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#74: DEMONDICE - Words That I Could Say To You (3:36):
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KnuM2F70nIxPT8R5Zjqku?si=6adb679d3fd64f59

Nominator: Murphiroth [0/32 Remaining]

Initial Score: 70.00
Revised Score: 86.44
FInal Score: 81.47 [Upgraded to 88.73]

(First Reaction: One of those songs that gets a good score, yet I have trouble finding even a single word to say about it.)

!Wistful & romantic night song. Probably her most beautiful track, at least of those I've heard.

[Final Thoughts: Unrequited love is usually a good topic for music. The intro is incredibly appealing to me, with the faint sounds of the bustling city and some low tones thrown in to create a sad & wistful feeling, conveying the sense of being alone even in the crowd. It's nice and some of the lyrics hit the right type of hopelessness that I'm drawn to: "I dont see potential for no happy ending" in particular works well for me.

I also like how seamlessly this transitions to the outro track, "Goodnight, Japan", though I feel both songs stand well enough on their own that I don't especially want to combine them into one long track. It's still nice when listening to them on the album together.]

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Elimination #6: Murphiroth

Lowest Ranked Song

HANABIE. - Sunrise Miso Soup [12.58]

Highest Ranked Song

DEMONDICE - Words That I Could Say To You [88.73]

Average Score: 59.95

Of the four albums you nominated--or three albums and an EP if you prefer to be more accurate:

HANABIE.'s album didn't work for me. For the most part, they were just more metal than I'd have preferred. While they had one track that I liked & a few that I kinda liked, they lost a lot of tracks early on. Sadly, I think their album may be the only one this ranking to not meet the "at least two 60 point songs" criteria. Not that I hated them, I didn't hate anything this year, but I'm afraid this album was a miss. Still, it was a side of Japanese metal that doesn't usually get nominated, so I'm

Serj Tankian's album was all over the place musically. It did have one low scoring song and a couple in the Wall of exactly 55 points, but it also featured one of the few songs to be un-eliminated (which practically became a meme of its own with how many times it continued to avoid elimination) and a decent amount of songs in the like, really like, and kinda love categories. With a mixture of ridiculous lyrics ("Gonorrhoea over time! Fuck that, it's bed time!"?) & intense lyrics dealing with subjects such as genocide, I was never sure what to expect from the album. Which I see as a positive and it certainly demolished the :two 60 point songs" criteria.

Mori Caliiope's EP was brief with only four songs, but it managed pretty well for itself. 2/4 songs in the Really Like tier is nothing to sneeze at, so while it was a short experience, it was quite a welcome one.

DEMONDICE's album was also pretty great. Featuring two songs at the "kinda love" level, including one that was briefly in contention for first place, it was one of the stronger albums of the topic. If only that song didn't have that siren holding it back, it'd probably be in the top 10,..

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Average Score Chart

CJones: 65.00
hotdogturtle: 64.25
Lasa: 59.49
Kopazzynth 58.99
Murphiroth: 55.95
Shonen_Bat: 55.13

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#73: Bump of Chicken - Acacia (2:41):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZ0Zwab6Oc

Nominator: Handsomeboy [3/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 59.33
Revised Score: 94.38
Final Score: 87.26 [Upgraded to 89.00]

(First Reaction: The video is adorable, but I'm still trying to be a bit less influenced into throwing infinity points out whenever a cute animal appears on screen. Thankfully, this is still good even if I separate the song from the video; in particular, "no matter what fate awaits us, Ill take your hand in mine and never let go", is a very sweet line. Not complicated, but as I've said, blunt and direct lyrics tend to fare better with me these days anyway.)

!The pure light from this song is *almost* enough to incinerate me. That's worth a boost to the 90 point song tier.

[Final Thoughts: Adorable, though like so many other songs that hit unexpectedly hard once, I'm not as blown away by this the third time around. I still kinda love it, which is way beyond where the song started, but it's not quite at that highest level this time around.[

[Later: This is one of those songs that I need to be in the right headspace for. The first verse in particular is so pure and bright that it can be one of the strongest experiences of the entire ranking... when I'm open to it. When I'm not, the score tends to drop a bit... not as drastically as the first reaction where I wasn't particularly into it, but it's still a bit away from being moved back up to the next tier.]

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Congratulations to our surviving participants:

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REMAINING SONG COUNT

Bane: 4/38 Remaining
BlackDra90n: 1/30 Remaining
cakophon: 1/20 Remaining
CPU: 1/30 Remaining
DoctorJimmy: 1/24 Remaining
Dragon66116: 1/12 Remaining
handsomeboy: 3/31 Remaining
Haste: 2/31 Remaining
hotdogturtle: 1/14 Remaining
Jesse_Custer: 6/29 Remaining
kateee: 2/21 Remaining
Mega Mana: 4/38 Remaining
Metalmind: 10/25 Remaining
NBIceman: 4/22 Remaining
NFUN: 1/31 Remaining
paulg: 5/52 Remaining
Player_0: 3/33 Remaining
Raka: 5/31 Remaining
rwlh: 2/24 Remaining
sergio: 1/13 Remaining
Snake: 2/32 Remaining
TheArkOfTurus: 3/17 Remaining
TunnelScene: 3/27 Remaining
UF8: 2/30 Remaining
Xtlm: 1/13 Remaining
ZaziGuado: 3/28 Remaining

Metalmind has, by far, the most songs going into the highest tier with 10; Jesse is the closest behind with 6.

And... I don't really have any other stats prepared at the moment, so... that's about it? On Saturday, we shall begin the highest tier, featuring an eclectic mix of songs that have always been near the top ; a few songs that had abysmal Final Scores and were jumped directly to the top many months ago ; and some darlings that I've just been refusing to eliminate for some time now. Honestly not sure what shall be the first to fall from this tier, so we'll find out together, I suppose.

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