This journal lists the prologue and the songs associated with the Seven Deadly Sins in my Elite Beat Agents 2 project, including the Seven Deadly Sins' half of the finale. (Note that the finale has only five songs unique to it – two for the Sins, two for the Virtues, and one “bridge” song that serves as the roadblock for those who have yet to unlock the good ending. The other 28 songs in the finale are remixes of songs from earlier in the game - that's why I call it a boss rush.) Note that I'm not 100% happy with all of these lists and am open to substitution suggestions. {Note that because the Seven Deadly Sins are well, evil behaviors that are not to be condoned at all, the final level for each Seven Deadly Sins set is basically themed on showing just how pathetic the Sin is (or, at least, how indulging in it is a terrible idea that will directly lead to your being completely and utterly destroyed). Thus, the boss level always involves the Sin being afflicted by either Laser-Guided Karma or a Villainous Breakdown (generally of the BSOD variety). This does not apply to the final level of the prologue, which directly leads into the storyline proper, or the final level of the Sins' half of the finale, in which they outright murder the Elite Beat Agents unless the Seven Heavenly Virtues have been recruited – in which case the game transitions to their half of the finale. (Well, okay, technically the “murder the EBA” bit happens in the middle of the bridge, but it still counts.) The Sins' greatest moments for their individual levels instead tend to be the pre-boss levels. In any case, I will be providing justifications for each song and its placement. Some of these justifications will be stronger than others – as I said, I'm not 100% comfortable with all of my song choices.} The song list for the Seven Heavenly Virtues can be found here. Prologue: Prologue links: Screenshot, Playlist 1. "Supersoulfighter" by Lenny Kravitz [5] {The songs in the prologue all form a story arc. In this song, the EBA are conducting business as usual, inspiring a guitarist to foil a bank robbery. And before you ask – no, I didn't necessarily want to plug my own video here, but better that than the only other video with the song on YouTube, which doesn't even get the song's name right.} 2. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana [Nevermind] {The EBA are called to prevent a teenager's house from being totally trashed by a party he threw that's gone dreadfully wrong.} 3. "Funny the Way It Is" by the Dave Matthews Band [Big Whiskey & The GooGrux King] {This song is mainly here as a bit of rambling about the flaws of humanity to lead into the point where the plot starts to thicken. (Maybe I should have included a few more stages before this, but the story arc is gonna take a while.)} 4. "Murder by Numbers" by The Police [Synchronicity] {The EBA find themselves called to assist in a murder investigation. And by "assist", I mean "inspire the policemen". Hey, it's what they do.} 5. "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads [Best of Talking Heads] {The above-mentioned investigation goes a little too well, and the EBA wind up confronting the killer.} 6. "Renegade" by Styx [Pieces of Eight] {The EBA apparently catches the killer, but things go deadly wrong…} 1 7. "Dani California" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers [Grammy Nominees 2007] {...And I mean that literally. The murderer slips through the police's fingers, and one of the police officers ends up dead. Uh-oh.} 8. "Survival" by Muse [The 2nd Law] {The EBA escapes the killer by the skin of their teeth.} 9. "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash [The Essential Clash Disc 2] {A global crime wave has broken out, and the killer the Elite Beat Agents are chasing is only the tip of the iceberg! For now, however, they must stick to their current mission.} 10. "City of Delusion" by Muse [Black Holes and Revelations] {...Or not, as a riot suddenly starts up and the Elite Beat Agents must calm the mob.} 11. "The Living Daylights" by a-ha [Best of Bond... James Bond: 40th Anniversary Edition] {With the riot quelled, the EBA finds that the killer was behind it, and give chase once more.} 12. "Blood on the Dance Floor" by Michael Jackson [Blood on the Dance Floor] {The EBA catches the killer in the act and confront them once again to rescue their would-be victim.