Board 8 > Raetsel's B8 Music Ranking Topic! [Rankings]

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91:

Song name - The Weight of the World
Song origin - NieR: Automata OST
Song link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egn_VNVKzI4" data-time="
Nominator: Murphiroth (7/15)


I wish this had been the Japanese version of the song. Not that there's anything wrong with the English version, but I know it too well. The final song from my favorite game of last year*? Yes, I'm quite aware of it. One of the greatest games of all time with a stellar soundtrack.

Which makes this version of the song the exact opposite of new. I still like it, which is how it managed to survive being cut at the block of songs I knew too well, but... well the more I liked a song before starting this topic, the harder it was for it to get a high score, and this is exactly as far as I want to take it.



*Second favorite was Pyre ; third favorite was "Make a Good Mega Man Level 2", an unbelievably massive Mega Man fangame that is too complicated to go into here.

[FINAL NOTES: Seriously, just go download MaGMML 2. Best Mega Man game ever.

....not that I suspect any of you will actually enjoy it, but it's free, so I see no harm in suggesting it.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Alright, alright, the short version: Anyone and everyone was able to submit a stage for MaGMML 2. They were ranked by a panel of judges on a variety of criteria and ranked, but there was very little attempt at quality control. Some stages are broken messes filled with glitches ; some are created by professional game designers. The game features a mixture of the absolute best & worst Mega Man can ever be, and you never know what's waiting for you within each stage.

There's a ridiculously massive number of levels, a surprisingly long post game, hidden collectibles that unlock some interesting things, and a hub world filled with references to everything Mega Man related. It's basically the ultimate tribute to the Blue Bomber and the fanbase and it's unironically one of my favorite games of last year--possibly of all time, which speaks to just how amazing Automata and Pyre were.]

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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

And back on topic with one short writeup; since the earlier mix up had too many posted, I'm just doing one now to get us back to an even number.

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107:

Song name - DICE
Song origin - BAND-MAID
Song link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAYnVJX9CY" data-time="
Nominator: Murphiroth (8/15)

Not really a fan of the BDSM type lyrics (though I think I appreciate how clean they kept the lyrics in spite of the subject matter), but the song itself is good.

[FINAL NOTES: Nothing to add here.]

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I barely even pay attention to the lyrics because the bass line is so groovy. Not that everyone else isn't killing it in the song, but Misa is truly beasting on the bass.
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Automata's OST is so good that I spent like 30 minutes switching between multiple songs before settling on that one for this topic.
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Woo, one song in the top 100.

Honestly wasn't too sure if any would make it. Wonder where it'll place.
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Murphiroth posted...

Automata's OST is so good that I spent like 30 minutes switching between multiple songs before settling on that one for this topic.

Oh, definitely an amazing soundtrack. I'm not entirely sure where I'd place it, as I don't usually rank soundtracks... like I know Undertale & Chrono Cross are my top two (probably CC > Undertale, if I truly had to pick), but Automata might actually be third? There are other games with individual songs I like more, but every song on Automata was great which would make it pretty hard to beat.
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oh yay Pyre love

Rukey, Sir Gilman, and Ti'zo are my boys
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Automata's OST is consistently great. Become as Gods is easily my favorite track, it's absolutely stunning in the context the the game. It gives me chills just thinking about it, oof.
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MycroProcessor posted...

I think Go to Fontana would've been auto-near-last-place on most people's lists, so I'm glad you actually seem to like it a lot, even if you find it too long! Length rarely affects my opinion on a piece of music but actually half the time i listen to go to fontana i just like listen to the first 4-5 minutes or whatever lmao

I do like it (I wanted different and that certainly fits the bill) and yeah, stopping it early probably would have helped it quite a bit.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

oh yay Pyre love

Rukey, Sir Gilman, and Ti'zo are my boys

Hey, I actually agree with those three being the best characters! Though I'd probably reverse the order; Ti'zo is just too adorable (and his ability to have infinite stamina too powerful) to be anything other than best character. Rukey & Gilman are both amazing, but I'd probably back Gilman since I...can't think of a single other worm-like character I've ever liked in anything, actually.

