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banshiryuu
05/18/24 10:59:59 PM
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Welcome to Video Game Music Contest 18, an annual celebration of the best of the best video game music according to the voters!

Important Links:
Bracket: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=478494
Contest info sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HBxgL9woiCMFKNOPuN_qdxmzjStJXSpC3Ocalfsavdk
Contest discussion thread: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80763291
Main bracket playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT3m7iohpL0y-5OyCrkgprWtXARkEJzh_
Compatibility sheet: ?!?!?!
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAJKYJmYhccLvbf_H-5uSA7-eMwXfW8k1q74Qho1bLU
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o
Discord: https://discord.gg/7FVXqWj

Rules:
- Listen to both songs in a given match, at least through the loop time provided (to make sure you don't skip before you've heard the whole thing!)
- Please consider the loop point listed when judging the song; if a video loops one minute 5 times, don't treat it as if it's a repetitive 5 minute song
- If it's a match between your favorite song ever and a song you despise, still LISTEN TO BOTH! Votes can and will be disqualified if there is suspicion songs are not being listened to, and you may be discounted for the rest of the contest for repeat offenses.
- No alt accounts, no rallying or begging, etc., etc.... You only get one vote! Swapping votes is alright, just make clear that you've already made a vote and are swapping.
- Make clear what your voting options are! Please keep votes separate from any comments, and use the titles given in the topic post.
- Voting in all matches is not mandatory, feel free to skip matches you do not wish to vote in.
- Vote based on the links provided, and not other sources of audio. Links are specifically chosen for best quality and the like.
- Don't discuss vote tallies in this thread, or in other threads, as they may influence votes. Likewise, please refrain from looking at the running tally before voting.

Voting Period:
- Today's matches will last 24 hours from the time of posting, or 24 hours from 11pm Eastern, whichever is the later time.
- Please note this may mean that two topics will be active at the same time!
- If you anticipate being unable to vote in a given day, please send an absentee vote to @banshiryuu, or post your absentee vote in the discussion thread!

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Match 1

Snake Pass - Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Composer: David Wise
Loop Point: 4:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QlOKyDYX0

LCD Dream Escalator - Neat Beat Retreat
Composer: Skrinkus
Loop Point: 2:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ZRIjHuqVw

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Match 2

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Can't Wait Until Night
Composer: Kenichi Matsubara arr. Michiru Yamane
Loop Point: 2:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OmP4m4OsbI?si=jd35-swhmufbOdq1

Let's Tap - Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Composer: Teruyoshi Kutsuna (Shoes)
Loop Point: 4:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IRakr7KrE

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Match 3

Honkai Impact 3rd - Rubia
Composer: Cai Jinhan, arr. Gong Qi, Qixiang Yang
Loop Point: 3:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIv5lFkBey0

SlipDream Resonator - Birdo II
Composer: Varra
Loop Point: 2:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yryojxIt72I

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Easy vote form:
Sog-Gee's Realm (Water) / Neat Beat Retreat
Can't Wait Until Night / Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Rubia / Birdo II
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sergiocornaga
05/18/24 11:04:31 PM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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NFUN
05/18/24 11:06:53 PM
#3:


Let's tap let's tap
Birdo

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DanKirby
05/18/24 11:27:49 PM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
abstain

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kamakazikila
05/18/24 11:28:59 PM
#5:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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Eggert
05/18/24 11:32:49 PM
#6:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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Haste_2
05/18/24 11:34:49 PM
#7:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II


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th3l3fty
05/18/24 11:51:07 PM
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LCD Dream Escalator - Neat Beat Retreat
Let's Tap - Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Honkai Impact 3rd - Rubia

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DireKrow
05/18/24 11:56:32 PM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia

Very weak day imo
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MacArrowny
05/19/24 12:30:48 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

Not my favorite David Wise song of this style, but still good. David Wise songs of this style rock. Easy vote against something that samples Copa Cabana lol.

CWUN really has a Mega Man X-y feel to it haha. Which is a good thing of course. Tap would be better if it were short. :p Not my style of electronic music.

Rubia's not really my style of game song. The singer's not very good either, IMO. Birdo's proggyness is a lot more fun.

