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Mr_Lasastryke posted...

oh no, i meant that you seem to prefer his NON straightforward playing style, given that you gave truck driver divorce a way higher score. ...unless you mean that you've grown to really dislike TDD since you ranked it and you prefer return of the son of shut up 'n play yer guitar to that song.

No, no, I just misunderstood you since I think I praised the guitar work more on The Long Named Song more than Truck Driver Divorce; I definitely prefer Truck as a complete song, but it has quite a bit of lyrical setup before reaching the instrumental section which I find helped my appreciation for the instruments. Based only on the guitar work, I suspect that I'd prefer the Long Named Song.

...Also, TDD's Initial Score was only 57.04, it just went *way* up by the end so "Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar" actually has a bit of an edge on initial impressions. So since that song is more immediately enjoyable and doesn't have an entire story backing it up, I think it'd be fair to say I'm more drawn to the guitar playing on it. Or at the very least, it'd be up for debate.

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kateee posted...

i remember this actually being the last song i decided on for my noms and i almost didn't even choose it lol. i was trying to decide between this and Cutting My Fingers Off which was my favorite track off the same album (the track right before it as well) and went with New Scream because it had more lyrics.

my favorite line is "Adolescent dreams gave to adult screams" which hits harder every year as time passes.

i'm glad you liked some of the songs at least. if i went back in time to noms after getting to the end of this topic i would have probably picked some more depressing stuff too

I'll go ahead and add "Cutting My Fingers Off" to the post-ranking list, sounds like it might be worth checking out.

That is a good line.

And I really liked most of your picks! You had the sixth highest average score, so your list had a lot of hits on it. And I can understand not having gone all-in on depressing songs this year because my interest in them is a fairly recent development? I... honestly have no clue what the saddest song to get a high score at the first ranking was, as I very much was not in a headspace to deal with many of them at the time.

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And now a large update, in which I go through all of Blues Traveler - Four.:

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Blues Traveler - Run-Around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lk5ByPl9Zo&list=PLF3F194upBNzniOIahkqCbzsgXcwKhv6T

Estimated Score: 68.99

The band's biggest hit and a song so popular that I have nothing to really add about it. I like it quite a bit, but as great as it is, it's a bit too familiar for me to take it over any of the newer 70+ point songs. I'll always enjoy hearing it on the radio, but probably won't often seek it out because I've kinda heard it enough times & it plays often enough that I'll run into it again soon anyway.

There is an argument that since I still like it so much after all this time that it definitely should have more than 68 points, but if I move it up then I have to move every other song ranked above it as well... so I think I'll leave it at this score for "estimation purposes" with a note that it could go up a ways on a day when I'm feeling more objective about score quality.

[Later: ...Yeah, I definitely should have this song at at least 70 points, but I still don't want to go back and revise the scores of everything at the "Really Like" tier.]

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Blues Traveler - Stand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zetLRkbgwk&list=PLF3F194upBNzniOIahkqCbzsgXcwKhv6T

Estimated Score: 58.33

I'm not sure why, but this feels more Classic Rock to me. Kinda retro in a way. It's pretty good, but the repeated "the answers are getting harder" refrain repeats a bit too often and the song starts to lose me towards the end. I know it's not quite repetitive and there's a good build from how it starts out very slow & trippy, with the refrain constantly building up speed and intensity... the song is doing its thing well, but it's still not quite a gimmick that's really for me. I'm also not really a fan of the ending; a long string of non-lyrical "badiddela da de doo" vocals followed by an abrupt stop is...something.

Though I'm being far too negative. The general sound of the song is pleasing and I mostly liked it, so the score is much closer to the 60 point level than that previous paragraph implies. I'll say that it *might* go up on relistens where I'm more prepared for the repetition and sudden stop, but it's really hard to guess--it's worked out that way for some songs in the past, but not all of them, and it'd be a few months before I could really tell how it went with this one in particular.

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Blues Traveler - Look Around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hBD-hBsIM&list=PLF3F194upBNzniOIahkqCbzsgXcwKhv6T&index=3

Estimated Score: 59.02

I don't know. It seems like a song that I should really like:

And sometimes
In the midst of all my crimes
I feel lost
Or have I lost enough?

There's some really good lyrics in this song and I do like the band's sound, but somehow I never quite click with the song enough to move it up to the next tier at the moment. So I don't know. I'd like to believe that the song would eventually click after a few more listens since I very much *should* really like it, but it's not there yet.

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