Mohs Rock Metal / Levels 1 to 3

Here lie the softest, most radio-friendly songs in the scale. Make sure you pass here if you came from listening to songs at the scale's hardest end, they might help you unwind. A vast majority of music enjoyed by children can be found here, as well.

Level 1

Genres: Acoustic, lighter Soft Rock, Piano music, Folk Music, Modern Classical, Baroque music, Chamber music, quieter Electronic Music, Ambient, lighter Tropical music, softer Dream Pop, Gregorian Chant, Ragtime, Nursery Rhymes, Slowcore, Lowercase, Chillstep, Cloud Rap, Field Recordings, Nature Recordings, Reductionism, Indeterminacy, very light Pop, Elevator music.

Matching mineral: Talc

• The Eagle Will Rise Again, Old and Wise, and Time (The Alan Parsons Project)
• Raining Blood (Tori Amos)^note The original Slayer song is a 9. Arguably a borderline 2 due to retaining some of the darkness of the original song in its music.
• Picnic of Love (Anal Cunt) ^note  Anal Cunt is known for being on Level 11, but this comes from their album of the same name as this song that intentionally tried to be really soft as a joke.
• Snow on the Sahara (Anggun)
• Rhubarb, Fingerbib, qu 1, Nanou 2 and Avril 14th (Aphex Twin)
• Cherish and Never My Love (The Association)
• Fruit of Love (Audiovision)
• Altibzz, VLetrmx21 and Yulquen (Autechre)
• Two Hearts in 3/4 Time (The Avalanches) ^note  The ending jumps up to a 7, though.
• Triage at Dawn (Kelly Bailey, Half-Life 2 soundtrack)
• Gravity (Sara Bareilles)
• Coffee (beabadoobee)
• Surfer Girl, The Warmth of the Sun (The Beach Boys)
• Good Night (The Beatles)
• Beneath the Mask (Bell Witch)^note A rare instance of a funeral doom band going this low
• Thirteen (Big Star)
• Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John) ^note Definitely one of the fastest level 1 songs
• Moonlight (Black Gryph0n & Baasik)
• Changes and Fluff ^note The latter is a peaceful-sounding instrumental. (Black Sabbath)
• Skin and Puppetmaster (bladee)
• Carnivores Unite (Blockhead)
• For the Damaged Coda (Blonde Redhead)
• Roygbiv (Boards of Canada)
• First Fires and Kiara (Bonobo)
• The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) (Boris and Sunn O))))^note Bet you did not expect to see Sunn O))) at this level!
• Fifteen Fathoms, Counting and Memorial (Bring Me the Horizon)
• Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham)
• Train Song (Vashti Bunyan)
• A Lovely Pear (Bull of Heaven)
• Exit Woundz (Burial)
• Der Tod Wuotans and Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte ^note  this fades in after the level 11 Decrepitude i (Burzum)
• Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds)
• Minecraft (C418, Minecraft soundtrack), a rather soft 1
• Secrets VIP (Cahb) ^note Very tranquil and euphoric song. Even the drums have a "hypnotic" quality to them. The original version is even softer.
• Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)
• Stop Smoking (We Love You), I-94 W (832 mi) (Car Seat Headrest)
• I've Never Been To Me (Charlene)
• If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
• Mr. Sandman (The Chordettes)
• Think of Laura and Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (Christopher Cross)
• Mary's Theme (Stelvio Cipriani)
• Carolyn's Fingers and Sea, Swallow Me (Cocteau Twins)
• Desperately Safe and The Meaning Of His Tears (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• The World I Know (Collective Soul)
• Voices of the Mountain (Cormorant)
• Kairos (Covenant)
• Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)
• And With Her Came the Birds (Cult of Luna)
• Nightvision (Daft Punk)
• Everything You Are (deadmau5)
• Dance Macabre (Decapitated) ^note Yes, a freaking Death Metal band did a song at this level.
• Chamber of Reflection (Mac DeMarco)
• My Heart Will Go On (Céline Dion)
• Sa Bir (Dir en grey) ^note Not necessarily their softest song, but comparing it to much of their discography can be extremely jarring, considering that they're an ultra-aggressive experimental outfit
• Adventure (Disasterpeace, Fez soundtrack)
• Darkness (Disturbed)
• Paradise Bird Theory (DJ Krush ft. Sunja Lee)
• What a Fool Believes (The Doobie Brothers)
• The Crystal Ship and Wishful Sinful (The Doors)
• Pink Moon, Which Will, and From the Morning (Nick Drake)
• The Silent Man (Dream Theater) ^note "Vacant" and "Wait for Sleep" are around this level as well.
• Jeans On (David Dundas)
• Versus Giegue (Final Boss Theme) (EarthBound Beginnings soundtrack) ^note  Though very creepy (The song consists of a screeching-high Drone of Dread and nothing but) It's ultimately not heavy or harsh enough to go higher.
• Giygas' Intro and Giygas Stirs (EarthBound (1994) soundtrack)
• when the party's over (Billie Eilish)
• Sabrina (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• Return To Innocence (Enigma)
• 1/2 (Brian Eno)
• Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
• Kriegsromantik^translation  War Romance (Feuertaufe) ^note  It's unlikely to get any radioplay due to other reasons, though.
• Agony (Fleshgod Apocalypse) ^note Yes, they're a Death Metal act, but they also put out a lot of piano tracks such as this one.
• Shop (Genocide mix) ^note  The normal version is also here., Snowdin Town (Genocide mix) ^note  Borderline 2., Your Best Friend and So Cold/Snowdin (Genocide mix) (Toby Fox, Undertale soundtrack)
• Songbird (Kenny G)
• [untitled] (Gas)
• You Look So Fine (Garbage)
• Horizons (Genesis)
• Sketch2 (Glitched Hero Y) ^note Borderline 2 for the glitchy portion in the middle.

• Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye)
• Main Street (Alec Gould)
• Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day)
• Flutey (World Map) (Mathew E. Harwood, Castle Crashers soundtrack) ^note There is some percussion, but the track is light and airy enough to be at level 1.
• No Drums (Tim Hecker)
• Bubbles (Herbie Hancock)
• A Story (hide)
• First Love (Utada Hikaru)
• Ave Maria, O autrix vite and Caritas habundat in omnia(Hildegard von Bingen)
• Are We Still Married? (His Name Is Alive)^note The versions on The Dirt Eaters and Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth only; album version is 3
• True Love Ways (Buddy Holly)
• Uncharted Worlds and Vigil (Sam Hulick & Jack Wall, Mass Effect soundtrack)
• I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots)
• TIME, AURORA and MAP (INTERNET CLUB)
• Maritime (Isis) ^note  Borderline 2 because of the drums.
• Don't Do Drugs Just Take Some Jack Ü (Jack Ü) ^note  Yes, there's already an umlaut this early. Their usual sound is at level 9 or 10, this is the intro track to their first album.
• Steppin Out (Joe Jackson)
• She's Out of My Life (Michael Jackson)
• Oxygène, Pt. IV (Jean-Michel Jarre) ^note All in all, the entirety of Oxygène is a 1.
• Dun Ringill, Requiem and Thick as a Brick Edit 1 (Jethro Tull) ^note The 46-minute album cut immediately turns to a hard 3 where the single picks up from.
• Deep Water (Jewel)
• Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel)
• I Want Love and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
• Kaede and Shuichi (JohnJRenns)
• Accumula Town (Shota Kageyama, Pokémon Black and White soundtrack)
• Tutorial (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack) ^note The beats are soft enough for the song to be at this level.
• I'd Rather Sleep (Kero Kero Bonito)
• Barracks Settlement (KIKIYAMA, Yume Nikki soundtrack)^note Most of Yume Nikki's ambient pieces are on this level, though some tracks manage to go higher due to the fear factor alone.
• Be Still (The Killers)
• The Last Goodbye (The Kills)
• Beth (KISS)
• Moonchild (King Crimson)
• Such Small Hands (La Dispute)
• That's the Way, Battle of Evermore and The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin)
• Imagine (John Lennon)
• One More Light and Empty Spaces (Linkin Park)
• Packaged-piano ver. (livetune feat. Hatsune Miku)
• Hey Now (London Grammar)
• The Night We Met (Lord Huron)
• Royals (Lorde)
• Lullaby (Low)
• Lovesick - 80,000 Lightyears, Finding Shapes in the Clouds and Good Morning (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Wait (M83)
• Sneaky Adventure (Kevin MacLeod)
• Radiation Storm and Dream Town (Mark Morgan, Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas soundtracks)
• Teardrop (Massive Attack)
• Look On Down From The Bridge (Mazzy Star)
• I'll Be (Edwin McCain)
• Junk (Paul McCartney)
• Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintlock)
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie)
• Mr. Arrow Key (Lena Meyer-Landrut)
• K.K. Cruisin' (Toru Minegishi, Animal Crossing soundtrack) ^note  Performed by character K.K. Slider in-game.
• Richland Woman Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
• Morning Morgantown, My Old Man, and Ladies of the Canyon (Joni Mitchell)
• I Wanna Be Free (The Monkees)
• 1916 and Whorehouse Blues (Motörhead)
• Cut My Hair (Mounika ft. Cavetown) ^note The song it samples, "This is Home" by Cavetown, is a 2 that is a 1 in the intro and end.
• Medicine (Mouth of the Architect)
• We Have a Map of the Piano (múm)
• Angst (myuu)^note Proof that you don’t need to be at the high end of the scale to be very scary.
• Nimb #9 (Toshimaru Nakamura)
• Into The Desert (Pete Namlook)
• Exile Vilify from Portal 2 (The National)
• The Day the World Went Away (Nine Inch Nails) ^note  Quiet and Still version respectively; the original Fragile version is much higher.
• Something in the Way (Nirvana)
• Rust (No, Really)
• Left Bank Two (The Noveltones)
• Dreams (Nuages)
• Feather (ft. Cise Starr & Akin) (Nujabes)
• Songbird and Wonderwall (Oasis)
• Counting Down the Hours (Ockeroid, K.O.L.M. soundtrack)
• Patterns in the Ivy (Opeth)
• Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme) (Riz Ortolani, Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack)
• ...Speaking... (collapsed version) ^note A stripped down, banjo (plus vocals) only version of the original "...Speaking...", which after the relatively soft (still harder than most of the collapsed version) first three and a half minutes goes up to a 10. and Norwegian Nights (Panopticon)
• Hate to See Your Heart Break and 26 (Paramore)
• Too Close to the Sun (Alan Parsons)
• A Pillow of winds, Summer of 68, Speak to Me If, Fearless, Green Is The Colour and Outside The Wall (Pink Floyd)
• Modus Operandi (Photek)
• Where Do We Draw the Line (Poets of the Fall)
• It's A Fire, Roads ^note Borderline 2, The Rip (Portishead)
• Beyond the Deathray (The Prodigy)
• Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)
• Dear Friends, You Take My Breath Away, Is This the World We Created?and Love of My Life (Queen)
• Treefingers, MK1 and MK2(Radiohead)
• Situation: Relation (Rainer Maria)
• Ein Lied (Rammstein)
• You're Now a Hero (Reachground)
• Porcelain (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Leaving New York, Nightswimming (R.E.M.)
• Skyway, Here Comes a Regular (The Replacements)
• Cry of the Unheard ^note  Though very creepy (the song consists of the sound of a theremin and nothing but), it’s ultimately not heavy or harsh enough to be higher. and Forgotten ^note  Borderline 2. (REPULSIVE)
• Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)
• Necropolis (Trent Reznor, Quake soundtrack) ^note  Proof that you certainly don't need to be at the high end of this scale to be downright creepy or haunting.
• Blossom (Porter Robinson)
• As Tears Go By (The Rolling Stones (Band))
• Remind Me (Röyksopp)
• Tears (Rush)
• Your Reality (Dan Salvato & Jillian Ashcraft, Doki Doki Literature Club! soundtrack)
• Robotnik's Lab ^note  Borderline 2. (Kyuu Sawamura, Sonic.exe soundtrack)
• Bayreuth Return, Wahnfried 1883 (Klaus Schulze)
• Tiny Little Adiantum (Shibayan, milka and 3L)
• Sky Chord (Tsuji Shion)
• Title, 100 Sunny, Sugar Star Planetarium, Aquifer, Fleur, DUET, and Clean Slate (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?) (Simple Plan)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra)
• Inception (Spawn of Possession)
• Everytime (Britney Spears)
• Samson (Regina Spektor)
• I Hope I Never (Split Enz)
• Tommib (Squarepusher, Lost in Translation soundtrack)
• Down 3 (Stars of the Lid)
• Home At Last (Steely Dan)
• If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out, Trouble, and Where Do the Children Play? (Cat Stevens)
• Shape of My Heart (Sting)
• Big Jet Plane (Angus and Julia Stone)
• Imperfect (Stone Sour)
• Forever (Stratovarius)
• Balcony (Studio Pixel, Cave Story soundtrack)
• The Next Life (Suede)
• Blind (Swans)^note Definitely one of the band's gentler songs, musically and lyrically (where it would be a hard 4 or a soft 5).
• Doll's House and Pieces of Me (Patricia Taxxon)
• Fifteen (Taylor Swift)
• A Distance There Is (Theatre of Tragedy) ^note This song serves as a breather on the debut album, the rest of which is all 9-10 material. Raymond's vocals don't feature at all, nor do any guitars or drums. Just Liv, a piano, and a violin.
• Song to the Siren (This Mortal Coil)
• Hamburger Lady (Throbbing Gristle) ^note However, it easily ranks at 11 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, being about a lady burned so horribly her skin looked like hamburger meat. Considered one of the scariest songs ever recorded, it is definitive proof that you don't need to be high on the scale to be haunting.
• Living in the Sunlight (Tiny Tim)
• Parabol and Lipan Conjuring (tool)
• Shade (The Tossers)
• Fly (Devin Townsend)^note Yes, that Devin Townsend. The rest of the Ghost album—a dreamy, non-metal new age effort—is also a 1 or a very light 2.
• Happy Together (The Turtles)
• Heaven (Unkle) ^note Despite having a distorted guitar and crunchy industrial drums, the song is very airy and light-hearted.
• Sunday Morning and Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)
• P (Venetian Snares)
• Love will be born again (English ver.) (Versailles)
• "From My Hands" (VNV Nation) ^note  Probably their softest song.
• Still Doll (Kanon Wakeshima) ^note Borderline 2 due to its use of minor chords
• Butterfly (Weezer)
• Only One (Kanye West)
• We're Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes)
• Golden Cage (The Whitest Boy Alive)
• Break My Stride (Matthew Wilder)
• Aquatic Ambiance, K.Rool's Cacophony, Stickerbush Symphony and Windmill Hills (David Wise, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze soundtracks)
• Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
• Somewhere (Within Temptation)
• Endless Rain and Forever Love (X Japan)
• Crystalised, Night Time, Sunset, and Intro (The xx)
• Not Tomorrow and Silent Hill (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill soundtrack)
  • Alone in the Town, True and White Noiz (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 2 soundtrack)
  • Letter ~ From The Lost Days and Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 3 soundtrack)
• loss (yandere)
• One More Minute ("Weird Al" Yankovic)^note On the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, however, it would be 9.
• Hear Our Prayer (Yuki Kajiura)
• Lotus Waters (Yume 2kki soundtrack)
• Little Umbrellas (Frank Zappa)

Level 2

Genres: Soft Rock, Art Rock, Piano Rock, Acoustic, Bubblegum Pop, light Classical Music, Power Ballads, lighter Pop, Motown Sound, R&B, Art Pop, Contemporary Worship Music, lighter Disco, Folk Pop, Dream Pop, lighter Shoegaze, Jangle Pop, lighter Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz, Reggae, lighter Dance-Pop, Chillstep, Tropical music, Latin American Music, soft Post-Rock, Cloud Rap, Folk, lighter Hip-Hop, Lounge, harder Slowcore, softer Futurepop, softer Synth-Pop and New Wave.

