The Syndicate

3rd place:

Tangrowth

Asuka Sakai ft. Ado Mizumori - Gin & Tonic & Red Red Roses

My kids were hooked on Katamari Damacy for a while and I have heard this song countless times. It's far beyond any hope of willing myself to treat it like a new experience. But it's a proper swing sub, of which I got very few, and it really is quite delightful. She has a very unique voice that not only makes the song stand out but caters to the childish nature of the game it was composed for. I'm a sucker for everything this brings to the table. It feels like there's never any solo heroing from start to finish, whatever instrument is in the spotlight. There's a wonderful unison to it, like the voice, bass, piano, drum, and flute are all being fabulous at what they do together, vibing each other's experience and propelling it forward. There's no competition when you're playing as a single unit, and when you're all this good at it, the finished product is going to be breathtaking. It had hours of spin time already coming into this, and that depletes a little subconscious wow factor beyond my control, but I don't think it hurt its position.

10.3

2nd place:

Psycho666Soldier

Tia - Deal with the Devil

You sent me a link to some anime fan mashup of intro scenes that just ends out of nowhere mid-sentence three minutes into the song.

I took the liberty of finding the original.

I assume you'll forgive me, since, well, here we are.

The frantic pace of this is such an instant hit for me. That contrabass sax or whatever is trading off with the running bass at the beginning is dirty as fuck. Her voice should not be legal in moments like 1:35. Her performance doesn't captivate me in league with Ringo's from the billion subs I got last year, but I'm impressed with how much flavor she packs into the endless barrage. I love the way the guitar solo rolls in out of nowhere. The song never hedges on any semblance of stagnation no matter how many times I replay it. This is too hyper to fail, and I absolutely love it for that. Pure satisfaction from start to finish.

10.4

1st place:

MyNameIsNothing & Zarathustra

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Suikinkutsu

This song kicks off so strong that I found myself backing up and listening to the first minute 45 of it over and over just to relive that feeling of going how did we get here? After a deceptively moody preamble, the piano is subtle perfection that rushes in out of nowhere with this sense of like, wow this is such an amazing first building block and the prospects of developing a stellar song around it are through the roof. But it's 10 seconds. 10 seconds of this blissful beginning, and the brass subs in just as suddenly but so so smoothly. We're gliding full steam ahead, reaching where the intro piano promised before I'd barely begun to absorb the greatness of the intro itself. And it's only another 45 seconds before that glorious intro riff returns in its evolved form, like we've reached the culmination of everything. This is a seven minute song that basically climaxes three times in the first 90 seconds and rides a five and a half minute jam session from the peak.

The break at 3:30 is a bit jarring, being the first time in 3 minutes that the song doesn't feel completely maxed out in some triumphant finale. I just don't ever want them to let off the euphoria gas. Why is this only 7 minutes? I want more. The song's so loaded out the gate that the piano madness is not enough. I want it to keep going. I want more instruments to join in. I want this to ascend and ascend and never stop. It's the shortest 7 minute song I have ever heard.

If that's a "flaw" holding it back, that's kind of a joke. This song is perfect. I just want it to be even more perfect. This is about as close as a category can get to having two winners. But I think the other option ended up winning for leaving me on a final note of satisfaction rather than going no wait stop you aren't allowed to end yet.

...Oh God watching these guys with my kids in the Olympic closing ceremony tipped it over. Now they've even got sentimental value or some shit. This was probably always the correct call anyway.

10.5

Scoring through 5

39. 18.1 PunchyTheCat
38. 30.1 Moose
37. 32.7 Cory
35. 33.2 ladd
35. 33.2 Relm
34. 34.4 Logic
33. 35.5 gbsfranca
32. 35.9 Visorslash
31. 36.0 Bloobird
30. 36.1 BoKnows
29. 36.3 Frog
28. 37.2 Ace Marvel
27. 37.4 vanity.
26. 37.8 Keldeo
25. 38.2 Aladyyn
24. 38.3 staypositivefriend
23. 38.4 LordQuas
22. 38.5 roro__b
21. 38.6 soah
20. 38.7 Ampharos
19. 38.9 nutella
18. 39.4 Marcher Jovian
17. 39.6 birdwithteeth11
16. 39.8 Made
15. 40.3 Zack
14. 40.5 KnightsofCydonia
13. 40.9 Kane
12. 41.1 shubaka17
11. 41.3 Owner
10. 42.1 Adam
9. 43.5 tane
8. 43.9 Psycho666Soldier
7. 44.0 Newcomb
6. 44.1 marmot
5. 44.9 BLOODYRAIN10001
4. 45.3 MyNameIsNothing
3. 45.4 Zarathustra
2. 46.1 Tangrowth
1. 47.3 schadd

