Alright, over the last week or so I accepted songs from the users and I finally have the ranked. I did listen to all of them in their entirety and placed them in a temporary order. Then I listened to them all over again and perfected the ranking. Luckily, I had only heard about 5 of the submitted songs before so there was a lot of new stuff for me to enjoy (or wish it was over). As the rankings progress, it'll become obvious what I like and dislike so feel free to throw more recommendations as we get to the end.
Songs Submitted: 4c0 - Tailor Shop at Enbizaka A$AP Rocky - Palace Amplive - 1940 Remix Avicii - Levels Beardfish - Coup de Grace Beirut - Scenic World (Lon Gisland EP version) Blink-182 - What's My Age Again? Boom Boom Satellites - Morning After Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons Brought Them Racks Out - Gucci Mane ft Big Sean Chris Huelsback - Turrican 2 Theme Cloud Cult - Take Your Medicine Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless Coldplay - Charlie Brown Common - Faithful Creed - One Last Breath Curtis Mayfield - So In Love David Arkenstone - Road to the Faire Emile van Krieken - Aether 4 Fair to Midland - The Wife, the Kids, and the White Picket Fence Florence + The Machine - Only If For a Night Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils Foo Fighters - Everlong Goldfrapp - Little Bird Grouper - Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping Hedley - Old School Hirasawa Susumu - The Girl in Byakkoya Hiroki Kikuta - Never Ending Night I Did It For Hip Hop - Black Hippy Jay-Z - December 4th Jean Michel Jarre - C'est La Vie Joe Satriani - Speed of Light John Rzeznik – I’m Still Here Jonas Steur & Jennifer Rene - Still I Wait (Richard Durand's In Search of Sunrise Mix) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Cast of) - Joseph Megamix Jónsi – Animal Arithmetic Kahn - Like We Used Yo Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger - Kaizokuki wo Agero Kazuki Yanagawa - The Wind's Blooming Mountain Ken Loi feat. Zashanell - All It Takes M83 - Midnight City MC5 - Looking At You Massive Attack - Paradise Circus Mat Zo - Bipolar Meet Uncle Hussain - Lagu Untukmu Mew - 156 Miike Snow - Black and Blue Mike Post and Pete Carpenter - The A-Team Theme Song NemesisTheory - Shades of Green Nico Nico Douga Orchestra - Nanairo Nico Nico Douga Niko - Made of Fire Of Monsters and Men - King and Lionheart ParagonX9 - Infinity Pavement - Rattled by the Rush Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter Primal Scream- Movin On Up Project Pop featuring Chrisye - Burkat R.E.M. - Harborcoat REO Speedwagon - Roll With the Changes Ralph Dyck - ODD RHYTHMS Rameses B - New Horizons VIP Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song Reel Big Fish - Good Thing Röyksopp - What Else Is There? Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight Sonata Arctica - I Have A Right Soundgarden - Live to Rise Spin Doctors - Two Princes Stan SB - Tears In Rain Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers System Of A Down - Sad Statue Taking Back Sunday – Miami Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Counting Down the Hours Tenacious D - City Hall The Band - Across The Great Divide The Beach Boys - In My Room The Beach Boys - Kokomo The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need to Be Nicer The Replacements- Here Comes a Regular The Shangri-Kas - Heaven Only Knows The Sidekicks - DMT The Who - Baba O'Riley Theatre of Tragedy - Play Tilly and the Wall - Chandelier Lake Timothy Clarke/Christopher Stevens/Jan Paul Moorhead – Progrssive Tina Turner - Goldeneye Titus Andronicus - To Old Friends and New Tom Waits - Step Right Up Tycho – Adrift UKz - Tu-95 Vanessa Carlton - Pretty Baby Victor Vergara - Ancient Stories Wada Kouji - Butterfly Waterflame - Toxic Sewers White Lung - Take the Mirror Wieteke van Dort - Geef mij maar nasi goreng Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6 You Blew It! - Kevin, You're Such a Disease Yuya Matsush*ta - Trust Me
-- Menji "I'm on a f***ing bicycle ding ding ding."
i predict that i will lose all one around 80, one around 40, and one in the top 20
oh i forgot i had a fourth because you put it as josh rzeznik instead of goo goo dolls. no idea how that'll do. maybe two top 20 hopefully?