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FL81
05/19/24 12:34:10 AM
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Neat Beat Retreat
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

ehh

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junglegirl
05/19/24 12:42:51 AM
#13:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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TeamRocketElite
05/19/24 12:51:29 AM
#14:


LCD Dream Escalator - Neat Beat Retreat
Let's Tap - Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Honkai Impact 3rd - Rubia

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barreldragon88
05/19/24 12:53:28 AM
#15:


Snake Pass - Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Let's Tap - Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Honkai Impact 3rd - Rubia

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Mihark
05/19/24 1:27:12 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia
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UF8
05/19/24 2:19:16 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9be8a81c.png

Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
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i can't believe i didn't realise sog-gee was actually from david wise, i remember just leaving a note saying it felt like a clone of modern dkc in the nom impressions lol (also that i didn't want it to make bracket because some of the sounds made me think i was getting discord notifs. turns out it still does lmao). maybe i'll check out the rest of the soundtrack later
meanwhile i'd take this to be a lsd dream emulator fangame? the music is... different to what i'd expect from one, but also damn catchy. close match

and this is why we haven't had an aria rep in forever lol. the push to get a gba retiree is justified, but you have to pick stuff that doesn't just soil itself with bad soundfont choices other games on the system handled far better. in other words, get actually good gba soundtracks in, not just the most mainstream games...
let's tap (this song is literally peak)

this basically felt like a V.K song but with lyrics so i can't say i didn't like it
this is definitely the most video i have seen (at least for a while)
heck of all the matches today this was not the one i expected to be torn on
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Isquen
05/19/24 2:31:40 AM
#18:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

That fever dream of a video is distracting, but I still liked it more than Rubia. Dat bass.

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Tked
05/19/24 2:54:19 AM
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Water
Night
Birdo
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HidekuniHorita
05/19/24 2:59:49 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

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Hbthebattle
05/19/24 3:17:16 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Rubia

first time going against my favorites bracket, i think?

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KCF0107
05/19/24 5:10:10 AM
#22:


Beat
Tap
Bird

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andylt
05/19/24 5:23:40 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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-Chaos-Zero-
05/19/24 5:26:51 AM
#24:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

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Collen
05/19/24 6:18:15 AM
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Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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W1ndzs
05/19/24 8:45:17 AM
#26:


Neat Beat Retreat
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia
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Sceptilesolar
05/19/24 9:38:02 AM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia

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tgs2
05/19/24 10:15:51 AM
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Sog-Gee
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia
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Janus5k
05/19/24 10:31:40 AM
#29:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

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TheArkOfTurus
05/19/24 10:41:59 AM
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Neat Beat Retreat
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

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JONA
05/19/24 11:12:52 AM
#31:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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xx521xx
05/19/24 11:54:09 AM
#32:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia

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azuarc
05/19/24 12:44:11 PM
#33:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Rubia

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PIayer_0
05/19/24 12:51:43 PM
#34:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Rubia

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rwlh
05/19/24 1:31:48 PM
#35:


abstain
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

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DanShux
05/19/24 2:20:10 PM
#36:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II
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SlinkyNeko
05/19/24 3:01:18 PM
#37:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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skulltrumpets
05/19/24 3:30:10 PM
#38:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

Deo should feel like a bad person for this first match. May you be cursed for all eternity.

I honestly don't want to be a Rubia hater, but this song hasn't connected after four listens. Very beautiful song but nothing sticks.
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HBJDubs
05/19/24 3:50:26 PM
#39:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Rubia

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bebr117
05/19/24 4:15:02 PM
#40:


Meat Beat Retreat
Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Cant Wait Until Night)
If you think about it, Birdo II would probably be Yoshi, right?

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failgirlema
05/19/24 6:09:29 PM
#41:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

can I use a double .... twice.....
2 of my fav songs in the contest rn up against David Wise and Castlevania. as much as the castlevania song is a banger I am TAPPING in anticipation

LETS TAP OH YEA PAPAPAYA GET DOWN
(this is one of the best songs I have ever heard in my entire life and it's catchiness is almost unmatched. THANK YOU SHOES I LOVE YOU <33 MISSILE CHEWBACCA FOREVER)

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Fluttershy_Pony
05/19/24 6:33:20 PM
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Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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Huntmaster95
05/19/24 6:56:55 PM
#43:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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LkProd
05/19/24 7:06:02 PM
#44:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II
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MaxGalactica
05/19/24 7:22:17 PM
#45:


Votes:

Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

No writeups today again. Been a busy weekend. Match 1 was quite difficult to decide though.

