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#60. Smile Bomb
Artist: Matsuki Mawatari, Sara White
Nominated: profDEADPOOL (March 2015)
Score: #96th [5/5]
Standard Rank: 30/49
Time: 2:56
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEgY5kugUA

Yu Yu Hakusho is an anime I finally watched long after Toonami. Not even during when it aired. Tom had already signed off and told us to stay gold (bang) in 2008, and I don't think I got onto it until 2011/12. I'm 90% sure I finished at least Sensui when Toonami came back for that one magical April Fools' (and I was looking forward to The Room having seen it twice in theaters by that point). I remember trying to wake my friends up for the midnight madness and share my excitement. I needed to feel a touch of a friend. I can't believe it's been twelve years now. I should check out current anime or watch Yu Yu Hakusho again. At the very least the end of the Dark Tournament. Kuwabara might've made one of my favorite moments across all of media.

Relevant Links:
Final Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY30uYE47Ts
April Fools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6X9IHKbEqk

*goes off on a long Toonami-watching tangent*

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#59. A View to a Kill
Artist: Duran Duran
Nominated: ZeroSignal620 (June 2015)
Score: --- [3/5]
Standard Rank: 29/49
Time: 3:33
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuUnnlAPZk

I'm more than a bit disappointed this isn't a-ha's "The Living Daylights," so much that my brain starts playing that everytime I look at this nomination. Dancing into the fire isn't bad, and the opening crawl of a neon pink manicure slowly opening a zipper is more mesmerizing for me than anything in any other Bond intro, but it doesn't resonate for me. Like, the words "A View to a Kill" are just tacked into a different song completely so it can be used as a Bond theme. I'm rambling because the chorus is awesome and I'm trying to justify putting songs I have more fondness for higher. I am so, so, so sorry 'Smile Bomb.'

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#58. You Will Know Our Names
Game: Xenoblade Chronicles
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Score: - [19/25]
Games Rank: 30/61
Time: 2:23
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7yNyhLOIa4
Note: Rockin' battle music. Could you want anything more?

It's just too much. There's too much noise, too much going on. It's a great and dangerous battle theme, but I'm out of love with this.

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#57. AVALANCHE (Lost Perception Remix)
Artist: Random (Mega Ran)
Nominated: profDEADPOOL (March 2015)
Score: #106th [4/5]
Games Rank: 29/61
Remix Game & Rank: Final Fantasy VII - 'Let the Battle Begin!' and 'Barrett's Theme,' 4/9
Time: 4:45
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1eK-c0BfJw

"A-V, A-L, A-N, C-H-E THAT'S WHO WE BE." The whistle tune in the fight music with the excellent excellent lyrics match so well, and I've totally forgotten about the album. Need to listen again. And while I feel like Barrett's Theme drops away, just like Barrett's Theme is a drop in the soundtrack, it's hilarious. "I just always keep the faith and I always have a handgun. No I mean it literal cause I have a hand gun."

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#56. In My Room
Artist: The Beach Boys
Nominated: VincentLauw/Menji76 (May 2012)
Score: #48th [4/7]
Standard Rank: 28/49
Time: 2:13
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71pbhqnvNM

The first ten seconds has me scrolling up my wordpad to see how far back I'm inserting it, then the harmony and music kicks in and again I'm reminded how brilliant the Beach Boys are. Back before our living room had the family computer and long before it had the family tv, the main features were a record player and cassette player. We had Beach Boys on vinyl, but I would listen to the Greatest Hits cassette most often (because there were other cassette players around the house, obviously). Disney cassette storybook tapes of Winnie the Pooh's Blustery Winds-day and Br'er Rabbit? How about some Alvin & the Chipmunks? Various Eagles and Steppenwolf and The Grass Roots tapes? Nope, most played until my teens was Beach Boys. In My Room is still a classic piece for nostalgizing and decreasing anxiety levels.