I predict that my highest-placing one will be the amplive remix though. Or King and Lionheart. I have no clue I'm just going to be excited the less I see my songs!
I'm expecting at least 3 of my songs to be in the bottom 15. I feel like most people in general dislike club music, so I wouldn't be surprised if you had no patience for anything with a four on the floor beat.
Not my thing at all. I actually feel a little uneasy when I listen to music like this.
#99 Wada Kouji - "Butterfly"
By Raka_Putra
Is this what Japan got as their Digimon opening? I feel sorry for them! Foreign language songs are generally hit-or-miss for me and this one struck out.
#98 Creed - "One Last Breath"
By 20three
My high school friends listened to these guys, Fuel, Nickelback and Shinedown exclusively. I'm not a fan but there I do enjoy them in a guilty pleasure kind of way. But it's still terrible.
#97 Boom Boom Satellites - "Morning After"
By NioraptH
I don't even know how to describe this. It gets a little better on repeated listens.
#96 Pavement - "Rattled by the Rush"
By Slanted_Silver
Can't get into the beat and despise the vocals.
-- Menji+ What Will Never Be the Greatest. http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8184/ffxiii.gif
Is this what Japan got as their Digimon opening? I feel sorry for them! Foreign language songs are generally hit-or-miss for me and this one struck out.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! Of all my nominations, I thought for certain that it would be my highest! And I realized as I just double checked my noms that I didn't have it and Raka nominated it. Good job, Raka! WTF, Menji?!?!
Seriously! I get Tu-95 being low, it starts off terrible and is dissonant and dizzying throughout even though it has some melody. It's worthy of bottom twenty on most lists. I get Creed being low because, well, it's Creed and it's not 1998. I... might get Boom Boom Satellites, but before I even listen to it, my mind is hitting up "Back On My Feet" and how I still want to rank it higher with Hotel Song. Yeah, "Morning After" doesn't blow me away. "Rattled by the Rush" is odd, I wouldn't rank it highly and that awful harmonica. These are mostly middling to poor songs.
So how is Butter-Fly below them? HOW?! I feel bad for us Americans not getting Butter-Fly because it's so damn good. "Digimon, Digital Monsters, Digimon are the champions." Cool as a kid, not Pokemon, but cool and efficient. BUTTER-FLY. Best Digimon-related song aside from maybe, maybe, "Be The Biggest Dreamer." This is coming from someone who loves "Run Around," "Here We Go," "Kids in America," and pretty much the entire movie soundtrack.
It's getting too crazy, I wish I could maybe...
Sugisaki_Ken posted...
Oh hey, out of the bottom-
Butterfly at 99th? I may have to physically hurt you Menji.
#90 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Cast of) - Joseph Megamix
By Pram_the_Oracle
WOW. I can't believe I actually saw this get posted. I remember seeing the infomercial for this when I was younger and how ridiculous it looked. Every time I went back listen to this I kept thinking it was JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and got excited until it wasn't.
#89 Taking Back Sunday – Miami
By thundersheep
Yeah... no. Did you think this would be your first one out?
#88 Yuya Matsush*ta - Trust Me
By Raka_Putra
I was hoping this would be like that GOOD Persona hip-hop stuff they play but it did not even come close.
#87 Mike Post and Pete Carpenter - The A-Team Theme Song
By Mega Mana
I've never seen The A-Team so unfortunately this does not carry any nostalgia. I do love the very intro bit but not so much after.
#86 System Of A Down - Sad Statue
By Great_Paul
I didn't like System of a Down when I was younger and I still don't.
-- Menji+ What Will Never Be the Greatest. http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8184/ffxiii.gif
My 15 year old self would have loved this and I can definitely appreciate it humorously... SYSTEMS ENGAGED. TAKING EVASIVE ACTION.
#84 Cloud Nothings - Stay Useless
By McBonesll
Somewhat promising beginning but the vocals are just icky. #83 Project Pop featuring Chrisye - Burkat
By Pram_the_Oracle
OH LAWDY what is this. It's definitely hilarious and even starts off kinda catchy and then fizzes out.
#82 Hedley - Old School
By Great_Paul
Unfortunately, this song probably holds the record for furthest drop on the second listen. I think it was originally in the top 50 and then I was like what is this doing up here. It's not terribly bad and yet another song I would have loved when I was younger because I used to eat this stuff up.
