**Rate the Music: Week 12**

[M-A-G]

Ooh, a brand-new shiny week! And it's the end of the month, too! Let's get rid of this pesky April and look forward to May. First thing on the docket, we have to place last week's Big Apple, 3AM from Turtles in Time in its appropriate spot. The top ten is going to get disrupted here as we add our eleventh song to the list. How does this piece of Turtle Power hold its own?


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
Bloody Tears (Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest) - 7.85
Green Hill Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog) - 7.72
Halo (Halo: Combat Evolved) - 7.125
Spark Mandrill Stage (Mega Man X) - 7
Big Apple, 3AM (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Turtles in Time) - 6.16
The Instinct (Killer Instinct) - 5.42
Heaven (The Impossible Game) - 4.16



Well, it's more "Cowa-meh" than "Cowabunga", but a 6.16 is absolutely above average, so it's nothing to sneeze at. You could munch on some pizza while jamming to it for a bit, no?

Time for another song! You know, I feel kind of bad teasing an RPG track last week and not delivering. Let's remedy that! It won't be Final Fantasy or in that vein, but SquareSoft did have a hand in it regardless. We could only avoid the realm of the Mushroom Kingdom for so long. How about some Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars with the track Fight Against Kajioh (Smithy)!





It's final boss (sort of) time as Mario and the gang try to put an end to the Smithy Gang once and for all and rebuild the Star Road. How does this track fare as it's blasting in the background during said feat? Or even just as you're listening to it outside of that? I'll leave that up to you. Let's do this and next week, seeing as my birthday lands in May, we'll be making all of May M-A-G Month! Won't that be fun? Probably not....uh, yeah....