I still need to try to clear a run on the highest difficulty that was added sometime after launch. I tried going through it with all the Titan Stars active on every match...it uhh...wasn't going so well. Think I was around the last cycle with only one person saved before deciding I would just try again later, then started playing other things.

mcflubbin posted...

Automata's OST is consistently great. Become as Gods is easily my favorite track, it's absolutely stunning in the context the the game. It gives me chills just thinking about it, oof.

Not sure what my favorite track from it is, honestly.
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

but not super amazing.

I don't think I could pull something like that off. For me the song has all the right background noises for the right kind of trance inducing harmony and I even almost forget in some places that there are no instruments used at all.

In case you didn't realize it though that song is actually an original by Smooth McGroove. Media Molecule hired him to do it and I believe they hired him to do some more work on an upcoming project of some sort.
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Se7enthrust posted...

In case you didn't realize it though that song is actually an original by Smooth McGroove. Media Molecule hired him to do it and I believe they hired him to do some more work on an upcoming project of some sort.

Actually I didn't know that, since I again know very little about any game that Sackboy appeared in. That's nice, but it wouldn't change the ranking any.



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90:

Song Name: The Complexity of Light
Song Origin: Children of Nova
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJB2jqToa2E" data-time="
Nominator: NBIceman (11/15)


"The Complexity of Light is a concept album, I believe ; the lyrics seem to tell a story."

Very bold statement there, blog. You believe that it seems like there's a story of some sort. Having repeatedly listened to this song, I can confirm that it is my opinion that I believe it feels like the singer is trying to communicate things.

I feel like John Oliver's character in Community being forced to teach anthropology.

"You can hear the singer repeatedly reference an organization known as The Order, meaning SOMETHING. "

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89:

Song Name: The Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide
Song Origin: The Kings
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwd0WogJNE" data-time="
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (6/15)


I don't know that I can forgive this singer for trying to rhyme "Wanna" with "Toronto".

[FINAL NOTES: The transition between both parts of the song also repeats "The Beat Goes On" too many times. It's a good song, very catchy, but I've already cut songs for less than that.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I feel like I slightly undervalued this song and slightly overvalued the song in #87's slot... doing this again, I'd probably drop the 87th song down to 89th place and move this song (along with the next one eliminated) up one space each as a result.

...not that such a minor change would really impact anything in any notable way.
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88:

Song Name: It Ain't Hard To Tell
Song Origin: Nas
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI-DRbf_AZk" data-time="
Nominator: Dragon66116 (8/15)


I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell
I break 'em down whether they solid or frail

...I know it's a common saying and this song predates the Dreamcast, but I can't read the song title without having flashbacks to Knuckles' SA theme.

Anyway, what I like most about this track is that it invites direct comparison to "Nas Will Prevail" ; while I was told Prevail was basically the demo of this song, almost all the lyrics have been changed and the background music is radically different. It's really interesting to listen to both songs side-by-side.

I vastly prefer the background music on "Nas Will Prevail" (to a point that I think that song may have hit the top 40, had it been nominated instead), but "It Ain't Hard To Tell"'s line about Shotguns in Hell might just be the most brilliant line in any song on this list; the line, by itself, is so evocative that it works even if you don't understand it (suffice it to say that I did not), then it takes on new levels of brilliance once you actually get what he meant.

....granted there's no way I would have ever put any of that together without the help of YouTube commenters, but that's probably why it's so brilliant.

[FINAL NOTES: This song joins Jeopardy & Winter as the third in the "you nominated the wrong version of this song" trio.]

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87:

Song Name: National Anthem of USSR
Song Origin: The Red Army Choir
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs" data-time="
Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (5/15)


I have nothing to say about the Soviet Union or anything this anthem stands for, but it's easily the best anthem I've ever heard, regardless of who it was for.

[FINAL NOTES: I don't feel entirely comfortable having this song up as high as it is, but it really is quite good.]



[FINAL-ER NOTES: This a hard one to justify ranking so highly, even for me. Let's see what arguments I can make to try and get away with this.

First, I have a bit of a bias towards songs that are unique on this list. This is the only national anthem, so it gets a boost from that.

It gets a further boost because there's very little Russian influence anywhere on the list. You have this and a gag song from an EA video game, and that's about it... and said game song only serves to make this sound even better in comparison.