#81 Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song
By ZaziGuado
There are maybe two songs I can listen to by RHCP and this isn't one of them.
-- Menji - Thanks for supporting the Search By Username petition! Allen said it's possible it could be included in the next search update.
Yeah... no. Did you think this would be your first one out?
Definitely not. Although I guess it makes sense. It was definitely a product of the time and I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the song as much if I heard it for the first time today. I still have a soft spot for Emo/Screamo/Pop Punk since it reminds me of high school, so I kind of forgot that nearly everyone hates this type of music.
#80 Brought Them Racks Out - Gucci Mane ft Big Sean
By CoLDReaMMaster
I do like rap so that's not the reason for this low rank. It's just not very good. All the comments make Gucci Mane out to be going hard... I never heard it!
#79 Meet Uncle Hussain - Lagu Untukmu
By Mega Mana
This song also used to be a lot higher too. Just a tad too dull for me.
#78 R.E.M. - Harborcoat
By Mega Mana
This was actually just blocked within the last few hours... huh. Well it was definitely R.E.M. but I think Losing My Religion remains my only favorable song by them.
#77 Soundgarden - Live to Rise
By Murphiroth
Definitely sounds like something from The Avengers. When was this played though? I don't typically like rock songs but this wasn't too bad.
#76 Ralph Dyck - ODD RHYTHMS
By MyrcroProcessor
Kinda neat. Somewhat catchy but overall just doesn't go anywhere.
-- Menji~ House Eltharion http://img.imgcake.com/AlecTrevylan006/MenjiShieldpngan.png
Can't say I'm impressed with the #99 song either. Though I haven't listened to any of the other songs, so perhaps it could be ranked higher depending on the quality of the other songs, if they're awful or something.
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I'm but a simple companion in the pack of gurus whereof SuperNiceDog is the pack leader!
Wow. Just wow. People sure are critical of rock songs. But this just seems completely backwards. This is one of the best VG rock songs I've ever heard!
I expected Speed of Light to go down before this.
Menji76 posted...
#73 Joe Satriani - Speed of Light
By Ace_Killjoy
Fromm the SMB movie? Huh. It fits I guess but not something I care to listen to again.
Actually, they just used this song in the SMB movie. This song is from Satriani's "Time Machine" album. Not that that's important, but I just felt like saying.
-- Proud member of the Global Defence Force. http://img.imgcake.com/AlecTrevylan006/AceKilljoyShieldpngyp.png
I really like a select few Coldplay songs but this isn't too bad or boring.
#64 Theatre of Tragedy - Play
By SuorGenoveffa
I do like female vocalists so this really jumped up, probably even a bottom 10 w/o her!
#63 Vanessa Carlton - Pretty Baby
By PrestonStarry
It's no A Thousand Miles and she'll always be a second rate Michelle Branch to me but this is probably her next best song.
#62 Yo La Tengo - From A Motel 6
By WingedInsignia
I was actually planning on listening to this group but I'm little turned off because I was expecting something amazing. I'll still look into them though!
Normally I'd be turned off by something like this but I actually did like the barrage I was receiving.
#60 The Replacements- Here Comes a Regular
By OliviaTremor
A solid rock song. Like I've been saying these are hit-and-miss but I dig the vocals.
#59 Wieteke van Dort - Geef mij maar nasi goreng
By Raka_Putra
I feel like this was submitted as a joke but I actually enjoyed it because it's similar to one of my favorite songs (Japanese Boy). It's catchy and would be something I would definitely join in singing if I knew the words.
#58 NemesisTheory - Shades of Green
By SSBDarren64
Nothing special but would probably make great background noise somewhere I would want to be at.
#57 Primal Scream- Movin On Up
By OliviaTremor
It took me so long to figure out where I've heard this before. Luckily, the comments mention Radio X and that was main station in GTA: San Andreas. Not a bad song at all and one I could sing along to.
#56 Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger - Kaizokuki wo Agero
By Mega Mana
Now this isn't too bad, sounds like it would make a nice intro to a VG. Is this Power Rangers in Japan?
-- Menji - Thanks for supporting the Search By Username petition! Allen said it's possible it could be included in the next search update.