Dancing Mad - Nobuo Uematsu
overrated af. I don't even want to put it here but just so some people don't get bothered I'll at least give it an honourable mention and explain:

I mostly just like the proggy parts, those are pretty good. but a lot of the song otherwise? it's just bloated with generic melodies and it's really just 4 different songs stitched together with transitions that really aren't that interesting. Blizzard Island Medley from PMD2 is the gold standard of transitions between very different sounding sections of a song. DM doesn't even come close. even a lot of Sakuraba or Uematsu himself has prog rock battle music that's more memorable and boppable than Dancing Mid to me. idk just overtime I've gotten increasingly tired seeing how many praise this song like it's the gold standard for video game battle music. idc if most RPG fans love this song, but I am begging them to at least listen to & appreciate the rest of this list and give them some deserved credit instead of praising DM like it's the Mona Lisa of VGM for the 100th time.

One Winged Angel - Nobuo Uematsu
Birth of a God - Nobuo Uematsu

One Who Bares Fangs At God - Yasunori Mitsuda

Xenogears Honourable Mention: Awakening (Mitsuda)

Open Your Heart - Jun Senoue

The Extreme - Nobuo Uematsu

FF8 Honourable mentions: The Legendary Beast (Uematsu), Maybe I'm A Lion (Uematsu)

Spoiler - Yasunori Mitsuda

Final Battle - Nobuo Uematsu
Dark Messenger - Nobuo Uematsu

Battle With the Devil - Yasunori Mitsuda

Live and Learn - Jun Senoue

Final Battle - Masashi Hamauzu

Last Battle - Yasunori Mitsuda

Guardando Nel Buio - Yoko Shimomura

Last Battle (TDE) - Shoji Meguro

The Depth Napishtim - Maiko Hattori & Wataru Ishibashi

What I'm Made Of - Jun Senoue

Champion Battle - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose

Silver Will - Wataru Ishibashi

Hari-Hara - Shoji Meguro & Kenichi Tsuchiya

Soaring through the Azure Sadness - Takahide Murayama

Divine Identity - Shoji Meguro & Kenichi Tsuchiya

Vergil 3 - Tetsuya Shibata

Devil Advent - Takahiro Unisuga
Evildoer - Takahide Murayama

The Strongest Enemy - Mieko Ishikawa & Yukihiro Jindo

Darkness of the Unknown - Yoko Shimomura

The Merciless Savior - Wataru Ishibashi & Yukihiro Jindo

SC Honourable Mention: Gravestone Struck by Lightning (Ryo Takeshita)

Battle Against the Spoiler - Shogo Sakai

Promised Pain - Yuki Kajiura

Battle Hymn of the Soul - Shoji Meguro

vs Cynthia - Junichi Masuda

Solaris Phase 2 - Tomoya Ohtani

Over Drive - Yuzo Koshiro & Ryo Takeshita

Honourable mention: Termination (Yuzo Koshiro & Yukihiro Jindo)

Seven Rings in Hand - Kenichi Tokoi

Lord of the Castle - Yoko Shimomura

Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land - Ryo Takeshita

The Almighty - Shoji Meguro

When Determination Strikes - Motoi Sakuraba

Marx Battle - Jun Ishikawa

vs Dark Gaia - Hideaki Kobayashi

Nisus - Tsuyoshi Sekito

With Me - Jun Senoue

Dialga's Fight to the Finish - Arata Iiyoshi, Keisuke Ito

Vector to the Heavens - Yoko Shimomura

In The Final - Yoko Shimomura

Ancient Disputation - Masanori Osaki

Take the Shield, Raise the Spear - Shoji Meguro

The Greatest Jubilee - Rei Kondoh

Risk Everything on this Moment - Hayato Sonoda

Dismiss - Yoko Shimomura

Calling that Detestable Name - Yuzo Koshiro

Kaine (Escape) - Kakeru Ishihama
Shadowlord - Keigo Hoashi

Spoiler - Manami Kiyota

An Earnest Desire of Grey - Yoko Shimomura

Time to Raise the Cross - Motoo Fujiwara
A Place in the Sun (Fujiwara)
Finish the Promise (Fujiwara)

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder - Motoi Sakuraba

CROWNED - Hirokazu Ando

RTDL Honourable Mention: Another Dimension (Jun Ishikawa)

vs Iris - Hitomi Sato

False God of Causality - Yukihiro Jindo

It Has to Be This Way - Jamie Christopherson

Merkabah II - Ryota Kozuka

SMT4 Honourable Mention: Lucifer II (Kozuka)

The Future of the World - Yuzo Koshiro

The Decisive Collision - Takahiro Unisuga
I don't even care for Trails as much I used to, but I love these Trance masterpieces that much.

CS1 Honourable Mentions: Unknown Threat (Unisuga), Great Power (Jindo)

vs Diantha - Junichi Masuda & Shota Kageyama

Moonstruck Blossom - Hirokazu Ando

Aesir - Rei Kondoh

Heteromorphy - Hayato Sonoda

To A Glimmering Tomorrow - Takahiro Unisuga

Blue Destination - Takahiro Unisuga

This debuts before the final boss sequence so I'm breaking my rules a bit for this one
but it's basically The Decisive Collision's sister song anyways

The First Hunter - Tsukasa Saitoh

live Opera moment

Hopes and Dreams - Toby Fox

Enemy of God - Ryota Kozuka

Soul of Cinder - Yuka Kitamura

vs Star Dream - Hirokazu Ando
Intermezzo Without a Leader - Jun Ishikawa
Vagrant Counting Song of Retrospection - Hirokazu Ando

Theos De-Endrogram - Hayato Sonoda

Ordeal of Stars - Yuzo Koshiro

Revolt Against Doom - Hayato Sonoda
Liberation Drive - Takahiro Unisuga
Vesper Umbra - Takahiro Unisuga

The Battle at the Summit! - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose
The Battle at the Summit! (Hau) - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose & Hitomi Sato

Spoiler (Ending Y) - Kakeru Ishihama & Keigo Hoashi
Dependent Weakling - Kuniyuki Takahashi
The Sound of the End - Keiichi Okabe

The Colourless Moment - Yoko Shimomura

Doomsday Trance - Takahiro Unisuga

Shekinah - Shoji Meguro & Toshiki Konishi

Fly Octo Fly - Toru Minegishi & Off the Hook

Majestic Roar - Takahiro Unisuga
To the Future - Yukihiro Jindo
4.5/5 Tier roughly starts here

Silver Bullet - Casey Edwards

Anima Ergastulum - Hayato Sonoda

vs Gigantamax Eternatus Final - Go Ichinose

The Azure Arbitrator - Takahiro Unisuga & Yukihiro Jindo

The Perfect Steel of ZERO - Yukihiro Jindo

Sword Saint - Yuka Kitamura

Unmitigated Evil - Yukihiro Jindo

For My Precious Friend - Saki Momiyama
Nihilistic Idol - Saki Momiyama

vs Giratina - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose
vs Spoiler - Junichi Masuda & Go Ichinose & Hitomi Sato

The Final Battle - Tsukasa Saitoh

Two Planets Approaching the Roche Limit - Hirokazu Ando
Morpho Knight - Hirokazu Ando

Where to Join the Chorus - Yukihiro Jindo
Chaotic Loop - Mitsuo Singa

Dark Eve - Rei Kondoh

Battle! Area Zero Lab - Toby Fox
vs Terapagos - Rei Murayama & Toby Fox & Go Ichinose

Redeem the Future - Manami Kiyota

The Endless Bloody Sea - Shuntaro Koguchi

vs Chaos King
vs Queen
Toby Fox