} 13. "Queen of Spades" by Styx [Pieces of Eight] {The force controlling the killer reveals itself - it's a demon embodying Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins!} 14. "Let the Hunt be the Hunted" by Saliva [Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run] {The Elite Beat Agents find that the killer is more than they bargained for, and are forced to retreat. Unfortunately, the killer gives chase.} 15. "DIVE" by Be4U [Dance Dance Revolution] {I won't lie – I wanted to make sure there would be a J-pop song in this project, to honor Elite Beat Agents's Japanese roots (Elite Beat Agents is basically a Westernized counterpart to Osu! Tanken! Ouendan!). And this song is really, really catchy. As for this song's placement in the prologue's story arc: the Elite Beat Agents manage to elude the killer, only to find themselves helping a bystander rescue the killer's next victim. When all is said and done, said intended victim is safe. Unfortunately...} 16. "Getaway" by Earth, Wind & Fire [Earth, Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits] {...The Elite Beat Agents are back in the killer's sights, and must escape once again.} 17. "Skyfall" by Adele [Skyfall] {The Elite Beat Agents engage in a final battle with the killer and defeat him. However, the demonic presence that was controlling him escapes.} 18. "It's On Again" by Alicia Keys feat. Kendrick Lamar [The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack] {The EBA resolves to get to the bottom of the incident, and begins to investigate the global crime wave.} 19. "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel (BOSS) {The true battle is just beginning; the world is broken and needs to be fixed.} Seven Deadly Sins #1: Lust: 2 Lust links: Screenshot, Playlist, Wikipedia Lust is typically seen as an unhealthy desire for sex, but it's really an unhealthy desire for anything. Having said that, this playlist does focus on sexual desire because, well, that's what most music tends to get written about. 1. "Someone" by Boston [Corporate America] {A guy is pining for a girl who apparently wants nothing to do with him. There are also mild stalkerish undertones.} 2. "If You Want It To Be Good Girl (Get Yourself A Bad Boy)" by the Backstreet Boys [Backstreet Boys] {The narrator is trying to invoke the "All Girls Want Bad Boys" trope (while also invoking Bad Is Good And Good Is Bad for extra Mind Screw). Sadly, bad boys tend to make for bad husbands, and marrying one is just asking for a dismal, abusive marriage.1} 3. "A View To A Kill" by Duran Duran [Best of Bond...James Bond: 40th Anniversary Edition] {I'm just going to paraphrase Friar Lawrence from Romeo & Juliet here – "passion that burns too bright burns itself out."} 4. "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel [The Stranger] {Trying to corrupt a good girl and make her a whore should not sit well with anyone. Basically, if there was ever a song that it would make sense to start a colossal moral panic over, it would be this one. (And, as it turns out, there totally was a moral panic over it.2)} 5. "My Humps" by the Black-Eyed Peas [Grammy Nominees 2007] {I used to hate this song when I was younger, and the reason why is simple – it is blatantly sexually charged and just plain inappropriate. I only warmed up to it when I was made aware that its misogynistic tones are supposed to be over-the-top.}3 6. "Sexyback" by Justin Timberlake [Grammy Nominees 2007] (MID-BOSS) {This song consists of over-the-top flirting, and being very, very open about the hoped-for end result. Bonus points for bringing up the subject of bondage.} 7. “Every Breath You Take” by The Police [Every Breath You Take: The Singles] {You know how I mentioned that “Someone” by Boston had slight stalkerish undertones? This song has heavy stalker undertones, to the point where the only way it could be 1 Yes, I’m aware that, based on the epic-rock music, the song sounds like it should come later on the list, but this is a sin that has a lot of songs associated with it, I had to pick just 12 (because I want the same number of songs for each sin and virtue), and, well, there were just a lot of songs that fit better at a later point in the narrative than this one. 2 I know that I look a little foolish for not doing thorough research before writing descriptive justifications... but I love my original wording too much to throw it out. 3 My brothers have pointed out that this song could fit in the Greed playlist, due to the female narrator/subject exploiting her sex appeal to get men to shower her with gifts.