**Rate the Music: Week 19**
 

Greetings. Let's dump another one of these bad boys out, huh? What do you say? I wanted to get this done a bit earlier, but what can you do? Last week, Streets of Rage 2 gave us our subject matter in the form of Go Straight, the title of its opening stage track. The question now is how far it goes when it comes to climbing our leaderboard? Take a gander....

One-Winged Angel (Final Fantasy 7) - 8.71
Aquatic Ambience (Donkey Kong Country) - 8.66
At Doom's Gate (Doom) - 8.375
Guile Stage Theme (Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo) - 8.25
Go Straight (Streets of Rage 2) - 8
Bloody Tears (Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest) - 7.85
Green Hill Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog) - 7.72
Rainbow Road (Mario Kart 64) - 7.71
Fight Against Smithy (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) - 7.2
Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved) - 7.125
Spark Mandrill Stage (Mega Man X) - 7
Ozar Midrashim (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver) - 6.6
Breeze - In Monochrome Night (Silent Hill 3) - 6.25
Big Apple, 3AM (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Turtles in Time) - 6.16
Still Alive (Mirror's Edge) - 5.5
The Instinct (Killer Instinct) - 5.42
Heaven (The Impossible Game) - 4.16
The Jack Attack (You Don't Know Jack: Television) - 3.57


We're getting more and more contenders for those upper spots on the chart as Go Straight gets to claim a very nice score of 8, allowing it to strut its stuff in the top 5.

This week let's stay in era of the wacky nineties with one of its most wacky of characters to ever emerge. Some might say the nineties didn't really kick off until the arrival of the gross out humor...and Hootie and the Blowfish. While it would be nice, the latter is not the music that we'll be enjoying this week. Take a listen to Earthworm Jim 2's introductory track, Anything But Tangerines.

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Not sure what Shiny had against tangerines, but the question is do you have anything against this track? Do your thing that we've come to expect and appreciate and we'll see you next week!

Considering the game and all that goes with it when it comes to tone and what not, this has no business going as hard as it does.

I hear people saying this all the time. "Final Fantasy Mystic Quest soundtrack had no right to be this good" "Silver Surfer was a shit game and theres no reason its music should have gone so hard" noh. It was someones job to compose music for that game. Someone went into a office for three months and sat there and made music for work each day. They did their best job with their talents because thats what you do if you believe in something. You put effort into it. And they got paid for it. So yeah the game ended up being shit and unpopular but the music was high quality. Thats because someone did a good job and cared about what they were doing. Thats what we should all do

Shout out to Mystic Quest soundtrack, it was great

Ossman with an A+ post

Anyways this song was pretty rad but wasnt super great, I'll give it a 7.

That post had no business being so good :shifty:

Lockjaw brings up a fair point.


Ossman is unpaid therefore his commitment to quality isnt assumed or even reasonably expected. This is altruism that compells him to grace us with this high bar

I believe in TPWW and I want the best for its posters