Matching mineral: Gypsum

• Dreadlock Holiday (10cc)
• Candy Everybody Wants (10,000 Maniacs)
• Amber (311)
• The Look of Love (ABC)
• untitled (AKAZI)
• I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You, Children of the Moon and Eye in the Sky ^note The guitar distortion at the end brings this up from a 1 (The Alan Parsons Project)
• Am I Inside ^note  Although it is soft enough to qualify for this level, it is a very dark toned song, and the lyrics rank at a 9 in the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness., Nutshell, and Don't Follow (Alice in Chains)
• LDN ^note A hard 2. (Lily Allen)
• Snow Patrol, Part 2 (Alpinestars) ^note Part 1 is a 3.
• A Horse With No Name (America)
• The Summer Ends (American Football)
• Crucify (Tori Amos)
• Nintendo's Anti Consumerism in a Musical Nutshell ^note  Solid 7 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness. (Andyblargs Music)
• Jamaa Township theme (Animal Jam soundtrack)
• Flim (Aphex Twin)
• Barbie Girl (Aqua)
• 505 (Arctic Monkeys)
• It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane (The Ark)
• Crazy Bus (Arthur)
• Little Rich Boy (Asia)
• Maybe Tonight (Nicole Atkins)
• Maphive 6.1 ^note For the most part, it's a 1, if not a soft/borderline 2. However, there are a few sections where it turns into a 3-4, so overall, it's at this level. and Treale ^note The buzzing noise in the background keeps it from a 1. (Autechre)
• Since I Left You (The Avalanches)
• So Far Away and Acid Rain (Avenged Sevenfold)
• Rise (Riko Azuna, Bloom Into You soundtrack)
• Seagull (Bad Company)
• Club Soda (Thomas Bangalter)
• McLarty Party People (Danny Baranowsky, Super Meat Boy soundtrack)
• If I Had $1,000,000 (Barenaked Ladies)
• All I Wanna Do ^note This song is considered by many musical historians to be the Ur-Example of chillwave and (to a lesser extent) dream pop. (The Beach Boys)
• Nowhere Man and Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
• Gamma Ray and Loser (Beck)
• Stayin' Alive (The Bee Gees)
• Love Drought (Beyoncé)
• Proud to be a Brony (Black Gryph0n)
• Let It Be (Blackmill) ^note Borderline 3. A good example of how low dubstep can get.
• Romeo (bladee)
• Bon Appétit♡S, Blend-S's opening theme (Blend A)
• No Rain and Skinned ^note Lyrics are about a 9. (Blind Melon)
• I Miss You (blink-182)
• My Time ^note Much of it is a 1, but there are two sections where it increases in hardness (around level 3/4), putting it here. The version used in OMORI is also at this level, though it's a heavier level 2 example due to being faster and missing the intro and end of the original track, which are at level 1. and Tussle Among Trees (bo en, OMORI soundtrack)
• Duvet, Serial Experiments Lain's opening theme) (Bôa)
• Reach for the Dead (Boards of Canada)
• Leaving Leafwood Forest (Bossfight) ^note Borderline 3
• Amanda (Boston)
• Jesus Christ (Brand New)
• Baby I'm Yours (Breakbot)
• Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing and Flying on the Ground is Wrong (Buffalo Springfield)
• Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles)
• Archangel ^note A soft 2 and Distant Lights (Kode9 Remix)) (Burial)
• Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle (Cake)
• Turtles Have Short Legs (Can)
• How Can You Say Goodbye (Caramella Girls)
• It’s Just a Burning Memory (The Caretaker)
• Drive (The Cars)
• Marilyn Set Me Free (Casino Versus Japan)
• Close to Stop ^note  The slight amount of distortion bumps it up from a 1. (Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's 3 soundtrack)
• Heavenly Pop Hit (The Chills)
• Sofia (Clairo) ^note A few parts briefly reach 3.
• Red (Moe Clark)^note The drum beat starting 1 minute in brings this song to at least a soft 2.
• Heart Break (超高 Titan)
• Cherry-Colored Funk (Cocteau Twins)
• You Want It Darker (Leonard Cohen)
• The Scientist, Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
• Soft Breeze, Unreasonable Behaviour ^note  Borderline 3. and Windows Licking (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• December (Collective Soul)
• In Time (Mark Collie)
• Sleep (Copeland)
• Castle Crashers Online Menu (cornandbeans, Castle Crashers soundtrack)
• Shallow Ground (Corrosion of Conformity)
• Breathless (The Corrs)
• Alison (Elvis Costello)
• Still Alive (Jonathan Coulton and Ellen McLain, Portal soundtrack)
• Who'll Stop The Rain, Lodi and Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• Teach Your Children, Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
• Fall At Your Feet (Crowded House)
• Friday I'm in Love and Lullaby (The Cure)
• Winterbliss (Cycerin, Castle Crashers soundtrack) ^note Borderline 3
• Snow White (D)
• L'Amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You) (Gigi D'Agostino)
• Voyager (Daft Punk)
• Codeine (Daniel Land and the Modern Painters) ^note Despite the shoegazey guitars near the end, this is a very subdued song.
• Because (The Dave Clark Five)
• I'm Already Gone (A Day to Remember)
• Brazil ^note The section towards the end makes this too heavy for a 1. The much more well-known Second Edit is a 3., Long Walk Off A Short Pier and The Veldt (ft. Chris James) (deadmau5)
• Teenager (Deftones) ^note  Easily the gentlest song this band has released. Borderline 1, though the drums give it an extra edge.
• Enjoy the Silence, Just Can't Get Enough and Precious (Depeche Mode)
• Ain't Afraid to Die^note It's a pretty soft song despite the Mind Screw-y, not-so-lighthearted lyrics and Glass Skin (Dir en grey)
• The Unknown (ft. FMLYBND) (Dirty South)
• I Love You (Discandy)
• I Can't Quit You Baby (Willie Dixon)
• Say So (Doja Cat) ^note Despite the vulgar lyrics, this is an example of dance-pop light enough for a 2, due to its relaxing atmosphere and Doja Cat's crooned vocals (aside from the rapping in the song's bridge).
• Long Train Running and Listen To The Music (Doobie Brothers)
• Riders on the Storm and Tell All the People (The Doors)
• Clubbed to Death (Rob Dougan, The Matrix soundtrack)
• Are You Old Enough and Still in Love with You (Dragon)
• A View to a Kill and Save a Prayer (Duran Duran)
• Tequila Sunrise, New Kid in Town, and Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles)
• FOOTPRINTS -Metropolis Mix- (Earthists) ^note A unique example of a metalcore band doing a non-metal version of their own song. The original version of Footprints is a 7.
• AAA Powerline^note The punchy quality to the drums elevates this above a 1. (Ecco2k)
• bad guy (Billie Eilish)
• Boreas (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• Rust (El Huervo)
• Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra)
• Gathka ^note  The drum beats in the first minute and a half, though pretty soft by Emray's usual standard, are still fast and aggressive enough to move it above a 1. Probably the softest Emray song. (Emray)