39th place:

Logic

Ravendave - Dance Monkey [Synthwave Remix]

This is not very hype.

5.7

38th place:

Relm

David Rovics - I'm a Better Anarchist Than You

We rock because it's us against them. We found our own reasons to sing. And it's so much less confusing when lines are drawn like that--when people are either consumers or revolutionaries, enemies or friends hanging onto the fringes of the cogs in the system. It's just about knowing where everyone stands. Do you really fucking get it?

5.8

37th place:

Tangrowth

deaths dynamic shroud.wmv - 너 땜에 맘이 맘이 맘이 맘이 괴로워요

I picked up a copy of this when it came out.

But all joking aside,

I picked up a copy of this when it came out.

5.9

36th place:

KnightsofCydonia

Astrophysics - Hacking To The Gate (Steins;Gate OP synthwave 80s remix)

I kept forgetting this was playing. I tried the original and liked it more but not really for here.

6.0

35th place:

Frog

Triplo Max - Too Young

This is too slow for young people's attention spans I don't know what they're talking about.

6.1

34th place:

vanity.

Miku Hatsune - Chaining Intention

This is deceptively not all that hype really.

6.2

33rd place:

marmot

Madeon - Pop Culture

This is too chill to be hype.

6.3

32nd place:

roro__b

Pogo - Upular

This is uplifting but it's not really hype.

6.4

31st place:

soah

Wreche - Les Fleurs Mov. 2

This sounds pretty NPRcore.

(I picked up the album, just too thought and focus-demanding for me here.)

6.5

30th place:

Moose

YTPMV - Ganon Sings Barbie Girl

This is the most played vgm track in my CD-i collection.

6.6

29th place:

Psycho666Soldier

GWAR - Crack in the Egg

Classic GWAR gets the most love, and it's certainly better than where they were at in the late 90s, but the direction the band took with Smoot circa War Party and maintained pretty consistently until Brockie died was on a higher level. The gimmick became so much more entertaining to me when they were creating music authentically better than most other heavy metal bands on the market. I can listen to this and smile, but it's no War is All We Know.

Alternatively: I'm going to fuck you with a fish.

6.7

28th place:

schadd

Neil Cicierega - Ribs

This is my favorite background music during autofellatio.

6.8

27th place:

BoKnows

Teriyaki Boyz - Tokyo Drift (Fast & Furious)

Even in the midst of all this it feels like a Moose sub.

6.9

26th place:

tane

6k - Pretty Bitch Chopped and Screwed but it's chopped and screwed

Nice sub very based.

I wanted to put this higher but can't handle six minutes of it.

7.0

25th place:

nutella

Alugalug Cat X The Kiffness (Soulful Singing Cat Live Looping Remix)

Why does human ruin sacred feline melody with speaking.

7.1

24th place:

Owner

Nick Lutsko - Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song

I've already heard this a lot and saw them live with Bright Eyes in 2002 but it's nice.

7.2

23rd place:

Marcher Jovian

ななひら (Nanahira) - は～とび～と.お～ば～ひ～～～～と！！！！ (Wa ~ tobi ~ to. O ~ba ~ hi ~~~~ to! ! ! !)

Why are ! and ！ different unicode?

7.3

22nd place:

Made

Goreshit - ima, ai ni yukimasu

This is fast but sweet and mellow so it didn't feel quite hype.

7.4

21st place:

Ace Marvel

K/DA - POP/STARS (ft. Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns)

The pink blood in the video gave me flashbacks to meat on the bone.

7.5

20th place:

ladd

Lil Angel$ - Estate (ft Gioker & Ben-J)

Half way demands something from the heart.

