Due to the preposterous number of Vocaloid songs out there, “best” in practice often means “personal favorites of the limited subset the person you are talking to has heard of”. Vocaloid seems to follow Sturgeon’s Law, as does everything else with low barriers to entry (like fanfiction), but fortunately, it doesn’t take much time to check whether a given song is good, so hunting for hidden gems is a fairly fruitful activity as far as Vocaloid songs go. A useful site for this task is VocaDB
Endorsing Gwern’s response below, here are five that I’d say are fairly decent.
Not is Destination The producer, Aerial Flow (that’s his channel, by the way, poke around on it) is one of the best trance producers in the community, and there’s quite a bit more stuff by him that I wanted to link but didn’t.
Lost Memories A fairly nice Dark Append song that is tuned higher than the one you linked, but that I still suspect you may like. Not quite sure what to class it as.
Everlasting Love First song I listened to where I went “I like the vocal tuning on this one.” Piano ballad.
Yumemidori Yes, it isn’t Miku. Yes, it isn’t electronic, it’s guitar and drums. I’m still pretty enamored by it.
Idiolect Another popular techno song with the Dark Append.
Part of the problem is that I don’t think the Miku voicebank is very good—too high-pitched, as the Japanese like their singers—but Miku is overwhelmingly used by the Japanese producers, so I still wind up with a lot of Miku-using pieces I like. (Although I do try to swap them out for Luka or Ia-using versions when possible.)
And there’s a couple ways a producer can use a voicebank: you can treat it as an instrument, you can use it as a voice which can sing impossible pieces like rap or extremely-fast chants, or you can try to carefully tune it to sound as realistic as possible, or you can embrace the roboticness of the voice as a singer.
I’d describe your link as possibly a Miku Dark (deeper-pitched), realistic tuning, in an electronic/techno vein. So if you were looking for more music like that, you’d want to look at pieces mentioning using the Dark variant on the Miku voicebank or less squeaky voicebanks like Luka, in genres like electronic techno vein, and described as realistic or well-tuned. And then you can follow up particular producers. (Remember that fame in online media is highly fickle, so if you find you like one track by a producer, the odds are that he has plenty of other work as good but not popular enough to show up in your search or be reuploaded from NND to YouTube.)
Touhou:
“Adiós, Illusion de los Compañeros ~ さよなら友の幻よ” (ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; 63⁄64 Completion {R11}) [folk]
“Camino a la Luna ~ 月へ至る山道” (ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; 63⁄64 Completion {R11}) [folk]
“¡Gritá Su Nombre! ~ 彼女の名を叫べ” (ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; 63⁄64 Completion {R11}) [folk]
“Dance even Owl” (surreacheese; FETA {R11}) [jazz}
“Magical color(bossa)” (surreacheese; FETA {R11}) [bossa nova?]
“SAISEN girl” (あき; 恋綴里-第五話- {R11}) [Jpop]
“亡き王女に捧げるセプテット” (Foxfactory; Touhou Gensoukai -Koumakyou no Oto- Irodori {C84}) [orchestral]
“Magic of the Gavel” (ZUN; Touhou Kishinjou ~ Double Dealing Character {C84}) [electronic]
“Eyes On Me” (Coro; 癒しの風 vol.2 蓮台野夜行 ~ Ghostly Field Club {C84}) [jazz]
“第1回東方M-1ぐらんぷりR 劇中BGM集 10” (R-note; Comic market 84 R-note Omake CD {C84}) [instrumental]
“IDEALiZED” (Babbe feat. Suzuki; BLOSSOMING DANCEFLOOR {2014}) [house]
“ほたる (Firefly)” (Crazy Berry; くるいちご三ルク {R11}) [rock?]
“liar lips” (Crazy Berry; くるいちご三ルク {R11}) [dubstep?]
“Lunatic Princess ~ Flight of the Bamboo Cutter” (TAM; TOHO DRAMATIC VIOLIN -enthusiasm- {R11}) [classical/rock]
“Border of Life ~ Bloom Nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome” (TAM; TOHO DRAMATIC VIOLIN -enthusiasm- {R11}) [classical/rock]
“Love Coloured Master Spark” (TAM; TOHO DRAMATIC VIOLIN -enthusiasm- {R11}) [classical/rock]
“Septette for the Dead Princess” (TAM; TOHO DRAMATIC VIOLIN -enthusiasm- {R11}) [classical/rock]
Doujin:
“ウサギトエゴ” (kous, ef; 中庭△ {2013}) [electronic?]
Vocaloid:
“残らずの森” (kous; 中庭M {2013}) [Jpop]
What would you say are the best Hatsune Miku songs? I rather like this one but I haven’t so much liked the couple of others I’ve heard.
Due to the preposterous number of Vocaloid songs out there, “best” in practice often means “personal favorites of the limited subset the person you are talking to has heard of”. Vocaloid seems to follow Sturgeon’s Law, as does everything else with low barriers to entry (like fanfiction), but fortunately, it doesn’t take much time to check whether a given song is good, so hunting for hidden gems is a fairly fruitful activity as far as Vocaloid songs go. A useful site for this task is VocaDB
Endorsing Gwern’s response below, here are five that I’d say are fairly decent.
Not is Destination The producer, Aerial Flow (that’s his channel, by the way, poke around on it) is one of the best trance producers in the community, and there’s quite a bit more stuff by him that I wanted to link but didn’t.
Lost Memories A fairly nice Dark Append song that is tuned higher than the one you linked, but that I still suspect you may like. Not quite sure what to class it as.
Everlasting Love First song I listened to where I went “I like the vocal tuning on this one.” Piano ballad.
Yumemidori Yes, it isn’t Miku. Yes, it isn’t electronic, it’s guitar and drums. I’m still pretty enamored by it.
Idiolect Another popular techno song with the Dark Append.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Hard to say.
Part of the problem is that I don’t think the Miku voicebank is very good—too high-pitched, as the Japanese like their singers—but Miku is overwhelmingly used by the Japanese producers, so I still wind up with a lot of Miku-using pieces I like. (Although I do try to swap them out for Luka or Ia-using versions when possible.)
And there’s a couple ways a producer can use a voicebank: you can treat it as an instrument, you can use it as a voice which can sing impossible pieces like rap or extremely-fast chants, or you can try to carefully tune it to sound as realistic as possible, or you can embrace the roboticness of the voice as a singer.
I’d describe your link as possibly a Miku Dark (deeper-pitched), realistic tuning, in an electronic/techno vein. So if you were looking for more music like that, you’d want to look at pieces mentioning using the Dark variant on the Miku voicebank or less squeaky voicebanks like Luka, in genres like electronic techno vein, and described as realistic or well-tuned. And then you can follow up particular producers. (Remember that fame in online media is highly fickle, so if you find you like one track by a producer, the odds are that he has plenty of other work as good but not popular enough to show up in your search or be reuploaded from NND to YouTube.)
I see, thanks.