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And as we move on, we get our first album eliminated:

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R#7: (I WANT TO BE THE ONE) TO WATCH YOU DIE:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0jnOrfpbe2cKli0lNDBZ7k

Nominator: Shonen_Bat (11/27)
Source: History Repeating Blue (2/10)

Initial Score: 100 [R#5]
Revised Score: 100 [R#6]
Final Score: 100 [R#7]

(First Thoughts: Another great song. Here Dr. Light has been pushed too far and sends Megaman out with orders to assassinate Dr. Wily (Megaman does not take this well, as wed hear in History Repeating: Reds opening song), fantasizing about being there to watch Wilys murder. Its twisted and possibly the most evil song in The Megas catalogueyeah a lot of the Robot Masters want to kill all humans, but theres something more vile about wanting to enjoy the murder of one specific person... especially when youre trying to force your son to kill them for you against his will. )

I cant think of many fallen hero songs (apart from some songs from The Protomen & The Megas obviously), but I suspect Id be a fan of them if I found any.

Anyway, this song is not quite a villain song, but its so far down the path of the anti-hero that its not far removed from one. Also, this song has a spoken word section in it! You know I like those.

[generic filler text to get up the 100 word minimum because I said as much as I wanted to during the First Thoughts portion of the writeup goes here.]

...Oh yeah! There was also an explosion at the end of the song. I like explosions and other sound effects, so thats something else this song has going for it. Though thats a very, very minor and practically inconsequential part.

[Final Thoughts: Youd think having a perfect score would get you more than 7th place. Youd be wrong, but youd probably think that.]

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R#6: GAMMA UNCHAINED:

https://open.spotify.com/track/77jTuZqc2xK0dOPVCtgfQa

Nominator: Shonen_Bat (10/27)
Source: History Repeating Blue (1/10)

Initial Score: 100 [R#4]
Revised Score: 100 [R#4]
Final Score: 100 [R#6]

(First Thoughts: One of my absolute favorite songs of all time. Its been near the top of my Spotifys yearly most played lists for several years and never gets old; its absolute perfection, the greatest villain song of all time, and.... some... third thing, I didnt really think this sentence through and thought I had a third point.

The only thing holding it back is that its been my favorite for... I think four years now? Im doing this to find new songs and this really isnt. Im unsure if its the R#s division championits certainly up there, but there are at least two other songs in contention for first place and its hard to say which Ill choose. Might be this song, might be a three way tie, it might get third place. Well see.)

The best thing to come from me doing that Mega Man Song Ranking with Se7en was my finding this song. I was browsing the YouTube comments on Wily Stage 1 theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOE4rJnYYc

And someone was talking about how tragic the song felt after hearing Gamma Unchained. Id heard of The Megas beforeyou couldnt go to a song about a Robot Master from the third game without everyone talking about The Megas versionbut I was convinced that I hated the band and refused to listen to any more by them on principle. Id listened to one of their songs from their debut EP and I hated it.

Evolution of Circuitry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD3jK3nGSLU

(They would release an updated version of the song earlier this year which...Im still not thrilled with, but would at least score better than Steel Forged in Fate)

But I decided to give them one last chance. I wanted to see how this band managed to create a tragic song from this game and, quite honestly, wanted to feel smugly superior about how The Protomen were the greatest band of all time and laugh about how this band DOESNT EVEN COMPARE!!

(Yes, I do lapse into Johnny Turbo references periodically, deal with it)

...also I like going off on unrelated tangents and I hadnt done one about The Megas at that point in the topic, and even if I hated their version, Id totally get my word count up talking about it for a minute. </.<

Suffice to say, I immediately fell in love with the song. Before long, I was listening to it multiple times per day and started becoming obsessed with it. Itd be a while before I tried any other songs & got hooked on the band themselves (see: Cant Stop the Tops writeup), but Gamma Unchained was an instant classic. I still listen to it constantly.

...I was kinda hoping for newer songs, but I still love it and it was nice to take a break from all the other songs to relax with some old favorites.

[Final Thoughts: This is one of those songs that I never shut up about. Ive nominated it at multiple topics, hype it up constantly, talk about it in unrelated topics for no apparent reason (I actually talk about this song in a different writeup. One of the songs i gave First Thoughts to before you nominated these albums), had lyrics from it in my sig for months, and its probably my biggest musical obsession of all time. Im not sure if its my absolute favorite song of all time, but its definitely one of the very few candidates for that title... and thats true even after Im a bit burned out on it.

It probably should take first place by default, but... well, Im feeling a bit more attached to songs that I havent been completely obsessed with.]

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