Second, while I wouldn't say I really want to study history, I do get slightly intrigued by music that offers a bit of a lesson. In this case, I didn't know there were multiple versions of the anthem and found some interest in comparing the 1944 lyrics to the revised '77 lyrics--also, full disclosure, I have no idea which version of the anthem this is and I choose to be willfully ignorant so that I can pretend this is the '44 version because I like the lyrics more.

Third, the '44's chorus is actually rather nice. Particularly the:

Long live our people, united and free.
Strong in our friendship tried by fire.

line. That's just a good message, regardless of where it came from.



Fourth, and I know I've said it too often this list, the song honestly is rather catchy. Parts of it have gotten stuck in my head a few times and that's rather impressive, considering what the song is.

So while I would drop this down a few spaces to give a bit more credit to the last two songs that got eliminated, I do feel alright with the song being in this area of the rankings.]

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86:

Song Name: Adequate
Song Origin: [A-One] (Original by ZUN)
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zELNGB1XBNM" data-time="
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (10/15)

This is a lyrical version of a Touhou song, right? I had no idea such things even existed. I've never played any main Touhou games, but I've seen a lot of the characters converted to MUGEN and had to try looking up quotes for most of them, so I have a decent knowledge of the most popular characters.

I'm into the concept of the song (I've listened to everything by The Megas, so yes, I like lyrical remixes of VGMs), I love the computerized instruments, I love the lyrics of the song... I just don't really like the singer himself, unfortunately. This comes so close to being one of my all-time favorite songs ever, but his voice holds things back for me.

More specifically, after listening to a few of his other songs, I don't think he's able to put enough emotion behind the words. No matter which character he's singing from the perspective of, or the lyrics themselves, it's always in a similar tone of voice. The villain singing in "No Guardian Angel" as they prepare to kill their victim should not sound exactly like Reimu lamenting that she never has a chance to rest between battles in "On The Moon".

To be entirely fair, that's not exactly his fault. It would be virtually impossible for any one person to portray so many different characters and the fast-paced nature of Touhou music doesn't offer much opportunity to even try properly expressing emotion. He did the best he could and I don't honestly know there's anyone who could have done better.

....Then again, I wouldn't mind hearing an entire album of these songs. so I may not be giving him enough credit...

[FINAL NOTES: I honestly don't want to have this song this low, but like Pentaly Shootout, I can't bring myself to move any other songs down to boost it.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: ...Is what I said at the time, but now I want to move this up at least 16 rankings. Very, very undervalued song.[

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85:

Song Name: Dixie Wolf (The Seduction Of...)
Song Origin: He Is Legend
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sMWv_r5ZdE" data-time="
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (7/15)


This song mostly makes it so far due to the chorus. Like I've said before, I like villain songs, and those lines are just dark enough without being vulgar. Unfortunately, most of the rest of the song devolves into generic metal screaming, which drags it down quite a bit. I do like it, but it could be a lot better.

[FINAL NOTES: A better writer could draw some interesting parallels between this song and the Metal cover of Hellfire. The whole repeated lines of if I can't have you/her no one will and the way both songs are influenced by classical literature (Romeo & Juliet here, Hunchback of Notre Dame over there) while being done in a modern style of music...

...but I really wouldn't really know where to begin with such insight.]

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This is a lyrical version of a Touhou song, right? I had no idea such things even existed.

...You have *no idea as to how deep the Touhou music hole goes, i'm afraid*. ^_^' This is just one song for one gal from one remixing group. There's *hundreds* of remixes in so many different styles, lyrical versions just being the *start*. I don't know if you'll have the time or desire anytime soon, I honestly suggest just inputting almost any music style and Touhou after it into the Youtube search bar, but to start...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gPg6AsWi_Y" data-time="

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPtFyGY_IZw" data-time="

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcV6uIUu5_U" data-time="

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXi-8qxHx3k" data-time="
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Quick thoughts on recently posted non-nominated songs:

"A Greener Grass" was amazing. Assuming it holds up on multiple listens, I think it'd probably drop around 17th place? It's not impossible for it to go higher, but I'd have to listen to it more times on different days before committing to anything really crazy.