• American Boy (Estelle) ^note The chorus is a 3.
• My Immortal (Evanescence) ^note Single version. Most of the song is a 1, but goes briefly into 3 or 4 territory towards the end. The studio version, however, is a 1 in its entirety.
• Fly in the Freedom (Tabitha Fair, Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack)
• Song For Lindy (Fatboy Slim)
• Mushaboom (Feist)
• Heavy in Your Arms (Florence + the Machine)
• Legendary (Foodieti, Friday Night Fever soundtrack)
• Pumped Up Kicks ^note  The chorus is a 1. (Foster the People)
  • 3TEETH's cover is a 7.
• Rude Buster, THE WORLD REVOLVING, NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A, Snowdin Forest (Genocide mix), Waterfall, Him and Empty House/Fallen Down (Genocide mix) (Toby Fox, Deltarune and Undertale soundtracks)
• Again (The Frozen Autumn) ^note The cover version by Decoded Feedback is a 7.
• Volcano Theme (Shiho Fujii, Ryo Nagamatsu and Kenta Nagata, New Super Mario Bros. Wii soundtrack)
• History (Funeral for a Friend)
• Life's Incredible Again (Michael Giacchino, The Incredibles soundtrack)
• Streets of Your Town, Bachelor Kisses (The Go-Betweens)
• King of Wishful Thinking (Go West)
• Golden Sky and Forever Lost (God is an Astronaut)
• Spooky Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold)
• I Need Your Love (Golden Harvest)
• Bad Liar (Selena Gomez)
• Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
• It's My Party (Lesley Gore)
• Let Me Love You (Ariana Grande)
• Ripple, Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead)
• Last Night on Earth ^note This comes right after "Christian's Inferno, which is a 7, in the track listing, causing a Mood Whiplash. (Green Day)
• Genesis and REALiTi (Grimes)
• Want You Back (Haim)
• Renai Circulation (Kana Hanazawa, Bakemonogatari soundtrack)
• The Light of Hope (Amy Hannam, Sonic Forces soundtrack) ^note  Starts at 1, then climbs up to the Power Ballad level of 2.
• Almost all of Yoshiki Hayashi's classical piano mixes for his solo work land here. To list them all would be pointless since there are about eight that are classical piano remixes of X Japan and Violet UK songs that range anywhere from 2 to 7, and which all land at 2 as played on piano. The exceptions so far are Art of Life - a 7 to 8 Heavy Metal song for X Japan which is a 3-4 when re-orchestrated for classical piano with sampled backing - and a Violet UK song, Red Rhapsody, where the vocals bump it up to a 3.
• Hurry Go Round and Goodbye (hide)
• Sanctuary (Utada Hikaru)
• Bullet (Hollywood Undead) ^note However, it's easily a 9 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, being a cheerful yet incredibly unsubtle song about suicide.
• Everyday (Buddy Holly)
• Take Me to Church (Hozier)
• Demons (Imagine Dragons)
• Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
• Tomorrow the World (Information Society)
• Smile Song (Daniel Ingram, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
• WAVE TEMPLE (INTERNET CLUB)
• Leif Erikson (Interpol)
• Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
• Blue Skies (Jamiroquai)
• All That (Carly Rae Jepsen)
• It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Billy Joel)
• Love Will Tear Us Apart^note Ranks at a 6-7 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, though. (Joy Division)
• Conquistador I (Juno Reactor) ^note Part II is a 9.
• TThhEe PPaARRtTYY (Justice) ^note  Yes, really. The drums that kick in halfway through keep it from a 1.
• Hare Nochi Hare ^Translation  Clear Sky after Clear Sky , Kamichu!'s opening theme. Lyrics here. ^note  The singer's excited, cheery, and energetic voice puts the song here. Otherwise, it would be Level 1 due to the light, relaxing, and often whimsical instrumentation.
• Callista (Saki Kaskas)
• Pico ^note Might be a borderline 3 due to the beats and South (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack)
• Somewhere Only We Know and Everybody's Changing (Keane)
• Flamingo, It's Bugsnax! (from Bugsnax) and Picture This (Kero Kero Bonito)
• Speed Me Up (Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, Sueco the Child, Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) soundtrack)
• Pursuit of Happiness (Kid Cudi) ^note A borderline 3 overall.
• Toriningen Party (KIKIYAMA, Yume Nikki soundtrack)
• Dire Dire Docks (Koji Kondo, Super Mario 64 soundtrack)^note The drumming in the last third of the song brings this up from a 1.
• PONPONPON and Invader Invader (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)
• There She Goes (The La's)
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga)
• All My Loveand Going To California (Led Zeppelin)
• Brodyquest (Lemon Demon)
• Everything (Lifehouse)
• Outside (Aaron Lewis ft. Fred Durst)
• Castle of Glass and Heavy (Linkin Park)
• Somewhere with a Dance Floor (little xs for eyes) ^note The first half is a 1, while the second half is a 3, balancing it out here.
• Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Lucinda Williams)
• Dance Dance Dance (Lykke Li)
• See In Your Fantasy, Three Bar Logos, and You Cannot Go Back (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Tuesday's Gone and The Ballad of Curtis Loew (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Velho (Madrigals) ^note Kept above a 1 by the insistent bass drum and lo-fi percussion sounds.
• Sex and Candy (Marcy Playground)
• Nowhere To Run (Martha and the Vandellas)
• Unfinished Sympathy (Massive Attack)
• Orb (Matenrou Opera)
• Fade Into You (Mazzy Star)
• Down Under (Men at Work)
• Let It Go (Idina Menzel, Frozen soundtrack) ^note  Starts at 1 and steadily builds up to a 3.
• Temptation Stairway (Waltz Variation) (METAROOM, ENA soundtrack)
• Mandala (Merzbow and Cristoph Heemann) ^note The intro is pretty standard Ambient, but what stops is from being a 1 is that middle part where Merzbow goes into his Signature Style of ear rape silliness leveling at a 10 before drifting back into 1 territory.
• Nothing Else Matters and Low Man's Lyric (Metallica)
• Genghis Khan and Animal (Miike Snow)
• Help Me (Joni Mitchell)
• Want You (Moe Shop)
• Travel Is Dangerous (Mogwai)
• Mephisto Waltz (Moi dix Mois)
• Daydream Believer (The Monkees)
• Ironic (Alanis Morissette)
• Alienation (Morning Parade)
• Allies and Blood Pressure (Mutemath) ^note The latter is a borderline 3.
• Two Doors Down (Mystery Jets)
• Hallogallo (Neu!)
• Two-Headed Boy (Neutral Milk Hotel)
• The Islander (Nightwish)
• Coconut (Harry Nilsson)
• The Man Who Sold the World ^note  The obviously distorted guitar riffs keeps this from being a 1 and Dumb (Nirvana)
