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#20. Gaur Plain
Game: Xenoblade Chronicles
Nominated: jcgamer107 (May 2012) & Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Scores: #30th [2/5] & - [4/25]
Games Rank: 7/61
Time: 4:19
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDJtsfR51To
Note: In a game with plenty of amazing tracks, this is currently my favorite. No doubt things can change with further and more extensive perusal.

Xenoblade had already been large. A big starting town in a large lake surrounded by huge walls and tons of wildlife. But like Final Fantasy VII, the first town can be stupidly large and take up the first few hours no problem. And also like Final Fantasy VII, leaving town for the first time and seeing just how vast the rest of the world is... is huge. First you get the real first sight of sky and dimension leaving that cavern, then you hit Gaur Plains and... my goodness. It's so vast with so much wildlife and monsters that do not cater to the player's level, AND THE MUSIC. One of the best tracks in a video game, IMO, and it accompanies just how real an adventure you're finding yourself on.

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#19. Blue Water Blue Sky
Game: Guilty Gear X2
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Score: - [3/25]
Games Rank: 6/61
Time: 2:57
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhpisRcYuZw
Note: It's like travelling through a dream, racing towards the light. One of the most upbeat and soul-filling songs I've had the pleasure to listen to.

Still is. This is what I picture cruising along towards the beach on a day of sun and surf and hakuna matata to be. It's summer adventure and blue skies on the open road. I still love this song, and will always love this song.

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#18. A Simple Life
Game: Guilty Gear X2
Nominated: Ed Bellis (September 2012)
Score: - [2/25]
Games Rank: 5/61
Time: 3:07
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklYElgOyN4&
Note: Thanks to Satai_Delenn for turning me on to such an amazing soundtrack. This song is awesome.

I always forget how this goes, and coming at this write-up a month after I put it above BWBS, I have to rediscover why. Oh, it's even more wonderful and road-trippy! The guitar sings in this track~

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#17. Uptown Girl
Artist: Billy Joel
Nominated: ZeroSignal620 (June 2015)
Score: --- [1/5]
Standard Rank: 13/49
Time: 3:22
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E

The music video is captivating, and the music is incredible. A beautiful throwback to 50s rock and roll, Billy joel is an amazing singer. How can you not tap your toes, sing into wrenches, or do half-shirted pop-and-locking when this comes on?

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#16. On Melancholy Hill
Artist: Gorillaz
Nominated: Bane Of Despair (November 2013)
Score: --- [2/3]
Standard Rank: 12/49
Time: ~3:55
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mfKJWDSzI

The best song on Plastic Beach, one of the best Gorillaz songs, so ethereal and hopeful. There's a few songs I have shortlisted in my brain to pull me out of a depression spiral, and this is at the top of what I think of.

And that's where I left off a month ago.

Songs Remaining:

Barenaked Ladies, "Some Fantastic" (Bane_Of_Despair 11/13; ZeroSignal620 4/15)
Bill Conti, "Going the Distance" (tazzy 4/12)
Bruce Falcouner, "SSJ3 Ascension" (tazzy 4/12)
Dave Koz, "Faces of the Heart" (Bospsy 1/13)
Dave Matthews Band, "Two Step" (Kanzaris 1/13)
Lindsey Stirling, "Roundtable Rival" (profDEADPOOL 3/15)
Mariah Carey, "Fantasy" (ZeroSignal620 4/15)
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch, "Good Vibrations" (Bospsy 1/13)
R.E.M., "Harborcoat" (VincentLauw/Menji76 5-6/12; Kanzaris 1/13; profDEADPOOL 3/15)
The Cranberries, "Linger" (ZeroSignal620 4/15)
The National, "Exile Vilify" (Ed Bellis 9/12)
Third Eye Blind, "Motorcycle Drive-By" (Raetsel's 1st)
virt, "Get on the Bus" (jcgamer107 5/12)
Yutaka Minobe, "Kingdom of Ixa'taka" (Ed Bellis CHANGED 9/12)
zts, "discolor" (Ed Bellis CHANGED 9/12)