The first Touhou song is interesting. It kinda reminds me of Persona music somehow; I like it, though I'm not as crazy about it... probably in the top 100, but I prefer Adequate, so around 90th place is about as far as it'd likely go.

The second Touhou song made me want to scream "AAAHHH, IT BURNS!!!" and throw the iPad out the window to escape the song after 30 seconds. Unless it improves drastically after that, it'd probably come in an easy last place.

Third and fourth Touhou songs were alright. Not as good as Adequate or the first link, but my thoughts on them were generally positive.
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84:

Song Name: Unfucktheworld
Song Origin: Angel Olsen
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT70RUV_9rw" data-time="
Nominator: mcflubbin (8/15)


Considering the title, I was expecting some extremely vulgar death metal song. I wasn't prepared for the song to be, basically, the exact opposite. It's simple, but emotional enough that I still enjoy it.

[FINAL NOTES: So few comments and yet so many of them involve thoughts of self mutilation and death. This isn't really about suicide and yet the reaction it inspires in people is even bleaker than those songs.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: I want to move this up 9 or 10 spots. It's definitely ranked a bit too low.]

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83:

Song Name: Just a Ride
Song Origin: Rishloo
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqUBALfsL4" data-time="
Nominator: NBIceman (10/15)


If this is considered to be the easiest Rishloo song to understand, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to ever click anything else by them.

[FINAL NOTES: I'm unsure if those saying the song is easy to understand are just making a joke, trolling, or operating on a higher level of consciousness than I am. Possibly all of the above.]

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I'm actually a little surprised that the chorus is your favorite part of the He is Legend song, because I think it's the weakest part! His voice had just drastically changed between their first album and that album, so he was trying to find his new vocal style and it was a little iffy at times on that album. I love the verses and the "generic metal screaming" lol but I do quite like the lyrics to the chorus and all of the stuff you said too.
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I was watching Twitch quite a lot recently and for some reason people keep requesting the USSR anthem to be played on stream, then proceed to spam whatever communist meme they can think of. So it's kind of a joke, though the song really is good.

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82:

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E" data-time="
Nominator: Seginustemple (2/10)


One of the only two songs on this list to directly play with my love of professional wrestling! Unfortunately I'd stopped watching WWE by the time Biker Taker was a thing, so it lacks the nostalgic punch of something from the 80s or 90s.

Fortunately, this still has several things going for it:

1.While I stopped watching wrestling, I was still playing the games. "Just Bring It!" included this song on the soundtrack, but as payment they had to include Fred Durst as a playable wrestler. So, I guess I do have wrestling related nostalgia for this song! Just in a really, really roundabout way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0hyX3kae9s" data-time="

2.I don't know why Fred Durst stealing Ben Stiller's car amuses me, but it does. I don't even care that I shouldn't factor that scene into the song's ranking, the opening always makes me laugh, and as I've said before--this list really needs a bit more humor.

3.Even though I'm mostly laughing at the song, it's catchier than something this stupid and repetitive has any right to be.

So... should the song be up this high? Probably not. But it amuses me and I can use whatever criteria I want, so it's up here anyway.


[FINAL NOTES: And a fifth participant has joined us in the DANGER ZONE

Anagram
DireKrow
BlackDra90n
Se7enthrust
Seginustemple]

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And the last song of the night...

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81:

Song Name: Gym Training Montage
Song Origin: Virt
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbZVBqHXfRI" data-time="
Nominator: MycroProcessor (5/10)

I can't explain why I like this song so much, but I do.

[FINAL NOTES: I still have no comments on this song.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: ...Well I suppose I did enjoy some of the Rocky films and this is allegedly inspired by at least one of the montages, so that might be a factor?]

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I expect a good explanation for why Dagothwave is this high, raetsel.
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Oh look, I'm out.
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CHOCOLATE STARFISH

lmao they had to make Fred Durst a playable character that is incredible

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80:

Song Name: Cry
Son Origin: Marmozets
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYlwbIDl00" data-time="
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (6/15)


It's quite an impressive song. The lead singer has good range, I suspect she could sing just about anything. But somehow it's not clicking with me today, which is unfortunate. It got really high marks the first two times I listened to it, but now that I'm finalizing the ranking, it's...dropped quite a bit.

