Board 8 > VGMC11 Day 29: She Wants Me Dead/Hana kagerou, Battle Music/CLASS:XIO_PROCEED

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Welcome to today's topic for Video Game Music Contest 11, a tournament of the best tracks from games, as decided upon by you, the voters.


Links:
Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=466312
Contest info - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d-N92Sis_Ghh-QYE2cQqClPP5H3T-idwlk0CUHOv2ew
Discussion and results thread - https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75120003
Main bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RFteVUCpIsmLHRwqLStaQJD
Side bracket playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RE35F2S4u6Ie8w1o0jHPKXB

Rules:

- Listen to both of the songs. Links have conveniently been provided for both songs. Even if Song A is your favorite of all-time and Song B is from a series you hate... Listen. To. Both. (If I have suspicions you are not doing this, your vote may be disqualified.)
- Obvious contest rules apply (no alts, one vote per person, no rallying, etc.).
- Please make your voting options clear, rather than burying them in text.
- Each set of matches lasts 24 hours, even if the new one isn’t up by then.
- Always vote on the versions of the song provided, not versions from different sources.
- If you know ahead of time that you're not going to be around and you want to vote in advance, post your choices in the discussion/bracket topic.
- Please do NOT post tallies/score updates in the middle of the match, as this has a tendency to directly influence matches.
- You don't have to vote in all the matches, but it'd be cool if you did!

Match 1:

She Wants Me Dead - She Wants Me Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1Ep2hrHzw

Sound Voltex II - Hana kagerou

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


Match 2:

Last Armageddon - Battle Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-IuvOoXB_g

Ar nosurge - Class::XIO_PROCEED;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41p9n2HTdSc


VGMC Masters side bracket:

Neotokyo - Annul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6eZJRurFk

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2WQjqKpVM


Easy vote form:
She Wants Me Dead / Hana kagerou
Battle Music / Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Annul / Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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Sound Voltex II - Hana kagerou
Ar nosurge - Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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why is the poll not a shutout for ed

who seriously voted for me I mean come on now
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Hana kagerou
Battle Music
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

She Wants Me Dead is certainly unique but I'm not gonna go against my BEMANI overlord just for that

The back half of Lunatic Princess didn't do much for me but neither half of Annul did anything either so that one's easy too
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She Wants Me Dead
Battle Music
Annul
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Hana kagerou
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess


I only like about half of the Gust songs that get nominated for these things, but man I REALLY like that half of them.
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She Wants Me Dead
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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She Wants Me Dead
Battle Music
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Sound Voltex II - Hana kagerou
Ar nosurge - Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Neotokyo - Annul

Neotokyo OST still too powerful.
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Hana kagerou
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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the tight 2nd intervals because it just feels like kind of like when there are tornado sirens at different pitches or when the doppler effect happens with two car horns but one is clsoer ttokgpolsiameoirg oinkg (you get the picture) ((dystopia cool)). (((edgy))) I asked someone if I was "too edgy" and they said "no" because "you get sad when people don't appreciate it when you tell them you want to murder them and then you cry that they unfollowed you on twitter." Well the conversation didn't go exactly like that but it went something like that. Why are there little kids in this song saying "we can not buy wheat." "I can not draw my any of my tea, it you" "I am not a can draw and team, to you"

"Touhou music sounds generic" screamed the tiny mouse. "Run ZUN, Run! They're going to look at you!" So he created touhou with his blue eyes and white eyelids, they went to work, putting the really fake trumpets and the speed that the notes are being too fast for anyone who would be "really" playing these instruments to actually play. It's almost surreal at times because of how not real it sounds. It sounds so FAKE and VIDEO GAME MUSIC and I love it. I love touhou VI-VII-i progressions, they are probably my favorite "generic chord progression that is overused", so I appreciate the service that the FAKE SOUDNS are doing for me by using them, and then it has. Although I like a lot of things about this, I do not really like how simple the melody gets in your face with it's "these are the 3 notes that just happened just so you know" but EVErything ELSE is so dense and fast that I care a lot less. It's not "impressive" but it's still fun to listen to and I guess that's all that matters isn't it billy. "yes billy." I say that but I also like how much the melody kind of wanders the first time you even hear it, like the phrasing of it is so long that it's like almost specifically un-catchy but that almost makes it more catchy to ME because I am BACKWARDS PERSON so that's good. Kind of like Flying Clouds Drifting Haze except A LOT less "professional"

That was an easy match in favor of anul but the touhou one was fun too
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Dead
Battle
Annul

All easy decisions for me
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She Wants Me Dead
Battle Music
Annul

excess crayons you have a new challenger for worst song in the contest. no surprise it's from the same series. and then more Touhou too... honestly i'm not sure how much more of this i can take.
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Hana kagerou
Battle Music
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

First match we have a neat little jazzy track with a black cat in it versus the most stereotypically Japanese song I've ever heard. I do kind of like the latter slightly more. ;>_>

I've liked Last Armageddon Battle Music for some time now, but only this year did I actually decide to nominate it (I dunno, maybe I figured it wouldn't make it into the contest? <_<;)
I agree with what pyresword said about Gust music, but I'd be willing to wager that the half I like is the other half (this one isn't bad though).

Yeah I never really did much like Neotokyo music, so this one is pretty easy.
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MycroProcessor posted...

(random fact: I used to think that smh stood for "suck my hand" and not "shake my head")

I thought I was the only one
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Hana kagerou
Battle Music
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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She Wants Me Dead
Battle Music
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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FL81 posted...

MycroProcessor posted...

(random fact: I used to think that smh stood for "suck my hand" and not "shake my head")

I thought I was the only one

I can never remember what it stands for. It wasn't part of the original set of accepted abbreviations from back in the day, and seems to just have come from relative obscurity in the last couple years. I always want it to be "suck my...something." And then I'm at a loss to figure out the something. Probably because SMD is a legit acronym I recognize, and SMH is not.

She wants me deadums
XIO_PROCEED
Annul
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MycroProcessor posted...

I think I would like it if it sounded less good but it sounds too good so I don't like it.

Mycro hipster, confirmed.

Hana kagerou
Class::XIO_PROCEED;

I find both songs in the last match unpleasant to listen to.

She Wants Me Dead starts out really fun, but then it's just the same thing over and over...
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Sound Voltex II - Hana kagerou
Last Armageddon - Battle Music

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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Sound Voltex II - Hana kagerou
Last Armageddon - Battle Music
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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Hana kagerou
Battle Music
Annul
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sometimes I wonder about these votes for:
She Wants Me Dead
Battle Music
Lunatic Princess
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azuarc posted...

Probably because SMD is a legit acronym I recognize

Shewants Me Dead

no, this is not me changing my vote
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Hana kagerou
Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

Dead
Proceed
Annul
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Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Annul
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She Wants Me Dead - She Wants Me Dead
Ar nosurge - Class::XIO_PROCEED;
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
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