Global Musicians Crown Evangelion's 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis' The Greatest Anime Song Ever - Animehunch
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neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 61d
Top 20:
Definitely some recency bias in here. And I don't see how half of these rank higher than Yoko Kanno's 'Tank!'.
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 61d
I find yhe lack of cowboy bebop on that list concerning
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 61d
No Tank no thanks.
kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 61d
They should specify “Besides Cowboy Bebop”
Also I think at least one song in Samurai Champloo deserves a spot. Some bangers in that
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 61d
Definitely missing the theme of the Gunsmith Cats OVA by Peter Erskine!
This list looks like:
1: The song most people probably recognized even if they didn't watch Evangelion
2-16: Either a recent anime song, or a "classic" anime song regardless of merit of the actual music (ie, we would literally be killed if we didn't include this, even if the song isn't musically that good)
17-20: Ghibli
scytale@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 61d
Agreed. Also, no Mawatari Matsuko for all the Yuyu Hakusho songs. And even with recency bias, "il vento d'oro" (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) by Yugo Kanno should also be there.
zabadoh@ani.social · 3 pts · 60d
There seems to be recency bias, and classic anime , and Ghibli OPs over quality.
I'll take Kiseki No Umi/Record Of Lodoss War OP
and
Heavenly Blue/Aldnoah.Zero OP1
and
Majokko Megu-chan
or any of those OPs by Creepy Nuts: Call Of The Night, Mashle, Dan Da Dan
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 60d
And nostalgia bias
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 61d
I'd have picked "Blue" (the final ED) rather than "Tank!", but at that point it's just a matter of taste.
Let's see here—of the songs on the list, I remember four, although I must have heard three of the others at least once. There's not just recency bias, but most-popular-series bias. Of course, if someone asked me to make a similar list, most of it would be stuff hardly anyone else remembers.
scytale@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 61d
The Real Folk Blues is my pick for a Cowboy Bebop song.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 61d
I can immediately hear roughly half of them in my head. Ghibli soundtracks are usually great but I don’t think they really should be on this list, there’re many I’d choose before them including Tank and Blue.
Edit: My personal list would honestly be half yoko kanno
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 60d
Nothing by FLOW?
slander
Ignis@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 60d
I haven’t even watched the show, but you can’t convince me the OP for Hunter X Hunter isn’t in the top five, yet alone the top 20.
keimevo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
Sally the Witch? It's clear whomever the musicians are, they haven't seen much anime and voted for the songs of animes they recognize (I also recognize Sally the Witch having seen that as a child in the '80s, but it definitively doesn't belong to any ranking of the best anime songs).
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 60d
You almost can't get a more generic list tbh
isekaihero@ani.social · 3 pts · 60d
Better than Ghost in the Shell's SAC opening "Inner Universe" by Yoko Kano? I think not.
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 59d
You know what is also definitely missing from that list? 99 by Mob Choir.
This feels like a list from IGN trying to show they get anime.
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 1 pts · 60d
Ts is so mid
isekaihero@ani.social · 1 pts · 60d
Best anime opening ever: https://youtu.be/xNkmz_sF-tE Best anime closing ever: https://youtu.be/UptDZeIeVOI