[FINAL NOTES: Sorry.]


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79:

Song Name: Super Mario World Castle Theme Remix (Electric House)
Song Origin: MegaNeko
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvpfP1sMbzM" data-time="
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (9/15)


I enjoy the song, but not as much as it feels like I should. I think part of it is that I don't really care about the main Mario series. I don't have any negative feelings about the series itself, but I just...don't care. So you took a song I have no interest in, from a series I have no interest in, and covered it in the style of a music genre I've never really heard to have any opinion about. It's good and I do like it, and I praise it for being unique (both in context of the list and in things I've heard before), but...yeah.

[FINAL NOTES: Uhh...I'm still out of sounds to make. Maybe I can shout random Pokemon names for a while. What was Pokemon 149 on the original Pokedex? Dragonite, huh? I was never going to get that.]

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Seginustemple posted...

CHOCOLATE STARFISH

lmao they had to make Fred Durst a playable character that is incredible

It's somehow even goofier in practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Cjp4iM9Pk" data-time="&start=139

The announcers don't say the name of unlockable characters (or at least Fred Durst's name), referring to him only as "Superstar". Resulting in a bored Tazz declaring things like "SUPERSTAR...is different than other Superstars.". It's all very surreal.
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aw that's too bad to hear about Cry, how high did you have it before
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No worries, have no real opinion on Mario either as a series either. ...Then again, my first exposure to him was Mario is Missing, so...
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

aw that's too bad to hear about Cry, how high did you have it before

Hard to say exactly, as I didn't have hard numbers assigned to anything until near the end of the process. Notes indicate I had this predicted at somewhere in the top 30, so it dropped drastically between the second and third listens for reasons I was never able to put into words.





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78:

Song Name: Transformer Robot Sing Wheels on the Bus
Song Origin: Charge Cycles
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDE5HmlGtI" data-time="
Nominator: NFUN (4/9)


I would have thought it too soon for me to be nostalgic for the most recent VGMC, but apparently not. This is a song that I really wanted to like at the time, but I just didn't. I listened to it several times during the nomination period to see if I wanted to support it and I never did. And I don't think I voted for it in any of its matches, though it's possible I took it against something at some point.

Listening to it now though, I'm actually digging it this time. I'm not sure if it's just all the memories associated with the song pushing it up the ranking or if I'm just more interested in this style of music than I was earlier, but I actually like this now. Huh.

[FINAL NOTES: Porygon.]

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77:

Song Name: Either Way
Song Origin: The Twang
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yh_omPa4Po" data-time="
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (5/15)



Simple and beautiful. The world needs more music like this.

[FINAL NOTES: Mew.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Given the name of the band, I was expecting country, so the England accent was a pleasant surprise. And while I feel like I should have this higher, again, I don't see any songs coming up that I'd want to move down.]

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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

oh boy

oh boix
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Yeah Either Way is great, just started listening to The Twang recently, their catalog is solid.
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76:

Song name - Lives
Song origin - Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway
Song link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmmQ1EqSIc" data-time="
Nominator: Murphiroth (6/15)


Before this started, I was reasonably prepared for multiple songs about suicide. Not a topic I'm comfortable with, but it was really an inevitability. I was not prepared for the Armenian Genocide.

This is another song that I feel is a set-up. Serious question: Am I even allowed to have a song like this in anything other than first place?

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Rolling Stone's website apparently declared this to be the song of the summer, and I quote, "its got the kind of lyrics that make you just want to party".

All of our lives we've put up a fight
Survived genocide
Survived genocide

Of all the reactions I could have to this song, "want to party" is not one of them. I could be inspired by the message about people surviving in the face of overwhelming adversity and that even after genocide, some will survive and still find reasons to celebrate ; I could use it as an excuse to learn more about history, especially as it regards this topic ; I could dwell on the problems of the world, or really anything except shout "WOO! THIS IS THE PARTY THEME OF THE SUMMER!!!!!"]

