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Palace Theme

To Zanarkand

Calling (how the hell did the obscure as all hell Demon's Souls track beat out better songs from the games like Gwyn and Maiden Astrea?)

Dr. Wily Stage 1

Sneakman

The Sun Rises

The Best Is Yet to Come

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Amusing article from Gigwise.com I decided to share: "The best albums ever - ripped to pieces by Amazon users" http://www.gigwise.com/photos/102154/the-best-albums-ever-ripped-to-pieces-by-amazon-users I strongly disagree with many of these reviews, though I somewhat agree with a couple (a...

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Terra's Theme

Gerudo Valley

Corridors of Time

The Man With a Machine Gun

Theme of Laura

Time's Scar

Opening and Title

Stickerbrush Symphony

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Seeing the pans regarding the two Zelda songs in this thread, I guess it really does depend on how much do you associate the scene and events of a game with the music that makes it so memorable. The mixture of sparkly "Starry eyed" wonder with an underlying sadness perfectly reflects the a...

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The orchestral version, absolutely.

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4. Aquatic Ambiance

36. Katamari on the Rocks

20. Astral Observatory

13. Phendrana Drifts

5. Song of Healing

37. Hydrogen

21. Cosmo Canyon

12. Baba Yetu

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64. Katamari Damacy - Lonely Rolling Star

32. Portal 2 - Exile (Vilify)

17. Red Dead Redemption - Far Away

16. Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight

8. Super Mario Bros. - Ground Theme

40. Bubble Bobble - Theme

24. Beyond Good and Evil - Home Sweet Home

9. Metroid Prime - Main Theme

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I am actually currently following the poll administrator's Twitter page, as he is disclosing the individual ballots from the 62 critics over there. I am collecting them together to send on to Bill at TSPDT. I have mixed feelings about this list. On the one hand, I generally feel it is superior to th...

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BleuPanda wrote:Bare Knuckle, huh? I'll need to make note of the games that have different titles in different regions...

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This list has been rather helpful for reminding me of a few favorites, figured I'd drop it here. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgm/bestvgm2011.htm#listing Note that it was released in 2011, so it doesn't cover more recent years. I love that list. I discovered a lot of great retro tunes thanks to...

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I kind of thought we just vote for the pieces themselves, as was done with the classical poll recently, then recommend favorite performances and versions of the pieces. I happen to have much affection for the 8-bit soundtracks of Mega Man and Castlevania games, for example, which has become an entir...

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A week, maybe two weeks if necessary sounds fine? Should probably get started tomorrow or Sunday.

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I wonder how different the list would look if only top-100 votes were counted. I love looking through everyone's massive lists on an individual basis. However, I imagine that taking everyone's top-500 list tends to homogenize the end product a bit (that is, our over-representation of canonical arti...

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So, when do we want to start the nomination process?

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And here is the artist breakdown: 4: Brian Eno Creedence Clearwater Revival Elton John Fleetwood Mac Gorillaz Green Day James Brown John Lennon Johnny Cash Kate Bush New Order Nick Cave OutKast Pavement Public Enemy Roy Orbison The Doors The Flaming Lips The Kinks Tom Waits Weezer People, we have t...

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The tourney thing sounds like a great idea to me, as well. However, I'm curious how the selection process for what will be in the tourney would go?

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I disagree with Timmy and Jirin's points a little bit: on my playlists, I could shift from hearing a Radiohead or Prince song, to listening to the Good the Bad and the Ugly or Vertigo theme, to Stickerbrush Symphony from the DKC2 soundtrack (there's a recommendation for people BTW!). I agree that re...

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Fantastic results Bleu! Excellent presentation. I also agree with the previous comment that our collective list, overall, is better than anything the big critics polls could ever come up with!

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I think this is a terrific suggestion! I happen to have a special interest in VG music myself, and there are some genuinely fantastic tracks out there on various soundtracks to games. It would be great to expose non-gamers to some of them. I definitely would announce the tournament, and take time fo...

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PS. The guys at no. 47 are ON DRUGS! LOL as are the guys in the majority of these pics...? :mrgreen: :whistle: Anyways, fantastic rollout and presentation Bleu! Sorry to everyone that I dropped it on the stats, but personal life and other projects interfered. Like Listy's reaction to Heroin and Tom...

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Updated statistics: Top 25 Artists (I'm now holding off on posting all artists with at least 2 songs, once the poll results wrap up, I'll post a comprehensive statistics round up!): 1| The Beatles: 16 2| Bob Dylan: 12 3| The Rolling Stones: 11 4| Bjork: 8 David Bowie: 8 Kanye West: 8 7| REM: 7 Neil ...

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Updated stats: Top Artists (2 songs or more): 14 Songs The Beatles 9 Songs The Rolling Stones 8 Songs Bob Dylan 7 Songs Bjork David Bowie Kanye West 6 Songs Radiohead Neil Young 5 Songs Elvis Costello Bruce Springsteen 4 Songs The Beach Boys The Clash Green Day Led Zeppelin Nirvana Prince Weezer 3 S...

