moment in the Life of Me – 6.0 Blindhobo
This is a very good song for about 3 minutes. The other 6 minutes are basically just the same exact thing we heard in the first three minutes. Basically, the fact that this is at an excessive nine minutes in length really hurts it, when it literally provides nothing past the first 33%.
Red 13 starts off promising with some pretty cool effects and a decent melody. Sadly, the quality doesn’t stay at all consistent through the 7+ minutes of this song, or for most of it in fact. It does have a pretty good beat going the whole way through, but there are just seemingly random spots where it just freezes on a note for a small bit. This annoys the hell out of me and degrades the song quite a bit. Not to mention it had no right being over 7 minutes long. A lot of wasted potential in this one.
48. Supralightning - The Tempest – 6.3 FL81
Tries to stay simple while coming off as complex and not really working. It uses a guitar, piano, and drums, which don’t go together well without some more stuff thrown in. The entire time it feels like something’s missing. With a little more going on, this could be great, but as it is, it’s just average. 47. Two-Mix - Last Impression – 6.3 Angelo
This starts off cool with some nice piano. Then the vocals kick in, which I’m honestly not a fan of. After a while it gets cool again when it transitions into a fast-paced song. Then the vocals kick in again and it just sort of stays on the lower tier for the rest of the song. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t over seven minutes long. This doesn’t really need to be that long. Unless, of course, the lyrics have some sort of complex, hard to describe story that needs that much time to properly tell. But screw lyrics, especially foreign ones. This is a song from a gundam anime so I doubt it’s the case anyway. The singer is boring and the melody is repetitive after a while.
46. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye – 6.3 WalrusJump
Never really cared for Buckley. This is better than some of what I’ve heard, it’s still nothing to write home about. Sorry, but at this point in the process I’m pretty much drained of any input unless it can leave some kind of impression on me.
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Everyone seemed to love Nichijou’s two opening themes, and I could never understand the love they received. This song, while not bad, sounds like it was made for a Saturday morning children’s cartoon. It just feels so childish with how the singer changes his voice to a cartoony bellow randomly throughout. But some part deep down inside of me likes this in a way. It’s just an attempt at a fun, goofy song. And it works.
44. And So I Watch You From Afar - Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate – 6.5 WingedInsignia
The irony in this song is that while listening to this song, I am wasting time doing something I hate, which is listening to bad music. But I can’t even say that, considering how inexplicably average this song is. It’s just a really long guitar jam that isn’t bad, but not entirely good either. It’s really just an ok song.
43. Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin – 6.6 20three
The Foo Fighters have some pretty damn good songs. This one, however, feels really dull. It’s got some nice guitar work, but that’s really it. Everything else is just generic.
42. Elvenking - Miss Conception – 6.8 Psycho Kenshin
This has some pretty cool music, but once the vocals kick in, it becomes a pain to listen to. The singer’s style just sounds overly goofy and annoying. Ruins an otherwise pretty good song.
I’ve always been a bigger fan of Sakuraba than most of Board 8. I feel he gets a lot of undeserved hate, and that some complaints about his songs are pretty overblown and at times nonsensical. Though it’s clear the guy’s unpopular, I still consider him a top 10 composer of mine, which in that same process explains why my opinions tend to be unpopular. Reminiscence is vastly different from a lot of Sakuraba’s key pieces. It sounds like it has a different overall atmosphere, I guess. Honestly, the difference isn’t bad in my eyes, but this is fairly underwhelming. It could probably work better with a more interesting choice of instruments. That intro is badass though.
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40. Psychostick - We Ran Out of CD Space – 7.0 SSBDarren64
Few songs are able to be based completely on humor without failing miserably. In my eyes, ‘Comedy’ is the worst genre of music there is. If a comedian wants to play an instrument, he should just go into music so we don’t have to listen to obnoxious lyrics that seem to have little actual though put into them. We Ran Out of CD Space is a special case in that I actually found it humorous. Granted it does have some misses like that puppy dog part, which just seemed to go on and on, but lines like "Dude, this really sucks. I do not want a face made out of bumblebees." are great.
39. Lit – Quicksand – 7.0 20three
Pretty good song, albeit a bit generic for an alternative rock song.
38. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime – 7.1 Mega Mana
Part of me hates this song because it’s terrible. But it’s just so damn catchy!
37. The Offspring – Hammerhead – 7.1 Azuarc
The Offspring’s a cool band, and this is a cool song. It’s a little lacking in a lot of areas, but an overall enjoyable listen.
Man, I can never remember what the original song sounds like, but I know I like it a lot. Anyway, this is a truly exceptional orchestrated piece. However, part of me just doesn’t really find it all that enjoyable. I like the instrumentaition and melody, but it just feels kind of…lazy. Like the violin goes constantly throughout the song, yet it still feels like it’s in the background, despite being the main focus. I just got kind of bored while listening to this, even though I liked it for the most part. Will have to listen to the original to make sure I didn’t just grow tired of it sometime later.
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Was this used as a credits theme in some movie? It sounds familiar. Anyway, this is pretty good. The heavy guitar sounds pretty good and creates a memorable melody.
34. John Linnell – Louisiana – 7.2 Kazbar
The instrumentation is absolutely dreadful, but for some strange reason it’s also catchy as hell, and the singer’s pretty good. Thank God it has a decent melody.
33. Janne da Arc - Ueta Taiyou – 7.3 Nio
For generic J-rock, this is actually pretty cool. However it still has the problem of being a generic J-rock song. Put it with a lot of others in the genre and I honestly won’t be able to pick it out. The guitar work is pretty damn good, and I actually enjoy the singer’s voice. It’s just that it does little to represent itself as something notable. Still good, just not great.
32. Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason – 7.4 Azuarc
Sometimes Ozzy is really hard to take seriously. I love the guy, but he’s not at all talented in singing. This song is pretty standard metal for the most part though. Luckily, the guitar solo is fantastic, and saves this song from mediocrity.
31. Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka – 7.4 Kazbar
A true classic, Strip Polka is honestly a pretty catchy song. It suffers from lots of things like low quality instrumentation, but it just really shows how much a singer’s voice was valued back then, since he’s pretty damn good.
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