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75:

Song Name: The Moments in Between
Song Origin: The Reign of Kindo
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUPILO5ycqg" data-time="
Nominator: NBIceman (9/15)


I think I'd like to hear the rest of this album someday. Considering that I don't listen to albums, that's basically the highest praise I can offer a song.


[FINAL NOTES: I'm not as into the song now as I apparently was when I did that write-up, but sure, I'll let past me add it to ZA'LIST.]

[[ZA'LIST

1.Alice Cooper

2.OSTs from games published by Ocean Software.

3.Something by The Mars Volta.

4.Some more Kindo music.]]



[FINAL-ER NOTES: And there's the first time something actually relevant got added to said list. Neat.]

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ok serj is above daron this topic is saved
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74:

Song name - Loud Twin Stars
Song origin - DOLL$BOXX
Song link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2itu5KEvG0" data-time="
Nominator: Murphiroth (5/15)


This song reminds me that I should replay Tokyo Mirage Sessoins at some point. It would be easier if the game wasn't stuck on the Wii U. So few games I care about on that system, just getting everything hooked back up would be a bit of a pain... and since it relied on the Gamepad (err...didn't it?), I seriously doubt it's ever going to get ported anywhere. Which is too bad, since it deserved better than that.

It's unrelated, I know, but the Japanese Idol scene was integral to the plot and themes of that game, so it's not as random a connection as it seems. And I also have nothing to say about the song itself (it's good, but no specifics or other adjectives come to mind), so rambling about TMS is the best I can do. And I don't recall that game vividly enough to even do that.

[FINAL NOTES: MewTwo.]

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73:

Song Name: Give Me Novacaine
Song Origin: Green Day
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKAwIwjHwZI" data-time="
Nominator: Dragon66116 (7/15)


I think this song is too deeply connected to other songs on the album for me to properly understand it. People start talking about "Jesus of Suburbia", "St. Jimmy", and "Whatsername" while I have no idea who any of those people are. I'm told JoS may be Jimmy and it's like...okay?

I do like concept albums and when they're done well, they could inspire me to seek out the rest of the album and try to understand everything. Unfortunately, this song doesn't do that; it's good, sure, but I don't actually care who Jimmy is. I feel no desire to get to the bottom of this mystery, which limits how far the song can go.

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72:

Song Name: I Know Places
Song Origin: Taylor Swift
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPzC7CTtNE4" data-time="
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (4/15)


They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run
Baby, I know places we won't be found
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down


That line bothers me too much. If you're going with a "we are the [non-human creature], they are the [human]" metaphor, don't immediately follow it with the humans chasing their tails. It doesn't work.

On the other hand, this song was pretty much guaranteed to get into the top 100 thanks to the "we are the foxes" line alone. Also, I guess it's pretty clever that the song is a secret recording, to emphasize that Taylor can never escape regardless of what she says. But mostly it's because she compared herself to a fox and I'll award bonus points to whatever I want.

[FINAL NOTES: Vulpix!]

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And two more tonight, because again we have a scenario in which two songs are cut at basically the same time for the same reason, and it'd just be awkward to not have them in the same post.




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71:

Song Name: Hard Habit to Break
Song Origin: Chicago
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MwgByxPs8" data-time="
Nominator: IhatethisCPU (7/15)


Another song I had heard enough times to know by heart before the ranking, but this one gets a bit of a pass since I've never actually had this song on any of my playlists or mp3 players before.

((As far as I can recall the only three Chicago songs I've ever gone out of my way to listen to were "Walk Away", "Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?", and "25 or 6 to 4" ; though apparently I've never heard the full version of Time before, so it's debatable if I should even count that song.

...Having heard the full version now, I don't think the piano solo intro adds anything to DAKWTII? and am probably glad I never heard the full version, but I suppose that's neither here nor there..))

Either way, it's a nice song. It is very much the type of thing that I listen to on a regular basis and I think it gets a fair amount of radio play around here. The only complaint is that it offers nothing new to me ; it kinda makes me wonder why I haven't listened to more Chicago music, but if this song hasn't inspired me to listen to more of their work by now, it never will. Ah well; good song and I like it, but I'd have preferred a more obscure song of theirs that I didn't already know so well.

[FINAL NOTES: Coming up next--another song from the same time period, cut for the same reasons.]