8.0

19th place:

gbsfranca

Six Impala - FARAWAY199X/TAPE 2

This is acceptably hype but has no catgirls.

8.2

18th place:

staypositivefriend

Konomi Kohara - Chika Dance Song

pook pook pook pook pook pook pook

8.3

17th place:

Cory

Lemon Demon - Two Trucks

I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember Marty Stouffer's Wild America, but I always thought it was weird how censorship was a much bigger deal in the 80s but no one cared if you showed this sort of stuff on PBS.

8.4

16th place:

Zack

William Maranci - Eminem - Lose Yourself But It's Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra

My dad had this on vinyl.

8.5

15th place:

Keldeo

Yu- Inai - The Rabbit Has Landed

This is hype but the mix is not ideal.

8.6

14th place:

Adam

Caramell - Caramelldansen SpeedyCake Remix ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ(ﾟ∀ﾟ ) U-u-uma uma

Ah yes I watched this live during the Olympic closing ceremony.

8.7

13th place:

shubaka17

t+pazolite - TOKONOMA Spacewalk

The background synth at :16 and 1:42 sort of reminds me of Astley.

8.8

12th place:

MyNameIsNothing

Sophie Grips - Ooops! Takyon



8.9

11th place:

Zarathustra

Aests - FIGHT!

Everything from here is top 10 so all of the songs will be excellent like this one.

9.0

10th place:

Visorslash

100 gecs - xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx (Remix) [feat. Tommy Cash & Hannah Diamond]

gec!

9.6

9th place:

BLOODYRAIN10001

beatMARIO - Night of Knights (tpz Overheat Remix)



9.7

8th place:

birdwithteeth11

Anamanaguchi - Echobo

I really did see Anamanaguchi live a long time ago but only listened to this once when it came out. Their sound evolved vastly from Dawn Metropolis and I never got around to wrapping my head around it.

I don't have a one liner here it's just good.

9.8

7th place:

Ampharos

DEMONDICE - Gang Gang, Kawaii!!



9.9

6th place:

Newcomb

Tian Nya & Turbo - Reflect / Eurobeat Remix

This is how I feel when I think of boats too.

10

5th place:

LordQuas

Lil B - Fuck KD

This is the best song I have heard since War on Drugs: Suck My Cock.

10.1

4th place:

Aladyyn

GIRL'S DAY(걸스데이) - Ring My Bell(링마벨)

I did not see a single bell in that video.

10.2

3rd place:

PunchyTheCat

Glitch Gum - Kyoto (Phoebe Bridgers Cover)

gec?

10.3

2nd place:

Bloobird

beachday - r1de

Children shouldn't cuss this is not appropriate.

10.4

1st place:

Kane

Passenger of Shit - Staple Tapeworms On My Penis

The lyrics really takes me back to my college days.

10.5

Scoring through 6

39. 28.4 PunchyTheCat
38. 36.7 Moose
37. 39.0 Relm
36. 40.1 Logic
35. 41.1 Cory
34. 41.2 ladd
33. 42.4 Frog
32. 43.0 BoKnows
31. 43.6 vanity.
30. 43.7 gbsfranca
29. 44.7 Ace Marvel
28. 44.9 roro__b
27. 45.1 soah
26. 45.5 Visorslash
25. 46.0 nutella
23. 46.4 Bloobird
23. 46.4 Keldeo
22. 46.5 KnightsofCydonia
21. 46.6 staypositivefriend
20. 46.7 Marcher Jovian
19. 47.2 Made
18. 48.4 Aladyyn
16. 48.5 LordQuas
16. 48.5 Owner
15. 48.6 Ampharos
14. 48.8 Zack
13. 49.4 birdwithteeth11
12. 49.9 shubaka17
11. 50.4 marmot
10. 50.5 tane
9. 50.6 Psycho666Soldier
8. 50.8 Adam
7. 51.4 Kane
6. 52.0 Tangrowth
5. 54.0 Newcomb
4. 54.1 schadd
3. 54.2 MyNameIsNothing
2. 54.4 Zarathustra
1. 54.6 BLOODYRAIN10001