• What Could Have Been and Twilight Innocence (Novembers Doom) ^note  Undoubtedly the band's lightest songs, as they are usually within the 8-10 range.
• Little by Little (Oasis)
• Stay Inside Me (OcularNebula, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• I Will Be There (Odessa) ^note Could be considered a 1, but the percussion is just a little too heavy for that level. Ultimately, it's a soft 2, and is close to a 1.
• Why Don't You Get a Job? (The Offspring) ^note Leans close to 3 at some parts.
• Hey Ya! (Outkast)
• Fireflies (Owl City)
• Nine in the Afternoon (Panic! at the Disco)
• Suicide Note, Part 1 ^note Part 2 is a solid 10, bordering on 11. and Planet Caravan^note The Black Sabbath original is a 1. (Pantera)
• Fallen Angel (Ending Theme) (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt)^note Possibly the very example of how heavy a Dream Pop song can get. The occasional use of distorted guitars keep it from a 1.
• The Only Exception and Forgiveness (Paramore)
• Oceans (Pearl Jam)
• Character Zero (Phish)
• Fences (Phoenix)
• Aviator (Photek)^note Would be a 1 if it weren't for the louder parts.
• Quiet Life (Bonnie Pink) ^note Would be a 1, if not for the distorted bass and extra guitar that comes in in the middle of the song.
• Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V),Fat Old Sun Wish You Were Here, Breathe and Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) ^note  Part 2 is a 3 and Part 3 is a 4. (Pink Floyd)
• Pain and Passion (Pinkpantheress)
• So Lonely (The Police)
• Omen Reprise ^note The original is a 4, Out of Space, Weather Experience ^note Not a 1 due to the middle part and Your Love (The Prodigy)
• Green World (Project Pitchfork)
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Killer Queen, '39, Good Company and You're My Best Friend (Queen)
• Make It Wit Chu (Queens of the Stone Age)
• Keen on Boys (The Radio Dept.)^note The noisy/distorted nature of the guitars would normally put this song at a hard 3, but it is extremely subdued for a song that includes them, hence why it is 2.
• No Surprises, Pyramid Song, How to Disappear Completely, and Karma Police (Radiohead)
• Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
• Cumberland Gap ^note  Borderline 3. (David Rawlings)
• Come and Get Your Love (Redbone)
• Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Losing My Religion and Drive (R.E.M.)
• Can't Fight This Feeling (REO Speedwagon)
• Swingin' Party (The Replacements)
• In The Dark ^note  Borderline 3. The lack of drums puts this lower than it should be, but it’s still dark enough to get up here., Kyomi's Lullaby and Judah's Lullaby ^note  The slight distortion on both songs' melodies keep them from 1. (REPULSIVE)
• Lonely (Rezonate ft. Bijou)
• Hero of War, Swing Life Away (Rise Against)
• Dancing On My Own (Robyn)
• Angie, You Got the Silver, Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones (Band))
• Go Ahead (The Rosebuds)
• Hello It's Me, Can We Still Be Friends? (Todd Rundgren)
• Staple Stable (Chiwa Saitō, Bakemonogatari soundtrack)
• Takaramono (Sakura Gakuin)
• I Can't Decide (Scissor Sisters) ^note Solid 11 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness.
• These Things (She Wants Revenge)
• Push & Shove, CHAOS ASSEMBLY, Bargain Bin Boys, Gator Gambol, and BREADY STEADY GO ^note The ending is a 10. (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
• Don't You (Forget About Me) (Simple Minds, The Breakfast Club soundtrack)
• With You, Friends (Long Drive) (Skrillex) ^note People who are used to Skrillex's heavier dubstep material may be surprised to see one of his songs this low on the scale. A good portion of it is a 1, but the beats that kick in sometime between the middle and the end elevate the overall level to a 2.
• Different Frequencies (Skyhill)
• Vermillion Part 2. and Circle (Slipknot)
• This Charming Man (The Smiths) ^note Despite Morrissey's reputation for morose, self-pitying songwriting, Johnny Marr's bubbly guitar playing may make this the most cheerful song in their catalog.
• Sakasama no Chou (SNoW, Hell Girl soundtrack)
• Winner's Blues (Sonic Youth) ^note Unusually soft for a Sonic Youth song, a stark contrast from their usual noise rock.
• It's Okay To Cry (SOPHIE) ^note The heavier sections of the song, like the ending, put this above a 1.
• Runaway Train (Soul Asylum) ^note  A 6 in Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness and the music video is an 8 in Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness.
• Lucky (Britney Spears)
• Fidelity (Regina Spektor)
• One Step Ahead (Split Enz)
• Coopers World ^note Among one of his softer Drum and Bass tracks. and Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie) (Squarepusher)
• Do It Again (Steely Dan) ^note A low 2 musically, but a solid 8 when it comes to the lyrics.
• Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
• Elements (Lindsey Stirling)
• Through Glass (Stone Sour)
• Cave Story (Main Theme) and Geothermal (Studio Pixel, Cave Story soundtrack)
• Babe (Styx)
• She's Not Dead (Suede)
• born of a serpent (sun is poison)
• Finally, Peace (Swans)
• august (Taylor Swift)
• The Less I Know The Better ^note Borderline 3 at times, specifically the very beginning (Tame Impala)
• CHOCOLAT (TCY FORCE ft. Mariya Ise, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt soundtrack)
• Cider Cider (Tempura Kidz)
• Monsoon (Tokio Hotel)
• Sandusky (Uncle Tupelo)
• All That I've Got (The Used)
• Funeral Noir (Velvet Cacoon)
• Love will be born again (Japanese ver.) (Versailles)
• Arclight (VNV Nation) ^note Would've been a 5 if not for its spacey feel.
• Going to a Town (Rufus Wainwright)
• Jumper, Space Pirates and The Show (Waterflame, Castle Crashers soundtrack) ^note "Jumper" is also featured in Geometry Dash, while "Space Pirates" is featured in one of its spinoffs, Geometry Dash World.
• Baby Bitch and Freedom of '76 (Ween)
• Aloo Gobi (Weezer)
• Burning (The Whitest Boy Alive)
• Beach Walk (Whitewoods)
• Your Great Name (Paul Wilbur)
• Either Way, Forget the Flowers and Far, Far Away (Wilco)
• All Day (Tom Williams & The Boat)
• Back to Black (Amy Winehouse)
• Fuzao (Faye Wong)
• and the day goes on (bill wurtz)
• Say Anything (X Japan)
• Islands (The xx) ^note Borderline 1
• Love Psalm ^note Switches between a 1 and 3, Promise ^note The reprise is a 1 and The Reverse Will (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 2 soundtrack)
  • End Of Small Sanctuary (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 3 soundtrack)
• Leave It (Yes)
• Rain with Cappuccino and That's Why I Gave Up on Music ^note A few parts may go up to 3 (Yorushika)
• Heart of Gold and Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
• Sun (Yuutsu)