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Song Name: Radio Ga Ga
Song Origin: Queen
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE" data-time="
Nominator: Dragon66116 (6/15)


Great song and video, but I've listened to Queen's Greatest Hits too often. From actively seeking out Greatest Hits albums, from the radio still playing several of their songs, to The Protomen releasing an entire album of Queen covers...

That being the only Protomen album I didn't enjoy, by the way. I loved the Cover Up with covers of a variety of artists' songs, but only copying one band--and not doing anything different with the songs--turned them into just a third rate cover band. Terrible album.

Anywho... great song, as I said, but not new enough to get a super amazing ranking.

[FINAL NOTES: It breaks my heart to put this song so low... but I'd feel even worse about putting any more songs below something I already liked as much as this song, so I'm cutting it off here.]

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NFUN posted...

ok serj is above daron this topic is saved

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Wow I always heard the lyric as, "And they'll be chasing OUR tails trying to track us down"

I love when Taylor shouts, "and we run!" before the chorus, it's really powerful and emotional.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Wow I always heard the lyric as, "And they'll be chasing OUR tails trying to track us down"

That line would be so much better! Though I don't think it would improve the ranking much... probably enough to move it up two rankings, but I'd have to think hard if I wanted to move it above #70.



Only one song this morning to get the number of eliminated songs back on track after last night's extra elimination:



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Song Name: They.Resurrect.Over.New.
Song Origin: Lupe Fiasco ft. Ab-Soul & Troi
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_aFin5ipJ4" data-time="
Nominator: Dragon66116 (5/15)


Hey, remember how I said that there was someone else who made a rap song that sampled Nightcall that I didn't like?

...

Turns out it wasn't this guy! As soon as I heard that Lupe had his own take on that song (American Terrorist III), I figured that had to be the song I was thinking of. It was thematically appropriate: This topic, after several years, giving me yet another chance to directly compare Childish Gambino and the rapper I couldn't remember the name of--this time with fully original songs, unlike the last time.

Then I listed to American Terrorist III and I definitely never heard that song before. Which is unfortunate, because I really like it too! Probably not as much as R.I.P., it's not a life-changing epipheny of music, but it's really great.

...too bad you didn't nominate that one. Not that you could have possibly known "alternate versions of Nightcall" were my thing (much less that I would have such a very specific thing), but... well you indirectly led me to a song I wanted to hear, so I guess it worked out anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4bB_OwDuOs" data-time="

As for this song, there are parts of it I like. It probably gets way too big a bonus for opening with pinball sounds and because it led me to the other song, but whatever.

[FINAL NOTES: Honestly, this song is much better than that write-up made it sound. It just doesn't compare too favorably to the Lupe Fiasco song that I want to be listening to instead, which makes it harder to say nice things about it than it should be.]

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Song Name: The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Song Origin: Gustav Holst
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo" data-time="
Nominator: handsomeboy2012 (4/15)


Considering how influential this song (and the entire suite of songs for that matter) remains to soundtracks, it is almost bafflingly modern compared to what I expect from classical music. Very well done.

[FINAL NOTES: Of course the best classical song I've ever heard can only manage to get into the top 70 , so I doubt I'll be changing my stance on that genre anytime soon. Still a great song.]

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Song Name: The Spark of the Archon
Song Origin: Native Construct
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfo4fFLKfdo" data-time="
Nominator: TheArkOfTurus (6/10)


This song should be my thing, but it's hurt by the fact that I don't care about the story they're trying to tell. "Sinister Silence" doesn't exactly inspire fear or an interest in learning more. The chanting of a fictional language doesn't really work for me, because why is the rest of the song in English?

That being said, the song is impressive and I like how it keeps changing throughout. The aquatic section starting around 4:20 is a candidate for most beautiful section of any song on the entire list, but the sheer variety of styles on display here keeps me from assigning too high of a score to any one specific section. It's a unique experience, but I need a better story to really pull me into it.

[FINAL NOTES: Yeah, this song's quality is too all over the place to raise any further than this.]

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When Dvorak got dead last I was betting Jupiter to be at 190 or something.

Oh hey, didn't notice that Spark of the Archon nom. Good taste, that.
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handsomeboy2012 posted...

