Board 8 > [VGMC] Day 18! Breathe Black/Dark Disquiet, Blue Whitecaps/Fire!, RGB/Deep Blue

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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 17, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=477304
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAJKYJmYhccLvbf_H-5uSA7-eMwXfW8k1q74Qho1bLU
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80433657
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0wlcxj-kHQRU1yHo-kpMxGe
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 10pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Breathe the Black
Composer: Ryan Ike
Loop Point: 3:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgxacO7jYk

Control - My Dark Disquiet
Composer: Poets of the Fall (Old Gods of Asgard)
Loop Point: 5:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQGOtBVELo

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Match 2

Nobunagas Ambition: Haouden - Blue Whitecaps
Composer: Yoko Kanno
Loop Point: 4:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp9hAK5eLs4

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) - Fire! (1st. BGM)
Composer: Mutsuhiko Izumi, Miki Higashino
Loop Point: 0:49
https://youtu.be/MlPJUqi4kfg

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My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Amusing day today. Yoko Kanno today hitting right in the spot.

rgb is the second best song today anyways, agh.

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

I want to vote for Fire, but there's no denying Blue Whitecaps.

My Dark Disquiet
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Easy day today, not that I don't appreciate the delicateness of Breathe the Black and Blue Whitecaps.

In the Dark Passages (Shadow of the Beast) (C64)

Control - My Dark Disquiet
Nobunagas Ambition: Haouden - Blue Whitecaps
LOSTCOLORS - RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Breathe the Black
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) - Fire! (1st. BGM)
LOSTCOLORS - RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Blue Whitecaps
not the upside down hairy butt

that's a vote for RGB

Dark
Blue
Blue

#060480

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Control - My Dark Disquiet
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) - Fire!
ULTRAKILL - Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet >> Deep Blue > Fire! > Breathe the Black > Blue Whitecaps (Asian Daimyo's Theme) = RGB

Didn't super care for the last two, but there was some cool stuff today. My Dark Disquiet was amazing, I should listen to more Poets of the Fall I think

My Dark Disquiet
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

big day for colors

My Dark Disquiet
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

prob could've voted against blue whitecaps if this was other konami arcade games on this hardware like ethnic cave and flame x-men............... wait no jk i'm still voting blue whitecaps there OOPS

From TunnelScene:

My Dark Disquiet (Control)
Blue Whitecaps (Nobunaga's Ambition: Haouden)
RGB (LOSTCOLORS)

folky guitar sets the scene of the beginning of uru where you are in new mexxico and some guy is listening to a 30 second loop of a Peter hgabriel song on the radio so well

OK FINALLY I get to vote for an edgy guitar song. well I guess can you feel the sunshine was sort of that. because it has the Lyle Mays lead in it who was in the band pat metheny group and pat metheny plays the guitar

oh good! more pat metheny group music to imagine being a cold edge lord to

the teenage mutant ninja turtles are so famous. there's some cool angular bits in here which I guess is a pretty Konami thing to do

rgb is everything I love about music. . . the perfect mixture of timbres. pat metheny for weebs that really love sewing on a rocking chair in montana. yeah I'll take that.

this blue song keeps going in a direction I do not think that it will go into

From NFUN:

Black
Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Dark
Blue
RGB

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

I supported Deep Blue!

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

I'm more excited for Alan Wake 2 because of the prospect of more Old Guards of Asgard songs. I'm just weird like that.

1. ???
2. Xenogears - One Who Bares Fangs at God
3. ???
4. Control - My Dark Disquiet
5. League of Legends - Nilah, The Joy Unbound
6. ???
7. Magical Chase - Waltz of Meditation Part2
8. Mortal Kombat (Sega CD) - Techno Syndrome
9. Alto's Odyssey - A Moment of Tranquility
10. Spark the Electric Jester 3 - Utopia Shelter ~ In the Depths
11. ???
12. ???
13. Deus Ex - The Synapse - Ambient
14. ???
15. ???
16. ???
17. Legaia 2: Duel Saga - Lost Forest
18. 7th Dragon 2020-II - Shutoko - Spiral Maze
19. Chrono Trigger - Yearnings of the Wind
20. ???
21. Dragon Poker - Kanashimi no Mephisto feat.Mahoushoujo Ran & Mahoushoujo Akane
22. ???
23. ???
24. Cladun: This is an RPG - Knight of a Foreign Country
25. ???
26. ???
27. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - The Apex of the World (Rain)
28. osu! - escape (through the looking - glass, and what alice found there)
29. Galactic Pinball - MOONMAN'S Fandango
30. ???

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

My Dark Disquiet
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

My Dark Disquiet
Fire! (1st. BGM)
abstain

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Breathe the Black
Nobunagas Ambition: Haouden - Blue Whitecaps
ULTRAKILL - Deep Blue

Really hard choice for the last one, they both sound awesome.

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue

Dark Disquiet
Fire?
Blue?

Breathe the Black: Big fan of the acoustic guitars and the mandolin in this one. Very pleasant song to listen to with a nice melody. Good song.

My Dark Disquiet: This is a fun song too. Big fan of Marko Saaresto's vocals especially. The instrumental is somewhat basic, but it's catchy and cool enough that that doesn't matter too much. Great song.

Blue Whitecaps: Now here's my favorite song in Bracket B. Extremely memorable melody and the instrumentation used is super detailed and well-mixed. The piano, cello, e-guitar, synths, and percussion all work wonderfully together to make one of the most saccharine songs Kanno has made.

Fire!: Not a huge fan of the arcade sound in general, but this one's alright, albeit very short. Don't have much else to say other than it doesn't stand a chance against Blue Whitecaps for me.

RGB: This one's pretty chill and I like the production. Nice bass and the synths are pretty cool as well. More of a soundscape-y song, since the melody isn't super memorable, but the soundscape is good enough to make up for that.

Deep Blue: The echo-y piano to start this one creates a certain ambience to the piece that I quite like. The addition of breakbeat after the intro is pretty unique, especially since it maintains the ambience from the intro and doesn't "go hard" like most instances of breakbeat do, which I appreciate. Very cool song.

Actually a really good day today.

Votes:
My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue

I keep forgetting Fire! got in. (Without my help, no less!) It's always a nice surprise when I remember.

My Blue Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe is like, normal Western song. Comparing it to something like Into the Wilderness shows how middling it is. Dark Disquiet is pretty fun. Better than some of the Old Gods of Asgard songs we've gotten.

Not huge on either song in match 2. Whitecaps has a little more to it.

RGB never seems to go anywhere. Kinda like mediocre area music from an RPG or something. This isn't my day apparently.

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
abstain
Deep Blue

Control - My Dark Disquiet
Nobunagas Ambition: Haouden - Blue Whitecaps
ULTRAKILL - Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
RGB

No rankings today cause I'm dying from hay fever but the best song wouldbe blue whitecaps

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Match 1 pains me, both are very much to my tastes. Absurdly high quality R1 match.
Solid day all around.

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

Breathe the Black
Blue Whitecaps
RGB (OST Arrange ver.)

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue

My Dark Disquiet
Blue Whitecaps
Deep Blue

I listened to these songs earlier and made notes of which ones to vote for, but did not make any notes on the songs themselves. And I don't really feel like relistening. All I know is that all six are good, but matches 2+3 still had clear winners in my eyes.

As for the first match, I have betrayed ... Utterly betrayed MYSELF. I happily pushed for Breathe the Black but did not expect it to go up against a song that was on my support shortlist!!!! Like Andy, this is pain to choose.

Breathe the Black
Fire! (1st. BGM)
Deep Blue