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Jirin wrote:And a song narrated by Hades ended up #666!

LOL

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Also, what is everybody's thoughts on pacing? I was thinking of getting through the first 500 today and then slowing down a bit from there out, add a bit of stuff to make it more than just the basic facts. Is this going too fast, too slow, etc? Like Whuntva said, the pacing is just fine to me. I al...

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Oops! Posted the above stats just as Bleu posted the next batch of songs!

Please note that the posted stats reflect 1000-701, not the most recent songs. I will update accordingly when we get to 601.

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Time to update the stats! Artists Scoreboard (at least 2 songs): 9 Songs The Beatles ("so surprised they're in the lead!", said nobody ever) 5 Songs Bob Dylan 4 Songs The Beach Boys David Bowie Green Day The Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen Weezer 3 Songs Bjork Nick Cave The Clash Led Zepp...

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Thank you for the correction, Henrik!

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As an addendum to these stats, any mistakes that fellow forumers find are fully welcomed to be pointed out

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Awesome rollout, Bleu! Looking forward to the results to come! Being a list geek (as everyone on this forum presumably is) I have been creating ongoing tallies and statistics for the list as it is rolling out. Every batch of 100 songs, I will post an update on them. Artists with at least 2 songs: 3 ...

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Super last minute list, extremely rushed, unfocused, and unimpressive. Looking forward to the results: 1| Billie Holiday / Strange Fruit 2| Bob Dylan / Tangled Up in Blue 3| David Bowie / Life on Mars? 4| Beatles / Strawberry Fields Forever 5| Rolling Stones / Gimme Shelter 6| Arcade Fire / Wake Up ...

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I am profusely sorry about the delay on this one guys, as well as my complete absence on this forum for like an entire month. My college work was intense, and I am still in the midst of finals, but I will have more time for this. I was curious if anyone has an interest in running this instead of me,...

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So, is anybody going to run the final poll, because I said in the previous thread, I simply cannot at this point. I am deeply sorry about that.

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I am deeply sorry for delaying this, guys! Been very busy with college lately. I might have to also drop out of hosting the final poll. If somebody else wants to run it, by all means go ahead. I say let the poll run for maybe two months, so perhaps we will start it April 1, and close it on May 31st?...

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Also, another quick question. I completely understand the opera aria only rule, but what about lengthy pieces? Can I rank the entire requiems, masses, etc? Or only certain passages? It is really hard for me to select one piece out of some of those, compared to opera.

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So, Requiem masses aren't acceptable, like from Mozart's Requiem, Britten's War Requiem, Brahms German Requiem, and Verdi's Requiem?

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Hey, Whuntva, I thought that 20, not 15, pieces get to the final round, though...

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Yo, Bootsy, bro, BleuPanda may take special offense to that (which is most definitely positively absolutely a homophobic slur, you flying dumb fuck) because he IS gay, you fucking dumb shithole! We actually have a number of users who are gay on this forum, so yeah there's that to, not that you're in...

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Apologies for forgetting to close the poll, gentlemen, but three votes for Mirror's Edge means that is has won the tie break. We can now move on to the final round of voting.

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Anyone else excited about Bloodborne? It will probably make me get a PS4. I am absolutely hyped for Bloodborne. The Souls series is one of my favorite franchises, and From easily one of the best developers out there. So, basically, this game has me hyped in a way many games don't usually do these d...

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I think its about right to close this poll now, the largest turn out we've had! Expect results soon, and the all-time vote to open up.

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I'm going to tentatively leave this thing open for Jeff to get his ballot in, since we don't have that many voters in these things it begin with, and he has been consistent previously. Hopefully he got my PM. The all-time poll, when started, will probably run all the way to the end of April at this ...

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Stephan wrote:Can I still vote tomorrow? I was away without internet the entire weekend.

Feel free to, today or tomorrow

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I am actually probably going to leave this thing open for one more day, by midnight tomorrow. Jeff, Rocky Raccoon, and Stephan, three regular voters, haven't submitted any lists yet, and I do feel it would be a little unfair to leave them out after consistently voting previously.

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Go ahead, sure.

I am hoping that Rocky Raccoon, Stephan, Whuntva, and Jeff at least get their lists in...?

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Go ahead. 5 is the minimum.

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This is an overall fascinating discussion of games and difficulty gentlemen (not necessarily one I fully agree or disagree with on either side), but I would like to take the time to remind potential other voters to vote, as this thing closes at midnight tonight!

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One more day to vote, people! This thing closes at midnight tonight, and we still only have 6 ballots, the lowest amount of the entire poll so far!

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Anybody going to vote in this poll? We currently have only 6 ballots, which is strange since this one covers most recent ground. You have today and tomorrow to vote, remember!

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The tally in the 6th Gen poll has been fixed, Jirin.

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