Awesome Tier: Songs that are Awesome1. Odds & Ends: Hey. A song I unquestionably feel comfortable putting here. Just great composition and pacing. It is also backed by a reasonably evocative video and all that.
2. Dream-Eater Monochrome Baku: Anyone who doesn't have this in their effective top-tier is wrong. Like, actually, factually, provably so.
3. Tengaku: Another song with great composition. There are a couple awkward transitions and I would be remiss to not mention, but I still dig this song. Great riff, and the... chorus, I guess? is outstanding. Video is great too.
Cool Tier: Songs that are Cool4. DYE: I might move this one up. Great beat. But a lot of the lyrical stuff feels just a bit too shrill and cuts into the music work. Kinda puts me in the mind of Rise from GitS-SAC. Still better English than the Persona OP singer. Also not sure how I feel about the abrupt stop at the end
5. Remote Control: I dunno. This marks the first song that actively grew on me during it.
6. Weekender Girl: Nice rhythm and finally a video that doesn't totally suck.
7. MMORPG Addict's Anthem: One of the better videos, fun song. Just doesn't quite do enough to push it over, I think.
8. Kagamine HachiHachi Flower Fight: Just kinda fun at all levels. Singing is prolly the weak link in this one, but everything comes together to create a great package.
9. Negaposi*Continues: Great video, okay song, balances out to here.
10. What Do You Mean: Great beat and decent pacing. I could do without the video though. The spazz dance bothers me. Also, the text sound at the end is worth a kick.
11. World's End Dance Hall: Good, nice beat, a song where the electronic voices aren't irritating. The gong and the like detract though.
12. God Tier Tune: WALL-E Miku. The middle is kinda lame. I like it, but I don't think it deserves to be up with my awesome songs.
13. Freely Tomorrow: Sure. Decent sounding, upbeat pop and a decent video together might be enough to scrape the bottom of cool. That hat though.
14. Tokyo Teddy Bear: Not sure how to actually rate this one. Basically a somewhat inferior Demon Girlfriend (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k11ZfUy8ls) IMO. So on the fringe between Cool/Okay seems right about right.
Okay Tier: Songs that are Okay15. Sadistic.Music*Factory: Had a bit of a reversal on this one. Wouldn't listen to it as actual music, but it functions well as a rhythm game song. There are still several sections that I find grating though, which pushes it out of the Cool tier. Ultimately, sort of a complicated song to deal with.
16. Glasses: Not bad, but I'm not a particular fan of this sort of groove. Also, why the fuck does she needed to throw all her glasses everywhere.
17. World's End Umbrella: Sure. I approve of animated video too! But not doing a lot for me otherwise. Might have made it to cool if they'd just stuck with the film. The close was nice. This might scrape the very bottom of cool?
18. Nyanxinfinity: Is it sad I like the meme track better? Full version isn't bad, but I don't like the downtime as much. Fun video though.
19. Summer Idol: Borderline again. I actually don't like this rhythm much, but it is well handled and definitely stands out well. So it is a war of personal taste versus giving credit for doing something differently and doing it decently. The video makes me vaguely uncomfortable. Better than the average Vocaloid singing one, but that whole age thing.
20. What? Ah, Yes: I like the piano, but nothing else here really works for me.
21. Continuing Dream: Beginning nearly put me to sleep, but it got better. I should say something more. The crescendos work well for me, but the rest is kinda just there.
22. Urbandonment: Is fine and probably lucky I'm not downgrading this one further for the video/song mix. I realize music videos can be weird sometimes, but this one isn't really working out at all. The song is just way too soft for the majority of the video.
23. Secret Police: Given we're talking about Vocaloid here, this is gonna be ironic, but the really heavy voice synth sections irritate me. It just sounds like they couldn't be bothered to make lyrics that actually work. The... bridges? Chorus? Whatever. Could do with some intensity changes too. Boring video.
24. Melancholic: S'okay. Just kinda uninspiring. Builds better than Secret Police, but is generally less interesting. Also a boring video. Man, I thought some of these actually had decent videos. The color scheme is just too varied for it to be interested, instead causing it to look just sort of washed out.
25. Time Machine: It exists. Hooray. Decent video I suppose?
26. Acute: This barely makes it here. The male vocals seriously wreck this song. Like, 100%.
27. Black Rock Shooter: Borderline meh. The constituant parts work, but all together? They just sort of detract from each other. The song is at odds with itself, the video is at odds with itself, and the two together are at odds with each other. The crowd at the end sucks, as does the very start. It hangs on for a nice beat, though.
28. Tell Your World: Exists.
Meh Tier: Songs that are Meh29. Ashes to Ashes: Like Acute, gets ruined by the vocals. Also Dusts to Dusts.
30. Sweet Devil: This just ain't doing it for me.
31. Continuation of the Dream: I got bored and started surfing DA instead of paying attention. Really, really dull. Holy crap, I wrote this acknowledging that and then immediately started looking up other videos. Why is this not over?
32. Monochrome Blue Sky: I got bored and was discussing other songs I like better in chat instead of paying attention. So probably not a good sign.
33. Cat Food: This extended metaphor either doesn't work or is incredibly tasteless/the literal lyrics are dumb. The song sounds okay, but is kinda at odds with itself and the lyrics kinda anti-sell me pretty hard. Boring video too.
34. Fire@Flower: Just doesn't work for me.
35. Nostalogic: Meh. Music was fine, video dull, electronic voice sucked hard.
36. Unhappy Refrain: Just didn't work for me at any level. The beginning is also really grating.
37. Senbonzakura: Literally forgot to score this. Apparently I didn't care for it.
Rin-Chan Now Tier: Songs that are Rin-Chan Now!38. Rin-Chan Now: An entertaining video and lyrics cannot save the fact that this song borders on aural assault. Might have scored higher somewhere where I weren't valuing the quality of sound. Basically, funny sketch, fucking awful song.