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#70. The A-Team Theme
Artist: Mike Post & Pete Carpenter
Nominated: VincentLauw/Menji76 (May 2012)
Score: #87th [5/7]
Standard Rank: 36/49
Time: 1:33
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM

I've maybe seen one or two episodes and a few compilations, but the theme song is so action-packed and wonderful. Mike Post is a BEAST. Believe it or not, if you watched a television show made in the 1980s, there's like a 50% chance Mike Post made the theme song. Magnum P.I., The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Quantum Leap, Doogie Howser, NYPD Blue, and, one of the biggest contributions to television themes in history, Law & Order among at least dozens upon dozens of others. The A-Team Theme song is absolutely iiconic.

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#69. The Freshmen
Artist: The Verve
Nominated: Kanzaris (January 2013)
Score: --- [3/4]
Standard Rank: 35/49
Time: 4:32
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umEXpGHc0E

A really depressing song about a girl who took her life after an abortion, and the stages of grief and how life hits you fast wear a helmet. It's a gorgeous, terrible, pure 90s song.

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#68. King of Birds
Artist: R.E.M.
Nominated: ZeroSignal620 (June 2015)
Score: --- [5/5]
Standard Rank: 34/49
Time: 4:10
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASokyb7oqdM

Nostalgia-bomb. I'm surprised I can sing-a-long to half the lyrics, but that's how much I listened to R.E.M. in my teens and early twenties. I'm not quite sure why I picked King of Birds. Document's a weird one (to me here in 2024) to nominate a song from if it's not the obvious "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" or "The One I Love" or even "Exhuming McCarthy." Something strange was going on that night. Was I trying to clear the floor to dance? It wasn't my finest of hours.

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#67. Moon Mountain / Forest Theme
Game: Harvest Moon 64
Nominated: tazzyboyishere (August 2012) & Kenri (January 2013)
Scores: - [1/10] & #86th [1/5]
Games Rank: 34/61
Time: 2:06
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvR_-xXAvg

DOUBLE-KILL. Wow, none of the nominations I gave to tazzy/Kenri made my top half, but it's neat to note that my favorite of the five I sent Kenri was Kenri's least favorite. Harvest Moon 64 is the game that brought me to GameFAQs in the first place and I have a deep-seated love and nostalgia for that game, despite only reaching the end party one time (my first time). This is probably my favorite track in the game, but I adore listening to almost all of them. Game was just so fun to play... until you and everyone else got married and there seemed to be no new dialogue with anyone and the bar was completely empty every night and the greenhouse was a huuuuge obstacle in the enjoyably quick pacing of the days. But the soundtrack was fun and memorable!

[CRYPTIC ANSWER] See? I probably deserved the poor nominations after all I subjected you to, @tazzyboyishere

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#66. Danger
Game: Secret of Mana
Nominated: CelticGuardian (January 2013 - Worst Songs)
Score: #51st [1/4]
Games Rank: 33/61
Time: 2:13
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IJPzf4mO0

You might be thinking to yourself, "How the hell is this song so high? IT'S A WALL OF EAR PIERCING NOISE!" Yes, yes it is. It really gets you amped up and hits the panic button with a giant boss suddenly taking up the screen and you have to fight it with your rusty sword. You have to figure out the boss' defenses, avoid it's many attacks, hope not to die as it rolls across to the other side of Elinee's Castle, make sure you bought enough Cups of Wishes and Faerie Walnuts to keep everyone healed and buffed. But as you figure out the patterns of attacks and you start targetting those weaknesses... the music joins in with a ray of hope. You start to feel confident and the music boosts that confidence. You begin to soar about with charged attacks and giant rock slides and the music is just hitting those giant triumphant swells. On its own, yeah, Danger can be grating, but I can't think of too many better tracks that feel like literal Bardic Inspiration.