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Paratroopa1
05/19/24 8:06:30 PM
#46:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
Birdo II

To be honest, I consider David Wise to be kind of a one-hit wonder. (Well, two hits, since he did do most of DKC1.) Yeah, Donkey Kong Country 2 is a certified banger, but I have yet to run into a work of his outside of it that really rocked my world - no offense to him or anything, I don't think he's a POOR composer, but his works don't thrill me. This is no exception. It's fine, but it kind of sounds like background music I'd hear at a theme park or something. 6/10

Neat Beat Retreat almost has something cooking, kinda, but to be honest I find the rap verse both cringeworthy AND unpleasant - something about the processing and the performance of the vocals actually grosses me out. This wasn't a fun listen but there are salvageable parts of this. 3/10

I am a pretty big stan of Aria of Sorrow but I've never particularly cared for this song and the recording quality of the GBA doesn't really do it any favors. I feel bad marking down a Michiru Yamane piece but it's just not my favorite. 5.5/10

Let's Tap was just annoying. I feel like my ears are being assaulted by forced positivity and Microsoft Sam. I did not like this. 2/10

I don't really know what to think of Rubia. If it accompanied a particularly emotional moment to one of my favorite games, would I love it? Uh I dunno, maybe! I kinda doubt it. It's too sappy. Kind of a grating experience and it did the key-shift up cliche that I hate for good measure. I'll give it a pity point for a good vocal performance, but, ugh. 2.5/10

Birdo II saves this day from being a total writeoff. Fun little proggy thing. Excellent music video. 6.5/10
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Gall
05/19/24 8:22:40 PM
#47:


Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

From the title and thumbnail, I was expecting Neat Beat Retreat to be some kinda ambient ethereal atmospheric song. I am NOT unpleasantly surprised, although the monotone vocals dont fully land for me, I dig the slightly off-kilter dance beat and sudden horn blasts.

Well its true I voted for 6/8 of these, but I still dont feel like a loser! On the contrary, having listened to Boing Boing & Roger - T11 I feel richer than any match loss can take away. Ill post my ranking in the discussion thread with maybe some writeups too.

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Waveshine_2001
05/19/24 8:51:13 PM
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Sog-Gee's Realm - Yep, that definitely sounds like Wise. As per usual Wise standard, this is really solid. Love the use of instrumentation here. It doesn't reach the same heights as some of his best DKC works, but it's still really cool (no pun intended).

Neat Beat Retreat - Copacabana is a cool song even if it's not one of my favorite 70s songs (mostly because it's such a depressing song in spite of the upbeat music). This isn't nearly as good as the aforementioned song but it's not bad.

Can't Wait Until Night - Yeah this is good and a solid combination of Can't Wait Until Night and Heart of Fire, but honestly I'm disappointed that this is the version that got in. I nominated the Harmony of Despair version a couple of years ago, and it got NO support. I am baffled how this is the version that got in despite (imo) the HoD version being an improvement upon this song in every conceivable way.

Tap de Papapaya (Long Version) - The voices are pretty funny. Honestly this sounds like a song I'd like more ironically than unironically. The beat is unironically good though. If I try to listen to this completely unironically, however, I find the vocals annoying. Yeah, it's cool ig but I can't really take it seriously if I want to enjoy it.

Rubia - It's nice and sentimental with a pretty solid melody. I'm sure it works great in the context of the game especially. I actually don't mind the vocals here.

Birdo II - I'm sure Yoshi and Birdo would like this song. Anyways, yeah it's a pretty cool song but the music video is easily the best part. Not sure how to feel about the scoliosis joke as someone with scoliosis but otherwise it was really funny.

Really don't know which of the last two I prefer. Think I'll be abstaining there.

VOTES:
Sog-Gee's Realm (Water)
Can't Wait Until Night
abstain

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slykirby
05/19/24 8:56:22 PM
#49:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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GhostyMega
05/19/24 9:10:17 PM
#50:


Neat Beat Retreat
Tap de Papapaya (Long Version)
Birdo II

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