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Sorry about that; I really should have spent a minute thinking about why you didn't post the songs here.

Bouquet seems like the best song from its album, though "EverydayLoverlyday-Liminality Remix-" has an intriguing feel to it... I like the instruments there quite a bit, they feel like the type of music you'd find in a game collection while browsing & I tend to love that style of music. Her distant vocals are an interesting choice--I don't know that it works for me, but it's certainly different enough to get my attention.

"Ride the Rainbow Rhapsody" seems like a good album. I like most of the samples in this video and the final song is a real standout, I think the full version could be worth quite a few points (best guess would be around 83 points,

[Note: The writeup ends there with an oddly placed comma. It is unclear if I meant to type something else and didn't or if I just botched the closing parenthesis that badly.]

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Don't really have anything to say about Chapter 4 of Zektbach. "The Abandoned Island" was fairly nice since it gave an ocean soundscape, but I imagine my fondness for that sort of thing has been established well enough by now.

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Kanye West - Spaceship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn77gzjBl1U

Estimated Score: 65.00

Good song. Honestly, Kanye seems to have a lot of good songs.

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El-P - Dear Sirs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUE8lgY48Ag

Estimated Score: 55.00 to start with, I guess?

This is a very oppressive and overwhelming song musically. Something about the instruments and typewriter sounds makes it difficult to think at all, much less focus on anything he's saying or the music is actually doing. I like his choice of imagery in his lyrics, I like the wide variety of scenarios (apocalyptic, Utopian, personal growth,vengeful), and I like the overall message. It also gives me a rather large headache and is a bit draining due to the constant, rapid-fire barrage. The end result is something that could pretty easily fall anywhere between 40 & 60 points, you know how it is.

"Rarr, I appreciate this song but the music is too physically painful for me to give positive scores too"

"I really like what he's doing here, lyrically, so while I'm not the biggest fan of the music, I don't want it to drop below 60 points"

"The positive and negative values cancel each other out and end at almost exactly 50 points"

All true & all false, I'm just going to roll with "kinda like" for a first impression?

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And I think I'll probably be ending the Post Ranking Ranking here, with an incredible 234 songs with official scores:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PdmLE6aEud4aead38RuPHRSdIVgyesokOgEvqmvmSWk/edit?usp=sharing

Our top ten, and by amazing coincidence the only ten songs to score 80 or more points:

AISHA, Naoki Hashimoto - Necessary Discrepancy [100]
Shanoa - RTRT [93.255]
Sakurada Ragiko & Neco Clane - The Prequel (is already over) [92.00]
Ikikae Rururu - Change!! [87.00]
Koyoi - Eternity in our last scene [86.93]
Naoki Hashimoto - Mirror of the World [85.00]
Make Them Suffer - Doomswitch [82.00]
nayuta - Back alleys and the sky are connected [81.00]
Electric Callboy - Spaceman [80.00]
misha - Sayuragi [80.00]

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It's been fun and I'll still finish Zektbach, The Listening, and trying a few other songs by nominated artists on my own time. If you have been waiting for me to comment on something and I forgot about it, do let me know as I'm not intentionally skipping anything.

I need to work on deciding my nominations for Rank the Tracks---my week is rapidly approaching and I haven't even fully decided one album yet, much less three--though that's something I should be doing on my own. And then I really need a break.

If everything works out well, expect some type of ranking nominations to pop up in January for a 2024 ranking. It will not be nearly as massive as this, though I find it way too early to think about anything other than "definitely scaling things back after the last two events". As always, thank you to everyone who has stuck around for this and I'll see you again next time.