When Dvorak got dead last I was betting Jupiter to be at 190 or something.

When I saw the nomination, I was expecting something really low for it myself... but the work remains so influential to film soundtracks that, when listening, I wasn't 100% positive it even was classical music--it feels very similar to John Williams to me, so it doesn't even really register in my mind as being a hundred years old.





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Song Name: Dark Come Soon
Song Origin: Tegan and Sara
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWmqdM7pNos" data-time="
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (5/15)


It sounds haunting and mysterious, then you hear Tegan say that she wrote the song about having to wait until after 9 PM to make calls due to her cell phone plan. I can get wanting people to understand your art, but sometimes the work is better if you can step back and let it speak for itself.

Take Anodyne, a somewhat obscure Zelda-like game. I was completely fixated on that game and could not put it down; I had to find everything, read every line of dialogue, explore every single screen. Their was a story, but it was vague and difficult to understand--it was like exploring a dream, incredibly familiar & disturbingly wrong at the same time, with cryptic messages.

...then the creators decided to take to the Steam Community page to comment on which player's theories about the story was closest to the truth. In one post, they completely shattered their work. All the mystery was gone. I still like the game, but it's just not the same anymore.

So it is with this song; Without that one bit of honesty, this probably ranks even higher. But I can't forget what she said, so here we are.

[FINAL NOTES: Anodyne is out on PS4 these days... I can't decide if I want to buy a second copy to have on consoles or not. I did love that game and want to support the developers, but after they went and ruined everything, I'm not sure I'd enjoy it. Wonder if anything changed? I can think of a few lines of dialogue that I'm pretty sure wouldn't get onto consoles unedited... ah well, I've got too many PS4 games as it is. Maybe I'll wait and see if it drops onto a Flash Sale someday.]

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65:

Song Name: Up and Away
Song Origin: Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5xzaDo5Q54" data-time="
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (3/15)


Another song that feels a bit too on the nose for a nomination. Yes, I wanted more rap music. Yes, I was complaining that most of the other nominations were too hardcore or too hard to understand without more familiarity with the genre. Yes, I was complaining that some songs were dealing with too serious a subject matter.

"Here's a simple, happy rap song with references to The Simpsons and Febreeze!"

Yeah, I guess that's the literal definition of what I was looking for. Just....too literal, maybe? Like, surely there's some ground between GUMMY & half-hearted Simpsons' references, yes?

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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

I wasn't 100% positive it even was classical music--it feels very similar to John Williams to me, so it doesn't even really register in my mind as being a hundred years old.

you get that classical music is still being composed today, right? >.>
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Raetsel_Lapin posted...

I wasn't 100% positive it even was classical music--it feels very similar to John Williams to me, so it doesn't even really register in my mind as being a hundred years old.

you get that classical music is still being composed today, right? >.>

Not a thing I've ever heard of, no. Songs done in classical style or inspired by classical music, sure, but I've only heard it used to refer to music from a very specific timeframe.
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Aw, that's an unfortunate way for one of my songs to go out
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Not a thing I've ever heard of, no. Songs done in classical style or inspired by classical music, sure, but I've only heard it used to refer to music from a very specific timeframe.

well, it depends on what you mean by "classical music."

there's "classical music" in the broad sense that encompasses all kinds of classical music. that's still being composed today.

but there's also classical music as in "classical music composed during the classical era," like mozart. obviously that's NOT being composed today. by that definition holst's music isn't classical music either because his music is from the modern era. so he composed "modern classical music" (or "20th century classical" or whatever you want to call it), not "classical music."

does that make sense? >.>
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Not a thing I've ever heard of, no. Songs done in classical style or inspired by classical music, sure, but I've only heard it used to refer to music from a very specific timeframe.

well, it depends on what you mean by "classical music."

there's "classical music" in the broad sense that encompasses all kinds of classical music. that's still being composed today.

but there's also classical music as in "classical music composed during the classical era," like mozart. obviously that's NOT being composed today. by that definition holst's music isn't classical music either because his music is from the modern era. so he composed "modern classical music" (or "20th century classical" or whatever you want to call it), not "classical music."

does that make sense? >.>

It does, actually. Thank you!
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