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#33: Thank You, Scientist - Everyday Ghosts (10:03):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Vznh_e5LE

Nominator: Ark [2/17 Remaining]

Initial Score: 72.02
Revised Score: 58.24
Final Score: 54.48 [Upgraded to 55.00] [Upgraded to 58.24] [Upgraded to 65.63] [Upgraded to 74.48] [Upgraded to 75.41] [Upgraded to 88.307] [Upgraded to 91.01] [Upgraded to 93.36] [Upgraded to 95.34]

(First Reaction: I really liked this, but something came up immediately after I finished listening to it and it's now been a good 15 minutes since the song ended and trying to do a writeup now feels slightly silly.)

!The unfortunate thing about these non-writeup first reactions is that I'm often left with absolutely no clue what I really liked in the first place, since there is no record of such things & my opinion can vary wildly day-to-day that it's... fairly uncommon for me to have the same opinion on a song after several months have passed. This is clearly a well-made track, but it feels like it drags a bit in places (particularly the instrumental near the end of the song) & there's not anything here that I'm especially into lyrically (nothing I mind either) which kinda feels like a high-50's type of reaction.

...Apparently I really liked it at one point though.

[Final Thoughts: I really wish whichever version of me liked this song actually said something because I legitimately have no clue. This type of inspirational "keep your head up, don't change, feel the fire still inside" cheering is not something that typically works for me... there are definitely songs on this list that I find inspiring, but it tends to be for really absurd reasons rather than the song actively trying to inspire hope or anything.

And this song is fine? Better than fine, I suppose. It's not my favorite epic prog metal tune, but it's neat enough. Everyone performs well on it and I don't have any tangible complaints with it. I just don't get why it was so far up the list--this was just outside the top 100 on the first listen and now it's pretty far down the list. And there's no indication as to why.]

[Later: I can't decide if I want to keep this in the Wall or move it up slightly... I'm going to move this further up the Wall and revisit it in a day or two. The score's still at 55, but... I just need a moment to think about it.]

[And Again: Yeah, I feel good about moving this back up to the Revised Score. It's still not at that very high Really Like tier like it started at, but it's at least much closer to the 60 point mark than I've had it recently.]

[And Later: I do not remember it taking almost two minutes before the vocals join in. I'm not disappointed by the long opening,, I just really have no recollection of that even being a thing. Either way... I've had a rough morning, so the line "Breaking your back for a million assholes" is actually something I like hearing right now. ]

[Later: Ah. There's the emotions I wasn't getting the last several times.

Sometimes I struggle with who I am
Never forget the fire I still feel inside
The only reason I survived

It's not perfect, but this song comes close to sparking some very strong feelings... during part of the chorus. The rest of the song is fine, but it doesn't really spark the same type of memories or follow through with those to really capitalize on things. Still, the song did almost wreck me emotionally and I now know why it was so highly ranked to start with. I'm going to move this back up to the 70 point tier.]

[Later: One more point; I don't want to eliminate this right now.]

[Later: And a ludicrously massive jump for this song. I'm suddenly really, really, super into this one. I'm not quite ready to move it all the way up to the highest tier, but it's ridiculously close and I'll think about it when we eventually get up this far.]

[Later: The prolonged instrumental focused on the electric guitar is a bit much... but this actually works pretty well for me at times and I think I want to move this one up to the 90 point level. It's not perfect, but there are days where that chorus is borderline perfection, and I feel I'd be doing a disservice if I allowed the song to fall before the highest tier.]

[Later: Two more points. I do really love that chorus.]

[Later: I do really, really love the first half of this song... but then we get the extra instrumental, the very repetitive "keep your head up" sections, and while those parts certainly don't hold the song back -much- it makes it a bit easier to eliminate this song than anything left now that we're in the endgame. Still, two more points on the way out, because this is a really rough elimination to make.]

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Which brings us up to songs with 96+ points and a new sub-tier because I... again, don't particularly know what the next song to fall is. I listened to a good ten songs in a row and my reaction was refusing to cut any of them... which... complicates things when we're kinda at the end & I can't just keep delaying things forever. Hopefully tomorrow we'll post 12 songs to get back on track, but for now, congratulations to anyone who made it to this bizarrely specific sub-tier.