Level 3

Genres: Standard Rock, Pop Rock, Techno, softer Power Pop, softer Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Jangle Pop, Art Rock, lighter Pop Punk, Bubblegum Pop, Post-Rock, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Trap, harder Folk Pop, Art Pop, Synth-Pop, Electropop, Futurepop, Dance-Pop, harder Dream Pop, traditional Dubstep, R&B, Reggae, Post-Punk, New Wave, Post-Industrial, lighter Progressive Rock, AOR, lighter Shoegazing, Disco, harder Latin American Music, softer Hyperpop, Boom Bap (and most Hip-Hop in general), Reggaeton, Film and TV Scores.

Matching mineral: Calcite

• Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass (!!!)
• I'm Not in Love (10cc)
• Breakout (3D Dot Game Heroes soundtrack)
• All Mixed Up (311)
• Poison Arrow (ABC)
• My Love Is a Stapler (Afterschool Tea Time) ^note Lyrics here
• Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Against Me!)
• You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned and La Sagrada Familia (The Alan Parsons Project)
• Onyx (Alcest)^note The heavy layers of distortion on the guitars keep this from being a 1 or 2
• Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper) ^note Strangely enough, the version performed on The Muppet Show pushes this rating a bit further by accentuating the groove and removing the Romantic-inspired bridge.
• Rotten Apple ^note  The wailing lead throughout the song keeps it from being a 1 or a 2 and Your Decision (Alice in Chains)
• Sandman (America)
• The Fear (Lily Allen)
• Snow Patrol, Part 1 (Alpinestars) ^note Part 2 is a soft 2.
• Kyomu Densen (Ali Project) ^note  If the rest of the song doesn't qualify for a 3, the short section from 3:33 to 3:42 pushes it up here
• Never Meant (American Football)
• Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts (The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures)
• Xtal ^note The compression puts it at a rather soft 3. Otherwise, it'd be at level 2. and Funny Little Man (Aphex Twin)
• The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
• Do I Wanna Know? (Arctic Monkeys)^note A hard level 3 example thanks to its slow, brooding sound a la stoner metal. It does, however, have the alt-rock sound Arctic Monkeys are known for.
• Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)^note Despite the very accessible pop sonorities, the background music is ultimately just a bit too loud for a 2.
• bladelores, Nil and Tewe ^note Would be a 2 if it weren't for the somewhat frantic pace and the constant chattering in the background (Autechre)
• Forest Funk and Can O' Salt (Danny Baranowsky, Super Meat Boy soundtrack)
• Brian Wilson, Be My Yoko Ono, and Enid (Barenaked Ladies)
• Mickey (Toni Basil)
• Wife Forever (bbpanzu, Vs Sky soundtrack)
• Cloud 9 ^note The verses range from 2 to 3, while the chorus is a 4. (Beach Bunny)
• Boyfriend (Best Coast)
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) and Freedom (Beyoncé)
• Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry) ^note  A standard 10 when it first came out, in 1958. Many live performances creep up to a hard 4 with Berry's manic singing and faster tempo.
• Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley & His Comets)
• Hyper-Ballad (Björk)
• Faster Than You Know and Crusader (Are We There Yet) (Black Gryph0n & Baasik) ^note  The two produce at this level when they're not taking influence from dubstep. When they are, they usually land at level 6.
• Zeitgeist (Black Sabbath)
• Rain Check (bladee)
• Adam's Song and After Midnight (blink-182)
• Parklife (Blur)
• Andromeda ^note Despite being a ballad, the multiple layers of sound keep this song at this level. (Weyes Blood)
• Splintered Sweets In The Castle (bo en, OMORI soundtrack)
• Dawn Chorus (Boards of Canada)
• Be Gone, Mr. Gawne, Captain Cool, Commando Steve, Starship Showdown ^note The guitar solo in the end brings it to a borderline 4 and Wobbly Tooth, Crunchy Apple (Bossfight)
• More Than a Feeling (Boston)
• Space Oddity and Modern Love (David Bowie)
• Everywhere (Michelle Branch)
• Bitch (Meredith Brooks)
• Romance and Jupiter ^note  The latter would be a two on sound alone, at least until late in the song, as it begins as a ballad. The lyrics place it at least here. and Django!! (BuckTick)
• Lions on a Banner (Bull of Heaven)^note Despite being an ambient track, its lo-fi and somewhat noisy sound lands it here.
• Year 3000 (Busted)
• 13 (C418, Minecraft soundtrack)
• Caramelldansen and Wish Upon a Star (Caramella Girls)
• My Best Friend's Girl and You Might Think (The Cars)
• Short Skirt/Long Jacket (Cake)
• Between (Jerry Cantrell)
• Lone Digger and Miracle (Caravan Palace)^note Former is borderline 4 for the fast speed
• Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales (Car Seat Headrest)
• Tabu (Gustavo Cerati)
• Badonkadonk (Matt Chaney, Ms. 'Splosion Man soundtrack)
• Voices (Cheap Trick)
• Galvanize, Hey Boy Hey Girl, and Star Guitar ^note A low level 3 example due to the ambient sounds in the background and the softer vocal sections (The Chemical Brothers)
• One Lonely Visitor (Chevelle)
• La escoba (Chico Trujillo)
• Redial (Jun Chikuma, Bomberman Hero soundtrack)
• Good-bye sengen/Flower (Chinozo)
• Dirt (Christie Front Drive)
• The Mother We Share (Chvrches)
• Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) (Cinderella) ^note A good example of a Hair Metal ballad that goes below not only a 5, but also a 4.
• Don't Panic, Talk and Yellow (Coldplay)
• Avatar Beat, Fake Orchestra ^note Starts at a 2, before alternating between a 3 and a soft 4., Flesh Maze Tango and Pepper Steak ^note The All Levels At Once remix is a 5. (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• Want You Gone (Jonathan Coulton and Ellen McLain, Portal 2 soundtrack)
• Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Carry On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
• Down On The Corner, Bad Moon Rising and Looking Out My Back Door (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• Mean to Me (Crowded House)
• (I Just) Died In Your Arms (Cutting Crew)
• The Winner (The Crystal Method)
• Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
• Red Rubber Ball (The Cyrkle)
• Digital Love ^note Thanks to the guitar solo. Otherwise, a 2., Face to Face and Revolution 909 (Daft Punk)
• Meine (Daso)
• Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Catch Us If You Can (The Dave Clark Five)
• Can You Feel the Sunshine? (TJ Davis, Sonic R soundtrack)
• Bitter Kitten (deadmau5)
  • I Remember (deadmau5 and Kaskade) ^note  Soft 3; while the sound can be loud enough to reach this level at times, there is a constant relaxing ambient mood.
• You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Dead or Alive)
• You Are a Tourist (Death Cab for Cutie)
• Policy of Truth and Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode) ^note If you want to know, the Marilyn Manson cover of the latter is around a 7.
• Younk Funk (The Derek Trucks Band) ^note The smooth, jazzy feel keeps it below a 4.
• Romeo And Juliet, Walk of Life (Dire Straits)
• A Reason to Fight (Disturbed)
• Back on Track, Base After Base and Cycles (DJVI, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Jesus Is Just All Right (Doobie Brothers)
• Light My Fire and Touch Me (The Doors)
• April Sun in Cuba (Dragon)
• Hotel California (Eagles)
• Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Eiffel 65)
• Therefore I Am (Billie Eilish)
• Selbstportrait Mit Kater (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• CandidSleep ^note  The use of Echoing Acoustics and occasional flashes of volume increase keeps this rather tranquil sounding song from being a 1 or 2 (Emray)
• Turn to Stone (Electric Light Orchestra)
• Ginger (exist†trace)
• Dance of The Violins (F-777)
• Tiny Tunes (Fantomenk)
• The Way (Fastball)
• Santa Cruz, Right Here, Right Now and Weapon of Choice (Fatboy Slim)
• Break the Walls (Fitz And The Tantrums)
• In Time (FKA twigs)
• Stereo Madness (ForeverBound, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Death by Glamour, Bonetrousle Dating Start! (Genocide mix), Power of NEO and BIG SHOT ^note  FamilyJules' cover is a 7. (Toby Fox, Undertale and Deltarune soundtracks)
