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After the Storm: I like this one. I find the folksy instrumental styles rather pleasing and the singing is nice enough; I do wish we had some new lyrics towards the end of the song, as it does feel a tad repetitive lyrically -but- I feel that I like the rest of the song well enough to excuse it.

Yume Utsutsu: Nice ambiance and painful lyrics--I'm especially fond of "Are the pains that were burnt away what you call love?", though the next verse's "The sword pierces through into that body that transforms into bubbles; Will you gladly drink even your own poison?" is also certainly evocative--though her voice is a bit higher pitched than I might like... lyrical dissonance is fine, but I think I'd personally prefer a deeper voice to accompany the lyrics... still, I like it, and I could see myself enjoying it more on relistens when I've had more time to acclimate to the song's vocal stylings.

Eddie My Love: Singer feels like a modern day Elvis. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that, though I wouldn't say I dislike it.

Arthuriana: I really like the section starting around 2:25--I suppose it's a chorus, since it's reprised in full at the end of the song. I'm.. not nearly as sold on the rest of the song, which does feel like a lot of references thrown together & I wish we had a different third verse, instead of just reprising the old lyrics again... but I do really, really like that chorus so I'd be inclined to give it a relatively high score anyway. Probably a 7/10 song, though it's being hard carried by it's 8.5/10 chorus.

One Year of Love: Not my kind of love song, to be honest. I like the sax and I like how it's much more subdued than most Queen songs, so this is... probably right below the "I like this" tier? I kinda like it and it's close, but the lyrics aren't quite for me... actually, considering how much I love rain, describing a rainy day as a *bad* thing makes this song rather aggressively not for me lyrically, but... I do like the music itself well enough. I don't know. Nice music, subpar lyrics, and an unsatisfying ending (it feels more like the song just stops) but the music may be nice enough to get it to the "I like this" tier anyway. Maybe. I quite honestly don't know, it's very much an "ask me again in two months and we'll see where things are" type of song.

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Topic is fun, I like the writeups, I don't really have anything to suggest from eliminated artists; I do like a lot of Tat Ming Pair songs (they did the night driving song), but I can't think of any that would be more to your liking.