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#85. The Road is Full of Dangers
Game: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Nominated: jcgamer107 (May 2012) & Kanzaris (January 2013)
Score: #42nd [5/5] & --- [4/4]
Games Rank: 41/61
Time: 1:37
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yherY7rJGvs
*NEW* Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2UGG0be9I

As jcgamer wrote up, in the only write-ups I kept, "The road is full of dangers alright. When I hear this song I immediately think, "Oh God, help, I'm in danger. Danger everywhere". You're silly, Nintendo."

A very jaunty start to adventure, not very dangerous at all, really. It does feel very 'person leaves town to go off on adventure for the first time!' More EverQuest desire popping in as I'm only thinking about leaving Qeynos and venturing in the Qeynos Hills and fighting goblins and rats and gnolls for the first time, being careful not to upset any willowisps, bears, or skeletons that are surprisingly high-level and spellcasty by those really eerie ruins. I think it's the fire beetle colors. Red & yellow matching the font. I should probably talk about Croco, but nah. EverQuest.

P.S., @jcgamer107 have you played another Mario RPG besides Super Paper Mario in the past dozen years?

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#84. Lagu Untukmu
Artist: Meet Uncle Hussain
Nominated: VincentLauw/Menji76 (May 2012)
Score: #79th [7/7]
Standard Rank: 44/49
Time: 3:40
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsn5vPTk3dI

This was almost assuredly a nomination because looking back through 2012 Rankings I saw I put Lagu Untukmu in as an example of how much I disliked the 2012 list of songs. The year before, Lagu Untukmu was the midway point at 24/47, and I would've ranked it 23rd out of 100 songs in the new list. And looking at 2012.... yeah, there's a lot of songs on there I'm glad I've never heard again. Top five slaaaps, though. "Explosive" by Bond, "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit, "Punching in a Dream" by The Naked & Famous, "Little Talks" by Of Monsters & Men, and "On Melancholy Hill" by Gorillaz. There's also a few other songs from this list I nominated elsewhen. As for Lagu Untukmu itself, it's a nice night cruising song. I can picture travelling across Boston to this song, and I don't do that often. The Bunker Hill Bridge, specifically. Lots of pretty lights.

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#83. 2525/2011
Artist: Asoaka Hilton
Nominated: PrestonStarry (October 2012)
Score: #57th [5/5]
Standard Rank: 43/49
Time: 15:29
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBI2uPjDyWk

I never got into NicoNico, though 2012's rankings had quite a number of them nominated. This was the highest one I ranked from Natwaf_akidna at #11. It is fun to listen to every now and again, but it's soooooo daaaaaamn long. There is a great deal of nostalgia in here from nyancat to Okkusenman, Gingaman to Kakuranger, general nostalgic vibes from listening top this over and over and over again over a decade ago. I think 4:10-5:23 is my favorite section besides Kakuranger's appearance at 9:55, It wasn't my intention to put my two 2012 ranking nominations together like this, but there were some other songs between them I bumped up. (This write-up comes a full week after the previous one.)

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#82. Bailamos
Artist: Enrique Iglesias
Nominated: ZeroSignal620 (April 2015)
Score: #118th [5/5]
Standard Rank: 42/49
Time: 3:35
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sye_VxmNZA

Yeah, this song's aged like milk. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't hit nearly as hard as I remember it doing when it came out. I mean, even then it wasn't high up on my list, but there was a time where Enrique and the Latin Explosion were so so big. Lou Bega, Ricky Martin, Santana, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira. I think I would nominated a lot of their songs over Bailamos these days.

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#81. The Inner Light
Artist: Jay Chattaway
Nominated: ahirsch101 (February 2015)
Score: ??? [2/4]
Standard Rank: 41/49
Time: 6:42
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyYhbC0MXlY

It's a beautiful tune, but I have no memory nor nostalgia of this. Am I certain I did not nominate the Next Generation theme or the one that played in the Motion Picture? No? It's the same link here as it was a decade ago? Hm. It's a beautiful tune.