• Oh That I Had (Ruby Frost and Mt. Eden)
• Heat Up (Yasuhiko Fukuda, Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto soundtrack)
• Nuclear Winter (Funker Vogt) ^note Would be a 1 if not for Jens Kästel's deep, guttural voice.
• Perfume! (Fusq)
• The Bonds of the Three Girls from Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart ^note  Most Magical Girl songs typically aren't any heavier than this. However, Pretty Cure has a history of defying this preconception. Look in the other levels for more examples from this franchise.
• Big Time (Peter Gabriel)
• Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)
• Action & Action (The Get Up Kids)
• Kronos Unveiled ^note  Starts off as a 1, and steadily escalalates to a 5. (Michael Giacchino, The Incredibles soundtrack)
• Space Unicorn (Parry Gripp)
• The Gummy Bear Song (Gummibar)
• Into You and No Tears Left To Cry (Ariana Grande)
• Midnight Confessions (The Grass Roots)
• Rock Me (Great White)
• Redundant (Green Day)
• Little of Your Love (Haim)
• Boss!! (Naofumi Hataya, Sonic CD soundtrack)
• Hang Up Your Hang Ups (Herbie Hancock)
• Cash Machine (Hard-Fi)
• What Is Life and Got My Mind Set on You (George Harrison)
• How You Like Me Now? (The Heavy)
• Gutter Black and Blue Lady (Hello Sailor)
• Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (Herman's Hermits)
• Tell Me (hide)
• Jump Up, Super Star! (Kate Higgins, Super Mario Odyssey soundtrack)
• X-Naut Fortress (Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door soundtrack)
• Look Through Any Window, Bus Stop (The Hollies)
• That'll Be the Day, Maybe Baby, Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)
• The Reason (Hoobastank)
• Power Of Love and Back In Time (Huey Lewis and the News, Back to the Future soundtrack)
• Wine Red (The Hush Sound)
• Slippin Away (Hypocrisy)
• Shots (Imagine Dragons)
• Drive and Wish You Were Here (Incubus)
• L'aventurier (Indochine)
• Metaphor (In Flames)
• Beach Break (Infinity Hotel)
• Synthesizer (Information Society)
• Obstacle 1 and Pioneer to the Falls (Interpol) ^note The creepy and uneasy feel to the latter keeps it above a 2
• #SEO (INTERNET CLUB) ^note On the surface this song is calm, light and ethereal but the subtle glitchiness and use of tremlo put it above a 1 or 2, and contributes to its creepy feeling.
• The Strongest Foe (Mieko Ishikawa, Ys III Wanderers From Ys soundtrack)
• Firdous E Bareen (Isis)
• That's Entertainment (The Jam)
• Run Away With Me, Call Me Maybe and Warm Blood (Carly Rae Jepsen)
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet) ^note Could sit comfortably at a light 4, but the sound is clean enough to be here.
• The Stranger (Billy Joel)
• All The Young Girls Love Alice^note Ranks at about a 9 on the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, though, due to its dark tale of a lesbian prostitute who commits suicide at the end (Elton John)
• Dreams of an Absolution (Bentley Jones, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) soundtrack)^note Would've been 2 if it weren't for the slightly heavy techno melody
• Busy Earnin' (Jungle)
• D.A.N.C.E., Audio, Video, Disco. (Justice)
• Calendula Requiem (Kanon X Kanon)^note Oshare Kei with cellos! Though its catchy sound prevents it from going up to 4.
• Dad Battle, Philly Nice ^note The ending bumps it up from a 2. and Ugh ^note Borderline 4. (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack)
• That's the Way (I Like It) (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• Vinternoll2 (Kent)
• Trampoline (Kero Kero Bonito)
• Let 'Em Talk (Kesha)
• Monoko's Dance (KIKIYAMA, Yume Nikki soundtrack)
• When You Were Young (The Killers)
• I Was Made for Lovin' You (KISS)
• Marshmellow Justice (Eri Kitamura, Nisemonogatari soundtrack)
• The Blacker The Berry and King Kunta (Kendrick Lamar)
• Hoshizora (L'arc-en-Ciel) ^note  The music itself is a 2-3 for most of the song until the bridge where Hyde's vocals alone carry it up to 4-5, including his uses of the Metal Scream starting at 5:00 and his male version of the One-Woman Wail to end. The lyrics are a solid 7-8. It's probably best here, but it's likely one of the saddest songs in this category - this is what happens when you have a metal-leaning gothic vocalist with a love for Protest Song being backed by his generally light proto-Oshare pop band. It is probably also the only 3 with two uses of the Metal Scream.
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga)
• Hysteria (Le Knight Club) ^note A French House duo comprised of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and his close friend Eric Chedeville.
• Stairway to Heaven and Trampled Under Foot (Led Zeppelin) ^note Balances out to a 3, as most of the song is a 1, and the guitar solo is a 6.
• The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny (Lemon Demon)
• Steal My Sunshine (Len) ^note  Though, it's a pretty soft 3, due to the ambient sound in the background. However, the slightly gruff male vocals help keep it here.
• The Party Starts Now (Michelle Lewis, Club Penguin soundtrack)
• Burn It Down and Jornada del Muerto (Linkin Park) ^note  Both are pretty hard 3s, especially the latter which starts at a 1 but segues to 5.
• Ritual Union and Klapp Klapp (Little Dragon)^note The latter example ranks around a 9 in the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, since the lyrics are about suicide.
• Our Music (livetune feat. Hatsune Miku)
• Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) (Looking Glass)
• Love Cherry Motion (LOONA/Choerry) ^note Even with the beat drop, it's still a 3 all throughout.
• La Bamba (Los Lobos)
• Do You Believe in Magic, You Didn't Have to Be So Nice and Summer In The City (The Lovin' Spoonful)
• Angel (Luscious Jackson)
• YO DJ PUMP THIS PARTY and But I Wanna See it All With You! (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) (Jesus Christ Superstar)
• Free Bird ^note 2 for the first half, 5 for the second. Borderline 4 overall. (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Midnight City and Teen Angst (M83)
• Ghost (Machine Girl)
• Dark Skies (MaestroRage, Castle Crashers soundtrack) ^note Gets up here due to its intense and dramatic feel.
• Gekka no Yasoukyoku (Malice Mizer)
• Boss 3 (Manami Matsumae, Carrier Airwing soundtrack)
• Komodo Bros., Dingodile and Dr. Neo Cortex (Josh Mancell, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped soundtracks)
• Motorcycle Emptiness (Manic Street Preachers)
• Harder to Breathe (Maroon 5) ^note Borderline 4.
• Joseph Merrick (Mastodon)
• Ghosts of American Astronauts (The Mekons) ^note Borderline 2.
• The Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
• Electric Feel and Kids (MGMT)
• Lifeform and 88 Keys (Midnight Tyrannosaurus and Wikidill) ^note Solid 3s. This is Midnight Tyrannosaurus at his absolute softest, essentially doing classic dubstep.
• Dashboard, Float On and Lampshades on Fire (Modest Mouse)
• You Look So Good (Moe Shop)
• The Chosen One (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Shadow the Hedgehog soundtrack) ^note  Quite soft for a mostly Level 6-8 soundtrack. The soft slow vocals make a Level 2, but the rock instrumental brings it up to 3. The short bit at the end is a freaking 10 though.
• I'm a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville, and Pleasant Valley Sunday (The Monkees)
• Burning Pile (Mother Mother)
• Ghost (Mystery Skulls)
• Green Hill Zone theme (Masato Nakamura, Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) OST)
• Everybody Talks (Neon Trees)
• Holland, 1945 (Neutral Milk Hotel) ^note Borderline 4 for the amount of distortion.
• This Afternoon (Nickelback)
• Eva (Nightwish)
• About a Girl, All Apologies^note The MTV Unplugged in New York version of "All Apologies" is lighter, maybe even a 1 (Nirvana)
• It's My Life (No Doubt) ^note The original version by "Talk Talk" is a 2
• Trip Switch (Nothing But Thieves)^note Borderline 4.
• Are 'Friends' Electric? and Cars (Gary Numan) ^note The cover of the latter by Fear Factory is a solid 7; meanwhile, the Sugababes cover of “Freak Like Me,” which prominently samples the former, is a solid 4.
• Don't Go Away (Oasis)
• Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? (The Offspring) ^note  Although the lyrics are about a rape victim, the tune is cheery and upbeat,
• Theory of Attack (Tomoya Ohtani, Sonic Runners soundtrack)
• Here It Goes Again (OK Go)
• Shut Up Kiss Me (Angel Olsen)
• Harvest (Opeth)
• Sakuranbo (Ai Otsuka)
• that penguin is a homewrecker (he knows what he did) (ozello)
• Camisado (Panic! at the Disco)
• Ohime-sama no Akai Bara (Paradeis)
• Blue Sky and Chaoz Fantasy (ParagonX9)
• Ain't It Fun^note Borderline 4, Hard Times and Told You So (Paramore)
• Take a Walk (Passion Pit)
• Prom Queen (Patient 0)
• Range Life, Gold Soundz, Shady Lane (Pavement)
• Yellow Ledbetter and Better Man ^note Ignoring the creepy intro and the lyrics about a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. (Pearl Jam)
• Dream Fighter (Perfume)
• Shin-Ken, Part 2 (Persefone)^note Part 1 is a 10.
• I Don't Want It At All (Kim Petras)
• 1901 (Phoenix)
• Time, Run Like Hell ,Echoes,The Gold It's In The..., Comfortably Numb, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) ^note  Part 1 is a 2 and Part 3 is a 4. and The Trial ^note  A hard 2 up until The Judge's verse where the song gets to a light 5. (Pink Floyd)
• Break It Off (Pinkpantheress)
• Here Comes Your Man, Indie Cindy and Where Is My Mind? (The Pixies)
• Meds, Song to Say Goodbye, and English Summer Rain (Placebo)
• Stop Me (Planet Funk)
• Baby Come Back (Player)
• Carnival of Rust (Poets of the Fall)
• Message in a Bottle (The Police)
• Trains (Porcupine Tree)
• Glory Box (Portishead) ^note Would have probably been a borderline 2 if it weren't for the distorted, blues-inspired guitar
• Movin' on Up (Primal Scream)
• Invisible Sun ^note Yes, a sad ballad from The Prodigy of all bands, Music Reach (1, 2, 3, 4), We Gonna Rock, and What Evil Lurks (The Prodigy)
• Bicycle Race, Don't Stop Me Now, I Want To Break Free, Radio Ga Ga, Save Me, and Under Pressure (ft. David Bowie) ^note The guitars towards the end bring it above a 2. (Queen)
• In the Fade (Queens of the Stone Age) ^note The guitar distortion during the song's chorus brings this song above a 2; the "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" reprise at the end is a 7.
• Overlappers, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace's opening theme (Qverktett:II)
• Let Down, High and Dry, Optimistic, Knives Out, 15 Step and I Might Be Wrong (Radiohead)
• Pigstep (Lena Raine, Minecraft soundtrack^note Arguably the hardest song in the Minecraft soundtrack, which is usually at a 1. This track would've been 2 if it weren't for the hard instruments.)
• Ears Ring (Rainer Maria)
• Stirb nicht vor Mir (Rammstein)
• Needles and Pins,I Want You Around (The Ramones)
• Dead Sound (The Raveonettes) ^note Mostly a 2, but the noisier sections, which are 5, bring this up to a 3.
• Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (R.E.M.)
• Keep on Loving You (REO Speedwagon)
• Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones (Band))
• I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren)
• Subdivisions (Rush)
• Some Natures Catch No Plagues (Saetia)
• WONDERFUL JOURNEY (Sakura Gakuin)
• Heaven (Emeli Sande)
• Unknown from M.E. (Marlon Saunders, Sonic Adventure soundtrack)^note A soft 3, some verses are 2
• Hill Act 1 ^note  Borderline 4. (Kyuu Sawamura, Sonic.exe soundtrack)
• See Me Go (Screaming Meemees)
• Closing Time (Semisonic)
• Don't (Ed Sheeran)^note It ranks around a 6-7 in the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, though, being a song about a girl cheating on her boyfriend.
• Hot Chocolate (Shonen Knife) ^note A few of the guitar riffs are borderline 4, but the song is otherwise light enough to be at this level.
• White Surf Style 6 and Waiting For... (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• Sæglópur (Sigur Rós) ^note  Starts at a 1, then goes up to a 5, then down to 2, finally ending at 1 again.
• The Royal We (Silversun Pickups)
• Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel)
• Listenin' To The Records On My Wall (Skream)
• All I Ask of You (Skrillex featuring Pennybirdrabbit) ^note For people who only know about Skrillex's agressive dubstep material, this might come as a shock. Would be even lower if it wasn't for the relatively noisy intro.
• Snuff (Slipknot)
• Alison and Souvlaki Space Station (Slowdive)
• 1979 (The Smashing Pumpkins) ^note A soft level 3, as the verses are a 2, but the chorus is slightly heavier.
• L.A. (Elliot Smith) ^note One of the softest level 3 examples due to its smooth tune, but the guitar is ultimately too distorted in some places for it to be a 2.
• How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)
• Hot Milk and Twinklestar (Snail's House)
• Pristine (Snail Mail)
• The Night Out (Martin Solveig)
• Ice Cap Zone (Act 1) (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack)
• Incinerate (Sonic Youth)
• BIPP (SOPHIE) ^note The Autechre remix is a 2.
• Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
• You Are Dead (Joe Sparks, Total Distortion soundtrack)
• (You Drive Me) Crazy and Oops!...I Did It Again (Britney Spears)
• Fill The Silence (Spies)
• Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen) ^note Springsteen's vocals and the loud percussion put the track at this level, whereas it might be at level 2 if those elements were more subdued.
• Polargeist (Step, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
• Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
• Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots)
• Soma (The Strokes) ^note Would be a two if not for the scratchy vocals
• Eyes of Flame and Last Battle (Studio Pixel, Cave Story soundtrack)
• Hot Stuff (Donna Summer)
• Mine (Sweet Tempest, The Neon Demon soundtrack)
• Counting the Beat (The Swingers)
• Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
• You Belong With Me and Out of the Woods (Taylor Swift)
• Miror B Battle (Tsukasa Tawada, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness soundtrack)
• Champion (TCY FORCE ft. Emyli, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt soundtrack) ^note The quiet parts prevent it from becoming a 4
• Love Sublime (Tensnake ft. Nile Rodgers & Fiora)
• Be Mine Tonight (Th' Dudes)
• Around the World and Back (Theocracy)
• Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might Be Giants)
• Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart (Thursday)
• Electric Zoo (Paul Tibbitt, SpongeBob SquarePants soundtrack)
• Phazd (tobycreed, The Impossible Game soundtrack)
• 2D Dreaming (Tofie)
• Schism (tool) ^note Borderline 4; just about as low as metal can go.
• Telstar (The Tornadoes) ^note among the earliest examples of Electronic Music at this level
• Hold the Line (Toto)
• Again (Tranceformer Yuno)
• Blood Gulch Blues (Trocadero)
• Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain)
• Undercover Martyn (Two Door Cinema Club)
• Mysterious Ways^note Borderline 4 and New Year's Day (U2)
• Paralyzed, Kissing You Goodbye (The Used)
• Love Walks In (Van Halen)
• Sorry Again (Velocity Girl)
• Who Loves the Sun (The Velvet Underground)
• YMCA (Village People)
• Artist (Vistlip)
• Nova(VNV Nation)
• ANTONYMPH (Vylet Pony)
• One Headlight (The Wallflowers)
• Hexagon Force (Waterflame, Geometry Dash soundtrack)
  • Race Around the World from Castle Crashers is also at this level.
• Ocean Man, Flutes of Chi (Ween)
• Island in the Sun, Living in L.A. and Grapes of Wrath ^note a very soft 3 (Weezer)
• Swing (White Lies)
• Pinball Wizard (The Who)
• You Keep Me Hangin' On (Kim Wilde)
• Combine Harvester (The Wurzels)
• Overdose Delusion and Theme Of Laura ^note The reprise is a 1 (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 2 soundtrack)
  • You're Not Here (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 3 soundtrack)
• YO-KAI Disco (Yousuke Yasui, Mamorukun Curse! soundtrack)
• Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) ^note Up from a 2 due to the two sections with guitar distortion that reaches this level
• Light Up The Sky (Yellowcard)
• Owner of a Lonely Heart and Starship Trooper (Yes)
• To the End (YOHIO)
• Just a Sunny Day for You (Yorushika)
• Get Together (The Youngbloods)

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